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Slylock Fox and the case of the sexy, sexy, sexiness

Slylock Fox, 5/27/07

Ah, that sexy Cassandra Cat! With her skin-tight wetsuit and her … pale … pasty fur … totally different from the tawny coloring established in her previous appearances … like a three-day-old corpse … seriously, what the hell happened to her? Is this what a cat looks like after it’s spent some time in the water? It’s creeping me out.

Speaking of things that creep me out, the first iteration of the firefighter in the “how to draw” section at the lower left is missing not only his nose and mouth, but also most of his brainpan. It makes it very difficult to look at the completed drawing without imagining that big hat resting on the flat surface of his impossibly truncated head.

Back to Cassie’s grift: I do appreciate that various genres of news media are here to cover this sexy, sexy story: the big-haired dog from the local TV news, the eager beaver writing up the story for the newspaper’s morning edition, and the pelican, who’ll deliver the tale to an eager audience via half-eaten fish.

Dennis the Menace, 5/27/07

Good lord, just when I think Dennis can’t get any less menacing, he swings into action with his actively anti-menacing “stop smoking!” message. I suppose it’s possible that our young menace is being transformed into such a goody-goody that he becomes a menace through his cloying, annoying crusading, a symbol of the intrusive nanny state, though that doesn’t really match up with his traditional oeuvre of more straightforward menacing, like property destruction and nap disruption. It’s also possible that he wants to keep Mr. Wilson alive as long as possible so as to harass him further. “I’m not going to let the sweet embrace of cancer take you away from my persecution, old man!”

I’ve said it before, but there are few visual conventions in this strip that I find more unsettling than the “single bead of sweat coming down Mr. Wilson’s forehead,” a good example of which can be found in the rightmost panel of the second row. Really, the only thing it says to me is “WARNING! KILLING SPREE IMMINENT!”

Family Circus, 5/27/07

The Family Circus, on the other hand, does have a whiff of menace today. If this strip has an underlying message other than “drugs are awesome,” I’d love to hear it.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 11:09 am and is filed under Dennis the Menace, Family Circus, Slylock Fox. |

176 responses to “Slylock Fox and the case of the sexy, sexy, sexiness”

Anonymous
May 27th, 2007 at 11:14 am [Reply]

no – don’t diss my skylock fox – now you’ve gone too far
Uncle Lumpy
May 27th, 2007 at 11:20 am [Reply]

The Cat is not all bad
She fills her wetsuit
Nicely.
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am [Reply]

Cassandra Cat: I’d hit it if I were Slylock Fox
And Bonnie needs to take Boo-Boo and shove him into the garbage disposal.
Snicker
May 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am [Reply]

“A whale took her into its mouth.”

Okay, they’ve just completely abandoned subtlety now.
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 11:24 am [Reply]

FC: I don’t think that the path shown was made by Kitty; it was made by PJ after he forgot his Ritalin and chased the cat about.
Motorposus
May 27th, 2007 at 11:25 am [Reply]

Foob: Elly must be working the swing shift at a refinery now. This strip is finally getting interesting!
Anonymous
May 27th, 2007 at 11:26 am [Reply]

yo wheres my comment?
Professor Membrane
May 27th, 2007 at 11:31 am [Reply]

Cassandra Cat’s dyed her fur white. She’s hoping to leverage the publicity from the whale story into sales for her goth-themed latex fetishist videos. Of course, she’ll be the one doing most of the swallowing in those…

…I feel kind of dirty for just typing that.
Oâ€™Fogeyette
May 27th, 2007 at 11:38 am [Reply]

I’m too into softball to have yet read yesterday’s comics (or today’s), though finally caught up with yesterthread. And I intend to read everything soon. But for now, just have to comment on Cassandra Cat. Her albinism is not unprecedented. My Google, who has always been black as (tar… night… insert your own simile here), has recently developed a white streak in his tail, and it seems to be spreading. I am going to keep him away from whales.

Also, yesterthread bats: I second your applause for Tucson mailmen. The one at our old house not only would pay for deficit postage, he’d stop by the house if there was too much stuff to go in the community mailbox. Our current carrier is somewhat less helpful, but still friendly.

And by the way: Caitlin Lowe, our all-American center fielder that I asked you all to vote for a while back, was injured in the first inning of the game yesterday while running full-tilt into the outfield wall to catch a fly ball. She left the game and is iffy for today. This happened during an inning in which the opposition scored five runs against us. I’m happy to report that we came back, and won the game 11 to 6.
Jyesika
May 27th, 2007 at 11:38 am [Reply]

Mr. Wilson seems to have cultivated the habit of smoking a pipe through his nose.
True Fable
May 27th, 2007 at 11:44 am [Reply]

SFx Slylock didn’t believe her story because he didn’t even hear it; his big rounded eyes were focused on the curves of her tight black wetsuit. He thought she winked at him, a nerdly fox detective who was constantly getting her tossed into the slammer. Cassandra Cat coming on to me? he wondered. “I don’t believe it!” he muttered aloud.

Bob Weber Jr. overheard him and just assumed it was about her preposterous story about the gilled whale. Cassandra, meanwhile, tried again to get Slylock to follow her back to her apartment, where she had a half dozen big thugs with truncheons ready to wail on him for constantly tossing her in the slammer.
Weasel Boy
May 27th, 2007 at 11:46 am [Reply]

Dennis got less menacing over the course of the television series as well. By the last season, he reminded me of the kid who got beat up on the playground because he reminded the teacher that she forgot to assign homework.
Dagger
May 27th, 2007 at 11:47 am [Reply]

The point of the Slylock Fox cartoon is clearly the line, “…a whale took her into its mouth.” That’s a not-quite-euphemism for oral sex, though I’ve only ever seen it refer to oral sex performed on males. Which means Cassandra Cat has a penis.

Perhaps that explains why Max is studiously picking up seashells, trying a little too hard to ignore Cassandra when he’s ogled her in every other appearance. I think he had a little “Crying Game” experience…
Jameson
May 27th, 2007 at 11:49 am [Reply]

Drugs are awesome, indeed. Kittycat was literally bouncing off the walls on more than one occasion. After this “Family Circus,” the street value of an ounce of catnip just tripled.
Motorposus
May 27th, 2007 at 11:54 am [Reply]

#10: By Jove, you’re right! He could smoke two pipes at onceâ€”and play the saxophone at the same time
Citric
May 27th, 2007 at 11:55 am [Reply]

SFx- Movie studios don’t care about factual accuracy, they care about Cassandra Cat in a form fitting wetsuit for 90 minutes. Maybe it could even get torn off at one point. That’s a blockbuster and a half right there.
Rusty
May 27th, 2007 at 12:01 pm [Reply]

DtM: Mr. Wilson should try alternative methods of narcotic delivery into his system, such as needles and snorting. No tell-tale smoke to alert tDennis the Narc. Clearly his scalp sweat indicates that he’s been interrupted while getting his fix.

