Was this intended to be funny? Intentionally ironically unfunny? The artist’s 8-year-old hacked his account?
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Kaninchen gegen Scheiße?
Well, I *could* ask has Rabbits against Magic ever been funny, or perhaps more fair and accurate, has its humor even been aimed at people with our tastes?
But I’d say this is cynical in that the poop who is born to be a social pariah, attempts to follow social attitudes which only results in his annihilation and the uncaring universe wants to convince him this is good and acceptable. That’s seems to me to be funny and consistent with the strips attitude and humor. It doesn’t impress or please me but I’ve never been a fan and the strip doesn’t *want* to appeal to me. And I can’t say this strip fails to have a joke.
And yet, destroyed, he went on the date.
Hey, kids! Don’t skip showers!
So… I’ve noticed a lot of the headlines lately have been “so…”
When I first saw this strip, I was appalled. I know civility and decency are pretty much a thing of the past but have we stooped so low that it is acceptable to have a pile of $%^& as the lead character? And to poke fun at his own strip, “Little Oop”. Or he just calling that strip crap? If so, at least he’s just being honest.
It’s a post-modern nihilistic take on the Ugly Duckling.
Little Poop is rejected due to being different and very much wants to fit in, to adhere to conventions of beauty. He tries to fit in and, in doing so, gives up the core of his being. All that he is winds up washed away, down the drain of conformity. There is nothing left of him. Like the Ugly Duckling, he is transformed, but he is transformed into a nothing. It is saying we must embrace the essence of who we are. even if that is not beautiful to others. Any other course risks losing ourselves entirely. It’s beautiful man. F%#*ing beautiful.
*tears up*
James, so?
Bill, not so? so…
An emerging speech trend, as addressed in this podcast.
In current talk radio parlance, “So,…” is a placeholder for the interviewee’s thoughts: “I have this long preformulated response; let me get my brain in gear so that I can read it off as a seemingly candid reply to your stock question.”
P.S. The “So,…“-disease is particularly virulent at NPR, it often seems like more than 50% of the interview answers there are prefaced by a “So,…“
Charles Schulz did a much better (more meaningful, funnier, and less disgusting) investigation of “outcast” topics with his “Pigpen” character. The moral of this “charming” tale is obvious: do not read “Rabbits Against Magic“.
And… sometimes I just don’t have time to come up with a subject line.
Unca Scrooge, The cartoonist of Rabbits against Magic is the cartoonist who does the new Alley Oop?!
Sheesh, who gave him *that* gig? And if he hates it so much he can return it to someone who would do a better job….
So-so.
Woozy – John Glynn at Go Comics is the mastermind behind the new creative team on Alley Oop. Many complaints about the artwork, the writing and even the drab colors. The first story involves a time-travel back to 1986 to find a missing Duran Duran mixtape. Oop and gang find out that it has being held hostage for a jelly bean White House and the master disk for a shareware game. I kid you not.
Yeah, Yeah, I’ve read the new Alley Oop. I just didn’t realize that the John Lemon of Rabbits Against Magic was the guy doing the new Alley Oop. Who’s bright idea was *that*?
No-one’s even mentioned the poop emoji (I can’t believe I just typed that) that’s popular these days.
Or so I’ve read. (As I’ve noted in the past I don’t text so what do I know?)
@ Grawlix – Just because the Unicode authorities laid a turd is no reason that a comic strip has to follow suit and lay another one.
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Kaninchen gegen Scheiße?
Well, I *could* ask has Rabbits against Magic ever been funny, or perhaps more fair and accurate, has its humor even been aimed at people with our tastes?
But I’d say this is cynical in that the poop who is born to be a social pariah, attempts to follow social attitudes which only results in his annihilation and the uncaring universe wants to convince him this is good and acceptable. That’s seems to me to be funny and consistent with the strips attitude and humor. It doesn’t impress or please me but I’ve never been a fan and the strip doesn’t *want* to appeal to me. And I can’t say this strip fails to have a joke.
And yet, destroyed, he went on the date.
Hey, kids! Don’t skip showers!
So… I’ve noticed a lot of the headlines lately have been “so…”
When I first saw this strip, I was appalled. I know civility and decency are pretty much a thing of the past but have we stooped so low that it is acceptable to have a pile of $%^& as the lead character? And to poke fun at his own strip, “Little Oop”. Or he just calling that strip crap? If so, at least he’s just being honest.
It’s a post-modern nihilistic take on the Ugly Duckling.
Little Poop is rejected due to being different and very much wants to fit in, to adhere to conventions of beauty. He tries to fit in and, in doing so, gives up the core of his being. All that he is winds up washed away, down the drain of conformity. There is nothing left of him. Like the Ugly Duckling, he is transformed, but he is transformed into a nothing. It is saying we must embrace the essence of who we are. even if that is not beautiful to others. Any other course risks losing ourselves entirely. It’s beautiful man. F%#*ing beautiful.
*tears up*
James, so?
Bill, not so? so…
An emerging speech trend, as addressed in this podcast.
http://player.podtrac.com/player?autoplay=true&text=Play+Now&mode=single&rgb=660033&h=300&episode=http%3a%2f%2fwww.podtrac.com%2fpts%2fredirect.mp3%2ftraffic.libsyn.com%2flexiconvalley%2fLV12042301_LV.mp3&title=Lexicon+Valley+%237%3a+A+Needle+Pulling+Thread&type=link&feed=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2fSlateLexiconValley
In current talk radio parlance, “So,…” is a placeholder for the interviewee’s thoughts: “I have this long preformulated response; let me get my brain in gear so that I can read it off as a seemingly candid reply to your stock question.”
P.S. The “So,…“-disease is particularly virulent at NPR, it often seems like more than 50% of the interview answers there are prefaced by a “So,…“
Charles Schulz did a much better (more meaningful, funnier, and less disgusting) investigation of “outcast” topics with his “Pigpen” character. The moral of this “charming” tale is obvious: do not read “Rabbits Against Magic“.
And… sometimes I just don’t have time to come up with a subject line.
Unca Scrooge, The cartoonist of Rabbits against Magic is the cartoonist who does the new Alley Oop?!
Sheesh, who gave him *that* gig? And if he hates it so much he can return it to someone who would do a better job….
So-so.
Woozy – John Glynn at Go Comics is the mastermind behind the new creative team on Alley Oop. Many complaints about the artwork, the writing and even the drab colors. The first story involves a time-travel back to 1986 to find a missing Duran Duran mixtape. Oop and gang find out that it has being held hostage for a jelly bean White House and the master disk for a shareware game. I kid you not.
Yeah, Yeah, I’ve read the new Alley Oop. I just didn’t realize that the John Lemon of Rabbits Against Magic was the guy doing the new Alley Oop. Who’s bright idea was *that*?
No-one’s even mentioned the poop emoji (I can’t believe I just typed that) that’s popular these days.
Or so I’ve read. (As I’ve noted in the past I don’t text so what do I know?)
@ Grawlix – Just because the Unicode authorities laid a turd is no reason that a comic strip has to follow suit and lay another one.