Violent Saturday
Gil Thorp, 1/7/12
Oh, man, this tattoo guy is something else. Not only is he evilly providing tattooing services to people who come and ask for them and pay him money; not only is he performing other forms of body modification that were shocking in 1995; but he’s also causing tingling sensations in the lady parts of innocent teenage girls, with his sexiness. Add in the fact that he’s apparently a filthy foreigner from Australia (or, worse, that he’s adopted the Aussies’ un-American slang) and we can all really get behind the inevitable threats of violence, and perhaps even actual implementations of violence, that Kaz will dish out to him sometime in March.
Garfield, 1/7/12
Speaking of threats of violence, once Jon accidentally stepped on Garfield’s tail, and Garfield responded by breaking Jon’s leg so savagely that it still causes him pain, years later! So, yeah, Garfield is a widely-syndicated comic that a lot of people enjoy.
Sequitur
January 7th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
OtH:: Caution. Turtle cheesecake.
Lolsworth
January 7th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Best Garfield in a long time.
Stev0
January 7th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
I wonder if Kaz ever outsources violence to Mark Trail.
ElkMeadow
January 7th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
@Sequitur (#1):
My eyes! My eyes!
TheRobespierreOfTheJetSet
January 7th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
MT: “… even actual implementations of violence, that Kaz will dish out to him sometime in March.”
April. Specifically, April 14th – it’s right there on the Mayan calendar.
TheTJ
January 7th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
…Why did Jon bring that up?!
TheRobespierreOfTheJetSet
January 7th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Whoops; I meant “GT”; more specifically, Josh’s comment about GT – it’s awfully early in the morning here on the other side of the International Date Line …
Shrug
January 7th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Today’s GARFIELD (well, every day’s GARFIELD, for that matter) incidentally explains why Tommy in MARK TRAIL has to appeal to help from Mark rather than take his dog to a veterinarian: the only vet in the comics is a woman who thinks Jon Arbuckle is a good catch as a sweetheart. Would you trust a helpless blind dog to a woman whose judgement is that abysmal?
(Tommy did try Plan B and took the dog to a people doctor, but unfortunately said doctor was Rex Morgan, who told him that smelling salts will cure blindness.)
Sequitur
January 7th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
@TheRobespierreOfTheJetSet (#7): That’s okay. Just substitute “Mark” for “Kaz” and it works.
kingklash
January 7th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Y’know, I’m actually digging on this year’s Kurtis Kwanzaa tale. An entire village just died to enforce a moral! Now, that takes gold nuggets.
TheDiva
January 7th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
So, is Garfield large enough to cause injuries that would be beyond the ability of most house cats, or is Jon so much of a weakling that even your average domestic feline can give him crippling injuries? I can see arguments for both possibilities.
lfytvelo
January 7th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
@Lolsworth (#2): That’s really not saying much at all. There’s no grade of F+, just F.
Sequitur
January 7th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
@TheDiva (#11): Did you see how fat that tail is? Jon probably didn’t so much step on it as trip over it sprawing him across the room breaking his leg in the process. And if he did step on it he would have lost his balance with the same results. That cat’s got no muscle, just flab. But Jon’s still a wuss.
lfytvelo
January 7th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
A3G: Anybody else looking forward to Mim dragging LuAnn and Ruby right out of the closet?
Will
January 7th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
MT: Obviously, they need to send the dog over to Annie. (Assuming she’s escaped from Guatemala.)
Mibbitmaker
January 7th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
MST3Kwanzaa ’11-12
1/7/12
PANEL 1
CROW: “Rat’s sense of direction was weird.”
JOEL: “Rat followed ‘Rat followed’.”
PANEL 2
CROW: “Oh, this is the ending to Being There, isn’t it?!”
SERVO: “Maybe the footprints finally realized that only cheesy cartoon footprints show up like that, and just stopped doing it!”
PANEL 3
JOEL: “They’ve become the clouds, I bet.”
CROW: “From plain to plains! (*cackle!*)”
PANEL 4
SERVO: “He smiled a tiny-panel smile.”
