Hagar and the Solid Gold Dancers
Hoo Hoo! Oh boy! ROTFL! Disarmament talks! See, it's so, so funny because Hagar is an ancient Viking warrior, with the evil, menacing Attila the Hun as his foe. And it rings so true with us, because in the here and now we are going through the same sort of thing with our current foe, the Red Soviet Menace! Commie bastards! It's even funnier, because Hagar and Attila are talking about swords and spears and the like, but we know in the present day that President Jimmy Carter and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev are negotiating the SALT II Treaty about NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!
And this is the brilliance of Hagar the Horrible. It puts an ancient Viking warrior in a situation that sheds light on the events we are facing today, in 1978. Brilliant!
posted by big al at 12:44 PM
4 Comments:
Damn you, throw away panels! Sometimes I have no ideas what the comic is about because the Sunday strip had been reduced to three panels. I never knew Hagar had an umlaut in his name!
They really need to update the cultural references. Maybe something about firing the air traffic controllers? Or the Iran-Contra Affair?
Like many bravely right-wing thinkers nowadays, our artist plainly believes that Carter's SALT II efforts are misguided. Hoo boy, those off-the-wall righties sure are willing to speak truth to power! If only they controlled all three branches of the Federal government they could get some things done!
I mean, why is Hagar negotiating a weapons ban anyway? The man's a Viking; his blinkin' job is to pillage England and France and so on. He needs to "negotiate" from strength, not weakness. And if all else fails, well, they've got overwhelming force and they're not afraid to use it. Hagar's voice balloon in that last panel is inappropriately weak-kneed. That's Jimmy C., all the way.
The fact that Hagar is dealing with Attila the Hun at all -- he's a threatening figure, maybe, but not one the Vikings needed to confront -- leads me to interpret this as a neoconservative justification of the invasion of Iraq. It's all about elective war.
It's therefore quite timely. See?
Have any of you been following this Reagan guy? He's Gov. of California, and will probably run for Pres. I think he will do a better job with the commies than Carter is doing.
Ianscot --you're right. Hagar IS Pres. Carter. That makes Helga Rossalyn and it all makes sense.
PS Farah Fawcett is a total HOTTIE!
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