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Metapost: Slightly delayed comments of the week!

Ack, for once I’ve missed my Sunday night COTW target. Let’s get to it before we start on the comics I’m behind on. Here’s this week’s top comment:

A3G: “‘Bad things happened here. I can feel it.’ Obviously, Gabriella has seen Lu Ann’s paintings.” –man behind the curtain

And runners-up!

“I thought it was fairly clear by now that Margo split her father’s forehead from the inside and emerged fully formed astride a chariot pulled by naked, nubile man-slaves. That ‘mother’ is a comically inept character actor she hired cheap from a failing production of The House of Bernarda Alba, and she’s been a bit sorry ever since, but not enough to sacrifice the cover and occasional inadvertent amusement she provides. Though if she ends up actually saving Lu Ann, my guess is it’ll be back to the shadowy realm of telenovela walk-ons and amateur psychic hotline-manning for her. No one saves that twit and gets away with it.” –SecretMargo

“What pisses me off is that Lynn, for some reason, thinks that this whole house-buying arc is somehow interesting in any way, shape, or form. I’m all for contrived melodrama if it’s crazy and ridiculous, but does anybody care about a fundamentally retarded family buying a house? … And even better, the backup story is an old man recovering from a stroke. WHEEEEEEE THE FUN NEVER STOPS IN CANADA” –ararrrar

“Abbey forgot to tell Sam the best part — that she just handed a check for $2.5 million to the bass player from Molly Hatchet.” –Squawk

“Rex is actually holding a crescent wrench in panel two, and when he’s done with Hugh’s bicycle, the subsequent traffic accident will show him how M.D.s deal out justice … hell yeah.” –Johnny Cat

“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.’” –Piels

Dinnertime at the Morgan household is a festival of self-loathing and unspoken resentment. So basically, like the rest of their day, except with more food.” –Trilobite

“I like in MW that Charterstone’s garbage chute is big enough to stuff a body down without the awkwardness of having to chop it into pieces in the bathtub.” –NotThatGuy

“By any stretch of the English language, does ‘deep sleep him to the moon’ make any sense at all? It must be upsetting to get an urge that you can’t even visualize.” –Artist formerly known as Ben

“And the best seat in a plugger’s house is perched precariously on what is probably a threadbare arm of the chair that is held on with duct tape? Pap-Paw seems to tolerate the young’un only because she is holding the bag of salty snacks.” –GotFuzzy

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58 responses to “Metapost: Slightly delayed comments of the week!”

  1. willethompson
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:10 am [Reply]

    DAMMIT! I just post the JP we’d all like to see on the last thread and it’s the COTW page!

  2. mere cog in the machine
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:16 am [Reply]

    Skymir lives!

  3. The Spectacular Spider-Brick
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:18 am [Reply]

    Denied again! Off to go lick my emotional wounds.

    This is the closest to “First!” that I’ve ever posted, though. Guess that’s somethin’.

    (shuffles off, kicking at nonexistent gravel and muttering)

  4. Artist formerly known as Ben
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:27 am [Reply]

    Congratulations to the COTW winner and runners up, myself excepted. Hell, myself included! Live it up!
    And now, 6/4

    MT: So the crooked land barons, Mark, and Sam Hill are all wasted on Ketamine, judging from the dialogue. Fun meeting.

    BB: Both Beetle and the general seem to have yanked their arms out of their sockets. You don’t need combat for severe injuries.

    Luann: “Dear Bernice, Funny thing. When those two boxes of cookies showed up, the other guys thought I was some kind of incestuous perv who digs high school girls. Plus one of them is allergic to mustard. So yeah, I was on the receiving end of some Army Justice, if you get me. Funny old world.”

    Blondie: No no no, Mr Postman. You can’t go bribing every disgruntled lunatic with your wife’s cookies. Then she’ll have no time to give you that sweet sweet lovin’.

    DtM: Nice one! A way to tattle and be menacing at the same time. Why do I think he learned this one from Margaret.

    MC: The color gnomes have arrived! A blue platypus? That’s different.

    Ghost Who…: Waiting on murder, eating sandwiches, doing a bad Porky Pig. All in a sailor’s day.

    SFx: Weber can create weird sexual tension without Cassandra Cat. Without any females at all, in fact. Slick Smitty is a vindictive lover, isn’t he?

  5. AtomicDog
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:31 am [Reply]

    Snuffy Smith – Note that Snuffy has just called his friend’s mother a “camp follower”, and this seems to go right over his haid.

