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Young lust triumphant

Hi and Lois, 4/4/08

Hi and Lois is the last strip you’d expect to see bucking any sort of comic convention or cliche. But usually when a comic strip mom discusses the withering of the last few social institutions that keep high school from becoming a nonstop orgy, they usually look worried or upset, not like they’ve just taken a large hit of Ecstasy, as Lois does in the first two panels of this strip. Maybe in that way that moms “just want you to be happy,” she’s pleased to know that Chip is experiencing as much sexual pleasure as possible without any of that buzkilling emotional attachment, just like she does with half the neighborhood. Of course, no matter how enthusiastic she is about her son’s slutting it up, she still shows the appropriate amount of outrage over the terrible, terrible “punchline” of the strip.

(Unrelated, but: in panel two, Lois appears to have freckles. Did she always have freckles? Or are they a sign of the new, freaky Lois?)

Luann, 4/4/08

Say what you will about TJ, but the boy never stops thinking strategically. While most guys would have been satisfied to let their roommate rest on his laurels and share some tales of triumph (“A definite, meaningful kiss.” “And that definitely means…?” “Tongue, dude!”), TJ is already plotting to make sure his friend gets to the next level. Brad will touch a boob by 2009 if TJ has anything to say about it!

Marmaduke, 4/4/08

I’m not sure why Marmaduke’s owner is so desperate to believe that he didn’t just come from the museum. If that were the case, at least the original owner of that enormous bone would have already been dead by the time Marmaduke found it. The other possibility is that there’s a freshly killed and dismembered rhino somewhere nearby, probably on her front lawn.

Ballard Street, 4/4/08

Striker may be a whore, but by God he’s not a cheap whore.

Pluggers, 4/4/08

Pluggers know that you have to be ever-vigilant if you want to make sure that nobody leaves the compound.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 07:52 pm and is filed under Ballard Street, Hi and Lois, Luann, Marmaduke, Pluggers.

195 responses to “Young lust triumphant”

Jordan
April 4th, 2008 at 7:55 pm [Reply]

Nice to see that Wilford Brimley is still getting work, even if only as an anthropomorphic dog.
Kevin
April 4th, 2008 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

This reminds me that I’ve been meaning to switch to TextMate. But my BBEdit habits are so deeply ingrained! Thank you, “Hi and Lois,” for inadvertently nagging me about this.
Mrs. Buck Tuddrussell
April 4th, 2008 at 8:03 pm [Reply]

I for one want to know why Chip has a “Fark” pennant on his wall. Just how permissive *are* his parents? Do they also let him watch cable television after 9:00 PM?
Dingo
April 4th, 2008 at 8:03 pm [Reply]

Happiness is Brad finally kissing Toni. True happiness is Toni introducing Brad to the world of strap-ons without a safety word.
LITTLE A. OF THE GRAND CONCOURSE JUNGLE PATROL
April 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pm [Reply]

FOOB: I think the early FOOB strips were/are terrible. The drawing was awful. The humor stunk.

On the other hand, Gary Trudeau’s early art wasn’t very good, either.

Just mentioning this, I have to think about this. I guess it takes years for a cartoonist to mature. Art evolves.

Or maybe not think about it and go make myself a sandwich and watch John Adams.
Braniff
April 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm [Reply]

Brad had better watch his back–Dirk will make his comeback. If Brad’s lucky, Dirk will collide with TJ and that’ll be the end of both of them. But then again, what would Greg Evans do? Retire?
leah
April 4th, 2008 at 8:12 pm [Reply]

Oooh, i get it. Fencing… like with the foils and the French dudes. I started at the panel for several moments thinking that fencing indicated some sportsmanly attempt to cross barbed-wire without ripping your pants, something I admittedly attempted in my youth…. Holy crap, I think I may be a Plugger!
IagoPogo
April 4th, 2008 at 8:14 pm [Reply]

To answer Josh’s rhetorical question: I’m thinkin’ that the inkers/colorists actually messed today’s ‘Hi & Lois’ up by migrating the innocuous “finger wiggle” lines from Lois’s hands in panel one to her cheekbones in panel two, thus causing the new freckles.
Gawd, I really gotta stop mixing the meds….
elyse
April 4th, 2008 at 8:14 pm [Reply]

5. i totally agree! though to be honest, when i was growing up i loved the strip– now i’m really angry that it filled my head with all this crap and i was too dumb to know better.
KH
April 4th, 2008 at 8:16 pm [Reply]

#6: No, he would not retire, he would just ressurect Aaron Hill. Aloooooo-ha!
Steve S
April 4th, 2008 at 8:17 pm [Reply]

Without a doubt, that Plugger fence is along a 30-foot stretch of Mexican border in Texas.
El Santo
April 4th, 2008 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

#1, Jordan – Good call on the Wilford Brimley resemblance Now I can’t unsee it.

Quaker Oats. It’s the right thing to do!
Big Sims
April 4th, 2008 at 8:23 pm [Reply]

TJ, TJ, TJ….
Your efforts at thwarting “Broni” in order to have him turn to you in his time of grief ARE NOT WORKING! Broni are having a great time all by themselves.
Back to shaking hands with the unemployed TJ – if you know what I mean – and if you’re TJ, you do.
Weaselboy
April 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm [Reply]

We’ve seen Garfield Minus Garfield. How about Luann Minus TJ?
AhClem
April 4th, 2008 at 8:30 pm [Reply]

Josh: “…in panel to,…?”
Islamorada Girl
April 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm [Reply]

OMG! Lois is finger-quotin’! Is she finally in touch with her inner Margo?
Josh
April 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm [Reply]

#15 AhClem — OOps! I fixed.

Josh
Trilobite
April 4th, 2008 at 8:38 pm [Reply]

Those could be freckles, I suppose, but another theory suggests itself:

Realtor Lois, desperate to make ends meet despite the collapse of the housing market, has converted some of her unsold homes into meth labs. Those aren’t freckles — that’s the ravaged, pockmarked, acne-ridden face of a hopeless junkie. Her inexplicable and inappropriately manic cheerfulness is just further proof that her workday is mostly spent sampling the product.
Hank
April 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pm [Reply]

RE: Family Circus. It’s not a punchline, it’s a line from “the Unicorn”.
Johnny Cat
April 4th, 2008 at 8:50 pm [Reply]

Those aren’t freckles. Lois stabbed her own face with a fork the other day when Bernanke admitted a possible recession, the day after she ordered more business cards.
fillmoreeast
April 4th, 2008 at 8:52 pm [Reply]

Pluggers have no use for commie things like “homonyms.”
Aging Hipster
April 4th, 2008 at 8:55 pm [Reply]

Little A. –

Actually Gary Trudeau didn’t improve as an artist, he just hired a professional to do the art work for him.
cheech wizard
April 4th, 2008 at 9:02 pm [Reply]

Lois has always had freckles, as long as I can remember. But they appear and disappear like sunspots. Look for increased northern lights activity this summer.
Citric
April 4th, 2008 at 9:03 pm [Reply]

FW: In most other comics, this would be a joke. Here, yeah, he’s going to die.

Mark Trail: I first thought that the last panel had no speech bubble connected to it, and they were just serenely watching the dog sitting on a chair, while a squirrel watched them. I think it made it way better.
cheech wizard
April 4th, 2008 at 9:07 pm [Reply]

TJ: “Brad? Hello? That thing in your pants? You know you can do more than just pee with it?”
The Wild Sow
April 4th, 2008 at 9:08 pm [Reply]

#23 – Lois *is* Beetle Bailey’s sister, after all — and his freckles appear & disappear as well.
AhClem
April 4th, 2008 at 9:12 pm [Reply]

Marmaduke – That’s not a bone. It’s a tension eyebar from an aging suspension bridge, the majority of which is now lying in the river.
RaJ
April 4th, 2008 at 9:14 pm [Reply]

What I like about Chip: that all his whimsy has been sucked up into his hat. Seriously, that is a silly hat. It’s like wearing precious youth on your greased straw head.

The first panel of Luann looks so weird to me. I want to say that TJ’s about to make sweet, unsuspecting love to Brad, but rather I think he’s simply thrusting at the best angle at which to appreciate Brad’s action at the sink, and how it kind of looks like masturbating. Which is disturbing as it implies that Brad masturbates with the same elated expression as a child who’s just had a butterfly land on their nose.

Marmaduke’s owner-lady is confusing. On one hand, she’s wearing really cute shoes. On the other, she appears to have hung up on her wall a portrait of a violently dying mouse. Her taste level is all over the place, in other words. I don’t know whether to invite her to go shopping with me at Pier One or not.

Finally: you’re a Plugger is the mountains behind your house look exactly like titties. No, more than usual. It’s unreasonable.
Kiesha
April 4th, 2008 at 9:14 pm [Reply]

In that first panel, TJ seems to be…thrusting…in the general direction of Brad’s ass.

hrm.
JP (not Judge Parker)
April 4th, 2008 at 9:16 pm [Reply]

What the Hi and Lois writer doesn’t realize is that writing a stupid punchline in an extra-large font does *not* make it funnier.

