The Comics Curmudgeon

76 responses to “Easter hate”

1. Poteet
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:34 pm [Reply]

   Good lord, I’m glad I only read CRANKSHAFT when it’s featured here.

2. Will
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:34 pm [Reply]

   I think the “ack” is there to keep us all from being re-directed to this scary-ass, anti-abortion, and not very Cathy-esque website:

   http://motherofthem.all.org/

3. Eric G
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:39 pm [Reply]

   Johnny Hart. R.I.P.

   http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8OCMMEO0.html

4. zqfmgb
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:39 pm [Reply]

   Mary Worth also has a rare Red Tree Otter in it. for some reason. somebody call Mark Trail.

5. Trotzenbonnie
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:41 pm [Reply]

   Crankshaft-
   Uh…I don’t get it. Is the guy saying his mother is an insensitive idiot? Help!

   Re: Johnny’s passing-
   ‘He died at his storyboard’
   Is there a better indication of a life well spent than dying while doing something you love-after doing it for almost 50 years? Maybe Johnny had at least one Fan in High Places.

6. RyanE
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:42 pm [Reply]

   I personally think that a .ack Top-Level Domain would be akin to the proposed .xxx one. We can finally keep all the Cathy-related sites on one easily-blocked TLD.

7. monkey.dave
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:43 pm [Reply]

   So is Thirsty Thurston still nursing a hangover from the night before, or does he start drinking early enough in the morning that he can be well and truly blotto before staggering off to a 9.30am church service? Either way, it goes a long way towards explaining the Valium grin that Irma is wearing. After 40 years of watching her husband wandering around in an alcohol-fueled daze, a little bit of mother’s-little-helper is probably the only thing that gets her through the day.

8. Whitney
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:44 pm [Reply]

   RIP Johnny Hart.

   Although I have to admit, as risk of sounding like a total heartless bitch (*cough*MaryWorth*cough*), that I’m looking forward to no more B.C. in my comics page.

9. Harry Paratestes
   April 8th, 2007 at 9:47 pm [Reply]

   MW: I thought Charterstone was in the suburbs, but the landscape in the last few panels looks like it’s out in the middle of Wy-fucking-oming. And what’s up with the steps in the middle of nowhere? OH SHIT, Mary is buying the Stairway to Heaven! Duuuude!

10. Len
    April 8th, 2007 at 9:48 pm [Reply]

    God’s got Hart!

    Not much different from Eric G.’s Salon article, but it seems the funeral details were added.

    Will “B.C.” just fade away? Or will Hart’s ghost artists and writers carry it forward? Sort of ironically appropriate that he passed away during the Easter vigil.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_on_en_ot/obit_hart

11. Poteet
    April 8th, 2007 at 9:54 pm [Reply]

    And per CRANKSHAFT, what does “intellectually there” mean? Really smart? Smart? Able to walk and chew gum at the same time?

    # 8 — Whitney, according to a source on the previous thread, B.C. is going to continue. And I didn’t think you were a total heartless bitch. I was very sorry when Charles Shultz died, but I was also glad that PEANUTS wouldn’t become a zombie strip.

12. Rusty
    April 8th, 2007 at 9:55 pm [Reply]

    I read the Easter BC online late last night, and noted to myself that Hart hadn’t deliberately antogonized the Jews this time around. I am not mentioning this as some sort of coincidence that maybe his god called him home. Anyway, put me down in the “bury the strip with the originator” camp, including Peanuts. Free up some room for some up and coming young turks.

    Crankshaft: WTF? Mom created art from her cold black heart?

    MW: Note that Toby does not want any competition in the young bllonde category. She also slams home a Mimosa in a hearty manner.

13. monkey.dave
    April 8th, 2007 at 9:55 pm [Reply]

    Too bad you didn’t include this week’s Sunday FOOB — it’s starting to look like Lynn hates Michael as much as any joshreads.com regular does. Why else would she expose him as a C&E churchgoer who hasn’t taken the time to expose his daughter to even the basic outline of the Easter story? Later this week (hopefully): Michael starts to wonder why his daughter bears such a striking resemblance to Weed.

