WAR is STUPID, part six:




Surely one of the longest-running, and seemingly endless themes within this cartoonized chaos is the anarchic and explosive WAR topic, which throws up a bottomless pit of potential themery for absurdist shenanigans:


------this entry JELLYTANK  once again highlights the appalling outrage that is so synonomous with the maDness that is WAR. Why on Earth have I trotted out a combat tank entirely made out of jelly, you may well ask? Isn't that a bit, well, y'know, silly?


------well, if course this idea is more than silly: but it doesn't take a great leap of the imagination to work out that WAR itself is infinitely more mad and crazy: the thought of lobbing shells and bullets made out of gelatine is undoubtedly absurd, but the end result would surely end up with fewer fatalities if this method was taken up by Regimes and Governments, worldwide!



Comments

  1. Peter Gray17 May 2012 at 00:21

    As a request could you show a comic strip sometime..a 3 panel type..

    I like the jelly tank...mmmm yummy..

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  2. Rabsmith22 May 2012 at 02:04

    I will add this request over the next couple of weeks, Peter-------I am preparing finished coloured strips so it's in the pipeline anyway, old son!

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