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RandomGuy
04-28-2011, 01:48 PM
I have ignored Ziggy for years, but stumbled across it in my morning comics reading. Tt appears that the elder cartoonist has outsourced his creation and hired someone to do it for him, ala Jim Davis/Garfield

That someone seems to have a rather peculiar worldview.

Thu Apr 28

"Hi I'm from the government, and I'm here to implant this microchip in your brain."


I shit you not.
LnGrrrR
04-28-2011, 01:53 PM
Eh, I never liked Ziggy, Doonesbury, or any of the other overt political cartoons in the Funnies. They're all pretty boring.
TeyshaBlue
04-28-2011, 01:54 PM
Today, not a single fuck was given.
:lol
ChumpDumper
04-28-2011, 01:54 PM
Where is Ziggy's birth certificate?
TeyshaBlue
04-28-2011, 01:55 PM
His real name is Norm.
Winehole23
04-28-2011, 01:57 PM
Eh, I never liked Ziggy, Doonesbury, or any of the other overt political cartoons in the Funnies. They're all pretty boring.Ziggy? Political?
LnGrrrR
04-28-2011, 02:03 PM
Ziggy? Political?

I thought it was? Perhaps I'm mistaken. I've only read Ziggy a few times, and while I tend to enjoy surrealist humor (which it seemed to try to be), it left me cold.
LnGrrrR
04-28-2011, 02:05 PM
Oh wait. I'm thinking of an entirely different comic strip. That explains the disconnect. Now I have to remember the comic strip I'm thinking of...

(Fwiw, I didn't particularly enjoy Ziggy too much either.)
LnGrrrR
04-28-2011, 02:09 PM
AH! It's Zippy I was thinking of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_the_Pinhead

I guess that was an apolitical cartoon too. Go figure. *shrug*
TeyshaBlue
04-28-2011, 02:16 PM
Wait a minute. You got Zippy the Pinhead mixed up with Ziggy?

Are you wearing your helmet?:lol:lol
Winehole23
04-28-2011, 02:43 PM
I'd like to see the ZTPH blank verse soliloquy on Ziggy -- I think he'd appreciate the comparison.
DarrinS
04-28-2011, 02:44 PM
I have ignored Ziggy for years, but stumbled across it in my morning comics reading. Tt appears that the elder cartoonist has outsourced his creation and hired someone to do it for him, ala Jim Davis/Garfield

That someone seems to have a rather peculiar worldview.

Thu Apr 28

"Hi I'm from the government, and I'm here to implant this microchip in your brain."


I shit you not.


What's peculiar about that "worldview"?
Winehole23
04-28-2011, 02:46 PM
Finding it in the Sunday funnies, for one. Sign of the times, I guess.
DarrinS
04-28-2011, 02:47 PM
Finding it in the Sunday funnies, for one. Sign of the times, I guess.


Is it really that over-the-top paranoid?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6237364/ns/health-health_care/
LnGrrrR
04-28-2011, 03:15 PM
Wait a minute. You got Zippy the Pinhead mixed up with Ziggy?

Are you wearing your helmet?:lol:lol

Like I said, I don't read the funnies often. :D
RandomGuy
04-28-2011, 03:18 PM
What's peculiar about that "worldview"?

How many other funnies feature goverment-planted brain microchips?

Go on, find one. I'll wait.
lefty
04-28-2011, 03:23 PM
No Seinfeld reference yet ?
DarrinS
04-28-2011, 03:24 PM
How many other funnies feature goverment-planted brain microchips?

Go on, find one. I'll wait.


Sounds like a Dilbert strip.
Winehole23
04-28-2011, 04:05 PM
Is it really that over-the-top paranoid?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6237364/ns/health-health_care/If you can't see the difference between people buying it from entrepreneurs and the government showing up at your house to perform impromptu surgery...you might be paranoid.
DarrinS
04-28-2011, 04:19 PM
If you can't see the difference between people buying it from entrepreneurs and the government showing up at your house to perform impromptu surgery...you might be paranoid.



Or, I could become worried about the "worldview" of a cartoonist.
Winehole23
04-28-2011, 04:22 PM
RG doesn't seem worried to me.
Wild Cobra
04-28-2011, 04:22 PM
-wrong thread-
LnGrrrR
04-28-2011, 04:23 PM
Or, I could become worried about the "worldview" of a cartoonist.

Did RG say he was worried? I must've missed that.
Winehole23
04-28-2011, 04:24 PM
Maybe a little old fashioned. People read the funnies for the cute and the funny, not for the op-ed content.
RandomGuy
04-29-2011, 09:50 AM
Or, I could become worried about the "worldview" of a cartoonist.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rs7TODczvMU/TWVuPorDbqI/AAAAAAAAACs/07sTwetxnAA/s1600/What-me-worry-715605.jpg

Worried? No.

Surprised? Yes, and a bit saddened.

My memories of Ziggy are of a cute guy with nifty little valentines from 5th grade.

Brain implants are not the stuff of children's valentines, so I guess something has changed.

Life goes on.