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Family Circus, 6/19/05

On Father’s Day, the Family Circus once again trots out the tired old “Billy takes over for a day” gag; what with Billy’s little brother Jeffy actually writing the strip now, the actual point of this exercize in meta is becoming increasingly difficult to parse. However, this strip does have one thing going for it, in that it features the patriarch of the good Family Circus family being spurned by God himself. Who hasn’t wanted to see Bil Keane get the big thumbs down from the Almighty? One wonders if Yahweh’s rejection of the Keane clan is the result or the cause of Dolly’s flirtation with patriotic Wicca.

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The Phantom, 6/17/05

Ces apparently gets racist hate mail for implying that a ten year old might be capable of taking care of herself; thus, I’m sure that King Features is really hearing it about this strip, which involves a latex-suited freak and a cone-hatted pygmy joking about the jungle-roofie-fueled date-rape (er, archaeological-expedition-rape) sequence that’s coming soon. Yuck.

Ziggy, 6/17/05

As C. Montgomery Burns once so aptly put it: “Oh, Ziggy, will you ever win?” I guess some GPs really are sick of dealing with patients without HEALTH INSURANCE.

Family Circus, 6/17/05

Dolly mangles the Pledge of Alliegence, day four: America’s nightmare continues. Remember how much trouble Roseanne Barr got into for singing the Star Spangled Banner off-key? You’d think that Sean Hannity would have called for the Keane clan’s death by now, but no such luck.

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Family Circus, 6/15/05

Yesterday, in honor of Flag Day, the Family Circus featured Dolly pledging alliegence to the flag, with a patented Family Circus word-mangling twist. Today, in honor of the day after Flag Day, we have … um, pretty much the same thing, only with just a hint of the occult. Was this just a joke that didn’t fit in yesterday’s caption but was too insanely hilarious to save till next year? Or is the Family Circus going to try to finish out the entire pledge? Every day when I read this feature I ask myself, “How long can they keep this crap up?” Usually, by “crap” I mean the Family Circus in general, but today at least I’m referring to this odious running gag.