Mallard Fillmore comic is not funny

To the editor:

I have been a subscriber to The Gazette for many years. I read it daily for my news fix and entertainment. The comics section is the last section I read each day. I normally shrug off offensive strips like Mallard Fillmore, which I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was in the political cartoon spot.

I refer to the March 12 edition where 'Jihad John” is shown holding a newspaper and exclaiming that Obama is right. All he really wants is a job. The punch line of the strip is offensive as Jihad John tells how it is so hard to find a job in the 'beheading industry” these days. Should the author of the strip continued with the idea that ISIS is looking for help? The punch line would suggest that, and when did President Barack Obama ever said that all the terrorist need is a job?

Some might tell me to lighten up, it's only a comic strip. I agree, but this kind of strip belongs on another page, not the one that can be seen by kids who shouldn't have to be exposed to the bias from either political stripe in the 'funny papers” as they say. Anybody who can find humor in real people being publicly beheaded has to have issues themselves.

So to The Gazette, take Mallard Fillmore and put him on the Insight page or wherever it belongs and not in the comics section. No, Mallard doesn't make me smile like a comic should.

Tom Lennie

Luzerne