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August 16, 2005
Be More Funny!
In today's strip the resurrected Dio is still looking for a Real Republican, which means someone who's for lower taxes, less spending, and smaller government. I would also include that a Real Republican:
- Wouldn't lie to go to war
- Wouldn't smear the mother of a dead soldier
- Wouldn't cut taxes in a time of war
- Wouldn't try to take away states' rights by intruding in the lives of private citizens like in the case of Teri Schiavo
- Wouldn't endorse torture
- Wouldn't cheat to win an election
- Wouldn't commit treason by outing a CIA agent as revenge for someone who spoke out against said illegal war
- Would make catching Osama Bin Laden our top priority
But I guess you can't fit all of that into one panel.
However that's not my main gripe with today's strip. The last line - the kicker, the money shot - just isn't funny. "Only by a third" just redefines what Carmen says - it's not an insightful commentary, it's not a punchline, it just sits there like an unfunny lizard on a rock. How about Carmen saying, "One outta three ain't bad," with Dio responding, "Yes it is." Or how about, "Maybe if you're a Democrat." Instead we get Stantis once again preferring political commentary to, you know, being comical. Just another day in Prickly City.
Comments
Phew, that's a relief! I was racking my brain trying to figure out the punchline. A reference to a quote or something? Turns out there is none. I need to lower my expectations.
Posted by: JB at August 16, 2005 11:22 AM
Just consider yourself lucky that he didn't have Dio "going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico! We're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan! And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaah!"
Although according to moveon.org posterboy/DNC chairman/liberal nutjob Howard Dean, it never happened.
Posted by: Sacki at August 16, 2005 04:11 PM
