Game THIS, buddy!

Jack Thompson, who's apparently some kind of attorney from Miami with a hard-on against violent video games, has made a modest proposal: he will give $10,000 over to charity if someone will create a video game featuring an (imaginary) father who hunts and kills the publishers of a (hypothetical) violent video game that led to the senseless death of his (imaginary) son, then continues his blood-soaked spree of revenge against game retailers, arcade owners (are there any video arcades anymore?), and any random cops who get in his way.

I can only imagine that Mr. Thompson figures himself to be a modern-day Jonathan Swift, who's hoping -- via his oh-so-clever stunt -- to shock and horrify the game industry into renouncing their evil ways and produce games with fluffy bunnies and rainbow flowers from now on (as if the industry isn't already swimming with non-violent games with outrageously silly plots like rolling everything into gigantic sticky balls).

Fortunately, for those of us with more brains than misguided outrage, Tim Buckley of Ctrl-Alt-Del has crafted a reply that I wish I'd have done, if I had half the artistic talent or comic wit that he has. The fourth panel alone is a scintillating gem of beauty; Rob-bob says check it out.

Next week: Associated Press reports that Jack Thompson is forced to fork over his $10,000 and put his money where his mouth is after 200 bored thirteen-year-olds bang together several dozen Flash-based games based on his goofy-ass premise.