The Comics Curmudgeon

75 responses to “NO JAIL CAN HOLD HER!”

1. Skullturf Q. Beavispants
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am [Reply]

   I’m not the first to wonder this, but how the heck are the kids supposed to answer the puzzle in Slylock, when WE CAN’T SEE CASSANDRA’S DRESSER!

   By the way, her earrings are cold, too.

2. Tweeks_Coffee
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:29 am [Reply]

   How does ‘Shaft have a t-shirt tanline? All he’s ever worn in his entire life is that filthy, filthy jacket.

3. Skullturf Q. Beavispants
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:30 am [Reply]

   I also never noticed before today what a severe “farmer’s tan” Crankshaft has.

4. commodorejohn
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:30 am [Reply]

   Okeedokee – Sunday and Monday snark, as I never got on the internet yesterday, due to my brother coming home from ANG tech school (yay!)

   9CL – 10/15 – I don’t get it.

   A3G – 10/15 – Ooh, a rare chance to observe Margo’s transformation from hideous creature of the night to the form she wears among us mere humans.

   Crankshaft – 10/15 –
   

   “This is the doctor’s office. You have cancer.”
   “No, there must be some mistake. You’re calling Crankshaft.”
   “Ah, crap. This isn’t Funky Winkerbean?”
   “No, Funky Winkerbean is 323-8013. This is 323-8017.”
   “Thanks. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
   “It happens.”

   DTM – 10/14 – George Jetson, martial artist.

   Dinette Set – 10/15 – I accidentally clicked on this link today, and discovered why I never bothered reading it in the first place.

   FC – 10/14 – AHH METAHUMOR DOES NOT BELONG IN THE FAMILY CIRCUS BRAIN EXPLODING GRHGSDLHFIURP

   10/15 – On the cutting edge, as always.

   FOOB – 10/15 – OF ALL THE PRETENTIOUS BS THAT HAS BEEN EXCRETED THUS FAR REGARDING MICHAEL’S BOOK, THIS IS BY FAR THE WORST. I mean, seriously, Lynn, all you’re doing is reminding me of the end of Back To The Future, which is far, far better than anything you’ve output in recent memory. I’m willing to bet any amount of money that A Match Made In Space is better-written, better-conceived, and a more enjoyable read than whatever the hell Michael called his load of excrement. And as far as “that’s why it feels so heavy,” well, damn right, the way Michael writes. H.P. Friggin’ Lovecraft didn’t write prose that purple. (Speaking of reminding me of better things, wouldn’t a FOOB/The Lurking Fear mash-up be just too perfect for words?)

   FW – 10/14 – So Funky drove from Ohio to New York while Les was sitting on a park bench?

   10/15 – “In the end…it doesn’t even matter.”

   GA – 10/14 – When did we suddenly veer into Brother Biddle? Not that I’m complaining, as that was the only good church strip in all of ever (I’m looking at YOU, Her & Jamal.)

   JP – 10/14 & 10/15 – I have a better idea, Sam. How about you stop badgering Rusty and tell them yourself? Jerk.

   MF – 10/15 – Says the guy who obsesses over every single atom in Ronald Reagan’s now-dead body.

   MW – 10/15 – Whose hand is that cupping Von’s shoulder? I know some people were doubting Clambake was black, but he definitely wasn’t that white.

   MC – 10/14 – Eee! Maureen splash panel! *contented sigh*

   Pibgorn(WTF) – Whoa, what the heck? There’s like…a dozen updates, and more importantly, there’s some vague clue as to what the bloody hell is going on!

   Popeye – 10/14 – This joke would work better if Chester’s body output were visually in evidence. Show, don’t tell, folks. Also, cripes, how old is Swee’Pea supposed to be? He’s fully articulate and like…three feet tall, but he’s still in bag pajamas?

   PC – 10/15 – It’s nice to see a comic doing a “newspapers going out of business” strip that’s not all “Support Your Local Paper” like Baldo or…whoever it was that did the other one.

   RMMD – 10/15 – “I’ll be the navigator! Like Walter Koenig was on Star Trek! And you can be the helmsman, like George Takei, okay!?”

   SFx – 10/14 – I think Bob Weber Jr. was pulling our collective leg when he claimed he didn’t get all the obsession over Cassandra. Look at the expressions on the faces of…well, everybody but Slylock and Max.

