Yep, it’s actually from 2015! The artist is the original Ziggy artist’s son (literally Tom Wilson and Tom Wilson II), so I’m sure he intentionally references the old art style.

I think this is more of a general plane crash joke than a 9/11 joke. It’s not specific about where the plane is going and lots of plane crashes happened between September 11, 2001 and November 27, 2015 (when the comic was published).

I’d be surprised if Ziggy didn’t make pretty much the same joke in the 1970s-1980s!

I thought the same thing.

I was like “there were Ziggy cartoons in 2015?!” But yep, Ziggy is apparently still ongoing.

The most recent one is also about airplanes. “We’ve upgraded you to early deplaning, here’s your parachute!”

He’s actually performing a role AS the tape. He’s really owning it, I’d say

Oh definitely! Plus, tons of people who don’t have a full-on flagpole still hang a flag outside their house at all times.

The people who live across from me put up a comically-tall flagpole after Trump won last year… the first flag on it was a Trump flag. They now have an American flag up all the time (and it’s currently at half mast).

They’re all totally bizarre. Rarely have bad Americans announced themselves so clearly, right in front of their houses.

Yes, sadly. The same people still have it at half mast, and it’s 9/12.

People around here have also never put their flags at half mast for 9/11, they actually don’t put their flags at half mast for literally anything at their houses. Post offices, schools, government buildings, and some businesses, yeah. Houses, no.

So this is extremely performative for certain conservatives.

This is correct, and it’s legitimately insane to me that the Nazis themselves never see it.

In fact, they will completely deny it afterwards.

I recommend reading They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer. This is my favorite quote but the whole book was eye-opening:

When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, “Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did.”

I thought I had struck pay dirt, and I said, “What do you mean, ‘what it would lead to,’ Herr Wedekind?” “War,” he said. “Nobody ever imagined it would lead to war.”

It’s because conservatives legitimately don’t actually know the difference any more. There are several people in my town who have their flags at half mast.

They think Donald Trump is a great leader, and they probably see him as a great “military officer” too.

The rules have changed.

You know, I was actually like “Kirk who?” for a second.

May we all move on to “Kirk who?” that quickly.

Bobby Oppossum-face!

Is this one edited? How is it so cute?

Suffering is part of their cult.

Now we all live in the real universe. No Charlie to be seen.

This is funny because it totally ignores that Bolsonaro was part of the government from 1991-2023.

So it took what, 30+ years to take the trash out?

What an example! Can’t wait.

Magic tricks, for example.

Apparently they’re called Forcing Dice; obviously they sell different ones but the concept is the same.

Obviously these dice will not stand close scrutiny so they are most effective when used sparingly, substituted for a regular die at a critical moment.

Very useful to magicians who need to force a specific number as part of a trick, or as part of a humorous routine.

“…forever…”

No.

We don’t exactly care because his army has dwindled enough that he’s no longer a threat to Uganda. He was indicted for war crimes in 2005 and has evaded capture since.

According to Wikipedia, he might have been in Darfur in 2022 but there’s no further source for that.

I also like “what the shit?!” which I first heard in the movie Mallrats.

The Walgreens fine was $350 million, which likely wouldn’t have affected them too badly if they weren’t already struggling. CVS’s agreement was $4.9 billion.

Walgreens has been failing for a few years now because they over-expanded and a lot of their stores weren’t profitable. They have been closing stores and threatening to close stores since the COVID lockdowns.

Actually one of the reasons I didn’t join it when I was looking for other instances.

The “Guns n Roses: Chinese Democracy” of video games!

Yep, in my experience leaving a bunch of space on the belt can sometimes cause confusion if the cashier gets distracted!

So it’s just kind of polite to use it so everyone isn’t relying on implicit cues.