  6. pesch
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:37 am [Reply]

    I’ll get to the COTW in a moment — I’m sure they’re awesome, but today’s Phantom is seven kinds of awesome. We have Capt. Steubing using his kung-fu grip on his ginormous egg salad sandwich (the recipe probably copped from the Japanese, a la “What’s Up Tiger Lily?”) while the crew is gossiping over when Jerry Falwell’s going to off the family, while JF, preparing Macbeth-like to do the deed, reflects philosophically on the sins of the world. Two great panels in one day!

  7. pesch
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:38 am [Reply]

    Oops, forgot to provide the link to the Phantom.

  8. SecretMargo
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:51 am [Reply]

    Yay! My rainy day improves! I’ll be in my office, under my desk, lolling amid my spent whippet cartridges for the rest of the afternoon, alternately giggling and passing out. So, the usual, but I was also a COTW runner-up!

    Congrats to everyone (I missed the one that actually was COTW, and I laughed out loud), and SSB: I thought you were on fire this week, if the opinion of a nitrous-blasted ne’er-do-well like me makes a difference. I think I’ll “double-masectomy dare” someone today! Then get fired.

  9. Calico
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:56 am [Reply]

    Wille – please repost your last JP scenario here-that’s too good to lose at the end of a thread. Good thing I didn’t have my traditional big gulp o’joe in my mouth reading it.

    Plus, anyone else notice Dag has been really pissy lately? From my experiences last week, I think art must be imitating life at Chez Bumstead.
    Maybe Blondie put a time-lock on the frig and he’s in a hypoglycemic, insulin induced rage.

  10. man behind the curtain
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:57 am [Reply]

    Josh , thanks for the honored selection as COTW. Justifies my existence and all the time I spend at work. I guess I should make this a prominent addition to my resume. And congrats to all runners-up.

  11. Lettuce
    June 4th, 2007 at 8:59 am [Reply]

    Luann: What’s going on in Cartoon Iraq??? This 100% main charactor casualty rate is even more unsustainable than Real Iraq, and equally depressing.

    Still, Bernice’s bro manages to stay nerd hot, despite the cast, somehow avoiding the painful, real-world traction that his injury — and the comic’s actual joke — would require.

  12. 12xuser
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:00 am [Reply]

    A3G: Meanwhile, Dr. Kelly, channeling the spirit of Snuffy Smith, reacts to Luann’s real doozy of an EKG with a lusty “HOO BOY!”

    When your doctor says that, that’s bad news, that’s very bad news!

  13. Laura Jane
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:05 am [Reply]

    Apt 3G Looks like old “Emt” the janitor has been taking time out from mopping the floor to spout medical jargon– he likes to pretend he is somebody important. Ignoring him, Dr. Kelly snatches up a sock that was lying on the floor. The sock reminds him that he is late meeting his wife for an underwear shopping spree at Kmart. “Hoo Boy!” Dr. Kelly is in the doghouse now and will likely being wearing yesterday’s underpants there.

    GT: Meanwhile over in Thorpland, Marty Moon is going to have a coronary– he has just seen that knucklehead, Jim, throw a knuckleball which means Hell is about to freeze over.

  14. man behind the curtain
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:12 am [Reply]

    A3G — “The wail of a siren splits the night.” An ambulance or the siren known as LuAnn? And is that guy really an EMT or just the janitor wearing an EMT cap? With dialogue straight out of the 50’s. What more can be said about this storyline other than Hoo Boy, What a doozy!

    LuAnn — At least Ben still has the leg.

  15. Red Greenback
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:13 am [Reply]

    Phantom: Captain Sammich does his spot-on Foster Brr…Foster Broo…that drunk guy on 70’s teevee shows…impersonation!

  16. Perky Bird
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:15 am [Reply]

    6/4 Slylock Fox: What’s wrong with Slick Smitty? I mean, who decides to take a shower when the chimney sweep, maintenance man, etc., is there? My guess is that the chimney wasn’t all that got “cleaned” that day!

    6/4 A3G– When I saw the doctor going “Hoo Boy!”, I actually thought he was holding up a hankie over his nose and reacting to some awful smell, most likely emitting from LuAnn. I wonder if he’s the Gap-Toothed Starry-Eyed Hoo Guy’s father.

  17. Calico
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:24 am [Reply]

    #12 – Gap-Toothed Starey Doctor Hoo Boy.
    #14 – In Sunday’s frantic 3G, I was thinking that the EEEEeeeeeeee! wasn’t the ambulance but rather Luann, spinning around and screeching in the back of the thing.
    Or it could have been Margo from across town, just being Margo.

