Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Today’s Link: Comics I Don’t Understand
For anyone who finds the above strip insulting to their political and/or personal sensibilities, I humbly offer you the alternative:
For anyone who finds the above strip insulting to the plight of ADD-inflicted children, I humbly offer you the alternative:
For anyone who finds the above insulting to the very sacredness of the Marvel Comics pantheon, I humbly offer you the alternative:
And for anyone who finds the above insulting to the field of botany, I humbly offer you the following image of kittens at play:
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Aaaaaand we’re back to being hateful. Nice.
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Yeah, for once I agree with Jim. Making fun of Cheney for his policies is fair game. Making fun of him for being wheelchair-bound…Not cool, Ces, not cool.
You should withdraw this strip from the site immediately and not put it in the archives. End of story.
Or add sparkles to it. Mocking Cheney’s pain = AWESOME
Cheney is in a wheelchair because he hurt his back moving boxes. Thousands of soldiers are in wheelchairs because they injured or lost their legs fighting in Iraq. Over a thousand soldiers are in their graves because they lost their lives fighting in Iraq. Cheney deserves every joke, barb, quip, sarcastic remark, comic thrown at him.
Oh, no, don’t withdraw the strip. It’s an excellent example of the visciousness and hatefulness of the Left. Congratulations.
I agree with “fanfromottawa” —what this man has done to ruin the lives of tens of thousands makes him worthy of ridicule, plainly. I shed no tears for him.
Besides, it’s not like a fatal injury…he’ll be back on his feet shooting folks in the face and telling them to “Go F@&# Yourself” in no time.
And moving boxes? Are we sure he wasn’t just lugging tons of documents into a shredder??
Hey, I normally can’t stand Jim’s posts and even I agree with him.
This isn’t just a reference to moving boxes. Cheney is often (unfairly) mocked for his heart ailment and general age.
Lose the strip, Ces.
Have a heart, people! He threw out his back moving his gun collection.
Hey, I think it rocks – sometimes there is poetic justice in this world and yesterday was a perfect example. If only a gust of wind had caught the door of the White House so it could have hit Dubya in the ass as well…
After an election season in which the VP candidate insinuated that Obama was a terrorist and not a real American, when McCain crowds were screaming racist and murderous epithets, please explain how “the Left” are more “hateful” than “the Right.”
I like the cartoon because it’s honest. I felt shock when Cheney was wheeled out. But sympathy? This guy has subverted our constitution to pursued policies that inflicted death and destruction on innocent people, violated our rights as citizens, and tortured both innocent and not-so-innocent alike, against the rule of law and perverting justice. To what – protect us? No, to enhance the executive power of the state and to enrich his cronies at Halliburton.
Dick Cheney’s appearance in a wheelchair marks the completion of his transformation into Old Man Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life.
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You all are forgetting the most important thing here, and that is this: “It’s like someone combined Christmas with an orgasm” is the greatest new expression of joy ever. I will used it at appropriate moments from now on.
Kevin: The left and the right are both very hateful.
Uh, the strip isn’t making fun of Cheney, at least not primarily. It’s a) primarily making fun of people being excited about Obama’s inauguration b) secondarily making fun of people being vindictive about Cheney c) and only tertiarily making fun of Cheney. It’s a bloody side-side-joke, people!
BTW, awesome strip!:-)
Umm – I’m offended by the kittens….
No, seriously, this is what makes politics such a great spectator sport. Besides, don’t feel too bad for Dick Cheney. I understand he’s signed a contrct to develop a new show on the Outdoor Life network: “Dick Cheney’s Hunting with the Stars”
First guest – Paris Hilton!
Is there a comic for people who are offended by stealing Norm MacDonald’s Fantastic Four joke?
I’m with Leo Petr on this one – the strip is a giant mirror in the face of all those too quick to jump on a bandwagon or to cheer for stupid reasons. By doing a four-time repetition of what amounts to an ad-hominem attack, I feel a big pulling-back to see the ones shown are the ones being mocked, in a sense, and the strip isn’t the cartoonist getting on a soapbox.
By now, all regulars should know Ces is all about ridiculous exaggeration for the sake of _social_ commentary, not necessarily political commentary. In the great words of Donna Barr, “those who take it seriously – deserve to”. 🙂
“Is there a comic for people who are offended by stealing Norm MacDonald’s Fantastic Four joke?”
Huh. I drew that strip years and years ago. Guess I have a reason to be offended by Norm MacDonald. Thanks for the heads-up!
Hmm.
Complaints = 3 more strips + kitten bonus picture.
I am offended by everything in future Medium Large strips. I highly recommend that there be 3 alternatives offered every day. And more pictures of penguins. Naturally, more than 3 and branching out into puppies and other baby animals is also acceptable. Or is that unacceptable?
