Is there anybody under the age of 80 and not on powerful psychoactive medicine who enjoys the Family Circus? I definitely am not a fan of this sappy "slice of life" comic strip that ran out of gas sometime early in the Kennedy administration. It sucks. The author, Bil Keane, is actually mellow enough to post Ted Rall’s takeoff on his work, which even goes so far as to invoke incest and hydroencephaly, so he’s probably not all bad, but what the hell is up with a cartoon like this?
Just what the hell is the message here? Based on this image, I suppose it could be:
- Beware of incoming tides.
- Your life sucks.
- God hates you.
- The works of man are ephemeral.
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- You are an insignificant mote of dust in an uncaring and vast cosmos.
- Jeffy’s a total puss.
- Tidal force is derived by ΔF=-({2GMm/d3})Δr.
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Family Circus strips practically beg to be abused in all kinds of ways. Even without doctoring them, you can have a ton of fun deconstructing them. Since I don’t feel particularly erudite today, I just took a recent strip and had my sinister way with it. I have to say it was very cathartic.