FC: Kitty has found the meth lab in the basement.
Salamandre
May 27th, 2007 at 12:03 pm [Reply]

The whale “took her into its mouth”?! Whoa! My love for the Slylock universe deepens.
TeeDubb
May 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pm [Reply]

Also, wouldn’t Cassandra be covered in precious ambergris if a whale swallowed her? Methinks a strip search is in order.

Yeah, I’m a perv.
RedLion
May 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pm [Reply]

What’s the deal with Beetle Bailey today? Sarge declares “I’m lucky to be alive on a day like today” while a hellish thunderstorm rages a few feet behind him and a cloudless sun shines just a few feet ahead. This irreconcilable dichotomy is a sure sign of one of two things:

1. The apocalypse (not likely)

2. The Pentagon has finally had enough of the renegade schizophrenics at Camp Swampy and launched a nuclear device, sending the weather into a chaotic tailspin. This would also explain why absolutely no one else is present in the strip today.
True Fable
May 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

And Bob Weber Jr. did not disappoint: there is the standardized fish skeleton in the deathless Slylock tale today.

FC The Kitty rejects the Keane’s reality and substitues her own.

DtM So Dennis has joined Curtis as the Little Kid Who Harrasses his elders about smoking. Wow, how novel! How groundbreaking! But HOW does this equal menacing? It’s haranguing at best, nowhere near the recent attempts he’s made like outing his dad in front of the cop or costing his mother a fortune in breakables or terrorizing visitors or leaning on Wilson for protection money

You used to have a talent, boy. Now you’re just grinding bees.
Dingo
May 27th, 2007 at 12:10 pm [Reply]

Based on Dub Not Dubya’s suggestion, I’ve updated this morning to add a “Hoo-Guy” to the mix: Lynn Johnston.
Rusty
May 27th, 2007 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

Digging around the various comic sites today, i have unearthed the background to McEldowney’s week-long diatribe about having an artistic job.

http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/bio.phtml

Does this little auto-biography make him seem more like the type of guy you want to meet? The only thing missing is what Ivy League school he (my guess) attended.
MonkeyHawk
May 27th, 2007 at 12:33 pm [Reply]

Hasn’t anyone figured out yet that Slylock Fox has been stalking Casandra Cat?!

He’s peaking in her window, he follows her to the library, he craves the opporunity for the chance to touch her cold earrings, he’s there when she survives a savage attack from a whale — or shark, or (if we’re gonna go Biblical) a “big fish” — and he’s always accusing her even though (as her many reappearances indicate) none of the charges against her stick.

Slylock Fox can’t get a conviction for his life!

(Although, if it turned into a 3-to-5-year sentence of Cassandra doing girl-on-girl prison sex, it’s not like I’d object.)
Steve S
May 27th, 2007 at 12:33 pm [Reply]

You know how you can tell Kittycat is a member of the Keane family? That enormous, misshapen head.
Don
May 27th, 2007 at 12:39 pm [Reply]

That squirrel in Blondie today is insanely large, considering it’s meant to be in the distance. Though at least the cartoonist is way better at drawing raccoons than Mort Walker.
Moon Mullins
May 27th, 2007 at 12:40 pm [Reply]

9 O’F: Hope your player is OK. I watched your game. Your pitcher is a hottie! Usually I don’t find softball players all that attractive, but she really fills out those sweat pants well.

We (Northwestern) are in the World Series and open against ASU on Thursday. Good luck, maybe we’ll rematch in the finals.
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 12:42 pm [Reply]

9CL: “I want a job, I want a job, I want a real job, I want a job that pays… I want a job, I want a job I want a real job…one that satisfies my artistic needs. And thats just the chorus!”
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

Dingo:
So April is going to move to Bawlamer to be Josh’s love slave, huh? I wonder how Mrs. Pope will take it.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
May 27th, 2007 at 12:44 pm [Reply]

The second scrambled word in Slylock Fox also admits the answer

ARSE-HOES.

That is all. Thank you, drive through please.
Reid
May 27th, 2007 at 12:45 pm [Reply]

SFx: Sometimes, it’s so hard not to make a cunnilingus joke when a plotline deals with a cat being eaten.

DtM: The way Dennis has been harassing Mr. Wilson for decades, forcing him to stay locked in time, I’m surprised that he’s not just smoking his pipe to come down from his heroin fix.
criminallyinane
May 27th, 2007 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

What is with those tiny chairs in Family Circus in front of the TV?
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
May 27th, 2007 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

SFx: Eureka! I get it now. Cassandra is not a personal name. “Cassandra” is the name of a shadowy, evil cabal of criminal cats, much like SPECTER or SMERSH or COBRA. Her name is not “Cassandra Cat,” she is a “Cassandra” cat. There are many, of varied appearances and abilities, each ready to pounce into action whenever the Top Cat commands. Today we see agent Bianca, the Italian underwater ops expert, in action. Last time, it was Kitty, whose deceptively young appearance lets her infiltrate tricky targets like the Young Adult section of the local library. Before that, we saw Tabby, the blonde with a rep for keeping her cool even under police interrogation, and Tawny, the veteran operative who’s up for anything. Their reputation for having “nine lives” comes from the fact that when one operative falls, another is there to take her hot, curvaceous place.

Wow, I can’t believe I made it through that whole post without a single “wet pussy” joke.
Spotted HÃ˜rse
May 27th, 2007 at 1:00 pm [Reply]

#33 The Spectacular Spider-Brick:

â€œCassandraâ€ is the name of a shadowy, evil cabal of criminal cats, much like SPECTER or SMERSH or COBRA.

Yup, I think you nailed it, SSB. I can just picture CASSANDRA’s hollowed out mountain fortress with its futuristic little monorails and feline, bejumpsuited-and-behardhatted henchmen.
King Folderol
May 27th, 2007 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

SF – It’s all well and good that BooBoo can’t tell the difference between garbage and Bonnie’s cooking, but BooBoo’s the moron who kept eating it.

DM – Mr. Wilson is not only hoping to get cancer so he’ll stop being menaced, but he’s somehow hoping that cancer is contagious. It won’t work, though; not unless Mr. Wilson can find a way to transfer Dennis to Funky Winkerbean.

FC – If you look closely, the dotted line pattern in the top middle of the cartoon looks like an octupus. And that’s the nicest thing anyone can say about Family Circus ever…it makes you hallucinate things that aren’t there. Like humor.
Charles
May 27th, 2007 at 1:05 pm [Reply]

Can somebody please explain Sunday’s TDIET to me, please? That one guy is steaming mad about the woman saying “Have a nice day!” after he pays his fine, instead of her saying “We’ll see you again soon!” or something like that. Does he get ticketed for speeding often? Then I might understand why he’d expect that goodbye. Otherwise, I’d be pretty happy if someone actually said “Have a nice day!” instead of just glaring at you, expecting that you had read their mind and that it’s time for you to leave YESTERDAY.

