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   Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

   Oh, Broomie! You simply have to look further than the end of your lovely long nose! On the other hand, where did the Victim-Guy get the sign?!

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   Margueritem said, 3 months ago

   He carries it with him at all times for just such occaisions.

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   Yukoner said, 3 months ago

   Well Broomie, your eyesight may be a bit off but your heart is in the right place.

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   Gweedo Murray said, 3 months ago

   Uh keep muh sign handy fuh just such an emuhgency.
   That’s one big chickenhawk on his back.

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   Johanan Rakkav said, 3 months ago

   Why, kind sir, there are even witches like me who can zap crooks like him! Now if you’ll kindly step aside…

   (Oh yes: someone misspelled “despair”. Stupid English orthography…)

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   JFri said, 3 months ago

   They have help for that, too!

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   pschearer said, 3 months ago

   Good work, Rakkav.

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   Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

   This joke is political only if one sees it that way.
   Trolls see everything as political.
   Don’t you feel sorry for Trolls?

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   Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

   Gweedo I love your Foghorn Leghorn imitation. He was one of my favourite Bugs Bunny characters!

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    The reason the Broomie does not see that the man is being robbed is that the robber is standing BEHIND the man in the alley.

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    shadowrider95 said, 3 months ago

    it’s a cartoon, stop making it something more, laugh & move on.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    This is NOT a political cartoon. Don’t blame Barack Obama for problems which already existed before he became the President of the United States of America on January 21, 2009.

    When the somewhat high national unemployment rates came out for January 2009, lots of ignorant people blamed that on Barack Obama and his administration.

    How can a person in office be at fault for what was caused BEFORE he took that office?

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    BananaSlug said, 3 months ago

    I dunno, George Bush was. Everything from the economy to the dust bunnies in our bedrooms was his fault.

    You know, with all this discussion of politics, no one noticed that Broomie misspelled “despair”.

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    fritzoid said, 3 months ago

    It’s kinda weird. Several of the Broomie cartoons of the last couple of weeks lend themselves well to political readings, but they’ve been obscure enough that I can’t figure out quite what political point is being made (they can be read either way), nor whether it’s intentional.

    I wonder if Myers is sort of throwing these themes out as Rorschach blots, knowing that they’ll incite a reaction but not particularly endorsing one viewpoint or the other.

    A famous example of this is an old Peanuts strip, where Sally walks into the house, pulls Charlie Brown behind the sofa, and whispers “Today we prayed in school.”

    Schulz received mail from those who endorsed school prayer praising him for endorsing their cause, and from opponents of school prayer likewise in gratitude for his obvious support. He also received hate mail from both sides.

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    princepavel said, 3 months ago

    OTHER HELP!!! MORE BETTER HELP!!!

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    Saucy1121 said, 3 months ago

    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a comic strip is just a comic strip.

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    SherlockWatson said, 3 months ago

    Considering how slowly that robber is taking the guy’s wallet, I think that the victim drew the sign himself, hoping to get someone to help him before Slowpoke shoots him.