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I have a hard time believing they do this very often

They’ll Do It Every Time, 3/23/07

See, here’s the thing about the classic “send in your ideas to get them turned into a comic” comics: you never really know what’s going to happen to them after you send them in. They might get through almost entirely unfiltered, except that you end up in a vest or with a bow in your hair or something; on the other hand, you things might get so twisted around that they become completely unrecognizable. For instance, I have a hard time imagining that a “number of wives all over the U.S.A.” wrote Al Scaduto to say, “Ha! It used to be that I would harass my husband all the time for working for a living while I sat around doing nothing … but now that he’s retired, the very sight of him disgusts me! Ha! I guess I’m just a fickle, controlling shrew!” On the bright side, it looks like we’re about to get some hi-larious wife-beating action.

Mark Trail, 3/23/07

Wow, I’ve never seen Mark so depressed, so downcast, so … upset and confused. All because of one little hook from the bottom of a boat. That hook made him feel worse than he did watching his old army buddy drown and die. Maybe it’s his Rosebud, his madeleine, bringing his mind back to a past that’s now lost, a better time, when he didn’t have to live with a dumb girl and her creepy old dad and a moronic adopted son, when it was just him and his vast collection of hooks and screws, and he was happy.

Ziggy, 3/23/07

AUUUUGGGHHH ZIGGY OWNS SAILOR MOON UNDERWEAR MUST NOT VISUALIZE NOOOOOOOO

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 04:14 pm and is filed under Mark Trail, They'll Do It Every Time, Ziggy.

109 responses to “I have a hard time believing they do this very often”

Jordan
March 25th, 2007 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

Ziggy wears underwear?
PeteMoss
March 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm [Reply]

Ziggy’s laundry is returned nicely wrapped, though. Nice touch.
Sean
March 25th, 2007 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

I’ve been watching Mark Trail have that kid destroy evidence all week long. I can’t believe there is no inquest into this death. A guy falls out of your boat and disappears, they look but can’t find his body and everyone just goes home?
Blade Runner
March 25th, 2007 at 4:24 pm [Reply]

Bad Bad Margo McGee

Manhattin, New York City
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a girl named Margo McGee

Now Margo more than trouble
And she stand about five foot two
All her room mates screaming
When sheâ€™s late with zippers
And the men just call her â€œmuleâ€

And sheâ€™s bad (bad) bad Margo McGee
The baddest gal in New York City
Badder than old King Kong
And Meaner than a junkyard dog

Now Margo, she plans partys
And she likes her nose candy
And she swings her hips and pouts her lips
And bobbles everybodyâ€™s heads

And sheâ€™s bad (bad) bad Margo McGee
The baddest gal in New York City
Badder than old King Kong
And Meaner than a junkyard dog

Well Friday, bout a week ago
Margo snorting ice
And in came Tommie
Talking â€˜bout two boyfriends
And only one of them was nice

And sheâ€™s bad (bad) bad Margo McGee
The baddest gal in New York City
Badder than old King Kong
And Meaner than a junkyard dog

Now Margo forgot to write down
The name of one of Tommies beaus
and it sent poor Tommie
in to wild conniptions
and it curled each of her toes

And sheâ€™s bad (bad) bad Margo McGee
The baddest gal in New York City
Badder than old King Kong
And Meaner than a junkyard dog
stinky pete
March 25th, 2007 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

On this day of comics mashups (Lio/FOOB, PBS/GF), it’s a Mark Trail/Slylock Fox combo.

Q: Diver Dan pretended to drown for the insurance money, but he’s really alive & well in Zihuatenejo, Mexico. How did Slylock know?

A: (have to pretend this is upside down). He found an eyehook!
Sam L.
March 25th, 2007 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

Is that dog rolling its eyes in TDIET? Is a dog really that aware of its surroundings?
Frank Drackman
March 25th, 2007 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

“What do I think the hook is for?!?!?”….hmm let me think…”FOR CATCHING FISH DUMBASS!!!!” jeez I wish I had used protection….
willethompson
March 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pm [Reply]

On the upside, Ziggy doesn’t have Hello. Kitty! underwear. Now THAT’S ewwwwwwww.
Islamorada Girl
March 25th, 2007 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

After reading 3/27’s Lio, all I can say is Mark Tatulli is a god!

