Posted by Amanda Marcotte February 21, 2008 in Uncategorized, Images
This might be the whiniest Day By Day yet.
My remix:
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I know eventually they’re going to figure out a coherent line of attack, but right now it’s so funny to watch them flail around claiming that he’s a godless Communist fundamentalist Muslim black supremacist Nazi that I’ll be a little sad when they do.
I shouldn’t be shocked, but I am anyway.
And how can someone who’s known for his, ah . . skills, at contorting women’s bodies in his strips, get even worse at it?
Okay, wait.
This actually ran in actual newspapers?
For real?
And the newspapers are okay with it?
Panel 1:
“Um, Chris, I think we’re finally alone”
Panel 2:
“This is what you want, isn’t it.”
Panel 3:
“Fap fap fap”
“Dude, get a room!”
“Can I watch?”
Oh, thank goodness, it’s a webcomic.
For some reason I had at some point gotten the impression Day by Day was a newspaper comic.
Is it funny or appalling that he tried(well, for Muir anyway) to make Hitler sexy?
Third panel
“Did I make Godwin’s law, where one loses by invoking Nazism?”
“Of course, since she never actually said that. Quit being such a jackass.”
“Shut up, bro! I’m getting awesome sideboob when she holds her arm like that.”
Sorry, it’s my first one. That Chris Muir is pretty consistently horrid, but this is the first one where the ridiculous premise, latent sexual issues, and denial-grounded narcissim regarding Muir’s own wit just come together and really SING.
Of course, I’ve only seen the ones you post on this blog. Time to go mine his archives for sweet, sweet, snarky gold.
I thought comics were supposed to be funny. Is there something I’m missing?
Why do I have the feeling that Chris just wanted an excuse to draw a Hot Babe™ in a Nazi uniform for his own, ah, self-satisfaction?
Muir’s a coward - if she were wearing that shirt symmetrically, we’d be seeing a lot more boobie, or a lot less. Who wears a button down shirt unbuttoned and pulled to one side? Furthermore, whose cleavage goes all the way to her collarbone?
But I am thankful he included a sieg heil salute, a Hitler mustache, gothic text and a swastika, otherwise the joke may have suffered from being overly subtle.
Why is the guy in the last panel talking out of his belly button?
I guess it’s not surprising that Muir would buy the idiotic Jonah Goldberg (hey, that’s redundant!) “librul fascist” meme.
Muir produces the kind of incoherent droolings you’d normally see written in crayon on the side of a battered camper parked downtown and occupied by some nutcase telling everyone how they need to repent before the imminent end of the world.
So the nonsensical (and yet still needlessly offensive) nature of this example is pretty much par for the course…
I think idlemind is right too, except that he’s dreaming of Little Annie Coulter in the uniform instead instead of Michelle Obama…
“Why is the guy in the last panel talking out of his belly button?”
…’cause he’s too close to the edge of the panel to talk out of his ass…
“Do that again”
I bet that guy is turned on by the Nazi panel. Wouldn’t surprise me if he likes the girls in the brownshirts.
Here’s my remix. I am confident that however unfunny it is, it still won’t approach the Black Hole of Unfunny that Muir’s does.
“Hey guys, here’s an impression of Dubya in his own words.”
“As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.”
“Did I make Godwin’s law by quoting Hitler?”
“Was that meant to be funny?”
“Shut up. Don’t try to explain to her that the show trials were Stalin.”
Keep the first two panels the same.
The last panel should read:
“Shit - we’re doing the Red Diaper Baby smear this week, aren’t we?”
“Keep the idea though - we’ll get round to Nazis again before March.”
“Am I the only one here getting a woody?”
I’m sorry: it’s reached some kind of event horizon of sheer inanity, and can no longer be satirized.
http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/2/21/f_chrismuirgom_7e7e8a6.jpg&srv=img34
I “love” how he even goes so far as to make her boobs practically fall out of her shirt.
What the fuck?
Does this guy actually draw for himself? I thought I read somewhere that he pays someone to do it.
