The Comics Curmudgeon

98 responses to “Metapost: Cinco de Mayo comentarios de la semana”

1. Jamus The Bartender
   May 5th, 2008 at 11:51 pm [Reply]

   The Cat And The Curmudgeon-Special Cinco De Mayo Edition
   It was a busy night at Goldberg’s….half price margaritas and those little mini tacos….beef and chicken…that you see at Trader Joe’s. All in celebration of Cinco De Mayo.
   Speedy Gonzales was there….little shit never comes in any other time….he’s all about that “la raza” stuff, but dangle some half price drinks and tacos in front of him, and he’s in like Senor Wences. Anyway, he was doing body shots off of the Apartment 3G girls while Dagwood and Dithers were in a corner in tears saying ” I love you man…no, I love you man…no I reeely love you man..”, and Michael Patterson was off in a corner with his laptop composing his next magnum opus. Only a sense of morbid curiosity compelled me to peek over his shoulder, but he quickly slammed the lid, shaking his finger and saying, “Uh, uh, uh, you gotta wait until it’s published, Jamus.” Asshole. I swear the first sentences were homilies like , ” You are a talented writer, and not a one-hit wonder. You are a genius and not a hack. You deserve all the good things that are going to come to you. Your mother is not solely responsible for your success…” and I swear I thought I saw one or two lines of “All work and no play..” well, you know….anyway, I wasn’t able to read the rest because Iron Man stomped in, buying drinks for everyone in the house, celebrating his opening weekend. He tips well, lemme tell ya. Anyone have a need for a Mark XI Stark Industries Repulsor Unit ™ ? I’m gonna use mine for a paperweight.
   Anyway, two in the morning rolled around, so I trudged back to my apartment, ready to sleep in until three in the afternoon, when I smelled her perfume…
   Dammit, not this again, I thought.
   I slowly opened the door to my apartment…let me tell you folks something, when you’ve dated someone like Cassandra off and on for as long as I did, you never know what you’re gonna get when you get home. Ninjas, fox detectives, surly ex-boyfriends, it’s all good. I felt I was lucky. The only thing I could detect were her perfume which will stay with me forever….
   …..and a jar of pennies on the coffee table.
   I looked at the jar….it was one of those glass pickle jars half full of pennies. I figured there had to be an angle. Maybe a valuable penny from the Civl War or something was in with the others. I saw a post-it note on the side, which said ” Hold this for me, okay baby? I’ll be back for it. XOXOXO. C.”
   Okay, Cass, what have you gotten me into this time? I figured this was where she got even for that “indiscretion” back at Xmas with her sister. But maybe she was just dumping her shit on my doorstep. Once again. I shook the penny jar, watching out for any mantraps or shards of glass or explosive devices of any kind.
   Nothing like that appeared. I gingerly placed my hand inside the jar….and found a Diet Smith Industries ( tm) wrist radio circa 1946 inside.
   I turned it on, and a small voice told me to look out the window.
   There she was, in a negligee that would have vanished if you breathed on it, biting her bottom lip, taking two steps towards me, thrusting her tounge down my throat with the third step.
   I grinned at her when she broke the kiss. ” I see you’ve finally gotten some cents into your life.”
   She laughed at me. “That’s awful, baby.”
   ” I know….Mike Patterson was at the bar for Cinco De Mayo. Why are you here?”
   She let the negligee drop from her feline form by way of an answer.
   “Oh, okay.” I nodded.
   ” Happy Cinco De Mayo baby.”

2. Jamus The Bartender
   May 5th, 2008 at 11:52 pm [Reply]

   And congratulations to Mrs Tuddrussell

3. gjdodger
   May 5th, 2008 at 11:56 pm [Reply]

   Ted Key passed away.

   http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-05-05-ted-key_N.htm?csp=34

4. PeteMoss
   May 6th, 2008 at 12:02 am [Reply]

   Ok, I admit I haven’t had time to read comments much this week. They must have been very funny in order for Josh to come up with this many great ones! Boxcar, that some funny stuff up there! Excellent work people.

   Oh, and Josh, you’ve been extremely funny, too, but I pretty much expect that. But these amature curmudgeons are killin’ this week.

   Bravo, Mrs. Buck Tuddrussell! Excellent work, Cheeky Wee Monkeys, Mibbitmaker, insolenttomato, teddytoad, SecretMargo, cheech wizard, Harry Paratestes, The Photocopiest, The Spectacular Spider-Brick, and, really all of you!

   [Saturn], that’s good snark!

5. True Fable
   May 6th, 2008 at 12:08 am [Reply]

   Congratulations for the Prime Snark from Mrs. Buck Tuddrussell, and all her float-riding court! It was a great week for it; lots of snarkworthy comics.

   But I must say, the observation about Mrs. DeGroot’s cleverly veiled hint to her past habits by Josh was a scream, man!

6. The Spectacular Spider-Brick
   May 6th, 2008 at 12:14 am [Reply]

   Who’s the kiln-fired chunk of clay that brings the funny every day?
   Brick!
   Daaaaamn right!
   Who’s the snarkin’ flyin’ brick who’s a sex machine to all the chicks?
   Brick!
   You know, they say that Brick’s been on the float for four motherf…
   Shut yo’ mouth!
   Hey, I’m just talkin’ ’bout the Brick!
   We can dig it.

   Congratulations to Mrs. Buck Tuddrussell, SecretMargo, Trilobite, and all my other CO-TWeekers!

7. True Fable
   May 6th, 2008 at 12:19 am [Reply]

   #6 Spider-Brick – “He’s a complicated stone, but no one understands him but his mortar – Spider-Brick! (duhduhDUH! duhduhDUH! duhduhDUH-duhhh!)

   FBOFW Suck it up, John. For the record… a lot of people hate you.
   Cathy (Must Die!) Oh what the hell, I’m not going to give a daily rundown on the Trite Crutches she uses in this strip. Besides, the Fountain of Tears in panel two is just… gah. Die.
   PBS YESTERDAY’s PBS is worth a second glance because it cleanses the mind palate post Foob and Cathy viewing. Now when the Tuesday strip comes in, I will be healthy again.

   Yeah, Pig… Crackle’s gonna cut you for flying Quaker Oats colors, bitch.

