Gerald Blackwell

Tapping into your inner She-Hulk…? 😉

My brain can’t decide whether to read Ming’s dialogue in Alan Oppenheimer’s or Max von Sydow’s voice.

In my defense, I *did* watch the cartoon show first.

Is a Russian team even at the Olympics? 🤷🏻‍♂️

So, Spam Blondi is firing off subpoenas to tech companies in an attempt to get them to hand over dissenters.

In response, a lot of those dissenters are waving and saying “Hi!” 👋😃

What is unsaid but implied is, “Come and arrest me, if you dare.” 🖕

One wonders if Spam Blondi will take the bait… 😈

I’ve watched FLASH GORDON (Flash! Ah-ahhhh!) *at least* eight times, likely more than that.

So, journalist Don Lemon has just been released from Federal custody.

I was fully expecting him to have an “accident” or maybe a “heart attack” but it looks like the fash are still too chickenshit for that.

All they do is blow hot air at people with significant name recognition. They aren’t actually going after them.
They’re trying their best to avoid creating martyrs. And they are failing.

***SATIRE ADVISORY***

I don’t understand what You People™️ are so upset about!

It’s just *people*; it’s not like we can’t make more.

This foolishness is going to embolden the stupider ICE-holes to answer insults and mockery with bullets.

No, he likely would’ve shot him and then pled self-defense.

What with? Heat vision? Telepathy? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Oh, Max was having an absolute blast; they all were. It was an opportunity to put on ridiculous costumes and chew the scenery like chips and salsa. 😁

“Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies into the Void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you knew anything of the true nature of the Universe, anything at all, you would have hidden from it in terror.”

I guess now ICE is authorized to respond to insults with live ammunition.

So if a federal officer orders you to not call him a scum-sucking fascist thug and you call him a scum-sucking fascist thug, your disobedience authorizes him to shoot you?

So.

World War Fucking Three.

Once again we are reminded that this is the Stupidest Possible Timeline.

:: takes a third shot of rum and goes back to bed ::

Happy Fecking New Year.

Thanks! I know exactly how to stat them up in Mighty Protectors (that’s the third edition of the old Villains and Vigilantes game). 😁

What ya bet they start trying to issue “command performances” and try to sue performers who decline them?

Technical question: do gyroships have cloaking devices or do they actually shift out-of-phase with local spacetime?

My TTRPG brain is trying to puzzle out what they actually *do*.

I presume there’s no FTL capability?

All they have to do is say “Discovery!” and TACO will chicken out as usual.

Next up, trash-talking public officials on social media will be labeled Domestic Terrorism™️.

So, blockading ports and shooting down airliners trying to leave?

The companies and individuals he targets should respond with “Come and get me, you big fat ugly idiot. You’re not man enough.”

Your work on this strip takes me back to Saturday mornings in 1979, watching the Filmation FLASH GORDON cartoon show.

All the feels, man, all of ‘em. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

a poster for the movie jaws with a shark and a woman in the water ALT: a poster for the movie jaws with a shark and a woman in the water

Not feelin’ it here, either… 😬

Quelle surprise. 😐

One champion. Who will it be? Live from the Nation Mall in Washington, DC, welcome to the first annual PATRIOT GAMES!”
< cue dramatic music as an opening crawl of corporate sponsors moves up the screen >
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[The camera pans across a large group of teenage boys and girls, standing at attention in a formation of 11 rows and 10 columns]
< cue kettledrum roll >
VO: “One hundred and ten contestants.
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So, the Shitbag is now talking up something called the “Patriot Games,” that’s to bring a teenage boy-girl pair from every state and territory to the National Mall to compete in an “athletic spectacle.”

Presumably this is to be something akin to BATTLE ROYALE:
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