El Kiablo

Yeah, the Christmas-y parts of this are out of season. The union parts less so

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Who knew that "reindeer games" included "striking for a one day a year work day?"

Further reading: My car was made at the Saturn plant that they talk about here. The hockey stuff I have less of an association with

The Three Muskateers plus Total Recall equals this thing, I guess

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

You'd be surprised how many characters in pre-twentieth century novels had humonculi in them. In fact, Oliver Twist was a humonculus inside Fagin.

Further reading: The new Star Wars sequels are totally boned

Pac Man and this aligator have a strange concept of how perpetual motion machines work

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

This is the sort of cartoon that appears in the internet but not in family newspapers

Further reading: It seems... a bit early to be doing this

Don't pass Golgotha, don't collect $200: Monopoly in Hell

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

This cartoon is like a Saturday Night Live skit: so much potential... so much "well, I guess that just ended?"

Further reading: I like Anne Hathaway. People should cut her some slack

Who better to write a character like Hans Gruber, German terrorist than Friedrich "Was a German" Nietzsche

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Check back in tomorrow for my next modern philosophy series "Aristotle Does Showtime At The Apollo"

Further reading: Slubberdegullion is the closest I could come to a good Germanic putdown. Google translate was offering schntzige arschloch which wasn't quite right

The working title was "Don't Tell God the Babysitter is dead" but that didn't make any sense. God was also dead already.

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

If you think Hollywood did a hella crazy rewrite to go from Nietzsche's original idea to the Christina Applegate movie that actually came out, you should see what contortions they had to do to turn The Gay Science into Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

Further reading: You'd have to remember the 90s to remember Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, probably

Friedrich goes to Hollywood said "Relax, Don't Do It" twenty five years ago. You remember right?

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Faulkner wasn't the first great writer to get co-opted by Hollywood and then spat out, although he was the first one who didn't have a mustache the size of a walrus

Further reading: Beyond Good and Evil would have had more appeal to the masses if it had included more CGI monsters

Right now Timmy's got zeal for showing the impudent englishmen his butt, but thats where he stalls out

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

It's easy to say I love you, I've always loved you, I will always love you before your son is old enough to not be good at taunting the enemy

Further reading: The internet is such a weird place

The Hamburgler once tried to steal Jon Hamm like David Bowie tried to take that baby in Labrynth

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The last time Ed Gein was in one of my cartoons, he was paired up with Jimmy Carter. So the Hamburgler is a bit of a drop off

Further reading: Recommended by my mother (and completely antithetical to this cartoon)

The Tournement of the Eat-Beasts is the only tournement with less sensible brackets than Mortal Kombat

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The same way Park Rangers have to put down a bear once it develops a taste for human garbage, Aquaman has to put down any krakens that develop a taste for cupcakes

Further reading: Just checking in on the Gobshites