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Judge Parker, 8/5/07

Wha … buh … WHO IS THAT DISTINGUISHED-LOOKING OLDER GENTLEMAN LURKING BENEATH THE STRIP’S LOGO? Why, that’s Judge Parker, natch, just like the label says! Hizzoner has appeared in this strip exactly twice in the three years or so that I’ve been reading it, but I like the way he’s staked out his position in panel one here so that he can still claim proprietorship. “I may not jet off to find lost treasures in Mexico, or to tussle with punks in Paris, or get involved in high-stakes real estate deals in the Napa Valley — but I’m still Judge Parker, damn it! Without me the rest of you losers are nothing, do you hear me? Nothing!” Presumably he’ll remain in the first panel of the Sunday strips, glowering manfully, until his totally-not-gay son Randy cruises to an easy election win and becomes a judge himself. Then Judge Parker the Senior, no longer needed for his one current duty of justifying the name of the strip, can drop dead post-haste.

In the ostensible “action” of today’s strip, Sam and Trudi are doing a little dance around the patio or balcony or wherever the hell it is they are. Sam’s presumably ducking and weaving because he’s afraid of losing an eye to one of Trudi’s pointy, bullet-like breasts. Still, leaping up on the railing and striking a pose out of the Cosmo’s sexiest male comic characters feature may have been a little much.

Spider-Man, 8/5/07

Speaking of breasts, I wish — oh, how I wish — I had time to hunt through the Spider-Man archives to prove this, but I’m pretty sure that Mary Jane’s “Oh, I’m so tired, I think I’ll stand up and stretch in a way that is advantageous to the display of my unusually large chest” in panel five is a fairly regular occurrence in this feature. Today’s is more blatant than most because she’s wearing the skin-tight pink fuzzy belly sweater that’s all the rage with the movie stars this season.

Meanwhile, in the final panel we’re introduced to the Shocker, who, based on what generally goes on in this strip, I must assume is an eccentrically dressed network programming executive who plans on picking up a number of shows that will annoy Spider-Man now that he’s turned the TV off.

Curtis, 8/5/07

For those who believe in a more or less literal interpretation of the Genesis creation story, the question of whether Adam and Eve had navels — and, for that matter, whether the trees in the Garden of Eden had growth rings, or whether anything that was created by God in the beginning carried evidence of age — has been a subject of theological discussion since at least the time of Saint Augustine. There’s actually an Answers in Genesis pamphlet on the subject, and the philosophical issues arising from the question gave rise to the so-called omphalos hypothesis. Thus, Rev. Caldwell ought not to have been reduced to weeping, sputtering incoherence by Curtis’s question, like a computer in the original Star Trek series presented with some elementary paradox. One can only assume that Caldwell had a sudden panic attack because his claimed divinity degree is a fraud that he purchased online for $10, and that he’s afraid that his theologically curious congregation, led by young Mr. Wilkins, will soon discover that he’s been skimming off the collection plate for years and plans to decamp to the Cayman Islands very soon.

Speaking of theological conundra, I’m a little disturbed that Barry is both so convinced that Curtis will be condemned to an eternity of torture in hell and that he’s so smug about it. On the other hand, Curtis does wear that damn hat with his church clothes, which can’t be pleasing to the Almighty.

Mark Trail, 8/5/07

Jesus, the final panel of this strip — aka Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Bloodhounds” — is going to haunt my dreams for weeks. Mark is all very upbeat about bloodhounds not mauling your children to death despite the breed having the word “blood” in its name, but you notice he doesn’t say anything about the emotional scars of seeing melting dogface every morning when they wake up.

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 5, 2007 at 12:32 pm and is filed under Curtis, Judge Parker, Mark Trail, Spider-Man. |

153 responses to “Boobs, boobs, boobs edition”

Adam
August 5th, 2007 at 12:39 pm [Reply]

huh. I assumed “The Shocker” would have a completely different set of circumstances…
ElSanto
August 5th, 2007 at 12:39 pm [Reply]

Just so you know, the Shocker is generally one of the lamest supervillians in the comics. So naturally he’d appear in the comic strip.

(And yes, the comic book has at some point acknowledged the villian’s similarity to a sexual act of the same name.)
Inspector Dim
August 5th, 2007 at 12:41 pm [Reply]

MJ thinks that the proportional romantic talents and libido of a spider are headed her way, but all that Spidey means here is that he’d like her to stay awake so he’ll have an audience for his TV-watching.
tblue
August 5th, 2007 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

No Comments yet? Usually there are over hundred by the time I get here!
Sheilagh
August 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pm [Reply]

The bloodhounds seem mercifully free of boobs.
Andrea D and The Grandstanding Oddballs
August 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pm [Reply]

Yikes, and I thought my shockers… er… knockers were big. But unlike MJ, my cleavage doesn’t actually overlap.
The Divine O’F
August 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pm [Reply]

Enough with the boobs, already, comics artists! Let’s have a few boxer bundles to balance things out!

And Josh, I agree about the traumatic effect of seeing a melting dog every day. I wonder if that’s where my fear of dogs came from.
Andrea D and The Grandstanding Oddballs
August 5th, 2007 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

Didn’t Doc Oc have 8 arm-thiniges? Or, six plus his natural two= eight?

Or is that another cartoon villain with oddly attached mechanical arms with minds of their own?
Jym Parker
August 5th, 2007 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

=v= JP/TASM: All the Judge does these days is live up to his name: Today he’s parked himself in the first panel. Notice how his distant relative Peter does likewise in his action-packed strip, where he’s mostly parking his ass on the sofa, whinging.
Dan Coyle
August 5th, 2007 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

ElSanto: Heh, I remember that issue of Punisher War Journal. Fun stuff.

You know, suddenly, I find myself traveling back in time 20 years ago… to when Alex Saviuk, the artist of the Sunday strip, was regular penciler of Web of Spider-Man. The man liked drawing Mary Jane. There was even a storyline (written by Ace Spider-writer Peter David) where she was shooting for a lingerie catalog, and decided, what the hell, she’d do some topless shots. But when Aunt May came across them… HILARITY ENSUED!
Dan Coyle
August 5th, 2007 at 12:52 pm [Reply]

Andrea D: Doc Ock has always had extra arms, and the arms have a mind of their own depending on who’s writing them.
Dan Coyle
August 5th, 2007 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

Er, four extra arms.
Uncle Lumpy
August 5th, 2007 at 12:59 pm [Reply]

Ah, “omphalos” and “conundra” in a single post.