CROW: “Look, his teeth are crooked. Really crooked! His jaws don’t line up AT ALL!”
PANEL 5
JOEL: “Who’s narrating this? Yoda?!”
SERVO: “What? No sense of curiosity?”
CROW: “He’d make a lousy Edna Kravitz!”
greghousesgf
January 7th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
what’s Charlyne Yi doing in Gil Thorp?
SideshowJon
January 7th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
@Stev0 (#3):
Mark Trail keeps Justice in the Wilderness, Kaz keeps Justice in the ‘burbs.
commodorejohn
January 7th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
A3G – Wait, wait, wait. Are we to infer that Ruby is actually Luann’s mom!? I WANT THIS TO BE TRUE SO BAD.
BlC – Eh, TV pirating is better when it’s creepy and insane.
Curtis – So the moral of the story is that if you’re ugly and everyone hates you, leave civilization behind and go into the wilderness, and you’ll be assumed into Heaven?
DT – Oh man, he’s waxing his head? That’s awesome. Almost awesome enough to make up for the horribly unsettling hairless-eyebrow-lump things.
FW – “Here, have a seat. I want us both to be comfortable so I can have a good long session of laughing at you, you pathetic waste.”
HOTC – Don’t worry, Dean. I’m pretty sure “e-mail it to some friends” is all the effort even required to get half a million DVDs printed by some Hong Kong pirate distributor. Give it six months and you’ll probably find it in the dollar DVD bin in Wal*Mart.
JP – Oh, Lt. “Never Seen Him Before This Storyline” Yelich did it. Case closed.
Luann – “Some guys don’t like the overdone Tiffanys. They prefer the more natural types. Besides, you’ll get puffy pornstar Muppet lips as soon as you lose your virginity, anyway.”
Mandrake – …
MT – Am I a terrible person for finding panel two goddamn hilarious? Probably. I don’t care.
MW – They’re going to spend all of next week standing around discussing her relationship to him, aren’t they?
OBH – It’s simultaneously encouraging and terrifying to think that this is probably going to be me in forty years.
RMMD – “You know, because we left him there to get mauled by that one guy. Ha ha, he’s probably got a punctured lung or something as we speak! Serves him right for being an unrepentant non-WASP, eh?”
SM – “Yes it is!” “No it isn’t!” “Yes it is!” “No it isn’t!”
Sequitur
January 7th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
@commodorejohn (#19): Puffy Pornstar Muppet Lips would be a good name for a… rapper.
Thought I was gonna say “band” didn’t ya.
The Rixter of Dibley
January 7th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
CS: A screwdriver can be used as a murder weapon, can’t it?
MW: And speaking of weapons, I’m imagining that the diner manager Bill is delayed by rummaging around in the kitchen looking for a weapon. It’s hard to find something really suitable for a weapon when the kitchen drawers are cluttered with utensils like knives, cleavers, meat tenderizers, and, oh yeah, creme brulee torches.
MT: “Nobody is going to want to hunt with a blind dog!”
Oh, I dunno, did you ask Dick Cheney?
BG&SS: Another cultural oddity of Hootin’ Holler. Affection is often displayed by rubbing noses and wet sneezing.
MW, too: I am wondering if Mary will interrupt her kidnapper confrontation/intervention with another holiday meal tomorrow. Celebrating Epiphany or Orthodox Christmas or maybe even the Baptism of Jesus. Hmmm, in the latter case, if she held held it pool-side, we’d be treated to the long-overdue Charterstone Pool Party. Sort of.
FW: That sidewalk looked treacherously icy. But don’t lose hope, Bull has to make his way back down it later.
FW, too: I didn’t realize Bull’s last name was Bushka, until I remembered his little sister Barbara. You know, the one everyone calls “Babs.”
@lfytvelo (#14): Are Ruby and LuAnn blood relatives? ‘Cause if they are, wouldn’t it be incest? I’m hoping Janey is behind this one. I want to see more of Janey.