Congrats, Josh! Love your Popeness and couldn’t live without CC and the Cards.
Shiptic Canker
March 25th, 2007 at 4:29 pm [Reply]

TDIET’s Scaputo sez — Look out, Potsy…there’s a NEW Anson in town! Get Pantzed! Oh yeah!! Wuzzat? I got nothin’.
BCist
March 25th, 2007 at 4:29 pm [Reply]

Who writes Ziggy? I assumed its some 90-year-old man sustained by prune juice and blank ZIggy photocopies. How does he know about Sailor Moon? So many questions.
fizzy logic
March 25th, 2007 at 4:29 pm [Reply]

Isn’t this the second time in a couple of days that we’ve had to contemplate Ziggy’s netherregions? No more, I say! Tom Wilson, you’ve hit your limit! Actually, you were past the limit two comics ago, but, a line has to be drawn somewhere.

I also like how Mark has to stop working to think about the eyehook, but Rusty has to continue. Ha-Ha! Rusty is stuck working while Mark sits and “thinks”!
Shiptic Canker
March 25th, 2007 at 4:29 pm [Reply]

Scaduto, that is.
Howard Erk
March 25th, 2007 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

Now, Happy MILLENIPOST.

No matter how you count them, there was no post zero.
kippetje2000
March 25th, 2007 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

Either this weeks foob’s are as pissed off as Mr. Pantz, or Mr.. Pantz’s is really having a party. You see he’s got the same thing hanging over his head as all those guests at Michaels’s party. I like to think of it as an emotional chandelier, a visual Sword of Damn those Cli(ch)es.
J.S.
March 25th, 2007 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

Why in all of the post-eyehook-discovery strips has Mark Trail had such eensy-weensy, teenie-weenie hands? And why is he not worried about his friends bloated body one day rising to the surface of the pond behind his house and scaring Cherry or Rusty half to death?
fizzy logic
March 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pm [Reply]

#4 – Nicely done, Blade Runner! Watch out for Margo, though, she’ll [Margo] you up!
Harvest
March 25th, 2007 at 4:39 pm [Reply]

You know, one of my favorite things about the running commentary you make on this site is the occasional tormented eye-clawing screams I can imagine you letting loose on occasions like today’s Ziggy. In fact, everything from the all caps to the ‘AUUUUGGGHHH’ sums up exactly how I feel about Ziggy wearing Sailor Moon underwear. However, the semantics of how exactly underwear fits on his tiny, misshapen body it worrisome enough.
Hobbes
March 25th, 2007 at 4:40 pm [Reply]

From the look of shock on his face, clearly Ziggy accidentally gave the laundromat his collection of used Japanese schoolgirl underwear, and is now trying to figure out how to un-wash them.
Johnny Q
March 25th, 2007 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

ZIGGY: Sailor Moon underwear? Gee, a cultural reference only ten years out of date!
Anonymous
March 25th, 2007 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

You would think that a grown man (figuratively in Ziggy’s case) owning Sailor Moon underwear would be grounds for a search warrant.
Some Guy Here
March 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

Well, between Mark getting all sentimental and sappy at the thought of OMG people kill fishes when they go fishing!!!11 and Ziggy’s shocking revelation that he wears Sailor Moon underwear (or underwear at all for that matter), well…I’m left speechless…..
Weasel Boy
March 25th, 2007 at 4:50 pm [Reply]

How cool is it that Scaduto, a man stuck in his own private time-warp, chose Vesuvius for his volcano metaphor? Mt. St. Helens? Krakatoa? Nah, why go back a mere 27 or 124 years, when you can reference an event that happened over 1900 years ago? That’s goin’ old school, Scaduto style.
Blade Runner
March 25th, 2007 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

Now Chennux, heâ€™s an empâ€™ror
And he likes that Apple Girl
They go on trips across time and space
And he buys her lots of shoes

Now Chennux, eating earthlings
Likes to smother them in goo
And he eats potatoes
Lobsters and tomatoes
And squashes planets under his shoe
Cornwhacker
March 25th, 2007 at 4:57 pm [Reply]

It says here that the Sailor Moon cartoon series ended in March, 1997: just barely a decade old! That’s pretty with-it for someone who’s still making jokes about the S&L scandal.
majolo
March 25th, 2007 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

Did anyone else get the urge to turn around and send the Ziggy joke to TDIET? Just Me? Oh.

