CampingCarl posted:

Its OK guys, those celebs weren't really dead anyway.

CampingCarl posted:

Its OK guys, those celebs weren't really dead anyway.

Technowolf posted:

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Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Geez, so does Dees just straight up not believe in death anymore?

These aren't even young celebrities, I mean it's still sad that they've passed but it's something that was going to happen eventually. Why fake their deaths? Who would that benefit?

rum sodomy Rainbow Dash posted:

I've set aside a day to update the cartoonist gallery for the OP, as I decided to skip that poo poo last year and just left up the 2014 cartoons.

Ideally I'd like the cartoon for each cartoonist that is representative of their work for that year. Something memorable or just particularly good/bad. I'm trying to do this fast, so if left to my own devices I'll just grab cartoons from a random date in the archive. I'm working in alphabetical order, so it's more helpful to grab cartoons from the lower half of the list as I will probably already have a cartoon picked out for, say, Bennett or Cagle.

Thanks in advance.

Trogdos! posted:

CampingCarl posted:

Its OK guys, those celebs weren't really dead anyway.

CampingCarl posted:

Its OK guys, those celebs weren't really dead anyway.

Technowolf posted:

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Geez, so does Dees just straight up not believe in death anymore?

These aren't even young celebrities, I mean it's still sad that they've passed but it's something that was going to happen eventually. Why fake their deaths? Who would that benefit?

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In August 2006, health problems led to the appointment of his younger brother, Raul, as temporarily president and head of the Communist Party in Cuba. Political analysts believe that the appointment marks the beginning of a transition designed to maintain Communist control over Cuba after Castro's death.[49] Castro's surgery was scheduled to repair a "sharp intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding." [50]

Bonded by their hate for the United States and capitalism, Castro and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez created a close relationship. Both socialist countries have worked together on various political ventures.[51]

On May 1, 2007, Castro did not attend Cuba's annual celebration of May Day, leading many to believe that he had died. While Castro allegedly met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on February 25, 2010,[52] there is no independent confirmation that this was not in fact a body-double.

On February 18, 2006, Communist Cuba publicly recognized that Fidel Castro was no longer President of the State Council and Commander in Chief.[53] He was succeeded by his brother, Raul Castro.

In September 2011, it was claimed that a Venezuelan reporter had interviewed Castro,[54] but independent media have not confirmed that this was not actually a doppelganger standing in for the long-deceased Castro.

In February 2012 the mainstream media claimed that Castro met with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Predictably there have been no reports from the liberal media as to whether this was actually Castro or a lookalike.[55]

In February 2013, Castro allegedly[56] addressed Cuba's National Assembly, giving support for younger leadership in Cuba.[57] The National Assembly went on to re-elect Castro’s 82-year-old brother Raul.

On November 25, 2016, Cuba finally confirmed what the rest of the world suspected for over a decade and announced the death of Castro, although the cause of death was not immediately disclosed.[58] Exiled Cubans and Cuban-Americans celebrated the news of the revelation of Castro's death upon hearing about it.[59] Ironically, given his long-lived fight against Capitalism, his announced death occurred on Black Friday.

Numerous leftists, including Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau,[60] Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein,[61] Sierra Club president Aaron Mair,[62] and Jesse Jackson,[63] issued positive or semi-positive statements in response to the death of a man who killed thousands of people and left an extremely poor third-world country.[63] On the other hand, Republican president-elect Donald Trump gave very strong statements against the disctator, calling him a "brutal dictator" and saying that "Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights".[64][65][66]

You Are A Elf posted:

The guy who voiced Heat Miser in The Year Without a Santa Claus also died a couple of days ago. I don't see him on that Sheeple cover

Edible Hat posted:

Are there instances in history of a government claiming its leader is alive after he had died?

CampingCarl posted:

Its OK guys, those celebs weren't really dead anyway.

loquacius posted:

Conspiracy theorists continue to struggle with the concept of "people looking kind of like other people"

I think it's getting worse, he's even having trouble with the idea of siblings looking kind of like each other

CampingCarl posted:

Its OK guys, those celebs weren't really dead anyway.

Shugojin posted:

I'm very confused by this Dees/Bad Reporter crossover

Vib Rib posted:

Okay, but, like, why though?
Even ignoring that these are blatantly different people who would need severe nosejobs and even bone reconstruction, what's the motive? What does anyone gain from a hoax like this?

Sandpuppy posted:

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Hostile V posted:

Some of these theories are wildly ghoulish. There's one little bizarre adventure of a tale that claims that Bowie got plastic surgery because a bunch of people had figured out he was a serial killer. So he had the work done and faked his death and personally killed the doctor who did the job so nobody could figure out who he became. Then he stole the life of the guy whose face he impersonated and is now pretending to be him as he lays low. It's some odd poo poo.

rum sodomy Rainbow Dash posted:

I've set aside a day to update the cartoonist gallery for the OP, as I decided to skip that poo poo last year and just left up the 2014 cartoons.

Ideally I'd like the cartoon for each cartoonist that is representative of their work for that year. Something memorable or just particularly good/bad. I'm trying to do this fast, so if left to my own devices I'll just grab cartoons from a random date in the archive. I'm working in alphabetical order, so it's more helpful to grab cartoons from the lower half of the list as I will probably already have a cartoon picked out for, say, Bennett or Cagle.

Thanks in advance.

Keiya posted:

Carrie Fisher strangled the poo poo out of mental illness?

... is this... actually AGC?

Hostile V posted:

Some of these theories are wildly ghoulish. There's one little bizarre adventure of a tale that claims that Bowie got plastic surgery because a bunch of people had figured out he was a serial killer. So he had the work done and faked his death and personally killed the doctor who did the job so nobody could figure out who he became. Then he stole the life of the guy whose face he impersonated and is now pretending to be him as he lays low. It's some odd poo poo.

Sandpuppy posted:

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Not sure I'd want to head into the basement of a building that structurally unsound.