Not that I really give a fuck.
I miss Cox and Forkum. At least they where conservative cartoonists who knew how to draw and make a laugh.
@MikeEss:
FanTAStic!
Just gave my nose a good diet pepsi rinse; fortunately, nothing landed on the keyboard.
Since we’re sorta on the subject of right-wing toolery that’s almost too far gone to parody, I offer you folks this letter to the editor. It’s from our local left-leaning weekly paper, and after reading it three times I seriously can’t figure out whether the letter writer is, in fact, a drooling fascist, or a chillingly accurate parody. Thoughts?
Like Felagund, I find the original so boggling, I just can’t see a way to fix it.
I can’t even really wrap my mind around accusing a black woman of Nazism. W.T.F?
I’ve seen this guy’s comics before. He tries so hard to be a right-wing Doonesbury, but like most right-wingers who try to be funny, he fails miserably. And he’s a mediocre artist to boot. Not to mention lazy - many of his strips consist of the same image pasted into all three frames, with only the text changed. I don’t think he’s published in any actual papers, probably because he sucks so badly. If it weren’t for the Pajamas crowd, he’d probably be working at a McDonald’s somewhere.
My guess is he’s being sensational because he’s deperate to draw a little attention to his crappy comic strip. What’s funny is that the bloggers who include his strip on their web sites, most of whom have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to accusing people of anti-semitism, will probably give him a free pass on this.
Let’s not denigrate his attempt at a good “The Night Porter” joke!
Third panel:
“Did you see the night porter?”
“fap fap fap”
“Own it on blu-ray”
Let’s not denigrate his attempt at a good “The Night Porter” joke!
Third panel:
“Did you see the night porter?”
“fap fap fap”
“Own it on blu-ray”
Muir’s mom seems to have hit the brain with the coat hanger, but not finished the job.
If a million monkeys working on a million typewriters will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare, a million hammers pounding on a million BlackBerrys should cover Chris “RetardoCubist” Muir.
Sunburnt: first time’s a charm. “Sideboobs”? Now, that’s funny.
Nazi? What? Communist? What? What the fuck is he saying? What the hell could Michelle have said that could even tangentially be related to this acid trip of his?
I guess I have to go with the “he wanted to draw a Nazi girl to whack off to” theory.
Panel one:
“Check this out, I can imitate Hitler and arch my back to impossible levels.”
Panel two:
“Behold all, my Hitler boobs!!”
Panel three:
“Okay, my back just snapped in half”
“Ouch”
“Glad I’m not a Chris Muir woman, that’s just painful”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Wait, I don’t get it.
Seriously, I don’t get it ONE FUCKING BIT.
“awesome sideboob” sounds like a great name for a band.
I didn’t know it was possible to “make” Godwin’s Law. I thought that was invoked in the event someone in a discussion tried to make a comparison to Hitler or Nazis.
Or is this telling me something about the cartoon author’s lack of grammar skills?
libdevil - sadly, I think it’s for real. I was unsure until I got to the beheadings/stop-next-bombing stuff. Those things have the ring of parody only to those of us who believe torture is wrong and ineffective — therefore the linkages the writer makes are a joke. But if one operates from a belief that torture works (i.e., gets people to reveal useful true information) and is sometimes morally allowable, then the arguments of the letter could actually be convincing.
So, feels like real wingnut-fascist to me.
panel 1:
Michelle Obama really crossed a line.
Panel 2:
Her unpatriotic disparagements of the Fatherland are indicative of a Semitic plot! Her communist masters seek to deny our God-Given superiority!
Panel 3:
And yet, I get called the fascist.
-Well, if the brownshirt fits…
-..tightly… revealingly… mmm… who’s my little aryan fraulein? Yeah…
Is the Black guy in the last panel supposed to b Muir’s way of saying “I’m not a racist” ?
“Make” Godwin’s law? What the hell does that mean? It’s not a damned cheerleading squad that you try out for. Who in the entire history of the internet has ever used the formulation “make Godwin’s law”?