Unless I’m misunderstanding what the comic is saying, this could possibly make the cut in the forthcoming TDEIT book, “Top 100 Pettiest Complaints Ever!”
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
May 27th, 2007 at 1:07 pm [Reply]

Oh, and Slylock had better learn to content himself with just looking, ’cause they’re ALL lesbians. Lots of “grooming” going on after-hours in the Cassandra HQ, if you catch my drift.
Oâ€™Fogeyette
May 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm [Reply]

27 Moon Mullins: Good luck against ASU! I really think their pitcher might be the best in softball today, but the team as a whole isn’t that great at fielding. Though they can really hit for power. I hope Northwestern beats them, and not just because ASU are our hereditary enemies. As for our hottie pitcher, I’ve always thought she was adorable. She also can hit for power, but they’re not letting her this year because she’s the only real pitcher we’ve got. The hottest hotties on our team were first, Jennie Finch, who actually has movie-star looks as well as an arm that a major leaguer would kill for; and our four-year All American left fielder Autumn Champion, who graduated last year. Both of these gals help explain why we have such a huge male following for the team.
etho
May 27th, 2007 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Since when do the Pattersons live in the undeground city from Metropolis? I had assumed that, based on how much time they spent whining about their insignificant little problems, they would have to be surface dwellers.
Scott Haley
May 27th, 2007 at 1:16 pm [Reply]

Does anyone get the joke in today’s “Pearls Before Swine?”
--MC
May 27th, 2007 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

Alternate punchline for today’s FC:
DOLLY: “After the initial rush, which lasted for twenty minutes or more, Kittycat ’s settled down for ten hours of mellow sensations and pleasant colors.”
Keg of Curd
May 27th, 2007 at 1:21 pm [Reply]

PBS: It’s the end of the world…
Rusty
May 27th, 2007 at 1:23 pm [Reply]

#40: It’s REM “the end of the world as we know it”. I had to think about it, there is an REM poster on the wall in the first frame.
Buck Ripsnort
May 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm [Reply]

So Spider-Brick, whilst interrogating prisoners or tormenting subordinates, what does the “Top Cat” pet in her lap?
–Yeah, the mind reels w/ filthy replies, don’t it?
stinky pete
May 27th, 2007 at 1:25 pm [Reply]

33 SSB, Those names actually stood for something, e.g. SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). So now we have to ponder what CASSANDRA could mean. Unfortunately I can’t come up with anything (Cats Are….uh….), but that’s what the Wikimudgeons are for.
Scott Haley
May 27th, 2007 at 1:25 pm [Reply]

Thanks.
Cornwhacker
May 27th, 2007 at 1:25 pm [Reply]

I’ve never known catnip to cause cats to behave like that. Cats are quite willing to tear around the house and bounce off walls completelely sober. On the contrary, catnip will make cats roll around, grind their faces into the floor, and attempt to – as Weber would say – take themselves into their mouth.

Hmm… what if the SF and FC plots were reversed?
James Schend
May 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm [Reply]

It also says “REM 1987″ in the first panel. And has a photo of I believe Michael Stipe, or at least someone bald. Did anybody NOT get Pearls Before Swine? MOCK!
stinky pete
May 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm [Reply]

33 SSB, OK, How about:

CASSANDRA: CAt Squad: Smuggling, Arson, Napping, Drugs, Robbery, Assault.

48 JS: Rule 1: We snark at the comics, not at each other.
Bobdog
May 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm [Reply]

SFx – Clearly Slylock is stalking Casssandra. If the voyeurism depicted in the case of her attempted insurance fraud wasn’t evidence enough, he’s clearly been applying his sleuthing skills to follow her wherver she goes so he can oggle her, whether it be in the mall, the library, or at the beach. Even their original encounter at the disco — “hey, I need to feel your earings — to uh — to see if they’re cold” starts to seem more like a desperate attempt to get closer to her in this light. In fact I’m sure he confiscated them as “evidence” and now keeps them in some sort of bizarre trophy case that would laso include her alarm clock and a dead goldfish. He’s one sick fox.

Also, what’s the deal with swimming in a wetsuit? Out here in the Bay Area, if you’ve got a wet suit (because the water is freezing cold from the Alaska current) it usually means you’re diving or surfing in one way or another — but I don’t know of anyone who wears one just to go out swimming. Maybe it’s because she’s a cat and sea water bleaches her fur — which would go a long way to explaining cats’ fear of water.
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

The cats of C.A.S.S.A.N.D.R.A, huh?
How about

Cartooncats
Are
Sexually
Stimulating
Animals
Naturally
Displaying
Righteous
Asses

I’m sure the adventures of the cats of C.A.S.S.A.N.D.R.A
would be a hit. Maybe Bob Weber needs to do some cat-porn drawing as a sideline.
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 1:46 pm [Reply]

Stinky Pete-initialism for CASSANDRA: Cats As Symbolic Sexiness And Not Directly Responsible…A… Aw, nuts!
Help!…. Uncle Lumpy!!!
True Fable
May 27th, 2007 at 1:50 pm [Reply]

Here, Josh: a starter-set FAQ for you. However, it has my personal takes in it so it’s not exactly kosher as reference material.

But hey! The attempt has been made. I’ll get to Chennux, various Queens, Jeffy’s rage, Dingo’s NSFW spoilers, Tyler-whacking, Margo-quoting, Dean Booth Masterpieces, parody references, Toronto caravans, Starved Rock triumphs, bee grinding and other fun quasi-topics one of these days. It’s not like anyone’s waiting for it, I just went on a rant about the comics and suddenly there you go.
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 1:51 pm [Reply]

True Fable, you’re amazing. Nice job to start a FAQ.
Bobdog
May 27th, 2007 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

…and the pelican, whoâ€™ll deliver the tale to an eager audience via half-eaten fish

Are you implying the pelican is with Fox News?
Uncle Lumpy
May 27th, 2007 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

Cats’
Alliance for
Sexual
Services
And
Nefarious
Drug-
Related
Activities
Trilobite
May 27th, 2007 at 2:05 pm [Reply]

#47 Cornwhacker — I was wondering about that. My parents up in Phoenix have a cat, and when he gets a chance to take a hit off the ‘nip he just grinds his face into it and drools enthusiastically. And then rolls over and lays there stunned, presumably transfixed by the pretty lights in his head or something.

I’ve seen him go running around the house over nothing, or because he heard a bird at the top of the chimney, or because he’s training my dad to give him treats, but catnip just makes him slobbery and sleepy. I’m glad to hear that this is normal.
Xenarthral
May 27th, 2007 at 2:11 pm [Reply]

#44 – A furless ape, obviously.
Proteus
May 27th, 2007 at 2:13 pm [Reply]

Cats Are Super Sexy And Not Directly Responsible for their Actions.
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 2:16 pm [Reply]

TF-Excellent FAQ startup! Here is another STO: “Kelrast” is an anagram for stalker. And I think “Bee Grinding” is going to hafta be in there.
Bobdog
May 27th, 2007 at 2:21 pm [Reply]

Re: CASSANDRA — you guys are barking up the wrong tree. It’s not an acronym — it’s just there’s a nine letter limit (alpha-numeric characters only) on the names on all registered shadowy, evil cabals.

