You can find the original story here on Fox News.

Remember to submit your wacky headlines to lolzies1 at gmail dot com. If yours is chosen, you’ll receive credit and a link to your website under the comic.

I realize now that some of you might not have appreciated the timing (Memorial Day) of yesterday’s comic due to the political message in it. Please give me a few beats to help you understand my intentions (or lack of).

Let me assure everyone that the Memorial Day timing was 100% due to my not thinking. I literally thought, “I’m here at my inlaw’s house. We are chilling, I have a free second and an extra comic in the can, I’ll post it now in case I’m too busy playing catch-up tomorrow. No one will read it until then anyway b/c they are all at parades or throwing frisbees.” It’s true, I think in complete sentences.

This is a text-book example of one of those times my dear wife says something like, “I wish you would read that text-book I gave you about thinking things through.” The political epithets in panel two, to me, were overdone to the point of caricature, thereby neutralizing their heat. That’s why I didn’t think they would register with anyone.

Political humor isn’t really my thing. I enjoy taking it in, but mostly because I’m a raging, frothing Moderate and enjoy a laugh at the extreme ends of anything. And while I love watching Stewart and Colbert, it’s not for the politics, it’s for the way they draw out contrast and irony in the world around them. For my viewing purposes, politics are just something on which to hang irony, and quite easily, that is, if you can stomach hours of watching CSPAN searching for set-up lines. And that’s what I was going for here, a coat-hanger for a little irony I’d found.

I took the photo of that street vendor myself when in NYC last year and forgot I had it. When I saw in my files, I thought the extreme nature of the messages in it would give me something stark to use for contrast. For me, this gag is more about the idea of the extremes than it is about the specific topic used. The Tear’s line about buyers remorse was more about a wink at how complicated the Emo Haircut’s emotions really are. He’s loyal to his party and his president, but, as is true with every category of life, he has trouble reconciling the conflict of not always agreeing with something to which he pledged loyalty. That makes him emotional and his tears exhausted.

Matt’s calling me on trendiness (comment in previous post, now deleted by request) is totally fair since I’ve never done anything political here, and since what would appear to be my first attempt is so abrasive, or, as my Mimi used to say, rough as a cob. Also warranted is the call about bad timing on Memorial Day had a political message really been my intent. But again, my only agenda here was the opportunism of finding a forgotten photo off of which I could easily bounce a followup gag.

Thanks again, Brent Dixon, for lending your gorg face to this little webcomic that could.

A special thanks to Brent Dixon for starring in the debut comic for the Emo Haircut series. Stay tuned!

News Verbatims has a new host and a new set. Please enjoy.

A special thanks to Ron from MA for submitting this week’s News Verbatim. Here is the full original story.

Here are two links for your Ginger studies:
Dail Mail article saying “Gingers might me extinct in 100 years.”
Wikipedia’s entry for Red Hair

I’ve been behind on my Newsverbatims lately, but several of you have continued to submit them, and I am really grateful for that. I’ve been waiting because I don’t want to use any more stock photography and I haven’t had a chance to setup a good News Anchor shot of myself yet. I will do my best to get that taken care of for next week. Until then, here is one of my favorite puns in its place.

A very special thanks to my Dallas lunch buddy, Ches, for guest-staring in this week’s comic.

==========NEWS FLASH===========
Last weekend, was an eventful weekend at my house. Due to a crazy Thursday evening on Twitter, and to the sweet loyalty of my friends (who are also readers), LOLZIES!!1@! was added to the spanking new comics section on Alltop, comics.alltop.com. Do head over there to find an excellent cross section of what some really funny, smart people are doing with the comic strip form.

Also, go check out the other Alltop pages. It is is a top-notch collection of some top-notch content across almost all categories. If they don’t have what your looking for, chances are pretty good they are working on it right now.

Thanks again to Brent, Morriss, Matt, Caleb and finally to Guy for putting LOLZIES!!1@! in such good comic company.

PS: I hope Guy Kawasaki (Alltop creator) will guest-star in a comic soon. He stays pretty busy, so it may be a while, but it will be fun when we work it out.

Sorry it’s been a while, LOLZers. I still love you and care about your need to laugh.

This week’s News Verbatim was submitted by David from TX. Thanks, David!