Oooooooh — kittens!
Ces’s glorious original strip fucking rules. Dick Cheney is an asshole who sent many Americans (and far more Iraqi civilians–who, I would note, didn’t fucking volunteer for the job) to their deaths, unnecessarily. He also THREW HIS BACK OUT like my dad does every once in awhile playing GOLF. Cheney will be up and at ’em in no time. Ces wasn’t mocking someone for having a horrible permanent life-altering injury. He was mocking the cunty head cheerleader who finally got a pie in the face at Homecoming.
If you didn’t get it, fuck off.
Ces–how about a comic for defensive cartoonists who can’t admit they did something wrong?
Sara–wow, you made a comment that, amazingly and unpredictably, defends the cartoon. Of course, the fact you’re sleeping with Ces has absolutely nothing to do with it. Good girl. Who’s a good girl, yesh? Give her a biscuit, Ces. Me, I’m done reading your smug-ass hate comic.
And by the way, I voted for Obama.
Geez, who knew how many undisclosed admirers Cheney has.
The left and the right are both very hateful.
FYI everyone, this statement refers to my balls.
I’m done reading your smug-ass hate comic.
You’re thinking of Peter Bagge.
I don’t SLEEP with Ces, Zev. I SLEEP with David Gergen, my one true love. I NAP with Ces. Although I do love biscuits.
p, that’s fucking hilarious.
Yeah, unlike Zev who needs to take a couple Valium, I always have good things to say about your comic. But this one is…well, it doesn’t quite cross the line but it’s pushing it.
And you know what they say when you have to explain a joke in order for people to find it funny…
Don’t let the haters get to you, though. Not everyone hits it out of the park every day. God bless.
Zev:
Did I admit that I can’t do anything wrong? Doesn;’t the fact that I never delete a negative comment disprove that? And, no offense, but because you think I did something wrong in the comic does not mean I did I objectively did something wrong. You have your perspective on the strip, I have mine. I’m not trying to attack here but you seem to be acting very defensive simply because I did not agree with your position and remove the strip from both the page and the archive as you instructed earlier.
And the fact that you referred to my girlfriend as a pet when she in no way attacked you personally is beyond offensive. I’m sorry but you clearly showed your true colors simply because no one bowed to your opinion. Who is the defensive one? Who is full of hate and cannot allow other opinions? I think you’ve given us the definitive answer.
Michael: I don’t think I made an attempt to explain the strip. But I greatly appreciate your calm tone and in no way would force anyone to see something my way. Thank you for your civility as we agree to disagree.
“If you didn’t get it, fuck off.” Sara’s words.
Yeah, I’d call that a personal attack. I just gave her back tit for tat.
Um, did she call you out by name? No, she didn’t. That’s not a personal attack. That’s just you reacting in a very harsh and uncalled for manner because you seem to be angry at what is essentially a silly strip. It’s a comic. It’s one man’s take on a larger situation (see Niall and Leo’s take on it if you wish). I like the strip. You don’t. That should be the end of it. But you refuse to make it so.
Oh, yeah, I was telling him and other people who objected to fuck off (not Michael Ezra, though. Michael Ezra gets 17 bonus points because he is great. Fair? Maybe not, but I reserve the right to unfairly play favorites among your commenters for no apparent reason.)
So Zev has a point in that I was in fact telling him to fuck off. But you, Ces, win the day, not only because you shove biscuits in my ass on the regular, but because the first paragraph of your response to Zev is smart and civil and makes excellent points.
I will go back to being a cantankerous radio show host now and design topics for my show tonight, such as “OMG! Are balls hot or gross?” (I wish I were kidding. I am not.) Thank you for allowing me my entry into the world of web comics. I turn into a Mama Bear sometimes. Or, as Zev aptly characterized me, a real female dog.
I am offended by cartoons about ADD suffering, wheelchair-bound kittens who are Marvel superheroes with the ability to understand the speech of flowers. There, I think that covers it. 🙂
Thanks for your kind response, Ces.
Sara: are you sure you and Ces aren’t confusing sweets with suppositories?
Thank you also for the compliment. You rock.
What are all these people whining about? This is totally valid editorial comment on a man who deserves to be brought up in front of the International Criminal Court of Justice FFS!
As a first-time reader of this blog – and new subscriber, btw – I say keep that cartoon front and centre.
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I hope Ces does a comic about balls being gross, thus causing back-and-forth vitriol from the balls-are-gross and balls-are-not-gross communities.
Heh, I liked all of them.
Eh … the second strip was considerably funnier than the first. Vitriol — especially political vitriol — is funny only to to the similarly-minded dogmatic.