I wonder what Brad thinks “laid a wet one on ya” means, since he apparently doesn’t realize it means a kiss. Even though it’s a somewhat suggestive phrase, I think Brad is too naive to think that TJ meant something beyond first base. I think if Brad is ever going to seal the deal, TJ will have to be there taking him step-by-step.
Buck Ripsnort
April 4th, 2008 at 9:17 pm [Reply]

So OK, is today’s FW a “joke”, or is Batiuk really gonna kill another victim?
cheech wizard
April 4th, 2008 at 9:19 pm [Reply]

26/ Wild Sow – That’s true – but what about the Tracy Twins? I assume they’re somehow related as well, although by this time they’re probably 53 years old, have scraggly, half-assed goatees and make a living driving cabs somewhere. Grandpa, of course, is long dead.
Anonymous
April 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm [Reply]

I love how LuAnn’s writer didn’t take us tio the ?Fireman’s Ball, leaving us to wonder about the captain’s friend Tony (TJ?).
JP (not Judge Parker)
April 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm [Reply]

Actually, upon rereading, I realized Brad might be correcting TJ, saying that he laid a kiss on her rather than visa-versa. Guess that goes to show how painfully dumb I think Brad is in the world of dating.
Joe Blevins
April 4th, 2008 at 9:24 pm [Reply]

H&L: Looks like Lois is reviving Chris Farley’s beloved Bennett Brauer character.

Chip doesn’t “date” or “go steady” or have a “girlfriend.” He doesn’t “show interest in the opposite sex.” He hasn’t “washed or even seen his own forehead in years.” His personal hygiene is “non-existent.” His career prospects are “dismal at best.”
Lou Shumaker
April 4th, 2008 at 9:25 pm [Reply]

Face it, gang, the only boob Brad’s gonna be touching is the one sprouting from the top of that never-washed grey football shirt he’s always wearing.
Edgy DC
April 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pm [Reply]

Pluggers want to keep them damn foreigners away from the pyramids at Giza.
Invisible Me
April 4th, 2008 at 9:42 pm [Reply]

37, I was thinking a 10,000x scale model of Jayne Mansfield’s breasts.
Muffaroo
April 4th, 2008 at 9:49 pm [Reply]

Dogzilla – If that bone was smaller, I’d guess Marmaduke took it out of Mrs. W’s arm. Come to that, it looks like both of her forearms were shot off. Perhaps in some sort of war, or police action. If her ass itches, she probably has to go outside and rub it on a tree.
TheDiva
April 4th, 2008 at 9:53 pm [Reply]

Pluggers have been setting up perimeter defenses ever since Tom Tancredo announced he was leaving office.

(I am ashamed to admit today’s Pluggers comes from my home state, although I’m not particularly surprised. Colorado is rife with examples of Pluggerdom, except in Boulder, which has its own peculiar brand of dysfunction.)
Foobar
April 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pm [Reply]

Pluggers aren’t really ranchers… are they? I thought they just thought ranchers were a good things to be (i.e. they eat a lot of meat and do not use computers).
Muffaroo
April 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm [Reply]

Blondie – You’re 100% right, Dagwood! Blondie, don’t look so surprised.

DT – Tracy has a twin on the bomb squad! Did he hire Cap’n Easy off the unemployment line? If Vil Lane shoots Tracy, will Cap take over the strip? Ahhopeahhopeahhope.

MW – This sweetness and sunshine bit is going on forever. I don’t want to be around when she finally breaks into song.

S-M – Hey, Spider-Man! Pay some attention to the man behind the curtain! This week, if possible.

Z – Whoa! Griffy has boiled down a decade worth of sitcomics into four panels! Now how much would you pay?
Rhekarid
April 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm [Reply]

I’m pretty sure that to a plugger, “drinking” is the only Olympic event.
Poteet
April 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

PLUGGERS — I’m having to think about fencing myself, so my first thought was that this was finally a Pluggers with which I could sort of maybe identify. My second thought was to beat my head hard on the nearest wall to remove the first thought.
Corkey
April 4th, 2008 at 10:21 pm [Reply]

TJ’s posture and expression in one word. Sassy! and Flaming. Two words actually. And slightly disturbing. So four, really.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 4th, 2008 at 10:25 pm [Reply]

Are there Plugger pot farmers? This guy looks like he could be. If so, he definitely needs to get someone younger and more appealing for the distribution end.
Cheeky Wee Monkeys
April 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm [Reply]

How to talk to teenagers:

Put a technical modern-day word in front of a common one.

Because we all know they never use words from last year!
Christopher tm
April 4th, 2008 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

Some people fix fences, Lois is still a MILF, and Killer has subscribed to Suicide Girls.

My life has no meaning.
RaB
April 4th, 2008 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

“Fencing”? Please. You could only wind about 50 feet of barbed wire on that little reel and it would be so badly curled and tangled you’d never be able to get it off again. That pluggerooch (plugger + pooch) is just wondering where his kite got to, that’s all.
xavier libris
April 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm [Reply]

Fencing is what you do with stolen goods.
Rusty
April 4th, 2008 at 10:55 pm [Reply]

Has there ever been an adequate explanation of how TJ supports himself? And Jesus, look at that shirt.

Pluggers: Mundane tasks are meaningful and affirming because smart-ass college grads wouldn’t think of doing them.
bats :[
April 4th, 2008 at 11:34 pm [Reply]

Saturday observations:

Dennis is actually humorous (yeah, what isn’t appealing to a kid when grilling is involved);

Jeffy is a moron;

that squirrel is up to something (I think it’s got a cam concealed in its belly fur and is snapping a photo of Mrs. Duped and Mark);

Mary Worth is saving another story because she’s auditioning for an all-female version of the Santa Royale Rep Theatre’s summer production of “The Jazz Singer”;

and the Jungle Patrol candidates are exciting!

I love Shtinky Puddin’
kelsy
April 4th, 2008 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

Stationary air quotes apparently make one look like Richard Nixon. In this case, a high version.
Sheilagh
April 4th, 2008 at 11:44 pm [Reply]

WTF, that’s not a Plugger! That’s, like, the Marlboro Man or something. Where’s the stench of failure and despair? This guy looks like he’s fencing in his back forty. Since when are Pluggers (a) property owners, (b) outdoorsmen, (c) competent at anything? We’ve established that Pluggers are old, fat, poor, and henpecked. Haven’t we? This guy doesn’t qualify.
Luprand
April 4th, 2008 at 11:53 pm [Reply]

Concerning Ballard Street: You’d think a flying poodle would be able to find a better pimp.
Electro
April 5th, 2008 at 12:00 am [Reply]

@ 22 Aging Hipster: You bring up an interesting point, but it is controversial. For one thing, Don Carlton has been doing the final artwork on Doonesbury since 1971 or so, so he can’t really be credited with taking over and suddenly improving the strip, since really throughout the 70s Doonesbury had a much less polished style than it does today.

It’s also difficult to know the exact nature of Carlton and Trudeau’s collaboration. I’ve seen interviews where it seems that Carlton takes credit for pretty much all the art, yet on Doonesbury’s own FAQ, we see this:

–I’ve heard that GBT no longer draws Doonesbury. True?
–False. The strip is currently being produced the same way it has been for over 26 years. Trudeau writes the strip alone, and then does tight pencil drawings. The drawings are then either shipped or faxed to his assistant Don Carlton, who traces over Trudeau’s finished drawings in ink. The rumor that Trudeau no longer draws the strip was started by Entertainment Weekly. When the magazine subsequently learned that the writer of the piece had wildly exaggerated Carlton’s role, it printed a retraction and apology. By then, of course, the damage had been done, proving once again that a lie does indeed circumnavigate the globe before the truth can get its pants on. The irony of the episode was that after years of being blamed for the artwork in Doonesbury, Trudeau suddenly found himself unable to get credit for it.

And then it goes on to say that Carlton isn’t credited because his contributions are mostly technical in nature.

Interestingly, Carlton is ~70 years old compared to Trudeau at ~59, yet if anything, the art continues to become more polished and smooth with the passing of time. Anyway it’s worth noting that Trudeau has a Masters in Graphic Art.

Fascinating article on Trudeau here by the way: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102000446_pf.html
boojum
April 5th, 2008 at 12:12 am [Reply]

56 Electro:

That is a great article on Trudeau. I’ve thought about linking to it several times, but thought most Mudges might have seen it when it came out.

Required reading for anyone who takes the comics and their satirical potential seriously — as GBT obviously does.
bats :[
April 5th, 2008 at 12:12 am [Reply]

Why do all these tough questions get asked at the same blasted time?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/2389251038/sizes/o/
Niall
April 5th, 2008 at 12:57 am [Reply]

God-Digging Nanny: Congratulations on the well-deserved reporting prize! Ooo, vengeance is all about timing!

yesterthread:

180. Heather: Haha, um, thanks! :) (Why can’t I find unmarried nice women who like my references…) For what it’s worth, I only know that song by the Wire, sent to me as part of a mix tape from a musician friend of mine… but I’ve always been curious as to what else they’ve done. (Do you know of the Dirtbombs?..)

224. cheech wizard: FROMAGE was inspired. Truly inspired.
Loopina
April 5th, 2008 at 1:23 am [Reply]

Bizarro: What the… has this comic always had the hidden picture thing going? There’s a piece of pie on the ground, among other things.

RiR: Is it any wonder I like Rose so much more than Elly? Speaking of which…

Foob: Can anyone in this family eat like a human being?? (great, now I’m channeling my mom)

GA: I’ve gotten attached to this weird little strip – before CC, I’d never heard of it. I like how it meanders. Also wondering what sweatshirt ol’ Sturdy will be wearing next. Maybe Coney Island College. Go Whitefish!