8. Artist formerly known as Ben
   May 6th, 2008 at 12:28 am [Reply]

   Beautiful comments, people. SecretM, good to know you’re still around.

   Not going to be a hero and stay up til the new comics. That’s tomorrow’s job.

9. True Fable
   May 6th, 2008 at 12:29 am [Reply]

   Marmadick Dude, they are NOT his friends. They are ENTREES.
   Baldo I liked this. In fact, I did that gutteral throaty-nasally sound over it. Yeah. That well.
   Adam@home Huh? Who dusts?
   Luann Skydiving is only manly as long as the chute opens, Gunther. Trust me on this and stick to magic tricks.

10. Vakar
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:29 am [Reply]

    Folks, this site is where I come to laugh. Keep up the funny! Congrats!

11. Niall
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am [Reply]

    Great floaters! Even a few I hadn’t seen! Congratulations!

    1. Jamus: Welcome back!! And a fantastic, sweet Cat and Curmudgeon addendum, awwww!

    I’m surprised that while everyone ranted on the accoutrements in Monday’s Phantom, only Saxman mentioned the godawful aubergine colour of the car… I can’t tear my eyes off it…

12. True Fable
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:32 am [Reply]

    Tuesday’s PBS I CALLED IT, I FUCKING CALLED IT!! I told you guys a couple of threads ago that they were pissed at Captain Crunch!

    Damn! I’m Good! and Twisted!

13. Jamus The Bartender
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:42 am [Reply]

    11. Thanks, NIall. I figured since it’s been….what, a few months since Cassandra’s last appearance, and today being Cinco De Mayo….for ten more minutes…it was time to do something with that. Yeah, been busy working at the restaurant tooo much as of late. I’d better do something about that :)

14. Poteet
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:43 am [Reply]

    # 6 Brick & # 7 Fable — BWAHAHA! I wish I could hear you perform this masterpiece together.

    Congratulations, Mrs. Buck Tuddrusell! Excellent observation! And I frantically wave my hankie in homage to the rest of you snarky floatriders also — great funny stuff!

15. Plasma
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:01 am [Reply]

    Awesome, my first time as a COTW runner-up! I’m so happy! I’d like to thank the academy, and Pope Josh, and Lynn Johnston…

16. bats :[
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:13 am [Reply]

    3. gjdodger: thanks for the word on Ted Key. Is it me, or does it seem that cartoonists tend to live to a ripe old age? Is it the funny that keeps ‘em going?

    And dang! If Hazel weren’t enough (I’m pretty ambivalent about her), he created MR. PEABODY AND HIS BOY SHERMAN! How cool is that?!

    Oh, hey! It’s Toosday Toon Time, too!

    Least I Could Do: gosh, I love Rayne! Now with more Stormtroopers!

    FC: shut up, Billy, you little dickweed.

    FW: is Funky the bastard son of Harry? Just wondering…

    JP: Gloria reveals her incredible powers of telepathy…no, X-ray vision…no, super-sniffery. She cannot detect the smell of dinner cooking in the kitchen (or at least, that fine “old lady” aroma…).

    MT: the last panel is kinda weird. It looks like Andy’s asked for one last smooch (or leg hump), and Mark’s cheerful demeanor has gone to one of revulsion. Nice, Mark, sending Andy into the lair of the dog-nappers, and not honoring one (or two) simple requests.

    RMMD: “Hmmm….wrestling team, eh? That’s quite a noble sport, William, with traditions dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks!”
    “Yeah, I know.”
    “Do you know about any other traditions that go back to the ancient Greeks?”

    FOOB: hey, John, at least the guy didn’t mention that dentists have the highest suicide rates among those in professional, white-collar careers.
    Food for thought.
    You’ll thank me in 20 or so years.

17. Poteet
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:38 am [Reply]

    Foob — I don’t have the time or moral strength to go back and try to check tonight, but it seems to me that Elly is shorter compared to John in this early strip than she was later on, to a degree that can’t be explained by heels. Or maybe I’m wrong. If someone does go through the ordeal of checking, I apologize in advance.

18. Bobdog
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:48 am [Reply]

    Holy Cats! Holy Cats! I’m wondering if I can take credit for this turn of phrase being introduced into the English lexicon. While it is obviously a variation on Holy Cow, as far as I’m concerned actually derives from a tune from a collection of Charlie Christiansen recordings called “Wholly Cats” I came across one day in Minneapolis, as I recall, at some record store on the Nicolette Mall. For whatever reason I started to incorporate into my vocabulary as an exclamation of surprise.

    The Urban dictionary apparently traces this phrase to a household in Colorado, but I think that’s a mis-attribution. In fact, I know someone who went to Colorado who would have heard me saying this.

    I’ve always wanted to be responsible for starting a catch phrase. For some reason “dope up the kitty and go” has not yet caught on as an expression (the meaning of which is to hurry up by removing an obstacle by what ever means are most expeditious, even if perhaps somewhat questionable, such as drugging a high strung cat that would otherwise not be disposed to a long road trip).

19. Mr. O'Malley
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:22 am [Reply]

    It was Charlie Christian, the highly influential jazz guitarist, who recorded “Wholly Cats”. That would indicate that the phrase “holy cats!” was already in use in November 1940.

    Christiansen would be an unusual surname for an African-American, even in Minneapolis.

    Let me guess— can entries in the Urban Dictionary be edited by just about anyone?

    Another cat-related phrase—”walking back the cat”: CIA slang for doing a detailed analysis of a failed mission.

20. prospero
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:23 am [Reply]

    Is it a tragedy when a thouroughbred dies? I‘m a confirmed Teillhardian, so yeah, I think it is.. There‘s something extremely perverse in mankind‘s breeding skinny legs into horses so they can run very fast. If you‘re going to screw with genetics, and you claim to love horses, wouldn’t you try to make them stronger so things like this wouldn’t happen? This is a stark, conflicted and painful commentary.

    The Janjaweed ride horses. They don‘t break down in the backstretch.. Ethnic cleansing? Perversion of language. Like breeding thoroughbreds.

21. Sarah
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:25 am [Reply]

    Oh! When did the Marvin artist change???

22. Mr. O'Malley
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:42 am [Reply]

    Phantom: In the Sunday Phantom just last year(http://joshreads.com/?p=985), he went back in time to met Beryl Markham, who I recall was flying a Ford Trimotor. I can’t find an archive for that strip to check it.

