I'd just like to say that if you've never read Bob the Angry Flower before, it is most entertaining (even though the archives are arguably superior to the current strips). Link in my sig.

I would SO buy a tee shirt of that frame.

I'm a fan of "The Wire", but I do not get how that show fits in with this week's K Chronicles strip?

Can anyone explain? The author, perhaps?

Thanks.

Maybe I should give the URL for the Bob the Angry Flower website. It's a strip by one of KK's fellow SPE exhibitors, Stephen Notley. It's at http://www.angryflower.com/, or (assuming it works) click the signature for a link.

I can't help but think the occasional reappearance of this theme would be fun.

BTW, interesting that Swine guy can't tell the difference from simply being different - i.e. having lots of tatoos or loud sweaters - vs being actively rude and nasty. Closet republican?

I think I love you. Good work!

Venting is healthy.

Acting like having violent fantasies is not a universal aspect of malehood and thus suppressing even cartoon representations of violence is not healthy.

There's a reason every society in the world has invented at least one form of mind-altering substance - sometimes you just gotta blow some steam, y'know?

Whoooooooooa Kief,

Switch to decaf man! All are bad karma situations, but don't ruin your own. We like you too much.

In my JD days, I used to jack $100 bill wielding asshats like Gafoto. They'd flash that cash in a friggin' McDs and walk out with their wad and a bag of faux food - I'd follow and make damn sure their Happy Meal was less so. At the very least, they were sportin' $95 and change - usually the dimwits had one or two other $100 bills tucked away. Payday, you know - it makes small men feel big to carry 3 or 4 Benjamins like that. Those small men who don't earn the hundreds get to jack those that do in order to relive their own feelings of smallness. Law of the jungle baby. Law of the jungle.

Keef, no, you're not being too harsh - because you're using ink and paper, not boots, knives or vinegar.

Gafoto, yes you are alone in this. Go to an ATM. deposit your hundred. Withdraw five twenties. Geez.

Glad The Inhaler, It's a frigging comic. Keef is just expressing frustration in a comical, hyperbolic manner. And you're dead wrong. Not everyone has the right to be an asshole. Let's have a poll: All those who believe that everyone in the world is "okay," even if they're a self-obsessed, inconsiderate, sexist, sociopathic swine, raise your hand. And your own little smug self-righteous trip just made you one of the people that annoy me. Sorry to harsh your mellow, but no doubt you can take satisfaction in your own superiority to me - as long as you're appropriately lit.

I also vote for a "Civility Man" recurring strip. The thought of the Keef character in tights, trunks and a cape is already making me giggle. There is a precedent in National Lampoon's Politeness Man:

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/national-lampoons-politeness-man

If Keef does it in comic form, it's much healthier than in real life. I feel this way toward the Republicans in the Florida Legislature ALL the time, so I appreciate the vicarious release.

Now I'm merely thinking of holding a "Good Riddance, GOP Assholes" sign at the Capitol exit when the SOBs finally vacate My Fair City.

Brian in Tallahassee

This strip is one cape, bodysuit, and a logo from being a superhero comic. Add a one-panel "Manners Minute" tip at the beginning, and I think you really have a workable formula!

Hurry up and get off the line or I'll strangle you with your own oxygen hose. Then we'll get rid of the assholes who drive side by side. Next up the entire DMV. Then I'm personally going to catch up with that guy with the wood chipper every Saturday morning and feed him to it.

Then we're going to stab all the backwards hats with full sleeve tattoos. And the middle aged guys on Harleys. Fuck them. You shitheads who think your dogs are people - into the Bessemer furnace. The people can't navigate their land arks into ONE parking space? I'm gonna weep with joy when your skulls pops under the wheels of your truck.

Christmas sweaters are going up the chimney. People who wear camo to be noticed? Tied to trees and shot. People who tell me they're pro life Republicans unasked? Yeah you will be drowned in the blood of your own children. Push all the stoners into traffic.

Not harsh enough, in my opinion.

Then again, I'm a New Yorker.

Keith, you rock!

I actually apologize to people every time I offer them a $20, especially the smaller stores where you know it's too early in the day for them to have stocked up on fives and tens.

When you are kind and considerate to others, you brighten up their day, you lighten up your soul and you inspire all those who see your acts of goodness - it's win-win-win, all for the price of one!

That being said, I have to admit, I don't blame KK for feeling the way he does about some jerks - some people wouldn't know kindness even if you spelled it out for them.

I don't think Keef's been this violent since the dead hippies strip. It's not what I expect from this comic. Just speaking as a fan, it upsets me a little.

The shot a man in reno reference brings up XKCD... http://xkcd.com/206/

As long as these violent acts are carried out symbolically and artistically, have at it. I found this quite entertaining, and hope you'll do more.

Has Keef ever been to the Big Apple? If not, he's in for a surprise--or three hundred or so. :)

Ok, so you don't like LA all that much. San Fransicso is much more mellow, true. But people actually have a right to be the way they are - even the stupid, even the irksome. You're just experiencing another form of road rage born of exasperation and impatience. The problem is you, man, not them. There's always going to be someone to annoy the hell out of you, who you'd prefer to plow out of the way or fling out into space or flatten somehow. What would you do, remove all jackass humans? There'd be no one left! Twist a fattie and kick back. You can be mellllloowwww and even a little smug about how cool you are compared to some of the idiots around you. But angry with them enough to send violent imagery their way? Noooooooo. Not cool. Very uncool. Small, in fact. Don't be so small. Be larger and more gracious. It becomes you. Treat them as pathetic twits, if you like, but no violent imagery, ok? Instead, smile at them knowingly. You'll feel better. And you'll be funnier, which will make the rest of us smile more. And that's something we all need.