8/26/17

Best: Soup to Nutz

This was one of the three strips I was REALLY scared to see get affected by the great comedy death of 2016, mainly because all three had already expressed very obvious "Le Sniffles McFatshame" jokes the last I read of them that year during the election. WuMo had not crossed my mind at the time and the other two we'll discuss in the future (spoiler: one of them does indeed blow ass now) but lets focus on this for now...

...wait.

It can't be.

Could it?

A KKK joke that coulda been printed before 2017 no problem? One that is...gasp...APOLITICAL?

I see skies of blue....

Of course we'll probably have those mad that they called them "dunces" at all but it's not like they in any way acknowledge what they do or that it applies to society. Hell it doesn't even say they exist today, he just said he watched "a show" and not the news which means it was almost certainly a history documentary.

And just to clarify, if you think its weird such a seemingly innocent strip would be talking about this at all, there's a reoccurring joke that they always piss of the minister at Sunday school. This strip is more than meets the eye.

 
Worst: WuMo

Alright this wasn't nearly a smidge as heinous a joke as yesterday's but if I'm gonna have to talk about WuMo right from day one I'd like to prove to you guys that my claim about it being literally nothing but "what if ___ was today" jokes is true by sacrificing the whole first week or so of "Worst" to it. Let's see how many days in a row we can get where the joke is just "the past would be different if we had the advancements we do today". 

The joke isn't worth any analyization beyond the points I touched upon yesterday (and hey literally anything beats mansplaining jokes) so let's get to the artwork:

First of all, we addressed yesterday this art style. This art style that makes all the humans look like the Cartoon Network Noods contracted rheumatism and developed a crippling addiction to wax lips.

(Oohh mama, you'd better believe I'm giving them a new description like this everyday I have to look at the little antichrists again)

It turns out the rabbit hole of the lips as I addressed in yesterday's strip actually goes even deeper.
I didn't pay enough attention yesterday but it turns out the black woman had brown lips.
Bond himself was the only character without them or even drawn in a tolerable style, which I originally assumed was to contrast him from the setting, but now that I see what I'm seeing today, was most likely only because they were directly using an image of a Bond (man, I hope it wasn't Moore) for reference.

Let us analyize the lip ratio of people:

• Only the women even have them. Already this is damn unfortunate because...well fellatio. (As well as making the fact that yesterday was most likely a pro-femenist joke damn tragic). It gets worse though....
• The white (or rather albino) woman is the only one with human lips, the rest as we observed yesterday sync to their skin tones.

...wow it was just a joke yesterday using "minstrel show" as part of my description but....

Also, just putting a phone in the hands? Could it have killed you to actually draw the Mona Lisa in the actual position a selfie creat-oh yes that requires forced perspective. Even you wouldn't stoop to having the whole painting be uncolored in to "simulate" perspective.