“You got a problem with that, son?”
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.
haha my favorite excuse for the islam=shit one was that there was an outhouse because the comic is ‘set in the past’
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.
I really don’t know why I even read any of them anymore — it must be some sort of deeply masochistic mental defect.
marmaduke kills wtf
is it still all right to think mark trail is hilarious? or is that over.
No, Mark Trail is awesome.
i unironically enjoy the popeye strip
Here’s hoping Hart is brave enough to go after Those Goddamned Krauts and Those Goddamned Wops, too.
which he’s drawn since February 1958
!!
b.c. outlasted peanuts. :‘-(
it has long been known that u.s. torture policy based on hart’s wizard of id. cheney big fan of large-nosed king.
b.c. outlasted peanuts. :‘-(
You can’t kill what’s already dead.
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)
That makes sense, which is why I doubt Johnny Hart intended it that way.
there was a bc cartoon
seriously this is the best website in the world right now, dude deconstructs comics every day http://www.joshreads.com
“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!
“Too bad the witticisms of the comic strip are all but lost in this computer license.”
oh Rex Morgan MD, you have the cure for my daily blues
See, I said it again.
Josh reads is great, but will ever again reach the dizzy heights of aldomania?
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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
I have spent HOURS reading Joshreads.com from the beginning. Everything is gold, especially when he bags on “For Better or For Worse.”
Canadians be crazy.
Did anyone play the B.C. game for the Commodore 64?
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”?
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).
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.
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.
apparently americans no one still associates Toyota very much with Japan
fixed
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.
Hahah Curtis =)
I didn’t get it either. I had no idea that Americans associate the word for “infamy” with Pearl Harbor.
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.