Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 21, 2012

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    kits  over 12 years ago

    This is in bad taste considering the events in Colorado

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    RoadTrip3500  over 12 years ago

    Love this one…

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    el8  over 12 years ago

    no, bad choice by gocomics (Wiley probably drew the toon prior to this latest outrage)

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    hsawlrae  over 12 years ago

    NOT bad choice. This toon was submitted long before the tragedy. Get real, guys.

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    margueritem  over 12 years ago

    It’s a good comic, and quite funny, and has nothing to do with events in CO.

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Ba da da dum….tisssssssss.

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    pcolli  over 12 years ago

    The US wants guns, yet gets emotional when someone uses one.

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    artybee  over 12 years ago

    Must be the early weekend crowd. I recommend laxatives.

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    SackofRabidWeasels  over 12 years ago

    “How dare this cartoonist not be omniscient and make a joke that has a tenuous link to something that just happened yesterday?”

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    Randy B Premium Member over 12 years ago

    So, you’re getting creeped out because the POLICE come in through the exit door of a cartoon night club?

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    Blossoming  over 12 years ago

    BIG BADABOOM… Sigh… Too funny… :)

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    pcolli  over 12 years ago

    Not at all. If you didn’t have these things, you wouldn’t be able to use them when you had breakdowns etc. Is the average citizen permitted to have ICBMs, nerve gas, WMDs?The same responsibility is needed for all these things..Of course, you’re going to defend your “right” to bear arms but what about your right not to get killed while watching Batman.

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    W Crowley Premium Member over 12 years ago

    @artbee,your comment made me laugh ot loud.

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    This comic has nothing to do with a deranged individual.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Wow!Do some of you actually think it takes less than 24 hours for a cartoonist to submit his work, GoComics to do all the pre-processing, and the strip to appear on this site??!!

    A very few more topical cartoonists, like Darren Bell, have special deals with the syndicates for a 10 to 14 day lead time, but six weeks is the average… Dunno about Wiley but Stephan Pastis works six MONTHS ahead, with special permission to insert an occasional more topical strip into the line-up two weeks before publication.This strip was probably sent to the colorist a month ago, and the page itself has been laid out for days!There’s no reasonable way to pull a strip once the page is in the hands of web services…. much less from newspapers, which, due to complicated graphical layouts and color presses, print the comics page days or weeks ahead of time, ready for news or features to be printed on the back.But sure, Wiley should have forecast an event that had nothing to do with his strip, and changed his idea, oh, say, last May or so…
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    King_Shark  over 12 years ago

    Thanks for injecting some reality.

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    loudmouthbass  over 12 years ago

    to take the focus off colorado and place it where it belongs…

    hopefully these folks show up in november and remove this ‘bombing’ president

    you’re welcome :)

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    psychlady  over 12 years ago

    In Wiley’s defense – aren’t these submitted days or maybe even weeks before they go to press?

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    spamster  over 12 years ago

    LOL. The funny part is someone had to have called it in.

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    Manhunter808  over 12 years ago

    Day-um.. you people need to learn how to separate fantasy from reality and get some perspective.

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    puddleglum1066  over 12 years ago

    Along the lines of the comic (rather than the meta-emoting), did anybody else see yesterday’s story in which the TSA arrested an airline employee for attempting to put a bomb aboard a plane?.He was setting up “John Carter” as the in-flight movie.

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 12 years ago

    Again, it’s the result of fate playing its sick games with our cartoonists.

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 12 years ago

    But I agree with the others. This has nothing to do with the tragic events that happen in Colorado yesterday.

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    tigre1  over 12 years ago

    “There’s NO business like show business…”

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    Mara13  over 12 years ago

    Wiley must really be psychic if this is a comment on yesterday’s events – this is a “Twentieth Anniversary Edition” Non Sequitor

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    mluckie7  over 12 years ago

    Comics are written and submitted weeks to months in advance. It’s too bad someone at GoComics didn’t see this and pull it from today’s line-up. This is NOT Wiley’s fault, but he’ll be the one to get the flack from it because readers are uneducated.

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    Look at the “bombing comics” shadow…even the raven knows his act is dead.

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    Can't Sleep  over 12 years ago

    People, this is a “20th Anniversary” strip, probably chosen months ago, and scheduled for insertion into the current run to stretch out Wiley’s new material and get him a few weeks’ vacation.The reference is just a co-incidence.

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    piloti  over 12 years ago

    Some of you nut cases need to get a reality check. Life=death.There is no connection between this strip and the events in Co.

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    dwreid  over 12 years ago

    So, a comic strip that was written 2 weeks ago about a guy who bombed on stage is in bad taste because it is the same as someone who shot up a Batman movie? God people are stupid. What next, you’re upset because it’s sunny today instead of having the good taste to be gloomy?