   SM – 10/15 – Ooh! Spider-Man is going to borrow the thrilling “corporate takeover” plot from Judge Parker! HEAR the endless drivel leading nowhere! SEE a busty business lawyer fruitlessly attempt to seduce a hunky but clueless male lead! SMELL the rotting corpse of the long-dead plot! …oh wait, that pretty much sounds like Spider-Man to begin with.

5. Skullturf Q. Beavispants
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:30 am [Reply]

   (looks at Tweeks_Coffee) Jinx!

6. Calico
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:33 am [Reply]

   SlyFox and the Family Stone –
   Well, at least Cassie and I have one thing in common – we both hate to dust.

   I’m also enjoying Max looking at cASSandra.

7. Dennis Jimenez
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:35 am [Reply]

   4 – RMMD – Rex would probably prefer coxsain.

8. Calico
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:35 am [Reply]

   Josh – just a bit off topic here, but since you live in Baltimore, have you ever read / perused James Kochalka’s work?

   He’s a Burlington, VT based comix artist and musician who went to art school in BMore. Good stuff.

9. Electro
   October 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am [Reply]

   SlyFox only wishes he could ‘dust her dresser’.

10. Sheilagh
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:41 am [Reply]

    Well, I hate to criticize the gritty realism in Spider-Man, but I can’t help pointing out that freelancers are ineligible for unemployment. Not to mention everybody files over the internet nowadays — I’d be surprised if there were an unemployment “line” from sea to shining sea. (Unemployment “queue”, maybe…)

    As for Cassandra Cat, that’s all pretty bogus — if she actually SAID “I haven’t moved the box since I last dusted,” then she must be aware of the whole square-place-in-the-dust scenario, or why would she mention dusting at all? Or is somebody extrapolating from her manicure or something, that she hasn’t dusted in ages? Thin. Very thin.

    And finally, Josh, I dunno how you get “Luann and Tommie are fully dressed” out of a couple of obvious frumpy nightgowns. You think Luann would leave the apartment in that rig she’s got on? No WAY. And Tommie’s actually got a frumpy little robe over her frumpy little nightie…

11. PeteMoss
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:41 am [Reply]

    sf – I don’t like the way the cops and the perp behind bars are all leering at our girl Cassie. Back off. Just sign the damn crime report and let her get back to her scam, dammit. The losers aren’t going to grift themselves, are they?

12. SmartPeopleOnIce
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:42 am [Reply]

    What you failed to note in A3G is that the lower left panel contains a perfect depiction of Margo’s O-face.

    Grunt, indeed…

13. benro
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:42 am [Reply]

    #4 – re SFx, even the kid in the find the differences panel is leering at her..

14. Perky Bird
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:43 am [Reply]

    In Sunday’s Spiderman, in the last panel, Peter looks like he’s about to burst into some heartfelt Broadway tune about his plight, what with all the clutching of his own lapels and plaintive towards-the-heavens gaze. I’m thinking maybe something from Les Miz, or perhaps “The Impossible Dream”….

    Plus, the black dude’s expression in that same panel looks as if he’s thinking, “What the hell is wrong with these crazy crackers? And for that matter, how is it that I manage to work in one of the last office places that doesn’t ban indoor smoking?”

15. Michael
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:46 am [Reply]

    I just want to say that I love when PBS does an entire Sunday strip that builds up to a huge long pun, and yesterday’s was a good one.

16. Stuck Funky
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:46 am [Reply]

    RE: SF – note how at least one animal in each of the surrounding panels is leering at Cassandra cat. Bob Weber is in love with his own creation.

17. PeteMoss
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:50 am [Reply]

    16. “She draws the eyes like a magnet.”

18. Jim
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:51 am [Reply]

    Who’s the crotchety white geezer with a flabby ass that makes us groan?

    SHAFT!

    …Crankshaft.

19. HBGlord
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:55 am [Reply]

    Sfox: Looks as if Winston Wolf is especially eager to meet his new cellie. Why, even Angelica’s (Age 9) creation has got her newly drawn bovine gawk goin’ on clear from another panel.

20. Harold
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:58 am [Reply]

    I am embarrassed that I couldn’t unscramble ENSTOEKL in Slylock Fox, especially considering the wonderful number of them in this Sunday’s comic!

    I think Cassandra and the boys in blue at the police station have a thing for each other, which is why she keeps setting up these obvious scams and they keep pretending to play along. If Slylock keeps interposing himself in their affairs, he’s looking to take a 45-caliber nap one of these days.