There is but one.
Toronto
August 5th, 2007 at 1:01 pm [Reply]

Uh, which uprisings in the early part of the century did the bloodhounds put down? Some G7/G8 conference in Seattle or something?

Or are they still stuck in some other century?
Elegist
August 5th, 2007 at 1:05 pm [Reply]

Does the Sunday Spider-Man [i]always[/i] feature dozens of disembodied heads on the first two throwaway panels, or was that just a particular treat for this week?
True Fable
August 5th, 2007 at 1:08 pm [Reply]

#15 Elegist – They always do that, only I suspect it’s from Stan Lee’s shrunken head collection. At least Judge Parker pwns his spot. Funky Cancerbean has floating heads too, usually whoever is the stricken victim featured in the comic de jour.
TeacherPatti
August 5th, 2007 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

7: Divine O’F:

Amen, my sister. Amen.
commodorejohn
August 5th, 2007 at 1:12 pm [Reply]

#15 Elegeist – Every so often. Last week it was the the Great Uncle Ben, before that it was more web-slinging than actually goes on in the strip itself. There’s pretty much a rotating set of themes.
Poteet
August 5th, 2007 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

# 2 — ElSanto, you say “shocking” is the name of a sexual act? You mean, like, when you do it in the street and frighten the horses? Or have I missed yet another cultural development as I sit here wondering whether PIBGORN’s Drusilla would have nipples if I could get a good enough look at her chest?
commodorejohn
August 5th, 2007 at 1:15 pm [Reply]

#19 Poteet – Check definition #4, but not if you’re easily offended.
BigTed
August 5th, 2007 at 1:17 pm [Reply]

Spider-Man hasn’t been spotted for TWO DAYS, and it gets a banner headline? If he’s anything like the rest of us, that’s how long it takes him to do his grocery shopping, pick up his dry cleaning, stand in line at the post office, and clear out his TiVo, not to mention make sweet, sweet spider-love to his bodacious wifey all night long.
Poteet
August 5th, 2007 at 1:17 pm [Reply]

# 13 — Amen, my uncle. Amen.
Jim
August 5th, 2007 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

That Adam & Eve bit was a lot funnier when Bloom County did it. “Well *you* can just rock me to sleep tonight!”

Dear Curtis people: longer jokes are not funnier jokes.
Poteet
August 5th, 2007 at 1:23 pm [Reply]

# 20 — Thanks, commodorejohn. Fascinating, as Mr. Spock would say, and it’s probably just as well that I don’t follow Spidey. “The Shocker will play”? With those giant purple fingers? Oy.
fizzy logic
August 5th, 2007 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

That is some shirt that MJ is wearing. I mean, check out the big boobies in the One Horse Shy ads (I know you do all the time, gentlemen) – the shirts don’t actually define each boob. Fabric being what it is, it usually has to stretch across them both and leave a little to the imagination.

Obviously, this is a spray-on fuzzy replicant of a shirt that she is wearing for some kinky purpose under the jacket. I don’t want to think about it too much.

I already have.
Just_human
August 5th, 2007 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

Doc Ock’s got his own 4 limbs, and 4 robot limbs = eight limbs.
Lynngineering
August 5th, 2007 at 1:28 pm [Reply]

Spiderman: “Boob” meaning both fool as well as chesticular, then I guess Mary Jane is a win-win situation. I would challenge the reading of the short shirt under her jacket. I think that was just a belly chain and one wider, longer necklace. MJ just rolls like that. But the colorist got scared when they got the panels, and not knowing what to do, decided to hedge the bet by coloring a “shirt” in very close to skin color, just the littlest bit off-color possible with newspaper quality.
BigTed
August 5th, 2007 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

In the last panel of “Judge Parker,” how the hell is Trudi holding her own shoulders like that? Try it — as Ralph Wiggum would say, it’s unpossible! Does she have a past as a circus contortionist? Is there something in the wine that dangerously loosens your ligaments? Is she really Mr. Fantastic, who decided to permanently alter his super-stretchy body and features to live as the attractive woman he’s always felt was inside him? Whatever the answer, it seems as if Sam’s going to have a night to remember if they finally get around to doing it in another year or two.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 5th, 2007 at 1:30 pm [Reply]

As a denizen of the Spider-Man universe, let me shed some light on a few things.

El Santo @ 2: I thought the same thing. I even downloaded the strip into Photoshop and was about to modify that last panel, when I realized Dean Booth could do it much better, and would probably have his posted by the time I was done. So… Dean? How ’bout it? All it would take is extending three fingers.

Andrea D @ 8: Doc Ock has always had four octopus arms, plus his own two. You’re forgetting his legs, which bring the total to eight. If he had six mechanical arms, he’d be Doctor Squid and appear in Lio.

Elegist @ 15: There is a small set of throwaway panels that head up the Sunday strips on a rotating basis. One shows Spidey hefting a bus (in an improbably balanced position), then in the next panel, clinging to a ceiling (which appears to be an asbestos-panel drop ceiling that should by all rights collapse under his weight). Another shows the fateful spider bite that started it all. My least favorite features the creepy, outsized, floating head of dead Uncle Ben.
Inspector Dim
August 5th, 2007 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

Wizard of Id: Ha ha! The king is a fink! The marching band spelled it out! Yaaaaaay!

Their corpses lined the roads of Id for an entire year.
commodorejohn
August 5th, 2007 at 1:35 pm [Reply]

#28 BigTed – It’s not impossible, I just did it. A little tricky, yeah, but not impossible.

Now, why she’s doing it is an entirely different matter, and I confess I haven’t the faintest clue.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
August 5th, 2007 at 1:35 pm [Reply]

Geez, Andrea, first this and now this… any plans to come to Toronto soon? ;)

By the way, everybody, the URLs that link to individual comments have a six-digit number attached to them. If that simply represents what number comment it is, then in about a week’s time this site will receive its 300000th comment!
BigTed
August 5th, 2007 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

#31 commodorejohn: With your entire hand against the shoulder, not just your fingers? I still say it can’t be done.
commodorejohn
August 5th, 2007 at 1:46 pm [Reply]

#33 BigTed – Most of my hand, but not the palm. But that appears to be what Trudi’s doing.
BigTed
August 5th, 2007 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

commodorejohn — Well, I’ll take your word for it. I’m going to stop trying, because it hurts too much.
Blondie
August 5th, 2007 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

I think the reason bloodhounds are unpopular is not because of “fantastic stories” about them, but because the simply drool too much.
Emily
August 5th, 2007 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

I’m still wrestling with the assertion that “in the early part of the century, bloodhounds were used to put down uprisings.” Not protestant uprisings, not peasant uprisings, not uprisings of factory workers, just, you know, “uprisings.” Risings up, as you might say.

