I was impressed by Blondie on Sunday because Dagwood was working from home, and I thought, wow, Blondie's going to acknowledge and satirize the current pandemic. Pretty brave for a strip from 1930. Then the following week's dailies ignored the whole thing until Thursday when Dagwood made a "Social Distancing" joke, which actually, isn't bad. But, if they're all in the office are they not quarantining Dagwood? They seem to want it both ways.
To Dean Young I say: Sin boldly! Keep the Bumsteads home like the rest of us. Let Dagwood slowly drive Blondie mad until she's plotting his murder! Let Dagwood show up at an office Zoom meeting while in the bath tub, eating a sandwich!
Blondie's been slowly keeping up with the times and not doing a half bad job. This isn't a crisis, it's an opportunity.
Not everyone can grapple with changing times....
Which leads me to today's Beetle Bailey. Another strip where a character participates in a technological activity and that is the sum of the joke.
Here Gen. Halftrack says he hasn't had any complaints since he took down the suggestion box, and he's pleased with himself until Gizmo tells him that people complain on Twitter.
Yep, that's the joke, people complain about things on Twitter.
That's all they got.
Let's look at others in this astonishingly out-of-touch vein: Here and here.
I imagine the next jokes will involve people using their iPhones to call their friends, and people using TikTok to post videos.
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