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Spider-Man, 10/18/12

So Kraven the Hunter has been out of prison long enough to get his own Vegas show, but the Daily Bugle is only now getting wind of it? Maybe they aren’t the hard-charging journalistic enterprise I’d always imagined. I guess it’s telling that Robbie is reading this information from a dispatch still hot from the fax machine.

What do you suppose is going on with everyone’s relative head sizes in the second panel, by the way? Is this just a cinematic way to show that Peter is dwelling on this conversation hours later, hearing JJJ say “they pardoned him?” in his head, over and over, as he smacks his forehead in exasperation at America’s failing justice system? (No, actually, the correct answer is “clip art.”)

Dick Tracy, 10/18/12

Famous model Sparkle Plenty is the daughter of B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie, which means that she’s the full sister of whatever horrifying baby-creature sent these medicos fleeing in terror. Got all the good genes, I guess! Anyway, this diseased ne’er-do-well she just met appears to be attempting to sell her drugs. Is this how famous people obtain drugs? I don’t think this is how famous people obtain drugs.

Momma, 10/18/12

So, is Momma a terrible hypochondriac, or is she a desperate pill-head who will say anything to get a fix? Which possibility is funnier? Which is sadder? Is your answer to both questions the same? Discuss.

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232 responses to “Measles is the best helium balloon supplier in the business”

bourbon babe, unbuckled
October 18th, 2012 at 8:25 am [Reply]

MT: “There is no way I will pay you two million dollars to return this man safely!” “Man? Mister, I was talking about the dog!” “Oh. Well, that’s different. I’ll see you in a week, fellow!”

FC: I do not want to know how Mommy uses that vacuum as a toy.

SM: It’s a bad sign when the titular hero of the strip recognizes the head-smacking idiocy of the plot.
Moe Squito-Fish
October 18th, 2012 at 8:29 am [Reply]

JP: Can Bubba and Avery get their own strip, please?

Nancy: Ah, the ol’ wishing for more wishes wish!

Phantom: You’re boring me, Ghost-Who-Misses. From now on I’m gonna read “lion” as “loin.”

S-M: Must hurt that a murderous psychopath has done more for humanity than your mopey ass ever has despite the fact you’re a super-science genius, eh Peter?

Ziggy: Ah, looks like Ziggy’s seeking psychiatric care from Dr. Rip Uanuon, founder of the Truth Therapy movement and world-famous author of “You’re Dumb and Ugly and Nobody Likes You.”
Calvin's Cardboard Box
October 18th, 2012 at 8:29 am [Reply]

SM – When you wrap up the super-villain in a web, then leave him hanging from a lamp post for the police to pick up while you web off into the sunset, it makes it really difficult for the DA to put together a good case. Unless they fall for the trap of answering the question: “What did you do to piss Spider Man off?”, the options and evidence are pretty limited.
Honey Badger, Does not give a shit
October 18th, 2012 at 8:31 am [Reply]

MT: Seal Team Six. We have a mission for you.
Honey Badger, Does not give a shit
October 18th, 2012 at 8:34 am [Reply]

MW: People still carry photos in their wallets? That’s what a phone is for.
Chareth Cutestory
October 18th, 2012 at 8:35 am [Reply]

Spider-Man: How does one help locate a rare plant in a lost jungle while in prison? Google Earth on a well-funded prison library computer, derr. As for how a supervillain criminal conviction can be overturned based on only finding something that leads to a medical breakthrough, we’ll probably have to have a crossover with Law and the Multiverse.

Dick Tracy: Yeah, its just a famous model buying grits at a gas station. Carry on.
pugfuggly
October 18th, 2012 at 8:39 am [Reply]

ASM A rare plant from a ‘lost’ jungle? That Kraven was able to locate from prison somehow? Peter is right to check is forehead: in his case I would be worried that I was just having a fever dream too.

DT Sparkles is a real pro comedienne. She carries those grits around with her everywhere she goes, just in case there’s an opportunity to do an outdated southern exclamation with a hilarious sight gag.

Momma‘s sick of pills that make her feel good. Let’s try some downers mixed in with something that’ll give some good hallucinations. Then she’ll see some flesh-eating demon eels at the gates of hell, instead of that dull sense of sleepy well-being she normally gets.
AhClem
October 18th, 2012 at 8:42 am [Reply]

FW – This is it? The incredible suspense build-up all week leads to — a drawing of the bride? Man, I haven’t been this excited since Mary Worth found a stray dog and returned it to its owner.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 8:47 am [Reply]

MT – Isn’t today’s comic simply a mirror image of yesterday’s?

JP – “Yes, Avery, that is a Picasso. Now take them panties off.”

FW – Tell me those sideways panels aren’t a “fuck you” to those of us reading comics electronically.

MW -” Your sister is Jennifer Anniston? Jim, these are the pictures that came with your wallet!”
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
October 18th, 2012 at 8:50 am [Reply]

Frazz: GAH!!! mental picture, do not want!

A&J: you can show underboob in the papers?!? yay4service!

rCdS: today’s repeat demonstrates how Baka Gaijin came to fear clowns.

Lio: isn’t it usually “participant” these days?

PBS: someone send Rat to QC to see how that’s done.

SBp: someone sent Bob to Sinfest to see how that’s done.

MG&G: /fail.

SFx: seventh difference, on the right it’s a mistake, on the left it’s a happy accident.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 8:50 am [Reply]

FC – Hmmm, Dolly, can you explain to Daddy how Mommy uses the vacuum as a toy? Tell me everything and don’t leave anything out.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
October 18th, 2012 at 8:51 am [Reply]

Love Is. . . oral to the finish.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 8:52 am [Reply]

A3G – “Why should I call YOU Evan. I’m Evan. Boy, are you silly, Skyler.”
wossname
October 18th, 2012 at 8:59 am [Reply]

GT – The hand arrangement panel 3 would work better for making wall shadow bunnies than for catching a football.

BB – We know all these strips are recycled. So I’m trying to guess what the dialogue might have been when this art originally ran in 1982.
“Sarge wants you to take a picture of him?”
“Yeah, it’s to enclose in his Christmas cards.”
“He wants to make sure nobody in his family likes him.”

Crank – Believe me, Ed, if they thought it would remove you, they’d have been using it already.

Phantom – You know, I’m no Ghost Who Walks, but I really really think if there were a fullgrown lion two feet away from me, I’d notice it.

Pickles – Nonsnark digression: Riding a Harley across the country does not give you saddle sores, and the bugs go on the windshield, not on your teeth. This has been a public service announcement from someone who has done it multiple times. Also, there are plenty of waffles available along the highways and byways of our great nation.
sporknpork
October 18th, 2012 at 9:00 am [Reply]

That nervous look on the pharmacist’s face must mean the ruse is up and he’s been selling her homeopathic medicine all this time.
McManx
October 18th, 2012 at 9:01 am [Reply]

Arlo & Janis — At first I was taken aback by the display of boob on Janis. Then I thought, this is no big deal; there has been full frontal nudity on “Love is…” for thirty years.

Gil Thorp — “But Milford catches a break…” Good thing Gil coached the team in his new “Quarterback Seizure Defense” in two-a-days this week.

Mark Trail — I understand these are supposed to be Carribean kidnappers or something, but why do they all look like Canadians. Maybe the Québécois are having to raise money for their latest separatist movement.

Mutts — Oh yes, Clarice. You look mighty smug that your little dog friend has switched to soy. But you won’t be so pleased when your unmilked udder is swollen and dragging the ground.
Stooges Woman :-)
October 18th, 2012 at 9:07 am [Reply]

Momma: “How about a case of thalidomide, ma’am?”
OMEGA SUPREME
October 18th, 2012 at 9:08 am [Reply]

@Moe Squito-Fish (#2): JP: Can Bubba and Avery get their own strip, please?

Only if Bea is in it. They could grow the sweet choom and sell it to Hollywood bigwigs!
Pozzo
October 18th, 2012 at 9:08 am [Reply]

“Yeah, I got all kinds of ‘supplies’ I can hook you up with. For instance, do you need gas pumps from the 1940s? I can do that!”
geekwhisperer
October 18th, 2012 at 9:10 am [Reply]

Dreaming Mark Trail It had not been an all-nighter, but it had been a long night. Tight deadline, product specs changed, waiting for updated files from Asia then working frantically to get everything ready and functional for start of day in Eastern Europe where most of the programming was being done. Such was the life in the global marketplace. He finally crashed after hitting “send” and everyone on the team lurked off to their secret corners to grab few hours before the inevitable tidal wave of heavily accented questions that would start in all too short a time. His private refuge was the couch in his boss’ office he had open permission to use when this kind of situation came up. There he passed into an uneasy dream, breaking through the caffeine and adrenaline accumulated from being awake for too long.

“YOU CANT HAVE PANKAKES WHEN YOU’RE BEING KIDNAPPED!” he found himself yelling just as consciousness returned. Natural light was streaming in through the windows facing the river. It turns out he was shouting at Scott, the tattooed graphic designer standing in the doorway drinking coffee from a “Worlds Best Mom” mug (Scott’s preferred napping spot was the nursing lounge).

