Games -- Get It?! Get It?! GAMES!

And now, it's time once again for Editorial Explanations' recurring feature "If all of the other cartoonists were jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge..."

In this corner: Joe Heller, 7/25/12:

In the opposite corner: Mike Keefe, 7/26/12:

Keefe's cartoon is dated a day later (according to Cagle) -- if that's true, he's due at least a rueful head wag and a deep sigh.

Red Cars Are Dangerous

Cartoons by Garry Markstein, John R. Rose, and John Cole:

Plus five points for not doing a Grim Reaper "can you hear me now" cartoon, like four or five other cartoonists I could name.

Minus fifteen, though, for doing the same cartoon as each other, down to the color of the car.

Double Vision

Steve Kelley and Mike Luckovich, 5/18/11:

 

If a joke is so obvious that another cartoonist can make it in exactly the same way on the same day, it might just be time to take five minutes to think up another concept.

Also, when your big joke was first used for a porn movie more than a generation ago, this is another sign that you need to try slightly harder.