9/17/2023 0 Comments Sick sad world tattoo![]() (And by “hibernate,” I mean play Mario Kart and binge-watch “Yellowstone” until his unemployment runs out.) Pluggers: This bear plugger is eating enormous meals in preparation to hibernate during the winter, except it’s only June. (Get it? Except that Ditto is also pretty happy, because he’s already drilled a peephole into the fence that separates their backyards.) So Hi is happy, and everyone else is teed off. Hi and Lois: The new neighbors are cute 23-year-old girls who play golf. (Also, Grandma now uses an AI program to write those cards, but don’t tell anyone.) And the fact that it looks handwritten really does make it “grown-up,” since, other than in elementary-school classes and the occasional birthday card from Grandma, these kids will never encounter a word that hasn’t been typed on a keyboard and processed electronically. Gil Thorp: I understand that these sports-oriented inmates maybe aren’t your normal juvies, but that doesn’t mean using a stretched-out volleyball net as a fence is going make them think twice before ducking through the strings and running away.įamily Circus: I appreciate the artist’s efforts to place actual words on the page, which vaguely relate to the topic at hand - instead of the usual fake type or nonsense sentences. …Too far…? Also, probably neither, because anything like those two scenarios happening would be non-boring, and this strip doesn’t do that Luann : what’s more likely, that GuntherMom and Mr Gray find out about this immediately because they ALSO have access to the Internet and would find out about this if it went viral, or that one of the first comments is something like “B3TZ#1F4N196996 : Why do you guys gotta hide like this? Why are Gunthers’ parents against you being together? What are they, RACISTS?” I mean, Dawg and Trixie are also absent, and THEY have well-established bits and schticks! Hi & Lois : rules of three (thus a fourth “anyone I’d like?” comment would be too much and distracting), or the realisation that Ditto can’t be the one who asks about “cute girls” because he hates them, and him asking about “cute boys” could easily be misconstrued. *I thought that was Kaz at first, because it looks just like him, but he’s wearing a badge and a “Milford Juvenile Center” polo shirt, so it must be a lookalike, like how the reality show producer was just Gil with a ponytail. Gil Thorp : Man, for a second there, I thought that was the prison guard*’s middle finger that was extended, that he was flipping them off while locking them up…. ![]() About this Postįamily Circus : all that body horror about “what if ALL our organs worked the way teeth do, with them falling out and being replaced with permanent, mature versions as we age out of childhood?”, no comment on how the Internet has kinda ruined the “if you bothered to read this miniscule text, you have wasted your time” joke by being a format where the text can easily be a size that makes it perfectly legible. The truly depressing thing here is that after nearly 70 years in publication, this strip hasn’t come up with enough of a personality for Ditto to give him a plausible joke. This is a lot of body horror to just tell us that Jeffy’s an idiot, in other words, especially considering that most of us already knew that he was an idiot. But you have to admit that it does present us with a truly horrifying image of a world where children just a little older than Jeffy reach an age at which they lose their “child’s eyes” - maybe they cloud over and harden first, or maybe they just suddenly and painfully pop off the optic nerves, with the new, literate “adult” eyes emerging from bloody sockets over the next few excruciating weeks. Now, obviously the joke here is that Jeffy is an idiot. Anyway, I bring this up because I thought that was a pretty bad euphemism, but “ Milford juvenile sports program manager” as a job title for a prison guard is frankly a lot worse. Some years back, the state of Maryland renamed the government agency in charge of courts, detention facilities, and parole supervision for kids under 18 from the “Department of Juvenile Justice” to the “Department of Juvenile Services,” and I can understand trying to get rid of a label that has punitive implications and maybe try to imply that you’re leaning towards rehabilitation, but (a) you can never win a race on the euphemism treadmill and (b) “Department of Juvenile Services” might falsely lead you to believe that the department was delivering services to young people that weren’t ultimately crime-and-punishment related. ![]() Also, I am reasonably sure you could top that one Tuesday, 206 Caged lukewarmth Post Content ![]()
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