“Ok. Cool,” said Scott, unfazed as if people yelled breakfast-oriented non-sequiturs at him all day long and drifted off down the row of empty workstations. This was another problem with dreaming about the Woodsy Man every night. He’d become accustomed to the way the stories inevitably unfolded, always strangely beginning and ending in this stark log cabin, eating pancakes with the creepy family and drinking coffee out of dainty little cups. Grotesquely large animals would be just outside going about their business in purposeful silence.

He was actually famished. Some pancakes would go over really well, he thought. Pulling his phone out to text Scott he saw he had second message following his wife’s “<3 gnite!” The text was from a contact he’d never seen before, was short and sent a chill up his spine. Beginning with the contact name, it read:

Bill Ellis: Son, I need your help.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
October 18th, 2012 at 9:11 am [Reply]

Lab pups, dark & chocolate.

I believe that bee-grinding was mentioned yesterthread?

the Tom Lehrer references were a few threads back.

a not-so-little something for Poteet. (David Coverdale for you on line one.)

I .gif you an incoming polar bear cub.

otterly boopable.

being kewt is thirsty work.

brainmushing corgsqui.
Joe, the Upper-Evergreen Guy
October 18th, 2012 at 9:12 am [Reply]

FW: Cayla better keep a death grip on that bouquet, since it’s either grab that or a bottle of Whiskey!!
Crazy Jay
October 18th, 2012 at 9:13 am [Reply]

DT: “Balloons, paper plates, those confette poppers, you name it. I got a guy that’s over stocked on Happy Birthday stuff like it’s nobodys business. He’s got to clear inventory before the end of the fical quarter.”
Mark B.
October 18th, 2012 at 9:13 am [Reply]

What is Barack Obama doing in the Daily Bugle newsroom? Is J. Jonah Jameson one the last 4 uncommitted voters in America and he’s trying to get his vote by fetching him his paper and cigars?
Johnny Knuckles
October 18th, 2012 at 9:13 am [Reply]

@Honey Badger, Does not give a shit (#4): He’s on his own.
Hibbleton
October 18th, 2012 at 9:16 am [Reply]

MW: Whaa!? That’s that slut who stole my Dave! Woohoo! Now whose life is brutal, Bitch!

RMMD: Poor Herb. One day he’s rockin’ the Elton John glasses; the next his wife’s life depends on the actions of Rex.
The Waz
October 18th, 2012 at 9:17 am [Reply]

Nancy: When making wishes, please do not call for the end of the earth. Thanks, all of humanity. [*]

RMMD: Let it be known that on this, the 18th of October in the 2012th year of the Lord, that the man known as Rex Morgan, MD did, in fact ‘practise medicine’. The fact that he broke 8 of her ribs, collapsed one of her lungs, and shattered her diaphram should not detract from the enormity of this event.
TheDiva
October 18th, 2012 at 9:22 am [Reply]

DT: She’s going to try to buy some crepe streamers off him and hilarity will ensue, right?

SM: I don’t think a man who dresses up in red and blue spandex to chase down muggers should be facepalming about the follies of the American justice system.
justjking
October 18th, 2012 at 9:25 am [Reply]

MW: In a shocking twist of fate, Jim’s sister looks exactly like Dawn.
Squeak
October 18th, 2012 at 9:25 am [Reply]

Kraven was released from prison because he helped locate a rare plant in a lost jungle.

Was the prison located in the lost forest? Did he escape from prison, find the plant, and come back to tell them where it is? Or did he know where the plant was located before he was arrested, sat quiet through the trial, and waited until he was locked up to tell someone about it?
Red Greenback
October 18th, 2012 at 9:31 am [Reply]

@Squeak (#30): Yes.
teenchy
October 18th, 2012 at 9:32 am [Reply]

@wossname (#14): Nonsnark digression: Riding a Harley across the country does not give you saddle sores, and the bugs go on the windshield, not on your teeth. This has been a public service announcement from someone who has done it multiple times. Also, there are plenty of waffles available along the highways and byways of our great nation.

Not all Harleys have windscreens, I believe. Also, some of those waffle places serve grits. Maybe Sparkle Plenty could go there with Grandpa Pickles; of course she could still run into drug dealers there.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
October 18th, 2012 at 9:34 am [Reply]

RMMD –
Panel 3 – “Edna, my love, it’s herb! Wake up!”.
Panel 4 – “Dude! The herb finally got here!? Well fire that shit up!! Boy, the DEA wasn’t kidding about the withdrawal effects.”

MT –

Panel 1 – “We are going to hold your friend here until you bring us two.million.dollars.

How can you look at that loveable face and not come up with the ransom? What? It isn’t Andy he is holding for ransom? Eh, screw it then. Mark will be rescued by some passing Grizzly bear or giant squirrel, I’m sure.
wossname
October 18th, 2012 at 9:38 am [Reply]

@geekwhisperer (#20): Aha! This was fun before, but now it’s getting truly intriguing. You do realize you can’t stop until this arc is over, right?

@teenchy (#32): True, not all Harleys have windshields, and many of them (mine included) have detachable windshields. But if you ride across the country without a windshield, you deserve all the bugs you eat.
Clint Brawny
October 18th, 2012 at 9:41 am [Reply]

Spiderman: Peter Parker is thinking: “oh Lord, three months of this plot.”
TheDiva
October 18th, 2012 at 9:42 am [Reply]

9CL: Yeah, let’s put it to a vote every time the Commander in Chief wants to use his goddamn plane (because Lord knows, the person who holds the highest office in the country couldn’t possibly have any legitimate reasons to travel). That’s not an example of bloated and inefficient government at all.

C’shaft: Don’t worry, Cranky. I can assure you that if you were choking, not a single person would perform the Heimlich on you.

FW: What a lovely tableau! “Smokey” has the resigned look of a man who hates his future son-in-law but is making nice for his daughter’s sake, Cayla looks stoned (which would explain the lack of fleeing in horror), and Les is as smug and self-satisfied as ever. Not since William and Kate, I tell ya!
(Where is the music coming from, anyway? I’m guessing Harry Dinkle is just off-panel playing a tinny 80s-vintage Casio.)

Luann: You go, Shannon!

MT: “Do as I say, or I’ll have Bob Villa take care of your friend!”

Pibgorn: But it’s not sexual, really, you beefwits are just reading too much into the idea of recognizing a woman by looking at her ass!

Pluggers waste three dollars for the sake of fifty cents.
Greg
October 18th, 2012 at 9:43 am [Reply]

Spider-Man: Even more confusing is that Peter is striking his forehead with Jonah’s hand. It’s like a game of Twister, except for psychopaths.
Doctor Handsome
October 18th, 2012 at 9:52 am [Reply]

I’m not beautiful, rich, or famous by any means. But I would certainly never score dope off a sketchy ginger creep named “Measles” either way.
flatsixes
October 18th, 2012 at 9:52 am [Reply]

MT: Two millions bucks can buy an awful lot of journalism grads willing to write stories about beavers named “Lucky.” Anybody wants to lay odds that Mr. Editor gets on his big yacht and is never heard from again?
Artist formerly known as Ben
October 18th, 2012 at 9:54 am [Reply]

S-M: The rare occasion when a plot twist is so lame and contrived it makes even Peter Parker facepalm.

DT: When married women stray, isn’t it always with men who look like their husbands, only with disfiguring scars and a seedy raccoon coat?

MT: “How am I going to get two million dollars? Can’t you see I can’t even get lenses for these glasses?”

MW: Something tells me that Dawn has that question mark floating above her head a lot more often than we can see it. I also think that it will be joined by a few exclamation points when she has to compliment Jim on his sister’s Brazilian wax.

FW: Here we see the wedding from Funky’s point of view. The Funkster’s fallen off the wagon and jeez! Can you blame him?

Better Half: So when you say “sleep with his teddy bear” do you mean..?

JP: It’s starting to look like Bubba is Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s redneck cousin, the one smart enough to figure out that you can make more money with less hassle if you grow cannabis and avoid James Bond.

BB: The easiest way to make sure no one on Facebook “likes” you is not to be on Facebook in the first place. Or it would be if President-for-Life Zuckerberg hadn’t signed that law.

GT: Milford catches a break when the Jefferson QB picks the wrong time to rehearse his modern dance recital.

Phantom: These two are awfully pushy with the Purple One, considering he’s not seeing any of that sweet mining money.

FC: No, confused one, mommy’s toys are in another part of the house. Although some of them do have attachments.

SFx: Adding to the cruel irony of the wildlife artist being eaten, first prize was taken by an old lady who painted a bowl of fruit.
bunivasal
October 18th, 2012 at 9:58 am [Reply]

In spite of the guy’s 50s era Pharmacist getup, I don’t think Momma’s actually at a drug store. If you look closely at the crudely-rendered phials and jars in his glass counter, you can clearly see that he’s a vampire-hunter supply store.
Marc
October 18th, 2012 at 9:58 am [Reply]

9CL- Ahh so Air Force One is bankrupting the country. Got it Brooke, thanks for the heads up. All our financial problems can be solved by having the President take a bus wherever he goes. But a regular bus, none of those fancy schmancy ones with bathrooms. It’s better to save the taxpayers that extra $1.50.

A3G- I can’t wait until Evan brings the news that Skyler kissed him to Aunt Cathy and she proceeds to berate him for not closing the deal and banging her.

Mark Trail- Why should Bill Ellis pay the 2 million dollars? He knows damn well that if he waits long enough, the kidnappers will get so sick of Mark that they’ll offer to pay him to take Mark back.

