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  1. Unknown's avatar

    Serifs can be seen as making a font fancier, like a “no tie, no service” high end place. And note that his clothing is quite shabby. Better to have a fashionable body and be naked.

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    You posted a better one about letters in a bar and no serif ~ no shirt a while back. It wasn’t great but it was a little better and seemed to make a little more sense.

    That *is* the joke but …. I don’t know… the last several years Bizarro seems to have been utterly *botching* on the logic of it’s delivery.

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    Supposedly Piraro still consults on the writing for the ones Wayno draws, but the lapses in logic or obscured humor seem to me to resemble more what we saw in Wayno’s old solo strip.

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    If I understand what the earlier explanations were, I think I see Mr. Tee’s regret a little differently. He is Sans Serif, and as such is not getting in at this place — so dressing up would make no difference.

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    The joke might have worked better if the “No Serifs” had simply been inserted into the usual 3-line sign.

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    This comic is a commentary of racial prejudice. Serifs are physical characteristic of the typeface. Some have them, some don’t. This type of physical difference is like the difference in skin colour, hair, and facial faces that exist among humans. We, as humans, can plainly see that all the letters are the same and the serif is simply an inconsequential, cosmetic difference. Why, then, asks the cartoonist, are we still attaching such importance to and creating so much acrimony, about cosmetic differences in people? He further drives this home with the presence of the alien creature observing. This represents the cartoonist saying “Imagine if aliens came and observed our behaviour around race. What would they think?” Here we are cast in the role of alien observer to the world of the living typefaces. It is, frankly, a brilliant, nuanced piece.

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    It worked for me. The usual sign is “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service”, and T prepared for that one. Then he walks in and sees a different (and as SB observes, frankly discriminatory) sign in place. Also, I just like the visual of T with his shirt and one shoe.

    I’m still a fan of Bizarro. I was also a fan of late-period Peanuts, when Schulz declined to imitate his older stuff and cheerfully got odder and shaggier.

    Guindon had a group of ordinary middle-aged men wearing nothing but loud patterned pants, as if that was accepted Minnesota attire. They stood outside a restaurant as one said, “Dang! We can’t eat here either.”

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    Singapore Bill, Dr Seuss made the point with the Sneeches ca. 1953 yet racism persists. I fear that the need of some people to find a pretext however flimsy, to identify with a group that thinks itself superior to another group will resist any combination of logic and satire.

    See, there I go characterizing myself as superior to those I label as racists. It may be an innate human trait.

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    For the same reason there is an eyeball behind the ‘T”. Wayno is continuing the tradition of secret symbols in his comics . . . see the number (4) by the Wayno/Bizarro names? That’s how many are in the comic. The spaceship/alien in the window is #3, and the K2 on the tablecloth is the fourth one.

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    Andréa, if you’re referring to the tags, I’m working under the assumption that if Wayno’s name is there, he created the panel; and Piraro’s name is in the oanel because he created Bizarro itself.

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