14. Len
    April 8th, 2007 at 9:57 pm [Reply]

    #8 — Sorry, Whitney… I just re-read the obit on Hart. It will become a zombie strip, produced by his heirs. (sigh)

15. Jack Parsons
    April 8th, 2007 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

    Upon opening dshea’s home page, I received this popup:

    To properly display the MathML on this page you need to install the following fonts: CMSY10,CMEX10,Math1,Math2,Math4.

    But then you would be a nerd.

16. Poteet
    April 8th, 2007 at 9:59 pm [Reply]

    # 11 — And of course that should have been Charles Shulz. Sorry.

17. Blade Runner
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:00 pm [Reply]

    MW – That is a great shot of the squirrel in panel four at the Charterstone Partay. I just hope that the little guy starts pelting the guests with acorns, especially the annoying professor Chinbeard.

    It looks as is Camel Toby is putting a lot of thought in to her comment in panel five about Vera having to get back to work. Maybe she is Lu Anne’s long lost twin from A3G.

    A3G – Good Lord, I just followed the link to the “About the characters” article in the Houston Chronicle, and it claims that Tommie is the brains of the outfit and that she began her career as a Nurse! Maybe she quit the nurse gig after she was booted from the hospital because of her incompetence.

18. CHA5NCE
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:02 pm [Reply]

    I think Vera’s real reason for going to the Charterstone pool party was to ask Mary if she could do something about the old lady smell in her new apartment.

19. Herro!
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:04 pm [Reply]

    I’m with Rusty…Toeby (sp?) has the FOOB-style smugly lidded eyes as she savors her triumph–and the beverage sliding down her gullet from her previously empty-appearing glass. Wait, wasn’t she drinking red before? As in, ketchup red?

20. Frank Parsnip
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:11 pm [Reply]

    In the reports now coming out, Hart’s death may have been related to the annual stress of reconciling a strip named “B.C.” with the annual Easter strips.

21. Rhekarid
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:12 pm [Reply]

    Judging from the shape and placement of those bones, that suitcase is either filled with skeletons, or wadded-up pirate flags. Either way, that man is my new hero.

22. fuzzmaster
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

    Re Crankshaft: The guy harshing on his mom is husband of one of Crankshaft’s two daughters, with whom the old bus driver lives.

    The mom has been consistently portrayed as extremely nasty to her son, unlike Crankshaft, who is curmudgeonly but generally doesn’t attack his offspring.

    And if you’re going to complain about this strip, then what do you say about the constant string of Sally Forths recently in which she and the hubby basically call her mom a beyotch over and over?

23. Scott Carpenter
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:19 pm [Reply]

    No, no, no! .ack must be dedicated to the great Bill-the-Cat.

24. evie oh oh
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:20 pm [Reply]

    Hmm, what exactly is the death trade? I mean, is there actually money to be made in the smuggling of skulls and assorted human bones? Are they marketing them to acting groups preforming Hamlet? I wont even begin to ask questions about how the flesh was removed…

    On a positive note, they seemed to be pretty well packed into the suitcase.. minimum shifting as the bag has been opened.

25. Amanda
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:22 pm [Reply]

    Apparently Hi & Lois’ reverend is Bob Ross??

26. Jack Parsons
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:25 pm [Reply]

    Mystery Science Theater 3000 had the Ur-Easter-Joke.

    Astronauts futzing around on the Moon find a cave.

    “Messiah tracks – 3 days old!”

27. under_score
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:29 pm [Reply]

    22: Today’s Crankshaft just chaps my hide. Because “guy whose name I don’t remember” can’t get over his bad childhood, where mom was borderline abusive but not Joan Crawford level by any means. Instead of thinking “yeah, maybe there’s something I don’t understand about mom, she was capable of something beautiful, there must be something which caused her to be the way she is, maybe we can make peace someday, or at least maybe I can come to terms with it”, no, he just has to go be a prick about it and continue to feel sorry for himself. Wah wah wah. But we know Batiuk can’t let anyone be happy, so I really didn’t expect better.

    Whereas Sally seems not to wallow in it, you know?

28. Biiirdmaaan!
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:32 pm [Reply]

    MW: What struck me was the bearded guy’s line in panel 5,

    “Our new neighbor seems rather unobtrusive, and I for one welcome that quality at Charterstone.”