Mary Worth- Is that supposed to be a wallet or does Jim carry around a reporter’s notebook in his back pocket with pictures pasted to the pages? That certainly doesn’t look like any wallet I’ve ever seen.

Funky- That was the big reveal? What a giant fucking waste of time.

Luann- The maturity level here is off the charts……….
flatsixes
October 18th, 2012 at 9:58 am [Reply]

@TheDiva (#36): FW “Smokey?” Is that really Cayla’s dad’s name? Here I’ve been hoping it was “Chalky,” which held much more promise for Lester Moore (four slugs from a 44, no Les, no more).
Doctor Handsome
October 18th, 2012 at 9:59 am [Reply]

Chief among Spider-Man’s abilities is superhuman dexterity. So, naturally, newspaper Peter is about six inches off the mark on a facepalm.
Artist formerly known as Ben
October 18th, 2012 at 9:59 am [Reply]

@TheDiva (#36):

9CL: Yeah, let’s put it to a vote every time the Commander in Chief wants to use his goddamn plane (because Lord knows, the person who holds the highest office in the country couldn’t possibly have any legitimate reasons to travel). That’s not an example of bloated and inefficient government at all.

It’s almost as if Brooke decided to spend election season doing political satire, but without knowing anything about government or politics. Or satire.
Downpuppy
October 18th, 2012 at 10:03 am [Reply]

In the 5 months (yes sports fans – 5 months!) that Avery’s “adventure” has been running in Judge Parker, almost every day somebody has talked about the pot o’ money waiting at the end for Sam. Now we finally get to see where it is….crickets.

What’s wrong with you people?
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 10:07 am [Reply]

3-G – “And when I say running along, I mean the upper half of my body will bob stiffly in some general direction, like Clutch Cargo.”

Bizarro – I’m not sure I get this. Does Tom go wee, wee, wee all the way home?
Artist formerly known as Ben
October 18th, 2012 at 10:08 am [Reply]

@McManx (#16):

Mark Trail — I understand these are supposed to be Carribean kidnappers or something, but why do they all look like Canadians. Maybe the Québécois are having to raise money for their latest separatist movement.

Mark kidnapped by Johnny Mallotte’s evil twin? Say it ain’t so!
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 10:08 am [Reply]

Gasoline – “Brought the GPS”? I thought they were sort of kept in the car. Maybe he uses it when he’s walking, where it tells him things like “don’t stop on the tracks in the rain to ask somebody for directions, genius.”

Herb – No wit, Wedlock!
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 10:09 am [Reply]

Nancy – I wish for this strip to end in a rain of fire from the heavens… hey, neat!! [*]

Pluggers – You’re a plugger if you live a hellish, frustrating existence due to your own cheapness and disorganization.
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 10:09 am [Reply]

Sinfest – If he’s looking at Jeffy Keane, shouldn’t the monitor be a circle?

Tarzan – “We’re off on the Road to Nairobi,
We don’t take a bus or a car,
No speeder like old Ben Kenobi,
…But this song’s done, cause here we are.”
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 10:10 am [Reply]

@OMEGA SUPREME (#y58): Great minds. And mine.

@Droopy Says (#y192): Because when you consider the sort of goofball crimes the typical Newspaper-Spiderman villain commits, I’m figuring that Kraven didn’t get a long sentence.
The real problem is that it’s the same bleeding-heart judge who gives these one-day and two-day sentences. I understand Slylock is considering just killing criminals and counting on getting the same revolving-door justice.

@Rana the Pedantic Wet Blanket (#195): I’m bothered by the fact that Cayla’s father has switched sides for no reason.
“MOMMMMM…!”

Josh – Got all the good genes, I guess!
Yeah, you’d think so, but what are the odds that Gravel Gertie looked just like Sparkle when she was that age? And that, a couple of years down the road, Sparkle will… okay, no need to belabor it. You all see where this is going.

@Pozzo (#19): “Giving a Halloween party? I can get you real stiffs!”
Moe Squito-Fish
October 18th, 2012 at 10:16 am [Reply]

@OMEGA SUPREME (#18): Of course! How could I forget Bea? She completes the triad. Now we need a name for the strip … I’m thinking, Apartment 3B, for Bubba, Bea, and (Avery) Blackstone.
Doctor Handsome
October 18th, 2012 at 10:19 am [Reply]

I usually focus on Jonah’s delightfully abrasive personality and rad Hitler ‘stache too much to fully appreciate his Neapolitan-ice cream flattop.
Austria
October 18th, 2012 at 10:22 am [Reply]

BB: Good try, but no.

FW: …..Soooo, what was the point of hiding her face, exactly?

Luann: Tomorrow, in a very special Luann…dealing with the loss of a pet.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
October 18th, 2012 at 10:25 am [Reply]

9CL – I’m about at level 11 on the 1-10 scale for libertarianism, and even I can’t get worked up about the president having an airplane to use in order to fly around the world on official business. Should the next NATO summit be held via GoTo Meeting?

Pibgorn – If you are going to write fairy porn, at least write fucking hard core fairy porn. “oooh, you can almost see her nipples!” “oooh, her legs are open, and if it wasn’t for the moss growing in-between them, you could probably see her hoo-hah!”. It would be more titillating to try and masturbate to one of those HBO shows that appear contractually obligated to throw in three seconds of bare tits per episode just to remind you that it isn’t TV – it’s HBO!.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
October 18th, 2012 at 10:25 am [Reply]

@geekwhisperer (#20): I’m loving this!
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 10:29 am [Reply]

GT – There appears to be some sort of Oregon Ducks new uniform at the drop of a hat fashion show going on at the Milford – Jefferson game. In panel 1, the injured Mudlark player is wearing a red jersey with black numbers. In panel 2, the player taking his place is wearing a white jersey. Also in panel 2, Jefferson’s quarterback is wearing a black jersey with red stripes and numbers. His wide receiver in panel 3 is wearing a black jersey with white stripes and numbers.

What sort of madness is this? “Hey, guys, it’s wear whatever uniform you want weekend! Be creative!”

Either that or the guys with red jerseys are hemorrhaging badly from their injuries.
Artist formerly known as Ben
October 18th, 2012 at 10:30 am [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#49):

Gasoline – “Brought the GPS”? I thought they were sort of kept in the car. Maybe he uses it when he’s walking, where it tells him things like “don’t stop on the tracks in the rain to ask somebody for directions, genius.”

High five, man.
pugfuggly
October 18th, 2012 at 10:31 am [Reply]

@Pozzo (#19):

“Want some old-timey gas for your antique car? SUPPLIES! It’s full of lead.”

@flatsixes (#43):

Here I’ve been hoping it was “Chalky,” which held much more promise for Lester Moore (four slugs from a 44, no Les, no more).

So did we already have the scene where Les gets his face sliced up at a speak? I think i would have remembered that…
TomS
October 18th, 2012 at 10:34 am [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#52): You are likely thinking Sparkle’s progression will be comparable to William Hogarth’s Harlot? Measles’ facial sores could be Pox, eh?
TheDiva
October 18th, 2012 at 10:37 am [Reply]

@flatsixes (#43): Yes, really. In a bit of strip cross-pollination, Cayla’s dad is “Smokey” Williams, Crankshaft’s tolken black friend and former baseball teammate. (When asked about how this works given that the strips’ timelines are now a decade out of sync with each other, Tom Batiuk replied “Shut up! It’s called writing!”)
Calvin's Cardboard Box
October 18th, 2012 at 10:39 am [Reply]

@Chaze (#58):

I believe today’s strip is a concept piece that attempts to let the reader see a football field the way that Tony Romo sees it – full of players in different color uniforms, any of whom may be a receiver for your team, and most of whom are likely to let the ball go right through their hands anyway.
Poteet
October 18th, 2012 at 10:41 am [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#21): Gorgeous!
Gringo
October 18th, 2012 at 10:45 am [Reply]

A&J: Janis, out-MILFing all the gals of Juggs Parker and RMMD. And Blondie, too.

And, once again, A&J shows all the other strips how to do sexy humor.
Poteet
October 18th, 2012 at 10:48 am [Reply]

S-M — Leave botany out of your insanity, Spider-Dork. What you’re doing to what’s left of the newspaper industry is bad enough.
seismic-2
October 18th, 2012 at 10:49 am [Reply]

Momma: “Syphilis! Let’s step into the back room…”
DaveP
October 18th, 2012 at 10:52 am [Reply]

Josh, you really MUST take a look a panel 3 from Wednesday’s Mark Trail.
Compare to Panel 1 of Thursday’s.
I’m just sayin’….
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 10:55 am [Reply]

@Austria (#55): Tomorrow, in a very special Luann…dealing with the loss of a pet.
Or perhaps “dealing with the relief that comes of finally shedding a once-popular character whose drawing style just never progressed, really, and who had become something of an embarrassment all round, so let’s just offer up a tear for the fun we once briefly got from the wretched little thing and not speak of it ever again.”

