Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for June 11, 2023

Jennie and Forest?

Can’t like this one. Too serious to be funny.

Johnny Hart’s ant charaters had complicated lives. I remember this particular strip as being extremely disturbing in 1967. I love many of the old BC strips still. I love the new B.C., drawn and written by his grandsons.

I realize this is a comic strip, but domestic violence, to me, is never funny.

Humor was kinda sad back in the day.

I sometimes question who chooses these strips to rerun. The ones with the racist Japanese depictions should be shelved permanently. As should strips like this. We are hopefully too far along to think domestic abuse can be the basis for humor

Too real.

Amazing what we of older generations grew up with as acceptable. Though spotlighting abusive behavior and marking it as unacceptable even in comics is useful. This one missed it by a bit. Few tweaks and it could have been good.

One of these day’s Alice, POW! Right in the kisser!

I had to read it three times to even believe what I was reading. This is so very uncool as joke. I just can’t imagine why he would think this was ok.

What are mother’s for, I ask ye…

Not funny, not cool. They should pull this one and just leave it in the archives in case anyone needs it for research purposes or something like that.

It was a sign of how things were back then. If you were alive then, you would understand the joke. You can’t take a thing of yesterday and try to put it in today’s messed world. Different eras, different times. Why are women allowed to slap a guy and yet people still think it’s ok for it to happen? You see it on television all the time in today’s world. Why aren’t people standing up against that? You might as well ban everything from before 1976.

The fact that 65 people thought that spousal and child abuse was funny is frightening. Meanwhile it also shows the mental issue involved with the victim. She still protects him from retribution.

Not funny at all………