The Ape of Naples posted:

You have a wife and two children. What's to discuss? You need health insurance.

visceril posted:

It's impossible to make an anti-war movie or an anti-capitalist movie because the villains and violence always end up too likeable. It's almost an inevitably for Hollywood, because nobody wants to watch a movie with unlikeable, unmemorable characters.

People didn't "get" what a broken human being Rambo was because he was such a badass and that stupid cop should've respected are troop.

Scarface was a hypocritical jealous psychopath that got gunned down like a punk and people have literally molded careers around singing about how awesome he was.

Freakin' Martin Scorsece should've known better--Godfather was supposed to be anti capitalist but ended up glorifying the mob.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

I agree it's probably impossible to do these days, and has been that way for a long time, but I'd argue that at least two anti-war movies have actually been made, one intentionally, one not. Both are from WWI, and were shot during the war itself: The Battle of the Somme, 1916, and J'accuse, 1919.

The former was intended as a propaganda piece, but was realistic enough to horrify British audiences when it premiered; we have numerous accounts of people crying out in shock as troops go over the top and get mowed down, and several cases of audience members fainting. The latter almost rates as a horror film given its use of imagery of dead soldiers returning to haunt/judge the living back at home. Neither was misinterpreted at the time in any way as being pro-war or jingoistic to my knowledge.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

The two I mentioned don't, to my knowledge at least, suffer from this, both as WWI is hard to say anything good about at all (at least from a European perspective) and also as they were made in the early days of cinema where techniques and expectations were very different from today. Modern war films, even if explicitly anti-war in intention, however, have a very hard time with the problem. But this is already long, and de-raily, enough that I'll leave it for now.

Fulchrum posted:

This still ranks as one of my all time favourite instances of a grown man overreacting to criticism. Right up there with the judge who thought he should be allowed to hang people who criticized his work.

crowfeathers posted:

I think Allie might be the worst person posted here

Lycus posted:

Again: Vertical eye scar = badass. That's a well-known rule of character design.

crowfeathers posted:

i like that rule because it'd be pretty hard to actually get a vertical eye scar in any way that isn't really embarrassingly dumb

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Dueling scars were traditionally horizontal (in most instances), and on the side of the cheek. They were a big status symbol for German men in previous centuries, as it marked whoever had one as a part of the upper class, and usually as having attended university back when that was much more exclusive of a thing.

Ditocoaf posted:

I don't understand what it's trying to say, other than being pro-republican.

steinrokkan posted:

UGH, this is a worse crime that Tinsley's DUI.

Also, I find it kinda amusing the author is making fun of him for not being popular / well known when Tinsley's strip has a been a mainstay in editorial cartoning for the past two decades, for better or worse, while this is just a webcomic.

Sir Rolo posted:

You're right, that Kelly is much more reasonable than this cartoon:

Spiffster posted:

I don't see Willis drawing lovely Doctor Hibert knockoffs as presidents of the United States, making people pay hundreds for his presence in which he isn't obliged to make eye contact, or just being a total poo poo heel in general.

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The only reason he gets posted in here is he does a decent political cartoon from time to time. If we didn't post people just because a poster has a problem with them personally or their messages, This thread would be empty.

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... And I think we had this argument a few years ago... and once again you bring up that he supports rape. He never once did a joke that said rape is OK or funny. He showed one of the sad dangers of college in Dumbing of Age in one of his story-lines. One of the characters was trying to be supportive for her friend who had to go to a party to get an interview for the newspaper, but she didn't want to go because she was really felt uncomfortable about it. They both went to a party, which is outside their comfort bubbles, so the journalist would at least have a friendly face in the crowd. Even when she gets separated due to the interview, she tries to stay within a group of people so she is never alone and when they find out what he was trying to do the guy ends up getting slashed by a broken glass and beaten to a pulp with a bat. Not once does he support a rapist and he is supposed to be despised in all of his actions. Do you just believe that Rape should never be discussed in any medium?

Tatum Girlparts posted:

No he doesn't, that's the dude who did the 'I invented the cure for cancer' 'you didn't build that' 'GUESS WE ALL DIE THEN THANKS OBUMMER' comic. Branco's biggest audience is this thread because he's a nobody.

Mister Beeg posted:

So who wants to own an original drawing by Bruce Tinsley? Only $100!



Not sure who that is, but it's not a bad drawing IMO.

Discendo Vox posted:

Is the joke that he overturned the car with the backhoe? If so, why are the EPA agents just sitting in their car? If not, why is their car sideways in a bush? Why is there a lieutenant in the EPA? Why would attacking EPA agents be a good idea in this situation? Why would water runoff pits be a bad one?

Rebochan posted:

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EndOfTheWorld posted:

H&R Block is running ads talking about how last year Americans had $1 billion in unclaimed deductions. Different commercials show the $1 billion in different ways -one of which puts a fat wad of cash on each seat in a stadium.

The idea is ol' Obama is just taking the hard earned tax-dollars of real 'murikans and spending it all on golf! ARE TAX DOLLARS!!!