@TomS (#61): It’s easy to see that by agreeing to your answer, I’ll look a lot more classy than if I say I was thinking of Mammy Yokum and Loweezy Smif, so… YES. I was thinking of Hogarth all along. (Fun story: The library at Rice University, where I was working for a while just before we moved again, was having one of its book sales, and it included a volume of Hogarth prints. Real Hogarth prints, pulled from real Hogarth plates. I looked through it, and I’m not sure there was a single real print left in it. They’d all been cut out, and probably sold for big bucks. They still wanted $150 for the plate marks that remained. [Still kicking myself for not getting the whole bound set of 1850s tearjerker songs and piano pieces at that sale. "Next time," I said to myself, only that time never came.])
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 10:55 am [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#69): I meant it was a fun story to tell, not to read. Sorry for any confusion there.
Mibbitmaker
October 18th, 2012 at 10:59 am [Reply]

Runnin’ late. Oversnarpologies…

S-M: Peter: “People will be cured of horrible diseases? DAMN!!!”

S-M meta: JJJ has a huge head, maybe? Makes sense, really.

Momma: Saddest of all: The strip in general.

DT: “My name’s Measles. And my disease is Frank Smith*. At least I’ll be cured, thanks to Kraven the Hunter!”

*just guessing as to “real” name. For the joke.
Doctor Handsome
October 18th, 2012 at 11:04 am [Reply]

I love the pharmacist’s sideways glance here. “Uh, lady, if you’re a cop you have to tell me.”
Moe Squito-Fish
October 18th, 2012 at 11:12 am [Reply]

I would love for someone with the programming skills to turn geekwhisperer’s surreal serial into interactive fiction.

You find yourself in cabin seated at a table. Seated with you are an old veterinarian; a housewife untouched, lo these many months; and a hideous mutant “boy.” There is a large window to the south. Exits are north, east, and southeast.

>Look at table.

There is a stack of pancakes on the table!

etc.
Poteet
October 18th, 2012 at 11:14 am [Reply]

9CL — Brooke, you’re not Will Rogers. You’re not even Will Rogers’ intestinal flora. Deep apologies to Will Rogers’ intestinal flora.
Doctor Handsome
October 18th, 2012 at 11:17 am [Reply]

This wordless word balloon is bolder and more colorful than anything Peter’s done in 18 months.
Poteet
October 18th, 2012 at 11:18 am [Reply]

MT — Good luck, idiot villains. Apparently none of you have ever read “The Ransom of Red Chief,” and this will be worse.
Red Greenback
October 18th, 2012 at 11:19 am [Reply]

FC:
“You have just destroyed one model XQJ-37 nuclear powered pan- sexual roto-plooker and you’re gonna have to pay for it! So give up, you haven’t got a chance.”
Mibbitmaker
October 18th, 2012 at 11:26 am [Reply]

Oversnarpologies II: The Pushing It

FW: What’s wrong with this picture?
Tom Servo: “Oh, what ISN’T wrong with this picture?”

Garfield: Jon: “I’m only 3 & 1/2 years old!”

JP: “No, that’s a fish tank, you idiot!”

MT: Oh, criminals are SO unreasonable!

MW: This is gonna get really creepy…

Glibporn: Brooke’s face, that is.
Hairhead
October 18th, 2012 at 11:28 am [Reply]

Luann: Luann’s rage suddenly explodes. All of the sexual repression of her unrequited crushes, boys who ignored her, or who were fearful wimps, or who were snatched away in mid-kiss, all of the hatred directed at her mother for obsessing over her brother Brad and his proto-sexual activities and ignoring her or passing her off to be auctioned to small, greasy perverts, all of the queasy disgust she has felt over Gunther’s unsettling, passive-aggressive advances, all of the unfocussed horniness over Tiffany’s soft, warm body and the pleasures hidden within, all of the hormone-fueled rage and fear usually released by having real friends, unlike that vicious, undermining bitch Bernice and that domineering, self-centred self-righteous twerp, Delta, all of the simmering id usually let out by drinking, making out, and other normal teen activities, all of the boiling emotions, the pain, the heartache, the confusion, the loathing, all of it comes out at once.

And there is Shannon.

When Luann awakes from her fugue state, the tiny, battered body lies before her, lifeless, yet still sneering, the little witch’s helmet-hair still unmussed.

“Dammit! Where are the plastic garbage bags”, Luann mutters as she leaves the room.

How’s that for reality, Greg?
Illustrator Steve
October 18th, 2012 at 11:28 am [Reply]

@Chaze (#9): MT – “Isn’t today’s comic simply a mirror image of yesterday’s comic”

Correct! The sea gull hoovering over Burt Renold’s shoulder yesterday has flown away. Elrod’s clip art crew erased the gull thinking they could pass the panel off as a whole new drawing today and still get paid and no one would notice. Apparently Elrod didn’t, and he’s the one who pays these color monkeys!.
Stroker Ace
October 18th, 2012 at 11:29 am [Reply]

Momma – Cyanide. Now you’ve got a problem. Sayonara.
house for sale in quezon city
October 18th, 2012 at 11:38 am [Reply]

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AhClem
October 18th, 2012 at 11:40 am [Reply]

@house for sale in quezon city (#82):
Does the house for sale have a hidden Picasso in the basement?
wossname
October 18th, 2012 at 11:44 am [Reply]

@house for sale in quezon city (#82): Please tell us – the one time your brother was entirely right, what did he say?

Uncle Lumpeeeeeeee!
Dr. P and the Women
October 18th, 2012 at 11:50 am [Reply]

DT: I know whenever I’m buying an enormous discount bag of grits at a gas station, as all wealthy supermodels do, and am accosted by a filthy weirdo covered in open sores whose name is Measles my first thought is “I should definitely strike up a conversation and then aquire homemade pharmaceuticals from this gentleman. I’m sure the cleanliness and standards of his personal meth lab are second to none.”
Illustrator Steve
October 18th, 2012 at 11:57 am [Reply]

MT – Bill Ellis returns to his corporate yacht and sets a course to Fort Lauderdale to negotiate the sale of his yacht with a very populer yacht brokerage in the southern part of the stae inorder to rase the two million for Mark and Andy’s ransom. Along the way, while watching a beautiful sun set with the wind is in his hair and drinking champagne served by his scantly clad female crew, he rethinks his decision to sell as a silly idea and changes course for Bimini for an extended pleasure cruise. After all, word has it the bone fish are biting there!
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 11:59 am [Reply]

@Poteet (#76): MT — Good luck, idiot villains. Apparently none of you have ever read “The Ransom of Red Chief,” and this will be worse.

“The Whining of White Bread.”
Naked Bunny with a Whip
October 18th, 2012 at 12:04 pm [Reply]

How do internet-famous people like Josh get their cyber-drugs?
Anonymous
October 18th, 2012 at 12:05 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#76): re MT: thank heavens Rusty wasn’t on the trip. If they’d held him for ransom/hadn’t heard of Red Chief, the next sound you would’ve heard was O. Henry spinning at supersonic speed in his grave.

Mutts: hmm, if we all switch to soy, once we get rid of the rest of domestic cattle (a la hamburgers and dog food), think of the drop in global methane emissions and McDonald’s! Yes, something to be fervently wished for!

MW: “Of course this is after the ferry accident *sniff*, but it’s the only photo I have of her *sniff* as a lovely young woman *sob!*”
“I’m sure she was even lovelier once.”
ew.
terrapin
October 18th, 2012 at 12:16 pm [Reply]

@Gringo (#65):I had to google MILF and I must say I’m disgusted. (Not really.)
Kate
October 18th, 2012 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

DT: Thank heaven my morning paper does not carry this strip so I was spared the sight of Measles’ weeping sores over my morning coffee and English muffins.
terrapin
October 18th, 2012 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

JP: “Man cave” would have been funnier. But maybe he’s saving that for when he negotiates what he’s going to do to Avery.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
October 18th, 2012 at 12:25 pm [Reply]

@Naked Bunny with a Whip (#88): Who do you think supports all that Canadian-pharmaceutical spam?
Will
October 18th, 2012 at 12:25 pm [Reply]

Luann: Puddles is still alive?
Doctor Handsome
October 18th, 2012 at 12:28 pm [Reply]

@house for sale in quezon city (#82): Get back to me when you’re a sensational strawberry blonde visiting Quezon City.
Shrug, Slurper of Java
October 18th, 2012 at 12:34 pm [Reply]

@Hogenmogen (#yy124):

“Little known fact about Vikings – they were really, really mellow.”

Only after coffee was introduced into Norway. (Standard Norwegian joke.)
cartooncritic2544
October 18th, 2012 at 12:38 pm [Reply]

@TheDiva (#62): And today’s strip was ghost drawn by John Byrne. He seems to do a lot of the sideways ones.