Roy
January 7th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
I don’t think anyone has actually “enjoyed” Garfield in years, it is all just inertia…
But A3G today is amazing in its possibilities, how could you miss this one?
tallyHO
January 7th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
In the third panel of today’s Garfield, just stare at the drawing of his face.
tallyHO
January 7th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
@Roy (#22):
Okay. I am not as startled as LuAnn but who is Ruby?
Cliff Arroyo
January 7th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
#19 “A3G – Wait, wait, wait. Are we to infer that Ruby is actually Luann’s mom!? I WANT THIS TO BE TRUE SO BAD.”
Looks like where it’s headed (see COTW thread where I casually mention in passing that I called this three years ago).
The Rixter of Dibley
January 7th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
@tallyHO (#24): Ruby is LuAnn’s aunt, who seems to know a lot about how screwed up LuAnn’s parent and sister are.
Dale
January 7th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Mark Trail prediction:
Butch will get a job as a therapy dog in a nursing home.
His moment of heroism will come when he detects an incipient case of diabetes or cancer in one of the patients.
On the darker side, he reports cases of illegal drug handling to the DEA.
[Old Man] Muffaroo
January 7th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
@Sequitur (#20): To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how I’ve lived this long without hearing about a rock band called “Something Dave Barry Said.”
@Dale (#27): Funny you should mention drug dogs. I just read an article that says the sniffers don’t have a good accuracy rate, and tend to read their human handlers as they sniff people and get all excited over the ones their handlers want to search. Mention was made of “Clever Hans,” the horse who could answer any question for which his master already knew the answer. (But no mention of Stupid Fritz, the horse who never gave the right answer to anything. ESP advocates note that this is far from the expected 50% in such a case and argue that Fritz must have been psychic.)
colorado
January 7th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
A3G- Is this woman implying what I think she’s implying?? And Luann doesn’t have a clue about it? Oh, wait, Luann doesn’t have a clue about anything…
This Guy
January 7th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
@TheDiva (#11): Garfield is a housecat. Jon is a 1st-level commoner. Garfield’s victory is essentially a foregone conclusion (provided he wins initiative, anyway.)
Cal
January 7th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Garfield: Also, Jon apparently has a harelip.
Jamus The Bartender
January 7th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
9CL: I can’t help thinking, somehow, that Dingo would have approved.
Archie: Between the ice skating mini-skirt, and the look on her face as she absconds with Archie’s pictures of Betty, Veronica Lodge has never seemed hotter.
reFOOB: Michael, you lying little shit. Elly has never apologized for anything in her life, unless it’s something like, “I’m sorry you can’t see I am right, and I shall pray for you.” That’s what it was, wasn’t it?
FW: Wow, this is cool. Now, Ann Fairgood is going to shuffle some tarot cards, and Bull will pick The Hanged Man or Death, and she’ll say something like, “it portends great change, and you won’t necessarily get cancer”, or something kicky like that. Then John Constantine will show up, puking on her doorstep.
Gasoline Alley: Hmm….nah, it couldn’t be Cassandra Cat, she can’t drive a truck to save her life. Says it scares her something awful. People would think she’s a delivery driver.
Luann: ….yeah, you’d BETTER believe your mother instead of the media, you know what’s good for you. That’s right, mm hmm….
cartooncritic2544
January 7th, 2012 at 4:06 pm
@Shrug (#8): Actually, Mark’s father in law, “Doc,” is a vet. So you’d think they’d have at least asked Mark to bring Doc with him.
Anonymous
January 7th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
@colorado (#29):
Does this mean that Blaze is Luann’s brother?
Or her uncle?
And who is her father?
That old guy Ruby hooked up with at Tommie’s show?
cartooncritic2544
January 7th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
@TheDiva (#11): @TheDiva (#11): So, is Garfield large enough to cause injuries that would be beyond the ability of most house cats…
Just wondering: Do you read “Peanuts” and speculate on how beagles are able to sleep on the top of doghouses, play sports and type?
;-)
kanzany
January 7th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
oops, didn’t intend to be anonymous…
Does this mean that Blaze is Luann’s brother?
Or her uncle?
And who is her father?
