Johnny & The King & the Ice Bucket Challenge
The instant I saw Johnny flip the bird last night I knew we were in for a rough week of Johnny Football. So lets start this week off right, with what is becoming a weekly joke, Johnny & the King. Is the joke worn out yet? Or is it just beginning? They will get fewer between once the season starts. And yes, I will address the Browns most recent QB addition, the time just needs to feel right first. Sexy Rexy comes when Sexy Rexy feels like coming.
The Ice Bucket Challenge is one of those things that really makes me want to hate it, but I feel like I can’t hate it because it’s doing so much actual good. At first it seemed like slacktivism at it’s worst: Donate 100 bucks to ALS research or dump ice water on your head and tell other people they have the same choice. I feel like we should be shaming the people who pick the ice bucket instead of donating. Dumping ice water on your head in the heat of summer is hardly that big a deal and a whimpy way to escape actually helping, but it appears many people are indeed donating anyway even when they dunk themselves. So it’s really stupid, but if it’s working, then whatever. It’s not as bad as the October Pinkocalypse or No Shave November (it took me 5+ years to find out Movember is about Prostate Cancer, not very good at raising awareness is it?) .
Dave I challenge you to take the ice bucket challenge.
I thought the ice bucket challenge was “dump water on your head AND donate money to charity”? I’m no fan of slacktivism, but this seems like it’s a bit different to the “no makeup selfie” nonsense a while back.
There’s two different rules to it. The slacktivism bunch don’t donate if they accept it, but the good for charity rules say you donate $10 for ice bucket challenge, $100 if you don’t do it.
’s worse in the UK. ALS where I come from is short for A Love Supreme, a fanzine for Sunderland AFC.
If you’re not a baseball nut here, folk ain’t gonna have Clue One what this is for. It’s called Motor Neurone Disease over here, not ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, but it’s a horrible thing to watch someone die of either way.
Hell of a waste of Smirnoff Ice too. At least Chris Pratt got that bit right.
Except there are many types of motor neuron diseases, Progressive Bulbar Palsy (PBP), Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA), Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS) and indeed Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis-or ALS, Kennedy’s disease, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), Pseudobulbular Palsy and Post-Polio Syndrome. It’s amazing how many people don’t know that there are other motor neuron diseases. The most common IS ALS, so that’s likely the source of confusion. But yeah, still in the UK there’s all these moto neuron diseases, even if you haven’t heard of them. They basically all have the same thing in common-they’re all destroying the motor neurons so all the essential movements like speaking, eating, breathing all stop, there’s paralysis and eventually death. Not pleasant. They are horrible diseases to watch people die from.
Yep-I am also British. Welsh, actually.
I think we need THE GODDAMNED DOCTOR to provide his medical opinion on this subject.
Also, Johnny Football has a pretty good leg to get a tub full of alcohol up to Lebron’s face. Maybe he should take up kicking duties for the Brownies, as well.
Wouldn’t be this smug if he was a punter.
Not to make light of something serious, but the acronyms always make me think of Arrested Development – Maeby embezzling the money raised to fight “BS”, and then the charity benefit to fight GVH (Graft-vs-Host) to save Tobias’ hair plugs.
When Ice Bucket Challenges first popped up on my newsfeed about a month ago, the idea was you could donate $100 to pay out, or you take the challenge and donate $1 or $2 for every like your video got. I think that part got lost somewhere as it made its way to the pages where celebrities get 50,000 likes on their challenge.
i think most people who do the challenge donate anyway or encourage their friends to. $14m raised so far is all good
i assumed JF would do it with cristal
Dave these “Johnny and the King” comics are getting kinda old. You should stop making them.
Dave these “Johnny and the King” comics are getting better and better! You should keep making them.
Dave you run a comics website so you should make comics you like to make.
Also, I don’t think Johnny Freefall is classy enough to use Smirnoff Ice for an ALS Ice Bucket challenge. Natty Ice seems more his style.
Natty is Matt Leinart’s trademark drink of choice (technically Natty Light). JFF using Smirnoff Ice is acceptable
I’m surprised you didn’t go with Steve Smith telling Aqib Talib to ice up again. Ice up son.
Can someone help me find the Sexy Rexy? I couldn’t even find Jennings if he was wide open.
It’s in the liquid in the second panel.
Prepare for farts.