That particular one was one in a line of not really that funny comics and I must say that i think it reads tired.
I liked it, in part because The Count was one of my favourite Sesame Street characters, and because it reminded me of a number of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons in which he paired early humans side-by-side with dinosaurs — and which, apparently (though I can't find a sitation) for which he would always receive an outraged letter or two from irate paleontologists.
[Further edit: Speaking of having a sense of humour, if Wikipedia is to be believed, the paleontologists have officially decreed those spikes to be, in fact, "thagomizers".
I've been aware of XKDC for a long time, but have only been reading it regularly for a while, so I won't venture an opinion as to how it compares to its earlier incarnations. It's makes me smile more often than not, though.
And I dunno that feminism doesn't inform the waking time of most women, I think possibly its in the definition and the perception rather than the execution (that it doesn't). The struggle for equality and all that ...
I was thinking, first, of all two many younger women I know and have known who use the "I'm not a feminist, but ..." line, but mostly of religious fundamentalist women of various isms who (somehow) really do, consciously, reject feminism, equality and probably everything else that you and certainly I consider Good and Proper.
... there's a difference between me laughing at myself and you laughing at me, if you get me.
I think I do, but there is also a difference between finding a comic funny when it's laughing at others, but then deciding it's "pretty dickish" when it goes after one's own particular major. (Of course, the internet in general and Livejournal in particular being what they are, it's quite possible most of those objecting weren't regular readers of the strip but instead were just piling on at the urging of one offended party.
D'oh! (I almost never forget to include a subject-line!)
That particular one was one in a line of not really that funny comics and I must say that i think it reads tired.
I liked it, in part because The Count was one of my favourite Sesame Street characters, and because it reminded me of a number of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons in which he paired early humans side-by-side with dinosaurs — and which, apparently (though I can't find a sitation) for which he would always receive an outraged letter or two from irate paleontologists.
[Further edit: Speaking of having a sense of humour, if Wikipedia is to be believed, the paleontologists have officially decreed those spikes to be, in fact, "thagomizers".
I've been aware of XKDC for a long time, but have only been reading it regularly for a while, so I won't venture an opinion as to how it compares to its earlier incarnations. It's makes me smile more often than not, though.
And I dunno that feminism doesn't inform the waking time of most women, I think possibly its in the definition and the perception rather than the execution (that it doesn't). The struggle for equality and all that ...
I was thinking, first, of all two many younger women I know and have known who use the "I'm not a feminist, but ..." line, but mostly of religious fundamentalist women of various isms who (somehow) really do, consciously, reject feminism, equality and probably everything else that you and certainly I consider Good and Proper.
... there's a difference between me laughing at myself and you laughing at me, if you get me.
I think I do, but there is also a difference between finding a comic funny when it's laughing at others, but then deciding it's "pretty dickish" when it goes after one's own particular major. (Of course, the internet in general and Livejournal in particular being what they are, it's quite possible most of those objecting weren't regular readers of the strip but instead were just piling on at the urging of one offended party.
.Edited to fix bolloxed HTML.