That old guy Ruby hooked up with at Tommie’s show?
cartooncritic2544
January 7th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
@kingklash (#10): Kurtis Kwanzaa tale. An entire village just died to enforce a moral…
That’s nothing. Last year he destroyed almost the entire population of the earth and one dog.
Baka Gaijin
January 7th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
@cartooncritic2544 (#37): Dog? Land shark. That was a mouth full of teeth.
Michael W
January 7th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
@greghousesgf (#17):
I thought that was Ugly Betty in the tattoo shop.
Chareth Cutestory
January 7th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
GT: “And I want to stare at the hot tattoo guy, while he stabs a piece of metal through my friend’s flesh and cartilage! I get aroused by blood and pain! Also, fire! Teeheehee”
jamoche
January 7th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
I’ve got a blind dog. She knows the house and neighborhood by smell so well you’d never know it; when her sight was going out and we were still trying to fight it (glaucoma, so it would vary with eye pressure) I’d have to run her through agility hand signs just to be sure she could still see. And true to her cocker spaniel nature she’s a skilled hunter (of golf balls :) ) and she’s still as good at that as ever.
Besides, the MT dog is an old dog. If it hadn’t been this, it would’ve been arthritis or hip dysplasia putting an end to his hunting career – they seriously have no plans for when the dog can’t work anymore?
Artist formerly known as Ben
January 7th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
GT: Charlyne Yi isn’t there for the piercing or to look at Soul Patch, but she is a big fan of Aussie accents.
A3G: How ’bout that? Margaret Shulock is actually providing a surprising plot twist, yet one that makes some kind of sense. Of course we’ll have all Sunday (at the very least) to catch up.
Phantom: “Tell him that we have no fish, except for very scrawny talapia.”
DT: BB Eyes barges in while Cueball is polishing his head. The big one, thank God.
MW: In a last ditch attempt, Mary tries gaining the kidnapper’s trust by talking like a pedophile herself.
MT: From the looks of Butch’s eyes, I’d guess that “blind” is a euphemism for “possessed by a wrathful ghost and/or evil wizard.” And she’s right. Hunters who want to come back from the hunt alive aren’t going to take this dog out.
Popeye: Tasty ground fauna. I see what you did there, Wimpy.
OBH: Nothing to be too ashamed of. I have the same kind of memory, and I’m somewhat younger than Grandpa.
SSmith: Oh, it’s cute now. But you just know the next six strips will be a tracking shot getting closer and closer to Lukey and Elviney’s bedroom window.
Agnes: “Stinky pink samurai swords”? Cochran might not be trying to be dirty this time, but…
Archie: Why is Veronica throwing out the pictures of Betty? If she’d brought a Sharpie she could turn them into pictures of herself.
9CL: McEldowney will draw beefcake too, as long as it keeps his main characters from having to interact with lesser beings. Arguably this is a good move for the lesser beings, too.
Baldo: Okay, I laughed.
BC: So BC will have to get his scat play somewhere else.
S-M: As others have noted, Mary Jane looks nothing like Sif, with or without the stupid clip-on ponytail. I’m starting to think thunder might be a little too much responsibility for this guy.
DtM: “Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody, just follow me…”
RMMD: What did we miss? Well apparently, while Kelly and Summer were having their heart-to-heart, Niki was chainsawing Spider and dumping the body into a tub of acid. That boy will turn out just fine.
Artist formerly known as Ben
January 7th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
@Jamus The Bartender (#32):
Oh I’d love it if Ann Fairgood turned out to be Madame Xanadu’s secret identity. I wouldn’t count on it, though.
Artist formerly known as Ben
January 7th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
@commodorejohn (#19):
Eh, “Lonnie Webb” sounds pretty Anglo-Saxon to me.
commodorejohn
January 7th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
@jamoche (#41): “Plans” aren’t really a thing people do in Mark Trail.
Red Greenback
January 7th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
“Hullo, Sheilas! Are you here for a Milford M?”
“No thanks, that Kama Sutra stuff is for jocks. But Alyssa wants her nose pierced.”