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#69): The dog got hit in the head with a half empty can of soda. I seriously doubt he’s dead or even seriously injured. No, I suspect this will be a “what could have happened” life lesson for Luann and Shannon.
Northern lurker
October 18th, 2012 at 12:39 pm [Reply]

MT: help me here. Why did Mark take Andy on this fishing trip? Does Andy know how to handle a fishing net? Is there any logic here at all? Oh wait this is Mark Trail.
No Stupid Bear
October 18th, 2012 at 12:44 pm [Reply]

9CL: I don’t read this strip unless someone here has made me curious. This Thorax is supposed to be evil, right? I mean, he’s named Thorax, he seems to be a bitter, preachy, judgmental asshat, and he’s drawn to look like the adult version of that kid from “Children of the Corn.” So, evil, right?
cartooncritic2544
October 18th, 2012 at 12:45 pm [Reply]

Mama. Mel Lazarus’ “Requiem for a Dream“? Man, I am so NOT looking forward to Tina and Marylou recreating the “ass to ass scene.”
Esther Blodgett
October 18th, 2012 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

FW: Oh God, it’s the Giant Smirking Douchebag Profile. Of Death. Or so I ~~presume~~ hope.
Moe Squito-Fish
October 18th, 2012 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

@cartooncritic2544 (#101): Sheeeit, Mel Lazarus should do Selby’s complete works! I think The Room (feat. Francis, natch) would by quite excellent.
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

@cartooncritic2544 (#97): The dog got hit in the head with a half empty can of soda. I seriously doubt he’s dead or even seriously injured.
YEAH, JUST GO AND DASH MY HOPES.
Calvin\'s Cardboard Box
October 18th, 2012 at 12:55 pm [Reply]

@Will (#94):

Was still alive….
Liam
October 18th, 2012 at 12:57 pm [Reply]

MW-When do we find out that Jim was rather close to his sister than what would be considered normal by society’s standards.

A3G-Kisses so loud they turn heads.

A3G 2-All right. I’ll call you Even if you can call me Al.

RMMD-It’s hard to tell if she is responsive. She was never responsive in bed.

FC-Since Mommy is too busy playing horsey with Jeffy Daddy has to take care of business himself.
Moe Squito-Fish
October 18th, 2012 at 1:00 pm [Reply]

@Liam (#108) re: MW: Ah, yes — Salmon Squares in the Attic, Potato-ade in the Wind.
Snarkotix Addict
October 18th, 2012 at 1:06 pm [Reply]

MW – Dawn is stunned to see that Jim’s sister was Dave’s girlfriend, the one he dumped Dawn for. Regaining her composure, Dawn pulls out her cell phone, stands and starts to leave.
“Hey, I gotta run. See you around.”
Dawn hits her speed dial.
“Hello Dave! It’s Dawn. Let’s get together for a drink. See you in five?”
Shrug, Speaker to Nursery Rhymes
October 18th, 2012 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

@Girl Reporter (#yy206):

“A friend of mine’s mother would tell her to “take off your stockings and spit in your shoe” in response to having nothing to do. I just googled it to see if it was a nursery rhyme, but got results that looked like spit-polish fetish how-to, so I didn’t click.”

No, the traditional nursey rhyme solution for “having nothing whatever to do” is to “take out your carrot, and bugger the parrot, and send the results to the zoo.”

// It’s possible my nursery school was less traditional than some. Good times.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

@Northern lurker (#98):
Two reasons Andy Dog is on the trip:

1) He was the hero of the last two story lines -and-
2) He is better company than Rusty, by far.
Moe Squito-Fish
October 18th, 2012 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

@Raghead the Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist (#99): Then read it as “loin” I shall since, after all, The Phantom was originally set in/near the Indian subcontinent. From Wikipedia: “[The Phantom's] base is in the Deep Woods of Bengali (originally “Bengalla”, or “Bangalla” and renamed Denkali in the Indian edition), a fictional country initially said to be set in Asia, near India, but depicted as in Africa during and after the 1960s.”
Snarkotix Addict
October 18th, 2012 at 1:18 pm [Reply]

Luann – Startled and in pain, Puddles lunges at Shannon, rips off her face and severs an artery. Seeing what he’s done, he turns on Luann and kills her, too. Police detectives rule it a murder-suicide, and add Puddles to the K-9 squad, launching a new comic strip.
Artist formerly known as Ben
October 18th, 2012 at 1:20 pm [Reply]

@house for sale in quezon city (#82):

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The spambot doesn’t understand contractions. It’s Mark Trail-bot!
Lupin The 3.1415926th
October 18th, 2012 at 1:20 pm [Reply]

Judging by her expression, it looks like Cayla’s getting married at 4:20 in the afternoon. I think you’d need something stronger than weed to marry Smirky, though.
Pozzo
October 18th, 2012 at 1:21 pm [Reply]

Please let Measles have a wife/girlfriend/female sidekick named Rubella.
Alex
October 18th, 2012 at 1:24 pm [Reply]

I for one can’t wait for the inevitable retelling of Trainspotting that will no doubt be the end result of Momma’s struggle with addiction. Momma will, of course, be playing the role of Begbie.
AhClem
October 18th, 2012 at 1:25 pm [Reply]

@No Stupid Bear (#100):
It depends on whether you mean the 9CL character or the anatomical definition of “Thorax”. One is a disgusting, slimy bag of putrescence which disgusts everyone who comes near, and the other is an insect body part.
Gringo
October 18th, 2012 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

RMMD: You know, if June would just scoot forward a few inches in panel 1, we could have one of those hot MILF-on-GILF scenes I’ve heard about but personally have never ever witnessed.

Just sayin’.
Son of Stuck Funky
October 18th, 2012 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

FW: Hey, wait a minute! This wedding is taking place too weeks to early, and the bride and groom are not properly attired!

There, I fixed it.
Johnny Q
October 18th, 2012 at 1:35 pm [Reply]

I couldn’t help noticing that one of this blog’s ads is a survey which asks “Which form of domestic energy do you believe deserves the most public support given its relative economic benefit and environmental impact?” but omits solar and wind power!
Anonymous
October 18th, 2012 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

@Son of Stuck Funky (#122): clap!clap!clap! Nice!
bats :[
October 18th, 2012 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

@Pozzo (#118): Roseola would be nice, too.

And 124. Anonymous was me.
Dr. Weird
October 18th, 2012 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#69):

Tomorrow, in a very special Luann…dealing with the loss of a pet.
Or perhaps “dealing with the relief that comes of finally shedding a once-popular character whose drawing style just never progressed, really, and who had become something of an embarrassment all round, so let’s just offer up a tear for the fun we once briefly got from the wretched little thing and not speak of it ever again.”

If Evans was clever, he’d have Puddles soaked with root beer and then given a bath as part of the story, and when it was finished, he’d look like a whole new dog, drawn in an appropriate style for the rest of the strip.
Dr. Weird
October 18th, 2012 at 2:03 pm [Reply]

@Pozzo (#114):

Please let Measles have a wife/girlfriend/female sidekick named Rubella.

Rue! Rue Bella! That works as a fine Southern name!
teenchy
October 18th, 2012 at 2:04 pm [Reply]

@wossname (#34): No question about it. I don’t suppose too many Harley riders wear full-face helmets though, amirite?
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 2:05 pm [Reply]

MW – While Dawn DOES possess an opposable thumb, she appears not to be using it to pour her milk. Evidently, she has glued the milk carton to her fingers. Either that or the cafeteria is in zero gravity.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 2:12 pm [Reply]

It appears that Bill Macy (Walter on “Maude”) has returned to show biz as Herb, in Rex Morgan, MD. It also appears that recently deceased Bea Arthur (Maude in “Maude”) has returned as the recently deceased Edna.
This Guy
October 18th, 2012 at 2:15 pm [Reply]

@Snarkotix Addict (#111): Obviously. In the Luanniverse, viciously biting someone is cause for praise and rewards.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 2:16 pm [Reply]

JP – As two like-minded men of the world, I’m sure that Avery and Bubba can come to an agreement that Bea has great tits and that Sam is a tool.
Poteet
October 18th, 2012 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

Luann — I tried to like Shannon for awhile, I really did. But to me she’s just as horrid in her own way as the other characters, with the faint possible exception of Puddles, so thanks a lot, Evans, for concussing him. Actually the only character I really liked was that black kitten who showed up a few years ago and was given away to the senior lady who moved to the retirement home. I’m not so fond of the lady, but I liked the kitten, so I hope I’ll never see it again. I hope it found a way out of LUANN and into another strip.
pastordan, lazy professor
October 18th, 2012 at 2:38 pm [Reply]

Apt. 3-G: Sponsored by Johnson & Lundson, downtown Pastel City’s finest chiropractors!

Judge Parker: This had better be leading to a furless cat and sharks with fricking lasers on them.

Luann: Oh crap, they pissed off Puddles. THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

Mark Trail: Where is your bear now, Mark?

Mary Worth: From now on, I want you to imagine a horse whinnying in the background every time Jim mentions…my sister.

Rex Morgan, M.D.: One of our resident Photoshop wizards needs to put a blunt in that old man’s hand, stat.
Shrug, Wspeaker to Wspam
October 18th, 2012 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

@bats :[ (#yy167):

“(what the hell kind of name is Wren?)”

To rerun variant of joke I’ve made here before, they flipped a coin to decide between that “Wstimpy.”
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 2:54 pm [Reply]

Along with all the silliness and stupidity present on the comics page is Rhymes with Orange, which, today, requires one knowing the difference between male and female chromosomes in order to make sense, be funny, or both.

I might be an elitist snob (actually there’s no doubt about that) but I really like that approach to humor.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 3:02 pm [Reply]

@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#1): Heh, heh…..you said titular.
KreatureFeatures
October 18th, 2012 at 3:08 pm [Reply]

@Illustrator Steve (#80): Thanks to Chaze for pointing this out. Gaze in awe at Jack Elrod’s brutal efficiency in cranking two days worth of Mark Trial out of the same three pieces of clip art:
Wednesday versus Thursday Mark Trail.
Artist formerly known as Ben
October 18th, 2012 at 3:09 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#126):

It also appears that recently deceased Bea Arthur (Maude in “Maude”) has returned as the recently deceased Edna.

