Which of the following images that appeared in Google Reader today makes more sense?
Would it be the latest Obama Nation comic by James Hudnall and Batton Lash:
Or this painting of Batman stabbing a shark with a lightsaber:
The fact that this is even arguable speaks volumes about the current state of political discourse on the right today.
Lol! Someday, when you grow up, you’ll get it.
Obviously, Mr. Hudnall thinks he’s too hip for the room.
You do realize that you unironically followed “Lol!” by exhorting me to “grow up,” right? Just checking.
No offense Sir, but I believe I’m mature enough to understand it.
Batman+Lightsaber+Shark=MegaAwesome.
What’s not to understand?
when you grow up and get your Ph.D in Clinical Psychology, you’ll get it.
There, fixed it for you.
Lol! Someday, when you grow up, you’ll get it.
Well, I love a challenge. Let me see if I get it:
Theory 1) In the first panel, Obama repeats what he has been saying in reality, and everything is fine (calm doctors, etc.). In the second panel the doctors start dragging him off (for no apparent reason) and he starts shouting a lot of gibberish. Presumably funny because people like Obama (you know, liberals) say funny things when they’re scared.
Theory 2) The doctors start dragging him off after, for absolutely no reason, he starts (in panel 2) saying a lot of foolishly wrong things. Funny because crazy people are funny.
So at this point he is either gibbering for no reason or the doctors are dragging him away for no reason. But what if everything happens for a reason in “Obama Nation”? This leads to …
Theory 3) The doctors start dragging him off because of what he says in panel 1. Now, this may seem like a silly premise, because what he says in panel 1 is both correct and in character for Obama. So why would doctors want to drag him off? I believe it is because they are foreign (Chinese?) agents sent to make sure America is no longer economically competitive. The humor is in the fact that while (in panel 2) Obama is yelling out his “SOS” words to the Secret Service, they do not act because they think it’s all part of his health care proposal. Funny because the Secret Service is stupid.
Now, Mr. Hudnall, please tell me which is the right one.
# 4 because ice cream has no bones
Unless it’s chicken flavor.
I thought Batman had shark repellent…
I believe he was riding the shark before it got uppity.
That cartoon is, despite its intentions, factually correct; Obama hasn’t said those things.
The Batman one is subtly false. Note that the shark has only one row of teeth. It appears accurate in all other respects, however.
The Obama one, on the other hand, is a clever meta-commentary on the tragic topic of prescription drug abuse, mimicking the disjointed thought processes of someone pilled out of their mind, and hallucinating their next fix.
They are both bad art, but only the second is intentionally funny.
Meh … Espers was better.
Nah, I’m still thinking that Batman would use shark repellent, or deploy his own custom Batlaser(TM), or even just punch the shark a lot. If it weren’t for the competition, I’d regretfully have to give it thumbs down. However, you’ve stacked the deck by having the competition being so fucking stupid. Hudnall and Lash: deliberately mendacious asswipes, or ignorant halfwitted tools? (I presume this is another blog that’s both/and rather than either/or.)
Anyway, grow up, Kaufman; or should I say … Mr. Poopypants?
Well, he certainly uses shark repellant (or was that Bat Shark Repellant?) in the original Batman movie, the one with Adam West.
But the new, modern, sexy, edgy Batman must of course use a lightsaber. Which isn’t to say I necessarily approve of Batman; his policy on the use of executive power to do massively parallel warrantless wiretapping in the face of a perceived threat is very disturbing.
It certainly is concievable that the movie-version Batman would have access to new military technology which would give him something lightsaber-like. But Spiderman is the one with The Force (even if he doesn’t realize it fully).
Eventually, they’ll have children together, and Anakin will be reborn….
Or Yoda.
It’s great that you’re taking advantage of your ability to hide extra content after the link, but that doesn’t mean you should make a habit of having no content whatsoever on the main page, as you did with this post. I hate blogs where you have to click through to understand each and every post.
As to the substance: yes, it’s sad that the Republicans, having opted to live in a fantasy world, didn’t choose one in which Batman stabs giant sharks with a lightsaber.
I agree with the complaint about having to click on every post to get content, it’s EXTREMELY annoying, especially since your “teasers” have virtually no content at all.
As for Mr. Hudnall’s comment to your post, I think I’m pretty damned grown-up and I have no idea WTF he’s talking about. But maybe I’m just confused, so come on, Jimbo, since I’m such a dope, explain it to me, ‘kay?
and the new site is still way too white.
As for Mr. Hudnall’s comment to your post, I think I’m pretty damned grown-up and I have no idea WTF he’s talking about. But maybe I’m just confused, so come on, Jimbo, since I’m such a dope, explain it to me, ‘kay?
That said, this was my point: despite being frequently and hilariously wrong, I’m a credentialed expert in rhetoric and comics, and I had absolutely no idea what was going on there. It’s not that I didn’t think the joke was funny; it’s that, on a fundamental level, I didn’t get that there was a joke there … because whatever it is, it makes no sense, which violates what should be Rule #1 of anything, i.e. communicated something, nay, anything to your intended audience.
I’m pretty sure that people who actually believe that the first panel is more realistic than the Batman image are not the “intended audience.”
It’s great that you’re taking advantage of your ability to hide extra content after the link, but that doesn’t mean you should make a habit of having no content whatsoever on the main page, as you did with this post.
Actually, I’m sticking the large image files that suck bandwidth like a vengeful broken Hoover beneath the fold.* Seriously, this is all on me: before I came here, it was all serious material communicated in words; but then I arrived, and there were all these bandwidthically vampirical posts, and all the responsible parties started freaking out, and they were all like, “We can’t continue writing these substantial, text-based posts if this clown continues posting pictures.” So it was murder of domain change, and, well…
…now, you know, the rest, of the, story.
*Because, honestly, people don’t understand bandwidth restrictions until a boot’s placed firmly on their neck. I mean that in the most doe-eyed, innocent way, as I didn’t realize that I’d be breaking the blog if I posted all these pictures on it.
That cartoon sucks so bad Simply Red is losing bookings because people are confusing Mick Hucknall with the mook that wrote it. Lol!
That is the most sexual picture involving a shark I have ever seen.
That shark has got no dorsal fin man!
Although with a light saber anything is possible?
I think I get Hudnal’s point.
It was the bolded “Greater Detail”. See, Obama is being carried for saying crazy shit like “Americans want Health Care that doesn’t have a built-in profit margin to cover the golden diapers for the babies of Insurance company execs.”
Crazy Feller needs to be dragged from his home and locked away.
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