History of Violence
There’s no way we can explain this, so we’re not going to try. All we’re saying is that it’s the kind of cave painting you might expect to find if early man watched a lot of David Cronenberg films.
There’s no way we can explain this, so we’re not going to try. All we’re saying is that it’s the kind of cave painting you might expect to find if early man watched a lot of David Cronenberg films.
This silence in the comments unnerves me. Are people shaking their heads in disapproval and thinking, “dear me, how unnecessary”? Although some silences are nice. Like the silence when you wake up in a clean white room in the early morning, when you can’t quite work out what time of day it is or where you are, and you hear the faint sound of a passing milk-float or the sound of someone you love boiling the kettle in a downstairs kitchen.
And then a deranged rabbit bursts out from your stomach and covers the room in dirty guts.
I don’t understand it.
It looks like it was drawed by someone on moonjuice.
In the second frame… it that a lampost or a skinny chinaman witness?
It seems that the violent bunny gets his comeuppence from the reaper (not the Grim one but some jivin’ kind in a suit) come the end of the strip… more violence though? Is that really the answer?
The only ones not engaged in violence are the bear and his midget friend in the seventh strip: they are onlookers. Perhaps by doing nothing (when they could be getting guns and shooting the violent bunny) they are saying that violence is okay? Maybe the only way to fight violence is with a hand grenade… I don’t think that my proposal of this idea is the first such occasion in the history of violence.
Either way, I’m sure they too will get their comeuppence come eternity time: they are gay lovers aren’t they? And that is still a sin isn’t it? I wonder why nobody gets violent on them and their sinful ways… I wonder where they are because they seem detached from the rest of the comic. They are probably in Soho. But then, where is every one else?
I don’t like the association between drinking and violence in the second strip… but I reluctantly accept that perhaps it is often true. I would have liked to see a football somewhere: perhaps the bear’s little gay friend is a football? With hair?
This raises too many questions and provides very few answers. It also makes me feel like being violent… perhaps that was its point?
Someone told me yesterday that, in the north of England, ‘Gary’ means drugs, because ‘Gary Ablett’ rhymes with ‘tablet’.
I did not know this.
I hate being hip…this is most disturbing.
Wouldn’t be the first time Gary Ablett was associated with drugs…
On an utterly unrelated note, the sociable truth are you in the new vodafone advert at the beginning?
I can vouch for him.
Yes. That’s our man.
A cat enters a bar. (Silence)
He/She/It takes his/her/its hat off. (Cough)
And orders a drink. (Solitary sigh)
Then makes a funny joke. (Laughter)
[Curtains] (Applause)