zardax

A five-panel SMBC comic. Lord Zardax, a crowned, white-bearded green lizard king sitting glumly on a throne, is asked by a robed green lizard attendant, "Lord Zardax! What ails you?" Zardax replies, "Nobody cares about us." He launches into a lament: "All day long I secretly control the banking system and cause countries to go to war with each other and obliterate traditional cultures, and who gets credit?! The Jews!" He continues, frustrated, "It's not fair! They're not even trying to create a unified autocratic world government! I, Zardax, labor to subdue democracy every day, but does anyone pay attention!? No!" The attendant offers, "Shall we encourage their awakening with another round of stimulant chemtrails?" Zardax slumps and sighs, "Ah, what's the use." The joke skewers antisemitic conspiracy theories: a literal lizard-people overlord is bitter that real-world conspiracy theorists credit the Jews instead of him for the conspiracies he actually runs. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the scowling Zardax adds his petty parting decision: "You know what? Take the fluoride out of their water."