Cartoon Violence Is A-Scared [Joke And Dagger Dept.]

Each week, The Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons. Most political discourse is a bunch of blah blah blah talky talky jaw jaw crappy crap. Political cartoons have the unique ability to short-circuit all that, with their purely visual representation of important world and national events (assuming they don’t get out of control with labeling everything). But what if political cartoonists used the power of visual images ... for evil? What if they just used their syndicated platform to scare and terrify us? What if that, huh? Terrifying terror: Oh my God! It’s the ghost of Benazir Bhutto! Why so scary: Well, it’s not every day you see the dead walking around and voting. Well, in this case I guess they’re floating around and voting, since the unquiet dead apparently only maintain their earthly form from the waist up -- everything below that is just flappy, blobby fabric. It’s also terrifying to kno...