It’s just a truncation of Ass and Rachmoninoff (two things they all can agree on) — the C is probably just there because of some clerical error, most likely they ran out of room in the previous box on the form and its contents spilled into the “organization name” field (cats actually have terrible hand writing — not that they’d admit it).
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 2:30 pm [Reply]

TF-Oopsie! I just saw bee grinding there. If it catches on, I’d like to add “Sunday Yellow” to the mix.
Dingo
May 27th, 2007 at 2:41 pm [Reply]

Cats
Against
Systematic
Spying
And
Nefarious
Detectives
Relishing
Avarice

She’s one of the good guys and won’t stop until Slylock Fox is behind bars!
Ubiq
May 27th, 2007 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

SF: The NEWS on the camera must refer to whatever the Shylockian equivalent of the 700 Club is. With that hair and that suit, there’s just no way that dog isn’t a televangelist.
Foobar
May 27th, 2007 at 2:51 pm [Reply]

I vote for 59, because it is correct on both points. This may be my favorite post ever; Family Circus has been subverted yet again and we get another Cat from C.A.S.S.A.N.D.R.A. in a wetsuit, no less no less.
Flealick
May 27th, 2007 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

DtM: Dennis has descended from spouting pithy platitudes suitable for a sampler to narrating PSAs about the dangers of smoking. I assure you the first Gil-Thorp-approved Dennis the Menace “Get a Mammogram” sunday strip will be the last one I read.

SF: Why do I always visualize these strips in my head as a film clip, with the characters holding their position as time passes, Slylock frozen from arousal, as is his way, and the pelican entering a holding pattern as he gazes at Cassandra’s curves?

And one more question: Does the government keep a list of people aroused by reading Slylock Fox? Just looking at the strip makes me feel bad inside. It’s like getting off on the junior jumble.
reader-who-posts
May 27th, 2007 at 2:54 pm [Reply]

Prince Valiant: Did you say an ogre in blue? That must be my husband!!! I’m so proud!

Blondie: Let me get this straight – Dagwood goes by a squirrel, birds, a rabbit, and a racoon, and that damn dog just sits there? No barking, chasing, anything? Dagwood must drug that poor dog — call SPCA!

9CL: How can you explain the look on Amos’ face in the last panel? Let’s just say that Edda needs to work on her personal hygiene and leave it at that.
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 2:58 pm [Reply]

#67
Either Edda has hygiene problems, or her ‘nether beard’ eclipses the beards of ZZ Top
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 3:02 pm [Reply]

TF(MTK)-re: FAQs.
Q:What is “The Barky Stick”?
A: as seen in Death To (GT)-The Barky Stick is a stick that has enough barkitude that it can open a headwound with five or six whacks.
Calico
May 27th, 2007 at 3:05 pm [Reply]

#5 Now Kittycat is dreaming in wild, vivid techinicolor, complete with form constants and interspersions of Louis Wain-type kitties a la his, um, later “drawings.”

And for Mister Josh, all the wet cat pics you could wish for – a veritable cornucopia of feline misery and pissed-offedness.
http://animal-pix.blogspot.com/2007/05/wet-cats.html
uncle balustrade
May 27th, 2007 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

Actually, Dennis is quite menacing here. This strip reminded me of the Orwellian world to come, where the neighbor’s children will report me to the Ministry of Love for smoking a pipeful of tobacco in my own yard. I will then be taken to Room 101, to be tortured to death with Gil Thorpe strips endlessly flashed on the walls.
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 3:21 pm [Reply]

#70- Hang in There, Baby!
SecretMargo
May 27th, 2007 at 3:21 pm [Reply]

For you Slylock Fox The Cat from C.A.S.S.A.N.D.R.A. fanciers: the main website links to a “sample” potent enough to get anyone hooked: a pink haired agent on the beach, sans wetsuit this time
zen velo
May 27th, 2007 at 3:29 pm [Reply]

# 19- you’re right, ambergris comes from sperm whales. Maybe after being taken in the whale’s mouth, pre-op TG Cassandra cat came in the whales mouth…
Strangerâ€¦
May 27th, 2007 at 3:31 pm [Reply]

9CL: Even under the best of conditions, a guy has to come up for air sometime…
fluffy
May 27th, 2007 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

What’s with the Family Circus kids having their own little mini-recliners right in front of the TV? They are also so terribly out of scale with the rest of the living room – even if that image has no perspective, the mini-recliners would have to be doll-sized compared to the monstrous adult furniture.
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

#71 Uncle Balustrade
Not entirely true! In Room 101, you will learn to love Gil Thorpe. After your release, you will spend your days in a tavern, drinking Victory gin and reading old GT strips.
kingklash
May 27th, 2007 at 3:54 pm [Reply]

I wonder if the CASSANDRA Cat has a set of golf clubs in that wetsuit?
stinky pete
May 27th, 2007 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

Who is Gil Thorpe?

Gil Thorpe’s oath:

I swear–by my life and my love of it–that I will never live for the sake of another person of indeterminate gender, nor ask another person of indeterminate gender to live for mine.

(from “Clambake Shrugged”)
TurtleBoy
May 27th, 2007 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

Re FC: “That wasn’t catnip, Billy. Kittycat got into Daddy’s crank stash!”
Calico
May 27th, 2007 at 4:14 pm [Reply]

#72 – I need to grind more bees, I guess!
Boxcar!
Oâ€™Fogeyette
May 27th, 2007 at 4:16 pm [Reply]

Yay, our team won! The Arizona Wildcats are going to the World Series in Oklahoma!

I’m now ready to read the last two days’ comics.
pesch
May 27th, 2007 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

I had a fun time at breakfast this morning. Both my wife and 16-year-old son were perplexed by the PBS strip.

For awhile, so was I. “Leonard Bernstein” Where did I hear that from? (Note, it is my nature not to look at the drawings first, hence I missed the “REM” and Michael Stipe references).

“That’s great?” that rings a bell. Wait for it …. wait for it.

Then it clicked. I knew the song and looked at the strip again, and seeing those two clowns jumping in the air chanting “LEONARD BERNSTEIN” made me cackle at the table. I guffawed. I think I even heezled (that’s when you’re still laughing but you don’t have much air left to do it with, so you heezle).

Finally, my wife said to my son, “I think your dad knows the reference.”

MARY WORTH ALERT: Check out Monday’s strip. Vera performs Von’s letter as interpretative dance! Maybe she’ll meet a unicorn!
flotsam
May 27th, 2007 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

At first glance that looks like a firefighter but if you’ll notice the dollar sign on his helmet he’s clearly a male stripper.
Cedar
May 27th, 2007 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/002472.php

FOOB sets a new level for self-righteousness today, but what I really want to ask about is the sign Elly is hanging in the bathroom. “This house saves water”? Has anyone ever seen anything like that?

