I’m disappointed that the Spice boys are breaking up.

Consider this — the stories that Cary Spivak and Dan Bice write are edgy but their columns have fun with people who take themselves too seriously.

Spivak and Bice have mixed investigative journalism with humor and that’s a good thing. It’s true that they can get a little sarcastic but it makes their columns all that much more amusing.

While many other reporters take the easy pickings, the Spice boys are willing to do a little digging.

But those who are sometimes the focus of a story need to have a thicker skin — and all this from a former pol (recovering nicely thank you) who was once the brunt of one of those edgy stories.

Here was their announcement:

It’s time.

For more than eight years, we’ve been writing this column two, three and, occasionally, four times a week. But our final column will run Feb. 18.

Cary Spivak then will join the Journal Sentinel’s new investigative team specializing in business, and Dan Bice will be writing a new solo column, much like this one, that launches March 4.

It’s been fun.

I’ve long thought their column was one of the better ones in the JS and they probably had what was close to the perfect job — an opportunity to poke fun at those that deserve it and the freedom to do a little investigative work to make future columns sparkle. Hopefully, Bice will keep his edge and Spivak won’t be shuffled off to investigate the inner workings of shoe stitchery, metal forging or other mundane coverage of the business world.