johnny hart actin up again

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― and what (ooo), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

"You got a problem with that, son?"

http://www.layman.org/layman/_images/hart-johnny02.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always thought it was weird when all of the unhinged references to Christ started popping up in the comic -- it's called BC, fer cryin' out loud.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Sunday, 10 December 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

haha my favorite excuse for the islam=shit one was that there was an outhouse because the comic is 'set in the past'

― and what (ooo), Sunday, 10 December 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously though the right wing wackadoo rants are the only thing that makes BC funny. Which is more than you can say about 85% (a conservative estimate) of today's strips.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Sunday, 10 December 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I really don't know why I even read any of them anymore -- it must be some sort of deeply masochistic mental defect.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Sunday, 10 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

marmaduke kills wtf

― urghonomic (gcannon), Sunday, 10 December 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

is it still all right to think mark trail is hilarious? or is that over.

― urghonomic (gcannon), Sunday, 10 December 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

No, Mark Trail is awesome.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Sunday, 10 December 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i unironically enjoy the popeye strip

― and what (ooo), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's hoping Hart is brave enough to go after Those Goddamned Krauts and Those Goddamned Wops, too.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://heykidscomics.com/blog_07110601.jpg

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

which he's drawn since February 1958

― strongo (temp.) (sandboxhulkington), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

b.c. outlasted peanuts. :'-(

― strongo (temp.) (sandboxhulkington), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

it has long been known that u.s. torture policy based on hart's wizard of id. cheney big fan of large-nosed king.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

b.c. outlasted peanuts. :'-(

You can't kill what's already dead.

― 31g (31g), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh.

Recently, some comics watchers have semi-seriously suggested that "B.C." is not set in prehistoric times at all. According to this theory -- put forth most notably by Washington Post columnist and comics critic Gene Weingarten -- "B.C." is set not in the past but in a dystopic, post-apocalyptic future. This theory makes the anachronisms more easily understood as references to an ancient history the characters dimly comprehend.

(-from Wikipedia)

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

That makes sense, which is why I doubt Johnny Hart intended it that way.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link

there was a bc cartoon

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

BC's Quest for Tires

http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0012_00.png

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously this is the best website in the world right now, dude deconstructs comics every day http://www.joshreads.com

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"Fun for a while, but gets repetitive quite quickly as there's not enough gameplay variation or types of obstacles to hold anyone's interest for long. Too bad the witticisms of the comic strip are all but lost in this computer license."

You said it!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

"Too bad the witticisms of the comic strip are all but lost in this computer license."

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

oh Rex Morgan MD, you have the cure for my daily blues

― obi strip (sanskrit), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

See, I said it again.

Josh reads is great, but will ever again reach the dizzy heights of aldomania?

x-post

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

There’s something unspeakably creepy to me about Ma Keane standing in the doorway in the background of this scene, looking on at these crimes against pretend medical science silently and expressionlessly. It’s as if she’s watching another step in an unfathomable and long-running plan of her own design playing out. I’m not sure what that plan is, but it’s a good guess that it involves somebody’s freakishly oversized head being split open.

awesome

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I have spent HOURS reading Joshreads.com from the beginning. Everything is gold, especially when he bags on "For Better or For Worse."

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Canadians be crazy.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Did anyone play the B.C. game for the Commodore 64?

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone read A Far Side Prehistory where Larson talks about Dennis the Menace and The Far Side getting their captions mixed up one day, so that Dennis wound up telling his mom "I see your little, petrified skull labeled and resting on a shelf somewhere"?

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I have that at home, I love that book - esp that whole bloopers and censorship section (the dog that looked like it was humping a car for eg).

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a confession to make actually - on first look at this BC strip, I thought "I dont get it. Whats the 'joke' and whats the controversy?"

It didnt help that I didnt know:
- it had come out on Pearl Harbour Day (I'm assumuing)
- the ref to infamy related to that
- apparently americans still associate Toyota very much with Japan

See here, Toyota cars are actually made in Australia, so I was kind of scratching my head... ah well. I get it now. Not that it was at all amusing.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

there was a bc cartoon

There was, indeed, a totally frickin' fantastic BC Christmas cartoon on HBO in the early eighties that had Bob and Ray doing the voices of the two lead characters, whichever ones they were. The only specifically religious part was a brief, wordless bit at the end which I thought was handled very well, and which has the same gentle impact as Linus's Bible recitation in A Charlie Brown Christmas. Nowadays I'm sure it would be a wall-to-wall fundamentalist exploration that would make Veggie Tales seem like South Park.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:20 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently ~~americans~~ no one still associates Toyota very much with Japan

fixed

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a confession to make actually - on first look at this BC strip, I thought "I dont get it. Whats the 'joke' and whats the controversy?"

I mentioned this already on the Pearl Harbor thread, but I still don't get the actual joke.

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah Curtis =)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't get it either. I had no idea that Americans associate the word for "infamy" with Pearl Harbor.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

FDR gave a speech referring to the date of the attack as "a day that will live in infamy" or something similar; that's what the cartoon's referencing.

― 31g (31g), Monday, 11 December 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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