    Seems like a vaguely veiled snark at Mary to me. Go get her, beard-guy! But be careful, it will be hard to out passive-aggressive the queen bitch Mary.

    P.S. Sorta-long time lurker, first time poster. Hello, world!

29. Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:35 pm [Reply]

    I kind of thought Hi and Lois’s pastor bears a certain resemblance to a particular comics-covering blogger we all know and love…

30. Foobarski
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:38 pm [Reply]

    Seems like Berke Breathed ought to have first crack at the “.ack” domain …

31. Anonymous
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:46 pm [Reply]

    I, for one, welcome our unobtrusive overlords.

32. reader-who-posts
    April 8th, 2007 at 10:58 pm [Reply]

    Crankshaft: My mom is stupid…Happy Easter!

    MW: Oh, Chinbeard is sly with his discussion of welcoming “unobtrusive” tenants to Charterstone. This is obviously referring to his secret hatred of Mary. Or Toby. Or, most likely, both.

    Spider-Man: It might help in maintaining his secret identity if he would stop constantly talking to himself and naming his relatives while in costume.

    Hagar: Maybe Helga is Crankshaft’s son-in-law’s mother? (This would be easier if I knew his name, but don’t care enough to look it up!)

    Hi & Lois: I think their preacher is none other than PBS’s Joy of Painting host Bob Ross!

    BB: I was really upset over the idea of the army wasting money to build a statue of Gen. Halftrack. Then I remembered that there’s about 5,458 things named about Sen. Byrd in West Virginia, and decided that the statue is small change.

    Crock: Fat Broad may potentially rest in peace, but no matter what we still have Grossie to provide us with an offensive depiction of an overweight female.

    Snuffy Smith: Lesson for today via Snuffy Smith – hillbilly men are incapable of wrapping even the simplest small box. Also, they are incapable of talking without hanging their tongue out of their mouths, but we learn that every day.

    Blondie: This would have been funnier if he was singing “Trapped in the Closet”.

33. reader-who-posts
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:00 pm [Reply]

    28 – dammit we thought alike on Mary Worth…and you were faster. Now I feel like Carlos Mencia – which is good since he doesn’t care about plagiarizing.

34. Buck Ripsnort
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:05 pm [Reply]

    I wanna be in the Death Trade. I wanna be an upper-class African in a sharp suit, tilting my designer ray-bans down my nose to tell some nosy beat cop, “No problem mon, I’m in the Death Trade.” And business is goooood.

35. Bunnë
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:07 pm [Reply]

    #16 Poteet — I think you are thinking of Charles Sultz

36. reader-who-posts
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:09 pm [Reply]

    ummm, that should be “named AFTER” Sen. Byrd, not ‘named about’.

37. Toonhead
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

    MW: Damn, who do I want to bitch slap first, Mary or Toby? I’m glad I don’t live at Charterstone, otherwise I would get tennis elbow from all the bitch slapping.

    Bitch slap – it’s fun to say!

38. Jym
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:16 pm [Reply]

    =v= Bloom County: Bill the Cat’s “ack!” came after Cathy’s. I always assumed it was in reference to a bad strip, much as Bill himself was in reference to Garfield.

39. Key Lime Pie
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:26 pm [Reply]

    “What triggered it?!?!?”
    Chinbeard is a stinking rotten letch, and Vera can smell it a mile away.
    Am I the only one that sees Vera’s obvious resemblence to Toby here?
    Doesn’t Chinbeard have a reputation for cheating on Toby?

40. Trilobite
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:51 pm [Reply]

    After Chinbeard’s little slam on Toby and Mary there (”rather unobtrusive, and I for one welcome that quality at Charterstone!”), I’m hoping to see a little in-fighting among the Meddling Cabal.

    Just imagine Mary saying, “I like how Vera doesn’t pontificate at length about meaningless B.S. that no one in the world cares about,” or Toby letting fly with “I like how Vera doesn’t weigh 300 pounds and wear tangerine-colored pimp suits made out of burlap.” It would be glorious!