    You’d think he might remember meeting her.

    In 1932 the Johnsons learned to fly at the airfield in Osa’s hometown of Chanute. Once they had their pilot’s licenses, they purchased two Sikorsky amphibious planes, a S-39-CS “Spirit of Africa” and S-38-BS “Osa’s Ark”. On their fifth African trip, from 1933 to 1934, the Johnsons flew the length of Africa getting now classic aerial scenes of large herds of elephants, giraffes, and other animals moving across the plains of Africa. They were the first pilots to fly over Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya in Africa and film them from the air. The 1935 feature film Baboona was made from this footage.

    If the Phantom’s father was on the go in 1934, how old is the Phantom? He must be at least 60. Does the Skull Cave possess anti-aging properties?

23. Diamond Joe
    May 6th, 2008 at 3:06 am [Reply]

    B.C. I’ve talked about Sunday Bloat, where what should be dailies are puffed up with filler to become Sunday strips. Here’s a comparatively rare example of Daily Strip Bloat, with a one-panel gag back-filled to become a full strip.

    BabBl: First Rex Morgan, now this. Is it National Underwear Week?

    Boffo: “Does Anyone Edit These at All?” #1: I’m guessing he meant “alternatives to the Internet.”

    DT: It kind of gives mixed signals when you ask a question while giving a “talk to the hand” gesture.

    Foob: When did Elly stop being a head shorter than John?

    Garfield: Snoopy taught him that one.

    GA: “And if that doesn’t work, we’ll steal their dog!”

    GT: You may want to fill out a scorecard, because you know all this highly-specific baseball action is going to be vital to the resolution of the Vargas plot.

    GaBI: Cripes, if he opens his mouth that much just to talk, what does he do when he yells, swallow his own head?

    HtH: Shouldn’t the French say “touche” when they get hit?

    Heathcliff: I know the joke is on getting a lollipop at the dentist’s, but I’m trying to figure out what you do at the county jail to get a lollipop. Or what Heathcliff was even doing at the county jail.

    Lockhorns: No. No, it doesn’t. But thanks all the same for trying to desensitize us to government-sponsored torture.

    Momma: “Does Anyone Edit These at All?” #2: That’s “gerontologists” or “geriatricians.”

    PMP: “What I don’t love is that his hands scrape the ground, and his legs are six inches long.”

    Phantom: Yes, he’s practically blubbering with emotion, he is.

    Quigmans: If you have a caption instead of a voice balloon, it’s usually a good idea to draw the speaker with his mouth open, instead of making your reader figure out who’s speaking by context.

    6C: The title panel says “legs,” but I’m thinking that’s not all she’s talking about in the last panel.

    Tank: So when a baseball comes his way, he starts seeing rivals for the catch who are clearly not there?

    Ziggy: I guess he’s watching the new 1982 Network.

    Amused me: Close to Home

24. Mr. O\'Malley
    May 6th, 2008 at 3:23 am [Reply]

    SF: Lawn sprinklers that you put on the end of a hose don’t run on a timer. And not a very imaginative scene. Not up to yesterday’s standard.

    GA: It seems to me that holding someone for ransom when you live under a bridge would have a few logistical flaws.

    Luann: Whatever you do, Gunther, don’t do that trick!

    RMMD: This is idiotic. Rex draws some lines on a map and picks on this school because it’s a place to start because one of the victims went there. The other victims went to other schools, so they would be equally good places to start.

    So Rex goes to see one of the victims, and instead of asking him to describe the places he goes to, he asks him if he ever goes to this one randomly chosen school. Is MRSA only found in schools? Maybe all the victims went to the same skateboard park.

    Furthermore, this school, which has only just now been randomly selected by Rex, has already been closed. Have the other schools been closed as well?

    The school has been tested and came up “clean as a whistle”? Does MRSA glow under UV light or something? How do you test an entire building and grounds?

    I know there are some medical Curmudgeons so perhaps they can answer this. Doesn’t testing for MRSA start with taking a sample on a swab and then doing some lab tests on it? Not something that could practically be done on a building. I would suspect that at a building they would just sample likely sites.

    The last real MRSA study I read about said that among other places it was carried by hospital workers’ nametags, because they wash their hands often, wear clean clothes but pin the same nametag on it without washing it.

    So starting your study by sending all everybody home might not be the best plan either.

    Something tells me that with this stupid a beginning, this storyline is really going be lame.

    At least the fishing story didn’t get totally stupid until about half way into it.

25. Mrs. Buck Tuddrussell
    May 6th, 2008 at 3:59 am [Reply]

    Unpossible! Thanks for all the kind words, everyone, and congrats to all the COTWers! And now to practice the demure “Queen’s wave”…

    #3gjdodger – Thanks for the link. I’m sorry to hear about Ted Key, “Hazel” was a strip I read when I was a wee kidlet. Never knew it was a TV show, though.

    #9 True – I’ve been giggling about “Marmadick” for 10 minutes straight.

26. Mrs. Buck Tuddrussell
    May 6th, 2008 at 4:09 am [Reply]

    Oh, I forgot why I came here in the first place:

    Gil Thorp – The entire strip is drawn like the storyboards for a Mentos commercial.

    PBS – PBS meets “Breakfast of the Gods”. What, you’re not reading “Breakfast of the Gods”? Why the hell not?! Here’s book 1, and here’s book 2. Book 3 just started. Get crackin’ people, those strips won’t read themselves.

    Garfield – I keep Garfield in my daily rotation because it’s occasionally funny and it reminds me of my sordid youth, a youth I squandered by purchasing tens of dollars of crappy Garfield merchandise. The strip sucks now, I know this, but in recent months it’s gotten past the so-bad-it’s-unreadable phase and into a mostly-mediocre phase. UNTIL TODAY. Today they just cut ‘n’ pasted the cat from the first panel and put it in the 3rd panel, and made the tail a little droopy. It’s pathetic. There should be a government agency to complain to about this.

27. Up4it
    May 6th, 2008 at 5:04 am [Reply]

    Foob: When did Elly stop being a head shorter than John?

    When she finally started giving it?

