Where Is Everybody?
Well, it seems that my fellow writers have abandoned me. I don't know what has become of them, but I shall soldier on and try to do the daily thing solo, as a brave young blogger once did many months ago. Perhaps someone will join me in my quest to find the worst of the good and the best of the bad.
Here's your regularly scheduled comics bashing.
Prickly City 6/30/09
Wait, people still watch network TV news? Don't they have the internet?
Gasoline Alley 6/30/09
I don't know what's going on here, but I like that ass-shot. If there's anything that comic strips need more of, I think we can all agree that it's ass-shots.
Bound and Gagged 6/30/09
Is this ironic or just lame?
The Boiling Point 6/30/09
Fact: Most things in your local grocery store are not bad for you and are not created by slave labor.
This is a fact that this creator has chosen to ignore in order to make a joke about the unaffordability of "organic food" and the questionable safety of products that do not exist. Believe me, there is no such food as cow bits. I've looked.
3 comments:
Thanks for ripping into the uber-lame comic The Boiling Point. I don't understand the innate anger that the female artist is all about...perhaps if she drew some more ass-shots like Gasoline Alley then at least her lame art would be worth looking at from time to time.
Whoa! Gasoline Alley is really desperate to bring in some readers these days. Thank God it wasn't Skeezix's behind. Or Uncle Walts. Or those two junk men. Ewwwww.
Fact: Most things in your local grocery store are not bad for you and are not created by slave labor.
Fact: crashing into the postman as Dagwood does about once every month would result in trips to the emergency room and not aw-shucks chuckles.
Fact: a political cartoon's purpose is to make a point, not simply amuse.
There may be no such food as Cow Bits, but there certainly have been questions raised about the practice of feeding animals the remains from their own species, and this bit of exaggeration or satire is fine with me.
I wasn't aware of Boiling Point before. I took a look. You could have found a better example of this cartoonist's work for criticism. This one actually throws the reader a humorous curve, considering she's of the far-left persuasion but acknowledges with the last illustration that it's not just Evil Corporations(tm) foisting stuff on us. OK, "We Are All Responsible" is a bit of a leftist 1960s cliche, but still.
As for Sparky's seeming opinion that the cartoonist's gender has anything to do with anything, it appears from her blog that she is either lesbian or at least very sympathetic, so she may very well have made unpublished ass-shots of high quality and of a nature that might be just what Sparky wants or maybe even beyond.
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