tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post4995985682858098170..comments2023-11-05T04:08:55.749-08:00Comments on Duck and Cover: That damned ManuscriptUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-23580252912966276252010-01-30T10:33:52.072-08:002010-01-30T10:33:52.072-08:00Don't forget the brooding, visionary novels of...Don't forget the brooding, visionary novels of a grinding dystopia where the wrong people are in power and we're going to hell in an alcohol-tinged handbasket, written by Phillip K. Duck.Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-79771075816363584462010-01-28T22:43:20.638-08:002010-01-28T22:43:20.638-08:00I think I've read about a dozen PKD novels. M...I think I've read about a dozen PKD novels. My favorite is A Scanner Darkly, eff double-you eye double-you.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-9504223243907009432010-01-28T10:54:03.947-08:002010-01-28T10:54:03.947-08:00PKD short story collections are distilled greatnes...PKD <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Reader/dp/0806518561/" rel="nofollow">short story collections</a> are distilled greatness. Each Mallard Fillmore comic is like a public toilet that is clogged and hasn't been flushed in two days.Michael Foleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18420222848094093512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-60222168930114190522010-01-28T09:04:21.726-08:002010-01-28T09:04:21.726-08:00I guess I should check out this Fforde guy.
To ri...I guess I should check out this Fforde guy.<br /><br />To ride off even further on this tangent, I was reading some comments somewhere about an author whose work I've been consuming much of at late, Phillip K. Dick. The gist of one reader' comments was that PKD wrote a few great books, but was largely a hack who had lots of great ideas. I wouldn't argue that Dick had many weaknesses in his plotting and characterizations, but I enjoy reading him nonetheless largely for the ideas he presented and that alone is enough to keep me interested.<br /><br />So, why do I read Tinsley's quack trap? He's a hack and his ideas are shit (and I don't mean that they are ideas I don't agree with, I mean they spring from his ass).<br />To carry this disgusting metaphor even further, maybe Tinsley comics are more like farts: trite and offensive, but occasionally humorous in the lowest sense of the word.Toots McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159829180195311345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-92095489899134400142010-01-28T06:23:48.526-08:002010-01-28T06:23:48.526-08:00You make a good point, folks. I should see if the ...You make a good point, folks. I should see if the library has any Fforde I haven't read yet. <br /><br />Oh yeah, the duck. Boring, isn't he? I still wish there was a vote button for "ho hum."Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-69227442917971361702010-01-27T23:12:37.739-08:002010-01-27T23:12:37.739-08:00I imagine what happened there was that while he wa...I imagine what happened there was that while he was sneering at a bestseller's list, someone wrote him an email about how Twilight also makes that list, and this is his desperate attempt to minimize it in his own mind so that Palin's book continues to be "great".<br /><br />As for Jane Eyre, yeah, that book has "lit chick" written all over it. I very much doubt it was understood or liked, and if it was, were his high school teachers really so bad for choosing that over something by Karl Marx?exanonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-69940378655884811692010-01-27T18:25:12.767-08:002010-01-27T18:25:12.767-08:00Funny, this is the exact same strip that a witchal...Funny, this is the exact same strip that a witchalock would draw.Ducky is Rightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-81165307392093714012010-01-27T17:15:52.400-08:002010-01-27T17:15:52.400-08:00Fforde is probably too liberal, or at least too fo...Fforde is probably too liberal, or at least too foreign.<br /><br />The Fourth Bear is an interesting look at racism and the "War on Drugs" and giant cucumbers.<br /><br />Then there's the whole neanderthal thing...Kaitlynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13279904127449708251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-26566176852373591282010-01-27T17:14:32.981-08:002010-01-27T17:14:32.981-08:00Why does he hate America?
And 3rd the Fforde love...Why does he hate America?<br /><br />And 3rd the Fforde love!Kaitlynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13279904127449708251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-6669035400659083362010-01-27T15:11:51.574-08:002010-01-27T15:11:51.574-08:00Funny, it was just ten days ago that Tinsley was g...Funny, it was just <a href="http://duckcover.blogspot.com/2010/01/those-damned-lists.html" rel="nofollow">ten days ago</a> that Tinsley was gloating over the "best-seller" status of assorted conservative books...now he's sneering at popular literature.<br /><br />Verification word: Hypticle. A kind of monocle that prevents the wearer from seeing his own hypocrisy.Erichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00083091864939104540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-15827423729989974202010-01-27T14:38:39.506-08:002010-01-27T14:38:39.506-08:00I said:
Like this guy ever read "Jane Eye.&qu...I said:<br /><i>Like this guy ever read "Jane <b>Eye</b>."</i><br /><br />THAT WAS NOT WRONG SHE WROTE ONE ABOUT A CYCLOPS!*<br /><br />*(unreadable tiny text citing "BronteWasASocialistCyclops.com")<br /><br />Here are the books of classic literature Tinny may have read, the published works of "Stone Cold" Jane Austin, as follows:<br /><br />Pride and Extreme Prejudice<br /><br />Panic in Mansfield Needle Park<br /><br />Sense and Beaten into Insensibility<br /><br />North-Anger Stabby<br /><br />Persuasion...WITH MY MEATY FISTS!<br /><br />Emma<br /><br />WV: exitted; something I wish Bruce would do from the buildingBill the Spluthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17453196457398617329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-27206609135485390232010-01-27T14:09:33.908-08:002010-01-27T14:09:33.908-08:00I have a lot of trouble believing that Tinsley has...I have a lot of trouble believing that Tinsley has actually read Jane Eyre, unless he skimmed through the "Classics Illustrated" version of it. I'm no fan of Twilight either, for the record, but it seems Tinsley hates anything more popular than he is, which explains his jibes against Doonesbury, Harry Potter, Rock Music and.....well just about anything.