28. Up4it
    May 6th, 2008 at 5:06 am [Reply]

    Ooops – that’s Elly we’re talking about, so allow me to correct: “when she stopped giving it”

29. True Fable
    May 6th, 2008 at 5:35 am [Reply]

    I nearly forgot to finish my morning snark. Saw a goat on TV and well, there you have it. Had to hoot at the screen (“GOAT!”) until it was out of my system which it will never truly be I suppose. Anyway…

    FC Why don’t we just say I slap you and we’ll call it even, Billy.
    FW Oh please, we already have Funky Assbean as the Egotistical Jackjerk of the strip; there’s no extra room for Harry “Juggernaut, bitch!” Dinkle now.
    Garfield Dammit, Jon. You missed.
    JP Okay, so this is another one of those days where she can see what we can’t, and it really pisses me off knowing that Gloria has a tendency to close her eyes whenever Steve’s around. So we may never know.
    Bitter Angry Married People Shut the fuck up, Leroy.
    MT I like how well they enlarged Panel One Andy to fit into Panel Two. So what’s Mark doing in Panel Three – checking to see if it’s really Andy, or if it’s Memorex?
    MW OH MY GOD THOSE SOULESS EYES IN PANEL TWO! CLOSE THEM!!
    Phantom What do you care, Diana, as long as he’s away from those new Jungle Patrol babes.
    RMDS “and come to think of it, Dr. Morgan…I’ve seen YOU there, lots of times!”
    S4th Right, because then it’ll be Almost Like A Shower.
    SFx Nikki!

30. gleeb
    May 6th, 2008 at 6:41 am [Reply]

    A3G: I suppose it’s understandable that Margo would be sensitive about being mistaken for the domestic staff.

    Bizarro: Ooh, bicameral mind humor. Edgy.

    ’shaft: “About to be” distended? Ever clocked your own gut, Ed?

    ‘bean: Batiuk’s simplifying. By this time next year, the strip will be nothing but context-free smirking.

    H&J: Has Jamaal considered being in a less customer service centered job?

    Duck: Yeah, Dems have never heard of Indiana. Just ask Evan Bayh.

    Rex: Ah, wrestling. Strong, sweaty young men grappling with each other. Through his love of sport, Rex may accidentally hit on something.

31. John C Fremont
    May 6th, 2008 at 7:04 am [Reply]

    Congrats, Mrs. Buck Tuddrussell! I bow to you. And agree with you wholeheartedly!

    A3G – “Do I look like Alan’s nanny?! Or his boss? Do I look like Alan’s employer?! Oh. Right. Maybe I’d better give him a call…”

    RMMD – Crewcut Niki is a wrestler? I’ll bet that pleases Rex in ways I don’t want to know.

32. Calico of the Nipple Patrol
    May 6th, 2008 at 7:14 am [Reply]

    Next thing y’know, Rex will be asking the kid to demonstrate a few moves on the kind doctor. He is, after all, feeling much better.

33. lostsynapse
    May 6th, 2008 at 7:26 am [Reply]

    Cow and Boy: I may not know much about pickaxes but I’m certain that grinding the shaft instead of the blade must compromise its structural integrity.

34. Godzooky
    May 6th, 2008 at 7:52 am [Reply]

    MT: Does this breed of dog (or any breed, not counting Marmaduke) normally have a head three times the size of a human’s? Or is Mark’s head just that small?

35. Little Guy
    May 6th, 2008 at 7:53 am [Reply]

    16: I was about to chime in on Mr Sherman and Peabody. RIP, Ted Key.

    RMMRSA: This would make a more interesting “House” episode. Then again, could we guarantee Cameron, Cuddy, and Amber discussing the case in their undies? I think not.

36. TheCasey
    May 6th, 2008 at 8:12 am [Reply]

    Luann – “Coin-through-hanky”? Gunther, buddy, if you’re trying to impress Luann by passing stuff through flimsy pieces of cloth, maybe you’d better go straight for the “finger-through-panty” trick. After that she should get the idea. Unless her skydiving idea is really just an excuse for her to join the Mile-High-Cl, wait, the 3/4 Mile-Hig, no, the Half-Mile-, oh, come on, pull the cord already!

37. PeterW
    May 6th, 2008 at 8:50 am [Reply]

    This week’s FW: Who is he? Harry L. Dinkle! Why is he there? He’s Harry L. Dinkle! Where is he? Tune in next week for the enthralling continuation of this Harry L. Dinkle plotline!

38. AtomicDog
    May 6th, 2008 at 8:54 am [Reply]

    Curtis: It just occurred to me – since when does an “Old School” teacher allow a male to wear a hat in class?

39. The Spectacular Spider-Brick
    May 6th, 2008 at 9:23 am [Reply]

    BH: So this would be… whatsername… the wife’s mother? I know the couple is introduced by name in the throwaway panel every Sunday, but it sure would help if the characters were drawn more recognizably. It took me months just to realize that they weren’t different random characters every strip, like Six Chix. Wait, does 6C have regular characters too? …I’m gonna have to check on this.

    Blondie: “Ever noticed how we always use each others’ names at the end of every sentence, Mr. B?”
    “I have noticed that! Why do you think that is, Elmo?”
    “Maybe it’s to remind the readers who’s talking, Mr. B!”
    “That hardly seems necessary. Couldn’t it just be a habit, Elmo?”
    “Not when you have as little respect for the readers as we do, Mr. B!”

    Crock: Fat as she is, if Grossie got hit by lightning, I think she should just ignite.

    (WT)DT: Dab Stract has a rightful owner? *boggles*

    Garfield: I’m sure someone’s already working on a mashup in which Jon impales the sign right into Garfield’s gut.

    MT: “Let’s hope the dognappers read the Pembro County Pennysaver! They’re the only ones I could get to print my story!”
    “Yeah, Mark, speaking of publications that won’t print your stories, there’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you…”

    My Cage: Uh-oh. A fourth-wall smirk. Resist it, Melissa DeJesus! Think about what other comics use fourth-wall reaction shots: Tiger, Funky Winkerbean, Redeye, Wizard of Id, Crock… do you really want to be just like them? DO YOU?!?

    Pluggers: This is a repeat. Not to mention, German porn has ruined the word “caviar” for me forever.