  18. True Fable
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:24 am [Reply]

    Congrats to the winner and other float-riders! Excellent choice for COTW, I figured MBTC would at least get a mention for that one.
    SecretMargo, remember me and our humble but idyllic days of grinding bees while you soak in all that acclaim. And loosen your tie a little; it’ll make you look snappy and rakish!

    Now let’s snark, I’m hungry.

    TDIET The Lugers, of course, never considered getting a post office box since that would mean having to cross the street.

    MW oh geez, WHEN are we going to bury this thing? Will she, won’t she, will she, won’t she. Dammit, Vera, interpretive dance no longer entertains. Tell Von you’re moving back in to supervise the further corrosion of his liver and let us MOVE ON.

    MT I’m going to have to draw this damn thing myself.

    Luann Congratulations to whoever called this one. Now Luann and Bernice will spend the rest of the week talking about how short-sighted they were, blah blah blah, as if the last ten years hasn’t given them ample opportunity to realize that.

    FBoFW Thank you God, or Whomever is Running The Show Up There, for:
    1. Not dwelling any further on Grampa Chinnuts and his Old Man Lustin’
    2. Not showing Michael, tappity-tappity-tap-tap, or any reference to his “work”.
    3. Not showing Elly. Period.
    4. Not showing any more April for now, since she’s sliding down the slope to Patterson Sainthood and I can’t bear to witness such tragedy.
    5. there still will be plenty of bee-grinding action at the wedding that is so powerful, it alone can determine whether or not Liz can stand really be in love with Anthony or not. After all, she knows where he works, knows where he lives and has ample opportunity to run across his path there or anywhere else in town, but her ONE CHANCE to spend an evening as his official date has been ruined forever. That is, unless this drags out until late August, when they will meet on the reception dance floor and The Magic will happen.
    Magmacannons and hairspray flamethrowers, at the ready! ALL BEES REPORT TO THE GRINDER!!

  19. willethompson
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:25 am [Reply]

    #9 Calico: If you insist…

    JP: Nope, nothing happening citizens, move along, go back to your beige-colored lives….

    But that’s just so…so…WRONG! Remember the first slow Hitchcockian reveal of Cedric? Remember when we first saw his face? Not just evil, but Hannibal-Lechter-fava-beans-and-a-nice-chianti EEEEEEEEEVIL!

    And what about the whole Aunt Rachel set up? Groves humping? Matriculating hookers? Iroquois expatriots in shibari bondage? Roger the Roadie turns out to be legit?? And what about Neddy’s French Maid Outfit??? That’s IT? A tale told by an idiot, filled with sound and fury, signifying squat???

    Well, not for me! I want my final panel to be Abbey creaking open the bedroom door and seeing Cedric wearing only his bow tie and a smile frozen in mid-thrust between Neddy’s raised buttocks, holding lit sparklers and humming the ‘Marseilles’ as Aunt Rachel, crouching in the corner wearing a beret and a monocle barks “Close the door, asshat! Can’t you see we’re taping ‘A Very Brady Bastille Day??’” with the klieg light catching Abbey’s sweaterpuppies in full profile.

  20. AllieCat
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:28 am [Reply]

    The Social Event of the Year, aka Shawna Marie’s Wedding is nigh – plus – technicolor yawn bridesmaids.

    I so hope that Lynn spares no details.

    Also – a day late and a dollar short – I thought Sunday’s Fwinkerbean was actually kind of charming. There is something kind of sweet about seeing the guys in their tux for the first time. And it didn’t smack of cancer.

  21. Dave H
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:31 am [Reply]

    Phantom: If I had seen that second panel anywhere else I would have sworn it was crazed and drunken former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert storming into Nancy Pelosi’s office.

  22. Foobar
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:33 am [Reply]

    Regarding “deep-sleep him to the moon”( and you’ll have to excuse me here), Jigglypuff from Smash Bros. Melee has the ability to fall asleep. If it is making contact with another character when it falls asleep, the other character is mercilessly launched, perhaps even to the moon.

  23. Maughta
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:38 am [Reply]

    If you count black and white, there are only ten colors in todays A3G (June 4– http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm ). Guess they couldn’t afford the 64 box of crayons.

  24. man behind the curtain
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:41 am [Reply]

    #13 Laura Jane — it looks like you just beat me to the janitor observation, however proving once again that great minds think alike.