Also it being 2007, we’re still IN the early part of “the century.”
M to the Vizzah
August 5th, 2007 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

No comments on that crazy jumping squirrel? Look at that vector, it must have leapt from six-eight feet away from that tree. Or straight out of the dogs eye, whichever. Good panel composition choices either way!

m.
AeroSquid
August 5th, 2007 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

MT: RUN MR. SQUIRREL ! The Bloodhounds will get around to you……eventually.
Brown-eyed Girl
August 5th, 2007 at 1:56 pm [Reply]

31 & 33 commodorejohn and BigTed. It’s even more difficult if you have a chest like Trudie’s. Trust me on this one.
AeroSquid
August 5th, 2007 at 1:57 pm [Reply]

JP: I would not be surprised if Batman appeared in today’s strip (what with all the light and shadow work). “I’m Batman. Um. Are you going to finish that wine ?”
Antidespotic
August 5th, 2007 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

@ #14 Toronto – Well, an article in the July 1, 1906 New York Times Magazine Section depicts bloodhounds as having been feared by runaway slaves as vicious monsters, so perhaps “the century” in question is the 19th.
Brown-eyed Girl
August 5th, 2007 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

And, speaking of chests — why isn’t Seth’s bare, nippled chest featured in the “boobs, boobs, boobs edition”?

http://www.comics.com/comics/chickweed/

Let’s have some reciprocity here!
LTBF
August 5th, 2007 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

BB-Whatever happened to Sgt. Louise Lugg? Did she go to live with Lyman after decding Sarge would rather shower with Zero?
Inspector Dim
August 5th, 2007 at 2:04 pm [Reply]

#41: At least Batman isn’t home yelling at the TV. With great power comes a lot of free time, apparently.
BigTed
August 5th, 2007 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

Brown-eyed Girl #40: I believe you… though that could only make the attempt all the more interesting.
Dean Booth
August 5th, 2007 at 2:10 pm [Reply]

#29 Brick. Do it, SSB! I am stuck in work land these days — my company merged with another and I need to do some extra stuff to impress our new insect overlords. (Not to mention I didn’t know what a shocker was till 5 minutes ago.)
Remus
August 5th, 2007 at 2:13 pm [Reply]

Dammit Josh, you are are working hard this weekend, sir, and we thank and applaud you slightly more thunderously than usual. I guess you felt the horrendousness of Lynn Johnston’s pun today was beneath you – but how about a comment on how Mrs. Buxley is clearly unable to choke the flow of vomit down after kissing Sarge? Y’always surprise us. Cheers.
dreadedcandiru2
August 5th, 2007 at 2:16 pm [Reply]

FW: Okay. No drama at the Fairgood house. Yet. That comes when Jess drops the bomb about carrying Darin’s child. At least Lisa won’t be around to see that.
Marion Delgado
August 5th, 2007 at 2:16 pm [Reply]

Inspector Dim 1:32pm:

The secret to both BC and the Wizard of Id is subtext.

From the many, many references to unemployment and food stamps, it’s very clear that “Wizard of Id” is set at a long-running Renaissance Faire somewhere in California in the late 1970s. Once you start looking for it, you see the subtext everywhere.

“King Id” who runs the Faire is good-humored about creative ways of calling him a fink, and note that hanging in the dungeon never hurts e.g. “Rodney” or “the Duke” a bit. “Spook” and “Turnkey” run Spook’s Dungeon, which is frankly fetishistic, but not actually harmful.

I hasten to add that the horses in the stable are for ceremonial riding only, and single combat and melee fighting are done with rattan swords and padded maces.

BC is actually set in a postapocalyptic world. Note that only “Over the Sea” (presumably a low-radiation oasis you’re permitted to communicate with but not visit) is the radiation low enough to permit viable children (BC has to make do with intelligent ants for child jokes, since mammals can’t reproduce). Disastrous mutations and the technological society’s previous hubris have led them to a world where evolution is a bad word and veneration and pacification of God as epitomized in the “Wiley” priest/poet is the norm. One of the few ubiquitous things to survive for a while was the widely scattered Jack Chick pamphlets, and for people watching their whole world perish in flames around them, they must have seemed deeply prophetic.

Also note that Peter was told the Earth was round (folklore) but had no navigational aids. He spent two weeks going in a circle and reported that he had navigated the Earth! Actually, he never made it even to the current-borne pathway of “Over the Sea” and only found 2 other survivors. Either the fat chick and the cute chick are sterile, or all the men are, including Conahonty and Anno Domini.
Artist formerly known as Ben
August 5th, 2007 at 2:17 pm [Reply]

It is of course very exciting to have an actual costumed supervillain in Spider-Man once more. Even a b-lister like the Shocker. Of course he probably won’t do anything more dastardly than smash up his own TV set, but he’ll look stylish doing it.
Weasel Boy
August 5th, 2007 at 2:17 pm [Reply]

“Persistence of Bloodhounds.” That’s why I come here.
AeroSquid
August 5th, 2007 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

Curtis: “Reverend, I heard that we really aren’t indiginous to this planet and our belly buttons are just useless genetic throwbacks to the era when mankind was connected to an immense pulsating blob-queen residing in the 11th dimension……just sayin’”
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 5th, 2007 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

Dean Booth @ 47: I’ll do it if you’ll post it on your mashup page. Anywhere I’d put it, it wouldn’t get noticed, especially after Josh kills this thread with a COTW post. Which should happen about 5… 4… 3…. 2…
AeroSquid
August 5th, 2007 at 2:22 pm [Reply]

Spiderman” OMG !!!! The OVEN MITT is ready for action !
Trotzenbonnie
August 5th, 2007 at 2:25 pm [Reply]

#52 – Weasel Boy
Me, too. I’m hoping I can laugh about it long enough so I’ll finally stop singing ‘Won’t You Take Me To Punchy Town’.
moe99
August 5th, 2007 at 2:27 pm [Reply]

Apt 3 G on the pages of the WaPo today online is a repeat of last Sunday’s. Cheap bastids.
AeroSquid
August 5th, 2007 at 2:28 pm [Reply]

#56 I can’t get that song out of my head either. Someone please get the original group together (Lyps Inc ?) and redo it as “Punchy Town” and post it on YouTube with a medley of all of mark’s Greatest Hits !
BlinkAndItsOver
August 5th, 2007 at 2:36 pm [Reply]

It’s important to remember, people, that Spiderman, technically, is science fiction. The fact that the boob articulating technology at work in MJ’s fuzzy pink belly sweater is not currently available to the good people at One Horse Shy doesn’t mean it never will be.

