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Quote by: Compugasm Yeah, but I don't think you have to know that to understand what's going on in the picture. At the very least, it's a pretty menacing looking guy with a gun, and yet the crowd doesn't seem to notice. |
I think it makes more of an impact if they DO know who it is. The Farscape guy IS good but it just says some funky looking guy with a gun has a Kerry sign in front of him. Perhaps the same shot with a more famous head.
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Putting a bomb in Bush's hat is a more obsure reference. Because it's a parody of a parody. Unless you've seen the original comic, a bomb in the hat ends up looking like bad propaganda, rather than a funny commentary.
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The same thing applies. The bomb in the turban/Stetson works if you know the reference but I would say more people would get that than a weird guy with a Kerry sign. Who is he, why is he armed, what is he doing with that sign are all questions that would blunt the effect. The bomb is worldwide news and Farscape isn't well known and hardly anyone thinks about Kerry anymore.
In any event the bomb wasn't supposed to be funny anyway. Just a reference to a current story and an exercise for me to see if I could do it. I wasn't kidding when I said what an amateur I was with PS.