    I’m glad the holding cell has had its E-Z-Scape bars (http://joshreads.com/?p=1025) replaced with something more secure. But did they have to trap the poor wolf’s head in the bars like that? He’s not going anywhere.

21. Harold
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:59 am [Reply]

    …unless he reaches over six inches to his left and grabs the keys.

22. Rotten Arsenal
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:01 am [Reply]

    I can see Bil Keane sitting in his comfy chair where he does his work (advisory capacity) while Jeff (does all the actual work) asks him about this ludicrous subject matter. Bil smacks him upside his little brown afro and growls “That’s nothing we’d ever use in The Family Circus. If sensible, mildly funny ‘awwwwww’ inducing humor was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for us. Absurdism is of the DEVIL!”
    Jeff goes back to the drawing board and decides “Screw you, old man…” and does the strip anyway.
    Meanwhile, up in heaven, dead grandparents weep…

23. Harold
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:01 am [Reply]

    …our left, his right.

24. HBGlord
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:01 am [Reply]

    #20: Science in action, my friend Harold — Wolfie is opportunistically waiting for the blood to drain from his head to a lower extremity. Then extrication will be a cinch!

25. Sully
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:04 am [Reply]

    Re: #4
    Did you reference “Dinette Set”? Dear lord, is that thing still around? Without a doubt, the worst syndicated comic strip in history. How did it ever get out there? And why, oh WHY would any paper pick it up? Even the ridiculously overrated Get Fuzzy looks good by comparison.

26. Morokiane
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:08 am [Reply]

    FC – ZOMG…when the signature has to explain the punch line and use irony makes me want to ask Keane what the fsck is going on? I look at the comic anyway and never understand the joke…time for Jeff and Bill to retire.

27. commodorejohn
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:16 am [Reply]

    #22 Rotten Arsenal – “If sensible, mildly funny ‘awwwwww’ inducing humor was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for us.”
    Which is a pretty amusing thought when you consider that Christ was a pretty biting satirist at times.

    #25 Sully – Well, I accidentally clicked the link on gocomics.com; it’s not in my paper, at least. Thank God.

    Also, hey, is that Professor Farnsworth in the submarine in Slylock Fox?

28. Zeus
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:17 am [Reply]

    1st time poster.

    Lower left panel in A3G.

    LuAnn: Good Morning Margo

    Margo: Grunt!

    Just what was inserted where? Who new Margo was actually a submissive?

    Next panel:

    LuAnn: How was your date? (i.e., tell me all about the various ways Eric degraded and humiliated you).

    And then Tommie enters the room interrupting the secretive interplay between a dominatrix and her submissive and now we’ll never know!

29. Marion Delgado
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:22 am [Reply]

    I like how Josh pretends he doesn’t know about all the Crankshaft™ fetish pay sites.

30. gh
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:26 am [Reply]

    Cassandra Cat AND two fish skeletons? You just keep raising the bar, Mr. Bob Weber, Jr. This is better than huffing paint — I won’t come down till Wednesday, you naughty man.

31. HBGlord
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:29 am [Reply]

    #25: I’m not trying to harsh on your opinion of GF in the least, Sully. I totally get that. Many people here don’t care for it (but i’m not one of those — it’s one of my favorites). I do, however, have a problem with the word “overrated” in general — it’s a seemingly relative assessment that often is given without a standard or a benchmark. It says more about what others think of something than what you do.

    For example, i can state “The Beatles are overrated” — but what i really mean to say by that is they’re merely the best group of the rock era, no more. It says nothing of where i actually rank them, just that so many people seem to love them, and that to some unstated degree i think it’s out of proportion. Now if i say, “The Beatles are overrated in comparison to the Searchers, whom i think are better” then it means something — in this case, something stupid, though.

    And what i think of “Something Stupid” i will not share. Sinatra’s goons still walk among us.

32. gh
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:29 am [Reply]

    Dingo and his Dancing Book Blurbs –

    See if any of these work:

    Finally! Proof positive that there is no god!
    – Madalyn Murray O’Hair

    Tastes like chicken!
    – Satchel

    Gives new meaning to the phrase “Never underestimate the reading public’s intelligence.”

    Shares the stage with classics like Ulysses in that it contains many words.

