#pluggers

[interpretingpluggers]

Hoo boy, starting with some good old-fashioned ‘Pluggers are fucking disgusting.’ Close that microwave, dump the coffee in the sink, and go to the mirror and take a long, hard look at yourself, dude.

[morska13]

[dr-archeville]

Fine, I’ll admit it, I’m not ashamed: I learned something from Pluggers today, because I didn’t just stare at it uncomprehendingly in dull horror and say “what gibbering madness is this?” before moving on to Piranha Club.  In fact, I discovered that, according to this retrospective 2016 article in the Michgan-based Jackson News, beard-growing contests for the Bicentennial were a thing, confirmed by this 1996 post on the alt.culture.us.1970s usenet group where someone in Alabama remembers similar informal beard-growing competitions.  Side note: isn’t it crazy that that 1996 post is closer in time to the Bicentennial than it is to today, but I can’t remember 1976 because I was a toddler and it was decades ago but I remember 1996 very well because I was an adult and it was very recent?  Funny how this world works!  Ha ha!  Anyway, my point is that yes, “Bicentennial beards” were a real thing, with millions of American growing huge beards to honor our founding fathers, who were, to a man, clean-shaven.  The ’70s were wild, guys. 

Pluggers, 2017/12/12.  Commentary from The Comics Curmudgeon [source]

[cartoonsintheirunderwear]

FINALLY! A PLUGGERS COMIC WITH BRIEFS <3

[interpretingpluggers]

Pluggers are tacky, thoughtless, and desperate to hide their balding heads by any means necessary.

[interpretingpluggers]

Pluggers says fuck gender roles, except for all those times it said exactly the opposite.

[interpretingpluggers]

A plugger takes no pleasure in carnal relations, and only finds joy in defending his fragile ego through pointless duplicity.

Also fuck golf.

[interpretingpluggers]

You’re a plugger if your existence is defined by doing what little work there is for this comic so Gary Brookins doesn’t have to.