Letters to the Editor
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Allegory for comic book duo
This looks suspiciously like a comparison between, oh say, Superman, and Batman.
Oh, BTW.....
First!!!!!!!
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Mixed emotions
That's really funny in a very sad way, or really sad in a very funny way. Bolling's great.
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Loving the God-Man
I've had a similar experience with him saving the day.
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Ha ha ha, God-Man is funny as hell
"Double-step it!" hahaha.
"Keep your fists up!" That's rich. hahaha.
What good is free will if crooks can't use it too? What, you want God-Man to do everything for you? hahaha.
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Simply Perfect
Damned funny as well. Nothing more needs to be said.
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They Might Be Giants...
Brought to mind the song Particle Man by They Might Be Giants:
Particle man, particle man
Doing the things a particle can
Whats he like? its not important
Particle man
Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When hes underwater does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, particle man
Triangle man, triangle man
Triangle man hates particle man
They have a fight, triangle wins
Triangle man
Universe man, universe man
Size of the entire universe man
Usually kind to smaller man
Universe man
Hes got a watch with a minute hand,
Millenium hand and an eon hand
When they meet its a happy land
Powerful man, universe man
Person man, person man
Hit on the head with a frying pan
Lives his life in a garbage can
Person man
Is he depressed or is he a mess?
Does he feel totally worthless?
Who came up with person man?
Degraded man, person man
Triangle man, triangle man
Triangle man hates person man
They have a fight, triangle wins
Triangle man
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Brilliant
One of the greatest allegories ever told in comic form. This strip is a classic, at once funny and profound.
Congratulations, Mr. Bolling.
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And yet Salon continues to embrace one losing candidate after another
No matter what the empirical evidence suggests. I suppose faith and mythology are wherever you find them.
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Chalk one up for nihilism
Bad things happen for no reason at all. It's a universe without meaning or purpose, just random acts of anarchy perpetrated by whomever has the biggest club. All hail the fascist in all of us.
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Why..
is Nulla Sallus able to twist any article/post/blog on Salon into an unrelated anti-Salon rant? Salon, where he spends his entire day reading every article writing about how much he hates Salon and everyone who reads it? Insanity, thy name is nulla.
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I get it now
At first I had question marks over my head, but then I finally put two and two together. Which shows how out of it I must be this morning, because this cartoon embodies one of my favorite sayings: "The Lord helps those that help themselves."
Break it down, Mr. Bolling, break it down.
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A mark of a successful work of art...
... is that many interpretations of it can be found (or twisted).
Worst superhero partner ever, indeed.
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To paraphrase Homer...
"It's funny 'cause it's true!"
Loved it!
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My favorite parts this week:....but first, I've never seen so many rural grey stink bugs. They even fly into the bathwater today.
I like words like : Puff, puff. BONK! ow.! Why? and "Now that's not right." chum.
There use to be a guy named, Theramenes.
He'd wonder why a deity didn't invent or put into motion a world with one size shoe ~ that would fit on either persons foot. apologies for teasing a dead man named Theramenes.
He may have thought:
There is nothing so supple and dangerous as those eccentrics arrogant thoughts. I agree. He was an Athenian rhetorician who could find arguments for either party.
Thermenes wasn't a very nasty cynic.
The yea attitude is...yes, much is ambiguous and faces both ways. A silver penny from a king ain't gonna help a gop in any era of history. Gold won't HELP! It will not be worth a dime when we clunk dead.
P.S.
When Reuben Boiling dies he must invent a shoe to fit on either foot. I love to see shoes on the wrong feet. However it seems almost impossible to inform a modern neocons/he looks just plain 'ole fancy-silly with no Socks on and shined up shoes pointing outward.
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re: be-bopo
I don't get it... I'm used to comment spam, but usually it has a link or something. Can anyone explain why someone wrote a script to comment on every article with spam nonsense paragraphs? It is a proof of concept or something?
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re: be-bopo
I don't know, Charles, but I'm quite sick of be-bop o too. It should be banned.
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Charles and Bebop o
It isn't spam and it isn't a spambot. He seems to fancy himself a beatnik poet. He is actually commenting on the articles or other letters or both, but in a poetic way, sometimes a surrealist way.
His style isn't for everyone, but he isn't spam either.
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bebop-o is schizophrenic
That's my diagnosis at least. After skimming his letters for a while now, there are occasional references to his treatment at the VA. But his verbal style is classic schizophrenia. I don't think his posting rights should be banned, but I usually don't get much out of his letters either.
I wish the name were at the top of each letter, but I've gotten pretty good at guessing his letters from the first couple of incoherent sentences so I can move on.
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re: bebop
Wow. After reading a few more of his letters I guess you're right. It's almost indistinguishable from the garbled mess I get in spam e-mail to disguise itself from filters. Now where's the ignore button.. dang.
PS. Freaking awesome comic today. Reminds me of the utter baloney that is the "two set of foot prints on the beach" thing. It's like "couldn't you have done something a little more than carry me, if that is what you were doing?!"
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Awesome
I actually laughed out loud at this Salon comic, something I often forget is possible after reading Kansas O'Flatulence.
And PLEASE do not besmirch the Beat Poets by mentioning the looney be-bop in the same breath, thank you very much.
Thanks!
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@theGman
I said he fancies himself as one, not that he is one.
@Monkey Pants
Nah, you want to see schizophrenic, read brightstar65's posts.
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monkey fussiness? Or is the one wearing tin soiled pants.
@ 8:48 Anonymous.
O, Holy nula peanuts granola.
Best with natural goat milk.
O, so crunchy and distasteful?
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Monkey Pants demands...
A red bannana.
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theGman?
thanks.
O, fbi.
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In the next action-packed, fun-filled episode of the God-Man and Human-Man team up...
...Human-Man gets cancer.
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@ Monkey Pants
Same here. I feel badly for anyone with nothing else to do with their life but post literal nonsense online -- and it's annoying when actually interesting conversations are "interrupted" by his pointless ramblings -- but, yes, it is very, very, very easy to spot one of his posts within the first several words and I skip them accordingly. I do the same with the other trolls, too. He gets his kicks, my life goes on, everybody wins.