comic strips

David Rees uses the structure of a comic strip to portray what is really on his mind after 9/11. It seems to be the only form in which a political satirist or anyone for that matter could truly commentate on the situation. To me, a poem should be retained for more light-hearted events. The tone of these comic strips allows Rees to mock his government and the war and religion and other serious topics that, in a poem, couldn't be detailed in such a truthful manner. A poem could represent how the author feels but the voice that is allowed in a comic strip is what sets it apart. The literal sarcasm employed in these strips is utterly ridiculous in some frames, but yet I am thinking along the same lines.

For example (reference to page 11, frames 6 and the last frame), the fact W was reading to a classroom of children for 5 minutes after he was notified about the first plane, and then the second one, is just maddening. (In my eyes, that children's book can be seen as a microcosm of the ineptitude that will define this administration.) If you've seen video of that scene, it appears as though he isn't really thinking much of anything at that point, let alone immediately exiting the classroom. Would it seriously have taken a plane crashing into that children's classroom (under God Forbid) to hit a nerve in Bush that morning? or the WTC crashing into the Pentagon (Can you imagine that?) as Rees writes. Only a comic strip would have allowed Rees to make this outrageous accusation.