All right then.
Cornwhacker
March 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

Whoops, Johnny Q beat me to it. B-but my post had links!
Galactic General Conreine
March 25th, 2007 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

PUNY EARTHLINGS!! ZAP FRIED GRANNIX DOWN YOUR THROATS AS CONREINE ROARS!

THE ONE CALLED LIO HAS CLEVERLY SENT UP FOOB AND PLEASES CHENNEX AND I! THE PIPSQUEAK HAS A DEMONIC FLARE FOR TREACHERY! IT’S STUFF LIKE THAT THAT KEEPS ME IN BUSINESS!

END TRANSMISSION
Oâ€™Fogeyette
March 25th, 2007 at 5:10 pm [Reply]

#28 Galactic General Conreine: look, your illustrious warlordness, you really mean to say “Chennux and me.” That’s the objective case of “I.” This has been driving me crazy all day, from the sports page to the front page, and now the CC site. I can’t take much more.
Blynneda
March 25th, 2007 at 5:12 pm [Reply]

I was going to comment on Ziggy’s long-out-of-date choice of licensed undergarments (has he been wearing them for ten years? Perhaps more importantly, does that make Ziggy a Plugger?). But I feel it’s more pressing to question why Ziggy gets his underwear dry cleaned (note the sign on the counter-front). Does he only grace his nether regions with pure silk? Or velvet?
stumps
March 25th, 2007 at 5:13 pm [Reply]

There is no way a tiny eyehook like that would have supported Mark’s friend’s scuba gear – what really happened is the string broke, the tank sank and what’s his name drowned trying to find the tank – he forgot about water temps and went numb – about like I have become after starting to read MT because of Josh’s blog.

One other thing, if Mark is so concerned that his buddy fooled him, why is he having junior continue to clean the boat? – not too concerned about disturbing the evidense, is he? – perhaps he is going to take vengence himself and feed the evil-doers to the beavers..
sevenyearlion
March 25th, 2007 at 5:15 pm [Reply]

You have it all wrong. Mark isn’t upset and confused because of the hook. He’s upset and confused because, like us, he read that day’s Ziggy.
jules
March 25th, 2007 at 5:16 pm [Reply]

Listen: Ziggy doesn’t even wear pants, as near as I can tell. Just that big ole oversized shirt. Now I’m supposed to believe he wears any underwear, much less Sailor Moon dry-clean-only underwear? Forget it, Wilson! Just forget it!
Kurdt
March 25th, 2007 at 5:18 pm [Reply]

Not knowing that the girl in MT is named Cherry and not really seeing the comma I assumed that Mark was saying “I am cherry upset and confused.” Now that would be funny.

As to the Ziggy’s underwear at the dry cleaning (#30): his dog won’t let him use any toilet paper and he has to have the skid marks cleaned out somehow.
Squid Countess
March 25th, 2007 at 5:20 pm [Reply]

I can’t recall what Sailor Moon says as she spins around to get her planetary power. I don’t think it’s, “Power of Moon!”, since that so clearly implies sticking your ass out a car window. I love the idea of a superhero who would have to do that in order to power up, though.
Moon Mullins
March 25th, 2007 at 5:36 pm [Reply]

#35: I have to say “power of Moon” to my wife all the time.

Congrats Josh! This site is the best.
Kenny
March 25th, 2007 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

that flask Ol’ Anson is wielding looks like it would carry some heft. I think he’s just aiming to please, and by “to please” I mean “for Migraina’s temple.”
Tabby Lavalamp
March 25th, 2007 at 5:42 pm [Reply]

The Sailor Moon reference confirms something I’ve long suspected. Tom Wilson just whips off a good five to ten years worth of Ziggys at a time, then sends them in slowly as time goes by, sitting on his boat sipping margaritas and thinking what a swell racket he has going.
Rusty
March 25th, 2007 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

My girls have Hello Kitty underwear, but they are 6 years old. If it can be established that Ziggy is in fact an adult male, then he is a perv.
Poteet
March 25th, 2007 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

# 28 — Your Imperial Excellency, I responded to you on the last thread (# 440). And if I could ask — can you tell us your birthday? We earthlings like to send special greetings to each other on our natal days, and now that you are communicating with us so often, it would be fun to know yours. If that’s not being too presumptuous. Thank you (bows three times, retreats).
Poteet
March 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm [Reply]

FOOB spoiler — Since my paper prints the Monday Foob on Sunday, I now know that Lynn’s mission, starting on Monday, is to encourage us to all hate Gewald. Though some of us may cheer him on. That is all.

