johnny hart, at it again

Atrios points out that a recent "B.C." by Johnny Hart is at the center of a furor about religious insensitivity.

The last line in the Washington Post article on the controversy gets it absolutely right. "Otherwise, it's just an unfunny joke." Word. It's just not funny.

I'm sure it's rather difficult to come up with a genuinely amusing punchline every day. But I have to say... "B.C" is consistently unfunny. Cavemen in of themselves aren't funny. You've got to do more with it, preferably something reasonably appropriate of cavemen. Having them make social commentary on modern society is just weird.