How Terrible?

Jack Applin wants to make us think, aided by these two comics that ran the same day: “I’m certainly inconsistent when I try to separate the artist from their art. I can no longer watch one actor for his stance in vaccination, and yet I enjoy the music of another performer despite his dubious actions concerning minors.”

Woof?

From Mitch4:

He notes,

Huh? I can’t even identify the additional object next to the playing cards — nail clipper? cigarillo? — let alone what the dog is supposed to do with them to become more adoptable.

I think it’s a cigar–pretty sure that’s a cigar band in the middle of the object–but what do cards and cigars have to do with getting adopted?!

At the risk of being called mean, that strip bills itself as “REMIXED NEW YORKER CARTOON REJECTS”. I’d submit that if your cartoon is too obscure for TNY, you might have a problem!