ZIGGY — There may come a time when some commercial establishment will have to wash my underwear, but I’m sure grateful that time is not now.
Squid Countess
March 25th, 2007 at 5:52 pm [Reply]

#4 Blade Runner – Excellent! I sang it through twice.

WilleThompson – I posted a comment congratulating you on your book and reminding you that I loved you back when you were just a hack writing campaign ads for Randy Parker, but the comment was removed. The Spam Gods are odd.

Josh – Thank you so very much for what you’ve created and what you provide here. It has to feel like more trouble than it’s worth sometimes, I’m sure. Thanks for keeping on through those times. Oh, – and based on pictures of every female curmudgeon I’ve seen so far – if I buy a Tshirt, will I finally be a C-Cup? [*Tomorrow - email arrives saying, "We don't know how you got through the screening process - cease posting immediately.*]
Kurdt
March 25th, 2007 at 5:57 pm [Reply]

I thought I’d post again to put this link up that I found by typing in “Ziggy sucks” into Google.

http://www.davebumba.com/articles/ziggy.html
Cornwhacker
March 25th, 2007 at 5:59 pm [Reply]

#35: I went digging in Wikipedia for you.
There’s several, many of which would be appropriate for shouting whilst sticking one’s ass out a car window, such as “Moon Crisis Power!”
commodorejohn
March 25th, 2007 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

Sadly, I was unable to locate pictures of Sailor Moon underwear to help Josh visualize – I’m sure there has to be some out there, I just don’t know where to find pictures.

To make up for it, though, Hello Kitty underwear.
Heckler 123
March 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

#8, Willethompson – I have Hello Kitty underwear. On the other hand, I’m female, and I’m not built like Ziggy. But I think that little megacephalic abomination has been going through my laundry basket. My Sailor Moon underwear is definitely missing.

#20, Johnny Q – Sailor Moon merchandise is still avavilable. I could suggest that you google “Sailor Moon + panties”, but I have a sneaking suspicion that you would wind up on a very different website than the one you expected.

#29, O”Fogeyette – Me no like bad grammar neither.

Reagrding Ziggy – I once got angry at my now ex-husband and applied Smurf iron-ons to all his tighty whities. Sadly, even that didn’t keep him from cheating one me. The bastard. I still have days when I’d like to [Margo] him up. But I’m not bitter.

Regarding TDIET – So his wife’s name is Migraina Pantz? No wonder she’s in such a raggy mood.
Artist formerly known as Ben
March 25th, 2007 at 6:09 pm [Reply]

#28, Ah geez, Conreine is roaring again. That always means long night.

You kind of have to take Mark’s upsetness and confusion on faith. The only outward sign is his lack of corny smile.
Gabe
March 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pm [Reply]

Regards to Ziggy’s author, those that have met him say he’s an incredibly nice, Ziggy like fellow. His politics lean extremely right, but he manages to not let that seep too much into his comic, other than the occasional Rush name drop.
Cornwhacker
March 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pm [Reply]

46: Yes, Migraina Pantz. And I strongly discourage everyone from conducting an image search for “Migraina Panties”.
rich
March 25th, 2007 at 6:16 pm [Reply]

Mark Tatulli of Lio has visited this site in the past:

http://www.joshreads.com/?p=503#comment-25122
Tracer Bullet
March 25th, 2007 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

Why would anyone get his underwear dry cleaned? I prefer to swaddle my nether regions in Sailor Moon underpants toasty warm from the microwave.

What?
yellojkt
March 25th, 2007 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

For those of you that did not wade through all 300+ comments on the millenipost, I have put up the CILF posts of the National Coolest Comics Contest. You can vote for your favorite female character in either the Funny or the Soap Divisions.

At Josh’s suggestion, I have added hotter pictures of Abbey and June.
Edelweiss
March 25th, 2007 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

There is a section in today’s (Sunday) Washington Post which is carried weekly and it’s in the Outlook section. It is the omsbudsman column on B6 by Deborah Howell and the last paragraph is all about our 1000-boy JOSH! Read it and weep!
John C Fremont
March 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm [Reply]

To paraphrase the late Hoyt Axton, I’ve never been to Spain, but I’ve been to Crete, Nebraska. And it, uh, exists. Didn’t find Rolly Church, but I found Sacred Heart Catholic Church and the Something Something Methodist Church diagonally across the street from each other. And I have photographic evidence that I was there – if I ever get around to developing the film in the “Happy Times” disposable camera I bought at the Crete Casey’s General Store.