“I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” — George Carlin
I could go into a schpiel of how a PUBLIC FIGURE is open for PUBLIC commentary, criticism and yes, ridicule. It comes with the territory. If ML was poking fun at little Joey, who was born with Cerebral Palsy and wo showed up at the church pancake breakfast in a wheelchair, because the walker no longer supports his weak muscles, then yeah, Ces just bought himself a ticket on the Express Train to Hell.
But people, please. We’re talking about Dick Vader. Bush’s right hand Dick. Yeah, it sucks to be in end-stage heart disease(“helping his wife move a box??”). It also sucks losing family and friends to an unnecessary war.
My God, when I started blogging about Sarah Palin?? Oh, the hate mail. It was AWESOME. Made me giggle. *sigh* I miss those days…
It’s called COMEDY, people. Lighten up. Don’t make me go all spider-monkeh on yo ass.
“If someone don’t like you for being yourself, fck em. Fck em up against the wall, wear handcuffs on them, and crazy glue their lips.” – Bernie Mac
Ces, I sowwy for the schpiel.
“Wear handcuffs on them?” I trust Mr. Mac meant “Put handcuffs on them.” The metaphor raises a disturbing enough mental picture as it is. But whatever, grammar aside he’s absolutely right.
Wow, jim and zev sure went off the deep end. Hate comic, blah blah blah. Why don’t you guys just stick to Mallard Fillmore and leave Ces alone? Great comic. Good job.
“Is there a comic for people who are offended by stealing Norm MacDonald’s Fantastic Four joke?”
“Huh. I drew that strip years and years ago. Guess I have a reason to be offended by Norm MacDonald. Thanks for the heads-up!”
In all honesty, it is a pretty easy joke, I thought of it when I first started reading comics in the early 80’s, still pretty funny though.
To be sure there is no call for rude comments from anyone. Even so, Christ taught us to love, not hate. “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” — Matthew 5:44
Let us pray for an America united–left or right wing–under God. Amen.
I’m offended by the kittens and demand pictures of puppies.
In all seriousness, nearly everything Dick Cheney said while in office was way more offensive to rational people than this comic. And yeah, that’s my opinion, and nobody has to agree with it if they don’t want to.
My other opinion, for the record, is that balls are kinda gross. Even though I have a pair, sometimes they gross me out a little.
What the hell would anybody who’s capable of being offended by anything be doing visiting Medium Large?
I’m always puzzled by the large easily-offended-political-loudmouths following you seem to have, Ces. Your comment section always seems like such an odd place to choose to put their political sniping.
(I laughed like crazy my first time through this morning, by the way. And then I said to myself, “Huh, that nutjob Jim already commented. I should have expected it.”)
Kaitlyn – Hear! Hear! Cats are the agents of Satan. Anything that attempts to make them appear cute, adorable and harmless is inherently objectionable and morally subversive to boot.
Actually, I’m planning to get both a cat and a dog. The cat’s job will be to keep the dog entertained. The dog’s job will be to give the cat what it deserves.
‘Cheech Wizard’ Wow, does that bring back memories.
BTW Ces, loved your comic, and the responses to your critics.
Also, (hope this was OK) printed some of your Christmas comics and posted them in my cube. Anyone who laughed, passed. I don’t eat lunch with the ones who said idontgedit.
I like all of the strips *and the kittens*, despite the fact that I allergic to both cats and foulmouthed-homophobic-lesbian-daughter-oppressing-corporate-cum-governmental-asshat-plutocrat-cripples.
There is a cream for it, though. “Harvey’s Bristol” it’s called. Though lots of other products offer a similar effect, only it is really downright upright.
Wow, Ces, you created a real shitstorm here. (Over a comic?! Wow, you people, get a grip. On something other than yourself for a change.)
I propose February should be declared All Dick Cheney Jokes month. Ride that sucker into the ground, man!
You know you’ve touched a nerve when freakin’ SCRIPTURE starts showin’ up on your blog…
Holy Dang!
I enjoyed all four strips (and the kittens) very much. Why do people have to choose to get offended by things, especially funny things?
Anyway, I’d just like to say that the last two weeks or so of Medium Large have had some of my favorites since I started reading. Keep up the good work.
If you think the comic is funny (I do), then it’s funny to you. If you don’t then it’s not. But using it as an “example” of how “hateful the Left can be” or any one commnentator’s thought as “representative” of an entire political grouping, that’s…well, I hate to use the word “stupid”…but it fits so well. Just as Zev says he voted for Obama and finds it offensive, so could those on the alleged “Right” find it funny. There is no monolithic “groupthink” except what some assume to there to be.