I’m starting to suspect that the Sunday strips are not the true events of the FOOBs, but, rather, how the characters view themselves: Elly is a seward of the environment and a dedicated volunteer; John exercises regularly; Mike is a loving father and husband; Elizabeth is a good teacher; April and Gerald are happy together. Remember the strip with Elizabeth and Paul canoodling from last fall? An absolutely cognitive dissonance with the rest of the strip. How long has this been going on? I was a fierce defender of the strip until only recently–about a year ago–so maybe I ignored it. But now it’s just too obvious to ignore.
TybeeDawg
May 27th, 2007 at 4:37 pm [Reply]

Sunday FOOB is nothing less than an existential masterpiece, but instead of waiting for Godot, she boards public transportation to track his sorry ass down. You spend countless hours bundling up corrugated boxes into neat piles tied ever so snugly, you sort your glass and plastic and condom wrappers, and you duitfuly cart them to the curb…

then as you settle your wide load into the broken-down bus seat, you look into your future and you see that everything you have ever done, all you have lived for, in is vain.
Jym
May 27th, 2007 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

=v= SFx: To hell with James Bond; Cassandra is my kinda octopussy!
SecretMargo
May 27th, 2007 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

85: I think you’re right, and it makes it even more interesting that when Michael imagines himself to be a loving father and husband — he imagines himself to be completely absent. Which may be the best way for him to be the best father and husband he can, come to think of it.
awa64
May 27th, 2007 at 4:45 pm [Reply]

That’s no fireman! That’s The Milkman!

His milk is delicious.
willethompson
May 27th, 2007 at 4:46 pm [Reply]

FC: Dolly! Billly! Hush! You’re harshing Kitty’s mellow!
That's The Spirit
May 27th, 2007 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

Has anyone commented on the “Boxcar” and “Saturn” appearing in this FBOFW? Also, a few days before that one, Jim’s nose is touching his speech therapist’s breasts.

I can’t believe Josh isn’t making this font-page news.
TybeeDawg
May 27th, 2007 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

FC: we have four cats, and only one really gets off on catnip…which I understand is below the average. Pepper the Ugliest Cat in the Universe becomes a total slut when catnip is even mentioned. If I open the cabinet where it is, she jumps on the counter and mews questioningly. If that doesn’t work, she sprawls in a way that says “whatever you want, you got…just open that ziploc baggie on the second shelf, dammit!”
Steve`
May 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

Cassandra’s wetsuit with the knife on the leg.

The perfect combination of sex and menace.
stinky pete
May 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

91 T.T.S., I counted 13 comments on that fact on May 18, so by FOOB standards, you’re right, it was barely mentioned.
Jym
May 27th, 2007 at 5:05 pm [Reply]

=26= Blondie/MT (Don): Obviously the squirrel escaped from Lost Forest.

=53= (True Fable): Nice FAQ. Do you (or does anyone) know the origin of using “Margo!” as an epithet? I honestly don’t remember whether I first heard it here or at rec.arts.comics.strips. (Another r.a.c.s-ism is to refer to Mallard Fillmore as “DS” — for “duck shit” — though we wisely generally avoid that strip here as unworthy.)

=83= PBS (pesch): I’m a longtime R.E.M. fan, but I have to admit when I first looked through the strip I thought they were dancing to an instrumental break from somewhere in West Side Story. The lack of finger-snapping prompted me to reread the strip and figure it out …

=87= SFx: In perpetual defense of my lovely Cassandra Cat, I’d like to point out that she’s no marine biologist, so if she confuses blowholes with gills, she deserves some slack. Especially after going through an ordeal that turned her hair white!
Mibbitmaker
May 27th, 2007 at 5:08 pm [Reply]

SFx: Cassandra Cat is Emma Peel!
Cedar
May 27th, 2007 at 5:14 pm [Reply]

# 95

I can’t remember the date of the strip, but there was a sunday strip where Margo was angry at Eric Mills, and muttered to herself some variation of, “That jerk, why I oughta. . . ” Her speech bubble was cut off my Eric himself, appearing behind Margo with a shot of “Margo!” giving the impression that “Margo” was the swear word about to be uttered.
True Fable
May 27th, 2007 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

#95 Jym – got that one about Margo being researched right now.

Meanwhile, I have a whole bunch of new FAQ’s listed, and more to come.

Fable + holiday = oh geez.
Cedar
May 27th, 2007 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

And here’s the strip!
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20070225&name=Apartment_3-G

Going through all these A3G makes me wonder if we’re ever going to get any closure on the Tommie/Gary/Neil plot arc.
Flealick
May 27th, 2007 at 5:25 pm [Reply]

Well, I just peeled my eyes off of Cassandra Cat long enough to admire Bonnie, right above her. Is it just me, or does she have quite the caboose, in panel one, for someone who looks to be Olive Oyl’s love child? If it was in FW, I’d think it was a tumor.

Now, when we see Bonnie in the cat suit, that’s when we’ll know Bob Weber, Jr.’s just fucking with us. I guess one’s passion for children’s visual puzzles can’t last forever.
stinky pete
May 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pm [Reply]

As we nervously await tonight’s unveiling:

I Hope I Get It

JOSH
Again…Snark, snipe, snipe, jape, snark, jest…
Again…Snark, snipe, snipe, jape, snark, jest…
Again…Snark, snipe, snipe, jape, snark, jest…
Again…Snark, snipe, snipe, jape, snark, jest…
Right!
That connects with quip, kid, antic gibe,
Snark, snipe, snipe, jape, snark, jest…
Got it? Going on, quip, quip, jape, jest,
Banter, snicker, snark, snark, snark!
Right, let’s do the whole combination
From the top!

ALL
God, I hope I get it, I hope I get it!
How many comments does he need? How many comments does he need?
God, I hope I get it! I hope I get it!
How many boys, how many girls
How many boys, how many…
Look at all the snarkers, at all the snarkers
How many comments does he need? How many boys, how many girls?
How many comments does he …

WILLE
I really need COTW
Please, God, I need COTW!
I’ve got to get COTW!

JOSH
Stage left, boys.
Let’s do the FOOB combination
First group of girls, second group to follow.
Snark, snipe, snipe, jape, snark, jest…

RED
God, I really blew it, I really blew it!
How could I do a thing like that? How could I do a thing like …?
Now, I’ll never make it
I’ll never make it!
He doesn’t like the way I snark.
He doesn’t like the way I comment.
He doesn’t like the way I…
[Instrumental]

JOSH
All right, let me see the boys.
The whole group. Ready, quip, quip, jape, jest!
[Instrumental]
Okay, Girls, Banter, snicker, snark, snark!
[Instrumental]

RED
God, I think I’ve got it, I think I’ve got it!
I knew he liked me all the time
What’s coming next? What’s happening now?
Still it isn’t over
I’ve gotta imagine what he wants it isn’t over
I’ve gotta imagine what he does
God, I hope I get it, I hope I get it!
I’ve come this far, but even so: It could be yes, it could be no.
How many comments does he…?
I really need COTW.
Please, God, I need this, I’ve got to get COTW.

