Heathcliff just doesn't speak to me. I don't know why. The jokes are amusing, the artwork quirky and well done. But, as I've said before, he's no Garfield, and the stories are far too surface-oriented. There's a really great essay by Sigmund Freud called "The Uncanny" that talks about the perception of the world by children, and posits that the best children's writing acknowledges the very strange place that the world can be for young people. Heathcliff's world is strange, but no one ever seems to acknowledge that strangeness. In fact, the strange things are played off as normal, everyday events. And I'm not really sure why.
"Maybe this is a 3-D movie, Heathcliff!"