MT: Is it me, or is the squirrel getting bigger and bigger with each passing day? It’s starting to freak me out a little.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 5th, 2008 at 1:31 am [Reply]

4/5

MT: Giant Squirrel does push-ups one-handed. Giant Squirrel is like Jack Palance, only is Squirrel.

SFx: Boo Boo has seen what happened to all Charlie Brown’s kites. Not on his watch.

9CL: Who is Juliette trying to fool, saying she’s not megalomaniac. I don’t blame her for wanting to stay off the Thorax ticket, though.

GT: Milford has a low threshhold concernig what is high-five-worthy.

Lockhorns: Oh, so Loretta’s outdrunk you so far tonight. You’ll catch up.

H&J: Well, there’s a solid case for separate bedrooms.

S4th: Mr. CabDriver, you may have to disinfect the back seat when these two get out.
Jym
April 5th, 2008 at 1:48 am [Reply]

=v= Marmaduke: I’m guessing that Big Dog lives somewhere nearby the Ardens in Edge City.
kippetje2000
April 5th, 2008 at 2:11 am [Reply]

MT: That’s an amazingly acrobatic squirrel! Its got its nuts in its mouth and still can flash its junk right at Mark & Mrs. Moore.
QUACK! AAAH...
April 5th, 2008 at 2:14 am [Reply]

MT: Yes, Squirrel is huge and in good shape, too. But its ass can speak, which I find even more disturbing.
a.cobb
April 5th, 2008 at 2:28 am [Reply]

Too bad 2009 in Luann time is like 2036. By then full frontal nudity will not raise an eyebrow in the funnies.

No love for Rose is Rose’s Nick Cave reference? I can take Edge City’s Len buying a 13th Floor Elevators album, Sally Forth’s Faye name-droping Gang of Four, even pre-responsibility Ted Forth sporting a Sonic Youth shirt. These people are supposed to be hip. But Rose’s alter ego is gonna belt out “Janglin’ Jack” and nobody bats an eyelash? I rather think the Jalepenos (spell check says “Pentecostals?”) would more appreciate the Plugs.
a.cobb
April 5th, 2008 at 2:38 am [Reply]

Actually, if the Jalapenos have been “recently planted” they’ll probably grow gaga over the Smiths. Funny that.
a.cobb
April 5th, 2008 at 2:43 am [Reply]

Friggin’ oops! That should be the Plugz! Friggin oops!
Niall
April 5th, 2008 at 2:44 am [Reply]

I’m recovering from sick, and I was asleep but my subconscious dug out horrid images just so I can’t sleep! So you get Saturday snark early and exhaustedly! (sic. very sic.)

A3G: Blaze is gay. Very very gay. Gayer than TJ.

Archie: In a few days, Jughead has now been presented as a sexual molester of smaller schoolmates and now of dogs. Such depravity!

BC: Whu??

BB: Logical conclusion: “*smackslurp* Beautiful sphincter, sir!”

DtM: Allright. For once, this IS menacing – Dennis is referencing The Gallery of Regrettable Food. Remember, Do NOT Eat the Green. The Green is for decoration only.

GT: …whu?? I can’t make sense of that quip.

H&L: Funnies for the prozac set. Defeatist sarcasm. Depressing unfunnies.

MT: Lady.. there’s this organisation called the P-O-L-I-C-E who specialise in cases of C-R-I-M-E-S. Also, exterminators for your giant Squirrel problems.

Big Dog: Either she means she can’t wait for him to get sick (yay) or to start fucking everything in sight (brain bleach).

MW: NOOOOO Holy crap on a stick, not only did they waste our time, but now they’re threatening us with more.

MC: And that is how you flesh out a character past her physical attributes.

Phantom: Everything is SO photoshoppable…
Niall
April 5th, 2008 at 2:53 am [Reply]

64. Quack! Aaah…: judging form the careful positioning of the word balloon, it’s not the squirrel’s ass speaking. Which is even more disturbing.
Fran Ledue Page
April 5th, 2008 at 3:25 am [Reply]

9CL:…and the rigidly correct Mr. McEldowney cannot spell irresistible correctly.
Master Mahan
April 5th, 2008 at 4:20 am [Reply]

As much as the Brad and Toni romance proceeds at a pace the Victorian era would consider slow, I have to admit that Brad can be a compelling character. Luann, on the other hand, appears to be the result of transplanting Cathy’s brain into the body of a teenage girl.
True Fable
April 5th, 2008 at 5:03 am [Reply]

Cathy (Must Die!) So what exactly is Cathy’s ‘tribe’? The People of the Narcissic Overindulgent Pinheads?
C’haft Predictability, thy name is this strip.
(WT)DT I miss the days when Dick Tracy rarely ever quit squinting.
FBoFW Jeezus Cheezits, for a family who supposedly inspires so much adoration and treacle, the Patterson sure as hell hate each other.
FW Psych! That dramatic moment yesterday was just this years’ IED.
GA None of these folks are exactly prizewinners.
(TCSFKA)GT She went through ALL THAT just to get in the last word? I’d start speaking up louder and sooner, honey.
JP Yeah well, Sam; Abbey will ride any stud that will let her on, apparently.
MT In Soviet Russia, Squirrel Owns Dog!
MW Oh please don’t feel the need to tell that story right now, Mary. Or tomorrow. Or the next day. Dammit, where’s some ACTION around here?
MC Awww. Don’t you just wanna hug her? :-)
Pluggers Wow, not only does that Plugger play a mean air guitar, he’s listening to a ream of paper play a mean air radio.
RMMD Heather’s staying the night! Heather’s staying the night! I wondered why Milton was suddenly so well after his ordeal, but then I remembered oh yeah, we just spent the last few months watching Rex and Niki have a wild weekend. Aw, who cares… Heather and June are having a slumber party! Make way for Fable, ladies!!
SS Oh good lord, the Smiths have been corrupted by the Pattersons.
LITTLE A. OF THE GRAND CONCOURSE JUNGLE PATROL
April 5th, 2008 at 5:38 am [Reply]

22: is this true, or are you just being facetious? I haven’t read this any place or anywhere. If t his is true, who has been drawing this strip? I have all the books and collections, and I notice an evolution in the drawing style, but if what you say is true, let me have some facts!
Lolsworth
April 5th, 2008 at 6:15 am [Reply]

This is the most depressing set of comics ever.
Weaselboy
April 5th, 2008 at 6:31 am [Reply]

SF: Ted, your cab is being driven by Travis Bickle. Don’t make eye contact, and whatever you do, don’t accuse him of trying to gouge you.
lis
April 5th, 2008 at 7:12 am [Reply]

FW: the only thing less fun than helping someone move is watching someone else doing it.
Girl Reporter
April 5th, 2008 at 7:16 am [Reply]

Read this in the Local Paper this morning, and thought of y’all:

Superman house gets a Funky visitor

Saturday, April 05, 2008
Michael Sangiacomo, Plain Dealer Reporter

The old Jerry Siegel house on Kimberly Avenue in Cleveland hasn’t gotten this much attention in decades.

One of my jobs as Cleveland’s unofficial comic-book ambassador is to take visitors to the old house where Jerry Siegel created Superman in 1933. His pal, Joe Shuster, lived a short distance away on Amor Street.

Though the Glenville neighborhood is a bit tattered, there is a quiet dignity to the house, proudly painted Superman red, yellow and blue.

Last fall, Tom Batiuk (author of the comic strip “Funky Winkerbean”) asked for a tour, and we were lucky to catch owner Hattie Gray at home. She was gracious enough to let us see the upstairs bedroom and third-floor workroom where a teenage Jerry Siegel created a character that would reverberate around the world.

Batiuk said he planned to somehow incorporate the house into his strip. Recently, he mailed me 18 daily and three Sunday strips he created.

The three-week series begins Monday, Aug. 11, and budges aside the current story line, which has been finished for months. Most cartoonists work months in advance of what you see published. Unlike many artists, Batiuk works almost a year in advance.

The story is about a comic writer who gets the assignment of a lifetime — writing Superman. When he gets stuck, a buddy says he needs inspiration and drives him to visit the house where it all began. Batiuk drew the house based on photos he took that day and turned out a smart little story.
digamma
April 5th, 2008 at 7:28 am [Reply]

H&L: “FUCKING.”
gleeb
April 5th, 2008 at 7:36 am [Reply]

9CL: More of this. For the past few days, this strip has read like the howl of a 15-year-old who has just discovered that adults don’t always tell the truth. It’s understandable, if unattractive, in the 15-year-old. In a man of McEldowney’s age, it’s sad and ugly.

’shaft: Jesus, woman, do you want your son around or not? Make up your damn mind! Besides, it’s spring. Time for Ed to try mowing the lawn with a Zamboni or something.

Dick: In the first panel, the kwangxoi seems to be sniggering like Muttley. That’s all the enjoyment I can get out of this.

‘bean: College? Cheating grandmothers is more lucrative than I thought. And are they his children? I thought they were Wally-the-ghost’s.

Thorp: The A-Train, now estranged from his father, who we saw yesterday uttering the last words he will ever speak to the boy, is now adrift, friendless, without even basketball to fill his empty spaces.

Abbey Driver, equestrienne: “And that horse hates shadowy farms fronting for drug smugglers. So, be careful!”