33. Skullturf Q. Beavispants
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:30 am [Reply]

    #25 Sully and #27 commodorejohn — Although I’ve spoken out here against some strips (Zippy the Pinhead, and Ballard Street) I have to say that even though Dinette Set did nothing at all for me when I first encountered it, I’ve actually warmed up to it quite a bit.

    I guess the three strips I mentioned have a common bond: they’re less about “punchlines” and more about a self-contained world of quirky characters that you may or may not get. It’s easy to see how such a style of strip would inspire a wide variety of reactions.

    Even though Dinette Set seemed surreal and nonsensical to me at first, I eventually realized that I’ve known people like the characters in the strip. In its initially offputting way, the comic has managed to capture something about a certain type of white suburban North American, and another thing I enjoy is how Dinette Set seems to walk this thin line where it’s kind of ambiguous whether the strip is making fun of these people or celebrating them. (That’s also part of why I enjoyed the film “Waiting for Guffman”.)

34. Skullturf Q. Beavispants
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:32 am [Reply]

    For the record, I’ve also warmed up to Ballard Street somewhat, and Zippy remains my least favourite of those three I mentioned. In my opinion, it relies a little too much on being random, like Robin Williams with a thesaurus.

35. gh
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:36 am [Reply]

    NYer Captions–

    First, Skullturf’s “how angels get wings” is unbeatable, but I’ve never let that stop me from hogging the bandwidth, so here goes:

    So God really is a woman.

    Fucking stork’s late again.

    Watch the stance, pardner.

    I hear in hell you have to sit on isopods.

    I bet she’s not coming back.

    I’m naming mine Ezekiel.

    So you’re saying you dropped the remote?

36. Baron Von Foobenstein
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:37 am [Reply]

    Family Jerkus –

    Why does the dad have no eyeballs?

37. tymime
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:39 am [Reply]

    Today’s Garfield-
    Unless Garfield is sharing his dream with Jon, this can only be revealing something very, very disturbing.

38. The Divine O’F
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:41 am [Reply]

    Congrats to all the COTW snarkers! And a special mention for I-Girl, whose Thomas Hardy/double-wide combo is comic heaven!

    Yesterthread, Former Ben: I like your caption.

    And I like several other captions, but so far nothing really rings my chimes. Which means they are all probably potential winners.

    Here’s an idea: why not submit the leftover Michael Patterson book-jacket quotes to the caption contest? They are pretty much ALL funny, and they fit the cartoon as well as anything can.

39. Skullturf Q. Beavispants
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:47 am [Reply]

    gh: thanks. But I don’t live in the US and hence can’t submit it. Someone else can, if they promise to share the prize with me in the rare event that the entry is a winner. (Actually, the fact that I thought it up at 1:00 in the morning and regarded it as half-funny may be a point in its favour.)

    Here’s something that simultaneously works for the NYer caption contest and as a blurb for Mike Patterson’s book:

    “I can’t believe you shat that thing out.”

40. Wazoo
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:47 am [Reply]

    Since when did Bil and Jeffy get all Italo Calvino on our asses?

41. Don, still just Don
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:53 am [Reply]

    Look at the expression on Slylock – that’s a fox who started “looking for evidence” in Cassandra’s underwear drawer, not expecting to find that cache of erotic toys. The surprise has clung to him all the way back to the stationhouse. In some ways, he’s a fox of the world, but in others, he’s clearly still a cub.

    I laughed out loud at this Family Circus. It’s like Jeff Keane knows deep down that he would have preferred to inherit The Far Side, if only so he didn’t have to endure the oppressive hand of the old man.

42. Artist formerly known as Ben
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:56 am [Reply]

    I knew Family Circus was blowing my mind (or something) but I couldn’t put my finger on shy.

    And from today: A good Plugger always has a cover story for masturbating in public.

43. Artist formerly known as Ben
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:57 am [Reply]

    Thank you, Divine One. Not sure if the Conde Nast folks would go for it.

44. The Divine O’F
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:58 am [Reply]

    NYCC: “I don’t mind the brooding so much… but my cloaca itches.”

45. Chert the Chort
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:58 am [Reply]

    Ever since Bob did a Casandra shirt just for us – man, that’s still a big-ass deal – I can’t look at Cassie the same way. I mean that in the best possible sense, natürlich.

46. Gold-Digging Nanny
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:01 pm [Reply]

    DTM: The working title for Dennis’ teacher’s book is They Came from the Short Bus.

    Lockhorns: Ha ha! It’s funny because the iPhone launched in June!