<br />(P.S. The Illustrated Jane Eyre, with pictures by Dame Darcy, is well worth looking for.)MartyRottenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06880635193691906500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-54159683221601234272010-01-27T13:39:10.713-08:002010-01-27T13:39:10.713-08:00Fforde is great. No doubt, though, Tinshley would ...Fforde is great. No doubt, though, Tinshley would see him as an affront to all the great Victorian literature that he pretended to read before he dropped out of high school.dlauthornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-27868665180200501892010-01-27T12:56:39.387-08:002010-01-27T12:56:39.387-08:00Rather than try to fake an interest in today's...Rather than try to fake an interest in today's "comic", let me enthusiastically endorse "The Eyre Affair" by Jaspar Fforde ... yes, it is sort of about Jane Eyre (and therefore slightly relevant to today's "comic" ) but it's also funny, smart, readable and many other things Mallard Fillmore is notrewinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14008105385364113371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-40213440290960294332010-01-27T12:29:31.298-08:002010-01-27T12:29:31.298-08:00This almost makes me like "Twilight".This almost makes me like "Twilight".Steve-Onoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-61924261808535047902010-01-27T11:57:54.091-08:002010-01-27T11:57:54.091-08:00This one actually comes close to being funny. He ...This one actually comes close to being funny. He should have used Jane Austin, though.Jazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-37562028435638978592010-01-27T11:56:40.890-08:002010-01-27T11:56:40.890-08:00Hey, Tinsley is discussing vampirism! That must m...Hey, Tinsley is discussing vampirism! <i>That must mean he's a vampire!!!</i>NickEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802529426519495214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-90153772797992091842010-01-27T10:33:41.575-08:002010-01-27T10:33:41.575-08:00And we should take literature advice from the guy ...And we should take literature advice from the guy who thinks "Going Rogue" belongs in non-fiction?<br /><br />Musical accompaniment: "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM4rcjjKYVU" rel="nofollow">Sparkly Vampires</a>," the <i>Twilight</i>-inspired song from <a href="http://blog.rifftrax.com/2009/05/07/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-rifftones/" rel="nofollow">The RiffTones</a>.NickEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802529426519495214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-2248855810925256772010-01-27T10:00:50.248-08:002010-01-27T10:00:50.248-08:00It's for comics like this one that we need to ...It's for comics like this one that we need to remember that this is the same Mallard who supposedly believes that "average, hardworking Americans need a break instead of a lecture."Factinistanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-80874967191938905582010-01-27T07:40:06.087-08:002010-01-27T07:40:06.087-08:00@exanonymous-
James T. Kirk: You mean the pr...@exanonymous-<br /> <br /> James T. Kirk: You mean the profanity?<br /> Spock: Yes.<br /> James T. Kirk: That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period.<br /> Spock: For example?<br /> James T. Kirk: [thinks] Oh, the complete works of Jacqueline Susann, the novels of Harold Robbins....<br /> Spock: Ah... The giants.<br /><br /> (Star Trek IV)Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-72364076056496876282010-01-27T07:07:56.672-08:002010-01-27T07:07:56.672-08:00One day: "Down with elitists! Arugula! Latte-...One day: "Down with elitists! Arugula! Latte-sipping Volvo-driving blarrrgh *vomit, pass out*"<br /><br />Another day: "Down with popular fiction! Vampires! Bronte-hating trend-following blarrrgh *skids into telephone pole*"<br /><br />I mean, seriously. With all the discordant opinions he spouts, it's like the traveling road company of <i>A Beautiful Mind</i> has been held over inside Tinshley's head.dlauthornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-5747223660495501462010-01-27T06:48:42.972-08:002010-01-27T06:48:42.972-08:00At least he didn't start off the joke "De...At least he didn't start off the joke "Dear Mr. Stoker...".<br /><br />Although I suppose in a week or so he could re-use this artwork, only next time the joke is that the publishing exec wants Mr. Stoker's characters to "sparkle more" and "spend more time with pop tarts"...<br /><br />word veri: enesting. What the duck is doing when he slouches on his beanbag chair in front of the electronic entertainment box.Rootbeernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-40139142360979023072010-01-27T06:38:27.500-08:002010-01-27T06:38:27.500-08:00Like this guy ever read "Jane Eye." Or ...Like this guy ever read "Jane Eye." Or anything, besides TV Guide and the occasional cocktail napkin.<br /><br />He'll get an aneurysm if anyone tells him about "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."Bill the Spluthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17453196457398617329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-74881669714055638592010-01-27T06:13:16.227-08:002010-01-27T06:13:16.227-08:00Tinsley's opinion on literature is just as val...Tinsley's opinion on literature is just as valid as his opinion on racism, which is to say, not valid at all.Steve-onoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33297721.post-4397457744200378092010-01-27T05:56:05.698-08:002010-01-27T05:56:05.698-08:00Dear Mr. Tinsley,
Your whinings and rantings are ...Dear Mr. Tinsley,<br /><br />Your whinings and rantings are just what our syndicate needs to alternately mollify and agitate the segment of our readership which insists that fluoride in the drinking water is a plot to sterilize America. <br /><br />However, may we suggest that your rambling, incoherent, apeshit text-walls might be more effective in a funny-animal strip? Research shows your natural audience will refuse to question the words of a talking duck.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />The Very Same "Liberal" Media You Hate So MuchTognoreply@blogger.com