Phantom: Oh, “the pit”, means ramming him. A shame. When I first glanced at the “next” box, I thought it said “blimp”, which would be almost as good as pirates. But it’s just “bump”.

Spidey: Does Krandis seriously think the voters in New York will elect a man governor who wears evening dress with patch pockets on the trousers? This was all about him wanting to be governor, wasn’t it? Or is he kidnapping broadway actresses to help take over a newspaper? Oh well, it’s some maguffin, anyway.
Calico
April 5th, 2008 at 7:55 am [Reply]

#18 – You beat me to it-yes, those are the marks of a restless, self-mutilating addict on Lois’ face.

Nice work there, Josh-and it also looks like yesterday really was a dog day in the funnies!
teenchy
April 5th, 2008 at 8:02 am [Reply]

You don’t suppose the Marmaduke family lives in Edge City, do you?
Calico
April 5th, 2008 at 8:04 am [Reply]

#43 – What about playing Quarters, or is that for the Frat team only?

MW – Another day, another Zzzzzzzz…

FOOB – time to put widdle Mikey back in his miniature coffin.

Snuffy Smith – Another etiquette class with Elly and John Patterson as instructors, I see.

MT – Haha, I thought squirrels were too smart to ever talk out of their asses!

RM – That is one fuckin’ HUGE cubensis that girl has! Don’t forget to share with the rest of the Morgan gang, kiddo!
Calico
April 5th, 2008 at 8:06 am [Reply]

#82 – Oh, right, Pluggers would instead play a drinking game called “pennies.” Or they’d play with rabbit poop or spent shell casings.
AhClem
April 5th, 2008 at 8:45 am [Reply]

MW – The flashback is over! The flashback is over!
Rudy Dowd
April 5th, 2008 at 8:52 am [Reply]

H&L ~ Chip : ‘ “Pimping” same as Hi.’
AtomicDog of the Technology Patrol
April 5th, 2008 at 9:04 am [Reply]

Blondie – I see that they are back to having a corded phone in the hallway. I know that the Bumsteads use cordless phones; but I guess having this anachronism is the only way to make the joke work.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
April 5th, 2008 at 9:08 am [Reply]

(A3)GT: Awww. Poor Andrew. Lisa made him vibrate.

JP: Ham-handed foreshadowing, thy name is Judge Parker.

Popeye: By the way, the focsle is in the front of a ship. It means “forecastle.” Yet Popeye dumped the bomb out the back. Getting your sailing terminology from Popeye is like getting your eldercare advice from Crankshaft.

RMMRSA: It’s “Daddy, what’s Vietnam?” for the new generation.

S-M: Look out, Spidey! He’s going to shoot the car door open and the ricochet will probably injure him in an incapacitating but ultimately non-life-threatening way, prompting him to confess all his evil plans before you leave him behind, utterly unthwarted!
AtomicDog of the Jurassic Patrol
April 5th, 2008 at 9:09 am [Reply]

Yesterday’s Marmaduke – What is this fascination cartoon dogs have with dinosaur bones? In real life they are either fossilized (the organic material replaced with mineral rock), or they are plaster or plastic replicas. Not a bit of meat or marrow in them.
Sarah
April 5th, 2008 at 9:16 am [Reply]

#60 Loopina — I see a bunny, an eyeball, an upside down bird, what looks like a little crown, a stick of dynamite, and “K2″. o_o
Dingo
April 5th, 2008 at 9:20 am [Reply]

Today’s Dick Tracy is shocking. SHOCKING! This is a sexual position between two men called Tenderfoot and Wild Stallion. Being a family-oriented comic strip, they can’t show Dick’s furtive manhood but hint at its position with a small black point. From the grimace on the other man’s face, it’s big – possibly with a mushroom head – and penetrating him sans lube. In panel two, Dick is spent and has left his companion in blissful dreams of sex with his Little League baseball team. Alas, in panel three, we learn that Detective Tracy is at a stage of life where he must use Viagra.
Dingo
April 5th, 2008 at 9:23 am [Reply]

Oh, and keeping on the theme of nutlickers, today’s Mark Trail. Tsk tsk tsk.
Calico
April 5th, 2008 at 9:24 am [Reply]

Marmaduke – A few years ago we went to a “Crater Park” in Quebec, where meteorites had fallen around the time of Mary Worth’s birth. We brought our 15-pound Pomeranian girl with us.

They had a little museum, cafeteria, and gift shop there, and our dog was allowed in the shop no prob, but they had some sort of tusk (don’t ask me why) on the floor on display near the front counter.

We were busy looking at souvenirs, and heard the nice young lady at the counter say (in French) something like “No, no, honey, that’s not for eating.” Our pooch had tried to put her jaws around the tusk and chew it!

The point where she tried to help herself to a tusky snack was as big as her head. It really was too funny. : )
cheech wizard
April 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am [Reply]

RMMD – “Sara, honey, MRSA is a terrible disease that makes children get really sick and die. But you don’t have to worry, since you’re clearly an android.”

# 59: Thanks, Niall!
Colonel Tavington, Jungle Patroller
April 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am [Reply]

Pluggers: Being the family’s token Strong Girl, and living in rural Colorado, I’ve been drafted into today’s scene more times than I can count. So, perhaps one can be press-ganged into being a plugger?
Niall
April 5th, 2008 at 9:35 am [Reply]

Dingo: We can always count on you for educating us. :)

Calico: “Non non, ma petite, c’est pas pour manger, ça!” – something like that? :)
holls
April 5th, 2008 at 9:47 am [Reply]

Wait,
is TJ supposed to be a ‘lady killer’ or a ‘homosexual’?
Calico
April 5th, 2008 at 9:47 am [Reply]

#95 – Je pense que vous etre correct. Merci Bien.

BTW, not comic related – The beautiful Old Military Building in QC burned last night – think it could have been a blowtorch or static electricity issue/mishap, but no one is quite sure yet.

http://www.spiq.ca

Sad but I look it this way-no one was injured or killed. I’m like the ol’ Biddy from Charterstone-gotta look on the bright side of life (no whistling, now!)
Calico
April 5th, 2008 at 9:48 am [Reply]

Vous etes, I mean. Jeebum. Skool time.
Dji
April 5th, 2008 at 9:50 am [Reply]

Curmudgeon sighting?

Josh, were you on Monroe street in DC yesterday?

If you don’t answer me here, I’ll put a “glances” ad in the CityPaper. “Mudge? Or Mudge-a-like? Was there comics action in my ‘hood?”
Calico
April 5th, 2008 at 9:52 am [Reply]

Just one more thingy and then I’ll shut up – if the spiq.ca site gives you a server error thingy, hit the refresh button and you should be good to go. Obviously they are getting a great deal more hits than usual today.

Dingo – Re: Rex Morgan – do you think Rex prefers Tetley to Maxwell House in that always filled mug? Cause I know he loves his teabags.

(Cane comes out, pulls me and Garfield off the fence)
Girl Reporter
April 5th, 2008 at 9:54 am [Reply]

Niall, my high school French was a long time ago, and doesn’t account for idiom or Canadian, but shouldn’t that be ce n’est pas?

Otherwise, Tshirt please!
Calico
April 5th, 2008 at 10:00 am [Reply]

#101 – Yes. But sometimes in French things are truncated too- even in France “Je ne c’est pas” is spoken simply and quickly as “c’est pas.”
However, I’m so addled this AM due to the fire I can’t properly think in English or French for the moment. Dios Mio!

GR, How about a FOOB mug? ; )
odinthor
April 5th, 2008 at 10:04 am [Reply]

Luann — Brad, Brad, Brad… Sigh. The correct response when your GF says her cousin is visiting is, “Is she pretty?”. Hilarity ensues.

Meanwhile, TJ beams with delight at finally finding a way to say “You Hot Hunk!!” to Brad.
Rotten Arsenal
April 5th, 2008 at 10:05 am [Reply]

Oh sweet Jeebus, how I loathe TJ.
Anna Nimity
April 5th, 2008 at 10:06 am [Reply]

Saturday Pluggers: A Plugger has a BOSE RADIO???? I think not!
Girl Reporter
April 5th, 2008 at 10:15 am [Reply]

Calico – I don’t think the FOOBs would understand the concept of “not for eating” in any language.
Abbey the Wonderdog
April 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am [Reply]

TAKE ABBEY FOR HER APPOINTMENT!!!!!!

We know what that means.

No puppies for Abbey. The line of wonderdogs ends with her.

whine! whine! whine!
Godzooky
April 5th, 2008 at 10:22 am [Reply]

#100 Calico: Globe and Mail’s report on the fire, en l’Anglais (hope I got that right).

See what happens when Brad and the other firemen take a night off?
anonymous
April 5th, 2008 at 10:33 am [Reply]

Hi and Lois: Josh, I’m way old and out of it, and I don’t know what kind of school you went to. In the crucible of horror that was high school for me, Josh, in no way, shape or form was it ever a “non-stop orgy”. Of horror, of tears, of anxiety, maybe.
John C Fremont
April 5th, 2008 at 10:35 am [Reply]

Yesterday’s Pluggers – Well, you know what they say – “No fence, no cents.” Or “No cents, no fence,” depending.

GF – Satchel has a Zippy moment.

Lio – So according to Mark Tatulli, I worked in a pet store when I was in my twenties. Stop looking like young me, pet shop guy!