    OBH: OMG! Table manners worse than FOOB!

47. Poteet
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

    Peter Parker has a bit of an Elvis thing going on in Panel Six. Eewww.

48. odinthor
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:10 pm [Reply]

    NYer Contest —

    1. “I know you need egg whites to make Angel Food Cake, but—gee whillikers!”

    2. “Oh, I’m not one to complain, Sid. But I bet the guys who go to the other place don’t have to sit on any goddam eggs!”

    3. “I see you ran out of change for the pay toilet too!”

    4. “So what you’re saying is that anti-abortion is starting to catch on with birds…?”

    5. “Now I see why messing around with a Harpy is a no-no!”

    6. “This ‘taking care of the kids is how a daddy earns his wings’ stuff is for the birds!”

    7. “All I’m saying, Jerry, is that I wish my pastor had been a little more forthcoming about the rewards of Heaven!”

49. Red Greenback
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:17 pm [Reply]

    NYerCC:

    -Let’s just hope it’s not another “thongbird”
    -At least we’re bacon not in Hell.
    -All I know is the Big Guy’s secretary said something about doing penance for all the Eartly hours we wasted playing “Joust”
    -Is that you or me tapping?
    -I keep trying to think of a New Yorker worhty caption, but my thoughts always end up being scrambled.
    -You seem ruffled Paul, don’t be so down.

50. McManx
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:17 pm [Reply]

    SFx – Holy crap. Cassie has camel toe. No wonder everyone oggling her.

    FCircus – Next up: Billy shows Daddy a cartoon of a father at a drawing board with a No. 2 pencil stuck in his eye…

    CShaft – How do you get a farmer tan when you perpetually wear a jacket and hat whereever you go? The reddish shading on Crankshaft’s pate and limbs is more likely caused by the impending pulmonary embolism which is about to strike the old bastard down.

51. BigTed
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

    I like the fact that all the dialogue in Sunday’s “Spider-Man” could be narrowed down to “Hi, I’m back!” I suppose the rest of the week’s strips will be about Peter deciding where to have lunch.

52. Red Greenback
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

    Sheesh!—-At least we’re not bacon in Hell.

53. Sans Sense
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:27 pm [Reply]

    I am sure that this has been addressed before but it is keeping me up nights. Is Crankshaft a Plugger? If so is he bear, dog or bird Plugger?

54. Brent
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:30 pm [Reply]

    It’s clear to me that Cassandra Cat only commits crime so that Shylock can “punish” her. It’s why she makes her crimes so obvious. The bad kitty wants him to pull her pedal pushers off and “spank” her. It’s the whole “Batman-Catwoman” dynamic.

55. Ribinin
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pm [Reply]

    MW: Wow! A Gail Martin concert ticket!

56. OverCat
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:27 pm [Reply]

    17: “She looks so good that he gets down and begs.”

57. Concrete Queen
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:34 pm [Reply]

    Next Week’s Slylock Fox:

    While searching for her missing jewelry box, Cassandra Cat says she found cameras around her house, including in her bedroom and bathroom. If Cassandra’s most notorious crimes include trying to dupe a ticket taker at a movie theater and not knowing the difference between fish and mammals, does Slylock Fox have probable cause for setting up a surveillance system in Cassandra’s bedroom?

    Solution — I think not.

58. Non-Shannon
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:45 pm [Reply]

    Re: #50 McManx

    All right, I’ve just got to take issue with the rampant misuse of the term cameltoe here. I’ve noticed that, both on this site and in the rest of the world, cameltoe has come to include any sort of obvious outline of a lady’s pelvic region through the outer garments, but I recall a time not too long ago when it was used strictly in reference to clearly delineated labia (See Wikipedia article here). I for one hope that at least here, in this venerable forum, we might be a little more precise in our terminology. After all, if we use the term cameltoe to mean what Cass Cat’s got going on in the comics today, that means that I and just about any woman wearing pants ever have cameltoe ALL THE TIME.
    And I’d just like to hope that’s not true.

    Thank you. Rant over.

59. Sully
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:52 pm [Reply]

    Re: #31
    Okay, Get Fuzzy is overrated, in comparison to a 3 day old cod wrapped in newspaper and left out in the noon-day sun, which I think is better. Dinette Set ranks somewhat below that.

60. SamFromUtah
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

    Something about the way Cassandra’s lower half is drawn makes me think of R. Crumb’s style. Was/is Bob Weber a fan of the underground stuff? He clearly has a talent for some very understated kink.

