Et tu, Ziggy?

[RandomGuy]

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 you not.

[LnGrrrR]

Eh, I never liked Ziggy, Doonesbury, or any of the other overt political cartoons in the Funnies. They're all pretty boring.

[TeyshaBlue]

Today, not a single was given.

[ChumpDumper]

Where is Ziggy's birth certificate?

[TeyshaBlue]

His real name is Norm.

[Winehole23]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Wait a minute. You got Zippy the Pinhead mixed up with Ziggy?

Are you wearing your helmet?

[Winehole23]

I'd like to see the ZTPH blank verse soliloquy on Ziggy -- I think he'd appreciate the comparison.

[DarrinS]

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 you not.

What's peculiar about that "worldview"?

[Winehole23]

Finding it in the Sunday funnies, for one. Sign of the times, I guess.

[DarrinS]

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/...h-health_care/

[LnGrrrR]

Wait a minute. You got Zippy the Pinhead mixed up with Ziggy?

Are you wearing your helmet?

Like I said, I don't read the funnies often.

[RandomGuy]

What's peculiar about that "worldview"?

How many other funnies feature goverment-planted brain microchips?

Go on, find one. I'll wait.

[lefty]

No Seinfeld reference yet ?

[DarrinS]

How many other funnies feature goverment-planted brain microchips?

Go on, find one. I'll wait.

Sounds like a Dilbert strip.

[Winehole23]

Is it really that over-the-top paranoid?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6237364/...h-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]

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]

RG doesn't seem worried to me.

[Wild Cobra]

-wrong thread-

[LnGrrrR]

Or, I could become worried about the "worldview" of a cartoonist.

Did RG say he was worried? I must've missed that.

[Winehole23]

Maybe a little old fashioned. People read the funnies for the cute and the funny, not for the op-ed content.

[RandomGuy]

Or, I could become worried about the "worldview" of a cartoonist.

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.