40. AtomicDog
    May 6th, 2008 at 9:26 am [Reply]

    GA – The doofus family finally realizes that they’ve cheated themselves out of legal alimony (or just plain sponging off of their rich in-laws,) so they decide to graduate to felony kidnapping and extortion, instead.

    Brilliant!

41. Bootsy
    May 6th, 2008 at 9:48 am [Reply]

    Why I Love Andy: by Bootsy

    Andy is the smartest character in the strip. Andy is capable of using contractions, while Mark is not. Andy is a dog. Andy is the biggest dog ever. Andy reminds me of my Bouvier, who has a giant head too. And mostly, Andy reminds me of the late and lamented Andy Panda, who was my teddy bear when I was a wee Bootsy, and who survived for 43 years in a somewhat flattened, one-eyed and dilapidated condition (a la The Velveteen Rabbit) until he was washed away along with everything else in my house in Katrina.

    R.I.P., Andy Panda.

42. TheDiva
    May 6th, 2008 at 9:50 am [Reply]

    *sorry if this double posts, computer’s being wonky today*

    Yay, I’m on the float again! And congrats, Mrs. Buck!

    FOOB: Now John knows how the readers feel.

    FW: The more I see what age does to the characters of the Funkyverse, the more I think Lisa was the lucky one.

    Luann: “And maybe after that, I can show her the disappearing sausage trick!”

43. Artist formerly known as Ben
    May 6th, 2008 at 9:55 am [Reply]

    5/6

    MF: We can now add Christopher Columbus’ appearance to the list of topics on which Bruce Tinsley is ignorant. Yeah, keep ragging on those public school kids.

    A3G: C’mon Margo. One of your curators is dealing drugs. The businesswoman in you should appreciate the chance to make the gallery a one stop shopping center.

    Ziggy: Can the Webster’s people use this cartoon as an illustration for “laziness?”

    Shoe: People who hate themselves pick spouses who are bad for them. This is a shock?

    RMMD: Oh kid, why did you have to tell him you were on the wrestling team? Now you know he’ll insist on showing you a few new moves, and then you’ll really get pinned.

    PreTeena: Stick looks even more deranged then usual, which is awesome.

    PBS: I had no idea the Kellogg’s-Quaker turf war was so vicious.

    6C: To be clear, you are still talking about your legs, right?

    Momma: May 6,.2008 will go down in history as the day “Momma” made me chuckle.

    S4th: That looks… very stimulating.

    Popeye: Unfortunate word choice, sailor man. Try peanut oil or canola oil instead. Also you may want to put some glass in the portholes of this sinkworthy vessel.

    MT: I’d like to see Andy say, “Whatever gets you through the night, man.”

    FW: Inside, Harry Dinkle is thinking, “Yeah, Funky Winkerbean was pretty funny back in the eighties. What the hell happened?”

    Phantom: If he’s going to wear glasses as a disguise, shouldn’t he use the frames as well? It looks like he’s just squinting to keep the lenses in.

    Archie: There’s some confusion in Riverdale between “looking fascinated” and “looking high.” Don’t try this at school, kids.

    GT: That’s right, A-Train. It’s time to unleash your slider and show those bashful Catholic boys your proud Protestant porksword.

    Lockhorns: Leroy deserves a chance to find out if his waterboarding simile holds up. All in favor of sending him on a two-week vacation to Gitmo say “aye.”

44. AeroSquid
    May 6th, 2008 at 9:57 am [Reply]

    FW: Is this a ‘Harry has slipped into dementia’ adventure ? The fun never stops in Funky Town.

45. Bootsy
    May 6th, 2008 at 9:59 am [Reply]

    I’ve always wanted to be responsible for starting a catch phrase.

    #18, Bobdog, me too. Or popularizing ones from old movies. I like John Wayne’s line to Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo. “Let’s go wake up the Chinaman, Colorado”. Even in the context of the movie, it’s pretty hilarious. Out of context, even better.

46. Nekrotzar
    May 6th, 2008 at 9:59 am [Reply]

    I’m going to spend the rest of the day doing a Zippy the Pinhead imitation, endlessly repeating the phrase “Snape/Bellatrix fanfic”.

47. Noam Sayin
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:13 am [Reply]

    I haven’t seen any comments on the April 30th For Better etc. strip in which John tells Elly that they can live well in retirement if they are careful. She:”we’re always careful about money.” He:”I mean ‘careful’ careful.” She:(deer caught in headlights expression) “oh.” Will someone please to God reassure me that they are not possibly talking about an unplanned pregnancy. It’s bad enough that I now have a vision stuck in my mind of the two of them making the beast with two backs. Help me!

48. T. Chicana
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:22 am [Reply]

    Foob: smElly sort of went from a mousy, beady-eyed lil lady in the 70s to a lumbering, potato-nosed, bug-eyed fat ass present-day.

    I don’t know which is “worse.” I guess that’s another pun. Damn you Foobs!

49. commodorejohn
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:26 am [Reply]

    #16 bats :[ – No way, the creator of Peabody & Sherman is dead? Mudges, a moment of silence, if you please.

    A3G – Haha, Margo’s puffy-lipped indignance at being asked to care even slightly about to the people around her will never get old.

    Archie – There goes Betty pantsless again.

    AS – THAT’S NOT CURIOSITY DAMMIT YOU SUCK YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH GET OFF THE COMICS PAGE BEFORE YOU TARNISH GARY LARSON’S LEGACY ANY FURTHER FUCK YOU

    Baldo – Why is it that spectacular art like this is paired with such a dumb “joke?” Why is so much care wasted on polishing turds?

    Crankshaft – I…I don’t even understand what he’s supposed to be malaproping here.

    DT – WHAT

    FOOB – Guest-starring one of those random people from Bloom County.

    FW – Holy crap, Funky Winkerbean just pulled off a mildly charming strip.

    GA – Okay, you know what? This is just stupid. This whole damned storyline could’ve been done in about half the time, and yet here it is, still dragging on.

    GT – This Bill Hawkins fellow has apparently played enough Megaman to have learned how to successfully execute Megaman’s power slide. Next he’ll be stealing his defeated foes’ abilities.

    HTH – “Also, I’m bleeding profusely both internally and externally from the multiple puncture wounds in my body.”

    Lockhorns – Hey, Hoest and Reiner, how about we put that statement to the test?

