Brilliantly executed. This strip is a model of its type. Who said that the end of the Bush regime would mean a dearth of material for cartoonists?

I hope Salon continues to find and support this level of comic art talent.

Not on your life!

...nifi...cent.

I wish I could make every "investor" read this.

And you all thought that going from real pensions to defined contribution plans WASN'T a giant scam to separate you from your money and pretend to give you something in forty years?

How's that knife feel now?

The prudent use of blood sacrifice sounds pretty good, especially if you started with all the Reaganite trickle-down "the market is god" morons who have been raiding our treasury for the past 25 years.

The prudent use of blood sacrifice sounds pretty good, especially if you started with all the Reaganite trickle-down "the market is god" morons ...

Oh no, not that. Don't you know that offering garbage as sacrifices is a surefire way to infuriate the gods?

Perhaps instead they could be "repurposed" as fertilizer.

The 'trickle downers' have Blood? If that's true; then it would mean that they also have Hearts, Souls, and a Conscience!

Surely you're mistaken!

One barbarian tribe destroying another barbarian tribe. I am speaking of the Spaniards and the Aztecs.

There is something to the barbarian perspective. What if we took the top management of some of these companies that are receiving the bailout and who are expecting to receive some 125 Billion Dollars in bonuses.

We could build an altar and sacrifice them to the gods of justice? You know the advertising monies you could generate during that reality show? The bailout would end up being paid off in less than a month.