Soup

Cidu Bill on Feb 21st 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Francesco Marciuliano, Hi and Lois, Medium Large, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far

13 Responses to “Soup”

  1. Dave Van Domelen Feb 21st 2009 at 12:31 am 1

    The gazpacho joke underway is just generic lame Hi & Lois “humor”. The honoring of Black History Month is solely based on there being a black waiter.

  2. Erica Feb 21st 2009 at 12:39 am 2

    I suppose it could be racist…stating that the only black person in the strip would obviously be someone serving them.

  3. Frank Feb 21st 2009 at 12:58 am 3

    It seems that Eric Holder was wrong!

  4. Frank Feb 21st 2009 at 01:03 am 4

    Hi never heard of vichyssoise?

  5. Marshal Feb 21st 2009 at 01:45 am 5

    This is a Medium Large comic. Right?
    So this would be an alternate Hi & Lo universe.

    http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/wednesday-february-4-2009/

  6. assdad Feb 21st 2009 at 02:47 am 6

    Hi and Lois is as White, elitist, humorless and out of touch as Friends. This inanity will, hopefully, drive Lois to suicide and the murder of her whole family.

  7. John DiFool Feb 21st 2009 at 01:17 pm 7

    Can’t remember the last black person I saw in Hi & Lois, to be honest. Even Beetle Bailey (Lois’ brother) has Lt. Fuzz.

  8. Ooten Aboot Feb 21st 2009 at 03:47 pm 8

    John DiFool: did you mean Lt Flapp? Lt Fuzz is on the pale side for an African-American.

  9. Peter Feb 21st 2009 at 05:29 pm 9

    Great parody. Hi and Lois are the whitest of the white breads. The attempt to inject jokes featuring some new black characters is just appalling,as a waiter in a white apron is all the Hi and Lois team can envision.

    Lois sort of channels Sylvia Plath here in her Bell Jar-style agony over her imbecile husband (the setup punchline was, indeed, as others said, supposed to have demonstrated Hi’s ignorance of vichyssoise or gazpacho), but in some ways she breaks the frame of the whole contraption, stepping on the punchline and railing against the whole Hi and Lois universe in which she’s imprisoned.

  10. Matthew Feb 21st 2009 at 05:50 pm 10

    I agree about Lois’s reaction and about MEDIUM LARGE’s point that HI & LOIS is lily-white, so its attempt to honor Black History Month is inadvertently racist, but how do we know that Hi’s soup is gazpacho or vichysoisse & not cold when it should be hot?

  11. assdad Feb 22nd 2009 at 12:22 am 11

    I complained a few times, recently on this site and I know that violates the rules. I wish to comppensate with an L.O.L: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2664888&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=364, the second cartoon shown at full size and the comment, “More of these cartoons please.

    I want our great-grandchildren to be look back on these and recognize CEOs for the robber barons they are.”

  12. todd Feb 22nd 2009 at 01:43 am 12

    I’m currently working for the U.S. government; sometimes I think my work group is as much black, Hispanic, Indian (from India), and Oriental as it is white.

    However, at other jobs I’ve worked over the years, I can’t remember even a single black person working there.

  13. John DiFool Feb 22nd 2009 at 11:36 am 13

    Yeah. Flapp. Arrgghh.

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