Last time we checked, "Oracle of Omaha" Warren Buffett steps in to bolster ailing financial institutions like Bank of America or Goldman Sachs. Today, however, he's being called upon to save the flailing comic strip known as "Crock."
"Crock" could probably use the help. Once a marginally relevant strip centering on a bunch of foreign legionaires, "Crock" has become as dry and lifeless as the desert in which its set. Whatever humor creator Bill Rechin mined from the ongonig tedium faced by hapless soliders milling about in a dry, sandy fortress has long been brought to the surface.
When Rechin passed away last year, members of his family took over the comic - less a signal of renewed creativity at hand than it is an attempt to keep a cash cow (newspaper comics can generate mucho dinero in licensing and other such stuff) nourished.
Yet today's comic suggests the populace of arid "Crock" recognizes the institution they serve is in dire need of succor. A surging mass circles two of the "Crock" legionaires, who certainly sense the end is near.
What would Warren Buffett do for them? Are these angry hordes simply a bunch of creditors or M&A specialists looking to buy up the strip or put it out of business? Or do the two legionaires or simply realize "Crock" as a whole cannot survive without an injection of capital from the popular finance whiz?
Either way, "Crock" needs some assistance. If this desperate ploy pays off, perhaps the characters in "Momma" will make a pitch to George Soros.
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