Fister Roboto posted:

uhhhhhhh where does Texas attach to the rest of the snake Ben?!

Nenonen posted:

It could be subconscious projection. Has Ted ever drawn a clock face?

CuwiKhons posted:

Every other comic Rall does is about the cruel and monstrous stupidity of America's endless warfare in the Middle East and now he wants America to start some poo poo? Like I get his point that Saudi Arabia leadership gets away with a lot of poo poo that other Islamic countries don't but "we should nuke Saudi Arabi" is not the best way to illustrate that.

Jay Rust posted:

Lodin posted:

https://twitter.com/victoriaying/status/1372050220335259653?s=20

SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

Al "You gotta give me the shoe" Goodwyn

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: How You Can Survive on $1400

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Bors has been worse than Rall for at least 4 years. I'm glad their bland dumb nonsense is going away. They got broke by Trump and there's no shame in that.

Katt posted:

Bors is a fantastic guy and a skilled artist but his comics (besides a few solid hits) tend to be long winded and reiterating stuff we all take for granted.


Yeah the world is poo poo and will probably stay poo poo for a while. There's no hope and we're hosed. That's 90% of Bors output. I agree with him on pretty much all points he ever made but I'm not looking forward to seeing the next chapter.


Compare that to for example Eli Valley, often one panel comics with little dialogue that looks like garbage but it's sharp as hell and provokes feeling something.

Jurgan posted:

Nonsense, this is an election year!

(Seriously, WTF is a cyberninja?)

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Wait, Rall wrote a cartoon about a Biden administration policy and didn't find a way to criticize it? He's off his game today.

Ambitious Spider posted:

It's absolutely a bad faith argument from Garrison, the Kamala book thing is pretty gross.

ZZT the Fifth posted:

Mike Nelson from MST3K used to be on the podcast too, but he pulled out after catching heat.

I dont know posted:

I'm surprised he pulled out, the two of them have been friends and collaborators for years now. Mike voiced the protagonist in Doug's spiritual successor to The Neverhood some years back.
People liked Axe Cop because it was literally the imaginative ramblings of a 5 year old illustrated. The art were good, but that's not why it was popular or stood out from a million other webcomics. I assumed he cleaned up the writing a bit, but that's different then editing writing that's intended to be coherent.

Republicans posted:

I dunno about childhood hero considering Nelson is in his 50's. I think it's more they're both conservative guys in industries that generally don't have a lot of conservatives in them. But he's never been one to make his politics part of his public persona so I imagine he tries to stay away from anything that might alienate parts of his audience.

Xander77 posted:

He starred in a 90's TV show as an adult. 50 is about the least he could possibly be.

I dont know posted:

I can sympathize, even though I first got exposed to Doug's work as a kid, it felt unbelievably brilliant to me. This was to such an extent that, as an adult, learning about how hateful and horrible his views are felt like a personal betrayal to me. Despite him not being a person I ever met or otherwise knew. It's like learning Salvador Dali was a diehard fascist even into the 1980's. It raises hard to answer questions about separating art from artist.

Angry_Ed posted:

I thought this was more of a Fallout reference, personally.

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

That's just the thing, I actually spend a great deal of time worrying about the planet falling apart. I am well aware that things are bad, but agreeing that things are bad doesn't mean I don't also think it's dull to see a lazy comic where mad max characters restate how a bad thing happened while offering no further reflection on the bad thing beyond "gee things sure are bad, bad things really do happen a lot!" for the ten thousandth time.

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: From the Same People Who Brought You WMDs

Pants Donkey posted:

Minna Sundberg beat him to this, and it looks better and likely makes more sense (relatively speaking) than anything he could put out. But whatever, you’re officially in a competition for “Most Tragic Change in Politics for a Reclusive Webcomics Artist” so maybe it’s time to re-evaluate your life.

fool of sound posted:

The table you apparently linked to is specifically life expectancy at birth.

Pants Donkey posted:

I think you need the accompanying rant to really emphasis the racism. Upon first look, I thought the backwards country statement was just something the imperialists would say, and not a sincere belief held by Horsey.

Vargo posted:

So earlier I was wondering why Varvel was so in love with this Andy Griffith reference and kept drawing Joe Biden as Barney Fife, a character that people like Varvel actually love despite (or because of) his incompetence and fascist tendencies. (That second comic references an actual AG episode wherein Barney Fife, left in charge of the town while Andy runs out, arrests everyone in town on bullshit charges. The episode concludes with everyone coming back to jail and locking themselves up so Barney doesn't feel bad for overreacting. So I guess.... the landlords should continue to not charge rent, so that Joe Biden's ego is appeased? Is that what you meant, Varvel?)

Then, while I was doing research for my podcast, I stumbled across an amazing find.

See, the cult of Andy Griffith fans, who are generally older, "family values" conservatives - they have an entire club, the Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club, full of conventions, podcasts and... a movie of their very own.

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Okay, what the gently caress. Tedd Rall has been putting drones being bad above all else (and he's right on that, drones are bad) for decades, he brings up drones even they have nothing to do with the issue at hand. Now the American government is finally doing something that would actually lead to less deaths by dronings and he immediately declares "This is bad actually"

Twelve by Pies posted:

...who the hell thinks Carter is the worst president ever? Not even saying you have to think he's good, and hell I could even see someone saying "worst in my lifetime" and I'd think that's silly but you could argue it. But ever?

Ah yes, who could forget how Obama started and masterminded the war in Afghanistan?

fool of sound posted:

I actually asked Rall about the drones thing during a Reddit AMA several years ago, and he said that he focuses specifically on drones because they represent a kind of clinical warfare where soldiers are detached from the reality of killing and the public doesn't care because American soldiers aren't returning home maimed or dead. I think the latter in particular is kinda ridiculous because it's not as though the public seemed to care about the mental and physical injuries inflicted on the boots-on-the-ground soldiers in Iraq.

Trapezium Dave posted:

I don't remember how Ted "Drones" Rall started his arguments but somewhere along the line drones morphed to a shorthand for how Obama was bad. It was made obvious during the first couple of years of Trump where the drone strikes increased but were reported less (but you could easily find out if you cared) where Rall made a whole bunch of cartoons that were "Obama was a Drone Murderer but he was erudite so you loved him whereas you're mad at Trump for making dumb tweets" instead of "you're mad at Trump for dumb tweets when you should be mad at the drone strikes".

I'm not sure he will start it up again full pelt under Biden because I don't think he's got the same appeal as Obama had - which was the thing that set Rall off.

Lemming posted:

wizzardstaff posted:

He's usually thinking about vanilla ice cream in very close detail.

itskage posted:

This part of MGS5 was rough.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Hadn't heard that one. Nice to know Lalo is still one of the good cartoonists.

oobey posted:

Problem: Ben wants to transition, but the stigma in the right-wing community prevents this.
Solution: First, start by introducing Tina as a separate persona…