The best science fiction applies anticipatory vision to imagine the bold horizons the future will present to us. We can only hope.
Spiny Norman
August 5th, 2007 at 2:38 pm [Reply]

Speaking as a large-chested woman (which I am, male hedgehog moniker aside), I can attest to the perpetual success of MJ’s stand-up-and-stretch trick. My husband, I believe, can actually sense that I’m doing this from the opposite side of the house.

There’s a reason it’s a classic…!
AeroSquid
August 5th, 2007 at 2:41 pm [Reply]

Spiderman: I can’t help but notice that MJ’s breastal area in panel 5 seems completly exposed and that she has some dangerous looking pre-cancerous spots. I think her ‘Beauty Sleep’ could be the ‘Big Sleep’.
Gabe
August 5th, 2007 at 2:44 pm [Reply]

Man, we finally get a supervillian and it’s the Shocker? Even other supervillians make fun of the Shocker. ELECTRO makes fun of the Shocker for being lame.
John
August 5th, 2007 at 2:48 pm [Reply]

From your “Answers in Genesis” link, I found this gem:

“Lack of a belly-button on Adam and Eve would be one of the biggest tourist attractions in the pre-Flood world, as the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren would come up and say, ‘Why don’t you have a belly-button?’ And they could recount again and again, to generation after generation, how God had created them special by completed supernatural acts, and yet had designed them to multiply and fill the earth in natural ways that are equally a part of God’s continuing care for what He created.”

To which the grandchildren and great-grandchildren would ask, “So if you and ‘God’ were so tight with each other, why’d you screw everything up for us by eating that damn apple? You think we like earning our bread by the sweat of your brow, ’cause we don’t ‘Granny’!”
commodorejohn
August 5th, 2007 at 2:48 pm [Reply]

#59 BlinkAndItsOver – Truly, a vision for the betterment of mankind.
Inspector Dim
August 5th, 2007 at 2:53 pm [Reply]

I noticed in the bookstore the other day that someone had begun collecting together the entire run of Peanuts and releasing them in some very nice (and expensive) books indeed. You can get two years for about $30 each.

I was shocked to discover that Fantagraphics was behind this glorious money-printing scheme! Last I remember, they were a struggling comics publishing house. Now they’re doling out Schultz for $28.95 a pop. If they do the whole run, there will be something like 25 books.

…The worst part is that I want every single one of them. Bastards! Couldn’t be satisfied with publishing Hate and Love and Rockets, could you?
Remus
August 5th, 2007 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

Dim – I’ve got the first two, slightly used. They started coming out a year and a half ago or so. I read the first one then got tired of them. How bad do ya want ‘em?
Remus
August 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pm [Reply]

oh and is that a Clockwork Orange reference Inspector? Nice and low key. I like.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 5th, 2007 at 3:13 pm [Reply]

Dean Booth: My Shocker mashup is winging its way to you via the series of tubes as we speak. If you don’t want to host it, say so and I’ll put it up somewhere.
TB Tabby
August 5th, 2007 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

For the curious…

Shocker’s bio on Spiderfan.org

He has a 5-5-2 record against Spider-Man?!
bats :[
August 5th, 2007 at 3:26 pm [Reply]

60. Spiny Norman: hmmm, maybe your husband just has Spidey-sense that detects your stretching on the opposite side of the house…the city…the continent…
Inspector Dim
August 5th, 2007 at 3:30 pm [Reply]

From the bio referenced by #69:

The Shocker has had severe problems with self- doubt.

Master Soft Heart can help him feel better about himself. For example, he’d say that while it’s true that the Shocker is named after a perverse act and his only “power” is his suit’s ability to vibrate (ahem!), at least he doesn’t yell at his TV all the time.
Spiny Norman
August 5th, 2007 at 3:31 pm [Reply]

#70 bats: Hmmmm….interesting. I’ll have to ask him if he’s been bitten by anything radioactive recently.
commodorejohn
August 5th, 2007 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

#69 TB Tabby – Limitations: The Shocker has had severe problems with self- doubt. Just great: the world’s laziest superhero versus the world’s most unconfident villain. This should be a battle for the ages.
reader-who-posts
August 5th, 2007 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

Spider-man: As someone who read the comic book religiously, I can tell you that the Shocker is the Kathy Griffin of supervillains. Considering that this is the comic strip and not the book, I expect that the Shocker will talk menacingly about his upcoming crime spree for a few weeks and then get caught stealing a new outfit from a costume shop.

FW: “Oh, and mom? I’m probably going to die of cancer soon!”

BB: Why did everyone in the background shave their heads?
Poteet
August 5th, 2007 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

# 35 — BigTed — I tried it thinking that maybe it would magically give me Trudi’s torso for a little while. No dice. Maybe I wasn’t doing it right. Anyway, I’m glad no one was around with a camera.

# 56 — Trotz, thank you for mentioning that problem. I can only remember the title hook of “Punchy Town” and it’s been going through my head over and over to the point of madness. I was complaining about it to CrabbyGenes last night, but she can’t remember the song at all. Lucky her.
Cobra
August 5th, 2007 at 3:39 pm [Reply]

I’d be willing to bet that even with 2.7e12 pages of pr0n on the Web, today’s Curmudgeon post is the only one to combine the phrases “boobs, boobs, boobs” and “melting dogface”.

But now, Josh has demonstrated the juxtaposition, and I predict that as a result, within a matter of days there will be entire sites devoted to “melting dogface boobs”.

I reserve judgment on whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
bats :[
August 5th, 2007 at 3:41 pm [Reply]

76. Poteet: you’ve found my Achilles heel, looking for drivel online! And so, without further ado:

Funky Town
Performed by Lipps Inc.
Music & Lyrics : Steve Greenberg

Gotta make a move to a town that’s right for me
Town to keep me movin’
Keep me groovin’ with some energy.

Well, I talk about it, Talk about it,
Talk about it, Talk about it,
Talk about, Talk about,
Talk about movin,

Gotta move on.
Gotta move on.
Gotta move on.