“Very good. One nose piercing. Will you be having that here or to go?”
debussy fields
January 7th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
MT–Mark will tell Tommy to keep the dog and put that heartless woman to sleep.
Snuggs
January 7th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Oh boo hoo, Jon. Whatever violence Garfield subjected you to is nothing compared to the pain your strip has inflicted on the general public for the past thirty years straight.
kkarenb
January 7th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Rex Morgan – So apparently Spider has been beaten to a bloody pulp, or worse. And still no one has bothered to call the police.
Rhymes With Orange – Shouldn’t this have run on September 19?
Dale
January 7th, 2012 at 5:21 pm
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#28):
For the sake of brevity, I did not mention that Butch will do his drug snooping at night, by himself. He reports in the morning. As he’s a Mark Trail protege, his rush to judgment (peeing on some poor slob’s shoe) is not to be questioned.
Zerowolf
January 7th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
@kanzany (#36): I think we can safely rule out Blaze being anyone’s father.
Zerowolf
January 7th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
@debussy fields (#47): I’ll second that motion.
TheDiva
January 7th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
@cartooncritic2544 (#35): No, but I do wonder how Schroeder manages to play Beethoven sonatas on a one-octave toy piano. :-)
Liam
January 7th, 2012 at 6:22 pm
MW-I’m not his daughter. I’m his wife.
Uncle Lumpy
January 7th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
@Liam (#54):
I’m his wife … and his daughter!
Pay it no mind, Mary: it’s Charterstone.
Liam
January 7th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
JP-How convient. Your father gives his silencer to the police department and you happen to know someone in the police department enabling you to be able to get the silencer back.
A3G-Mim’s going to reveal the big secret about how she knows that LuAnn and Ruby experimented in college.
Liam
January 7th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Amazing Spiderman-I say thee nay! He has the look of one who would take your name.
The Rixter of Dibley
January 7th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#42): “MT: From the looks of Butch’s eyes, I’d guess that “blind” is a euphemism for “possessed by a wrathful ghost and/or evil wizard.” And she’s right. Hunters who want to come back from the hunt alive aren’t going to take this dog out.”
I guess the artist didn’t have
imaginationanother option for conveying the dog’s blindness; except maybe for a tiny pair of dark glasses.Notebooked
January 7th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Look at the black-haired girl’s eyes in the last panel of today’s Gil Thorp. She’s staring straight at us. We’re either supposed to imagine a Spike Jones-esque ‘daradadarada — ta-raaaa!’ and that glance is supposed to mean ‘Oh that Alyssa! Her and her libido!’, or we’re supposed to imagine a mournful piano, as she looks up to the heavens and thinks…’Oh Lord, why hast thou condemned me to this strange place, where malformed creatures walk and leer and burn their skin with thunderneedles? Where a man’s face can swallow a man’s arm whole, yet have it emerge unharmed? Where strange creatures camouflaged as hands nestle on our shoulders yet scatter away when we look, but ready to strike, ready to eat? Why, Lord, have you cursed me to this awful place? Am I really such a sinner?’
To which God, or possibly the Deity of Punchlines, or possibly even herself in a small and subconcious voice, replies ‘sinner you than me’, and then we get the Spike Jones-fanfare. She giggles for a bit, then turns around to find that Alyssa has gotten carried away — possibly with her own enthusiasm and possibly by the malicious minor-tattooing Aussie robot fair-dinkum-sport-who-do-they-think-they-arers of the vaguely threatening tattoo parlor — and has now turned into something akin to the Human Porcupine with needles of steel. They consider using a very strong magnet to rectify this before Coach Kaz figures out she’s gotten pierced, in which case he would just reply ‘If you’re all crazy about getting a piercing, take mine!’, at which point he reveals that his legendary earrings are, in fact, two knobs at either end of a long, thin steel rod which goes straight through his head, like the bolt through Frankenstein’s monster’s neck, and…er…hm.
I’ll end it here, I think. I’m beginning to worry about me.
Droopy Says
January 7th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
@jamoche (#41): MT: they seriously have no plans for when the dog can’t work anymore?