41. DaveyK
    April 8th, 2007 at 11:51 pm [Reply]

    Under normal circumstances, I might think the otherwise unmotivated appearance of the sneering young man represented the answer to Mary’s question (”I wonder what triggered it?”) and is an example of foreshadowing.

    But this is Mary Worth. Totally uninvoled strangers pass bizarrely in and out of frame as if their sole artistic purpose is to illustrate that Mary and her cohorts don’t inhabit a post-apocalyptic hell, mostly devoid of humans, in which meddling is the last remaining form of currency.

    Though, to this young man’s credit, he seems aware of the camera and about to wave and say “Hi, Mom.”

42. Poteet
    April 9th, 2007 at 12:04 am [Reply]

    # 35 — Bunne, obviously my brain was not functioning, period. Apologies to all yet again, and it’s Schulz. Schulz. Schulz. (Bangs malfunctioning head on wall.)

43. Landover Baptist
    April 9th, 2007 at 12:12 am [Reply]

    I’d be grateful for a sermon lasting two dozen words, too.

44. Don
    April 9th, 2007 at 12:13 am [Reply]

    from a comics sydicate website

    DENNIS THE MENACE
    03/30 – a corrected version of the Dennis the Menace panel for Thurday, April 12 — “brand new-carpet” has been changed to read, “brand-new carpet”.

    I guess someone does proofread this stuff

45. odinthor
    April 9th, 2007 at 12:14 am [Reply]

    Hey! Reggie and Veronica have crashed Mary Worth! Are we being prepared for a Vera/Jughead romance?

46. treedweller
    April 9th, 2007 at 12:38 am [Reply]

    Wow, Hi & Lois’ church really went all out on the stained glass windows, didn’t they. What’s the complete opposite of craftsman-quality?

47. walter
    April 9th, 2007 at 1:00 am [Reply]

    I’m looking forward to Josh learning to spell “disappointed.”

48. Lynngineering
    April 9th, 2007 at 1:25 am [Reply]

    FBOFW: Monday Michael feelings after Saturday’s blurted out “truth” missives, his dreaming sends his shaken Dad out for a walk with the dogs to avoid home confrontation, a walk to nowhere, to meet some nobody neighbor we never saw (whom I guess Michael doesn’t even know because the character looks too specific for Foobland public) to do nothing. Yep. How old is Dad already – Grandpa Jim never behaved like this – cmon Michael give your old man a break, let him play with the trains at least…

49. Draktyr
    April 9th, 2007 at 2:14 am [Reply]

    I just want to know why, whenever we see the Charterstone pool, the water always looks very choppy, despite no one being in the pool at the time. Could it be the spirit of Aldo, crying for release?

    and I think the rust colored squirrel in the tree is under the impression that Chinbeard, in his matching suit is the Mothership.

50. Tantive
    April 9th, 2007 at 2:59 am [Reply]

    True story: I live in Kenya and when I was travelling to Texas I was bringing my alto sax with me. When it went through the metal detectors the guards decided to search it. Their dialogue went a little like this:

    Them: “What is this?”
    Me: “A saxophone”
    Them: “A…?”
    Me: “A musical instrument”
    —short deliberation—
    Them: “We do not believe you. You must play”
    Me: “Uh…”

    So then for 5 minutes in the Kenyatta Airport I serenaded the guards with some blues. It was really a fun time. But anyway it is feasable and likely that the baddies in the phantom could get away with their bones.

51. Squid Countess
    April 9th, 2007 at 3:31 am [Reply]

    You’d think Crankshaft’s son-in-law could come to grips with the fact that his mother was a spirit-crushing, love-witholding bitch his entire life, but the fact that he can’t shows just how damaged he is. I work in geriatrics, and I can tell you it’s the kids that never got an ounce of approval from mom or dad that can’t let it rest; they are still trying to get “I love you You’re good. I’m proud of you.” out of the parent before the parent dies. Consequently they just get a lot more angry and bitter.

52. Goaty
    April 9th, 2007 at 3:45 am [Reply]

    In today’s Zits we learn all about foot fetishes…..

53. Motorposus
    April 9th, 2007 at 6:54 am [Reply]

    MW: Vera fled the Charterstone party because she sensed that Donny and Marie would be making an appearance in the last panel.