61. Hip Young Urban Plugger
    October 15th, 2007 at 2:12 pm [Reply]

    I thought Spider-Man was about to head off in a whole new direction today. Jameson walks into the office with a couple of fingers extended in an unnatural gesture, and suddenly Parker’s about to receive a rude shocker…er, shock?

    Sadly, this promising beginning is followed by the usual five panels of tedium. Wrong fingers.

62. Flat-top Spock
    October 15th, 2007 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

    Am I missing something here? Why is Spidey so surprised to run into J. Jonah Jameson at the place where both of them, in theory, work?

63. HBGlord
    October 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pm [Reply]

    #59 — Yeah! Now that’s a bona-fide ratings system!

    [necropost concluded]

64. El Santo
    October 15th, 2007 at 3:41 pm [Reply]

    #58 — I fully endorse Non-Shannon’s position on such a critical and timely issue. Also, it is one of the funniest rants I have read in a long, long time.

    The fact that it had something to do with Cassandra Cat makes it so much sweeter.

65. DAS
    October 15th, 2007 at 4:26 pm [Reply]

    I just noticed something — when you google “Pluggers”, the description of the script Google gives you is “Almost surreal single-panel daily cartoon, by Gary Brookins.”

    Almost surreal? Somehow, I never thought of pluggers as “surreal” …

66. Cheeky Wee Monkeys
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:36 pm [Reply]

    WHY must glasses be associated with old age? I was thirteen when I got mine!

    I like the way the little kid in the Spot-the difference seems to be ogling Cassandra Cat too.

67. Reynard Noir.
    October 15th, 2007 at 6:52 pm [Reply]

    That glib little upside-down omniscient narrator box bugged me today, That fact that there was no dust means she was NOT guilty of bad housekeeping. Just cause she’s the villain doesn’t mean she can’t be tidy, there’s no need to jump on the ‘cleanliness next to godliness’ horse when the moral of the story is the exact opposite!

    I hereby wash my hands of the glib omniscience, and instead present something much more interesting…

68. Jym
    October 15th, 2007 at 9:10 pm [Reply]

    =v= (Josh): It seems we spend so much time jostling for COTW that we don’t stop and give kudos when they’re due. Josh, I really like the idea of Peter Parker accidentally becoming the next Dorothea Lange.

69. nsr
    October 15th, 2007 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

    a3g- I like Margo in the last panel, weighing the benefits of dumping her coffee on LuAnn’s head.

70. The Restless Mouse
    October 16th, 2007 at 2:29 am [Reply]

    Google Pluggers? Plug Googlers?

71. Muffaroo [Smilin Kip W]
    October 16th, 2007 at 9:46 am [Reply]

    FOOB – Elly wonders why everybody’s staring? It’s because they never saw a real Dirty Sanchez before.

    Crank – Is this drawing of him always off to the left? With minimal distortion, this could have been drawn by Peter Bagge. That’s kind of scary.

    SF – Slylock saw a scrap of paper on Cassandra Cat’s dresser with her name on it. That was enough for the acute fox, who reasoned, “Cassandra’s always guilty!” And, by gum, he was right! (In fact, I think the desk in the jail is her dresser, cuz thanks to Slylock, that’s where she lives.)

72. Jana C.H.
    October 16th, 2007 at 10:47 pm [Reply]

    #13 Saith Benro: benro says: …even the kid in the find the differences panel is leering at her…

    The only one in the whole panel who is not gazing at our sexy white feline is the grey cat. Natasha Grey (I assume she’s female) is taking advantage of the distraction provided by her sister to whack the dog with the ever-present fish skeleton.

    It’s all part of a Vast Feline Conspirancy.

    Jana C.H.
    Seattle
    Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.

73. KT
    October 18th, 2007 at 5:43 am [Reply]

    Re: #50 Non-Shannon

    Ah, so in other words, Y is not cameltoe. ? is cameltoe. Right?

74. KT
    October 18th, 2007 at 5:44 am [Reply]

    Erf, does Unicode not work? That’s supposed to be a Greek psi.

    “Y is not cameltoe, ? is cameltoe”

75. KT
    October 18th, 2007 at 5:45 am [Reply]

    Erf, does Unicode not work? That’s supposed to be a Greek psi.

    “Y is not cameltoe, Ψ is cameltoe”

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