B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 22, 2009

So much for my understanding of current popular culture. I had to look him up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_Flav

He does seem to be a wee bit on the kinky side..or would that be imaginative?????

It’s too soon for Halloween.

He’s the evil midnight skulker what skulks at midnight baby!”

crazyolnick , I think it’s just you. Although he does seem to be frolicking a bit too much in panel 2. At least for a rapper…

What up, Flav?

Clock on his chest and all:)

The mid-night skulker doesn’t need Holloween - he strikes at will.

But the reference to Flavor Flav is over my head. I don’t get it.

Flavor Fav was a washed out loser rapper drug addict who wore a clock around his neck. Strange that Hart would reference him.

Strips like these are why I prefer to read them here at gocomics, instead of comics.com, even though I like the color version they carry better. I never would have understood the “Flavor Fav” reference. (Thanks to the comment from the others, I now know why and don’t feel so stupid for not getting it.)

Well said RRAmom. I’m so glad I found gocomics after the chickweed blowup

geez. i’m 52 (nearly) and an old school rocker from way back, and I knew who flavor flav was despite not following rap “music” or reality TV. i’m surprised that no-one else here seems to have even heard the name, and suspect that the strips’ authors would be, too.

‘Morning yyyguy!

When the group’s named something like “Public Enemy”, I care not at all who the band members are. Thus, my chances of hearing of them casually are about nil, given what I do and don’t hear and read. :)

Ysguy-I’m 51 also, and a stone rocker. I’ve heard of FF but would not have gotten the clock reference. (Just thought of this when I abbreviated his name..think of what ELSE those initials could stand for, as in , some kind of Fool?)

I’m a 60’s rocker babe and I know who Flavor Flav is but I didn’t get the clock reference either.

belated “happy happy” to RRAmom. @Rakkav: never heard any of the stuff he’s put on record, and don’t care to. “Public Enemy” as a name doesn’t interest me, either, so we agree on that score.

Speaking as someone who generally doesn’t like rap, “Public Enemy” was (is?) nonetheless a great band, although Chuck D. was its heart and soul for me and Flavor Flav was an unwelcome joke.

Naming the band “Public Enemy” was simply an acknowledgement that the group’s recordings WERE “protest” music, in the same sense that much of the best Rock and Roll and folk music is “protest “music. That band was/is perhaps no angrier at the establishment than Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, or Bruce Springsteen. Woody Guthrie had a slogan written on his guitar: “This machine kills fascists”, and he WASN’T talking about Germans…

There’s somethin’ going on here and you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Rakkav?

Fight the powers that be, y’all.

Yes, I am willfully ignorant of all that is rap…and loving it.

Public Enemy made a big mistake, I think, in not naming the band “Fluffy Kittens.” Then the comfortable middle-class would feel perfectly safe in buying the records for their children, secure in the knowledge that there couldn’t POSSIBLY be anything provocative in their lyrics. (When I was a kid, I got a Steve Martin record for Christmas that my parents NEVER would have bought for me if they’d heard what was on it.)

I wonder, sometimes, what sort of songs Jesus would have written if he owned an electric guitar. Maybe he’d put out albums alternating songs praising God with songs castigating religious hypocrisy, material greed, and the abuse of power by the wealthy against the poor. You know, just like U2!

Thanks, Rakkav, you saved me a ton of time!

Lol! I wonder if he heard it, If he did he would be embarressed to the extreme!

By the way, BC13, you spelled ‘Halloween’ wrong. And Rakkav at the top of the list has a hyperlink to the reference

For the record, I don’t buy the “relevance” of being “angry at the Establishment”: not now, not in the esteemed Bob Dylan’s heyday, and not back in the bad old days of the Roman Empire. I have my reasons, and just to keep this more or less on topic, Johnny Hart would’ve agreed with them wholeheartedly.

Not all opinions or options are valid simply because they exist. Be careful which you choose.