Monday, April 5, 1999: The taboo line

[NonsenseWords]

...you know, I kind of want a Pope Soda. Absolve your sins in the carbonated font of God.

[Bocaj Claw]

That is simony sir and this, THIS is a schism. Good-day SIR.

[Maggot Brain]

"It's papariffic!" is kinda funny.

[Tom_Radigan]

The line was crossed a long time ago. There was an actual advertisement by Bennetton (the clothing company) showing then-President Reagan with Karposi's sarcoma, somehow intended to advertise jeans. There were very angry protests, all right-coming from AIDS activists. Definitely one of the dumb-dumb advertisements of all time.

[Arloest]

I, personally, wish the Pope would actually do this.

[Chris]

Hi, I'm the Pope! You know, When i'm cruising along my Pope Mobile; Nothing refershes me like an ice cold POPE SODA! Absolve your sins in the carbonated font of God! Mmmmm...It's papariffic!

I wanna buy a Pope Soda...

[Muninn]

This is one of the strips I remember as making me laugh to tears when I first discovered the comic and was reading through the archives. It's still funny to me.

[Bocaj Claw]

I always wanted to be the sort of cartoonist who invents words. This was an early attempt at it.

I had a stronger anti-commercialism bent in those days. I'm still mostly against it, but by now I've had some years of having the importance of sometimes making money drilled firmly into me.