January 16, 2004

Get Your War On Mars. Meanwhile, the Democrats have sent out rovers of their own [Flash.]
posted by homunculus 20 years ago
  • Excellent, Excellent, Excellent package of posts. No one does it better than you, Mr. H-- topical+ funny=best of MoFi!
  • The only bad thing about GYWO, other than its sporadic appearance, is the fact that one never knows when a new set of strips goes up without checking obsessively. GYWO is one of the only things that has kept me sane these past couple of years. Thanks, homonculus.
  • Yeah, the update over there is excessively sporadic. The Raw Meat style art is none too exciting... or difficult... shouldn't this guy be able to crank out a new batch every two days or so? Lord knows there's material to work from.
  • David Rees has used stock clip art to construct his strips at least since he began "My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable" (which you can also find on that site). Rees is involved with Adopt-A-Minefield; he donated his royalties from a printed GYWO collection to a mine detection team in Afghanistan. My understanding is that he is doing GYWO as a regular strip for Rolling Stone. As bummed as I am that he's not putting strips on his website more often, it's nice to know that his voice is being heard.
  • a little, ah, shrill, don't you think? (see also the Doonesbury Effect: A cartoon's humorousness decreases geometrically as the political content increases arithmetically)
  • Indeed. Closely related to The B.C. Effect. And yet, somehow, different. The sound of straw men flapping in the breeze. I thought that the last one was pretty fucking funny, nevertheless.
  • Indeed. Both sides, apparently, have veritable armies of straw men, waiting patiently for their turn at the archery butts.
  • Straw Man?
  • Worzel Gummidge?!? Is this some bizarre British luddite superhero? I'm experiencing culture shock. At least, my fingers feel tingly...