O’F
Who am I anyway? Am I my nom de snark?
That is the name of a person I don’t know.
What does he want from me?
What should I try to be?
So many snarkers all around and here we go,
I need this, Oh God, I need COTW.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
May 27th, 2007 at 5:35 pm [Reply]

CASSANDRA =

Criminal
And
Spy
Secret
Agency
Not
Doing
Right
Always
Carrots
May 27th, 2007 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

Is it just me or does the shape of the family circus cat path vaguely resemble some kind of sea monster? …Or a spaghetti monster? Has Billy Keane given up his good Christian faith and embrace the dangerous, expensive Catnip Lifestyle?
Uncle Lumpy
May 27th, 2007 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

#98 TF, #99 Cedar -

You guys are on fire! In your copious free time, would you please look up the A3G strip in which Alan first received the key?

I seem to remember mysterious circumstances surrounding that event. Of course, they may have been merely “mysterious circumstances”, but I have a feeling they will figure in the denouement of this interminable, indecipherable, unbearable narrative.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
May 27th, 2007 at 5:47 pm [Reply]

SecretMargo @ 73: Woo! That’s quite a find! But I’m not sure if this is yet another agent, or one of the orange-furred ones wearing a Sidney Bristow-style wig. Slylock will have to take her back to his crime lab for some deep, probing questioning first.

And did anyone else notice that the answers are screwed up on daily sample 3? Yes, there were marine dinosaurs, Icthyosaur in particular. And yes, some dinosaurs could fly, unless you don’t count pterosaurs as dinosaurs. Next you’ll tell me Pluto isn’t a planet. Hmph.
Uncle Lumpy
May 27th, 2007 at 5:50 pm [Reply]

#105 SSB:

Pluto — Never Forget
SecretMargo
May 27th, 2007 at 5:58 pm [Reply]

99: Cedar: Good find! I’d for some reason always thought it went back to this: http://joshreads.com/?p=811 , but now I see that just set the stage for what you point out.

Basically, looking at old A3Gs makes me want Margo to connive using strategic hats again or get kidnapped or just start cussing with little provocation or…anything, really. Actually, I miss the girls interacting with each other most of all, since they mostly just set up Margo to display her marvellous bitchery at their expense, and I simply can’t see enough of that.
Sheilagh
May 27th, 2007 at 6:00 pm [Reply]

The Keanes’ house has always creeped me out. It has all the personality of a Holiday Inn. The furniture is completely generic and obviously vinyl, and it’s very carefully positioned so each piece is equidistant from the other pieces, with vast empty tracts of carpet in between. The window treatments are bland, the wall-to-wall is boring, all the lamps look alike. The color scheme is “avocado”, “rust”, and “harvest gold”, straight out of the ’70s. There is nothing personal in the room, there is nothing cozy about the room. The only clutter, EVER, is the kids’ toys — the parents seem to have no possessions at all. If the place burned down, one $500 check ought to cover it.

I guess it’s a perfect place to raise melon-headed jesus-freak morons, but eesh, it gives me the jim-jams.
Sheilagh
May 27th, 2007 at 6:04 pm [Reply]

Also, Vera is a boob. If Von threw her out once in a fit of pique, he’ll do it again. Don’t believe his “I didn’t mean it, baby” crapola!!!

Though I guess, if Vera’s only alternative is living next door to Mary Worth, any kind of crazy mood-swinging jagoff roommate is preferable…
commodorejohn
May 27th, 2007 at 6:06 pm [Reply]

SFx – I think this is the first time we’ve seen Cassandra in a Sunday strip (correct me if I’m wrong, as I certainly don’t mind seeing a Cassandra Cat appearance I missed,) so my theory in regards to her albinism is that this is Slylock Fox and the Case of the Sunday Colorists. And I know Slylock always has that goggle-eyed expression (and I do mean always,) but it’s extra-special awesome given that his head is pointed at a sexy catgirl in a wetsuit.

FOOB – Other people have already pointed out that this boils down to “conserving and recycling are futile because nobody else does them,” which is exactly the message self-important pricks like ~~Johnston~~ Elly need to hear (well, along with “conserving and recycling don’t really save the environment anyway,” but I don’t feel like debating enviropolitics with anyone on Memorial Day Weekend,) but the thing that really struck me about this strip is the final panel, in which we learn that everybody who dares to drive a decent car of their own is a horrible polluter, but buses and Yugos are the only things on the road that don’t belch noxious fumes (I call BS on the buses, at least – I’ve never smelled Yugo exhaust.) Apparently Canadian metropolises are about as friendly and welcoming as, say, your average sci-fi megacorporate dystopian near-future city. Good to know, though I wonder if the tourist guides say as much.

FC – The 420 Circus.

Hagar – So that’s what Attila the Hun looked like.

JP – “I can’t tell you how much fun my husband and I had here!” Yes, Abbey can only imagine, as she and we are all too painfully aware. I wonder how Parker and Driver are getting on while she’s away…

Edison Lee – Stick it to the man, Edison! After all, it’s not like Opus did the exact same damn thing last year!
pesch
May 27th, 2007 at 6:08 pm [Reply]

Fresh off the wires: National Cartoonists Society named Bill Amend the Cartoonist of the Year (the “Reuben” award).

Just goes to show, kids: cancel your daily strip = good career move.

Also, Stephan Pastis was named best comic strip cartoonist. Good on him.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
May 27th, 2007 at 6:14 pm [Reply]

Wow, I learned something new today—the Seattle P-I is posting the Sunday TDIET and Lockhorns in a readable size. Until recently they were so miniscule that the captions were unreadable. The horizontal scroll bar still seems to be messed up, though.

Even so, I initially read the last caption as “Wup! Land, dude!”.
willethompson
May 27th, 2007 at 6:14 pm [Reply]

# 101 Stinky Pete BWA x 19HA! Well done, you stinky, stinky man!
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
May 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm [Reply]

Those Daily Ink comic samples are pretty interesting. Some of them may have been originally used in the papers, while others have to have been composed strictly as samples. For example, check out the week’s worth of Spider-Man strips. Spidey hears about a crime, goes to the scene, captures four bad guys, thinks about who may have been behind it and makes his way home — in the space of seven strips! Not only would that have taken about six months in the paper, but rather than Spidey catching them, at least half of the criminals would have ended up taking each other, or themselves, out before he got around to it.

The week’s worth of Mary Worth samples are just as slow and pointless as the actual dailies, though.
pesch
May 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm [Reply]

Stinky: “A Chorus Line” right? Great stuff!
Oâ€™Fogeyette
May 27th, 2007 at 6:19 pm [Reply]

Wow, True Fable. Good FAQ’s! I’m so glad someone has some energy this weekend. I can’t even manage to read the comics, though the fact that my comics provider seems to be down has something to do with it.

101 Stinky Pete: BWAHAHAHA! Thanks for the shoutout. And it’s pretty accurate. Truth is, I’ve pretty much given up even hoping to ride on the float. Everyone else is so Margoing funny!