    Luann – Sorry, Gunther, I think Bernice is going to be the first “coin” through her “hanky.”

    MT – Remember, puppies can heal you.

    MW – Oh, it’s the classic “televangelist apology for adultery/rape/embezzling” pose. Good one, Ron. Just remember to state that God forgives you, and then your mother will be pretty much obligated to.

    NS – This makes no sense in any way, shape, or form.

    Pluggers – Pluggers are too poverty-stricken to afford expensive luxury foods, so they pretend that the foodstuffs within their means are the same thing, like Pat McManus’s mom calling gruel “turkey” or “baked ham.” The difference of course being that Pat McManus is funny.

    RMMD – “So you roll around on the floor…your bodies pressing against…um, sorry, where were we, again?”

    Edison Lee – is a bastard little killjoy who derides his father for having any dreams at all.

    Ziggy – Ziggy fills the empty hours of his meaningless life with repetitive, poorly-written titillation in the desperate hope that he will feel something.

50. Mister MRSA
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:26 am [Reply]

    Wrestling, you say.

    Hmm…..

    Do you need any adult men to come to practice?

    I can come to your house and give you special “one on one” tips.

    I can help you in the steamroom drop down a class or two too.

51. Artist formerly known as Ben
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:33 am [Reply]

    #49 commodorejohn

    Crankshaft – I…I don’t even understand what he’s supposed to be malaproping here.

    I think he means “extended family”, although the family isn’t really extending so much as it is consolidating houses.

    And Ted Key created Peabody & Sherman? Man, he did leave a good mark. I always just assumed they were created by Jay Ward.

52. Calico of the Nipple Patrol
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:43 am [Reply]

    #47 – Elly is menopausal, or so let us hope.
    Even if you don’t pray, this would be an excellent place to start-pleeeease, no more Patterspawn!

    But then again Rod John gets around, or so I’ve heard, so you never know. The kid in question would only be half FOOB, though.
    I don’t really know what to do with that concept.

53. Calico
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:46 am [Reply]

    #50 – Rex sez: Can Niki come attend too?

54. Calico
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:50 am [Reply]

    #48 – Well, we all know Elly loves to chow down.
    Hence the butt and nose.
    We could call it “For Butter or for Worse.”
    Haha, another pun in the oven.
    Sometimes I absolutely slay myself.

55. SecretMargo
    May 6th, 2008 at 11:13 am [Reply]

    OMG! Look at that! I’m a…floater! Wheeee!

    Congrats to all my fellow floaters and the COTW winner, of course. The Photocopiest in particular cracked me the heck up.

    8: AfkaB: Hey, you! I may fade in and out sometimes like a gas leak induced hallucination, but you’ll have to do more than just open a window to be rid of me.

56. mollificent
    May 6th, 2008 at 11:35 am [Reply]

    Yes, congrats to the COTWers!

    A3G: I like the grin on Margo’s face as she reveals that Alan is late. “He’s two hours late…which means I get to eviscerate him! Yay!”

    Cranky: “Woo! 3 am booty calls, here I come!”

    DT: My God!! Is that the sword of Godric Gryffindor???

    9CL: Oh, for criminy’s sake, Edda…YOU can’t even bring yourself to admit that you and Amos are a pair. Do you really think Hilary Hahn is going to take time out from her busy concert schedule to snap up your boyfriend? (Ooops, sorry, said the B word. Guess we’ll have to endure a few weeks of “It’s not like he’s my BOYFRIEND or anything…I’m not jealous, really…who does that snotty bitch think she is?” Sigh.)

    Bizarro: LOL! Against my will I cracked up at this. Oooh, Piraro, time for the asbestos longjohns, methinks. ;)

    Diesel Sweeties: Dammit! Do you know how hard it is to get coffee stains off a white Macbook? Arrrrghh!

    Mutts: AUGGGHHHH!

57. Brick Bradford
    May 6th, 2008 at 11:44 am [Reply]

    9CL Anybody else bored with this?

58. commodorejohn
    May 6th, 2008 at 11:51 am [Reply]

    #58 Brick Bradford – Completely. It was funny for the first couple of days, but after a solid week of it, the joke’s been run into the ground, pummeled thoroughly, and left to die. And we’ve still probably got the rest of the week left on this.

59. Niall
    May 6th, 2008 at 11:54 am [Reply]

    DT: Dick has been holding a sword for a month and hasn’t had a chance to use it to inflict harm on anyone. Something is deeply wrong with his own universe.

    Edge City: Just like Monday’s other strip about car rentals observed on here failing the basic reality check, so does this storyline: all clerks I know, as soon as they see another branch has the item in question, in the same sentence without pausing, asks if they want you to put a hold on one of them until you get there to pick it up. Or else they say they can get the store to send it over to this one as a special order if it’s the closest to the customer. They get it a day later, but they get it. Or else, before you leave, you call ahead to see if they still have stock left, and when finding one that does, ask to put a hold… so many ways to avoid this. That was the reality in the 80s, not today.

    Garfield: Anyone else had the disturbing thought that Jon had speared Garfield’s privates with that sign in panel 2?

    MC: Norm wants to be a sort of anti-Crankshaft? And I support True in warding against the 4th wall smirk.

    Phantom: Now I want to see a mock-up of a front page from “The Skull Cave Chronicle”. And what comics might that have on it, I wonder.

60. NotAGoatHead
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:07 pm [Reply]

    #59 Garfield: I doubt there was anything to spear.

61. bats :[
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:09 pm [Reply]

    24. Mr. O’Malley re RMMD: BUT the fishing story didn’t have a Sunday underwear extravaganza! (Lee in a sleeveless t-shirt doesn’t count.)

    34. godzooky: yes. Mark’s head IS that small.

    47. Noam: oh, geez, that is just nasty…

62. queek
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pm [Reply]

    Mutts: d’awwwwwwwwwwww!

    F-: I chuckled. More clever than funny, but still.

    SF: oooooooo-kay. o_O

    Tell you what, lets get Melissa to re-do panel 2 with Maureen and Ashley. Ed Power, what d’ya say? Help a brother out? ;-)

    Jamus@ #1: a post has never fit its sequence so well. Good to have your fanfic back. :-)

63. queek
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:15 pm [Reply]

    oops, forgot a comment.

