Chris Muir is rarely funny, but he's also rarely this bizarre.
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Little Captains
27 Feb 2008 04:28 pm
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After reviewing this cartoon several times I'm convinced that the twitch references an impending bowel movement. The turd is the "little captain" the woman is looking at on the sofa out of shot.
I don't really spend much time on right-wing blogs—— is that strip actually popular among that crowd? It is so so bad.
Ever once in a while I have the misfortune of stumbling upon a Chris Muir comic and almost every time I fail to get it. Not in terms of humor (they are never funny) but I literally don't understand the point he's trying to make. Is this an example of "dog whistle" politics, where only conservatives understand what he's talking about?
I think it a reference to this series of commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kum2woR1Kqg
Still real bizarre though.
I am a Jack Chick man myself.
It's tremendously stupid, but it apes the Captain Morgan Rum commercials in which people eventually come to assume the Captain Morgan pose. So presumably, the "sound effects" refer to her involuntarily assuming that pose.
Again, it's tremendously dumb, even for someone as tremendously moronic as Muir. But the penis interpretation is far funnier. As are the remix ideas over at Sadly, No!
I'm glad that Muir has finally decided to reveal that Scantily Clad Woman is really some kind of fembot. It really explains a lot.
Muir is teh suck-times-eleventy, but is EVERY-FUCKING-BODY here so comix-illiterate? "Sproing" is the sound the sentient comic flowers made when they to life, in Johnny Hart's "B.C." Muir is offering an "easter egg"-type paen to the Ur Crazy Jezuz Comic Strip creator (which, toward the end, became a little more than a better-drawn Faith Mouse -- though, back in the day, Johnny Hart could quite often bring the funny.) That Muir has well-documented difficulties with Demon Rum only makes this Cap'n Moron Rum-themed strip more curious ... and pathetic.
Yes, to recap: the badly-drawn cheesecake involuntarily "sproinged" off the chaise longe and assume the Captain Morgan pose to announce that Special Ed is coming to Hot Air, ostensibly to bring the mind-rotting effects of cheap, artificially-flavored, mass-produced rum to the realm of right-wing opinion. Muir wants to promote this latest coup because Special Ed is his greatest (only) patron. Call it a courtesy tug-job from Muir to Ed.
Damn, you people are usually so damned pedantic with your Comic-Book-Guy-like explanations of obscure pop-culture references. Why the sudden obtuseness?
"Sproing" is the sound the sentient comic flowers made when they to life
I'd presume to describe myself as "comics-literate." In a framework of adherence to the accepted comics conventions*, the bizarreness of the strip can be placed squarely on the absence of any motion lines contextualizing the "Sproing." The viewer is therefore forced to invent an explanation for said "sproing". I (and apparently many other readers) drew the most immediate connection between the image of a an attractive, scantily clad woman and a sound effect generally signifying "springing to a state of alertness."
*A different kind of "comics convention," dissimilar to the one they have in San Diego every year.
So are little captains in charge of the little platoons?
Again, the "framework" of what I expect is established by the >99th percentile pop-culture literacy displayed by commenters hereabouts. I'm obviously far less comix-literate than you, James, yet I don't think it's a feat of awesome synaptic might to summon the work of a multiple NCS and Ruben Award-winner -- and, please, "invention" had nothing to do with it. Seriously, it took me about a second to figure out what Muir was aiming for: "Hmmm, 'sproing.' Where have I seen that one before? Oh, right... (lightbulb)..."
All it took, really, was an open mind (albeit one cluttered with useless knowledge). The cigar really is a cigar.
Chris Muir is rarely funny
Is there an example of his being funny, ever? Intentionally, I mean.
Mrs. Ed probably had a little captain in her once, but she never noticed.
Muire also had one not long ago where Michelle Obama == Hitler
Chris' real name is Dieter, he has a monkey, likes to wear black turtlenecks and dance to techno music.
One thing about Muir--look closely at the female character in those three panels. It's quite clear that he first drew this character nude, and then colored some clothes onto her. This is particularly obvious if you look at the character's breasts. A lot of Muir's female characters look like they were drawn this way.
You can take the boy out of the bathroom stall but you can't make him stop drawing pottie porn.
That strip is so weird and nonsensical that no one has even pointed out that, as far as I am aware, women don't typically lounge around reading in strapless bras and jeans.
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Back in the day, I had a copy of a "Nancy" cartoon that was as random/odd as that. It involved a bump under a rug that wasn't there all the time. (Pretty frisky physics for 3 panels) I can't imagine the editor who let it slip through.
As for the cartoon at hand, who knows what's afoot, and it's too poorly drawn to waste time thinking about.
Posted by Jeffrey Davis | February 27, 2008 4:47 PM