The Costner Recluse

Cidu Bill on Mar 1st 2010

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Filed in B.C., Bill Bickel, CIDU, Kevin Costner, comic strips, comics, humor | 19 responses so far

19 Responses to “The Costner Recluse”

  1. Kamino Neko Mar 1st 2010 at 01:11 am 1

    Costner Spider’s web went way over budget, and despite the extreme expense, turned out to be a complete mess. Think Waterworld or The Postman. (Neither of which are as bad as some say, but have bad reputations.)

  2. paperboy Mar 1st 2010 at 01:37 am 2

    The cave-man setting is appropriate, since Kevin Costner is ancient history.

  3. mkilby Mar 1st 2010 at 02:10 am 3

    @ paperboy (2) - Which is doubly appropriate, because B.C. is too. At least Costner is still alive.

  4. Kamino Neko Mar 1st 2010 at 02:22 am 4

    BC’s actually funny again, since Hart’s death. Still not Clams Got Legs, sure, and there’s plenty of clunkers, just like any other newspaper strip, but Mastroianni at least remembers it’s supposed to be a humour strip, not Jack Chick with cavemen.

  5. furrykef Mar 1st 2010 at 02:50 am 5

    Come on now. That’s an insult to Jack Chick.

    I kid, I kid.

    But seriously, I don’t think Johnny Hart was ever a fraction as bad as Jack Chick. About the worst you could say about him is that his strip was bland, he was a bit pointedly conservative, and he got a little too preachy here and there about things that some of us don’t believe in. By contrast, Jack Chick tells total BS, constructs the worst possible strawman arguments, and cites crackpots like Kent Hovind as sources. Chick is an embarrassment to Christianity, much less the rest of the world.

    - Kef

  6. George P Mar 1st 2010 at 03:02 am 6

    But Jack Chick is funnier. And he used to send out free samples of new tracts before he switched to just emailing links to them.

  7. mitch4 Mar 1st 2010 at 07:37 am 7

    Is there an element of allusion to the brown recluse (a very poisonous spider)? Or is it so obvious that nobody is mentioning it? [Not that I understand it as clarifying the joke,]

  8. Nicole Mar 1st 2010 at 09:19 am 8

    Jack Chick Tracts often make me laugh out loud. The are SO over the top that they are almost parodies of what they really want to be.

    A while agao someone posted live action videos of people performing Jack ChicK tracts … hilarious! I tried to find them, but couldnt’ … they may still be out there somewhere.

  9. Kate C Mar 1st 2010 at 11:55 am 9

    Wasn’t there, about a month ago, another BC with a Kevin Costner punchline?

  10. Minky Mar 1st 2010 at 12:16 pm 10

    @ #9 Kate C
    Yup. Saw it on the CC. Infamous for citing Costner as an example of overacting, rather than the more, shall we say, Keanu-esque acting he’s famous for in reality.

  11. John DiFool Mar 1st 2010 at 02:56 pm 11

    “Jack Chick Tracts often make me laugh out loud. The are SO over the top that they are almost parodies of what they really want to be.”

    I’m now completely convinced (tho fully aware of how Poe’s Law might apply) that Chick is a parodist. Last strip he actually had a character say “Stop it, you’re killing me!” while another character whaled on the first.

  12. Chakolate Mar 1st 2010 at 03:10 pm 12

    Oh! I took it on first reading to be a graph theory joke. You know, KC is six degrees removed from other actors (or some such tommyrot) and the web has extra filaments. It’s inefficient for this particular graph to have more than four edges at any node.

  13. mitch4 Mar 1st 2010 at 07:06 pm 13

    @Chakolate — I think the “six degrees” meme is usually about a different Kevin.

  14. turquoise cow Mar 1st 2010 at 07:51 pm 14

    That’s a spider web? it looked to me like someone threw a rock or other hard object at the cave wall and it cracked, like a pane of glass. I can’t figure out how the rock wall of a cave would crack, nor how that would lead to a recluse, though.

  15. Chakolate Mar 1st 2010 at 09:38 pm 15

    @mitch4 (13): I think the “six degrees” meme is usually about a different Kevin.

    Oh, that explains it. Whenever I see a post I want to comment on, I look at the comments and someone (usually several someones) has already made the same comment.

    Is it Bacon that has the 6 degrees thingy? Or should I say ‘had’?

  16. Kamino Neko Mar 1st 2010 at 09:56 pm 16

    Yes, it’s Kevin Bacon.

    It’s less because he’s an easy actor to do it with, and more because his name sounds vaguely like ’separation’.

  17. Mark in Boston Mar 1st 2010 at 11:16 pm 17

    The best Jack Chick line is in a tract about the Pilgrims in their first winter in Massachusetts. They were starving, but they survived because God guided them to where the Indians had hidden food for the winter.

  18. mkilby Mar 2nd 2010 at 04:08 am 18

    @ mitch4 (7) - The reference to the “brown recluse” is the only obvious part of the strip that I can see (note that the syndicate even used a very brown shade of gray for the cave wall). I’m just not sure why the artist picked Costner to be the butt of the joke. Has he been hiding recently? There are still plenty of other stars that have been more reclusive of late (you know who I mean). B.C. used to have lots of “golf” jokes, this could have been another one. But in that case, the connection to “brown” might have been seen as “racist”.

  19. Todd Mar 6th 2010 at 04:12 am 19

    One thing I notice that no one has commented on (maybe because it’s too obvious) is two of the guys are looking the wrong way. The recluse is in the right corner.

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