Won’t you take me to
Funkytown.
Won’t you take me to
Funkytown.
Won’t you take me to
Funkytown.
Won’t you take me to
Funkytown.

(Repeat ad nauseum)

Rumor has it that the B-side of the single was indeed “Punchy Town,” also performed by Lipps Inc., featuring Gail Martin.
Dave
August 5th, 2007 at 3:41 pm [Reply]

Good lord, Trudi’s skirt is even shorter than one of Betty’s skirts from Archie.
Islamorada Girl
August 5th, 2007 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

Master Soft Heart feels sorry for the Shocker because he’s a D-list villian and not even Kathy Griffin will make fun of him.
Poteet
August 5th, 2007 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

Spidey — I gotta say that the snarking about The Shocker today has been superb. BWAHAHA! I’m actually looking forward to future Shocker snarking, and I never thought I’d be grateful to Spiderdork for anything.
Donald The Anarchist
August 5th, 2007 at 3:45 pm [Reply]

SM C’mon Peter, you really want MJ to stay AWAKE for it? What are you gonna do, wrestle, trade puns and then wrap her up in webbing when you’re done? Or is that how the lady prefers it.

JP Maybe she isn’t acting out of greed. Maybe she’s acting out of pride. Or sloth? I’m tired of seeing comics characters acting out of greed. It’s old hat.

Curtis What I wanna know is did they have anuses? And if they did, did their shit stink? Answer me that Mr Genesis Man!!!
Poteet
August 5th, 2007 at 3:45 pm [Reply]

# 77 — Thanks, Bats. How I could have forgotten such a profound and meaningful piece of our musical heritage, I just don’t know.
commodorejohn
August 5th, 2007 at 3:47 pm [Reply]

#78 Dave – Looks to me like shorts rather than a skirt, but yeah, short.
Spanky The Dolphin
August 5th, 2007 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

I liked how Curtis has his tie sticking out way of the bottom of his suit jacket, so he ends up looking as if he’s decked out with some kind of scarlet codpiece.
Lou Shumaker
August 5th, 2007 at 3:57 pm [Reply]

Can anyone see the masthead of the Shocker’s newspaper? It looks like the “L.A. Bowel”
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pm [Reply]

Spider-Man’s biggest foe is the one who makes him look like a lazy, good-for-nothing couch potato with his crappy, unexciting daily comic strip. He’s known as The Schlocker.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 5th, 2007 at 4:21 pm [Reply]

Lou Shumaker @ 85: Yeah, I’ve read the L.A. Bowel. It’s full of shit.
Cornwhacker
August 5th, 2007 at 4:27 pm [Reply]

77: Hmm, that’s a pretty skimpy set of lyrics. There’s barely enough to work with for a decent Funky Winkerbean-themed parody.

Although if anyone’s up for the challenge…
Woodrowfan
August 5th, 2007 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

If Curtis goes to hell it’ll be because of the damn lamne “Flyspeck Island” gags that his creator love sos much. Let’s face it, any creator who comes up with those Flyspeck island jokes CAN’T be a loving one.

And to answer the unasked question, yes, Adam tried the Shocker on Eve, which is the real reason they were kicked out of Eden… Let us not ask where Adam learned it though…
Woodrowfan
August 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm [Reply]

FYI, the Shocker is still less lame than his brother, the Stroker! The more you beat him, the bigger he gets!

yeah, yeah, sorry.
Chromium
August 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm [Reply]

JUDGE PARKER EXISTS!? Holy crap, I thought he had gone the way of Lyman or Robot Man. Can anyone remember (I’ve only been reading this strip for about 10 years) if he’s ever had any significant impact on the events within the strip, or if he’s always just been some meaningless figurehead?

Also, what is going on in panel 5 of MT? Did that guy jump over the fence once, get disoriented, and jump back over it again, or is he trapped within some giant encampment?
Foolster41
August 5th, 2007 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

What I want to know is, why is curtis so embaressed to talk about ribs (specificly female ribs?) and belly buttons? His parents (or maybe this fake pracher) must be giving him pretty strange ideas.
UncleJeff
August 5th, 2007 at 4:41 pm [Reply]

Pro wrestling fans know “The Shocker” as one of the great failed villains by World Championship Wrestling.
After weeks of building up this monster, they had him do a live on-camera run-in. He promptly tripped over a camera cable…fell down…and his helmet popped off…revealing him to be a third-tier wrestler from the WWE promotion who had been featured as a loveable friend of children called “Tugboat.”
GG
August 5th, 2007 at 4:51 pm [Reply]

I’m not even going to comment on the Shocker “coming out to play” right after Peter Parker nuzzles up to Mary Jane.

I will say that we have now gone through weeks of Spider-Man without our hero dressing up, fighting crime, or doing anything except whine and watch tv. The non-action of this strip would make Samuel Beckett weep.
Prehumous
August 5th, 2007 at 5:08 pm [Reply]

I don’t get it. Barry’s question was long-winded and rambling but it wasn’t that annoying!
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
August 5th, 2007 at 5:17 pm [Reply]

One of the ads that comes up on this “Boobs boobs boobs edition” is for the elimination of male breasts.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
August 5th, 2007 at 5:19 pm [Reply]

The “Ads by Google”, that is
Inspector Dim
August 5th, 2007 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

Master Soft Heart teaches that inaction is the true action. Therefore Spider Man is very exciting.
Red Greenback
August 5th, 2007 at 5:29 pm [Reply]

Re: “shocker”—My good fiend Eric Soft Heart refers to that maneuver as a “three finger Cranston”(?) with a “thumb on the bean”….
Red Greenback
August 5th, 2007 at 5:36 pm [Reply]

Skullturf Q Beavispants @ 5:17 pm—Check out Mr. Pregnant’s “Manboobs” on youtube.
ChristianPinko
August 5th, 2007 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

Peter Parker may not be much of a superhero, but he and Mary Jane do a great job creating a J. Jonah Jameson / Maria Lopez broadcast mashup. Check out how Jonah and Maria’s dialog fits together to create wacky new sentences! Ah, good times.
Squid Countess
August 5th, 2007 at 5:42 pm [Reply]

Oh, Spider Brick! [swoon] Not only did you make up a wonderfully funny parody to the Grease song that I sing to myself all the time in the car, almost like you knew it was my favorite (previous thread, #122); but you gave manly hell to the grammar pinheads who say it’s always wrong to use the passive voice (previous thread #89). You are my perfect dream rabbit. [/swoon ] Be that as it may, didn’t you think they were wrong about #10 being correct, from a logical content standpoint? If one is explaning why the T-Rex was considered a scary killer lizard, and one’s first point is they were carnivorous, and one’s third point is they had flesh-rending claws, it seems one’s second point should not be “they laid eggs.” That made me laugh out loud. What? They laid eggs? OMG! The terror!