Yes, Molly. We’ve picked on Muir for being a “I’m not a racist because I have black
friendscharacters” type of guy.Muir’s work give me this uncomfortable feeling - the women are all incredibly voluptuous, but unlike Frank Cho, there’s not even a subtle awareness and acknowledgement that he himself would be living in his parent’s basement if it wasn’t for all the other basement dwellers willing to put cash up for his booblicious creations.
Thought: is there an underlying relationship between Liberal Fascism and Kantian Nihilism?
“Did I make Godwin’s law-where one loses by invoking Nazism?”
facepalm.jpg
White guys posing as black guys to make racist slanders about black people….. Pathetic.
speaking of teh funny, anybody seen this?
http://www.grassfire.net/406/petition.asp?pid=15582113
Sheesh! The guy’s draughtmanship is freeking horrible! (Or is his rendition of a Nazi *supposed* to look like something our of Guernica?).
MAKE Godwin’s Law? What kind of Bizarro syntax is that? And who is this “Barach” in the second sentence in frame two - and last but not least, what is “unt” supposed to mean?
Why are wingnuts completely incapable of humor? WHY?
(1) With “Day by Day’s” new Swastika Deodorant
(2) ANYONE can be Hitler!
Yes, you too can have the delightful scent
that makes your friends and family say,
“Wow! You’re Hitler!”
(3) It’s just three easy payments of $19.95. And we’ll even throw in Godwin!
“Wow! You’re Hitler!”
“Kill a puppy.”
I “love” how he even goes so far as to make her boobs practically fall out of her shirt.
It has to do with gravity being the opposite of comedy . . .
Panel One:
“Is it just me, or are my clothes being drawn out of proportion to my body?”
Panel Two:
“Even in this Nazi shirt! Why the hell don’t I have clothes that even cover my stomach?”
Panel Three:
“Could I be drawn with normal clothes for once?”
“No, you’re an object here.”
“Get used to it.”
Cara - He changed “uninformed” to “uniformed,” but yes, it’s a quote.
It’s a stupid, unfunny strip, and a partisan distortion of Michelle Obama’s meaning, but it’s within the traditional bounds of political satire, I think.
Muir reminds me of this political cartoonist that they run over at Slate, Chuck Asay. It’s like a logical trainwreck you can’t turn away from.
I’ll be waiting for all of the editorials (hello, Richard Cohen?) about how McCain must repudiate this fellow white Repug or be condemned!
doesn’t everybody LOVE the sexualized nazi woman?
nothing gets me hotter than the fuck-toy version of a member of a militaristic political party who wanted to kill me and my whole family.
great to know that WND thinks there is some value in the Nazis. i am not so surprised, knowing them.
michelle obama is a wonderful person. a big part of the (many) reasons i am voting for barack is her.
Dude couldn’t even draw the SWASTIKA properly.
Conservative “comedy” = the final word on the issue of whether comedy is something you’re born with or something you can learn
st: Cara - He changed “uninformed” to “uniformed,” but yes, it’s a quote.
Yeah, it’s a quote from a speech directed toward a bunch of campaign supporters in a rally.
I know this is mega-complicated, but none the less I will attempt to explain. It’s kind of like when I was working in the field the other day doing some as-builts on the foundation of a building under construction, and I told the guy I was working with, “Hey, hold the end of that tape on the edge of the concrete.” Now, see, you’ve got to understand that I was not setting myself up as the dictator the the U.S.A. I wasn’t commanding every last person in the United States, “All you people, drop what you were doing, mach schnell, line up and hold the end of the measuring tape.” I was just addressing this one guy, see? You know, that guy I was working with? That one guy I was talking to? Get it?
Similarly in that there speech, Michelle Obama is not saying that every couch potato in America must GET UP OFF THE COUCH and GET TO WORK THIS MICROSECOND. She’s addressing the people in that auditorium.
