R-O-L-A-I-D-S spells recall.

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As professional manipulators of the public whose livelihoods depend on the goodwill of marketers, it's not really in our best interest to do consumer advocacy comics. In fact, if you look at our early strips, the first nine months are almost exclusively about my working relationship with Jamie. Then this happened. As advertising professionals – as human beings – how do you not talk about a Hasbro ad selling ejaculation machines to young boys?

You can't not talk about it, any more than we could ignore the restaurant that mocked famine victims, the preschool toys that caused "genital bleeding" or the soft drink marketed exclusively to furries.

And now we have an antacid that presumably works by ripping open your gut to let the bad stuff out. The crazy thing is it's not even the worst Johnson & Johnson recall of the year – that award goes to J&J subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics for their August recall of 93,000 hip implants. Yes, you read that right. 93,000 old people had their fucking skeletons recalled.

-Graham

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