Comments on: Modern Medicine http://joshreads.com/?p=1428 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:10:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Trouser Tent http://joshreads.com/?p=1428&cpage=4#comment-432822 Trouser Tent Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:38:40 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=1428#comment-432822 I think Margo was requesting Alan to curate Andy Warhol's wig on a stick. I think Margo was requesting Alan to curate Andy Warhol’s wig on a stick.

]]> By: Godzooky http://joshreads.com/?p=1428&cpage=4#comment-432625 Godzooky Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:50:43 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=1428#comment-432625 #172 Jack Parsons: And, in memory of Earl Butz, we get a comment whose possible point about the lack of racial/ethnic diversity in comic strips is lost by the use of a nasty, derogatory slur. (Jeez, when Josh takes a break, these bad boys pop out of the woodwork.) #172 Jack Parsons: And, in memory of Earl Butz, we get a comment whose possible point about the lack of racial/ethnic diversity in comic strips is lost by the use of a nasty, derogatory slur. (Jeez, when Josh takes a break, these bad boys pop out of the woodwork.)

]]> By: Mr. O'Malley http://joshreads.com/?p=1428&cpage=4#comment-432518 Mr. O'Malley Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:53:04 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=1428#comment-432518 183. He must have recovered from his surgery. 183. He must have recovered from his surgery.

]]> By: mollificent http://joshreads.com/?p=1428&cpage=4#comment-432516 mollificent Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:48:47 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=1428#comment-432516 New Pibgorn! New Pibgorn!

]]> By: Mr. O'Malley http://joshreads.com/?p=1428&cpage=4#comment-432502 Mr. O'Malley Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:37:24 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=1428#comment-432502 <b>MT</b>: This is getting irritating. Elrod is writing a nature-based strip and he doesn't even know that beavers live in a lodge. When I Googled "beaver lodge" yesterday it took probably less than a minute to find a nice illustration of one which I posted yesterday. (That was what you should have done, Poteet.) If you Google "beaver house" you mostly get information about historical buildings built by people by the name of Beaver. This must be what Elrod did because what he has drawn looks nothing like a beaver lodge. It's not an "air chamber", the interior is above the water level and it's on the bank, not out in the middle of a lake. Only the entrance is below the water and it's a beaver-sized tunnel. I feel like yelling out "Hey! Look over here behind the beaver lodge!". Then maybe the strip could turn into The Adventures of Small Cigar Man and his Sultry Wife Whatshername, famed arrangers of fishing holidays and smugglers of endangered species or whatever it is that they do. <b>MW</b>: Somebody bought one of those orange things! It looks much smaller outside the case. Maybe the helium is leaking out. She's showing it to the man she's with. <b>SFx</b>: Bob Weber Jr knows his monotremes. But dragonflies the size of pigeons? Pigeons aren't all that large. Isn't that only about twice the size of the ones we have now? It's drawn Elrod-style as a nice touch. Even has kind of a ball in it. Were these somewhat large dragonflies contemporaneous with homo habilis? The T-Rex—so that would be 450 half-pound burgers. Why that would be about 100 kilograms of meat! <b>TDIET</b>: They've taken the Sunday strip down. <b>GT</b>: She didn't say that. Maybe someone dropped a week's worth of strips on the floor and they got out of order? Reminds me of the time <i>Wrestling Women vs The Aztec Mummy</i> was on TV and the reels were shown out of order. Didn't really make too much difference. <b>FBOFW</b> and <b>BB</b>: Two strips about small children fighting. One is amusing to the reader and one is highly irritating. Why? Can a lesson be learned about how to write comics with children in them? Advanced topic: lighten up the violence in your strip by giving your children absurdly large heads. Sack of hair. Heh heh. Still laughing about that. They don't mince words in New Brunswick. <b>Doonesbury</b>: So—that invasion of Cuba didn't turn out so great. And all those "advisors" in Vietnam? Maybe not such a good idea. Encouraging Mobuto to overthrow the Lumumba government in the Congo? Didn't work out well for many people other than Pat Robertson. Space program? Von Braun in second place behind Korolyov for a few more years, but the spy satellites were useful for showing the non-existence of the "missile gap". Cuban missile crisis? Thumbs up. Actually, I'm interested to see which direction Trudeau is going to take this. Kennedy was in office for a bit less than 3 years. That's not all that long. It was a time of great optimism, but a lot of what people think of as the Kennedy legacy, such as civil rights, was really pushed through by Johnson after his death. Johnson also warned Kennedy that civil rights would cost the Democrats the South for a generation, a prediction that was right on the money. MT: This is getting irritating. Elrod is writing a nature-based strip and he doesn’t even know that beavers live in a lodge. When I Googled “beaver lodge” yesterday it took probably less than a minute to find a nice illustration of one which I posted yesterday. (That was what you should have done, Poteet.) If you Google “beaver house” you mostly get information about historical buildings built by people by the name of Beaver. This must be what Elrod did because what he has drawn looks nothing like a beaver lodge. It’s not an “air chamber”, the interior is above the water level and it’s on the bank, not out in the middle of a lake. Only the entrance is below the water and it’s a beaver-sized tunnel.

I feel like yelling out “Hey! Look over here behind the beaver lodge!”. Then maybe the strip could turn into The Adventures of Small Cigar Man and his Sultry Wife Whatshername, famed arrangers of fishing holidays and smugglers of endangered species or whatever it is that they do.

MW: Somebody bought one of those orange things! It looks much smaller outside the case. Maybe the helium is leaking out. She’s showing it to the man she’s with.

SFx: Bob Weber Jr knows his monotremes. But dragonflies the size of pigeons? Pigeons aren’t all that large. Isn’t that only about twice the size of the ones we have now? It’s drawn Elrod-style as a nice touch. Even has kind of a ball in it. Were these somewhat large dragonflies contemporaneous with homo habilis? The T-Rex—so that would be 450 half-pound burgers. Why that would be about 100 kilograms of meat!

TDIET: They’ve taken the Sunday strip down.

GT: She didn’t say that. Maybe someone dropped a week’s worth of strips on the floor and they got out of order? Reminds me of the time Wrestling Women vs The Aztec Mummy was on TV and the reels were shown out of order. Didn’t really make too much difference.

FBOFW and BB: Two strips about small children fighting. One is amusing to the reader and one is highly irritating. Why? Can a lesson be learned about how to write comics with children in them? Advanced topic: lighten up the violence in your strip by giving your children absurdly large heads. Sack of hair. Heh heh. Still laughing about that. They don’t mince words in New Brunswick.

Doonesbury: So—that invasion of Cuba didn’t turn out so great. And all those “advisors” in Vietnam? Maybe not such a good idea. Encouraging Mobuto to overthrow the Lumumba government in the Congo? Didn’t work out well for many people other than Pat Robertson. Space program? Von Braun in second place behind Korolyov for a few more years, but the spy satellites were useful for showing the non-existence of the “missile gap”. Cuban missile crisis? Thumbs up.

Actually, I’m interested to see which direction Trudeau is going to take this. Kennedy was in office for a bit less than 3 years. That’s not all that long. It was a time of great optimism, but a lot of what people think of as the Kennedy legacy, such as civil rights, was really pushed through by Johnson after his death. Johnson also warned Kennedy that civil rights would cost the Democrats the South for a generation, a prediction that was right on the money.

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