54. Calico
    April 9th, 2007 at 7:59 am [Reply]

    Bob Ross – he has the frizziest hair I think I’ve ever seen.

    The H & L reverend also reminded me of the “More Cowbell!” skit from SNL years ago.

55. Artist formerly known as Ben
    April 9th, 2007 at 8:10 am [Reply]

    That H&L pastor is freaking me out. He’s a Holy Cross between Reverend Scott Sloane and the King of Town.

    Josh, I’m surprised you didn’t say anything about Dolly Keane’s “ROSE from the dead” pun. Too traumatic?

56. Christopher
    April 9th, 2007 at 8:39 am [Reply]

    Okay, I’m still unclear: Is Mary Worth supposed to be a bitch?

    I mean, she and her coterie are really well-written, if you assume that they’re supposed to represent a certain type. I think Mary especially is an excellently written version of the kind of more or less good-natured but very close-minded and judgmental older woman we’ve probably all met at some point.

    But at the same time, the story never does anything but vindicate Mary’s fear and disdain for the world outside of Charterstone.

    It’s very disorienting for me.

57. Shanghaishrimpo
    April 9th, 2007 at 9:31 am [Reply]

    “The Charterstone Mafia” is absolutely correct! No one can ever live up to their expectations of social perfection.
    (By the way, what in God’s name is that half-squirrel half-lizard creature sizing up Chinbeard in the second panel? It looks like it just might try to rip off his beard and use it to pad its springtime nest!)

58. gkl
    April 9th, 2007 at 10:10 am [Reply]

    #37: “Bitch slap – it’s fun to say!” Truer words have never been spoken.

    I would like to admit that I pulled a Vera this weekend and left a party abruptly. In my case, it was because I didn’t like the people there. (My apologies if I’ve acted as a spoiler for the next three months of MW strips.)

59. Scipio
    April 9th, 2007 at 10:20 am [Reply]

    ‘He died at his storyboard’
    Is there a better indication of a life well spent than dying while doing something you love-after doing it for almost 50 years?

    I should hope so; seems more like simple probably than divine providence.

60. Scipio
    April 9th, 2007 at 10:20 am [Reply]

    ‘He died at his storyboard’
    Is there a better indication of a life well spent than dying while doing something you love-after doing it for almost 50 years?

    I should hope so; seems more like simple probability than divine providence.

61. Cornwhacker
    April 9th, 2007 at 10:26 am [Reply]

    50: Tantive, great story. On my one trip to Kenya, I was stopped by customs and interrogated about the little bar of soap I swiped from the hotel that morning. They didn’t make me wash with it, at least.

    As for Hi & Lois, I’m a bit concerned for the Easter Bunny in the first panel. Looks like he might become roadkill right in front of the church.

62. Decker
    April 9th, 2007 at 11:14 am [Reply]

    In MW panel 4, how much better would Chinbeard’s words sound coming from the squirrel, Mark Trail-style?

63. AndreaD
    April 9th, 2007 at 11:14 am [Reply]

    Anyone who doesn’t like the Crankshaft comic does not have a Ukranian mother. That’s all I’m saying. I don’t have a Ukranian mother, but I HAD a Ukranian grandmother, and let me tell you… well, actually, let me leave it at that. They’re difficult people, that’s the message.

    However, in Crankshaft’s Easter installment, I DO take issue with the phrase, “Generally, if someone is intellectually there and sensitive…”. Good grief, man. If there was ever a need for some finger quotin’, it’s around the word “there” in that staggeringly awkward sentence. Intellectually “there”. Where the Margo is Margo when you need her? Unless I’m reading that sentence wrong?

    All that said, I’m really glad that Crankshaft doesn’t feel the need to be mushy and kind of Easter. Just a mean, ol’ bastard, no matter what the holiday.

    MW: I find it interesting that Professor Chinbeard pretty much out and out says that he hates Mary by complimenting Vera in abstentia on her unobtrusive nature. It doesn’t get more passive aggressively hateful than that at Charterstone. His youthful, Chardonnay-swilling girlfriend is jealous, of course, because Chinbeard obviously won’t hesitate to get to the bottom of Vera’s… well, to the bottom of Vera, basically.