She’s quite a trooper all right. Doesn’t even let a flat pulse slow her down.
Shrug, Speaker to Badgers
October 18th, 2012 at 3:17 pm [Reply]

@pastordan, snark late shift (#yy174):

“I will no doubt be driven out of the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association for saying so, but badgers aren’t really that big. They’re also cute and sweet-tempered. Just put your hand up there near their muzzle, see for yourself.”

Which reminded me of one of my all-time favorite strange local newspaper headlines:

http://www.mndaily.com/2000/09/21/badgers-alter-photo-appear-diverse
KreatureFeatures
October 18th, 2012 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

@flatsixes (#43): I almost spit my milk when you said “Chalky.”
bbofun
October 18th, 2012 at 3:20 pm [Reply]

GT- it’s amazing how every member of both teams can wear a different uniform, yet they all wear the same lavender gloves. This caused their ruination, as seen in panel 3, when the gloves came to life and started to mate.

FW- Ah, I see why Batiuk wanted to build suspense about the bride’s appearance. It actually caused people to have a reason to read the strip this week. Of course. much like in his “gay prom” plot, he wimped out on the payoff.

JP- this, I unapologetically LOVE. It took a loooooooooooooooooooooong time getting here, but this is potentially the best story ever. If only Peaches would come back…(le sigh)

RMMD- What the hell is this? Did some editor tell Woody Wilson ‘People aren’t reading this for the crazy plot about hot girls in a party house, or June in a swimsuit! This is a strip about a doctor! Get some medical crap in there!” Because, if he did, he was wrong. Oh, so very wrong.

I do like Herb’s glasses, though- those are some lovingly-rendered old man glasses.

MW- Man, Dawn REALLY doesn’t want to see a picture of the sister, does she? What is she afraid of? Is she scared this is a level of intimacy she’s not ready for? Is she afraid that his sister looks JUST LIKE HER, and that’s why he says “you remind me of her?” Or is it she assumes it must be a picture of the sister as she appears now, all swollen from floating in the waters of the bay?

(Personal story- My late mother really hated Cabbage-Patch dolls, because they looked to her like the dead bodies she would sometimes see floating down the Delaware.) (Mom grew up during the Depression- it was, apparently, not nearly as uncommon a sight as you might think.) (Cool story, huh?) (My mom might have been a little strange.)(HELP ME I’M TRAPPED IN PARENTHETICAL HELL!)
tallyHO
October 18th, 2012 at 3:21 pm [Reply]

@KreatureFeatures (#134):

Gulp!

Which came first the Giant Chicken or the egg?

I think some of the second one, Thursday’s, is a trace. If you look at the beardo he isn’t holding a gun in that one, he’s holding flute. (Hurray, Jethro Tull, the Pirate Man! Wooooo Hoooooo!)

Panels 1 and 2 are more than likely photocopied ones that were slightly enlarged and shifted to allow the balloons to fit. Of course that meant killing off some of those unendangered species, like the seagulls.

If Mark and his editor are lucky then Marmaduke–always collecting the dues owed to the Debbil–is a strong swimmer.

And, I’m almost sure that the World Infamous Jackelrod Ball is a sticker.
Droopy Says
October 18th, 2012 at 3:28 pm [Reply]

Best possible Spiderman scenario? Kraven was released because he’s reformed, and proved it by revealing a medicinal plant he’d discovered during his adventures. He does nothing criminal while Parker ~~hounds him~~ whines that he’s up to no good. Eventually there’s a revolution and Parker falls into a sewer, and we’re all less miserable.

Okay, that’s the second-best scenario. The best possible scenario is that Newspaper Spiderman gets replaced by something worth reading.
pastordan, lazy professor
October 18th, 2012 at 3:30 pm [Reply]

@Shrug, Speaker to Badgers (#136): I remember that happening, and remember thinking about the time, “Yeah, as if Minnesota isn’t a sea of blondes…”
tallyHO
October 18th, 2012 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

Weeeeeiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrd!

As I was previewing comment above I got this message:
Regex ID: 229475 (dockbillin@yahoo.co.in) appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.

I don’t know why it was not letting me go back or forward but I was able to get back to this thread by turning around three times, spitting over my shoulder and doing a little river dance.

What ever.
pastordan, lazy professor
October 18th, 2012 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

I seem to be getting a regex error every time I try to post a comment. Mods, am I doing something wrong, or is this just punishment for being a Badger who is not Honey?
pastordan, lazy professor
October 18th, 2012 at 3:34 pm [Reply]

@tallyHO (#142): Great minds err a–goddammit!
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 3:35 pm [Reply]

@KreatureFeatures (#134):

Back in the day, the practice of copying your own artwork was called swiping. The first place I noticed it was in Silver Age Batman and Detective comics. The “Bob Kane” team (about ten DC artists, all drawing under the Bob Kane signature) would reuse poses and action shots over and over. Never bothered me that much.

BUT, it takes real balls to swipe your own artwork on consecutive days and essentially reprint a strip from the previous day. I think that says something about the attitude toward the reader. As condescending, in some ways, as Brooke.
Calico
October 18th, 2012 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

@AhClem (#8):
I do have to say, it’s a nice image, even if I have to work my neck like a Cirque de Soleil performer to see it properly.

Shall we have a pool on when their first married superfight will be ? I give it 2 – 2.5 weeks. If I lose I can pay in Science Diet cat treats and Limonata foil can lids/covers.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

@tallyHO (#142): I’m getting that message also. Regex, huh? Pretty damn fancy way of spelling Rejects.
Calico
October 18th, 2012 at 3:38 pm [Reply]

@tallyHO (#142):
Ha, I just received that funky little message too!
*Binary indigestion*
Salmon squares
pepperjackcandy
October 18th, 2012 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

Am I the only person who at first thought that Jameson’s hair was a creative flashback to Kraven in the jungle before looking at it more closely and realizing it was not a sepia-toned illustration of a deforested area covered with crops but was, in fact, a buzz cut?

Just me, then? Okay.
davey
October 18th, 2012 at 3:57 pm [Reply]

Ah, a rare unobstructed view into Momma’s real beef with her kids — they’re inexplicable pansies, given their mother’s boundless appetite for pain. Seriously, her impulsive, furious goading of a pharmacist to physically damage her is the most punk rock thing the comics have seen for weeks.
tallyHO
October 18th, 2012 at 4:08 pm [Reply]

Let’s try this again.

mmm….So, Mama is a junkie? She’s had decades of “Mother’s Little Helpers” and she’s looking for more problems?

What’s that approaching galloping sound?

Ah, yes. Marmaduke has a tummy ache and it will only be cured by a Mama cocktail!
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 4:10 pm [Reply]

@Moe Squito-Fish (#102):

Because Momma is not printed in my paper and I do not receive electronically, I haven’t paid much attention to it here, even in Josh’s posts. It seems badly drawn and unfunny to me. Today, with references being made to Mell Lazarus, a bell went off:

Miss Peach.

When I was a kid, the strip was derided as an unfunny, badly drawn Peanuts. It lasted until 2002. Two thousand freakin’ two!
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#152): Miss Peach started its run in 1957, by the way, which proves bad things can go on for a very long time.
davey
October 18th, 2012 at 4:24 pm [Reply]

Forgot to add: “Pay attention, Reeky Rat.”
flatsixes
October 18th, 2012 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#153): Funny. My ex-wife began her run that same year… with similar results.
davey
October 18th, 2012 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#153): Totally. And Gasoline Alley’s still around after 94 years of sub-comic incoherence.
Re: Miss Peach — I remember the same thing. You also just reminded me of a brilliant special issue Mad Magazine did in the late ’70s (Mad Salutes the Comics?) that included some kind of send-up of that strip, among much other awesomeness. Unless I dreamt it.
Bootsy
October 18th, 2012 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

@geekwhisperer (#20):

I like Woodsy Man! This is getting good.
Calvin's Cardboard Box
October 18th, 2012 at 4:41 pm [Reply]

@bbofun (#138):

DuPont’s dynamite factories built along the Delaware had three walls made of brick, with the fourth wall, facing the river, built of wood so that, when the inevitable explosion occurred, the bodies and other results of the explosion would be channeled out into the river.
Alison
October 18th, 2012 at 5:15 pm [Reply]

“Luann”: AAAARRRRGGHHH! NOT PUDDLES GETTING HURT! PUDDLES IS MY FAVORITE! All these horrid characters in this horrid strip to choose from and the one who gets a boink on the head is Puddles?! What kind of bullshit is this!

“Momma”: Um, generally, people *need* medicine and *don’t* take it, not vice versa. I have never heard of it happening the other way around. I don’t even see how that would be a punchline.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 5:31 pm [Reply]

@davey (#156):

You remember correctly about the Mad magazine rip job on Miss Peach, although I think it was originally printed in the early to mid-60′s. Mad used to do some brilliant take offs on comic strips, including a classic on Archie.
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 5:48 pm [Reply]

@Anonymous (#89): next sound you would’ve heard was O. Henry spinning at supersonic speed in his grave.

