Basically, the artist described his experience attempting to legally rent Game of Thrones.
Here are the first few frames:
Read the whole thing. It shows how the need for control makes the studios sh%$ on their customer, which in turns drives people who want to act in accordance with the exclusive license that the content producers hold to Bit Torrent and the like.
Read the whole thing.
I was a Weregeek:
I remember spending many hours, hyped up on sugar, at Military Corner in Portland, Oregon.
It’s a fun strip at the link.
Seen on Facebook.
So, Gary Trudeau storyline for this week involves old white men in Texas torturing women who need abortions.
Editors who are not now, and were probably never were, journalists, have pulled the strip for this week.
The Portland Oregonian, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, among others, though the Athens Georgian Banner-Herald takes for their reason:
Given that the Georgia General Assembly is considering an abortion bill — House Bill 954, sponsored by Rep. Doug McKillip, R-Athens, which would prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy — I made a unilateral decision not to publish the “Doonesbury” strips intended for publication this week. Quite simply, I thought there was a real possibility that readers might confuse the topic of this week’s “Doonesbury” with Georgia’s proposed abortion legislation, and I didn’t want to add any confusion to the ongoing concerns, pro and con, about House Bill 954.
So you are afraid that people looking at the old white guys in Texas going all Handmaiden’s Tale on women might somehow be conflated with old white guys in Georgia going all Handmaiden’s Tale on women.
In any case, as a result of the censorship by these cowards, his strip is getting gallons of ink.
I’ll be following it this week, that’s for sure.
BTW, according to Romenesko, on Thursday, we see the line, “By the authority invested in me by the GOP base, I thee rape.”
Matt Bors has a great cartoon, and this first frame is a sample.
The rest is a fictional forecast of the future, but is certainly an accurate portrayal of how Republicans see A Handmaiden’s Tale as a blue print for the future.
Righteous!Something to add my rules to live by: Don’t use prison labor to do graphic design for law enforcement:
How did an image of a pig — the infamous ’60s-era epithet by protesters for police officers — wind up on a decal used on as many as 30 Vermont State Police cruisers?
State officials Thursday pointed to the failure of the quality assurance office within the Vermont Correctional Industries Print Shop in St. Albans to detect a prisoner-artist’s addition made four years ago to the traditional state police logo. A spot on the shoulder of the cow in the state emblem was modified into a pig.
An investigation has begun into how the computer program was improperly modified to insert the image, Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito said.
I really hope that whoever did this does not get caught.
You can find the answer here.
While she is not a great beauty of her time, this is a rather surprising portrait, because it’s someone known for not being either passionate or attractive.
H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
H/t Calamities of Nature.
Here’s a question for my reader(s).
Should this become a more regular feature?
I think that it should be good for covering the clown show that is the Republican primary.
I’m still checking out the Artist’s web site.
H/t Darren Jon Ashmore.
The October 24 ish.
I got nothing add here:
H/t Cseger1 at the Shortskoolbus BBS.
H/t JR at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