Yep. It’s a rich, full life I live. (sigh)
Joe
March 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm [Reply]

More disturbing than Ziggy wearing Sailor Moon underwear: Sailor Moon wearing Ziggy underwear. At least, I would imagine it’s more disturbing, as Ziggy’s patented brand of low self-esteem might lead to some hygiene issues.
Maughta
March 25th, 2007 at 6:22 pm [Reply]

I want Sailor Moon underwear!!! That’s totally going on my wish list.
Oâ€™Fogeyette
March 25th, 2007 at 6:23 pm [Reply]

Oh, geez, now I feel terrible. To Mark Tatulli, I want to say that I’m sorry I have been so vocal about my Lio hatred, and especially after today’s strip I promise to try to like it. And I DO like the pet squid and its name.
Ratty
March 25th, 2007 at 6:26 pm [Reply]

I was just wondering if anyone had seen the Boondocks comic today.

You’d have thought they coulda named two films that were a) out now and b) out at the same time
Maughta
March 25th, 2007 at 6:32 pm [Reply]

…Or was that (earlier post) too much information?
Cornwhacker
March 25th, 2007 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

50: I remember (lurking in) that thread. Looking back, Tatulli’s post doesn’t blow my mind nearly as much as the fact that Funky Winkerbean had not yet graced the pages of this blog.
Buck Ripsnort
March 25th, 2007 at 6:41 pm [Reply]

Um, Sailor Moon undies would be little girls’ panties, right? And all we ever see Zig wearing is that droopy, oversized shirt. And he’s probably hung like one of those “Love Is. . .” kids– I think Tom Wilson’s led us into a very disturbing area here.
PeteMoss
March 25th, 2007 at 6:41 pm [Reply]

Mark Trail is upset! Mark is confused! Then, on Saturday he shares his deductions with Cherry Trail, former professional dancer, and it’s all Cherry can do to keep her head from exploding all over the 3rd panel! Rubber Church of Alligators!

Thank [SATURN] Elrod brought down the tension today with fluffy, little cottontails, whose enemies include just about all meat eaters. (They’re looking at you, Josh!)
stinky pete
March 25th, 2007 at 6:41 pm [Reply]

Re 52: People, Margo is handily beating June Morgan here! The poll is hottest character, not character most likely to devour her mate after sex.
yellojkt
March 25th, 2007 at 6:43 pm [Reply]

Here are some pictures of Ziggy in cosplay action. (Scroll down and it should become obvious.)
Trotzenbonnie
March 25th, 2007 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

#6 – Sam L
Yes. Dogs really are that aware of their surroundings. My dog is rolling her eyes at me right now. In this case it means “It’s 6:30, bitch. Get your ass in the kitchen and start cooking my dinner right now.” She will rouse herself out of a deep sleep if I so much as think about finding a good place to hide from her. She knows where to find a wet wash cloth so she can clean her face while we brush our teeth at bedtime. And she will not touch her morning toast unless it is properly buttered.

Ziggy – I can’t conceive of mass underwear laundering without getting the shivers. My unmentionables sloshing around the washtub with the ass traps of a complete stranger – does that even happen in real life? I had a male roommate take my underpants out of the dryer and turn them into origami once. After having a fit I rewashed them several times. Am I the only person horrified by this?
Re: the Sailor Moon undies, Barenaked Ladies said it best –
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong thing.
Uncle Lumpy
March 25th, 2007 at 6:48 pm [Reply]

#53 Eidelweiss & to whom it may concern:

Here’s the link to Deborah Howell’s mention of Josh in the Post.
SixFootJen
March 25th, 2007 at 6:49 pm [Reply]

