That wouldn't have been an issue when the show was a shuffling, brainless mess, as it has been in previous seasons, but the most recent has been picking up critical plaudits as well as viewers' eyeballs.
"Next time, excuse me, some brainless she-goat will think twice," he told FlashNord news agency.
When the DPJ ended half a century of one-party rule last year, voters had hoped that this sort of brainless, self-obsessed politics as usual would be the first thing on its hit list.
Cartooning, said Mr Watterson, "will never be more than a cheap, brainless commodity until it is published differently".In 2012 he is finally getting his way.
"A group of rigid-minded, brainless, violent and illogical people in Afghanistan are ruining Islam's reputation," lamented Iran's parliamentary speaker, Ali Akbar Nateq-Noori.Although there is no proof of American support, the Taliban are linked with extremist Sunni groups in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and may well share their prejudice against Shias.
The latest farce over Brazilian visas was notably brainless (see article).
"They were older than I, these boys," he writes, "but utterly brainless".
Tacky billboards and bus posters were for brainless bores.
These coastal liberals, some heartlanders grumble, think we all are brainless hicks—even the soldiers who defend them.Mrs Palin's supporters are disgruntled.
Using an appropriate image, a project spokesman, Steve Hale, says: "In terms of international recognition, 'The Wizard of Oz' blows everything else away".More than cornThe mid-west, of course, does not just mean tornadoes, munchkins and brainless scarecrows.
"It is far easier to argue for mindless economics than for brainless economics," he says.
