As Jeff Stahler (AMS) notes, the writers’ strike in Hollywood has been settled and, as he also notes, that doesn’t mean that Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling are being loosed upon the TV studios once more. It also doesn’t mean that I’ll be any less aghast watching the promos during football for the next little […]
We’ll start with a non-political one. I’m disappointed in the new Sunday Ben Bolt (KFS-Vintage) story arc. Ben Bolt is mostly light, semi-humorous stuff on Sundays, but this reminded me of a scene in City for Conquest, a 1940 movie in which Cagney boxes to help support his composer brother. There is a scene in […]
DD Degg recently posted two round-ups (here and here) of remarks from people who are of the opinion that political cartoonists should not have opinions. Or at least not strong opinions with which others might disagree. And yet they do, and as proof, here are some examples. Get’em before more publishers decide it’s not worth […]
First Dog on the Moon has the delightful ability to make me laugh but also send me scurrying to the Googles, and this is an excellent example. First Dog is the conscience of the world, so militant about climate change as to be annoying but, then again, not wrong. He brings up the important issue […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) addresses the crucial question of life on Earth being obliterated by a meteor, the odds of which, I would note, have not changed simply because we are better at tracking space objects. Though they may become slightly lower, since we’re working on ways of dealing with it. Not that we haven’t been […]
My first impression of this Steve Breen (Creators) piece was that he obviously hadn’t read up on the particular level of sanctions which Biden apparently proposed, should Putin (further) invade Ukraine. As noted here (and in the general news coverage), it’s not just the type of sanctions against individual oligarchs that Obama invoked in Putin’s […]