  25. Calico
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:45 am [Reply]

    Thanks Wille.
    Now I want “Close the door, asshat!” on a T-Shirt.
    I think I’m gonna get me a copy of the new PhotoShop today…yay!
    I can then wreak havoc here with some snarky (I hope) graphics for everyone to endure.

  26. Harold
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:48 am [Reply]

    Yay! The temperature has finally dropped enough to let me use my computer! I’m so far behind now, I’ll never catch up…but here are some comments on Monday’s comics!

    9 Chickweed Lane: Will…not…make…obvious…incontinence…observation…
    Apartment 3-G: Things you do not want to hear in the Emergency Room. And wait ’til they get a look at her EEG…
    Archie: I almost laughed. Having just wrapped up several weeks of housepainting that followed several days of landscape painting, I can relate.
    DTM: Now this is menacing. Dennis is about to get his father beaten nearly to death.
    Funky Cancerbean: That school newspaper editor is kinda hot. I wonder how long she has to live?
    Luann: Aw, come on. You’re not even trying. Obviously he broke his leg playing football in camp. If this were Doonesbury he’d be missing one or more limbs, and in FW he’d just be dead.
    Popeye: “Olive” has suddenly sprouted breasts, and all Popeye notices is her hair?
    Rex Morgan: Rex is goin’ down. What, did you think Hugh Avery wouldn’t figure that out?
    Zits: Jeremy’s mom is Zeus.

  27. Widdle Jeffy
    June 4th, 2007 at 9:57 am [Reply]

    Paraphrasing Monday’s FC “we had a substitute teacher and a substitute bus driver I am so glad that we have the real mommy at home.”

    Left unsaid was “like the last time we had all those subs I came home and daddy had a substitute mommy here. I knew it wasn’t a real mommy, cause when she stood up she had a beard and a wee wee.”

  28. Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:13 am [Reply]

    26, re Luann– No, if it were FW, I think he’d have cancer.

  29. ltrftp(not so first time)
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:14 am [Reply]

    The spec Spider Brick: Your post are awesome, but they rarely stand alone. Your responses to others are more like a dialogue rather than a stand alone comment.
    As they are extemperaneous, they are often some of the funniest or any thread, but they don’t fit into the ‘comment’ description. I hope this helps.

    Lettuce
    Fyi, almost twice as many Armed Service Men and Women died during the previous POTUS’ time in office as the current one.
    Plus ca la change, plus ca la meme chose…..or it depends upon whose ox is being gored.

    I imagine a reply gets us in the cockpit.

  30. man behind the curtain
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:17 am [Reply]

    LuAnn — What would General Patton do if he walked into the ward and saw Ben banging away on his laptop? Somebody needs to slap that malingerer..

  31. aquagirl2
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:17 am [Reply]

    Re: Luann: well, I think that soldier guy is a huge dork. I bet he gets beaten up right and left by his squadron or team or whatever.

  32. Josh
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:20 am [Reply]

    lrftp’s advice (#29) is sound for anyone aiming for coveted COTW honors. I tend to pick out discreet bits of fun rather than things that only make sense in context.

    Josh

  33. Gabe
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:22 am [Reply]

    I…liked today’s Snuffy Smith.

    Dear god please help me.

  34. Gabe
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:23 am [Reply]

    Josh: Also mentioning Margo seems to be a good way.

    ALL HAIL MARGO

  35. Uncle Lumpy
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:25 am [Reply]

    #32 Josh -

    I dunno; I’ve seen plenty of indiscreet COTW’s.

  36. Darkefang
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:29 am [Reply]

    June 4 comics:

    A3G: New York City EMTs wear powder-blue prom tuxedoes?

    And “HOO BOY!”? Are we about to go lasso us some cattle down by the crick?

    Archie: This is the most sinister plot yet by Veronica’s dad. He forced Archie up the ladder while it was propped up against the house at a 45 degree angle. Even if the subsequent fall fails to kill Archie, the paint will surely finish the job, being full of a substance so corrosive that it’s instantly eating the siding right off the house.

    DtM: Who says Dennis isn’t still a menace? He’s about to get his father brutally beaten at the hands of the mob enforcer from the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons.

    DT: I know the villain talking to Coldspot in panel 2 is supposed to be intimidating, but he’s barely able to hold the cell phone with his two remaining fingers. How is he going to be able to operate a gun or other weapon?

    MT: Business and pleasure? Is Chesty Hill propositioning Mark to join the Mile High Club? The only question is whether or not a charge shows up on Mark’s Lost Forest credit card.

