Bruce Palmer, a writer and editor for Nestle's 'Laffy Taffy' line of joke-bearing fruit-flavored chews, holds Topps Bazooka gum and its line of complimentary comic art in sneering contempt, he revealed Monday. 'Don't get me wrong: In the Golden Age of the 1970s and 1980s, Bazooka Joe was amazinga big influence on me,' the 43-year-old Palmer said. 'But when Topps went all corporate, and the P.C. suits made them dump [sombrero-clad mischief-maker] Pesty, it all went downhill.' Palmer went on to dismiss Bazooka as 'a stain on the proud literary genre of candy-wrapper humor.' 