There was a webcomic — I can’t recall which one — which had as one of its subplots a city of the future which was powered by free energy from dynamos attached to spinning dead authors. Whenever more energy was needed, a particularly clueless film-maker was called in to readapt one of the classics.
bats :[
October 18th, 2012 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

@bbofun (#138): here you go, bbofun…the Brackets of Life! [ ]
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

@tallyHO (#142): @pastordan, lazy professor (#143):

I get that regex error occasionally, but only in Windows Chrome, not Linux. Don’t know why.
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 6:03 pm [Reply]

Ok, now I’ve got it in Linux too. “Regex ID: 229475 (dockbillin@yahoo.co.in) appears to be an invalid regex string! Please fix it in the Blacklist control panel.”

Hooray, we’re making progress!
Peanut Gallery
October 18th, 2012 at 6:14 pm [Reply]

A3G – When the “KISS” light comes on, you gotta obey.

FC – Someone get the kid from One Big Happy to ID that vacuum cleaner. I’d guess it’s a 1960′s Electrolux. Also, see the warp in the left edge of the cartoon panel? Be more careful to hold those old cartoons steady when you’re scanning them!
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

Now that’s interesting: dockbillin@yahoo.co.in leads to someplace called the “hate-America blog spot, with the banner, “The only good American is a dead American”. Doesn’t seem to have been updated since 2004, tho.
Jim in Wisc.
October 18th, 2012 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

FW: The way Battie originally drew todays’ strip (a/k/a “The Final Whitening”).
Shrug, Speaker to Snorkel
October 18th, 2012 at 6:52 pm [Reply]

@Hogenmogen (#y107):

There are several other BEETLE BAILEY characters with full names in the list here:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_are_the_Characters_in_comic_strip_beetle_bailey
Shrug, Speaker to Chip and/or Dale
October 18th, 2012 at 6:53 pm [Reply]

@flatsixes (#y118):

Possible COTW in my opinion, if only for the chipmunk.
Shrug, Speaker to Chips of Avery
October 18th, 2012 at 6:56 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#y54):

“JP – “Let’s walk down to the shaft and negotiate.” GREAT pickup line in a gay bar!”

Most of my GLBT friends are pretty vanilla, but I suspect that even for the hardcore S&M folks, the chainsaw might be a bit of a turnoff, though.
Shrug, Speaker of Specs
October 18th, 2012 at 6:59 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#y30):

“And dammit, why doesn’t my local eyewear store carry big frames like the ones on Mr. Ellis? I’d need a more neutral color, but he’s got the size I want. ”

I have the same problem. You might look at the “Geek” or “Big Abe” styles at eyeglass.com . . .
He Brought Queenie Baby Jesus
October 18th, 2012 at 7:07 pm [Reply]

Did Kraven also negotiate and pay the license from native people who have used the plant in traditional medicine for hundreds of years? That might warrant a pardon.
tallyHO
October 18th, 2012 at 7:08 pm [Reply]

@Jim in Wisc. (#167):

(psst. between you, me and the internet, in the original orientation, it looks like Les is sleeping and having a sideways dream. not that i’m saying he’s sleeping and nuttin’ worse den dat. but when i first saws it, i thought he wuz…you know…taking a dirt nap.)
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 7:19 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#153): You’ve been misinformed. “Miss Peach” was a work of freaking genius. This is one reason why it hurts so much to see Mell churning out day after day of totally unfunny drek.

MAD has occasionally touched on Miss Peach characters in crowd scenes. The closest they came to actually devoting the space of a strip to it was in “Comic Strips They’d Really Like To Do,” in which Walt Kelly provided a strip with Pogo characters looking like Mell Lazarus had drawn them, and Mell said he really wanted to do an adventure strip, and (by remarkable good fortune!) Milton Caniff had once asked him to finish a “Steve Canyon” strip for him. Lazarus starts off like he’s trying hard to match the style, and by the last panel, the characters have turned to Miss Peach regulars and forgotten their names.

I have a Miss Peach collection from the 60s. The strip was brilliant, and so was the cartoonist. People get old sometimes.
tallyHO
October 18th, 2012 at 7:38 pm [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#174):

Here ya go.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 7:39 pm [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#174):

Not really misinformed. I WAS there, after all, in the early 60′s, reading Miss Peach and not really getting into it. Maybe, as a kid, something about it alluded me. And viewed alongside the superb artwork of the times, Miss Peach did look a bit like cave drawings.

I DO remember that Mad article you mention.
wossname
October 18th, 2012 at 7:56 pm [Reply]

@tallyHO (#175): OMG – Mort Walker, Ken Ernst, Allen Saunders, and Walt Kelly all have the same cool glasses that Editor Bill Ellis has, and Poteet and Shrug want!
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 8:00 pm [Reply]

@Shrug, Speaker of Specs (#171):

Back in the ’80 ‘s I had a pair of glasses just like Bill Ellis. Clear frames, too! Coolest glasses I ever owned.
The Ridger
October 18th, 2012 at 8:06 pm [Reply]

@TheDiva (#36): It’s stupider, since “Air Force One” is by definition any airplane which the president is on.
The Ridger
October 18th, 2012 at 8:08 pm [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#49): My friend’s GPS has a walking mode, for getting around in a city on foot.
The Ridger
October 18th, 2012 at 8:11 pm [Reply]

ps – I’m getting that regex error too (FF 15, Windows 7)
DaveP
October 18th, 2012 at 8:12 pm [Reply]

@DaveP (#68):
Wait!
I just looked at the two day’s panels more closely. It’s not just the first panel.
ALL THREE panels are almost identical to Wednesday’s.
I think the strip has been taking notes from Slylock Fox.
It’s really a “Spot the Difference.”
The Ridger
October 18th, 2012 at 8:23 pm [Reply]

@KreatureFeatures (#134): Hey, maybe it’s lazy, but at least the people aren’t running from one side of the room to another, while changing their clothes and their hairstyle, in between sentences of a conversation!
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 8:37 pm [Reply]

@The Ridger (#179): “Air Force One” is by definition any airplane which the president is on.

True, but in practice the president just uses one of two highly customized Boeing 747s.
pastordan, lazy professor
October 18th, 2012 at 8:44 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#163): You sly bastard. You just wanted to say “Linux,” didn’t you?
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 8:53 pm [Reply]

@pastordan, lazy professor (#185): Oh, shoot, that’s easy. Linux, Linux, Linux.

// You should have seen the contortions I’ve gone through in order to work “slide rules” into the thread.

// And once again, succeeded!
Sequitur
October 18th, 2012 at 8:57 pm [Reply]

True Story.

Today Mrs. Sequitur and I were walking through the supermarket and stopped in the bath soap aisle.

I said, “Look, this soap will give you thermal abrasion.”

“Dermal.”

“What?”

“Dermal abrasion. You said, ‘thermal’.”

And I reply, “OH NO! I JUST CRANKSHAFTED MYSELF!”

And she said, “That’s gotta hurt.”
commodorejohn
October 18th, 2012 at 9:04 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#186): RT-11!
Peanut Gallery
October 18th, 2012 at 9:07 pm [Reply]

@DaveP (#182): Yesterday’s was better because it had seagulls.
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 9:10 pm [Reply]

@KreatureFeatures (#134): Elrod seems to have taken to heart the Wally Wood’s dictum, “Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.”

We can only be grateful that Jack hasn’t taken tips from Dick Tracy’s in-comic comics, Sawdust, or the Invisible Tribe.

// Of course, Wally Wood was one of the greats, and not as lazy as he pretended to be.
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 9:16 pm [Reply]

@commodorejohn (#188):A great potato chip.
commodorejohn
October 18th, 2012 at 9:21 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#191): Potato chips? Oh. I thought we were playing Shout Names of Random Operating Systems…
Nehemiah Scudder
October 18th, 2012 at 9:21 pm [Reply]

I assume that Uncle Lumpy is on the case (his motto: Dormire est pro dissolutae.*), but is EVERYONE getting the regex error when they post? Is this Indian Yahoo site trying to hijack CC?

*Sleep is for weaklings.
Jamus The Bartender
October 18th, 2012 at 9:25 pm [Reply]

Dick Tracy: Designer jeans ad? Say, does anyone have a link to Sparkle’s blue jeans ad? Jamus sure would like to see that. Just post it here or email me at jamusthebartender@yahoo.com. Thanks very much :)
Peanut Gallery
October 18th, 2012 at 9:33 pm [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#166):

the hate-America blog spot, with the banner, “The only good American is a dead American”. Doesn’t seem to have been updated since 2004

That’s because it was run by good Americans. At least, they’ve been good since 2004.
[Old Man] Muffaroo
October 18th, 2012 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

@Chaze (#176): The art in Miss Peach wasn’t going for the fine line. The kids were powerful little personalities — as were some of the adults (a point of difference from Peanuts) — and that’s what drove the strip. I don’t recall being very old when I got into the reprint book (which I still have), but maybe I was older than you were when you were seeing them, one at a time, in the paper.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
October 18th, 2012 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

awww, bummer.

