Blowback
Blowback
A clean, well-lit place to vent
Please feel free to contribute to this frequently-updated forum, which posts selected commentary on our favorite comic strip. If you'd like your critique to be posted, please note that civility, if not approbation, counts. Click here to submit a comment.
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THE HAIR
I love the way the hair shows Trump's bald head but looks thick instead of displaying its outstanding characteristic of wispiness and its yearning for the strawberry blonde of days past.
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PULITZER
What!?! No Pulitzer since '75? I'm sure once The Hair, the Red Rascal, Duke & Son, Zonker, Zipper, Zeke and all the cast meet up at the royal wedding, you'll be a shoe-in. You have my vote.
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HILARIOUS
Keep the strips on The Donald coming. They're hilarious!
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THE DONALD
I sincerely hope that The Donald continues his run. My dream would be a Trump-Palin ticket. But I don't think the strip does justice to The Hair. It's fine and delicate like mohair, and a beautiful orange color.
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ONE DETAIL
The one detail you missed is the creole mustard color of Mr. Trump's face due to overuse of bronzer. The raccoon eyes say it all.
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ALMOST
I read your strip in the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette on a daily basis. You manage, from time to time, to get a rise or a chuckle out of me. I must tell you that Sunday's strip almost killed me. I have never laughed so hard and long at a comic strip in my life! The Donald's hair blew my mind!!!! I don't know why it hit me so hard, but woooowee...I almost had a coronary. Thanks!
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EASIER
I loved Sunday's strip and the hair. It was actually easier to look at than the real coif.
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NAILED
Visually and verbally, you have the loathsome and ludicrous Trump absolutely nailed. Brilliant!
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TWO-MAN GROUP
Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump should form a two-man support group for those that are pathologically grandiose!
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JOKE
Ah, Donald Trump, the cartoonists' dream subject; his comb-over. the gift that keeps giving. But the notion of him running for such high office is a joke -- please say it isn't so!
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WEIRDLY ACCURATE
Thanks for today's depiction of Donald Trump -- it's grotesque yet weirdly accurate. If the man can't be honest about his hair, why should anyone take him seriously about, well, anything, let alone the presidency of the United States.
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THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE
Great strip on today! I was wondering when you'd begin to lampoon the eminently parody-worthy Donald Trump. Actually, Mr. Trump has an important contribution to make to international relations, in that he comforts the collective conscience of the people of Italy by demonstrating that Silvio Berlusconi is no longer the world's most ridiculous politician.
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PRINCESS FANTASY
This is the most up-to-date realistic princess fantasy yet. If I had a daughter, Sam's fantasy is the kind I'd hope she'd have.
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FYI
FYI Sir, Bond is MI-6 not MI-5. MI-5 is like the FBI, MI-6 is like the CIA.
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BORING?
London boring? What is Zonker on? Perhaps he is thinking of London, Canada.
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TSSSST
It's like the 'tsssst' episode of South Park: I've got this "Why wouldn't that work?" thing going on in my head.
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THE ROYAL WEDDING
If Zonker goes to the royal wedding, whoever he goes with, at least this time no one will yell, "Eek! A Commoner!"
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THE WEDDING
PLEEEEASE let Sam go to the wedding with Uncle Zonk. If they won't let her, can I go?
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THOSE OPPRESSED
Re. AMUSED: I would agree, providing the artist in question then donated these millions to the cause of those oppressed by that very dictator.
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A PROBLEM
Re. AMUSED: I have a problem with dictators being parted with money that they either a) stole from their own people or, b) received in US aid, which means they stole it from you and me. To pay for a 50 Cent concert!