Well, lacking comics to read I’m only sticking around waiting for the College World Series bracket to be posted, and I’m about to give up on that too. Happy Memorial Day everyone! See you sometime tomorrow!
Zamboni_Rodeo
May 27th, 2007 at 6:21 pm [Reply]

I have a question for ‘Mudge Nation: Does anyone know where to go to find Sunday comics online? My print paper doesn’t run the classics like MW and A3G, and my usual online source, The Chron, doesn’t link to Sunday comics. I tried SFGate and The Washington Post online with no luck, and so now I ask the question to you guys. I assume that the Chron and SFGate and the Post all link from the same originators, so is it just that the syndicates don’t make Sunday strips available online?
SecretMargo
May 27th, 2007 at 6:21 pm [Reply]

105: According to Our Friend Wikipedia:

The term dinosaur is sometimes used informally to describe other prehistoric reptiles, such as the pelycosaur Dimetrodon, the winged pterosaurs, and the aquatic ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, although technically none of these were dinosaurs.

This does seem like a particularly inane nit to pick with children, especially since to answer any further inquiries as to why their dinosaur books include marine reptiles and pterosaurs would involve a quick history of how the sketchy early history of dinosaur archaeology collided with Linnean classification systems to make a ratehr arbitrary limit on what could be classified as a “dinosaur.” Big talk for a strip featuring a cat who regularly pierces her earrings through her cheeks and frankly enormous shrews.
SecretMargo
May 27th, 2007 at 6:22 pm [Reply]

117: I get mine from the Seattle P-I: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/
Zamboni_Rodeo
May 27th, 2007 at 6:23 pm [Reply]

S4th: In the title panel today, Ted mutters about “propane and propane accessories.” Apparently he (or Ces) is a King of the Hill fan.
Zamboni_Rodeo
May 27th, 2007 at 6:25 pm [Reply]

119 SecretMargo: Thanks! Now I have a frame of reference for the Sunday snark! Much appreciated!
Uncle Lumpy
May 27th, 2007 at 6:28 pm [Reply]

#117 ZR -

You can get Sunday color comics at the Chron, but you have to modify the date by hand in the URL field. For example, today’s link to Phantom gives you the Saturday strip:

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20070526&name=Phantom

But just change the date field (yyyymmdd) and you get Sunday’s:

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20070527&name=Phantom

Fiddly and annoying, but effective. Doesn’t work for the B&W strips.
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 6:30 pm [Reply]

1) KRASH
2) EAR SHOES (or SEARS HOE)
3) ROUND ELF (or LOUD FERN)
4) SLAM ON
Jamus The Bartender
May 27th, 2007 at 6:30 pm [Reply]

FC.
I went to make some pasketti and meatbulbs,
But…then I got high.
We went to play with Kittycat,
But….then she got high.
We missed visiting our huge Gramma Carne,
we cannot deny…
Because we got high..
Because we got high…
Because we got high.
Anonymous
May 27th, 2007 at 6:31 pm [Reply]

Erin McManus, age 12, of Manchester, NH forgot to draw the wetsuit.
SecretMargo
May 27th, 2007 at 6:32 pm [Reply]

121: No prob. I was just wondering, though, about the Washington Post, since that’s where I go to fill in the gaps in the S-I selection (ya gotta love a paper with 9 Chickweed Lane and Judge Parker but no For Better or For Worse).

This link doesn’t work for you?

http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/fb/
Evan Waters
May 27th, 2007 at 6:44 pm [Reply]

So, the pelican is like the blogger?
Jukashi
May 27th, 2007 at 6:50 pm [Reply]

The possibilities are going to pile up.

Criminal Agency for Spying, Stealing And Nefarious Drug-Running Activities?

Coalition Against Sionnach Sleuth And Nearby Diminutive Rodent Ally?
(“Sionnach” is Irish for “Fox”)

Criminally Arousing, Slinky Seductresses And Nefarious Deeds Racketeering Agency?
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
May 27th, 2007 at 6:55 pm [Reply]

Clever And Sexy Secret Agent Naughtily Draws Renard’s Attention
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 7:06 pm [Reply]

stinky pete 101- Am I one (or both) of the REDs in yer most excellent “A Cotworus Line” parody? If so, I am most honored to be in the company of my esteemed colleagues O’F and wille.
If not,I am still honored to be in the company of my esteemed colleagues O’F and wille.
Jeff
May 27th, 2007 at 7:08 pm [Reply]

#110 –The Sunday strips are usually colored by the cartoonist., and the dailies colored by Reed Brennan Media.
stinky pete
May 27th, 2007 at 7:14 pm [Reply]

130 Red, ye are he, and he are ye.
stinky pete
May 27th, 2007 at 7:16 pm [Reply]

128 Jukashi, A++ for “Nearby Diminutive Rodent Ally”!
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 7:30 pm [Reply]

Cat ASS AND Rosy Areolae
Artist formerly known as Ben
May 27th, 2007 at 7:32 pm [Reply]

“Whiff of menace?” Hell, the Keanes have a horrifying invisible Kraken in their den.
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 7:40 pm [Reply]

#134 me-Sorry Mom! (my mother is 92 and an avid reader of the CC..she could well be a poster too! anyhoo, I’m gonna be hearing about the “Cat ASS” deal, you can best beleive it!)
Uncle Lumpy
May 27th, 2007 at 7:50 pm [Reply]

I am Red’s Mom!

And, yeah, shame on you, Red.
Hobbes
May 27th, 2007 at 7:53 pm [Reply]

The chipper beaver in today’s Slylock Fox is happy because after being harassed by airport security and having his personal belongings stolen, he’s finally caught a break. Of course, this being Slylock Fox, odds are Shady Shrew will steal his transcript of the story, only to have his plans foiled by some random animal fact such as “Shrews don’t have thumbs!”
True Fable
May 27th, 2007 at 7:56 pm [Reply]

Dear Mrs. Greenback,
Please don’t get mad at Red for say Cat ASS. We made him do it. We told him we would hold him down and make him read all the Foob strips with Granthony and Lizardbreath in them – yes, all of them – if he didn’t take the dare. You shouldn’t blame him.

We are willing to look through a compilation of the Best of Barreto’s Judge Parker: In Search of the Perfect Sweaterpuppies as a punishment.

Sincerely,
True Fable, Stinky, Jukashi, Skullturf & SpiderBrick

Think that’ll work, Red?
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
May 27th, 2007 at 8:05 pm [Reply]

I am Red’s Mom!

…What? Oh. I thought it was kind of a “Spartacus” thing.

I am not Red’s Mom. Never mind.
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 8:05 pm [Reply]

Uncle Mom???
GG
May 27th, 2007 at 8:06 pm [Reply]

Man, whoever does Dennis the Menace is pretty incompetent. All you have to do is change one panel and Dennis becomes a menace again:

It’s really not that hard.
GG
May 27th, 2007 at 8:07 pm [Reply]

And by panel, I mean word balloon.
commodorejohn
May 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pm [Reply]

GG – Bravo.
Cedar
May 27th, 2007 at 8:09 pm [Reply]

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060822&name=Apartment_3-G

The key in question
Uncle Lumpy
May 27th, 2007 at 8:15 pm [Reply]

#141 Red -

Cousin Son!

