• commandar@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      There hasn’t been a truck sold under the Dodge brand in over a decade at this point.

      It’s a pun, not an ad. Dodged a bullet.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    118·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure when it happened, but the author of these comics definitely pulled a Scott Addams at some point.

    Probably when he got enough money to start thinking Republicans make some good points about tax rates

    • loobkoob@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      Nah, Scott Adams is a hateful bigot. He thinks black people are a “hate group” - he truly went off the rails.

      I don’t really think this comic reflects its author’s personal views at all. C&H has always been filled with shock comedy, black comedy, deliberate insensitivity, and silly puns, and everything is a target. This one doesn’t really stand out as any different to how the comic’s always been.

      I don’t really feel like there’s ever really been a right-wing slant to these comics either. And I say that as someone who’s ardently left-wing.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I mean, I remember it from like a decade ago when it first came out.

        But before Lemmy it had been maybe 5 years since I saw one?

        So maybe that’s why it seems like a big change. Back then it was just dark humor, now it seems like it tries to piss people off and say “just a joke”. Like, the quality isn’t what I remember, even if it’s trying to be the same thing.

        Like comparing The Onion to Babylon Bee, they’re both trying to do the same thing, the result isn’t the same tho. There’s a conservative slant that just makes it annoying. Like, both of those things are giant wastes of money, why are they the two options?

        The only webcomic I kept up with was SMBC and xkcd

        • bus_factor@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Cyanide and Happiness has always been hit or miss. It’s a collaboration between multiple cartoonists, and they’re not all equally funny to everyone.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s a ripoff of a 30 year old bumper sticker joke…

        I legitimately remember seeing them all over in the 90s.

        And it’s always been conservative assholes with the bumper sticker.

  • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    1 year ago

    Interesting take to say this could even be conceived of as an ad, as that’s clearly based on like a 2009 Dodge. Interesting they used Bullet though, a company called Sterling used to make a heavy frame truck called the Sterling Bullet which would have been based on that body style of Ram.