    Also, if we are still voting for crossover possibilities, I’d like Vera to head to Mark Trail’s neck of the woods and show Cherry how to form a worried facial expression. And Cherry can show Vera how to unfurrow her brow and stare straight ahead. And they can paint each other’s toenails. And maybe make out.

64. Braniff
    April 9th, 2007 at 11:15 am [Reply]

    The Family Circus Easter cartoon was predictable. It had Dolly urging that the Easter flower be the rose instead of the lily “because Jesus a-rose from the dead” (if my memory of that pun is correct).

    At least Johnny Hart’s BC took a stand in regards to religion, even if it was politically incorrect at times. When it comes to Easter, The Family Circus can be obnoxiously corny. That cartoon ought to be yanked. The Family Circus says absolutely nothing.

65. Syd
    April 9th, 2007 at 11:45 am [Reply]

    it had to happen eventually.

66. Buck Ripsnort
    April 9th, 2007 at 11:59 am [Reply]

    Not sure whether to post in this thread or the top, but today’s Funky Winkerbean: does her “Wait, what’s that?” refer to:
    A) that guy’s erection, or
    B) the undoubtedly cancerous growth on his nose?

67. odinthor
    April 9th, 2007 at 1:24 pm [Reply]

    #66: FW’s “Wait, what’s that?”. It could be that she’s actually asking, “Wait, what’s ‘that‘?”. In other words, in response to his “not yet,” she’s making use of the trick all English majors make use of in bed and trying to tell him that, as pronouns go, he should be more demonstrative.

68. exelizabeth
    April 9th, 2007 at 1:28 pm [Reply]

    MW: I think we can surmise from Vera’s expression in panel one that whatever soul-sucking, vapid conversation she has briefly witnessed at this, her first and perhaps only Charterstone pool party, has made her physically ill. Our suspicions are confirmed in panel three, as we see her sprinting off, presumably to vomit in the bushes.

69. Jen
    April 9th, 2007 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

    I don’t understand Crankshaft, unless it means that the old lady is cranky because she spent years making beautiful things for a family that thought she was soulless and incapable of such creativity. But surely I’m misinterpreting it? Why would someone create an entire comic to convey that?

    I thought Vera’s week-long journey away from the pool party she was socially coerced into attending was pretty slow and polite, myself. But I imagine if I was a catty socialite whose claws she’d just escaped, I’d be pretty disappointed too.

70. vkbceb
    April 9th, 2007 at 3:49 pm [Reply]

    On top of everything else, Vera is a slow typist. “Maybe she really DID have work to get back to.” She’s bringing the typing home on weekends.

71. RedLion
    April 9th, 2007 at 6:53 pm [Reply]

    MW

    Uh oh. We all know how this is going to end..as it already has twice before, with someone who dared to defy Mary fleeing Charterstone in a car. Bottle of hooch optional (but so deliciously wanted.)

72. FlaGator
    April 9th, 2007 at 8:06 pm [Reply]

    Some curmudgeons may criticize Monday’s 9CL for its lack of punchline, dialogue, or even point. But those people are missing the deeper message, and that message is: Damn it, I’ve got a deadline, and I am utterly out of ideas.

73. Syd
    April 9th, 2007 at 10:10 pm [Reply]

    Apparently whatever triggured ‘her’ was the same thing that triggured Mary’s minions to snap into their trained assassin, dead faced, 1000-yard stare poses.
    Namely, Mary flashed her tits again.

74. blase
    April 9th, 2007 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

    MT: Crime and deception never pay in the Lost Forest. …The trees have eyes, the ducks have ears, the FISH KNOW SECRETS!

75. SixFootJen
    April 10th, 2007 at 1:19 am [Reply]

    19 Herro: Toby’s name is spelled T-o-b-y. However, thanks to some hideous panels in which her too-tight pants resulted in a nasty cameltoe, Mudges often spell it T-o-e-b-y. It’s an homage.

76. zuffix
    April 11th, 2007 at 3:31 pm [Reply]

    #49 Draktyr: I noticed the water too. Not only is it choppy, it seems to not be level (or the pool is not level). Water flowing uphill, stairs going nowhere… Vera probably left because she was feeling queasy.

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