Today's 'toon arrived sans comment from the 'toonist. Explanations are futile. This blogger can only hope for something from Tom/Dan next week. In the meantime, this blogger's comments the horseback opinions of a regular reader of "This Modern World." In today's seven panels that offer varying explanations of "What the hell is going on" in the words of the current occupant of the Oval Office. This imaginary survey begins with the possibility that these times are associated with random brain activity during a comatose state — "Just A Dream." In the second panel, TMW's mad professor, Dr. Wilbur von Philbert, attempts to explain the current national nighmare as a gigantic computer simulation gone awry. If that doesn't work for you, the third panel suggests a real-time warp of reality due to a Hadron Collider mishap. The dismal events have been created by cyberoutlaws in the fourth panel. And in panels five and six, two theological explanation are offered in nightmarish scenarios. The final panel offers the possibility that we are toast — the political system is brokwn beyond repair. And there you have it — (fair & balanced) alternative explanations of the present-day bizarre events.
[x TMW]
Explanations!
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 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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