No snark, just nit-picking:
Nos. 2, 30, 34, 51: Many dry cleaners provide “wash and fold” (also called “fluff and fold”) services. They machine-wash and tumble-dry your clothes, towels, sheets, etc. and charge you by the pound. You get your nice clean laundry back in a perfect cube shape, often wrapped in blue paper and tied in string. So, although it’s disturbing that Ziggy has Sailor Moon underwear, at least we know he didn’t have it dry cleaned.
Everyone who’s disturbed by the fact that Ziggy wears Sailor Moon underwear: would you rather he didn’t wear underwear at all? Frankly, “Commando Ziggy” creeps me out.
No. 58 Ratty: “Boondocks” isn’t being produced any more; the artist stopped drawing it. You’re looking at a re-run. See in the last panel under the ticket counter, where it says “8-22″?
No. 28: Chennux is gonna be pretty pissed at you when he sees you spelled his name wrong.
Everyone who hates FOOB: Gotta agree, this Lio (http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/lio/) is fan-effing-tastic.
TurtleBoy
March 25th, 2007 at 6:49 pm [Reply]

#58 Ratty: Um…Boondocks is in “re-run mode,” has been for several months now, since Aaron MacGruder went the way of the Watterson…what you’re seein’ there is “Classic Boondocks.”
Uncle Lumpy
March 25th, 2007 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

#65 Trotz -

Er, origami of what? Crane, dragon, . . . *(blushes)*?

[C'mon, it's not like you weren't thinking it!]
Randy S
March 25th, 2007 at 6:55 pm [Reply]

Much more disturbing than the fact that Ziggy wears Sailor Moon underwear, is how genuinely excited the girl behind the counter is about it.

Oh and BTW, is it just me, or does the guy in the curmudgeon gear ad wearing the ginger quoting Margo shirt look a little like Brian Jones? (Before he drowned in his swimming pool I mean)
punk
March 25th, 2007 at 6:58 pm [Reply]

Has anyone been following Brenda Starr lately? Because I happened to glance at it yesterday in the paper, and, uh:
Yesterday, with a link to today’s.
Pendragon
March 25th, 2007 at 6:59 pm [Reply]

It’s kind of strange to me that Boondocks can now be appreciated as retrochic like Bugs Bunny’s references to gas rationing, Jerry Colonna and The Great Gildersleeve.
Islamorada Girl
March 25th, 2007 at 7:00 pm [Reply]

For those who missed it: Deborah Howell, ombudsman for the Washington Post wrote on 3/25:

Comic strips are like old friends, so Post editors don’t decide to get rid of them lightly. After notices to readers, three strips were dropped this week — “Broom Hilda,” “Mary Worth” and “Cathy” — and several new ones were introduced. About a thousand readers called or e-mailed, the vast majority asking for the return of one or more, though some cheered their demise.

Exact figures aren’t available, but early returns suggest “Mary Worth” was most popular, followed by “Cathy” and “Broom Hilda.” Two panels, “The Flying McCoys” and “The Other Coast” didn’t cause much anguish.

All will be available on washingtonpost.com, but that doesn’t always cut it with longtime readers, one of whom said in a voice mail: “Older readers enjoy them [the comics] and don’t have access to the Internet.”

A Web site has already gone up to campaign for “Mary Worth.” The Comics Curmudgeon, Josh Fruhlinger on wonkette.com, makes fun of and loves comics and is pushing for her return. “The weird old soap operas (including Mary Worth) are my favorite target.”

And I have a hard time believing she does this very often either.
Dean Booth
March 25th, 2007 at 7:05 pm [Reply]

At the 2nd Millinepost, when we’re all reminiscing again about how we got here, there will be a bunch of folks confessing, “I found this site while searching for Sailor Moon panties.
Trotzenbonnie
March 25th, 2007 at 7:07 pm [Reply]

Unka Lumpy –
My bloomers were folded so tight it seemed like Mr. Rick spent way too much time handling them. I think it started out as rigid origami then turned into a wet fold. Eww.

Speaking of underwear, did Montoni decide to go smokeless?
Trotzenbonnie
March 25th, 2007 at 7:15 pm [Reply]

I just walked into the living room and said “Ziggy wears Sailor Moon underpants” to my husband. He’s not sure he wants me hanging around with you guys anymore.
Jake
March 25th, 2007 at 7:17 pm [Reply]

I knew I’d seen a Ziggy underwear gag somewhere.

Uh. Some continuity problems here, huh?
Dingo
March 25th, 2007 at 7:17 pm [Reply]

When Rolly Church sat in the pew

An alm, they say, he gave

But heathens, like us, make him stew

[MARGO!] Burma Shave
Jennifer
March 25th, 2007 at 7:26 pm [Reply]

Today’s LÄ«o was almost funny enough to stop me sobbing over the premature ending of Rob Harrell’s wonderful Big Top.

