Harsher in Hindsight/Newspaper Comics


 * One Bloom County strip sets up the punchline by saying that the local newspaper reported on a "heterosexual AIDS epidemic" that turned out to be a false alarm. ...Yeah.
 * A Calvin and Hobbes strip has Calvin criticize Susie's drawing of a home with a flower garden, instead claiming his manlier drawing of B-1 planes nuking New York. The September 11, 2001 attacks put the strip in a Dude, Not Funny stance.