I love how sometimes the comic writers manage to be creative and funny without being abrasive or too obvious. Especially whne their is a possibly a deeper meaning in the comic. On Friday their were two of them. Of course I could just have missed the actual joke/point they were going for. This is just what I got and thought was pretty good.
BC- View It
I like BC. The write very frequently expresses his faith through the comic. Though not always in obvious ways. This one is a stretch maybe. If you think you get it in a different way let me know, I'm curious. I took this comic to be focused on how people miss the obvious and outrageous so often. The strange but acceptable bird thing sees a giant nose who speaks and is 85 years old. The bird is blown away by the noses age. But not the fact that it is a giant sentiant nose. Then to top it off the bird puts efforts into a breakdown equation to make a pointless point on, of all things, luck. This picture is certainly worth its 1000 words. Why? Because this is a very real representation of our society. People who look at things in plain light and miss the obvious. Maybe becasue of the squewed perspective of the society in general on account of the various and abundant media (generalization) or because they just don't get it. I'm sure I miss things all the time and as such am sadly to be included in this generalization, but the second half I believe myself to be exempt from now. After missing the point the bird then does some mental gymnastics to link hardly usefull information to the nose and sadly the nose agrees. Something we have seen in fortune tellers and so called modern prophets. Not prophets like those who deserve the title, but those who gather information which in the end proves nothing and serves no purpose but yet grabs the eye and ear of so many that pass by it. Vague predictions and strange coincidences. Don't get me wrong sometimes I find those things to be interesting but for the most part they are a waste of effort, IMO. Like that's what needs to be done.
Rose is Rose- View It
A little off the beaten path I suppose and maybe not intended, but I thought...Rose represents God and we are both the clock and cat (believers and unbelievers respectively). As Rose moves by on matters that need attended she notices that the clock is either not doing it's job or at least not fulfilling it's potential and so takes time to stop and make an adjustment. The cat makes the statement that the clock was doing fine and didn't need to be bothered. The clock begins ticking as intended if only for a short time. Neither seems to grasp either the purpose or need for the encounter. We don't always think we needed the change and often it seems to interupt our peacefullness or our relaxation but none the less it comes. Sometimes we were expecting it. Aware that we have been running a bit slow. Other times it seems liek an annoyance coming between us and our lives. Even us clocks aren't always supportive of being tinkered with and renewed. Seemed to just jump out at me. Rose is a comic that has had under or overtones of religion in it, but I have no idea if this is what the write was thinking.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Worth it's weight in words
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2 comments:
wow, i never woulda picked up on any of those. im pretty simple with that kinda stuff, and only see the joke right in front of me, not usually the hidden stuff. astro=slow
Heh, you're not slow. Normally I don't think about them in this way or they don't seem to have an underlieing theme. These just jumped out at me.
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