The Chinese women’s gymnastics team has been accused of using underage girls. (The rules say they must turn 16 during the calendar year of the competition or before to be eligible.)

Just a question for all you mothers of twins out there, but wouldn’t you want to alternate breasts when feeding? Is this all like handedness–as in left or right? Or does alternating screw up your Olympic aspirations?

The Huffington Post shows documents describing He Kexin as being 13 in 2007, and describes a self-confessed age cheat from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

None of that explains the breast feeding and teething obsession. Not funny. Really, really, weird.

Yes,you would alternate the breasteses,when feeding twins or a single baby. That being said,Chris Muir is really a dipshit.

Muir must be making some sly Dadaist point by not aligning the “Home Barn” type in the last panel with the character’s apron.

No, he is just a lousy artist. He is also sick, twisted, and terminally stupid.

That was my first thought but, I was giving him the benefit of the Dada.

“the Olympics bite”

see, cause the babies are biting their mom’s nips! it relates back to the previous panels, the way a good punchline should! except that it’s not funny the way a good punchline should be.

FAIL

What I learned from this comic:

–A lock washer has a … something.

–A woman staying at home breastfeeding knows more about lock washers than a guy who works at a home improvement store.

–Wingnut comic characters name their kids after Soy Sauce.

–The city of Beijing has its own Olympic Team.

–Having teeth qualifies one for inclusion on the aforementioned city of Beijing’s Olympic Team.

–Teeth are a vital part of gymnastic competition.

–Home Barn has its screen printing done by Stevie Wonder.

So it’s more of a primer for wingnut geography and gender roles.

Plus, it gave Muir an excuse to draw a half-exposed boobie — even though it seems pretty evident that he’s never actually seen one in real life.

It’s that last panel that sends it into WTF land. Muir’s characters often talk like their author is trying to imitate cool hipster talk when his only contact with anyone vaguely cool or hip is a two-second chat with his barista at Starbucks. It’s that desperate scrambling for catchphrases that you also see on really bad SNL episodes.

The best jokes always have to be explained. I’ve read manuals for Japanese CNC lathes that were funnier than Muir.

Also, I want to know why that woman appears to be breastfeeding while sitting in a pile of tombstones.

Soph, I believe she is sitting in the Comedy Graveyard.

Seriously, this is really a WTF? I mean, can you imagine his rough drafts that don’t make it to press – you know, the one’s where he even says…nah, that’s not funny, let me try again.
I have a few psychologist friends who would love to get their hands on those.

I kinda got the gymnastics reference, but what the heck is with the line “Looks like you got news,man [sic]”?

I think Nancy was funnier than this strip.

This one’s easy (as far as the psychological subtext goes); Muir gets very, very excited/aroused at the thought of pain being caused to a woman’s breasts. Kind of like the comment from Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.

You just know that Muir will be caught with a lactating prostitute one of these days.

Muir crosses the neurotic/psychotic line in the wrong direction with this clueless exhibition. As an artist, I know an absence of talent when I see it.

Okay, the ‘teeth’ response may have to do with a comment by Bela Karolyi, the Gymnastics coach that NBC is using as a commentator during the gymnastics competition.

In regard to the age controversy – which it seems pretty clear that China is cheating – Karolyi made a comment to the effect of “I saw one of their girls has lost a tooth” in reference to her young age.

Guessing that’s where that comes from. As far as the rest – is there a forensic psychologist in the house?

I wondered why he had his hand in his pocket. That explains it.

It’s easy: Wingnuts hate the Olympics. Too many furiners, too many pussy-ass sporting events, too much multicultural harmony, peace, love and understanding.

I bet he doesn’t have any rejects, which is why the strip is like it is.

Maybe I’m being too charitable.

Too much cogitation here, folks.
This guy just fucking sucks.

Perhaps early Alzheimer’s has set in?

With every “cartoon” and I use that word loosely, it’s as if one person’s writing the captions and another is drawing…oh wait.

Umm… I’m pretty much of a computer illiterate (not as bad as McCain…) and have no PhotoShop skillz at all, but even I know that he could have flipped the middle panel to at least make it LOOK like she was feeding the second baby on the other side… Jeez…

If I thought Chris was dictating this while strapped to a gurney with a Jacques Plante model mask on his face, I would enjoy it a touch more.

I miss Mary Worth. Now — that was funny comixing