Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too.

There was a sad, gray time when there wasn’t ready access to anyone’s crackpot genius comic notions. For all the dismay that has resulted from the Wild West of the internet, led by rampant and tactical spreading of fraudulent information, I am grateful that it takes the barest of effort for me to call forth a stop-motion animation spoof commercial featuring the incredible Hulk as a car salesman.