How will I go on with no more Dusty and Wink and Pete and Stucco?

HOW WILL I GO ON?!

[MARGO!] [MARGO!] [MARGO!]itty [MARGO!]
PeteMoss
March 25th, 2007 at 7:29 pm [Reply]

Ziggy brought in tighty-whities yet the laundry lady sees a pattern in Ziggy’s underwear that resembles Sailor Moon. Hmmmm. Looks like a job for Slylock Fox & his faithful rodent, Max.
Trotzenbonnie
March 25th, 2007 at 7:30 pm [Reply]

#77 – Jake
Have you seen the pretty healthy dose of anti-Marmaduke sentiment on the Joe Mathlete site?
If I spend too much time there I feel like I’m cheating on Josh.
Red Greenback
March 25th, 2007 at 7:33 pm [Reply]

Well, just the fact that Ziggy’s drawers survived a session of professional laundering rules out the possibity that they are edible Sailor Moon underpants.
PeteMoss
March 25th, 2007 at 7:36 pm [Reply]

82. Red

There are edible Sailor Moon underpants? Are they carb free?
mattt
March 25th, 2007 at 7:40 pm [Reply]

BEST. LIO. EVER!!!
Trotzenbonnie
March 25th, 2007 at 7:40 pm [Reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_underwear
Red Greenback
March 25th, 2007 at 7:41 pm [Reply]

And dolphin-safe.
PeteMoss
March 25th, 2007 at 7:49 pm [Reply]

85 Trotzenbonnie

Your Wiki link included this bit of wisdom:

As sugar is a favourite food of yeast, it is advisable to avoid contact between sugar and the vagina, or the woman may risk a yeast infection. When edible underwear will be touching the vagina, care should therefore be taken to ensure it does not contain sugars.

Thanks, Trotz!
Trotzenbonnie
March 25th, 2007 at 7:55 pm [Reply]

PeteM
No thanks necessary. Just doing my job – keepin’ it real and keepin’ it fresh.
Cornwhacker
March 25th, 2007 at 8:13 pm [Reply]

87: That’s why you should always wear a pantiliner with your edible undies.

What?
fishmorgjp
March 25th, 2007 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

73 Islamorada Girl:

Comic strips are like old friends, so Post editors donâ€™t decide to get rid of them lightly. After notices to readers, three strips were dropped this week â€” â€œBroom Hilda,â€ â€œMary Worthâ€ and â€œCathyâ€ â€” and several new ones were introduced. About a thousand readers called or e-mailed, the vast majority asking for the return of one or more, though some cheered their demise. (Deborah Howell)

That should properly be “the vast majority cheered their demise, though some asked for the return of one or more”… obviously a typo in the Washington Post.
Blondie
March 25th, 2007 at 9:12 pm [Reply]

7: Ooo! An intruiging concept. Mark is actually Rusty’s father and he just pretended to adopt him to save face after having such a dumb and stunted kid.
King Folderol
March 25th, 2007 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

TDIET – I’m enjoying the dog staring out at all of us, destroying the 4th wall, as if to say that even he, too, knows that Al Scaduto sucks.

Ziggy – The Sailor Moon underwear was purchased by Ziggy for his wife. Ziggy thinks his wife is real but she isn’t, which explains all the trips Ziggy takes to the psychiatrist. The psychiatrist gag is not funny, but at least Tom Wilson has put in the effort and time to create a nice little universe here.
andreavis
March 25th, 2007 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

Between the TP issues and his Sailor Moon undies [shudder], this is more time than I ever wanted to spend contemplating Ziggy’s pasty white ass.
Jym
March 25th, 2007 at 10:32 pm [Reply]

=33= Ziggy (jules): If he’s not wearing pants he had best have some undies on. I’m just sayin’.

=46= Smurfs (Heckler123): I must confess, I am in awe of what you did to your ex’s underwear.
Cornwhacker
March 26th, 2007 at 12:13 am [Reply]

Sailor Moon fans discuss Friday’s Ziggy.

They link to this.
SappySwami
March 26th, 2007 at 12:15 am [Reply]

Ziggy should be proud he owns under clothes printed with an image that hasn’t been popular since 1998. They could be worth something some day.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
March 26th, 2007 at 1:21 am [Reply]

The Phantom: I’d like to have a T-shirt or a bumper sticker that says “I never go to Wambesiland in the flesh anymore”.

