We’ll start with something completely stupid and work our way up.One of the oddities of our political scene is that the conservatives who criticize the climate of “victimization” and attack minorities for complaining over unfair treatment and condemn any demand — even any request — for politeness as “Political Correctness” turn out to be the […]
Tom Tomorrow is out with Part One of his year-end wrap-up comic, of which this is only the top two of a five-tier cake. You should go here to read the rest.He suggests there that the flood of stupidity is getting hard to encapsulate in two 20-panel comics and I agree. Years ago, O Best […]
Bizarro tackles the issue of logical consistency in Genesis, and, on one level, this is a little like criticizing Little Red Riding Hood because a wolf’s forelegs would not fit into a woman’s nightgown sleeves. Folk tales ought not to be held up to that sort of scrutiny.Then again, nobody ever insisted that my biology […]
Mark Trail joins in with the Christmas-themed comics with this piece on sustainable Christmas trees, and the website he plugs does have a lot of good information not only on why real trees are an environmentally sound choice but on what to do with it once you get it home. It’s a better-than-average industry group site.It […]
The number of attempts to tie Star Wars into other topics is … well the number is overwhelming, the attempts themselves, largely under.Fortunately a few people were doing other things:John Branch’s comment on the GOP debate came in after I’d covered that, else it would have been featured then.Clean lines, good caricatures and a simple, […]
You can read this, Watson. No spoilers, except that, as my 14-year-old critic wrote, “Everyone will go see it regardless of whether it’s any good. Happily, it really is good.”In fact, I was struck by the similarities between his review and the one Tom Racine and Lucas Turnbloom did at Tall Tales Radio, both spoiler free. We’ll […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Here’s a spoiler-free review from Lucas Turnbloom and me about “Star Wars, The Force Awakens.” Enjoy!
To my readers, may you enjoy whatever holiday you observe this time of year.
Stick with me through the grim stuff and then we’ll lighten up. In the aftermath of the GOP debate, I wondered if anyone else had heard the parts I heard, because the punitry seemed to focus on refugees and terrorism, while chuckling over Trump’s ignorance of a technical term a president should probably know and […]
The first issue of “The American Bystander” has begun arriving at Kickstarter supporter addresses, and the one update to their original plan is that they did print more copies than just for their initial supporters.It’s an odd but appealing project, explained best by publisher Mike Gerber in the Kickstarter video. The goals were modest, to […]
I make no secret of my affection for Rip Kirby, but I don’t think it’s favoritism to declare today’s (well, July 31, 1956’s) strip to be the winner for best dialogue.In the new arc that started yesterday, this actress got a review in which it was suggested she’s no longer an ingenue, and she’s blaming […]
The Knight Life ponders the weird gap between the role models we offer our kids and the roles we expect them to model.Thus was it ever, Keefe, though you do have to differentiate between the characters parents provide to their children versus the characters kids find on their own.When I was researching a story about […]
Romanian cartoonist Pavel Constantin drew this cynical view of the climate talks before the agreement was announced, and I say “cynical” because, while real trees would be at least a partial solution, that tree is, in fact, simply a car deodorizer. Which raises two points:1. It looks like the agreement actually does do more than cover […]
I could probably use my Andy Rooney pics for nearly everything today, because I seem to be stuck in Old Fart Mode. Oh well. It’s always worth the price of admission here. For instance, On The Fastrack made me scroll back my memory bar, and I think the last time I got a Christmas bonus was 1981.Do […]
Kudos to Mark Tatulli for the timing of today’s Lio, which reminded me to go ahead and post my 12-year-old reporter’s review of “In the Heart of the Sea,” which opens today. This is her raw copy, but I’m not making a lot of edits for the weekly publication and I hope Lio can smuggle […]