The only “plans” in Mark Trail involve recycling the art and exclamation points. Flying goats will tell us that the dog loves to go hunting with familes. Trail and his recently-discovered old friend will stand in front of the Mossback Mountain Range while giant chipmunks remind us that dogs get old. If any clipart of happy young children turns up, Butch will become very popular at a (pick one) school/camp for (pick one) disadvantaged/disabled/abused children.
Swordsmith
January 7th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
@Droopy Says (#60): “If any clipart of happy young children turns up, Butch will become very popular at a (pick one) school/camp for (pick one) disadvantaged/disabled/abused children.”
You mean the long awaited MW/MT crossover is finally on the horizon?
Rocky Stoneaxe
January 7th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
@Sequitur (#y65): MT: Blind Dog. Sounds like a blues rapper to me.
Rapper? Not even close:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-HNYmMU08A&feature=related
Dunno about the rest of you, but I found Blind Dog Willy to be a rather engaging performer — albeit a stiff and wooden one.
Hank
January 7th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
@TheDiva (#53): They answered that once. Seriously.
Droopy Says
January 7th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
@tallyHO (#23): Barfield: In the third panel of today’s Garfield, just stare at the drawing of his face.
On purpose? One glance brings to mind a McEclowney sketch of a hermaphrodite’s privy parts. Full-throttle staring could cause madness.
Illustrator Steve
January 7th, 2012 at 8:35 pm
MT – (Mark arrives and sees panel #2. He then SHOUTS) “For GOD’s sake! Will somebody PLEASE put a pair of SUNGLASSES on that old blind dog?!!”
Arabella
January 7th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
FW: As many have noted already, it makes no sense that Bull (and Batiuk?) forgot what has gone on before in the annals of Westview High. One possible explanation: The story lines are now being outsourced to middle school creative writing classes. Students have been told only “St. Lisa died of cancer, and there is to be no joy whatsoever in the strip. Take it from there, and let’s see some Writing.” (No disrespect intended to any middle schoolers who may happen to be fellow posters here)
Artist formerly known as Ben
January 7th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
@The Rixter of Dibley (#58):
It’s worked for every cartoon of “Three Blind Mice” ever. Why not “One Blind Hunting Dog”?
Rob P
January 7th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
The recent reminder that FOOB exists made me nostalgic for the days of goin’ roadside…..so I googled it, and found this ad for a Canadian towing service.
Sharing it here, so you can enjoy: http://www.halifaxtowing.ca/
Son of Stuck Funky
January 7th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Crankshaft: Batiuk recycles a Funky Winkerbean punchline from 2010: http://bit.ly/ywvfpP
seismic-2
January 7th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
A3G: Is Ruby actually Lu Ann’s mother? If so, then who is her father? Was Lu Ann conceived during Ruby’s first stay in New York, when she was working as a maid in the Martin Magee household?
MT: “We’ve got to be realistic… nobody is going to want to hunt with a blind dog!”
“Sally, are you saying we’ll have to do with Butch what we do with all our other hunting dogs when they go old and blind?”
“Yes, Tommy. We’ll accept a fee of $25 dollars from all the hunters, and we’ll declare today to be the opening day of Dalmatian season.”
Lily Sincere
January 7th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
In certain, admittedly extremely specialized, crowds, Jon and Garfield would be marking an important, emotionally significant anniversary.
For the rest of us: gee, whatever happened to Jon’s relationship with Liz?
bats :[
January 7th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
MT: “It was…soap poisoning!”
Rixter
January 7th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
@bats :[ (#72): The Bumpus Hounds! So, they were blind! Who knew?
commodorejohn
January 7th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
@seismic-2 (#70): Oh man, Lu Ann turning out to be Margo’s half-sister? That. Would. Be. Awesome.
Frank Lee Meidere
January 8th, 2012 at 12:17 am
@bats :[ (#72):
Damn! Damn, damn, damn! How could I have missed that one? Damn!
Nice catch, Bats :[
tallyHO
January 8th, 2012 at 12:17 am
@Droopy Says (#64):
Then perhaps madness explains why I saw them moving.