MW – Dear god, please don’t let “another day” be tomorrow!

RMMD – Does this mean we’re actually going to see Abbey the Wonderdog again?
Bark! Bark! Bark!

SFx – Okay, so I’m not a big Bonnie and Boo Boo fan, but today I laughed.

FW – But we were promised a heart attack. Dammit!

JP – Finally! Now can we just keep the story focused on Abbey for awhile?

ZtP – Is Zippy having a Satchel moment?

DT – He’s “gotta get some firepower?” Why can’t he just beat him up? Mark Trail wouldn’t need “firepower.” He’d just punch the guy. Dick Tracy is such a loser. And a puss. Guess that would make him a luss. Or a pusser. Or – a dick. But one thing he’s not is a very good cop. But he can make his knee say “Wunk” so I’ll give him that.

Oh, and a belated congrats to our Gold-Digging Nanny! Hurray!
Ukulele Ike
April 5th, 2008 at 10:45 am [Reply]

gleeb @ 79: Oh, god, I WISH the Next Box had said “blimp” instead of “bump.” I would SO join the Jungle Patrol if they let me drive the blimp.

Meanwhile, over in DT: The sound effects WUNK! and UMP! have me picturing a pair of Dr Seuss characters, possibly from HOP ON POP or RED FISH BLUE FISH.
Ukulele Ike
April 5th, 2008 at 10:52 am [Reply]

Luann: Hey, Brad and Toni. The point of a Fireman’s Ball is NOT to dance and have a good time. It is for acting the lickspittle to the Chief, the Captain, and other higher-ups, freshening their drinks, laughing at their jokes.

Once it’s out that you two spent the evening at the kiddie-park, driving little lawnmower-motored carts around an oval track, the firehouse gossiping and backstabbing among your peers will begin with a vengeance. Try kissing your careers goodbye now, losers.
Ciao Bambino
April 5th, 2008 at 10:52 am [Reply]

Anna Nimity @ 105: When Paul Harvey says “Buy Bose Radios!”, Pluggers buy Bose Radios, lots of Bose Radios…
queek
April 5th, 2008 at 10:58 am [Reply]

MT: the flipside of the “mai nutz, I showz them 2 u” lolsquirrel.

MC: awwwwwwww!

RMMD: Abby’s off to get tutored, I see
queek
April 5th, 2008 at 11:02 am [Reply]

56: so Carleton is a tracer?
Eric the Baker, Jungle Patrol Nutrition Division
April 5th, 2008 at 11:10 am [Reply]

#1 & #12,

Re. Wilford Brimley:

I have good news for you. Wilford Brimley can be seen *every* day on the TVLand network. His pimping of the services of Liberty Medical’s diabetes testing supplies, is in heavy rotation. Trust me, you won’t go more than 15 minutes before seeing his furry jowls gracing your screen. He also has a charming way of pronouncing the word, diabetes. (dye-A-beat-us)
OverCat
April 5th, 2008 at 11:32 am [Reply]

Mufarroo at 42: “MW – This sweetness and sunshine bit is going on forever. I don’t want to be around when she finally breaks into song.”

You were pretty close. She has broken into dance.

I hope you are okay after witnessing that.
OverCat
April 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am [Reply]

Muffaroo. Sorry for the spelling error!
commodorejohn
April 5th, 2008 at 11:46 am [Reply]

A3G – So remember, kids, the secret to kicking a heroin habit is painting! Sort of like how ducks can cure divorce!

Crankshaft – Of course not. Then the formula would be changed.

Curtis – Yeah, you may as well face it, Curtis: your universe is basically shoving Chutney at you like Lynn Johnston’s writing it or something. Michelle’s assets are immaterial and her flaws are beside the point, because you’re getting together with Chutney and that’s that.

DTM – I’m a little worried. I chuckled at Dennis The Menace today. Granted, there’s still absolutely no menace in sight, but it was actually kind of amusing.

DT – I don’t know for sure, but I’ve got a hunch that panel one is actually depicting something unspeakably dirty. You know, like that flower animation from The Wall.

FW – Wow. In the Winkerverse it’s just a foregone conclusion that you drop out of college if you even make it there in the first place. Hardly surprising, really.

GA – So…how old is Amanda supposed to be, again? Because she looks to be about ten.

GF – Ahaha, this has been the best week of Get Fuzzy in a long time.

GT – Is this…a Star Trek reference? In Gil Thorp? I…I don’t even know what to make of this.

JP – Oh yay, back to Abbey.

MF – That’s because your kind bowdlerizes all the scandal out of the history textbooks, Mallard. If kids were ever taught what the medieval popes got up to, for example, or what Caligula’s term in office was like, practically everybody would be a history buff. If you and your type didn’t make everything so damn sanitized and dry, kids would enjoy learning a lot more.

MT – Um, well, you could have realized that it’s only a goddamn dog.

Marmaduke – ATTN: BRAD ANDERSEN – THAT IS NOT WHAT “SPRING FEVER” MEANS. MARMADUKE IS CURRENTLY SUFFERING FROM SPRING FEVER. LOOK IT UP.

MW – OH THANK GOD.

Pluggers – IS THERE ANYONE NOW WHO DOES NOT FALL UNDER THE CURRENT DEFINITION OF “PLUGGERS?”

RMMD – Holy cow, Lil’ Sophie there found a Super Mushroom! I can’t wait until she grows to twice her size and starts jumping on the other kids’ heads to squash them.

SF – Note to Lynn Johnston: there has been more honest-to-God well-written romance in the last week of Sally Forth than in your entire Lizthony storyline, all the way back to the freaking beginning. I know such worldly concepts as “passion” and “emotion” are anathema to you, but your audience still clings to them, so you may want to take a lesson from Ces, who, unlike you, is actually a good writer.

SM – I dunno, Krandis, maybe this would’ve been a good idea back when Spider-Man had just burst into the room and was still distracted. Just a thought.

Edison Lee – Say it with me, Edison: SLOTH. S-L-O-T-H. Geckos are actually quite active and athletic and can do the Spider-Man wall-climbing thing (seriously.) The animal you were intending to mention was the SLOTH. Which is NOT A GECKO. It is NOT EVEN A REPTILE.

Ziggy – Say what you want about this strip, I do enjoy watching the smiles on all these people who enjoy messing with Ziggy. It makes the strip so much better when you imagine that he exists only for the entertainment of these people.
Godzooky
April 5th, 2008 at 11:48 am [Reply]

#115 queek: Good inking is not tracing, as Bob McLeod’s artwork ably illustrates.

And all this talk of Marmaduke, bones, and Abby the Wonder Dog is as good an excuse as any to share this “Comics Make No Sense” link I just ran across.
scud
April 5th, 2008 at 12:29 pm [Reply]

9CL: Same ol’ Jokes. Bigger words.
commodorejohn
April 5th, 2008 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

Boy, I think I killed the thread.
Dr. Blinky
April 5th, 2008 at 1:43 pm [Reply]

Today’s Luann looks even further into the lengths TJ is willing to go to ensure Brad does in fact touch that boob. He screams in his face, essentially implying that by God, Brad will get to second base if TJ has to put his hand there himself.
Les of the Jungle Patrol
April 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm [Reply]

Chip has tried hinting to his parents that he might be gay, but it’s not going over as well as he’d hoped.
True Fable
April 5th, 2008 at 2:30 pm [Reply]

#120 Godzooky – man, I wish I could ink like that. I wish I could DRAW like that.

Must…divert…snark power!…arrrgh!

Naw. I’ll just sit back and admire a good inker’s work.
Hank
April 5th, 2008 at 2:48 pm [Reply]

RE: Superman House Gets a Funky Visitor. There could be some fun here caused by Batuik’s tendency to work a year in advance. If Batuik is as sanctimonious and heavy handed about Siegel and Shuster as he is about most things, part of the plot line will be about how they sold the Superman copyright for $300.00 back in 1938. About a week ago, however, the Siegel estate got back their half of the copyright. So, if I’m reading Batuik correctly, his propensity for working so far in advance will result in a storyline that is outdated by at least six months.
Uncle Ed
April 5th, 2008 at 3:49 pm [Reply]

#79 FW. They are Wally-the Ghost’s. Comic book guy adopted them. Rana was adopted twice. Once by Becky and Wally and then Comic Book Guy adopted Rana and Wally, Jr.
firegoat
April 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pm [Reply]

Has finger quotin’ Margo taken a vacation? I’m surprised she didn’t go all Margo on Lois’s ass.
Colinski
April 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

H&L: Wouldn’t “text partners” be the appropriate response here. It really gets to the point, that kids today have no use for actual face-to-face sexual interaction. They can just send messages back and forth and occasionally one will OMGOMGOMG!1!! as they reach self-induced climax.

And Josh, how big do you think rhinos are anyway? That femur looks about the length of one.
moderndulcinea
April 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm [Reply]

Whenever I read Luann panels that feature TJ (with or without sweatervest) I imagine him as Dylan McKay from Beverly Hills, 90210.

