Just as I was putting the finishing touches on this week's strip, I found out that Tom Tomorrow had done the exact same premise, only with the Republican candidates, last week. Usually I read This Modern World in my local altweekly, but I'd missed the latest installment. We cartoonists have a term for the instances when multiple cartoonists inadvertently draw the same thing: a Yahtzee. My fellow alties and I like to poke fun at the daily editorial cartoons for their frequent Yahtzees, which tend to involve repetitions of the most obvious, banal gags (think obits featuring "beam me up Scotty" or Evil Knievel jumping the pearly gates on a motorcycle). Well, it sometimes happens to us too. This concept, I fully admit, is not the most original. But at least it was sort of fun to draw.

I got a robocall from John McCain this morning -- my second, in fact -- informing me that he is a proud conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan. I thought of the final panel of this cartoon and chortled to myself.