Trotzenbonnie, Poteet, Dale – I love The Red Green Show! The local PBS station ran it here for a number of months, but I guess I was the only one who watched it, because I never meet anyone who’s heard of it. Red Green said one of my favorite things about romantic infidelity: Go stand naked in front of a full length mirror. Go on. Now take a good look at yourself. Look down. Look up. Look under, if you have to. Now, is this a body you want to show to a stranger? I didn’t think so.
ralph
August 5th, 2007 at 5:43 pm [Reply]

Hmmn, looks as though Jack Elrod can’t draw bloodhounds any better than he can draw St. Bernards.
I also can’t find any references you-know-where to these “uprisings,” whether in the early part of this century or the last one.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 5th, 2007 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

Squid Countess @ 102: Silly though it may be, it is gramatically parallel, and therefore correct. They aren’t asking you to look for flaws in reasoning.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
August 5th, 2007 at 5:47 pm [Reply]

#102 Squid Countess — Thank you for the explanation about question #10 on the grammar quiz thingy. I was wondering what on earth was wrong with #10, but I guess your issue with it was more of a content issue than a case of something being “grammatically wrong”.

And I totally agree with those who objected to #3 or whatever it was. It’s silly to think of passive voice as something that’s “wrong” or a “mistake”. At worst, it can be inelegant in some contexts.
Poteet
August 5th, 2007 at 5:48 pm [Reply]

# 94 — Hmm. Thanks, GG. If all it takes to be a superhero is whining and watching TV, I suddenly feel qualified. And to take the pressure off, I’d make sure I was bitten by something with less physical strength but large ability to annoy. Behold Fruitfly Woman!
commodorejohn
August 5th, 2007 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

#102 Squid Countess – Count me in on the love for The Red Green Show. That’s seriously the only TV show I watched on a regular basis since Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers went off the air.
Steve S
August 5th, 2007 at 6:30 pm [Reply]

Sure, bloodhounds can track down a criminal, but after they do so, can they punch him in the face and make things he’s wearing fly in different directions?
Gabe
August 5th, 2007 at 6:31 pm [Reply]

Uncle Jeff: That’s the Shockmaster. The Shocker is a lucha, who’s mask I can be seen wearing in the CC Merch ads (we’re all wearing a variant, actually).

Yes, we picked the Shocker for the juvenile reasons.
slinkimalinki
August 5th, 2007 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

meh, any test that says “general consensus” is wrong because redundant but that “carniverous dinosaurs ate meat” is not redundant at all and perfectly ok is dead to me. dead.
slinkimalinki
August 5th, 2007 at 6:35 pm [Reply]

as, apparently, is my ability to spell.
Uncle Lumpy
August 5th, 2007 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

#109 Gabe –

What’s the original — El Choquadero?

El Principal Suave Corazón approves!
dale
August 5th, 2007 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

The only thing I really learned from Red Green is that if you get together a sturdy row boat, a ceiling fan, a strong curtain rod, and an old Chevy 327, you have the makings of a serious speedboat.
Kenny
August 5th, 2007 at 6:37 pm [Reply]

MT: Some breeds of the Sad-Faced Sad-Hound have Squirrels actually growing from their ears. These, Ear-Squirrel-Blood-Sad-Sad’s enjoy frolicking amongst the treetops, eating nuts, and – sadly – chasing their own ears up fences.
PseudoChron
August 5th, 2007 at 6:44 pm [Reply]

There’s a Catholic answers book with the exact title “Did Adam and Eve Have Belly Buttons?”. http://www.amazon.com/Did-Adam-Have-Belly-Buttons/dp/096592288X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-5181490-0730514?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186357338&sr=8-1
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
August 5th, 2007 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

Passive voice has a perfectly legitimate place in the language, and I say that as a 20-year newspaper editor. It is most useful where the subject of the action is unknown, unclear or less important than the object of the action, as in:
The birds were released near the airport.
Judge Parker was retained in office in last month’s elections.
Spider-Man was hit in the head by a falling brick.
The objection most self-appointed grammar Nazis have is when passive is used where it is not necessary, muddles the meaning or simply clutters the sentence with too many words, as in:
Most of the fighting was done by the Phantom’s dog and the Mori oarsmen.
Dawn inevitably will be cheated on by Dr. Drew.
Just $45,000 was raised by the TURFS Across Toronto Telethon, which works out to $1,875 an hour.
All of those are inappropriate uses of the passive, though the first two are still gramatically correct.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
August 5th, 2007 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

A disaster was been by the MSN grammar quiz.
treedweller
August 5th, 2007 at 6:58 pm [Reply]

so apparently Stan Lee has learned somewhere along the way that spiders are not insects (probably from geeks at a comics convention). Instead of working it into the dialog, couldn’t he have just stopped saying the opposite every couple of weeks in the throwaway panel of the Sunday strips? Maybe this is a sign that we will no longer have to read that PP gained “that insect’s proportionate strength” on a semi-regular basis.
Harold
August 5th, 2007 at 7:00 pm [Reply]

Does the new realization that spiders are not insects mean we’ve seen the last of the “Spider-Man Lifting the Bus” panel on the Sunday strip? The one that identifies spiders as insects?

Are The Shocker’s powers electricity-based? Or does he just do rude things with his fingers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(hand_gesture)
Rose
August 5th, 2007 at 7:02 pm [Reply]

I bet Curtis also thinks he’s the first one to contemplate Euthyphro’s Dilemma, too.
Harold
August 5th, 2007 at 7:04 pm [Reply]

treadweller – JINX! AAAAH!
Gojira
August 5th, 2007 at 7:09 pm [Reply]

#77 bats :[ & #88 Cornwhacker: Should have my head examined, but I’m giving the FW song parody a shot. To the tune of disco classic “Funkytown”:

There’s a tumor growing inside of me
It keeps on growin’
Though doctors said it wouldn’t be.

Well, I smirk about it, Smirk about it,
Smirk about it, Smirk about it,
Smirk about, Smirk about,
Smirk about dyin’,

Funky dyin’.
Funky dyin’.
Funky dyin’.