    SM: Does Kordok even have super powers? What’s preventing Spidey from just punching him in the head? At the least, he could web up Kordok and the hostage, preventing any harm.

  37. Calico
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:31 am [Reply]

    FOOB – In her basement cell, Liz is in training for the day when Anthony will gently caress her and then turn the key which secures the steel door to the “play area.”
    Hence, Liz will be lost to us forever in her cinnamon-scented passion prison, and not a minute too soon.

  38. queek
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:33 am [Reply]

    9CL: dang, what a lovely butt-shot. Makes up for the unicorn’s rear from last week.

    My Cage: FOXGIRL!!!

    Lio: Squids got shoes!

    RwO: I lol’d. “Bully goats”

    MT: wasn’t it the 500 foot club when it was Warren’s helicopter in question? How high can a Cessna get, anyway? *goes to ask Google*

  39. Hogen Mogen
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am [Reply]

    Foob:
    April – “I can’t believe my parents are buying the house down the street!”
    John & Elly – “I can’t believe we bought the house down the street!”
    Mike & Dee – “I can’t believe we bought this house!”
    Grandpa Jim – “Occupational therapy chicks – boxcaring sweet!”

  40. will
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:51 am [Reply]

    6/4:
    Aw crap, both my dad and I are Pluggers.

    Mother Goose and Grimm has a nice little sight-gag today.

    Gil Thorpe – why is the Mirror-Spock-Broadcaster-Guy so freaked out about a knuckleball? It looks like he’s going to need to change pants.

    A3G – I couldn’t help but laugh at that exchange between the EMT/Janitor and the Doc.

  41. gh
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:57 am [Reply]

    Congratulations MBTC [and the lovely entourage]! I, too, missed that one the first time around.

    Besides that, I got nuthin’.

  42. The Spectacular Spider-Brick
    June 4th, 2007 at 10:58 am [Reply]

    Wha-a-a? My “Rex is holding a nipple clamp” comment wasn’t standalone enough for ya? “I double-mastectomy dare ya” wasn’t a reply either. Maybe I’m commenting too early or something…

  43. Josh
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:01 am [Reply]

    #42 SSB — well, a lot of it is arbitrarily based on my mood and ability to pay attention when an individual comment comes in, obviously. It is in no way a judgement on your personal worth as a human being, I promise. Do not take it personally.

    Josh

  44. Dennis Jimenez
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:03 am [Reply]

    Well, congratulations to the COTW winner and runners up – and once again, poor me without even a pastel brides maid outfit for all my snaryness – FBoFW – TDDUP.

  45. Joey
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:21 am [Reply]

    Cheer up Dennis, whenever we think of you it is in a pastel brides maid outfit.

    That or that really cute French Maid number.

    Woo Woo.

    Keep up the snarkyness : )

  46. Lettuce
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:31 am [Reply]

    #29: ltrftp(not so first time)
    I don’t know what the Cockpit is, and depending on whether it’s the aviation variety, and not the poultry cruelty variety, I’d still rather not go.

    That said, in the interests of painful comics injuries, were you referring to comic charactor or real human death rates during the last Admin? Did Calvin’s snow soldiers count? Did that Frazz guy serve in an a herebefore unknown ground war in Kosovo? Seriously, if you have a source for either of those, pass it along, my google efforts have been for naught… lettuce1001@yahoo.com

  47. mere cog in the machine
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:39 am [Reply]

    I discovered two disturbing things yesterday morning. One is that if I open a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Creme Brulee ice cream, I will eat the entire thing, even if it is only eight AM. The other, of course, is that Grampa Foob is a drooling, crotch-grasping, octogenarian perv. I don’t know which made me feel more disgusted; my own piggishness and lack of self-control, or the thought of his aged, creaking boner twitching with senile regularity during his bedbath.

  48. Trotzenbonnie
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:40 am [Reply]

    Hooray for all of the COTW winners. How does Josh successfully sift through a week’s worth of hilarity to pick them without laughing himself senseless?

    JP – If a speech balloon is going to obscure Abbey’s balloons she’d better have something more important to say than “We’ll see.” – particularly since we can’t.

    PLUGGERS – Before a Plugger says ‘Lookin’ good’ I think he needs to get a longer mirror.

    FW – Is that kid supposed to be Maynard G Krebs with a Moe haircut?

    DT – “I must get to the gate fast!” From the looks of that guy’s gait to the gate he sure isn’t going to break any sound barriers.