I’ve actually read the book, unlike most.
Citric
October 18th, 2012 at 9:48 pm [Reply]

@Honey Badger, Does not give a shit (#5): This is Mary Worth though, I imagine all the residents of Santa Royale demand phones that just make calls, crates of iPhones are in a dusty corner of a warehouse covered in cobwebs, and the regional sales managers for electronics stores quietly cry themselves to sleep each night.
Chaze
October 18th, 2012 at 10:15 pm [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#196):

Could be, Muff. When Miss Peach was in the Utica Daily Press, I was eagerly awaiting new strips from Winnie Winkle, Brenda Starr, Mutt & Jeff, Steve Canyon, L’il Iodine and Mr. Breger everyday. Miss Peach looked bad and, therefore, was bad, to a ten year old.
Zerowolf
October 18th, 2012 at 10:38 pm [Reply]

JP: No, it’s not a Picasso, it’s a fish tank. Just how thick are those glasses?
Mysterion
October 18th, 2012 at 10:51 pm [Reply]

Sparkle Plenty is throwing a party involving 5 lbs. of grits and “supplies” she got from a guy named Measles? How can I score an invite to that?
Daniel
October 18th, 2012 at 11:17 pm [Reply]

DT Measles’s facial spots aren’t restricting themselves to his surface–they’re hovering around his head!
tallyHO
October 18th, 2012 at 11:51 pm [Reply]

It doesn’t even seem to be an issue of parenting that when a person encounters someone named Measles the best course of action is to continue onward, past them, politely acknowledging them then impolitely covering one’s mouth and nose with a clean cloth and then being very aware that if they are or are not chasing you down a street.

Maybe that’s excessive but then again she’s carrying a bag of grits. Even if she’s out of her element* that grit bag is a valid, useful weapon and maybe she knows best.

*and there is always the last resort of praying to the Debbil that he send Marmaduke up from the sewers to see how beneficial the Great Dane is in a Measles outbreak, or how beneficial he is at breaking apart Measles.
Uncle Lumpy
October 18th, 2012 at 11:59 pm [Reply]

OK, I found and deleted the offending blacklist entry; let me know if you see any more docbillin problems.
tallyHO
October 19th, 2012 at 12:02 am [Reply]

@Uncle Lumpy (#204):

I would joke and state that the thought of Measles McGillicutty kept me from trying to post but that last one went up without a hitch on my end. No odd message that time. We’ll see if this takes….
tallyHO
October 19th, 2012 at 12:03 am [Reply]

…without an odd error message.
tallyHO
October 19th, 2012 at 12:07 am [Reply]

The only thing that could have been done to improve panel two of Spider-Man to a level of sublime would be if there was a shepard’s crook yanking Peter Parker out of the panel.

As it stands now, it still looks like a partial image from a mural, Robbie looks like a rubber mask affixed to a gold fish bowl and Jamison is rocking the sedimentary rock wig. Dig those crazy striations!
tallyHO
October 19th, 2012 at 12:08 am [Reply]

@tallyHO (#207):

is it crook or hook?

You know, one of those old vaudeville yankers that dragged a lame act off the stage?
bats :[
October 19th, 2012 at 12:19 am [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#197): R.I.P. She was a fine Lady Chatterley.
Erich Clapton
October 19th, 2012 at 12:37 am [Reply]

@The Ridger (#179): Only if it’s an Air Force plane. There’s Marine One, Army One, and a Navy One. Just for clarity.
Poteet
October 19th, 2012 at 12:54 am [Reply]

@Shrug, Speaker of Specs (#171): @wossname (#177): I had new lenses put into my old large frames last time, but I was told I probably can’t do it again. I don’t care if I look like Mr. Peabody’s Boy Sherman, I want large frames. Thanks for the info and support.
Poteet
October 19th, 2012 at 12:56 am [Reply]

MT is once again showing us that it is cutting-edge stuff, because inept hostage-taking by intermittently hairy-chested mustachioed men in mismatched outfits is THE big environmental problem now. The pink-shirted ones are the worst.
Poteet
October 19th, 2012 at 1:02 am [Reply]

MW — Can’t they find a better place to have this tender discussion?
Poteet
October 19th, 2012 at 1:15 am [Reply]

JP — Bubba appreciates Picasso lithographs? If it weren’t for his name and the purple face and certain other issues, I might maybe possibly get a wee bit turned on by this guy. It’s not as if other comic strip guys give him much competition. Mark Trail has all the sexual appeal of a pulaski, Sam The Smug Driver makes me want to push him over a cliff, and Rex’s interests lie elsewhere.
He Brought Queenie Baby Jesus
October 19th, 2012 at 1:19 am [Reply]

So did Kraven also negotiate and pay the licensing fee with the natives who have been using the plant medicinally for generations? That might warrant a pardon.
He Brought Queenie Baby Jesus
October 19th, 2012 at 1:20 am [Reply]

Oh craps, I got an error the first time and assumed it hadn’t gone.
Nightmarcher89
October 19th, 2012 at 1:56 am [Reply]

Spider-Man: Peter was never actually listening to the urgent conversation between Robertson and Jameson, but instead slapped himself because he realized he’d forgotten to wear pants to the Bugle that morning.
Gladly, the cross-eyed Bear
October 19th, 2012 at 2:07 am [Reply]

FW: I now pronounce you douchebag and douchebaguette.
Uncle Lumpy
October 19th, 2012 at 2:09 am [Reply]

Guys, if you have trouble posting a comment, send me a copy of the error message at uncle.lumpy@comcast.net.
Droopy Says
October 19th, 2012 at 2:18 am [Reply]

Spiderbland: Parker’s cowlick seems more prominent than it did yesterday. Is that a consequence of his facepalming? Are we at last seeing some continuity in Spiderman?

Creepy Les: Considering the dead-end plots in this strip, how long will it take everyone to forget this marriage every happened?

Jugs Parker: Please let that be rat poison. Not for Avery, for me. Because this is geting unbearably stupid. A luxury underground bunker in an abandoned mine, with no access road for heavy construction equipment, no sign hat the mine has been reinforced, for the benefit of a guy who dresses like a hick and poses as a manservant, yet has effete tastes in art and liquor?

9 Dickweed Lane:The only strip that can make JP look logical.

Luann: I hope Piggyface and Toni are having as miserable a time as the readers.
Mr. O'Malley
October 19th, 2012 at 2:34 am [Reply]

@Poteet (#211): I’ve bought a couple of pairs of glasses from an online discounter called goggles4u.com. I don’t know if they carry your preferred style of frames, because they have 100s of kinds. But they advertise that they will put new lenses in any old frames you provide for a flat fee of $25 (plus the cost of the lenses, of course). Now do they really mean any frames? I guess you would have to ask them.
Mr. O'Malley
October 19th, 2012 at 3:00 am [Reply]

MT: It’s that same panel for the third day in a row!

MW: It’s that same dialog … hairstyle … getting weaker … thud
Nehemiah Scudder
October 19th, 2012 at 4:06 am [Reply]

Testing
Dr. Weird
October 19th, 2012 at 5:19 am [Reply]

@Nehemiah Scudder (#161):

There was a webcomic — I can’t recall which one — which had as one of its subplots a city of the future which was powered by free energy from dynamos attached to spinning dead authors. Whenever more energy was needed, a particularly clueless film-maker was called in to readapt one of the classics.

That would be Dresden Codak!

http://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/
Calico
October 19th, 2012 at 6:53 am [Reply]

@Son of Stuck Funky (#118):
Yay, you’re back! I thought Batty Inc. made you go away due to copyright restrictions and all that.
Nice Easter Island mashup there!
gleeb
October 19th, 2012 at 6:54 am [Reply]

Ham Shears: Well, you do have to admit they have the same haircut.

‘bean: The generic minister, necessary only because the Ohio Legislature is unfairly prejudiced against the Churches of St Lisa and the Cult of Montoni, is as bland as the shoe on a Nebraska city councilman.

Avery the Art Connoisseur: You’d better tell him. He’ll keep asking you until you tell him it’s a Picasso.
Calico
October 19th, 2012 at 7:09 am [Reply]

@Moe Squito-Fish (#2):
Bubba and Avery! Perfect. : )

@Nehemiah Scudder (#223):
Here, have some wonderful old test patterns with some lovely music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS9uojwaN7E
Does anyone know what this theme is?
MWDG
October 19th, 2012 at 7:55 am [Reply]

MW: Some possibilities when Jim shows Dawn the picture of his sister:

• Jim’s sister is a blow up doll
• The picture is of Jim strangling his sister
• The picture is of “Hello Kitty”
• The picture is of Dawn with her eyes scratched out
• This picture is of Jim in drag
LurkerMan
October 19th, 2012 at 8:14 am [Reply]

ASM: Bitch please, Robbie’s holding another newspaper in his hand. You think the Bugle has the funds for a fax machine?
Nehemiah Scudder
October 19th, 2012 at 8:24 am [Reply]

@Dr. Weird (#224): Thatnk you! That’s the one.
JR
October 19th, 2012 at 9:06 am [Reply]

Well, if the writers of Dick Tracy subscribe to the Chekov’s Gun Theory (and I have no reason to believe that they don’t), Sparkle Plenty holding the grits in panel 1 means we get to look forward to seeing her eating the grits at some point.

So we’ve got that to look forward to, anyway.
TomS
October 20th, 2012 at 1:38 am [Reply]

@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#69): I could see the Smif et al. Just happens that few days ago I looked at “Gin Alley” via Wiki (mind wandering & eventually went through a few Hogarth prints. You might say low resolution – but I was struck by the depiction of syphilis. Measles scares me because he seems to be shedding – something.

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