Won’t you take me to
Cancertown.
Won’t you take me to
Cancertown.
Won’t you take me to
Cancertown.
Won’t you take me to
Cancertown.
Sensitive Poet
August 5th, 2007 at 7:14 pm [Reply]

Ah, yet another scintillating installment of Spiderman, in which characters do nothing but fucking watch TV. Not that this is news, but Jesus. That shit would be boring even in the most humdrum “family” comic strip, let alone one about an arachnid crime-fighter. Can’t they draw up some crazed junkies for him to punch or something? Anything!

Also, the use of the word “”Troll”" in today’s Curtis fills me with apprehension. Is this a nickname for Barry that is referenced elsewhere in the strip, which I don’t follow?

Or, distressing to contemplate, did Ray mean it in the internet troll sense, i.e. that Barry was “trolling” Curtis with his little Hell comment? Or, I guess, “”flaming”"” him, ha ha. In any case, that is so not how the word should be used, and the injection of “hip” internet “lingo” in such an inappropriate manner is pretty painful.
Slither
August 5th, 2007 at 7:18 pm [Reply]

Sunday, 8/5:

Barney Google: Jughaid’s school gives ‘rithmatic tests? I wonder if they also teaches readin’ ‘n writin’? Nothin’ like a good ejacation o’ book larnin’, I always say!

Beetle Bailey: Miss Buxley and Pvt. Blipps appeared to be the only females in attendance at the barracks party, so why were there so many names in Plato’s bucket? Of course, it would make sense if they all said, “Miss Buxley.”

Broom Hilda: Wow, that was one impressive job!

FW: Now that Darin’s adoptive parents know that Lisa Moore is his biological mother, they had better drop him from their health insurance before their premiums skyrocket!

JP: It still isn’t tomorrow yet! And so far, we’ve been waiting for it for three days! Can I get my life put on Judge Parker time? I’d be nearly immortal! However, it was nice to catch a rare glimpse of His Honor, himself!

Jump Start: That Sunny is one great kid! I just love her thiiiiiiiis much! A kid like her is well worth the occasional laundered cell phone!

Mallard Fillmore: Hey, Mr. Porcine developer, if you need more space for condo ads, tear down “The Boiling Point” instead!

MW: I can’t get my head around this huge controversy over the 10-year age difference between Dawn and Dr. Drew. Just what exactly is the maximum permissible age difference, when the man is the elder of the couple? I’m sure that if the female were older, the age difference would be way more socially acceptable these days.

Nancy: Sluggo obviously subscribes to the wisdom of Shakesphere: Brevity is the soul of wit!

Pickles: If that blue tarp has been out in the yard long enough for it to show up on Google Earth, Earl will also need to deal with the patch of dead grass which will be revealed when he removes it.

Popeye: This strip should be censured for it’s continued depiction of the use of drug paraphernalia. Everyone in Popeye’s family smokes a tiny little crack pipe with a needle-thin stem.

Secret Asian Man: I’m wondering if the perplexed SAA who, in a quandry to understand the discreet differences between “Pacific” Asians and Asians from other parts of the United States, would have any problem with a “German/Austrian American Pride” rally? We live in a country where “diversity” is normal. We all came from somewhere else, but we gathered here to form a more perfect society. However, politically-correct comic strips like Secret Asian Man are having none of it.

TDIET: Gag #3: So, it would be impermissible for one to simply stand aside and allow he screen door to close behind him?

Watch Your Head: Well, you learn something new every day. I never knew what a “philtrum” was until I accidentally stumbled onto this strip while surfing comics.com. Who sez the funny papers aren’t educational?
evie oh oh
August 5th, 2007 at 7:25 pm [Reply]

never fear little squirrel. No need leap away in terror. You’ve got bloodhounds all wrong.
Buck Ripsnort
August 5th, 2007 at 7:29 pm [Reply]

The only uprising my bloodhound prevented was by refusing to get off my lap.
MJ’s stretching is the most action Spidey’s seen all year.
Next week, Curtis asks the boffo question, “Can God make a rock so big he himself can’t lift it?” Hilarity ensues.
Yeah, I can see why I’ve never made COTW. Runner-up, even.
Woody
August 5th, 2007 at 7:41 pm [Reply]

Luann: Ok Luann, you’re a retard. Your dad yells at you for wearing a see through dress, and you put on a parka. Instead of changing, you decide to walk out in said parka. I can only imaging the looks of the innocent people that see her.

Cathy: Cathy has decided to leave the Hillman family reunion to go have dinner with her parents. The distance doesn’t matter much now, doesn’t it?

Pickles: I was waiting for Earl to go swimming.

Peanuts: Linus got beaten by a dog that had a boxing nose on his glove?!? How uncordinated is this kid?
Gagott68
August 5th, 2007 at 7:55 pm [Reply]

#21: I’m pretty sure that Spider-Dork won’t spend more than 3-1/2 minutes keeping his bodacious wifey awake making sweet, sweet love. At which time he’ll rollover in his 1950’s Dagwood jammies and fall asleep while MJ finishes the job with Mr. Buzzy.

Curtis: Curtis at least takes off his cap while inside the church. So that’s not why he’s going to burn for all eternity. But there are plenty of other reasons, no doubt.
IdleDandy
August 5th, 2007 at 8:02 pm [Reply]

#116 – Ooh, picking on the passive voice is a peeve of mine! I carry this grudge from 9th grade English. We had to run our papers through RightWriter and then make corrections. One of my papers said, “He was so excited…” The computer identified “was excited” as passive voice, so I had to change it. I put up an argument, though. I thought my teacher was going to strangle me.

Plus, “it excited him” sounds… dirty.
Bunnë
August 5th, 2007 at 8:15 pm [Reply]

When I tell people I studied Linguistics, sometimes they ask if I learned about entomology. I answer, “no…”
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
August 5th, 2007 at 8:25 pm [Reply]

Those entomologists really grind my bees.
pope priapus
August 5th, 2007 at 8:42 pm [Reply]

online divinity doctorates cost 100 bucks
Anonymous
August 5th, 2007 at 9:21 pm [Reply]

Gojira 122: YES. Thank you. I knew it could be done.
Bitter Scribe
August 5th, 2007 at 9:37 pm [Reply]

Mark Trail reminds me of a James Thurber essay in which he quotes some science encyclopedia on various subjects, including bloodhounds. The encyclopedia says something like (I don’t have the book any longer and can’t locate the essay online, so must quote from memory): “Terrible to look at and terrible to encounter, man has raised [the bloodhound] up to hunt his fellow man.”

