rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

Is it because he wrote Red Tails?

boondocks is great wtf

xp oh did he? ha, no but that's funny.
he's just not a good cartoonist or comic strip writer. he's a good businessman. you ever read his comics journal interview?

fwiw I think Boondocks works a LOT better as a show than a comic strip, but still, wtf

i like that i'm discussing my distaste for aaron mcgruder in the "is this racist" thread. lost before i started.

I don't understand how anyone could find the R.Kelly episode unfunny

i'm not a connoisseur of the show; i've watched maybe three episodes here or there and i find the outsourced animation very bleh and the stories hamhanded on a par with family guy
not my thing

Boondocks was the best written and best animated show on Adult Swim (damn w/faint praise).

forks

family guy

why

Also you realize Beetle Bailey is the only good modern comic strip anyway

"modern"

I'm not gonna argue "best animated" but yeah, I definitely think it's on a level above every other piece of programming they've ever had aside from Futurama

see, i'd argue venture brothers and mutts but what do i know

i think we're all forgetting a superior piece of animated entertainment called 'american dad'

Venture Bros looks like a Flash animation (esp first season)

no doubt, first season was weak but the building blocks were there. looks great now!
but i also have always hated futurama's lack of body. different strokes, folks.

If you watched more eps of Boondocks you would probably not regret it.

venture bros i think WAS flash animation in its pilot but the visuals improved from there pretty quickly

Also you realize Beetle Bailey is the only good modern comic strip anyway

― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"modern"

― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha

I haven't read a new Beetle Bailey strip in probably like 10 years but I imagine they're still making jokes about high-ranking US military official Gen. Halftrack trying to comprehend "e-mail" while leering at women dressed like 1966

OK, 1) American Dad is actually really, really funny, head and shoulders above the other MacFarlane joints, and 2) ATHF had some of the funniest writing although obvs the animation was for shit.

Halftrack is all about these very deep alcohol/marriage problems now, I love it.

This will keep you up to speed on 21st century Beetle Bailey: http://joshreads.com/?cat=26

i have given so many friends and family members the coldest, most dead-eyed stare i can muster when they tell me that American Dad is great

tbh, the only comic strips i regularly read (outside of comics curmudgeon's filter) these days are by old dead guys
josh is a real neat guy btw, i did a web based show with him at one point

Boondocks (cartoon) had very good character development. The one where Uncle Ruckus met his family was astonishing.

"oh, what racist thing happened today? *opens thread*"

I rank them:

Boondocks
Futurama
Venture Bros
Metalocalypse
Children's Hospital
NTSF:SD::SUV:::
OG Space Ghost/Brak Show/Sealab/Frisky Dingo/Harvey Birdman
ATHF/Squidbillies
Family Guy/American Dad
all those random 15 minute shows that aren't around anymore
Tim and Eric Stupid Show Fuck Off

"*closes thread* fucking ILE..."

Boondocks -- comic strip and tv show -- was brilliant. I think I slightly preferred the comic, partly because I have a soft spot for newspaper comics, and partly because when you read it you knew this was the best thing since Calvin & Hobbes.

I did have an actual 'is it racist' question, about this brand of shirts a lot of my students wear that looks like all those stupid MMA brand shirts. The shirts say WHITEBOY on them in big letters. They get them at this store in the mall that sells a bunch of MMA brands that my friend says is run by the KKK (I don't even know how you confirm whether the KKK is running a store). Anyway, I kind of want to know and I kind of don't, because I don't want to see these kids and think 'ugh white supremacists.'

Anyway these shirts give me the creeps whether or not they are actually being sold by the KKK.

contenderizer, keep digging

― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:17 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...

I had trouble reading boondocks because every once in a while, he would do a really obvious straight Bloom County or Calvin & Hobbes rip and I internalized those comics when they were fresh. Yeah, I know they were doing the same thing to Pogo and Krazy Kat and whatever, but it was an irksome experience for me.

I think if the shirts say WHITEBOY on them, you have as much as you need to know right there. Still, what's the store? I bet ilx could do a little digging.

It is a store called Hardc0r3 101 in the p4rk Pl4ce M4ll.

maybe someone licensed some ultra-rare Jewel material

http://www.rockcityrec.com/cwc/Images/CWC_Main.png

the "I'm not a racist but" clothing company
I'm not even sure why I had to ask, sorry everyone.

Boondocks the comic strip eventually became just Huey sitting impassively in front of a television that said things for four panels in pretty much every strip, as far as I can recall from my newspaper-comic-reading days. Which were a while ago now.

Abb, did you happen to hear about Floyd Mayweather?

http://www.sportaphile.com/2009/07/21/floyd-mayweather-mma-is-for-white-boys-who-couldnt-cut-it-in-boxing/

haha I feel like Floyd could support his own "why did he say that" thread

i always sort of liked or maybe wanted to like boondocks, both as a strip and a cartoon, but never quite managed to close the gap and actually enjoy it. macgruder's sense of humor just never really clicked with me.

ikwym i don't really like rap music dunno why

I didin't even know what mma was until I looked it up and Mayweather was the first result.

If the KKK is behind Mixed Martial Arts, than I just don't know what to think.

It would make sense but not really.

the KKK are against martial arts-mixing iirc

fun fact boondocks started out in my campus newspaper and macgruder is probably in our top 3 coolest alumni. and i just learned that liberty meadows started there too! that was my favorite comic as a kid.

"Now just hold on, Jeb! You can't start with a wushu stance and move to a tae-kwon-do form in the same round together. Use yer goddam head, boy!"

I give MacGruder bonus points because he's one of like 5 famous people from my hometown.

It's not even MMA, it's these stupid second-tier brands sold alongside Affliction & Tapout shirts. Is someone who wears a Metal Mulisha shirt a secret white supremacist, or do I just assume anyone who supports even a fake fashion [sic] 'mulisha' is a secret white supremacist because of my associations w/the word "militia" from growing up in Idaho in the '80s and '90s?