Try it. You’ll thank me.
Joyce
April 5th, 2008 at 5:39 pm [Reply]

The Hi And Lois was censored, what Chip actually said was “Hook-ups”.
Donald The Anarchist
April 5th, 2008 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

Luann Dammit, if Seth McFarlane wrote this strip, we could at least get to see Brad saying, “So what will we do with each other’s penises?”
Poteet
April 5th, 2008 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

# 116 Eric — Even I, with just six TV channels available, see that Wilford ad. I prefer the Pluggers dog, who at least isn’t saying anything.
Agent 07
April 5th, 2008 at 6:13 pm [Reply]

Spider Man: What ARE those things on Krandis’ forehead, stuck parasitically to his eyebrows? I have got to get ahold of some for myself — they look like killer catfish bait.
Islamorada Girl
April 5th, 2008 at 6:17 pm [Reply]

Wilford Brimley is King of the Pluggers. You just know when a Plugger sees Wilford, they all pick up the phone and call Liberty Medical, even if they’re not diabetic. Maybe he emits some low frequency sound that only Pluggers can hear.
Poteet
April 5th, 2008 at 6:23 pm [Reply]

H & L — Maybe Lois looks giddy with joy because she’s now selling rural land instead of houses.

DT — Not that I care, but Dick’s lame-brained plan might have worked a little better if he had waited until he was entirely out of the horse before announcing his presence. In a battle of wits, my cats could beat him to a pulp.
Tabby
April 5th, 2008 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

For the last week-ish, my browser loads only the margins and then freezes up – I can get here through google, but I wondered if anybody else was having trouble???
Gold-Digging Nanny
April 5th, 2008 at 7:05 pm [Reply]

MT — I recognize that pose. Isn’t this the same squirrel who told Mark he wanted to visit him in his Lost Forest home someday? Creepy…. Mark, I’d get a restraining order against that furry little stalker, pronto.
Saluki
April 5th, 2008 at 7:07 pm [Reply]

If the “another day” Mary Worth means is the one where the sun goes supernova and devours the solar system I’d be down with that.
Gold-Digging Nanny
April 5th, 2008 at 7:18 pm [Reply]

Marmaduke — WTF? This makes no sense. To paraphrase my favorite “Joe Mathlete Explains Marmaduke:”

STOP

STOP IT

JESUS CHRIST STOP IT

THAT IS NOT WHAT SPRING FEVER MEANS

GIVING MARMADUKE A GOOD DOSE OF IT WOULD JUST MAKE HIM MORE OF A PAIN IN THE ASS

DO YOU READ ME

BRAD ANDERSON WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

WHAT ARE TE MARMADUKE’S OWNERS EVEN TALKING ABOUT AND WHY DOES THE MAN’S FACE LOOK LIKE SOMEONE SNEEZED ON THE PAGE

MARMADUKE LOOKS SO HORRIFYING

JESUS FUCK STOP IT

I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS

EVERYTHING YOU CREATE IS CANCER AND MADNESS

HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE
Gold-Digging Nanny
April 5th, 2008 at 7:20 pm [Reply]

Me at 140: I suppose a link would have been nice.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm [Reply]

#137 Tabby,
For some time now I’ve been unable to load this site on Explorer. That’s just at home, though. IE works fine at work. At home I view it on Opera. Don’t know if the issues are related.
commodorejohn
April 5th, 2008 at 7:26 pm [Reply]

#137 Tabby, #142 Artist Formerly Known As Ben – I’ve had troubles in the past, too, with the site not wanting to let me post. If you email Josh and explain your problem, he usually manages to get it fixed.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 5th, 2008 at 7:30 pm [Reply]

HotC: In another case of stealing from the best, I’m pretty sure Dean’s “teachers as regular people” shock was covered by Linus van Pelt. Heart’s follow-up is all Tatulli, though.

Pluggers: So Plugger air guitars make a negative number of decibels? Consider my mind blown.
Marc
April 5th, 2008 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

Hi and Lois: Epic Fail. I’m sorry, but as a teen, I can safely say no one calls it “text mates.” But then again, what do I know–I’m only the target demographic of this joke. According to H&L time, they should be marveling at color televisions, automatic garage door openers, and central air conditioning.
Bunnë, Official Comic Execrator
April 5th, 2008 at 8:56 pm [Reply]

Yesterthread, there was a call for a “Thursdays are Goth Girls” t-shirt…

How’s this?

If your interested, Josh, I’ll send you the file for CaféPress.
queek
April 5th, 2008 at 9:14 pm [Reply]

120: it was a “Chasing Amy” reference. ;-)
Talking Squirrel
April 5th, 2008 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

MT: Doesn’t that squirrel realize that taking ‘roids will shrink his nuts?

And I love the way he channels dog thieves:

http://pictures.aol.com/galleries/monsieurboo/c520T5lxzYopGTUL7P8jU-tFnTGGDhPfXX6Nv4xQp5Fd3Ig=/large/

Jack, you made my day … again
SaberChick
April 5th, 2008 at 10:03 pm [Reply]

‘Lo All –

Re: Yesterdays “Pluggers Fencing”

This would be maybe ’slightly’ amusing if I didn’t hear some variation on it EVERY DAMN TIME I tell someone I teach fencing “chain link or barbed wire?” Ha Ha Ha (not!!!)……end rant

Poteet – If your serious about wanting to try fencing email me at renfencing@earthlink.net and I can probably recomend a good club in your area.
Brick Bradford
April 5th, 2008 at 10:22 pm [Reply]

DT Is it just me or were we meant to think Tracy just kicked that guy in the nuts? And what’s all this “must get firepower” business? The guys down, kick him in the head, open the door, and give the SWAT team crap for being unable to find a way to deal with the challenge of a suburban home?
Then it’s over to Sam Catchem’s for poker and Bosco.
Niall
April 5th, 2008 at 10:59 pm [Reply]

101. Girl Reporter: Indeed, correct French would be “cela n’est pas” or “ce n’est pas”. Idiomatic will shorten it to “c’est” while keeping the “pas” to indicate the negation. English has its double negatives indicating single negatives, as similar idiomatic language…

And yes Calico, I was saddened to hear of the Manège Militaire burning down – and on the eve of the big 400th celebrations too! I hope it’s found out to have been an accident.
Dingo
April 5th, 2008 at 11:19 pm [Reply]

BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!! I put “Michael Patterson” in checkmate!

1. e2 e4 b8 c6
2. g1 f3 g8 f6
3. b1 c3 d7 d6
4. a2 a4 c8 e6
5. b2 b3 b7 b6
6. c3 d5 f6 d5
7. e4 d5 e6 d5
8. f3 g5 f7 f5
9. d1 h5 e8 d7
10. c2 c4 d5 c4
11. b3 c4 e7 e5
12. g5 h7 f8 e7
13. g2 g3 d7 c8
14. h5 f5 c8 b8
15. a1 b1 c6 d4
16. a4 a5 d4 f5
17. f1 d3 h8 h7
18. a5 b6 a7 b6
19. d3 f5 g7 g6
20. f5 e6 d6 d5
21. e6 d5 a8 a2
22. c4 c5 d8 d5
23. c5 b6 d5 h1
24. e1 e2 h1 c1
25. b6 c7 b8 c7
26. b1 c1 c7 b8
27. c1 c6 h7 h2
28. c6 g6 b8 c8
29. g6 g8 c8 b7
30. g8 e8 h2 f2
31. e2 f2 a2 d2
32. f2 f3 e7 d6
33. e8 d8 e5 e4
34. f3 e4 d6 g3
35. d8 d2 b7 c8
36. d2 c2 c8 b8
37. c2 b2 b8 c8
38. e4 f3 g3 f4
39. f3 f4 c8 d7
40. b2 b7 d7 c8
41. b7 b6 c8 d7
42. f4 e5 d7 c8
43. e5 d6 c8 d8
44. b6 b8 CHECKMATE!

Eat shit and die, Lynn!
bats :[
April 5th, 2008 at 11:26 pm [Reply]

A few Sunday observations:

MT: well, you don’t have to tell us that a “large rack is an impressive sight”. Good heavens, next Sunday’s Mark Trail is probably going to feature Abby, Gloria, Rusty, and that exotic foreigner, ~~Mary Worth~~, June Morgan!

MW: please make her stop. Please. Pick her up by her ears, President Johnson — anything!

RMMD: Abbey the Wonderdog begs to differ with that crap about “she won’t feel a thing.” I would, too, seeing as Harley Quinn is moonlighting as a vet’s assistant.

Frazz (Saturday): rocks! BATS! Bats in potholes!

FOOB: you’re a freakin’ phamacist, Dee…surely there’s something to make hair fall out…
Monster Jamz
April 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm [Reply]

hey Chip, its SEX MATES.
Farley's Revenge
April 6th, 2008 at 12:01 am [Reply]

FOOB: Deanna has to cut her squalling brat’s hair while he sleeps because he won’t sit still to get a haircut! And tomorrow she’s going to give him a pedicure while he sleeps! All while Michael stands uselessly in the background What a howl-a-rama of laughs! I’m just slapping my knees at the hilarity…although I’d rather slap Johnston for writing such crap!
Buck Ripsnort
April 6th, 2008 at 12:27 am [Reply]

H&L: Late, but– Lois is ecstatic about the remotest hint of Chip getting laid, because it means he won’t turn out like Brad from Luann.
Poteet
April 6th, 2008 at 1:00 am [Reply]

# 149 SaberChick — Thanks for the offer. I remember your impressive link, so I’ll definitely ask you if I want to take up fencing in the future. In this case, embarrassingly, I meant to refer to fencing my land. Not with barbed wire, not with mountains in the background, and not with the help of a large weird cowboy-hatted dog, fortunately.

