I’ll bet the original story helped the Picayune’s bottom line for a few days. Never mind “If it bleeds, it leads”: Panic journalism buys eyes!
January 22? Why a week late?
Excellent work! Thanks.
[Rimshot!]
Six horrifying words: “Third in the order of succession”!
Of course, after the events of later that year (2001), the second panel now seems uncannily prescient.
Ants have breasts?
Beat me to it!
This is one of my all time favorites from Mr. Thompson. RIP (Rest In Pancakes)
I sense an inadvertent parable here on how a certain segment of the media is able to persuade the rabid supporters of a certain former grifter-in-charge that the sky is indeed falling and they should be afraid, disgusted and outraged.
I’ll bet the original story helped the Picayune’s bottom line for a few days. Never mind “If it bleeds, it leads”: Panic journalism buys eyes!