5/09/2007
Beetle Bailey to Explore the Lighter Side of Iraq War
Left: Beetle Bailey hits Iraq (click to enlarge)
(New York) Long-running comic strip Beetle Bailey will begin to feature members of Camp Swampy being deployed to Iraq in the coming months, according to a press release from creator Mort Walker.
The strip will feature the hijinks of Beetle, Lieutenant Sonny Fuzz, and the rest of the Bailey gang as they relocate to a base outside of Baghdad.
"We have this one scene planned where Sergeant 1st Class Orville Snorkel gets a leg blown off by an IED. Just too much!" chuckled Walker. "And you wouldn't believe the craziness when Beetle accidentally discharges his rifle and blows some fucking kid's head off. Hilarious!"
Walker added that he has been cooking up "something pretty special" for Miss Buxley, the hot secretary to Brigadier General Amos T. Halftrack.
"We were first thinking we would have her taken hostage by some insurgent group and then beheaded," laughed Walker. "But we thought it would be funnier for her be shopping in a Baghdad market and get blown to smithereens by a sucide bomber. I drew this one panel with her bloody arm lying on the pavement and what's left of her torso being eaten by wild dogs, while a bunch of maggots are crawling out of her eye sockets. Come to think of it... this isn't very funny at all. What the fuck were we smoking when we dreamed this up, anyways? Good thing our readers don't give a shit."
(New York) Long-running comic strip Beetle Bailey will begin to feature members of Camp Swampy being deployed to Iraq in the coming months, according to a press release from creator Mort Walker.
The strip will feature the hijinks of Beetle, Lieutenant Sonny Fuzz, and the rest of the Bailey gang as they relocate to a base outside of Baghdad.
"We have this one scene planned where Sergeant 1st Class Orville Snorkel gets a leg blown off by an IED. Just too much!" chuckled Walker. "And you wouldn't believe the craziness when Beetle accidentally discharges his rifle and blows some fucking kid's head off. Hilarious!"
Walker added that he has been cooking up "something pretty special" for Miss Buxley, the hot secretary to Brigadier General Amos T. Halftrack.
"We were first thinking we would have her taken hostage by some insurgent group and then beheaded," laughed Walker. "But we thought it would be funnier for her be shopping in a Baghdad market and get blown to smithereens by a sucide bomber. I drew this one panel with her bloody arm lying on the pavement and what's left of her torso being eaten by wild dogs, while a bunch of maggots are crawling out of her eye sockets. Come to think of it... this isn't very funny at all. What the fuck were we smoking when we dreamed this up, anyways? Good thing our readers don't give a shit."
Labels: Beetle Bailey, Iraq, Iraq war