Another Great Sunday Doonesbury: Dick Cheney

[Hissyspit]

[Maat]

1. THAT was a good one! (n/t)

[Hissyspit]

4. Dick is in his DEEP DARK LAIR, you notice.

[Maat]

8. HeeHee.

I liked it when Sam Seder talked about how Dick would eventually wind up in the ULTIMATE UNDISCLOSED LOCATION - for eternity - if you know what he means.

[Marie26]

10. He makes such a perfect villain, doesn't he?

Complete w/secret lairs, evil plans for world domination & psychotic tendencies. Cheney just needs to carry around a Persian cat named Mr. Bigglesworth to complete the picture.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. It would be really funny

if it weren't so close to the truth.

[gristy]

3. The imagery is very interesting in this strip

- The background in nearly every panel is plain, sterile blue. There is no sense of space at all. We are used to seeing the characters in more traditional, familiar space, where Trudeau usually contrasts these familiar spaces with absurd dialog.
- Computer monitors dominate 3 of the 8 panels, and you get a glimpse of them in 3 more panels, all to present an image of big-brother oversight.
- We are used to seeing unambiguous beauty in Trudeau's outdoor scenes. The one panel of the outdoors here confusingly mixes the concepts of nature, fortress, and military might.

My head hurts.

[Hissyspit]

5. Yes, see my post #4. It is intended to be deep, dark starkly-lit

like the command center scenes in Dr. Strangelove.

[Canuckistanian]

6. The fortress of solitude...

The 'undisclosed location', where he can play out all his fantasies of world domination.

Too bad reality smacks him in the face everytime he steps outside.

[Marie26]

11. Great imagery

He really captured everything that creeps people out about Cheney. By the way, Cheney really does have military planes that fly around wherever he goes. He had a fundraiser recently in my city, & they were whizzing around for a few hours until he left.

[LeahD]

7. And the monitor labeled, "Home," has a drawing of the White House

..... not the Vice-President's residence!

[ebayfool]

12. That was a nice touch, wasn't it? Good eye, btw - I missed that!

He caught the odd attitude that these people have - that they think everything is theirs ... like they own a house. (homeland panel, wh home panel, home on the range in the 1st panel) And the citizens are either cattle, appliances (useful tools?) or trespassers!

No wonder they're so attached to prefacing everything with 'home'. It's creepy, & reminiscent of another homeland in Germany in the not that distant past. Took me awhile to figure out why the term made me feel uncomfortable when they started calling our country 'the homeland'. I finally realized that I didn't like my country being associated w/the term. Little did I realize at the time, how quickly it would be followed up w/even more sinister 'associations' - patriot act, etc.

[LeahD]

16. Thanks! And, I think it was a subtle way to tell his readers

that Dick is the "real" President, the one calling the shots. A cartoonist has a variety of tools at his disposal, and he's a master.

This administration's banging the drums of lock-step patriotism is frightening, and I am sickened by the "experts" who are interviewed and have "intellectual" discussions about the war (invasion), talk of the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the stability of the region...ten, twenty years down the road. They talk about what is going on as if it were a chess game and seem absolutely detached from the reality that U.S. policies are destroying people lives.

[Hissyspit]

9. kick

[SeattleGirl]

13. Woohoo! Great Doonesbury!

Thanks for posting this!

[Hissyspit]

14. I'm kickin' it again.

[liveoaktx]

15. Bwaahahahahahah-k &r