| Thursday, April 3, 2003 |
12:50 - Comics Roundup
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I haven't been paying attention to the comic world as much as I should have; today at lunch I got myself caught up. Lots of good stuff that I've been missing. Well, "good" and, er... "notable".
Uh-huh. And here I'd thought the Xbox was yesterday's news. But at least the sentiment is fun-- as is the followup. Heh.
Hee hee hee. (It's the big Home button, which is only hidden if you choose to hide it, foo'.)
And, naturally, "Boondocks" has been hysterical and incoherent, as expected. (And by "hysterical" I don't mean "funny".) Here's a typical core sample:
A-hem. "A public that is either too scared or too stupid to reclaim their government." Anybody else see shades of that infamous Le Monde columnist who said, The French masses understand nothing, which is normal? At least in this strip McGruder acknowledges that he's a self-parodying cynic-- but not as much so as to repudiate his perennial stomach-turning more-sarcastic-than-thou elitism or anything. Is it that inconceivable that "the people" might actually be consciously and intelligently choosing differently from what the sloganeers think they should be choosing? Is it that hard to grasp that when you vest a nation's power with its people, those people are free to voluntarily choose a path that you might not agree with?
No, it's much easier to believe in conspiracy theories, and to bob along buoyed by the knowledge that you're so enlightened and so superior to all The People that you claim to speak for. Hey, remember when it was conservatives who got themselves caricatured over things like fluoridated water and televangelists and Kennedy?
To McGruder, 70% of the American public, because it doesn't agree with him, is stupid and intimidated. I dunno, Occam's Razor tells me almost exactly the opposite.
UPDATE: John sends me this corker:
Ouch.
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