Ces has no reason to take it down. If it offends you, don’t click on it.
Though my balls are offended that someone might think they’re gross (right now, they’re huddled in the shower, holding their knees, and crying while rocking back and forth…it’s going to take the rest of the night to coax then out of there), I am suddenly in the mood for biscuits.
Hahaha! The ADD one is hilarious.
What the hell would anybody who’s capable of being offended by anything be doing visiting Medium Large?
There are plenty of people who consider the Internet a device for raising their blood pressure. Apparently there are some who’ve figured out how to manage it without the huge workload of reading the occasional blogpost.
I was mildly annoyed with this one for being fairly pedestrian and fish-in-a-barrel for a Ces effort. But I hadn’t seen the ADD comic before, and it’s actually funny, so I am placated.
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I can’t wait for tomorrow’s comic after all of today’s fracas. Hey! Maybe it’ll feature Cheryl Haskwell , Director of Programming for ML. We haven’t seen here since before the hiatus.
Of your two gags about Cheney in a wheelchair, I thought this one was funnier:
10:46 AM: Dick Cheney appears in a wheelchair. Joe Biden appears in a full-body cast. Both refuse to discuss what occurred during their brief meeting.
Eh. Among the various mockings of Bush and Cheney, this one’s about the least offensive I’ve seen recently, and among the funniest.
I love people whose ace in the hole is to threaten “I’m never coming back here again!”
If only…
My father’s comment when we saw the wheelchair: “That undisclosed location must be pretty rough, huh?
Kittens! I like kittens!
Also, I hope Cheney is in motherfucking serious pain for the rest of his miserable scum-sucking life. Bush, too. I hope they both suffer the fate they tried to inflict on Terri Schiavo: lives prolonged in perpetual near-death by every medical means possible. Good riddence.
“Riddance.” Sorry.
Jeez Louise, Ces – all that sympathy for Cheney – it must be some form of Stockholm Syndrome. Perhaps I’m a tad insensetive – “Friz” Freleng ridiculing Hermann Goering didn’t bother me either, and I have to admit I chuckled at this.
It’s gratifying to see so much compassion displayed even for a profiteering war criminal. We are judged as a society by the compassion we show for the very worst among us, not the most beloved.
Still, very funny stuff, all the strips.
Oh no, The Daily Show made a joke of Cheney’s wheelchair outrunning Obama’s motorcade. What kind of cruel bastards do they have writing on that show.
Damn liberals!
(“It’s really cold outside. Damn liberals!”)
Ah, well, at least no one has invoked Godwin’s Law. Yet.
Fuck. Kittens.
So did the “balls: gross/not gross” conundrum get resolved? I’m on tenterhooks.
“You should withdraw this strip from the site immediately and not put it in the archives. End of story.”
Anyone attempting to censor Internet cartoonists should be ignored. End of story.
Wow, the balls (gross or otherwise) of any troller who demands a free site “withdraw this strip immediately” must be huge. Clearly this is the work of Evil Cheney furthering his Evil divisiveness even after leaving the Evil Office. Evil.
I HATE kittens, and am extremely offended by that very not cute photograph!
Darn! I came here to view the Cheney in wheelchair comics. Where are they? I needed a laugh.
OK, here’s one, tinyurl to not spoil the joke:
http://tinyurl.com/79xsjp
I think a lot of people are missing the fact that Cheney isn’t paraplegic or anything. Likely because they have their heads up their asses.
Not that I wouldn’t find it hilarious if he actually broke his back or something. The man is pure evil. That can’t be said about most of even the worst politicians.
After watching Ghost Rider I don’t think it’s possible for anyone to tarnish the sacredness of Marvel Comics any further…
Norm’s album with the Fantastic Four bit came out in 2006, but the comic’s been around for over 40 years, so I doubt that no one’s ever thought of it before.
As for the original Cheney joke, I thought it was a great misdirection joke. I don’t even see any malicious intent in the joke, although if there was any, could you really think of more than a handful of people more deserving than Cheney?
On a side note, Cheney in a wheelchair would make an excellent Fantastic Four villain. He could pet one of those kittens while activating the doomsday device…
Dude. When you create this much of a shitstorm with a comic, you’ve done a great damned comic. Well done!
I served over there in Iraq, and while we shouldn’t have gone in to begin with I firmly believe that we should finish what we started and help rebuild.
That being said, Cheney’s heinous association with Haliburton and KBR has led to them being one of the biggest causes of problems we’ve had over there with the insurgency. The way they have taken over the logistics of everything over there is just horrible.
So make fun of that fat, balding bastard as much as you like, Ces.
salam kenal
Dude. When you create this much of a shitstorm with a comic, you’ve done a great damned comic. Well done!