| The World Is Ending |
[Jun. 6th, 2008|10:56 pm] |
One of the signs of the end times warned about in Revelations has come to pass: today there was a Fred Basset comic that was actually pretty funny. And I don't mean funny in the way it sometimes is where you can interpret it differently than intended. I mean today's Fred Basset is funny for the joke that the creator actually wrote.
It's especially relevant when you consider it runs in the Daily Mail, who pillory the police almost daily for going after 'soft' targets (usually pensioners doing something that sounds sweet and innocent, like feeding birds or giving toffees to kids) while ignoring the bigger problems of youth violence, knife crime, and illegal immigration.
But moreover: actual, honest-to-bejeezus SATIRE. I can't even tell if he's pandering to the Daily Mail readers and their fear of being arrested for breaking some political correctness-based law, or if he's making fun of them for having said fear.
It's scary and terrible that Fred Basset has been funny. It's not something I'd like to see happen again because it fills me with a deep sense of shame. Hopefully tomorrow's strip will focus on Jock digging up one of Fred's bones. Oh, that Jock! You don't know what he'll do next! |
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