>>114825957Cathy mostly seems less appealing because of how she essentially became the mold for female comics. She's fine in a vacuum, like when she first started out, but most comics targeting women since then have done nothing but rip her off, except somehow be even worse.
Someone posted that "Hot mess mom" comic here a while back and boy, that shit was just depressing. Just like Cathy, it was a cynical self-deprecation of relatable issues, but just considerably more pathetic about it. Most of the strips felt more like a cry for help than an attempt at humor. Just so many comics just revel in that kind of shit, it just gets old. Ana works because even now, she's a breath of fresh air from this kind of shit.