MW — Moy. And. Giella. Are. Deliberately. Yanking. Our. Chain. Again. The only question now is whether they’ll extend the torture into next week.
kippetje2000
April 6th, 2008 at 1:06 am [Reply]

My gods, for a second I thought Sunday’s Mary worth was quoting Lynn Johnston. ”We can draw lesson from the past, but we cannot live in it.” My whole world starting sucking into a black votex. Luckily I reread it and saw Lyndon Johnson. Whew. I might’ve been lost forever.

Spiderman is so lame even Stan Lee gave up, signed off, phoning it in halfway through the strip. “Crime may not pay — But it can try to!?” I want my $1.50 back you cheap arachnid.
Mibbitmaker
April 6th, 2008 at 1:32 am [Reply]

4/6:

MT: First of all, the female elk is named Anne. She’s known by her call: “*Ee-heem!* *Eeee-heem!*” Of course, that’s just a theory.
Second of all… I like to imagine that the elks in the last panel are actually dancing the conga.

NS & Doonesbury: Hey! Guys! Easter’s over already! (Actually, I liked both strips today)

Cranky: Next: an appearance by FC’s “Not me!”

BBailey: Prelude to a Love Scene

Garfield: Heeeey!

FC: I dunno… I think Del is getting too Close. Oh, great, now they’ve got me doing it!

Blondie: “AH– AH– REALLY TALL SANDWICH FILLED WITH ALL SORTS OF CRAP!!” Well, that’s about as believeable a (fake) sneeze as anything there.
CrazyEskimo
April 6th, 2008 at 1:38 am [Reply]

Mary Worth: Mary, please, let’s be honest. That’s a story for another month, at least.

Mark Trail: For the love of GOD! I realize Mark Trail is a ‘nature’ comic, but while they’re in the suburbs/city, do we really need the nature shots? Must we shove the action that is the focus of the strip into one tiny corner, so that a squirrel can have most of the space to thrust its junk at Mark Trail?

… (Maybe I’m wrong about what the focus of this strip is.)
Lightsyrup
April 6th, 2008 at 1:43 am [Reply]

JP: “We’ll be fine. Shadow likes me.” That is a portent of DOOM if I ever heard one.
Lightsyrup
April 6th, 2008 at 1:48 am [Reply]

Saturday’s MT: Hahahahahaha… that’s pretty awesome.
Arglebargle
April 6th, 2008 at 3:11 am [Reply]

Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

Luann: I’ve always wondered how Tiffany fits into Greg Evan’s “Women Are Inherently Superior Beings, All Hail Unto Them” theme.

RMMD: Love the look on Abbey’s face: You don’t speak for me, you sag…that needle hurts like #$%#. And speaking of big girls, when is Doc gonna investigate his daughter’s progeria?

Blondie: It goes wrong thusly: “AH-SH***********!” (later) “Oh my God…ARGHHHH!! Blondie, what the hell is this??” (I see Mibbitmaker’s already hit this, but hey, mine’s grosser.)

Lio: Ewwwwwwww. HA HA HA! Ewwwwwwwww. HA HA HA! My childhood! It is raped!

Candorville: If I beat up these nerds, would that be racist?
Godzooky
April 6th, 2008 at 4:03 am [Reply]

DT: Saturday, despite a SWAT team outside and a hammer nearby, Dick’s looking for “firepower” against an unarmed man he just knocked to the floor. Today, in the last panel, a viable option appears. Commencing the Dicky Death Countdown, starting now…

Candorville: Actually, though, to date, “Star Trek” time travel hasn’t been the subject matter, this is how coversations between me and my mother usually go. She understands English, but talks Spanish. I understand Spanish, but usually answer in English. Y, al que le pique, que se rasque.
True Fable
April 6th, 2008 at 4:25 am [Reply]

RMMD Yeah, June; that’s the way to frighten your child into a serious handwashing OCD. Thankfully you aren’t in the medical profess – oh dammit. Just….just go over to Mark Trail, they’re talking about large impressive racks over there.
I also like the “bullshit” look on Abbey’s face in panel two (”Abbey won’t feel a thing, my ass!”) and that OMG She’s Deformed! face of the nurse in panel five.
MW KAREN STOP IT SWEETHEART!! For the love of God, woman, find another storyline, quick!
JP Lightsyrup is right; Abbey is playing with fire by invoking the “we’ll be fine, he likes me” voodoo curse.
Scenes from Suburban Hell As a matter of fact, Lois, NO; but then neither do you, bitch. Your family is too busy trying to get out of chores and slowly dragging themselves from one empty middle-class day to the next, to ever want to invite people over and endure it with them.
FC Billy, you left out Fable’s Derision.
A4G Didn’t we just cover this territory over, oh, the last THREE FUCKING DAYS?!?!
FBoFW Today Fable had a double snark treat, because Go Comics featured the Dee is Such A Weak Vessel, She Has To Sneak a Haircut Past Her Sleeping Son Rather Than Make Him Sit Still at the Salon, while the official Fucktard Watch / Foobsite had one for the same date, in which ~~Farley’s Ghost~~ Edgar takes up most of the Sunday panels digging up a bone, and then April tells Elly not to make supper for him tonight, he’s eating out. Yeah, so much for the future veterinarian who believes that chewing on an old bone is going to give a dog all the daily nutrients he needs.

Lynn Johnston, you are DOUBLY full of fail.
True Fable
April 6th, 2008 at 4:50 am [Reply]

Cathy (Must Die!) Yep, it’s April all right; Ack Time for Cathy, when thousands of tax preparers stick Cathy cartoons on their dart boards in the break room and lob sharpened pencils at it screaming, “Die, Bitch! I hate you and all your kind!!” And then they walk out calmly and tend to their clients.
True Fable
April 6th, 2008 at 4:55 am [Reply]

On a somber note, let’s remove our hats and bid farewell to Charlton Heston, who died last night at the age of 84.

When he gets to heaven he will finally be able to “Behold His mighty hand!”
True Fable
April 6th, 2008 at 5:01 am [Reply]

Back to snark:

Blondie What is this, is Dagwood Sam Driver’s brother or something? Why not “AHHHhh FUCK!” ?
Betcha Blondie would have said okay.
kippetje2000
April 6th, 2008 at 5:08 am [Reply]

Arglebargle: Is it really progeria? Or is it that the Morgan women are from Orion? http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/trinidad/1487/ . Perhaps she is from closer to home? http://anomalyinfo.com/articles/sa00022a.shtml Either way, Princess is showing her true colors today. My, June, isn’t she growing up fast ?

True Fable: Or he’s shouting “Get your hands off me you damn dirty angels.”
True Fable
April 6th, 2008 at 5:14 am [Reply]

#149 SaberChick – My son Sweet was on the fencing team for a while in college. He was pretty darned good. He decided to give it up because he wanted to keep his grades up. He said when he gets to med school later on, it will let him play with much sharper implements. >:D

And he was not so Sweet when he was in tournaments; he was downright badass in those. The girls all think the nickname is appropriate though.

#169 kippetje2000 – LOL! Guess he can’t say “Damn you all to Hell!” now though, what with overstepping boundaries and imitating the Boss and whatnot.
Godzooky
April 6th, 2008 at 6:18 am [Reply]

In today’s NY Times: “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop” tells of three bloggers who may have driven themselves to heart attacks.

In that case…um, no rush on the Saturday post, Josh.
True Fable
April 6th, 2008 at 6:33 am [Reply]

#171 Godzooky – You know, a ~~prolific hack~~ gabfest fan like me might look at the blog thing and think ‘hey, that’s right up my alley’ but when you think about it, it’s hard as hell. I used to write a weekly column for the paper and it was a challenge after a while. There’s an art to being interesting and non-offensive in a small local paper and holy SHIT that’s not me! Sure, I might think I’d like to be paid to write something every day but that’s an iceberg I know nothing about. I’m sure it’s not all beer and skittles as it might seem at first glance; few things really are.

I agree, Josh does not need to be nagged into churning out a post if he’s not ready to. As Brad said in Fast Times at Ridgemont High: “I shall serve no fries before their time.” Serve the fries when you’re good and ready, Josh. We’ll wait.
Niall
April 6th, 2008 at 6:39 am [Reply]

Too-early Sunday

Did not need to see Beetle naked.

Dagwood hurts my brain with the stupid.

…Curtis got pwned by a ninja starfish???

Edge City shows how to incorporate modern tech without making it the sole punchline.

FC.. auuuuugh

Oh, Lois, for godness’ sakes… gah and gah again. If I start ranting I’ll be here til noon.

JP: that’s a great excuse, I must use it more often. “I won’t be here… I’m low on oats.” (in ominous voice, scowling over my shoulder)

I’ve nothing to say on Mark Trail today. Pretty nice one.

Mary Worth’s first two panels makes me want to strangle her. And I’m a peaceful man. I’ve recently stared down with a smile an angry man with huge muscles who threatened violence on me; and just those few words from Mary make me want to wrap my fingers around her throat. Same as for the artist, who suddenly now depicts Mary in the flashback with a ponytail, instead of her friend Cathy…

UN men aren’t smart, are they? They can’t understand how the Phantom, who was behind them, can get ahead of them… on a horse.

