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There are no characters in “Get Your War On??—just anonymous talking heads—and the pictures Rees uses seldom change from week to week. The punch lines are quick, the jokes sarcastic, and the humor based vaguely on the frequent linguistic absurdity of the Bush administration sloganeering. But with over 300 strips under his belt, Rees has gotten somewhat tired of his flagship creation, and if it weren’t a sure reliable outlet for his politics, he might have moved...
...fact, Rees tried to hang the strip up back in 2004, optimistically telling his editors at Rolling Stone that he would discontinue “Get Your War On?? if John F. Kerry managed to bump President George W. Bush out of the White House in November. The editor, who’d been trying to get Rees to branch out and write some actual articles for the magazine anyway, agreed to the deal, and the fate of the cartoon strip was thrown to the hands of the voters...
...captivated audience that he was in the midst of a “professional crisis.” To raucous laughter and applause, Rees told his audience that he was probably about as bummed out about having to do another four years of “Get Your War On?? as Bush was about having to serve another term. Rees spoke briefly about the history of his comic strip before reading some of his favorite panels from the last few years, reminding the audience of the historical context behind each...
...Lecture Hall, probably had a lot on their mind as they waited to cross the street. Kaminsky, heading toward them, was probably not one of these concerns. When he took an unexpected spill, slipping on a patch of ice, it took the administration members a few seconds to catch on??but it took Crimson photographer Joseph P. Abel ’07 less time to immortalize the fall, creating the image that ran on the back cover of this magazine last week...
Certainly, Hollywood’s general reliance on a pop music sensibility is a fantastic trend, and one that, for better or worse, made it impossible to go back to the “pure score” (Titanic’s “My Heart Will Go On?? has shown us why). But Badly Drawn Boy’s soundtrack for About a Boy (a fitting title) was a masterful use of music both fitting the plot material, and fitting around...