I can’t see why anyone cares. Look at the magazines on display at any check-out counter: Klownie Kardashian, Baby Heartache, Jeb’s Cheating on Snigletta, 101 Sex Secrets Men Don’t Even Know They Want, and the ever-present Lose 10 Pounds in Five Minutes (with the words superimposed over a photo of a five-layer chocolate cake)…..almost all magazine covers are chosen to insult intelligence.If this is the worst problem America faces, we are in much better shape than I thought.
Interesting that not one single right-wing commentator, or ‘toonist, has noted the cover story is about what turned this kid into A MONSTER!!!!! They don’t WANT to read about the truth behind our world-wide problem of terrorism and violence. Those who carpet bomb innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, by the hundreds of thousands, based on lies or stupid policies and “leadership” by homicidal sociopaths like Cheney and Rumsfeld, with a scapegoat moron like “W” to front for them, and their PROFIT MAKING, don’t want to draw comparisons to a misguided kid, who killed less than a handful of people, and didn’t have any opportunity to make a profit on his “investment”.
Mass murder for profit, read M.I.C. in America, is okey dokey, but don’t let folks read about what turned a kid who saw his relatives killed by those policies, to violence.
BTW: Adam Lanza, spoiled white guy with a gun becomes a senseless killer. James Holmes, spoiled white guy with a gun becomes a killer. Jared Loughner, spoiled white guy with a gun becomes a killer.
Tell me again how senseless violence is always the result of “darker folk from the ghettos or barrios”.
Yes, it’s time to consider, and correct, the causes of our problems, not embrace them as normal and insurmountable.
I’d like to see more covers like that. Maybe if we found out why these things happen we could do some prevention. Everyone is so enamored with punishment, then act surprised when it happens again…
lonecat almost 11 years ago
Mr. Varvel, why are you putting these people in your cartoon?
I Play One On TV almost 11 years ago
I can’t see why anyone cares. Look at the magazines on display at any check-out counter: Klownie Kardashian, Baby Heartache, Jeb’s Cheating on Snigletta, 101 Sex Secrets Men Don’t Even Know They Want, and the ever-present Lose 10 Pounds in Five Minutes (with the words superimposed over a photo of a five-layer chocolate cake)…..almost all magazine covers are chosen to insult intelligence.If this is the worst problem America faces, we are in much better shape than I thought.
Dtroutma almost 11 years ago
Interesting that not one single right-wing commentator, or ‘toonist, has noted the cover story is about what turned this kid into A MONSTER!!!!! They don’t WANT to read about the truth behind our world-wide problem of terrorism and violence. Those who carpet bomb innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, by the hundreds of thousands, based on lies or stupid policies and “leadership” by homicidal sociopaths like Cheney and Rumsfeld, with a scapegoat moron like “W” to front for them, and their PROFIT MAKING, don’t want to draw comparisons to a misguided kid, who killed less than a handful of people, and didn’t have any opportunity to make a profit on his “investment”.
Mass murder for profit, read M.I.C. in America, is okey dokey, but don’t let folks read about what turned a kid who saw his relatives killed by those policies, to violence.
Dtroutma almost 11 years ago
BTW: Adam Lanza, spoiled white guy with a gun becomes a senseless killer. James Holmes, spoiled white guy with a gun becomes a killer. Jared Loughner, spoiled white guy with a gun becomes a killer.
Tell me again how senseless violence is always the result of “darker folk from the ghettos or barrios”.
Yes, it’s time to consider, and correct, the causes of our problems, not embrace them as normal and insurmountable.
lbalch almost 11 years ago
The big problem seems to be that the guy is “cute”, which goes to show what you guys consider to be important in a hero.
johnmcboston Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I’d like to see more covers like that. Maybe if we found out why these things happen we could do some prevention. Everyone is so enamored with punishment, then act surprised when it happens again…
CorosiveFrog Premium Member almost 11 years ago
The guy is a murderer, but ladies think he’s more handsome than most men. Live with it.
Doesn’t mean they think he’s okay or innocent. It just means they think he’s hunky.