Comments on: The Costner Recluse

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:12:18 +0000

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.

By: mkilby

mkilby — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:08:05 +0000

@ 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”.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:16:29 +0000

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.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:56:54 +0000

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’.

By: Chakolate

Chakolate — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:38:50 +0000

@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’?

By: turquoise cow

turquoise cow — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:51:32 +0000

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.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:06:37 +0000

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

By: Chakolate

Chakolate — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:10:33 +0000

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.

By: John DiFool

John DiFool — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:56:42 +0000

“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.

By: Minky

Minky — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:16:02 +0000

@ #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.