Comments on: Moon

By: Dave in Boston

Dave in Boston — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:55:33 +0000

DifferentParick: I happened to be out of town when this was published, and the paper there (identity omitted to protect the guilty) pruned the *middle* row of this rather than the top. Go figure.

By: bAT L.

bAT L. — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:06:33 +0000

I seem to be the only one extremely bothered by the distance they are away from each other. I know it’s just a representation, and that you couldn’t fit the exact distance in a panel and still see the Earth or its moon, and that it doesn’t need to be exact. Still, having the Earth and the moon crammed into the left side of the panels really would have helped.

Reminds me of this classic comic: http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF041-Sun_Love.gif

By: aoeu

aoeu — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:47:04 +0000

Looks to me that the last panel has Moon trying to break an awkward silence, following Earth’s idealism that no one wants to realistically shoot down. I think the $50 thing is just more casual conversation.

By: Devo

Devo — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:15:08 +0000

The moon’s first comment in panel two is a reference to the fact that we crashed into the moon this year to steal water. The last panel is the moon acknowledging that the earth knows how ridiculous its overly optimistic hopes are, and offers the Sarah Palin book because all conservatives do is cope with, or ignore, real problems, not fix or change them like the earth hopes for. It’s a “If you can’t beat em, join em” joke.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:55:03 +0000

First two panels: The Sun, Earth, and Moon are having a conversation. That’s absurd, but often happens in comics. Even more absurd, the Earth borrowed fifty somethings (probably money) from the Moon.

The Earth then states his hopes for the new year, one thing which should happen (though the author apparently doesn’t think so), and two things which will only happen after humanity wipes itself out. There’s an uncomfortable silence, and the Moon changes the subject.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:12:57 +0000

Nicole,
It’s hard to know exactly how something is intended if you can’t hear any sort of intonation. Apology accepted. Let’s bury the hatchet.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:26:29 +0000

Tim .. If I misinterpreted your statement ” Enough people agreed for Palin’s book to hit #1 before it was even released.” I apologize

If you reread my last comment you will see that I say exactly that — that most people who bought the book agreed with Ms. Palin

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:13:27 +0000

Nicole, as usual, you’re saying something that has no connection with what has gone before it. “You are presenting the logical fallacy that if most people agree, then it must be true”? I didn’t say anything of the sort. I said only that the “moon” was suggesting to the “earth” (in the comic - remember the comic we’re supposed to be commenting on?) that there’s reason to hope in the book.

While some people bought Palin’s book even though they disagreed with her, I think even you would agree that most of them did.

By: paperboy

paperboy — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:01:05 +0000

A sneaky way for corporate groups to bribe politicians is when politicians “write” a book, they buy up copies, legally funneling money into their pockets. Sometimes it pays off (”The Audacity of Hope”), others seem like a long-shot (”Goin’ Rogue”).

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:54:01 +0000

Tim — you are presenting the logical fallacy that if most people agree, then it must be true. This is demonstrably false. Long ago most people believed the sun traveled around the earth, clearly most people were wrong. I haven’t read Ms. Palin’s book , so I can not comment on the quality of the information contained within its pages. But I can say that saying that most people agree therefore it must be so simply is wrong.

Also assuming that everyone who bought the book agrees with Ms. Palin’s positions is equally wrong. While you are correct many if not most people who bought the book agree with her, I am sure many bought it to see what she had to say.