Shock! Dismay! Count Weirdly has.. who is that? A daughter?? Niece? Love child with that green witch back in the 80s? And she’s not mentioned anywhere in the puzzle! Or maybe Weirdly has perfected robots finally, and like all vain inventors, made himself a love slave in his own image? You’re messing with our minds, Weber!!
queek
April 6th, 2008 at 7:50 am [Reply]

The deadtree funnies were sort of “meh” today, but there was a couple of snarky thoughts as I read the online ones. Sadly, Niall beat me to both the Phantom and Count Weirdly’s whatevershe is. *cries*

I will, however, point out that the squirrel in the “Which Two Scenes” is flashing us his nutz in all four. Sneaky MT crossover, Weber! ;-)
TheDiva
April 6th, 2008 at 7:57 am [Reply]

Sunday:

FC: There’s a Jeopardy category like this. It’s not funny when they do it either.

FOOB: I really don’t want to see what Deanna does when one of the little monsters has a cavity.

Garfield: So…Jon’s a ‘Mudge? Suddenly I almost respet him.
TheDiva
April 6th, 2008 at 8:19 am [Reply]

167 et al re: Charlton Heston:

First, the serious part. This guy was a rare thing: a true screen legend. Any one of his major films–Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, Ben Hur–would be enough for a significant contribution in that area. And, while I did not always agree with his political agenda, I can respect the courage of his convictions. He left behind a legacy not easily matched.

Now, the tasteless part: I call his gun!
commodorejohn
April 6th, 2008 at 8:28 am [Reply]

#167 True Fable – Well drat. One by one all the really cool actors are kicking the bucket.

Shatner, don’t you go anywhere, okay?
Anonymous
April 6th, 2008 at 9:06 am [Reply]

173 Niall–No, that’s not an artistically interlaced flashback. That stuff is supposed to be happening now (but perhaps with the poignant implication that the theme is repeating itself). It goes to show you how modern the clothes in the flashback were, though…
Dr. Mabuse
April 6th, 2008 at 9:11 am [Reply]

FBOFW – Huh, more pig noises. Robin must be dreaming he’s having dinner at grandma’s.
Urban Garlic
April 6th, 2008 at 9:22 am [Reply]

OK, coming in late here, but today’s H&L reminds me of an actually funny version of the same sex-inflation joke. The middle-aged father is talking with his teen son, and says, “Son, when I was your age, ‘going all the way’ meant sexual intercourse.” Shifts position nervousy, hesitates, then finally asks, “What does it mean now?”

Props to anyone who can remember where that came from. I think it was a comic strip, but I’m not even sure of that.
Hugin
April 6th, 2008 at 9:22 am [Reply]

FOOB: Juxtaposing the last few days’ reruns with today’s new strip reveals just how far Lynn has fallen. Elly and John as young parents (before Elly got all evil, self-righteous and controlling) tried their best to raise their sometimes (or in the case of St. Mike always) bratty kids — trying to instill discipline and do what needs to be done. Even if the strip was sometimes lame, it was usually realistic and you could identify with the characters. Now, Deanna (with no help from St. Mike) coddles her insufferable brats and we’re meant to think it funny/cute. No, Lynn, rather than identify with this couple, we just want to slap them.

H&L: Good, blame the lack of buyers on the seller’s lack of social life. Lois has presumably done this open house thing before, right? And she’s surprised that a bunch of curious neighbors stop in?

MW: No, you haven’t really answered any questions in any meaningful way. But if we all just pretend you have, can this finally end?

MT: More nice racks, less suburban squirrel close-ups.

RMMD: I like Abbey’s expression in panel 2. She’s clearly heard that “won’t feel a thing” line before, and she’s not buying it.

DT: Wait, didn’t DT just incapacitate the baddie with a single knee to the back (still wondering how that works)? And now we get a recap of the hammer throw and DT is the one flat on the floor. I can handle the fact that DT operates in some bizarre alternate reality, but two simultaneous and conflicting alternate realities are too much for me.

DT again: Oh, and the first panel offers a nice tip on how to rat out your criminal accomplices. Thanks.
Kevin
April 6th, 2008 at 9:31 am [Reply]

If this is the long anticipated Plugger stand on immigration? Maybe they should move it to the op-ed pages.
John C Fremont
April 6th, 2008 at 9:35 am [Reply]

A3G – So I understand that spring is in the air and it awakens the city. And at the studio…

Lio – As far as I’m concerned, that little lump of clay has had it coming for a long time.

MT – That final panel makes me think of Pod People. They’re probably heading to town to run through a plate glass window.

MW – When Mary mentioned being compelled to help others, my first response was to quote Charlton Heston from The Ten Commandments right before being banished by the Pharoah – “What I have done, I was compelled to do.” Pretty sure I would have done that even if I hadn’t just heard about Chuck, but now it seems kind of poignant.

Ghost – Hey, Kurt Russell works for the UN! I mean, Kurt Russell works for the UN, mister!

RMMD – Hey, Emily. Martha Raye called. She wants her mouth back.

JP – Low on oats, eh? I’ll bet ol’ Dan sounds just like Wilford Brimley.

(BTW, I just saw Wilford Brimley’s Diabetes Dance Mix for the first time over on YouTube. Maybe it’s just the mood I’m in, but I was amused. I should get out more.)

Oh, and isn’t Abbey’s office supposed to be canary yellow? And not just that one wall (which is more of a faded yellow). Come on, people, details!
gleeb
April 6th, 2008 at 9:44 am [Reply]

Dick: OH yeah, settin’ up some crotch-to-throat sword splitting.

FBoFW: At least Farley-substitute dog is messily eating outside. He cares about the carpets, because he has to sleep on them.

H&L: Should’ve gone to another barber, either Charlie Brown’s dad, or Gunther the Conehead.

A3G: Seven panels, and the actual story advances in only one.

Curtis: It knocked Curtis’ hat off. That starfish is going to feel the pain now.

‘bean: OK, The schlub humping the sofa upstairs is Mopey Pete, with the weepy eyes. The guy not graying as gracefully as he thinks is Khan. You can tell because he has an apron on, not a lettercarrier’s uniform. But who’s the third little ink-puppet in Batiuk’s private hell? They’re just so interchangeably drab.

Phantom: They’re not peacekeepers, they’re agronomists. What’s the fatigues and rifles?

Zippy: Don’t put another bad comic in your bad comic, Griffy. There’s the danger that readers will realize it’s better than Zippy.
Calico
April 6th, 2008 at 9:47 am [Reply]

#108, #151, Hello and thanks. *sniff*

What is it with the double FOOBs lately? Is this for shits n’ giggles, or is there some hidden logic there?
Edgar has his bone, and Elly can’r bear to see a freshly opened can of dog food go to waste, so…
Mmmmmm.

3G – It’s April (not Roadside), and in the studio…
A car drove down the street, and in the studio…
Someone walked by the studio, and in the studio…
Stu, stu, stu, studio, oh ho…
Ah, just forget it.

RM – Wow, Sarah really is an android! Unless she’s merely carsick and Hulk-green from June’s driving.
Calico
April 6th, 2008 at 9:54 am [Reply]

FOOB again, Dee-bot –
Man, she looks positively evil in a couple of those panels.
Wonder what she plans to do to her hopeless, hapless husband while he sleeps, after she’s hit the liquor cabinet 4 or 5 times. Heh.
King Slender
April 6th, 2008 at 10:04 am [Reply]

Curtis, Brad and LuAnn will never get any.
Calico
April 6th, 2008 at 10:16 am [Reply]

I wonder if Curtis has ever seen a real live tree, or if all he knows are the tenements, sidewalks, dank movie theaters, and 50-year old barbershops and icky pizza parlors. He doesn’t seem to appreciate nature very much.
Ukulele Ike
April 6th, 2008 at 10:26 am [Reply]

All this love for Charlton Heston. Did anyone give kudos to Richard Widmark when HE died a few days back? Now, THERE was a thespian! “You know what I do to squealers? I let ‘em have it in the belly, so they can roll around for a long time thinkin’ it over.”

Okay, no posting without mentioning comic strips.

9CL: Looks like an episode from Brooke’s personal stash got slipped in the mistake.

I’m glad we got to see some impressive racks in MT, because Abbey is dressed like an Ivy League jock from 1948 and June seems to have deflated again.
Muffaroo
April 6th, 2008 at 12:15 pm [Reply]

Overcat @118 – s’Alright! Thanks for the correction.
Muffaroo
April 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pm [Reply]

OverCat @118 – I swear, I didn’t do that on purpose.
Fishcakes
April 6th, 2008 at 3:14 pm [Reply]

The fence-builder in me weeps at how incorrectly he’s building that fence.

(Yeah, I build fences at national parks for a living. Now everytime I see a wrecked fence, I want to jump on it with a bucket of C-clips and a wire-stretcher.)
anonymous
April 6th, 2008 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

#116 (and others) – Wilford Brimley, Diabetic and Oatmeal-Eater, is the one, the only, the sole “celebrity” the Republican party has unearthed to endorse them. (Oh, I know there are one or two other B-level actors, but I have actually seen WB on state with John McCain. What an endorsement! I bet they went out for some hot oatmeal later and compared denture creams!)
Chris Opperman
April 7th, 2008 at 11:47 am [Reply]

Those freckles are from the onset of Herpes.
Giza
November 14th, 2008 at 2:46 am [Reply]

Great reviews of comics really.

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