    DtM – Just put some camo pants on that thug and stick a pair of knee-high rubber boots in the back of his pick-up and he could pass for 99% of the citizens of Lafayette LA.

  49. American Idle
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:54 am [Reply]

    OK, I just saw the Sunday FW. My paper doesn’t carry it, so I’m a little out of the loop (or Arc, as the case may be). Who died that rated tux-clad pallbearers?

  50. willethompson
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:56 am [Reply]

    Man behind the curtain: What would General Patton do if he walked into the ward and saw Ben banging away on his laptop?”

    He’d say, “Ben, you magnificent son of a bitch, I read your iBook! And that’s NOT what a dataport is for!”

    Oh, and congrats on that COTW thing.

  51. ChefMike
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:57 am [Reply]

    (DT)GT: “look, whether you like it or not, I’m going to throw that knuckleball. you signal for a change up, I’m knuckling it, you signal for my slider… etc. so just give up now and be prepared because Clambake said I should just do it already.” Also, Marty Moon looks overly excited about the prospect.
    Drabble: uh, yeah…I always see throngs of people gathered outside the local gas station to watch the guy change the prices. how is the fluctuating price of gasoline supposed to be like the changing of the guard? the only similarity is they both involve the word ‘changing’ and that’s really reaching for a comparison. Maybe there’d be more similarity if we allowed the gas station clerks to wear those cool, fuzzy Beefeater hats.
    GA: Slim missed the point of the “sex” question on the insurance form. A more appropriate answer would have been “SEX? Ha! Are you kidding me? I mean have you SEEN my wife??” poor guy’s so henpecked, it’s a wonder he has any children at all.
    ALGU3000: I think this is the first I’ve ever seen that Archie has any kind of talent whatsoever. but the ALGU 3000 has determined that there is more than one style of painting, and Oh the hillarity that ensues when the one is mistaken for the other!
    TDIET: Living right across the street from the post office doesn’t guarantee you’ll be the first to get your mail. I don’t claim to know how it works exactly, but it seems to me that even the city routes would start at the furthest points of the delivery area and work their way back to the center. If Mr. Luger is going to get that upset about it, maybe he needs to find a little home out in the country to retire to, he’ll have plenty of time to cash his social security check then, ohhh yeahh!

  52. MossMoses
    June 4th, 2007 at 11:58 am [Reply]

    2. Mere Cog, this may come off somewhat anal, but isn’t it “Skyrmir” lives? I read every comic in the Post every day, as of a year ago. I used to read every other one and skip the Sunday Prince Valiant and now I’m beginning to remember why. It is deathly dull and at least as slow moving as Judge Parker. PV’s Dutch Boy haircut is about the ugliest bowl cut of the middle ages. You’d think a prince could find a better stylist…

  53. JudeMorrigan
    June 4th, 2007 at 12:13 pm [Reply]

    #26 – Of course he is. That’s what Rex *does*.

  54. mere cog in the machine
    June 4th, 2007 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

    52 Moss: You, sir, are right. And you are not being anal; you are saving me from further embarrasment in future posts. And yes PV is dull as ditchwater most of the time, and his hair is a problem, and yet…there is a quailty to the strips that makes me think of being a little kid and watching ‘The Black Shield of Falworth’ late on a Saturday night, a sort of nostalgia that the strip carries that I find appealing. And from a darker place, Prince Valient himself, with his rosy cheeks, Dorothy Hamil do and lips ever so slightly parted can seem, well, fetching at times – if you’re into that sort of thing, which of course I am not, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  55. Dean Booth
    June 4th, 2007 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

    A3G: Don’t ever let Luann park in your driveway.

    Congrats to all the COTWers. And a big hand for The Spectacular Spider-Brick for his frequent CsOTD. Perhaps next week Josh’s spidey comment sense will tingle in your direction.

  56. Ribinin
    June 4th, 2007 at 3:29 pm [Reply]

    MT: My prediction is that when they fly about the time the birds are released, Mark will realize that they are the wrong kinds of birds to be there naturally. His suspicions aroused, he will also spot the bird guy driving away.

  57. Laura Jane
    June 5th, 2007 at 7:00 am [Reply]

    #24 Man Behind the Curtain Heh. I’m just thrilled to be called a “great mind.”

  58. alamo
    June 5th, 2007 at 8:26 pm [Reply]

    good job to one and all. congrats to the winners and those not chosen who also make the strip well worth reading.
    may josh’s job in choosing well to represent all the cc contributors just get more difficult with each passing day.
    it has been fun.

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