    MC: all commentary regarding the advisability of 4th wall smirking aside, the *art* on Maureen’s smile was just lovely. Its not easy conveying emotion with such a simple line, but Melissa did it very well. *applause*

64. Artist formerly known as Ben
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:29 pm [Reply]

    #56 mollificent,
    Funny and alarming comment on Crankshaft. Uh, thanks?

65. lylebot
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:31 pm [Reply]

    FBoFW: As someone whose job involves math and computers, I can totally identify with John here. I’ve never understood why people will ask what you do, and then after you tell them, say “I hate that so much!” Why start a conversation if you’re just going to kill it in the next sentence?

66. Doug Puthoff
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:33 pm [Reply]

    5-6

    PBS–Fortunately, Cap’n Crunch has been tipped off on the plans for his demise. He’s hired Super Chicken and George of the Jungle (former associates of his at Jay Ward studio) as bodyguards and Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale to keel Snap, Crackle, and Pop.

67. Doug Puthoff
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pm [Reply]

    Alt FC caption of 5-6: “This watch is actually a two-way communication device that allows me to stay in touch with my alien overlords on planet Brithgob.

68. Mibbitmaker
    May 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pm [Reply]

    Ahhhh…. That’s what it was like those other times on the COTW runner-up float! I’ve missed it. Good to be back there.

    Lockhornswitheachother: Leroy… morph into bin-Laden or another al-Quaida bigwig, then we’ll talk. (Although, while I consider waterboarding to be borderline torture, I’m willing to consider being married to either of those twits full-on torture)

    FOOB: John Patterson — Master of taking a great set-up and delivering a weak punchline. Hell, that obnoxious lout is wittier than him!

    Zits: Either Pierce is readying himself for a career as a homeless person, or he expects that having pins and needles jammed into his entire body all his adolescent life will lead to disabilities that’ll be covered by Social Security.

    Adam: “Some male brains” (emphasis mine). Good qualifier! ‘Bout time. There, pop culture, was that so hard?

    S4th: Taking all the fun out of childhood running under the sprinkler. Ces, is Tom Batiuk filling in for you today?

    S4th (alternative snark): Waterboring.

    A3G: Margo’s not a very demanding employer. By now, Mr. Slate and Mr. Spacely would’ve bellowed, “YOOOOOOU’RE FIRED!!!” As for Alan, himself: Maybe he’s just trying to dope up the kitty and go.

    FW: Harry L. Dinkle is looking in his reflection, pleased to’ve been the link between the last great FWs and the first of the awful 1993-plus FWs. Three degrees of separation from good to rotten, and Harry’s #2.

    Mutts: Slobber and dog breath[/Ren Hoek] hardly endears, McDonnell (see: Odie)

    Curtis: Now-You-Know-How-Michelle-Feels
    #75,456,765,567,788,801

    FC & Cranky: Those two could turn Gracie Allen into Moe Howard — And not a moment too soon!

    Garfield: No, Jon, that’s for your A3G cross-over. You already missed a JP cross-over a couple weeks ago.

    BBlues: Needless to say, that happens when the kids aren’t dirty, too. (Back to looking at the first image in today’s strip — which doubles for her audition for Sunday’s RMMD)

    Nancy: Better watch out, Sluggo! Keep it up, and she’ll take a bat to your truck (okay, toy truck)!

    Fred Basset: “Repetitive strain injury”. Every other comic strip in existence suffers from that, these days…..

69. Dariaclone
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:00 pm [Reply]

    Per yesterday’s FC: I would like to note that it is possible that in 2008 that Dolly doesn’t actually know that April, May and June are girl’s names as well as months. May has not actually been in the top 1000 of girl’s names since the 1950s and June since the 1990s. April has managed to survive since its height of popularity in the 80s.

    If she did know someone named June, they are likely an adult who she refers to by her first name–the horrors. But then, as Dolly as a name hasn’t been in the top 1000 since the 1960s, it’s possible that Dolly has taken a special interest in names of her aunts and great-aunts.

70. NotAGoatHead
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:02 pm [Reply]

    FW: Is Dinkle unzipping his pants in the first panel? That could explain that big ol’ grin in the third panel.

71. Perky Bird
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:08 pm [Reply]

    Mark Trail–

    Why won’t someone please get that depressed little girl some professional help? Haven’t they heard of grief counseling? If their solution is just to give her a new animal everytime something unpleasant happens in her life, she’s just going to end up in a smelly house full of fur and feces.

    I guess the folks in Mark Trail Land just take the Peanuts saying “Happiness is a Warm Puppy” a bit too seriously.

72. Poteet
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:11 pm [Reply]

    # 57 Brick — For one day it was mildly amusing, maybe. Now it’s making Edda appear to have the approximate maturity level of certain I-threw-bleach-on-my-flirting-boyfriend’s-clothes defendants on JUDGE JUDY. But I mostly snarl to myself when I read 9CL these days, so I’m biased.

73. Poteet
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:16 pm [Reply]

    MT — Given that the perps have a known MO and actually sent a boy around to collect the pet ransom, I bet a halfway-competent detective, public or private, could wrap up this case in a few days. God only knows how long it will take Mark and poor Andy, and the rest of us are about to find out the hard way.

74. SecretMargo
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:22 pm [Reply]

    A3G is a lot more entertaining once you realize “printing process” is a euphemism for ovulation.

75. Mibbitmaker
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:40 pm [Reply]

    Another Fred Basset comment:

    At least that’s better than suffering from Repetitive Groin Injury!

76. Saxman
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:44 pm [Reply]

    9CL

    Just for yucks, I went to Ms. Hahn’s website to see if her blog had any mention of recent events in 9CL. Not a word, although there is some kinda creepy fan art.

    http://www.hilaryhahn.com/fanart.shtml

    Seeing a number of photographs and drawings of her now have me re-thinking just who the mystery queen is in Pipgorn. Nawwwwwww.

77. Deena in OR
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:46 pm [Reply]

    Josh,

    Did I see your “jfruh” in the comments section at passiveagressivenotes.com?

78. A lemur
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm [Reply]

    DT: Who owns the deformed hunchback, the Victor Hugo estate?