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    jimelek  over 12 years ago

    You and the other nutjobs saying that this should have been pulled should just keep your heads buried in sand. Even after tragedy, life goes on. If a comic strip of the bomb squad entering a comedy club reminds you of some manic shooting up a movie theater full of people ,then you should just stay locked in your basement and stop interacting with the outside world.

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    Alms4Thorby  over 12 years ago

    On the comments about the poor timing of this strip: cartoonists submit their work weeks in advance of actual publication. Miler had no way of guessing that a massacre would occur a day before this one was due for publication.

    Trudeau sometimes has the same problem with his Doonesbury comics.

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    halavana  over 12 years ago

    true. comic strip artist have to have their story arches way in advance. give Wiley a break.

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    sonnygreen  over 12 years ago

    It’s a comic strip.“COMIC”: Humorous, funny, laughable.Stop reading meanings into them that aren’t there.

    I just noticed something. It’s not the strip you’re commenting on; it’s everyone’s comments. Shut off your computer. . . Go outside of your house. . . Talk to REAL people.

    And now I’m going to take my own advice.

    All “trolls” disregard this message.

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    beady.el  over 12 years ago

    Bad timing, nothing more – the strip was drawn weeks ago.

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    Radical-Knight  over 12 years ago

    For those that need an excuse to get ticked…how’s this. I think they, themselves are in very bad taste because they are selfish, self-important politically correct wanna-be’s that don’t have a life that anyone really cares about other than to complain about others to get attention. Sorta like party politicians who point fingers at others but refuse to see their own failures. Yeah, I think this hits pretty close to home. So complain about me over your hurt feelings and self-righteousness and leave Wiley and his good works alone. Have a good day =D

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    lmonteros  over 12 years ago

    I imagine Wiley started squirming the minute he realized this strip was going to post the day after the Colorado shooting, but what could he do about it? It was certainly too late for print to pull it and probably GoComics as well. It’s not that it’s a bad joke, but the timing is bad, and sometimes that just can’t be helped. There’s really no fault on this one.

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    KSquaredComics  over 12 years ago

    I think the bow tie gave him away.

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    Michelle Morris  over 12 years ago

    And he’s just the announcer!

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    Dtroutma  over 12 years ago

    Couldn’t help but notice the ’toon also applies to a large percentage of our current politicians.

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    So…strolling through the Non Sequitur park today…noticing the respect and dignity being accorded each commenter…such a peaceful, serene place to hide from the horrors of the outside world with a little mirth and jocularity…you know, sometimes Wiley himself joins in the frivolity…wonder if he is here somewhere now, listening, thinking…sure did get handed a bomb himself by outside parties…I think I’ll go back indoors now and spend a little more time with my wife…peace ya’ll….

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    tomielm  over 12 years ago

    I say drop the “b” and you’d be spot on!

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    GulliverArkham  over 12 years ago

    Oh get real, these are scheduled weeks if not months in advance and it’s the comic syndicate that sends them. They’re not done the day they show up!

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    Bill Chapman  over 12 years ago

    Something everyone can’t seem to figure out(& it’s fairly simple to do) is the fact that 98% of the things in newspapers is at LEAST 1 to 3 days old(most articles). Things that are picked up from other news services are almost always 2 to 9 days old, and most comics are usually at LEAST 7 day old. The two biggest comic syndicates usually require most strip artists to submit at least ONE week in advance.

    If you choose to believe him, this is one of the reasons Berkeley Breathed decided to stop doing Bloom County. He wanted to keep current events in the strip at times, and he couldn’t do that if he was required to submit one week before publication.About the only “comics” that are allowed to produce daily are the political cartoonists, and I understand that some of those are supposed to submit multiple copies a day so the publisher can “pick & choose” for one likely to cause the least offense.

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    milania  over 12 years ago

    What does a comedian “bombing” in a nightclub have to do with a shooting in a movie? Are you SERIOUS? that’s quite a stretch!

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    milania  over 12 years ago

    Only if you have an extremely wild imagination or are on drugs!

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    Jeff0811  over 12 years ago

    I’m sure with the case of all, or at least most of us, our hearts go out to the victims yesterday and their families that have to deal with the premature loss of a loved one. I have never been in that position and I hope I never am.

    The comic, on its own, is pretty funny. We just tended to associate it with the events of yesterday, something Wiley could not have done before the events occured. As short life is, it makes sense to spend it in the best way possible, try to enjoy it while we got it, realizing others will disagree with us. So what? As long as their view doesn’t maim or kill, let them disagree.

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    el8  over 12 years ago

    huzzah!

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Go look at today’s (7-21) “Frizzi Toons” on Sherpa. The guy made a joke about Aurora without being crass.

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    MsGael Premium Member over 12 years ago

    A bomb squad doesn’t shoot anything. They defuse the bomb so it doesn’t go off. I don’t see how this relates to Colorado at all. Look at Sally Forth if you want to see one that should have been pulled.

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    The#1BoiseStateFan  almost 12 years ago

    The comedy guy IS the bomb. How did this get related to Aurora?

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