Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Conservative Comic Lame-Off 2: Pathetic Boogaloo
A pretty lame day for conservative comics. Let's figure out who's lamest!
"Day By Day" comes up last today, since Chris Muir has been laying off the politics this week, and letting his office-bound characters do whatever it is they do in that office. You can tall that Jan--she of the impossibly slim waist--isn't being used as the liberal fall-girl now because she is reasonably dressed, at least by Muir's fantasy standards. Keep an eye out--whenever he wants her to be the office dopey liberal, he draws her with her pants nearly falling down. Seriously.
"Mallard Fillmore" mastermind Bruce Tinsley tries his hand at a predictably lame self-referential strip. Post office jokes? I can't wait for Mallard/Tinsley to start talking about his golf game. And what's up with that perspective? Is that supposed to be Tinsley's fingers holding the pencil or does he draw with his mouth? Lame, but sadly lame, so Mallard pulls up third.
Here things get close. Via Roger Ailes, I've dicsovered that there's a new lame comic on the block: "Gaggle," which purports to tell, in humorous (or not) comic form, about the scourge of the liberal media. Today's strip is a pretty lame example of what has consistently been, in its short existence, a very lame strip. Read that last panel closely--see the punchline? Of course you don't! In lame conservative comic fashion, the strip's writer (anonymous for now) doesn't see the need for one, or--more likely--has no idea how to construct one. Why be funny when you can make a specious point that the "liberal" media is no less media when it invites Bill Kristol to comment?
On many days, today's "Gaggle" would win. But as it happens, Carl Moore over at "State of the Union" is feeling particularly vicious. In another one of his patently lame celebrity cameo strips, Saddam Hussein calls up his good buddy Michael Moore for some advice on "Bush bashing." Forget that even within the realm of satire this makes no sense, and note that Moore is doing the sort of thing for which liberal commentators get raked over the goals: coyly suggesting that a commentator one doesn't agree with is somehow aligned, even casually, with a brutal dictator. So congratulations Carl--you've won today's Conservative Comic Lame-Off!
"Day By Day" comes up last today, since Chris Muir has been laying off the politics this week, and letting his office-bound characters do whatever it is they do in that office. You can tall that Jan--she of the impossibly slim waist--isn't being used as the liberal fall-girl now because she is reasonably dressed, at least by Muir's fantasy standards. Keep an eye out--whenever he wants her to be the office dopey liberal, he draws her with her pants nearly falling down. Seriously. 
"Mallard Fillmore" mastermind Bruce Tinsley tries his hand at a predictably lame self-referential strip. Post office jokes? I can't wait for Mallard/Tinsley to start talking about his golf game. And what's up with that perspective? Is that supposed to be Tinsley's fingers holding the pencil or does he draw with his mouth? Lame, but sadly lame, so Mallard pulls up third. 
Here things get close. Via Roger Ailes, I've dicsovered that there's a new lame comic on the block: "Gaggle," which purports to tell, in humorous (or not) comic form, about the scourge of the liberal media. Today's strip is a pretty lame example of what has consistently been, in its short existence, a very lame strip. Read that last panel closely--see the punchline? Of course you don't! In lame conservative comic fashion, the strip's writer (anonymous for now) doesn't see the need for one, or--more likely--has no idea how to construct one. Why be funny when you can make a specious point that the "liberal" media is no less media when it invites Bill Kristol to comment? 
On many days, today's "Gaggle" would win. But as it happens, Carl Moore over at "State of the Union" is feeling particularly vicious. In another one of his patently lame celebrity cameo strips, Saddam Hussein calls up his good buddy Michael Moore for some advice on "Bush bashing." Forget that even within the realm of satire this makes no sense, and note that Moore is doing the sort of thing for which liberal commentators get raked over the goals: coyly suggesting that a commentator one doesn't agree with is somehow aligned, even casually, with a brutal dictator. So congratulations Carl--you've won today's Conservative Comic Lame-Off!