(It’s a plugger thing.)
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 8:17 pm [Reply]

I normally would never admit it out of modesty, but I am the real ‘Red’s Mom’. I shall crack him on the head with a thimble for his postings. ;-)
Old Bean
May 27th, 2007 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

Slylock Fox and Mark Trail get a coffee…

Mark: So, Sly-man, what you been up to?
Slylock: Let’s see. I just ruined a movie deal for some poor cat.
Mark: Why?
Slylock: Oh, no real reason. Spite, I guess.
Mark: Nice. The other day I got my old fishing pal sent to prison for insurance fraud. Ha ha.
Potato: That’s what I believe happened!
Slylock & Mark: Beautiful.

(Mark and Slylock light up huge cigars and puff contentedly.)
commodorejohn
May 27th, 2007 at 8:21 pm [Reply]

I’m not so sure someone with the username “Harry Paratestes” has grounds for complaint about “Cat ASS AND Rosy Areolae” =P
Uncle Lumpy
May 27th, 2007 at 8:21 pm [Reply]

#147 – H.P.

Man, you really need a new handle! Really.

#145 – Cedar

Thanks very much! I had thought some mysterious person gave Alan the key, but it seems Alan gave it toLuAnn. So it makes sense he’s got a spare.
Kronkina
May 27th, 2007 at 8:35 pm [Reply]

I haven’t had a chance to read all the comments, unfortunately, so forgive me if I repeat, but:

MW This is just getting way to incestual for my personal comfort level. Obviously, Moy (or whoever) has just discovered the whole Flowers in the Attic series – and liked them way too much…
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 8:38 pm [Reply]

Howzabout “Albanian Nutsack” ?

Alrighty then, I know how to flush out my Mom’s secret CC identity by her response to these five syllables: George W. Bush.
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 8:50 pm [Reply]

No offense was intended, Red, and hopefully none was taken. I suppose I could appear as my French cousin, Narlee Balzac, though I’ve grown rather attached to this handle.
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 8:57 pm [Reply]

Nah, it’s all good in da hood Harry! AAMOF, yer name always makes me giggle…don’t go changin’…yer pal in Mudginess. Red
Harry Paratestes
May 27th, 2007 at 9:02 pm [Reply]

You’re beautiful, baby, don’t ever change ;-)
Mibbitmaker
May 27th, 2007 at 9:10 pm [Reply]

I’m not Red’s mom, either.

I’m not even a mibbit’s mom!

…any more than Al Capp is a shmoo’s mom.
Dean Booth
May 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

#122, Uncle L: I made this page that creates links to the Chron color comics. Like on the Chron page, you enter the date in the url — but you only have to do it once. The comics pop in a new window, so you may have to allow popups for this page.
Jukashi
May 27th, 2007 at 9:40 pm [Reply]

The idea just hit me and I had to make it.

Then we just add some music…
commodorejohn
May 27th, 2007 at 9:50 pm [Reply]

#158 – Buh-rilliant.
Claire
May 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm [Reply]

Come to think of it, since when does Elly ride the bus? Aren’t the Foobs usually belching down the highway in a gas-guzzling minivan that mysteriously never touches the ground? And didn’t get John get busted for speeding once in his muscle car? Hypocrisy!
Red Greenback
May 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm [Reply]

158 Jukashi-That is wonderful!
Dub Not Dubya
May 27th, 2007 at 10:54 pm [Reply]

22 Dingo: Thanks for adding “Hooo!”

101 stinky pete: A friend of mine was recently in a community production of Chorus Line. He’s going to love your parody once I’m able to explain this website to him a little.

157 Dean Booth: Thanks for the very helpful page. That said, the Chron now takes so long to load for me that I usually seek out the Sunday strips elsewhere. Even visiting multiple sites is faster. I still use the Chron for the daily strips with the “create your own comics page,” but I usually go get a glass of water or something while the page is loading.
alamo
May 27th, 2007 at 11:12 pm [Reply]

foobville — the sign in the bathroom…. does this mean they all shower together???

burning brain cells with even the thought of it. ow!!!!
shane shiner
May 28th, 2007 at 12:35 am [Reply]

What really bothers me is that Kittycat’s face looks more human-like than Billy or Dolly’s.
Randy S
May 28th, 2007 at 2:54 am [Reply]

Monday’s Slylock Fox has Slylock licking boats for clues. This is indeed a sad day
Jack Parsons
May 28th, 2007 at 3:38 am [Reply]

The Slylock Fox movie project is shelved for the nonce, since it has become clear that the projector will periodically have to be upended so that the audience can…

Also, the Ben Kingsley version bombed.
Facebones
May 28th, 2007 at 9:52 am [Reply]

FC: “Catnip?” Is that what Mommy calls her stach of Meth and Zoloft?
Remus
May 28th, 2007 at 10:38 am [Reply]

Did the whale take Cassandra into his mouth? I think it may have been the other way around? That’s why she’s all wet and white !!
Sumyun Gai
May 28th, 2007 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

60 Red Greenback: …and “Aldo” is an anagram for “load”. Load Stalker. Are the MW writers trying to tell us something here?
Red Greenback
May 28th, 2007 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

Loadstalker (BAHDWEE-BEE)
He’s the man, the man with Bob Keeshan’s looks
He does,Gadzooks!
Such a jive talker (BAHDWEE-BEE)
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don’t go in

Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death …

From Mister Loadstalker (BAHDWEE-BEE)
Mary girl, beware of his heart of gold
This heart is cold

Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death …

From Mister Loadstalker (BAHDWEE-BEE)
Meddle gal, beware of his heart of gold
This heart is cold
He loves only gold
Johnny gold
He loves gold
He loves only gold
Johnny gold
He loves gold
junk science
May 28th, 2007 at 8:25 pm [Reply]

I skipped to the end and thought Dennis had shoved the pipe up Mr. Wilson’s nose in a rare paroxysm of integrity, before I realized that was how he had been smoking it all along.
Rosebud
May 29th, 2007 at 8:22 am [Reply]

For Better or Worse:

I don’t think Elly neds to worry about pollution since her more immediate concern should be that she’s riding in a bus driving down the wrong side of the street.
Paul in NJ
May 29th, 2007 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

Nothing says “imminent killing spree!” like the look of murderous rage on Mr. Wilson’s face in the May 29 Dennis the Menace. I swear, that man’s gonna snap, and we’ll see George Everett Wilson featured on a Very Special Episode of CSI:Whereever the Hell Dennis Lives.
Piels
May 30th, 2007 at 7:50 am [Reply]

SFx: I wish we could see the reporters’ reaction after Cassandra’s ruse is exposed. “What, you mean whales aren’t fish?! No shit, Slylock! Hey, I’ve got another mystery I think you can solve. It’s called the Case of the Clobbered Cockblocker.”
kostia
June 1st, 2007 at 8:19 pm [Reply]

That is NEVER what a cat looks like.
Anonymous
January 4th, 2009 at 2:44 pm [Reply]

“Mom did my shovel go to heaven?”

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