Bruce Tinsley is pompous enough to thank his loyal readers for supporting him in his quest "to speak truth to power" with his idiotic strip, "Mallard Fillmore."
Here's the text of his Saturday (April 23) strip:
At the request of some of our readers, we're considering providing you with a series of sweet, treacly, warm, fuzzy cartoons "more suitable for the comics page"...which we'll do as soon as we figure out how to incorportate those things into our concerns about a culture that starves its weakest members to death. Stay tuned...
"Prickly City" isn't THIS stupid. And it's pretty damn stupid.
ANYWAY. Poor Widdle Brucie thinks he's smart, but he left himself wide open. Because "a culture that starves its weakest members to death" is open to more than one interpretation.
I wrote to Bruce (mallardmail@yahoo.com) and thanked him. Thanked him for being brave enough to stand up for the millions of Americans below the poverty level who are starving while Halliburton lives high on the hog.
I smile as I imagine Bruce reading that.
If you'd like to have some fun too, I have some alternative suggestions. Remember, it's more fun to pretend you're a fan:
(1) Ask him why he suddenly hates America--the "culture" he disdains.
(2) Tell him you'll be printing the strip in your Communist newsletter, and thanks.
(3) Beg him to keep on the subject. Ask him to draw Terri Schiavo at least once a week; when he doesn't, ask him why he's chickened out.
(4) Ask him why he suddenly supports Big Government (or "the nanny state" as he likes to call it) over state's rights. "Yew ain't turnin' liberul, is yew?"
(5) See if he'll burn Delay for pulling the plug on Poppy.
Don't forget to cite or quote the strip mentioned above. And if you have more suggestions, post, please.
Maybe Brucie will defecate himself to death. Now THAT would be comical.
http://salmonriver.com/issues/mallard/ It doesn't have the actual strip--that's probably what got Boss-Tweed.com burned when it dissected "Mallard"--but if you're interested...