The best Wasserman cartoons of 2008

At the end of August, Dan Wasserman began writing a blog called Out of Line (www.boston.com/wasserman) that displays his cartoons and discusses the world of graphic commentary. Collected below are some notable comments from readers.

VERY FIRST COMMENT
Who cares what you think? You're the biggest liberal at the Globe. Go live in Cambridge, stay there, and leave the rest of us normal people alone.
ME Aug. 25

MOST APPRECIATIVE (In response to cartoon on Freddie/Fannie bailout)
That is a perfect cartoon for how I feel today! I feel like I just bought a piece of a mansion that I will never use, much less be allowed to enter. And the crooks who ran up the bill get away without so much as a slap. Thanks a bunch.
MIKE BERNARD Sept. 8

MOST RESIGNED
The problem is the process. The right dominates talk radio and the left has NPR and mainstream print. Whichever way you're predisposed to think you will reinforce those ideas by your choice of outlet. One hears what one wants to hear. If you agree with it it's fact, if you disagree it's bias. It's September 9 and I'm sick of the whole thing already. Anyone know the score of the Sox game?
THE MILTON OBSERVER Sept. 9

MOST PARANOID
Wait till it gets closer to November and the dems are still losing. Then they will begin to threaten race riots, race wars, burning cities if racist America doesn't elect Obama.
GMAN2 Sept. 9

MOST FAWNING (OR MOST SARCASTIC)
Dan, as a sidekick character says to Dilbert in the eponymous cartoon strip: "You are the wind beneath my wings."
PAUL A. Sept. 10

MOST CLEVER (In response to a Miss Piggy lipstick cartoon)
Neither misanthropy nor misogyny here, but serious mispigy.
B Sept. 11

MOST EMPHATIC
YOU HAVE NEVER WROTE AN OUT OF LINE THAT WASNT BIASED. I MEAN YOUR'E NOT EVEN LEFT TO CENTER. YOU DONT EVEN TRY TO BE ANYWHERE NEED TO THE CENTER AT LEAST THE OTHER JOURNALISTS DO. YOUR STUFF IS SICK AND LEFTER THAN STALIN
BRENDAN Oct. 1

MOST CONTENTIOUS SUBJECT (Death of boy at gun show)
This cartoon is in bad taste considering that boy died at the gun show using an uzi. Some people have no class. I mean it might be funny in a different time or another state's paper. Too close to home.
BILL COCHRAN Oct. 29

A week ago this cartoon wouldn't make any sense because we would assume adults are not that stupid. Well. . .? I believe this cartoon is attacking the fact that a group of adults made a decision that a young boy shooting an Uzi was a good idea. I don't find it tasteless, I find it brave to release this cartoon. Cheers Dan!
HECTOR FRANCO Oct. 29

I typically hate Wasserman's editorials, but he hit this one right on the button. I, also, am not an anti-gun zealot, but there is absolutely no reason for an 8-year-old to shoot an Uzi. It should be against the law.
ME Oct. 29

MOST RANDOM
In the description of Dan Wasserman in the top right corner, it says he "draws faster than he types." Do they mean to say he prints faster than he types? Saying that he draws faster than he types doesn't make a lot of sense because they seem like two totally different activities that can't accurately be compared temporally. If the description actually means that he prints faster than he types, that doesn't seem that unique or impressive. Just a random thought.
RANDOMTHOUGHTS Nov. 4

MOST HEARTFELT
I'm from Michigan. I'm white. I remember when a black family moved into our racist white neighborhood. They did it because they were Christian and they believed that they could overcome hatred with love. We thought that way in the 1950s and the 1960s. They were good, kind, warm people. Finally they couldn't take the hostility and they moved out to an all-black area. We stayed friends until their death. I only wish they were alive to see this day.
WILLA MICHENER Nov. 5

MOST INCISIVE
Where was the financial bailout for Confederated Slaveholdings, Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's Inflammable Powder, U.S. Hay and the Baltimore Opera Hat Company?
RICHARD Dec. 5