Wugglewugglewha!?!
Yup. Madness.
Sgt. Stoned
January 8th, 2012 at 12:34 am
GT: I’ll bet that the sexy tattoo guy pierces more than noses.
MT: Since dogs track by scent and not by eyesight, what’s the problem?
NoahSnark
January 8th, 2012 at 12:37 am
Jim Davis wants the average cartoon reader to feel Jon’s pain, and the average English major to rub their face on a cheese grater to forget the awkwardness of the dialog in that last panel.
Rocky Stoneaxe
January 8th, 2012 at 12:45 am
Blind, my ass! Li’l Abner and Daisy Mae’s dog is obviously high as a kite:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=41931350612
“On a clear day, you can see forever.”
Rocky Stoneaxe
January 8th, 2012 at 1:05 am
Happy 100th birthday* to Charles Addams! I couldn’t find him an appropriate birthday cake, so I was forced to improvise:
http://mcns.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/35_monsterrally_addams_feast.jpg
*Born on January 7, 1912!
tallyHO
January 8th, 2012 at 1:22 am
@NoahSnark (#78):
Ah, yes. After re-reading it and avoiding staring at his face, the dialogue revealed itself.
Sure, panel three’s dialogue is awkwardly worded. But, he was talking about the weather. And, in the Garfield universe, that is code for the ladies. He can’t get it up when the weather’s damp…hint…hint…
Oh, Jim Davis Studio Minions Who Write and Draw for Jim Davis, you naughty scamp, you!
Droopy Says
January 8th, 2012 at 1:29 am
Peter Parker of Assguard: Parker is caught in a tug of warriors! Thor, MJ, grab a leg and make a wish!
Curtis: Some people have a spare tire. Curtis has a spare face. Pull over to the curb and change your face, kid, the original has gone flat.
Pluggers: When they get too lazy to take out the trash, Pluggers mount it and call it art. Then they sneer at Andy Warhol.
Crankshat: Cranky got a few inches last night and now he’s singing? Why couldn’t he have come out when Dingo was here to comment on it?
Prince Valiant: To judge by those faces, one of the boys isn’t happy about getting oiled by Valeta.
EffYou Wankerbeat: I couldn’t get the zoom function to work. Which smirking, slovenly-dressed character with unkempt black hair is that?
sporknpork
January 8th, 2012 at 1:42 am
The tattoo guy must also be excited because his finger is absolutely engorged.
Lily Sincere
January 8th, 2012 at 1:43 am
@NoahSnark (#78):
I’m not sure I’m an average reader, and I doubled in history and religion, so I guess it’s perfectly natural that my reaction to this strip is that I want to want to run myself through a giant peppermill such as those wielded by the serving staff at Baker’s Sqaure (as I recall; really, everything between, “Let me get you a pitcher of ice-water” and “Here’s that French silk pie you ordered” is a pleasant blur of happy giant things).
Mr. O'Malley
January 8th, 2012 at 1:55 am
Old Blind Dogs have a website. And it looks like there’s a new CD coming out at the end of the month.
ElkMeadow
January 8th, 2012 at 2:13 am
MW Why did bother giving Wayne a name? Or Emily? Arc is over.
RM Oh, jeez, Niki and Summer probably have the same mom.
PV Not to worry, Val. St. G’s dream girl is a brunette in a harem outfit. (Val is really tripping out there. Must be that drug stuff he drank a few arcs ago, the eternal youth one.)
Dale
January 8th, 2012 at 2:30 am
Mark Trail
Tommy had Mark on the phone. Asking WHAT to do was too much of a stretch.
Couldn’t he at least have asked if Mark COULD TELL them what to do before he did an undefined amount of travelling?
Will the magazine pay for this?
[Old Man] Muffaroo
January 8th, 2012 at 2:52 am
@TheDiva (#53): The black keys, as you may know, are just painted on.
FOOBed again
January 8th, 2012 at 2:59 am
9CL: Has Brooke or a family member recently been diagnosed with autism or Asperger’s Syndrome–is this the reason for Sunday’s strip?
