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My newspaper prints Mallard Fillmore side-by-side with Doonesbury on a separate page from the other comics, probably for politically-correct "balance" as a sop to conservatives who cry about the liberal media. Although it occasionally gets off a good one, I'm not impressed with the strip most of the time.
The creator seems to believe that simply insulting liberals is funny, in and of itself; he's basically a political attack dog who can draw. I'm sorry; it takes more than that to be funny. Also, I've never yet seen him poke fun at anyone except those he labels as liberals.
Putting the two strips side by side simply emphasizes the difference between it and Doonesbury, which goes for funny first and just gets its political digs in along the way. I enjoy Trudeaus's strip just as much when he's deflating self-righteous, clueless liberals as I do when he's laughing at full-of-themselves conservatives.
Last edited by troy2000; 03-24-2008 at 04:07 PM.
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