>>151206789
He parodies political cartoonists more in general. The 'artist in the lower right hand corner with a snide comment' is based off of Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles, who is NOT an ultraconservative by any measure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/tom-toles/
>>151206789
To be honest as Ward gets older the line between him and Kelly the character begins to blur. I'm betting at least one in five comics he creates nowadays are meant to be half self deprecating half subtly pushing his actual beliefs out there without being exiled from the NeoLib Kool Kidz Klub. You can only parody an embittered crotchety old man for so long before you yourself become an embittered crotchety old man.
>>151206834 >>151206867
I'm pretty sure the problem with the "Kelly Effect" is that he pulls from so many influences across the Spectrum,even amongst the right,that often times the satire cancels out and if it wasn't directly labled "LE FUNNY SATIRE JOKE" it would be indistinguishable from an actual opinion. Many times the cartoon's joke isn't the political opinion,it's how it's expressed. Like the nature of this comic is inherently absurd,but the point "Trump and Hitler are not analogous and it's absurd to think so" is evident. You spend your time around garlic and onions you start to smell like the stuff.
>>151206867
He's very much in the "I've already done this comic, but I may as well do it again because I'm getting paid" stage of his career.
And really it's his seething that's the problem. A good satire should never seethe, then you're the joke not whoever you're trying to criticize.
>>151207124
Which is ironically the type of character Kelly is designed to parody. He's been doing this since 2008 , it is impossible for to be in.the same mindset as we was back then in order to parody the cartoonists he targets with the same energy. I don't think he's lost steam but the joke is less that "this is what Republicans actually believe" but more just him trying to cope with his boomer moments by transferring them onto Kelly. Like Ward has a minor inconvenience and he thinks "how would Kelly react to this versus simply parodying right wing view points.
>>151206951 >"Trump and Hitler are not analogous and it's absurd to think so" is evident.
What kind of amazing mental gymnastic do you have to make to come to that conclusion?
Is it something like >It can't possibly be mocking something I like, so it's obviously saying the opposite.
>>151207326
The cartoon exists on the belief that Hitler was Le bad, there for if Trump ran the Third Reich he wouldn't have been Le bad. While Ward the person might not like Trump the comic's ultimate message is that Trump and Hitler are not the same and shouldn't be treated as such. It's just taken to a comedic hyperbole.
>>151207289
Reminder that /vr/ the board is older than the games that they considered retro when it was first made, but they refuse anything older than the PS2 is retro
>>151206951
No anon, while I agree that only retards compare Trump to Hitler the joke here is that >Hitler did genocide and that's bad >If Trump was in his place he would still do the genocide >But he would also do good things (for the people doing the genocide, not the people getting genocided btw) so it's okay >This is what republicans actually think
>>151206776
Honestly the funniest Kelly comics, and the ones that stop them from being one note, are the ones where he's just boomer raging about his life.
>>151212316
Well, yes, because your rich daddy pays for it. And the sports car, and probably the apartment too.. Then College Boy just needs to get nepotism-hired so that he can show off by making massive profits by destroying whatever company his father runs.
