While over at small dead animals yesterday I saw an old familiar face. Well, actually, I saw a graphic and link to Stupid Comics (which Kate got via Colby Cosh). My, what an incestuous little bunch we Canadian bloggers are.

I’m sorry to say that as I child I distinctly remember being provided a copy (or perhaps multiple copies) of this comic and reading it enough times to remember segments of the story line and some of the graphics. Since Kate and Colby are older than I am, I’m having a hard time imagining them reading this the first time round. Kate might have been in her early teens and likely way too swave to be victimized by the packaging of Canadian Governament propaganda in comic book form. Colby, being only a few years older than I, might have fallen into the trap.

I wonder how much influence this comic had on my recycling/save the earth phase I went through in the mid-80’s. Perhaps it wasn’t brought on by an early rise in consciousness, but by the residual leftovers of the contents of a comic book sloshing around in my head.

With the giant rise of parents screaming about just about anything that might “hurt the childruuuun” and the emphasis on self-esteem over attempting to complete a task I see in schools today, I have to wonder where our parents were when this comic was being handed out to small children in the 70’s and 80’s? Perhaps they were too busy dragging us to the library to read books, helping us with our math homework, building tree forts, or chucking us out of the house to go play to notice what the government was passing around…

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