Christ, what an asshole...

[northstarfan]

From here:

"It was recently theorized that all New Yorker cartoons could be captioned with 'Christ, what an asshole” without compromising their comedic value.

I discovered this is true of virtually all comics, old and new...'







(IMO, the last few years of "For Better or For Worse" would have been infinitely improved by applying this phrase constantly to every character.)






More here.


And a bit of unaltered Bloom County to put this in line with the community rules.

Comments

[punishermax]

SOME THINGS AREN'T WORTH DYING FOR

[nezchan]

You could sum up the plot of most Mark Millar comics the same way.

[fifthie]

The last page of every one of his comics should have one more page after it of someone saying this.

[nezchan]

That should be required every couple of pages for Frank Miller.

Hell, he'd probably volunteer.

[jld]

“The kelp-froth's bedroom is on fire”? WTF?

…oh, I see — “The Kelpfroths' bedroom is on fire!” That makes more sense.

[whatdoyousee]

*snort* Hilarious. First one sounds like my BFF, gotta send it her way. *tempted to print out asshole-Batman and paste it over the actual panel* (j/k or course. :| WHTTCC's so depressing, ffff-)

[foxhack]

That kid's dad? Spanking his son for causing the lousiest bank in the USA, the bastards who will nickle and dime you for even looking at your account the wrong way, the people who will take money from you for any reason they care?

Christ, what an asshole.

[foxhack]

I think you missed the joke. :p

[saralakali]

No, I really didn't, but since it bothers you, I'll delete the comment.

[foxhack]

Uh...

It doesn't bother me. o_o I just went and made a huge speech on the evils of Bank of America and then I used the punchline from the comics. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously. :(

[galateus]

Yeah, uh... what?

[bluejaybirdie]

The For Better or For Worse one made me laugh the hardest, because it's so true!

[zordboy]

Funny thing is, that 'what an asshole' comment would still work with that Bloom County strip you posted :D.

[darklorelei]

There's something terribly hilarious about using that on a Perry Bible Fellowship strip.

[sir_razorback]

I haven't seen a "love is..." strip in decades, and it never caused my nose to hurt so bad from sprayed-Pepsi before.

[bluepard]

Joker's puppy face combined with the phrase made me laugh way too much.

[ar_feiniel]

lol

[former_callixte]

I can't believe how it actually fits the Pearls before Swine cartoon perfectly because of the video phone thing. I almost spit out my tea.

[iondan]

The funny thing is if newspaper comics weren't stuck with a 50's morality code Pastis would end strips like that.

[kingrockwell]

Okay, after seeing how well it fit with the Far Side strips, I couldn't help laughing at the rest of them!
almost seemed redundant with Marmaduke and the Lockhorns, though