VitalSigns posted:

So is the unemployment rate 30%, or is Lester counting children and retired people?

Hmmmmmmmm.

MinionOfCthulhu posted:

I googled 92 million unemployed and the first link that came up to was rushlimbaugh.com sooooooo

Poopy Palpy posted:

TIE Advanced-X1. The TIE Interceptor has pointier wings.

E-Tank posted:

Aka: The only Imperial starfighter worth a drat.

HootTheOwl posted:

I think you mean the TIE Defender
TIE Fighter was one of the greatest games

E-Tank posted:

If it wasn't in the movies, it isn't canon.
just kidding. I was a big fan of the TIE phantom in Rebel Assault 2.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

The T/D was better, but loyalist forces only had a bare handful due to Zaarin's insurgency so we might as well got with the T/A<sub>and continue to pretend the ridiculously unbalanced missile boat never existed


^{God I love that game}</sub>

Lee Harvey Oswald posted:

Didn't the war on poverty significantly reduce poverty rates for the brief time it was implemented, until shitheels Nixon and Reagan gutted it?

SuperHappy posted:

seems okay to me!

Spatula City posted:

Indeed. It's a good one. I come down firmly on the side that Woody Allen abused his daughter and Roman Polanski should be in prison, but that doesn't stop me from considering Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Chinatown great movies. To be honest, seeing OJ Simpson in the Naked Gun movies doesn't even bother me. Tom Cruise is a horrible person and one of my favorite actors. Unfortunately, a lot of artists are terrible people, and you can choose to let that dictate what you enjoy, or practice a little cognitive dissonance.

Wales Grey posted:

There was a Seahawks touchdown off a Broncos' punt in the superbowl.

edit: I just noticed the field is labled "NATO".

Allen Wren posted:

What is the field supposed to say? I know the top line says NATO, but the way it looks, it says
NA
OT

carry on then posted:

I think it's NATO written both ways. But of course one needs to be upside down or it's pointless. Outstanding.

TheDarkFlame posted:

It's actually fine, it's not just Ramirez being dumb. The other, foreign name of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is in French, and is "Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord", or OTAN.

I don't know why that's the field though, or what Ramirez was trying to do.

Bender posted:

Glenn McCoy has to be the most repugnant person posted in this thread.

alnilam posted:

So what's with all the "why Obama hate Fox news?" comics these past few weeks? I remember him saying fix sucked years ago, did he say it again?

Exclamation Marx posted:

I love that hell priest

Lance Streetman posted:

They have a smoking gun in the form of the NSA, a major scandal that paints Obama as the big bad guy they're always depicting him as. Why the gently caress do they keep bringing up the IRS like it's at all relevant?

tifosibella posted:

The letter Zed got is a letter sent out when someone, a doctor usually, informs the VA that someone receiving benefits appears mentally or physically incapable of handling their benefits payments. The letter states the recipient has a period of time during which they may present evidence disputing the question of their incompetence. If they do not submit said evidence, or if evidence submitted doesn't satisfy the requirements for a ruling of competency, a fiduciary agent is appointed for the veteran in question who is then put in charge of the veteran's benefit payments. In most cases the agent is a family member - wives are obviously a fairly common appointment.

Because of the Brady Act (not Obama as Muir thinks, apparently), veterans who are ruled by the VA to be mentally or physically incompetent are prohibited from owning or purchasing firearms.

In short: No, the VA doesn't keep records on who handles the family finances and then rules the veteran incompetent if he or she is not the one doing it. Because that's loving retarded.

Stultus Maximus posted:

You posted a Glenn cartoon. Gary is the one with all the Fluke cartoons.

Kurtofan posted:

Uh why is it in French? Is he conflating our antisemitic assholes with the BDS movement?

Wheany posted:

Haha, someone is whining that Bennett is accusing GOP of building gas chambers for non-whites, gays, women and the elderly, Inferring Zyklon B from "fumigation."

loquacius posted:

Wait. In this metaphor, didn't they just elect Bill Clinton again? I could be wrong here because honestly it's a really lovely metaphor but if the girl bunny is supposed to be Hillary doesn't that mean the boy bunny is supposed to be Bill?

Chainsawdomy posted:

Do you think Shirley Temple's upset that upon death her soul reverted to prepubescence? Apparently her political career is irrelevant to the almighty.

Tiler Kiwi posted:

ATTN: Entire loving World

Re: Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple has not been a child for over 65 years.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Swan Oat posted:

Isn't Muir usually posted by now?

R. Mute posted:

This one by Karl won the second prize:

Saint Sputnik posted:

I feel like I should be offended but also I need someone to explain exactly why I should be offended.

VitalSigns posted:

Except that Campbell trivializes the momentous and terrifying step of coming out of the closet in a generally hostile society as "Telling people how he likes to score".

The Why isn't everyone loving Tebow for his Christian faith hypocrisy is just icing on the cake.

Internet Webguy posted:

Those are all pretty good, but what was Stephen Tyler nominated for?