Maggie the Cat
January 8th, 2012 at 3:12 am
Rex’s dialogue in panel 6 of Sunday’s RMMD should instead read: “I just got the weirdest boner when Niki and I mentioned his mom…. & I don’t know which one of them is responsible for it!”
JohnZ
January 8th, 2012 at 3:33 am
I haven’t heard a fellow Aussie use the out-of-date slang word "sheila" since I was a kid (a long time ago), and even then it was used in reference to females, hardly ever were they directly addressed that way when speaking to them.
Baka Gaijin
January 8th, 2012 at 5:03 am
Laziest meddle ever. Mary Worth delayed the suspect all of 38 seconds. Five panels of direct meddling. She spent more time physically abusing Bree! Come to think about it, this may have been the best storyline since Aldomania!
I’m dedicating today’s Wulffmorgenthaler to Dingo. It may be NSFTF (Not Safe for True Fable).
Mama Zits, you’ve lived with that teenager for how long? Let him use his magical phone to organize the party and book it. They have an app for that.
Baka Gaijin
January 8th, 2012 at 5:05 am
I forgot: I can’t wait to see Sally Forth’s “If We Never Met” Week.
Doyle
January 8th, 2012 at 6:08 am
That’s it. 9CL and Luann are officially off my to-read lists. They’re not even any good for snarking anymore.
What do the rest of you enjoy non ironically? I like Monty and Baldo.
Baka Gaijin
January 8th, 2012 at 6:31 am
@Doyle (#94): Unironically, I enjoy Cow and Boy, One Big Happy (both reruns and new), Molly and the Bear, Thatababy, Arlo and Janis, The New Adventures of Queen Victoria, Retail, and Wulffmorgenthaler. No Cul de Sac–too many clown sightings.
Droopy Says
January 8th, 2012 at 6:32 am
@Doyle (#94): Non-ironically? Lots of things: Frog Applause. The New Adventures of Queen Victoria. Lio. Scary Gary. The Lost Side of Suburbia. On The Fastrack. Red and Rover. Endtown. Scary Gary. C’est la Vie. Jane’s World. Dick Tracy. Tom the Dancing Bug. And I think everyone already knows about Pearls Before Swine and Cul De Sac.
SDL no more!
January 8th, 2012 at 7:55 am
Has anyone here ever seen a tattoo artist with so few tattoos as the Bruce in GT?
Cloudbuster
January 8th, 2012 at 8:14 am
A3G Sunday: LuAnn and Mim were up in LuAnn’s apartment talking. Ruby lives across the hall, if I remember right (do I?). Yet the instant her name is mentioned, she bursts into someone else’s apartment. Which means she had to be listening at the door, and doesn’t even care to be subtle about it. Creepy.
Peter Hillock
January 8th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Doonesbury: Wow, 40+ years of doing the strip and Trudeau can still knock it out of the park.
MW: Why ‘Wayne? Are we supposed to remember him from an earlier storyline?
Peter Hillock
January 8th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
MT: I’m betting there’s a rival hunting guide who’s slipped something illicit into Butch’s dog dish, Mark will find him out, and the dog’s eyesight will be restored. It’s Elrod’s corollary to Ockham’s razor: the most childish and ludicrous solution is the most likely to be correct.
Readem and Laf
January 8th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
GT
Panel 1 — With fingernails like those, who needs needles for body piercing?
Panel 2 — With “earrings” like those sprouting from their necks, the girls are clearly no strangers to body piercing.
GrafSpee
January 8th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
@Mr. O’Malley (#85): Old Blind Dogs had a very original sound when they first started out. I have their first 6 albums and I saw them live twice. Now-a-days, only Jonny Hardie is left from the original group and the sound is a lot different. I don’t listen to any of the new stuff now.
Not Greg Evans
January 9th, 2012 at 2:16 am
Clearly the obsession with body piercing is simply one manifestation of an obsession with all things mid-’90′s. It’s bad enough the fucking hipsters have brought back day-glo sunglasses and block letter t-shirts, now we have to deal with Milford HS students bringing back Titanic?