Anvil of the Week Award

Cidu Bill on Mar 29th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Wizard of Id, anvils, comic strips, comics, economy, humor | 11 responses so far

11 Responses to “Anvil of the Week Award”

  1. Ed Whitson Mar 29th 2009 at 08:04 pm 1

    I thought Hart was dead. How long do we have to suffer from his zombie comic strips?

  2. MoWatt Mar 29th 2009 at 08:48 pm 2

    Forgive my ignorance but I don’t get your usage of “anvil” in this context. Can you explain?

  3. Red Chili Mar 29th 2009 at 09:08 pm 3

    It’s anvilicious in the fact that it tries to hammer the author’s viewpoint across, instead of focusing on humor.

  4. furrykef Mar 29th 2009 at 09:09 pm 4

    MoWatt - This TVTropes page explains what Bill probably meant by it. (Warning: TVTropes is an extremely addicting website.)

    The short version is, it’s when the author/cartoonist/whoever beats you over the head with their message with all the subtlety of an anvil being dropped on a cartoon character’s head. That certainly fits this strip.

    Of course, this strip’s argument is also a ridiculous oversimplification of the situation that overlooks the possibility that maybe teaching failing industries a lesson would be worse for America as a whole than bailing them out. Though of course we shouldn’t exactly expect well-reasoned political/economical arguments on the comics page, but in that case, perhaps they shouldn’t be making political statements in the first place unless they’re actually funny (rather than trite and predictable).

    - Kef

  5. John DiFool Mar 29th 2009 at 09:49 pm 5

    Is Parker even involved in the direct creation of this strip anymore?

  6. Cidu Bill Mar 29th 2009 at 09:52 pm 6

    John, Parker’s also dead. So… no.

  7. Patrick Mar 29th 2009 at 10:38 pm 7

    Furrykef, your TV Tropes link isn’t working. I’m curious to read it.

  8. Cidu Bill Mar 29th 2009 at 10:42 pm 8

    Patrick, that’s because he forgot to include the link. Try this.

    You might also want to visit this page, which mentions the Arlo Page.

  9. furrykef Mar 30th 2009 at 01:55 am 9

    It’s not that I forgot to include the link; it’s that I didn’t format it quite right (apparently) and WordPress stripped it out. This one was actually the page I wanted (let’s see if it mangles it this time), though the one Bill posted also explains it.

    As for the Parker thing, the strip is drawn by Parker, hence the Parker signature in the strip.. It’s just a different Parker: Jeff instead of Brant.

    - Kef

  10. Kamino Neko Mar 30th 2009 at 01:58 am 10

    That’s the spin-off page, the one that explains the anvil is http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anvilicious - this is not an anvil that needs dropping, it’s just a particularly political anvil.

  11. Two Dogs of Mercy Apr 5th 2009 at 06:47 pm 11

    Really no different and no more subtle than a lot of the stuff I’ve seen in Doonesbury or Non-Sequitir, just opposite end of the political spectrum.

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