    …and why is Liz asking TRACY what’s going to be done with the loot? Shouldn’t she, like, know what the procedure is? Or is she just used to the SWAT team volunteering to ‘collect’ the evidence?…

    On the plus side, the butch look is working really well for her…

79. Four Questions About The Funnies
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm [Reply]

    1. Blondie: Wouldn’t it be sufficient (and less annoying and weird) for Elmo to refer to Dagwood as “Mr. B” once or maybe even twice, rather than three times in three panels?

    2. Winky Funkerbean: Hey Batiuk, how about some sort of information as to what the hell is going on here, for those of us who don’t closely follow the minute details of every bitter bandleader who used to appear in this strip 20 years ago, and for whom three silent panels of an old guy with a smug smirk isn’t self-explanatory?

    3. Beetle Bailey: Is Sarge in a fit of rage or merely sobbing in alienated despair?

    4. Apt. 3G: What is Alan’s mood-swinging nanny so upset about?

80. Diamond Joe
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

    #59 Niall:

    I know I’m the second person to say this, but the car rental strip did not fail the reality test. When you rent a car, they give you two choices: 1) return the car full, and pay a ridiculous per-gallon fee if you don’t; and 2) pay for the entire tank in advance at what’s usually a small discount on the current price of gas, and return it empty.

    In the 2nd case, the rental company knows most people won’t return it empty, so the total tank price, divided by actual gallons used, turns out to be substantially more than what the company pays for gas. In other words, it’s extra profit.

    In the Close to Home panel, the driver obviously chose option 2, and the joke is that he’s willing to waste gas, and his own time, to deny the company that extra profit.

81. TeacherPatti
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:01 pm [Reply]

    FC: Oh HELL no. No, no, no, NO. How much are the Keanes getting paid?? This is the best they can come up with??? Good going Keanes–you just made Jesus cry with that lame joke.
    Sorry if I’m a little too bothered by the “time” “joke” (and by joke I mean lame-ass piece of shit comment)…I am teaching my special ed students how to tell time and they all caught on–quite quickly, I might add–that we say “o’clock” and not “o’watch”. Gack!

82. The Spectacular Spider-Brick
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

    Noam Sayin @ 47: If you think nobody commented on that particular FBOFW, you haven’t been paying attention very well.

83. indichik
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:09 pm [Reply]

    #17, 23: The reason is that the creature known as Elly is expanding at an alarming rate, and will soon consume everything in its path.

84. Shermy Glamrocker
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:09 pm [Reply]

    I’m almost positive that the “Ha, Ha” guy in Foob today is the father of Gap-Toothed Starey Hoo Guy.

85. cheech wizard
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:25 pm [Reply]

    Nice to be in the herd of COWs – and congrats to Mrs. Buck Tuddrussell. Meanwhile, at #36, the Casey makes a strong bid for next week’s float with his comment about the “finger-through panty” trick. Bwa-hah!

86. Vakar
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:36 pm [Reply]

    Can someone say something nice about Ballard Street, Dinette Set, or The Argyle Sweater? Not that it’ll stop me from making them walk the plank. I just wondered if anyone can.

87. Dan Shiovitz
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

    Beauty and the geek? I thought geeks ripped the heads off chickens.

88. Perky Bird
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pm [Reply]

    Josh-

    Uhm, this may be a bit late, but isn’t the preferred spelling “Cinco de mayo”?

    Granted, the only Spanish I had in school was in elementary school, but I did grow up in South Texas.

89. Al of the Christian Single Jungle Patrol
    May 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm [Reply]

    76 — Hilary Hahn is a real person? Damn, she’s a cutie.

90. Reedzilla
    May 6th, 2008 at 3:00 pm [Reply]

    Looks like Batiuk is ramping up to drop the touch of death on yet another FW character. Judging from the past, I’d guess this ex-cop will sell all his possessions to fund his research on a Fountain of Youth, discover the formula just as he runs out of money, take the only dosage in existance, revert back to a young healthful state, and immediately contract cancer, AIDS and syphilis. Dying in his hospital bed, as he attempts to croak out the Fountain of Youth recipe to a close friend, a passing orderly will accidentally trip and stab him in both eyes with hypodermic needles, after which the hospital will burn down and fall on a puppy.

91. Reedzilla
    May 6th, 2008 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

    reading about Mark Trail’s “newspaper friends” brings to mind an image of him sitting in a seedy motel room surrounded by papier-mache mannequins with smeary lipstick smiles. Maybe that’s just me.

92. queek
    May 6th, 2008 at 3:30 pm [Reply]

    86: certainly not anything about DS. Horridly unfunny strip, real life Pluggers without a shred of the humor. It takes up space in the Sunday deadtree funnies that I wish would be something else, ANYthing else, that I’d actually look at, much less read.

    One look at AS was enough to say “blatent Far-Side ripoff” and never look at it again.

    Ballard Street used to run in the local deadtree paper, and its one loopy and weird strip. We’ve got Speed Bump in its place now, and that’s a bit better strip, although much less likely to toss your reason completely out of the room.

93. Josh
    May 6th, 2008 at 3:39 pm [Reply]

    #88 Perky Bird– Yikes, you’re right! I fixed. It’s never too late to fix an embarassing typo in a headline.

    Josh

94. Mike
    May 6th, 2008 at 5:43 pm [Reply]

    Why does the Keane Calendar from yesterday’s FC only have 29 days in November? What dark secrets are hidden on the 30th???

95. SecretMargo
    May 6th, 2008 at 7:20 pm [Reply]

    86: re: Ballard Street and Dinette Set: There was actually a big discussion of both of them about a thousand years ago when SQB brought up “comic strips you don’t get excited about yet read regularly and would miss if they were gone.” My defense of explanation of my weird fascination for Ballard Street is here, but the whole discussion is pretty interesting.

96. Vince M
    May 6th, 2008 at 7:42 pm [Reply]

    66: I do know the Cap’n got through this okay, since ‘Futurama’ told us that by the year 3000 he’d been promoted to Admiral Crunch.

97. queek
    May 6th, 2008 at 8:52 pm [Reply]

    94: That’s a day out of deer season, and therefore cannot be allowed!

98. Cheeky Wee Monkeys
    May 8th, 2008 at 12:09 pm [Reply]

    Wow, thanks! This came after a week where nothing good at all happened to me, so this was a pleasant surprise.

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