Like anybody anywhere didn’t understand this all along. Just type “Michelle Obama speech at UCLA” into Google and you’ll see page after page of drooling right-wing tools one after the other parroting this ridiculous misinterpretation of her speech, as though they actually believe she was reciting a free translation of the slogan above the gates of Auschwitz, “Arbeit macht frei.” Wow, it really is disgusting to see right-wingers try so hard to misunderstand the obvious.
And all this mendacity for what? Tax cuts for millionaires, that’s all! These are genuinely contemptible people.
I guess it’s not THAT farfetched to imagine that right-wing commentators would find the concept of work to be anathema.
Does anyone even understand the joke he thought he was making? Nothing in that last panel approaches anything even near coherence. I’m reminded of Lisa Simpson’s comment upon seeing a sign reading “Yahoo Serious Film Festival”: “I know those words, but the sentence makes no sense”.
Also, it’s kind of hard to tell, but I think Muir may have drawn the girl making the “hitler mustache” sign with her finger, and the mustache itself.
The Knoxville News-Sentinel has replaced Boondocks in its weekly editorial page with Day By Day. I guess they want something beside Mallard Fillmore to “balance out” Doonesbury.
It’s just because Doonesbury is made of so much awesome that it takes two strips made of suck to prevent the newspaper from catching fire due to all the win? I don’t know.
And mothworm: Yes, it looks to me like Muir drew both her finger and the mustache itself.
Mothworm, I think she might be pointing to the Hitler mustache, so you won’t miss it, as the Impossible Boob Situation is kinda distracting.
I actually like all this Obama = Hitler stuff, as it makes all the 19%ers reveal their crazy to everone- I don’t think it accomplishes anything but make themlook ridiculous.
MOlly, NYC: “Is the Black guy in the last panel supposed to b Muir’s way of saying ‘I’m not a racist’?”
Hey, don’t knock it. That guy is the only black person most of Muir’s readers ever see.
See? It’s *outreach*.
You cannot win or lose under Godwin’s Law. Godwin’s Law describes a characteristic of internet discussion: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
didn’t she just give birth to twins?
Okay. Thanks for the link, st.
Honestly, what fucking losers these people are to take this speech as a personal lecture instead of as a rallying cry and a statement against “politics as usual”. After all, that’s the basis of Obama’s campaign, isn’t it? Change? She was talking to campaign workers, right, not the country at large, so what the hell? Talk about reaching.
But, no, even so, it fell into their ears so now they’re upset. The very concept, even in the abstract, is an affront to their way of life. THEIR lives are just fine. Why should THEY change anything? Why should they do anything to help out the country, so everyone ELSE can be fine, too? OH, no. We can’t have that.
Well, it does appeal to a certain subculture.
I’d say you’re not being fair to poor Jonah, but alas, I made the mistake of reading some of his writing.
In response to Dave Neiwert pointing out that fascists tended to view pacifism as working for the enemy, Goldberg pointed out that liberals have long stated that if one is not part of the solution, one is part of the problem.
All I can think is that one has to really work hard to be that stupid.
Mind you, it’s productive hard work… I mean, try to create a soundbite out of that to show how stupid he has to be. I don’t think you can. There’s *so much stupidity* wrapped up in there that you have to explain *which* bit of stupidity you’re countering, and that puts you past soundbite length. It’s like a black hole of stupid, where the actual type of stupid has collapsed on itself and can’t be reconstructed, but it’s still there, it’s still having an effect, it’s just lost its form.
Um. Oh, yeah, right. Anyway: I think you’re right about Muir.
I’m not sure that Frank “Monkey Boy” Cho belongs in such tedious company as Muir:
* Liberty Meadows is often funny, (but not as much as it used to be, admittedly).
* Visually, both Jen and Brandy are cliché ultrababes but they are also complex, dynamic, accomplished and totally in control characters, usually far more on the ball than anybody around them. Jen, for example, is not the eyetoy for boys that Muir’s female characters are; she is tied into her own sexuality and uses it to cheerfully control every tongue-dragging male that she chooses to.
* Cho doesn’t use his strip as a convenient vehicle for clumsy, stupid political posturing which never goes beyond the thought level of a freeper (or liberal) bumpersticker.