As a matter of personal opinion, I think the comics are humorous, not fall out of your seat funny, but amusing enough to keep clicking through. They point out elements of culture that can have controversial value or deserve comment or parody, which all humor needs some hook into.

There are certainly much more disturbing comics out there, some of which are "mainstream" as far as youth culutre goes. Johnny The Homicidial Maniac, for instance http://books.google.com/books?id=GX-2lkIglFMC&dq=Jhonen+Vasquez&source=an&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result&pgis=1 I'm always amused when I see my students reading this furtively or drawing characters from it, most of them assume it's recent (it came out 12 years ago when I was their age). That's substantially darker/more offensive perhaps that what you pointed out, but then Sanrio enterprises has the market cornered on the cute end of the spectrum (Hello Kitty).
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