Thurber goes on to write: “The entry is accompanied by a photo of a dignified, mournful-looking bloodhound, about as terrible to encounter as Jimmy Durante….I can understand how that big baby dropped the subject of bloodhounds with those few shuddering sentences, but I propose to frighten him further. Bloodhounds are sometimes set on the trail of lost little children and old ladies who have wandered away from home. When the bloodhound finds the old lady or the child, he swallows the old lady or the child whole….That is all I have to say to the scientists now, except boo!
mumbles
August 5th, 2007 at 9:38 pm [Reply]

I second Weasel Boy’s wonderment. Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Bloodhounds”? I’m still laughing about it.
Poteet
August 5th, 2007 at 11:03 pm [Reply]

# 122 — Thanks, Gojira. My pain is more varied and interesting now:-).

# 135 — mumbles, me too.
Frank Parsnip
August 6th, 2007 at 2:00 am [Reply]

Spiderman: In the midst of Spiderman and MJ’s rapid channel-surfing, why is that they think Hitler is talking specifically about Spiderman being the “lowest form of insect life”? I mean, he could just be ranting generally about jews again. Just because a guy with a traditional jewish name like “Spiderman” lives in New York doesn’t mean he has to feel Hitler is specifically targeting him.

Curtis: Way to go, keeping it fresh and spending 12 panels to re-tell a musty joke. Hey, why not use some of those old Carlin bits about wiseass Catholic schoolkids asking their priest whether “God could make a rock so big even he couldn’t lift it?” Go ahead, spend 14 panels to tell that one.

Mark Trail: The bloodhound is the “most misunderstood” member of the dog family? How so? Most of us catch on that it is THE dog for sniffing and tracking stuff, which is exactly what the rest of El-Rod’s panels tell us.

You want a “misunderstood” dog? My brother had a dog that barked constantly and yet over the course of years not one of us understood a damn thing it was trying to say. There.
MeBert Uearnie
August 6th, 2007 at 3:02 am [Reply]

If the writers of SpiderMan are going to employ The Shocker, I wish they would at least use lube.

And wash their hands afterwards.
Steven
August 6th, 2007 at 7:47 am [Reply]

Check out this link for a great article on deaths in popular comic strips.

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/12_memorable_newspaper_comic
Steve
August 6th, 2007 at 8:21 am [Reply]

Panel 5 is why I read the Spider-Man comic strip.

Well, that and the snark.
Chert the Chort
August 6th, 2007 at 10:03 am [Reply]

Curtis: Just like to say that, with a MA from Southwestern Seminary (very conservative) and an MTS from Harvard (very, well, Harvard), I’ve never even been close to a discussion about Adam, Eve, or belly buttons (or God and big rocks, etc ad infinitum ad nauseum). The questions aren’t even coherent… though that sort of reading of Genesis isn’t, either.

How can this be the Boobs, Boobs, Boobs ed. if there are no boobs in Curtis? THAT’S the question I think we all need answered.
Sugar and Spike
August 6th, 2007 at 10:21 am [Reply]

Spider-Man: asgoersor waglrle ooompsh*

*Those are what we call major league yabbos.
Eh, Readers? [yclept Kip W]
August 6th, 2007 at 10:54 am [Reply]

Dan Coyle @10 – The man liked drawing Mary Jane. There was even a storyline (written by Ace Spider-writer Peter David) where she was shooting for a lingerie catalog, and decided, what the hell, she’d do some topless shots. But when Aunt May came across them… HILARITY ENSUED! I’ll bet Peter came across them a lot more than Aunt May did. Wah: wahhhhh..
Timothy Burke
August 6th, 2007 at 11:08 am [Reply]

I also am trying to think of the uprisings prevented by bloodhounds in the last seven years or so. Are bloodhounds like the secret black stealth helicopters kept in the basement of the United Nations building or something? Are bloodhound strike forces being sent out to smash revolutionaries in the American heartland?

Actually, even if “the century” meant the 20th Century, I’m not real clear on which “uprisings” MT means. I think maybe this is a delicate way of avoiding saying something pretty specific like, “Bloodhounds were used to track escaped slaves in the American South before 1860″.
Jordan
August 6th, 2007 at 1:08 pm [Reply]

I find it rather hilarious to see that the newspaper Spider-Man strip is mainly about Peter sitting on the couch and watching TV with MJ, and then discussing in PG terms what goes on when they go to bed. This is what you get when a superhero story is written by an 85-year-old man. (Just replace “Peter” and “MJ” with “Stan” and “Joanie” and suddenly it makes a load more sense)

But compared to the current Marvel continuity with Spider-Man and the fugitive Avengers, Aunt May dying, the wrist stingers, Civil War, the spider-god, Typeface…

Gimme domestic TV watching any day. Bring on the Shocker!
Dennis Jimenez
August 6th, 2007 at 2:11 pm [Reply]

I’m still trying to figure out Trudi’s pose from the last panel of Sunday’s JP!?!
Bitter Scribe
August 6th, 2007 at 2:43 pm [Reply]

#129–Your teacher made you run your writing through one of those awful grammar software programs? That person had no business teaching.

Mike Royko once ran the Gettysburg Address though one of those programs. The results were hilarious. Apparently Lincoln couldn’t write worth a damn.
Simon
August 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pm [Reply]

No wonder Parker never shows up in his own strip. Hizzoner is just a ridiculous first name, and immediately negates all drama

(Yes, I realize that word is a bastardization of “his honor.” I still I hate that word)
Crankenstank
August 7th, 2007 at 1:56 am [Reply]

“The Shocker”, I believe, is one of Doc Johnson’s fine products used after being exposed to so much titillation from the graphic arts.
Frank Parsnip
August 7th, 2007 at 2:38 am [Reply]

Just for consistency, the boobies in “Curtis” are on Rev. Caldwell.
Fahbs
August 8th, 2007 at 6:08 am [Reply]

Not only has that Adam & Eve joke been made a bunch of times before, but Bloom County did the same joke funnier and with a lot more brevity.
Zla'od
August 8th, 2007 at 6:30 am [Reply]

The Shocker was originally going to be called the Vibrator. In his original appearance (1970’s) he even has the letter “V” on his belt buckle. But some editor got wise to the sexual innuendo and changed his name to…another sexual innuendo, as fate would have it. The well-known obscene gesture called “the shocker” seems to have started in the 1990’s. ‘Nuff said!
Carly
December 8th, 2007 at 8:10 pm [Reply]

The Curtis actually made me laugh. The panels of silence were what did it for me.

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