Haven’t seen a “year in review” comic in a while. It seems some cartoonists gave up trying to write those in despair. (Not that I mind this one at all.)
I think the last one I can recall was Tom Tomorrow in 2017, where he decided to just go with a big ol’ dumpster fire.
Candyland! The outcome is preordained by the order of the cards at the start of the game, and we are utterly helpless to influence our fate as we move along the singular track. (Cf. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/58 .)
I was curious, so I looked up the original in “Illiterature”; the tanning in the third panel is new. Oddly enough, the caption in the last panel is different too.
(On that note, the “You will buy stuff now at waylay.com” banner at the bottom of the page is now a dead link.)
I was just going to mention Harris. His principal thesis regarding pigs is that, since they are not ruminants, they compete directly with humans for consumption of grain – not a good thing for a desert tribe with limited resources. (He also posits that pigs are not necessarily particularly filthy animals, and that other varieties of meat can also readily carry disease vectors.)
“Jiminy Cricket? No, I’m an original creation, like Ricky Rouse or Monald Muck.”