Monty: More vultures. Perhaps we should find a Vulture Countess.

And perhaps even a Britney Countess: Nancy, and I saw another one … where did it go?

Slylock Fox: It doesn’t say “Mike the giant male mosquito”. Unless perhaps we assume that female giant mutant mosquitos always have a bow on their head.

Slylock Eggplant: That’s just stupid. Why not say “Slylock fed the monster Monster Poison” or “Slylock shot the monster with a tranquilizer dart” or “Slylock knew monsters are afraid of mice wearing little derbies” or “Slylock waited until the monster started eating the rabbit”. Any one would be just as valid as the answer given.

JP: Doesn’t anyone in Paris speak French? Tourists!

Years ago, I used to enjoy reading Gasoline Alley. Then these two characters totally took over the strip, and it was so boring I just stopped reading. So also did a lot of other people, I think, because as I remember my local paper dropped the strip.
Len
March 26th, 2007 at 1:56 am [Reply]

#82 (Red Greenback)

“Well, just the fact that Ziggyâ€™s drawers survived a session of professional laundering rules out the possibity that they are edible Sailor Moon underpants…”

By “Ziggy’s drawers” I thought you meant “the artists who illustrate this crappy strip.”

But you meant underclothes, didn’tcha?

(If the Wilsons, father and son, don’t launder themselves, I sincerely doubt they are “edible” in any of MY definitions of the word!)
Erik
March 26th, 2007 at 1:59 am [Reply]

I am frigging SHOCKED that the creators of Ziggy even know who Sailor Moon is. But then again, I suppose referencing anime fads several years out of date is about right for a comic that’s trying to horn in on what “all the modern nerds are into”.
Jason
March 26th, 2007 at 8:54 am [Reply]

I bet Ziggy and Michael Jackson are good friends.
Dave Lartigue
March 26th, 2007 at 8:57 am [Reply]

Anson Pantz seems to have retired from smuggling spice for Jabba the Hutt.
kingklash
March 26th, 2007 at 12:38 pm [Reply]

Just to do my part to bring a different audience to CC:
Sailor Moon Panties
Hello Kitty Panties
Panties, panties, panties!

In the meantime, Marmaduke needs to wear underwear.
dale
March 26th, 2007 at 1:02 pm [Reply]

97. Mr. O’Malley — Slylock Fox
It does say “… implanted in his brain”.
I actually remember all the way back to yesterday morning when having guessed the answer, I thought: read carefully to be sure male is in there.
odinthor
March 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pm [Reply]

TDIET — Well, um, aaaactuallyyyyyy . . . wives may not write in and say exactly that; but it’s not unusual to find in the advice columns wives writing in stating something to the effect of “Dear Aunt Parthy Ann: My husband, who never used to be around to help me tie my corset, arrange feathers in my hat, or re-fill the lamps with whale-oil, but whom I love dearly because he has been a good provider, just retired after 75 years of scaling fish at the service station, and he’s driving me cRaZy sitting around all day relaxing for the first time in his life and getting in my way when I want to watch my soap operas, eat my favorite bon-bons, and entertain my lover Franz. How can I get him to go back to work until he dies so I can enjoy life again? Signed, Loving Wife.” Or the husband writes in: “Dear Aunt Parthy Ann: For the last 75 years, I’ve been spending the day hours with my lover Franz; but now he seems to be busy most of the time so I told my wife that I retired and now I stay at home. But after nagging me about never being around for the last 74.5 years, now she seems to be anxious to get me out of the house. What should I do? Signed, Loving Husband.” Scaduto seems to be making his comment drawing a little bit on both sides (but coming down on the husbands’ side).

Gil Thorp and Mark Trail — Is it just me, or is our pal the wacky young Tyler looking an awful lot like Mark Trail?!?!?!?!? Does Mark have something going in Milford? No wonder he always seems to be preoccupied . . .
heathcliff
March 31st, 2007 at 4:27 pm [Reply]

Oh, the Sailor Moon underwear’s not for wearing.
Kord
January 8th, 2008 at 6:53 am [Reply]

Sailo Moon is my favorite anime movie! I really love it! Specially i like Setsuna Meioh!
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