Today, Tom Tomorrow takes a favorite Hollywood meme of planetary conquest by an alien civilization (aka) Planet Glox. The planet is never seen; contact with Earth is via a newscast from Planet Glox with anchor-aliens. This communication resembles Faux News, and they report about news strikingly similar to that on Earth, but in factual scientific terminology (i.e., Coneheads-style). In this thrilling episode, Glox attacks the earthly environment to the blithe denials of reality that come from the Faux News faithful. If this is a (fair & balanced) demonstration of public derangement, so be it.
[x This Modern World]
The Looming Threat
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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