Ok, I guess it’s just for gender equality that you drew a guy and a gal as candidates – but the guy getting it twice? Just a coincidence or do I spy some connection to your real life preferences here?
And I second your recommendation about the American Gladiators.
What of a thesis suggesting that illustrative humor works best if related to contemporary reality? Really, the bit when Reagan waved his polyps at Carter might have changed the election: When people saw the incumbent struggling with an obstinate wheel is often marked as the turning point in the 1980 race; though others suggest the failure to produce a spark is emblematic of soft-spoken farmer’s presidential demise; still, in any case, if Adam tried to draw that scene today I doubt the young’n’s would understand quite what it referred to.
Does it qualify as a bottle rocket when it’s a regular rocket being launched out of a bottle? I thought a bottle rocket was a rocket made out of a bottle?! My world is being torn apart.
Adam, the podium is what you stand ON to s peak, the lectern is what you stand BEHIND to speak. It’s the lectern that holds your notes while the podium holds you, the lectern, and your notes.
The comic is still funny, and accurate otherwise. Except that I think one of your candidates has already been replaced by a bag of Cheetos.
Adam, you’re not wrong. Language nazis are always trying to tell us we’re wrong, but common usage has made the word podium a synonym for lectern.
See definition 3 at http://www.dictionary.com/browse/podium
Ok, I guess it’s just for gender equality that you drew a guy and a gal as candidates – but the guy getting it twice? Just a coincidence or do I spy some connection to your real life preferences here?
And I second your recommendation about the American Gladiators.
I think it’s rather because we all like to see Nerdbug/glassbug (?) potentially get hurt 🙂
This seems far fetched.
What of a thesis suggesting that illustrative humor works best if related to contemporary reality? Really, the bit when Reagan waved his polyps at Carter might have changed the election: When people saw the incumbent struggling with an obstinate wheel is often marked as the turning point in the 1980 race; though others suggest the failure to produce a spark is emblematic of soft-spoken farmer’s presidential demise; still, in any case, if Adam tried to draw that scene today I doubt the young’n’s would understand quite what it referred to.
I like the idea of a bit of volts when someone lies. Clinton would have been slightly fried, and Trump would have been a greasy pile of ashes.
Isn’t he already?
Except that you’ve got that exactly backwards.
Given that Trumps lies outnumbered Clinton’s lies by a lot, I would say that that’s exactly right.
Ah, a reference to The Gong Show. My day has been made.
The candidate already has been replaced by a baboon.
Does it qualify as a bottle rocket when it’s a regular rocket being launched out of a bottle? I thought a bottle rocket was a rocket made out of a bottle?! My world is being torn apart.
As a distant Englishman looking in, I gotta say – your wacky politics don’t seem too far from this anyway.
TBF our politics isn’t much better these days.
You might have a point there…
and a jamie farr reference, way to go!
Adam, the podium is what you stand ON to s peak, the lectern is what you stand BEHIND to speak. It’s the lectern that holds your notes while the podium holds you, the lectern, and your notes.
The comic is still funny, and accurate otherwise. Except that I think one of your candidates has already been replaced by a bag of Cheetos.
Meh, no big deal. We can just make them stand on a wild baboon if they lie.
Aw crap! I’ve always called those thing podiums! D’oh!
Adam, you’re not wrong. Language nazis are always trying to tell us we’re wrong, but common usage has made the word podium a synonym for lectern.
See definition 3 at http://www.dictionary.com/browse/podium
Ohh, I just noticed the melting butt! That’s great, Adam!
Or did you create this comic to disguise a leaky pen?
Took some time to see the butt-melting joke. Like some other guy noticed in previous strips, your attention to details is amazing.
Today’s SMBC is about debates becoming butt-grabbing rather than butt-melting. I think the concepts for debate improvement should join forces.
Brilliant! Also letting Gary Johnson debate would make it vastly more interesting.
Hah, I was about to point out today’s SMBC in the comments.
Nickelodeon should host a debate. Get caught in a lie and you get slimed.
I strongly support the baboon rule in panel 3. I’d love to see politicians being bitten in the ass by their lies.
i want them to put the microphones on a timer so when the candidate goes over the three minute limit, they get cut off.
Two comics in a row dated 9/27. How uncommon.