Gee, another joke about incestuous, inbred rednecks. How original!

Normally, I love Ruben Bolling. But making fun of poor, rural, white working class people has been done to death. It has all the appeal of the Polish jokes they used to tell when I was a kid.

If anyone thinks I'm being overly sensitive, then just substitute some Mexican migrant workers, black sharecroppers or impoverished Eastern European Jews for the white hillbillies.

Jokes that perpetuate ethnic stereotypes are not funny no matter who's the butt of the joke.

It is indeed amazing how versatile Duu-ude! is.

Thanks, I needed that laugh!

At the risk of stating the obvious: Bolling isn't "making fun of poor, rural, white working class people." He's satirizing (by copying, nearly verbatim -- or whatever the visual equivalent of that is) one of the staples of the "funny papers" from when I was a kid, "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith." (For all I know, Snuffy and Maw may still be around, just not in my local paper. And let's not forget L'il Abner and Dogpatch.) If you want to complain about stereotypes, complain about the source, not the satire! Maybe you haven't noticed, but much of the fun of Super-Fun-Pak Comix comes from Bolling's dead-on visual/textual comments on lots of different comix styles.

That is all.

Huckleberry Hound talks like Scooby-Do!

Brutal!

Those nasty commercials with the bears wiggling their asses in the camera just got waaaay nastier!

You are overly sensitive.

He's not making a redneck joke, he's satirising redneck jokes. Daily redneck jokes that have been told over and over for 70 years and will literally never end. It's not hard.

to be "dark and conflicted," too!

But how can I get there in today's economy?

TTDB is sooo much funnier. I LOVE Super-Fun-Pax Comix, especially Uncle Capn'.

Thanks RB.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith are still around. Or I should say, "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith," the comic strip, is still around. Snuffy is the main character, but Barney hasn't been in the strip since its early days, shortly after the Earth cooled.

It's basically one of those zombie strips, like "Blondie" or "Dick Tracy," that hang around for generations, cluttering up the comics pages, shutting out new strips and driving their creators to thoughts of suicide or law school.

learn to talk like Astro from the Jetsons? They don't even live in the same century.

Thursdays that not only have TTDB, but Super-Fun-Pak Comix!

Row! Rye Rust Rove Rit!!!!

...makes my Thursday mornings good, no matter what the rest of the news is...(see, I don't ask for too much). Thanks Ruben!!! and Salon!

I give this one a 9.6/10.

Hello Blair, DLF and Nimrod,

Sorry, that joke fails on so many levels. In addition to perpetuating a horrible stereotype, anyone with half-a-brain would see that punchline coming a mile away.

And I stand by my original criticism. I think poor, working class whites are a safe group for derision and as long as we continue to stereotype them, we're playing into the divide-and-conquer games of the powers that be.

And to Bitter Scribe, yes, it sucks that there are so many of those zombie strips in the newspaper. But there's a simple economic reason for that - younger people who might enjoy Lio, The Boondocks, Pearls Before Swine and other more contemporary strips don't buy newspapers, therefore they don't read the funnies.

At least not in the same numbers of the senior citizens who would rather read some rerun of "The Peanuts" for the millionth time.

Meanwhile, because the papers continue to give us "Snuffy Smith" and "Blondie", more and more Gen X'ers and younger will forego the newspaper for other sources of news and entertainment.

It's a vicious cycle.

Who's not a trust fund Marxist in their 12th year at Berkeley is Salon's stock in trade.

Sorry, that joke fails on so many levels. In addition to perpetuating a horrible stereotype, anyone with half-a-brain would see that punchline coming a mile away.

That's part of the satire. The punchlines to those comics are ridiculous.

You know that point you just used all those words to make? Ruben Bolling made it in two panels.