The Comics Curmudgeon

49 responses to “Saturday quickies”

1. Jordan
   August 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm [Reply]

   Parker and Hart’s work has really been slipping since they both died last year, hasn’t it?

   No seriously, who the @$#%#%@ is writing and drawing the strip now, and why is there no real noticeable difference?

2. Ken
   August 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm [Reply]

   1st?

3. PeteJayhawk
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

   I believe the Wizard of Id is done by Jeff Parker, son of Brant.

   Oh, and Ken? May you die a thousand painful deaths for trying to do the uber-douche “first” crap and failing miserably.

4. Bonnach
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

   Parker & Hart Industries has dozens of monkeys at keyboards and drawing tables churning out this crap. It’s crap because they use their own feces to make them.

5. Weaselboy
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

   SM, panel 3: Thank God Jameson is wearing pants.

6. LTBF
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

   I thought the same thing when I read the Wizard yesterday.

7. PeteMoss
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:05 pm [Reply]

   # 3, yeah, besides, the real money is in being SEVENTH!

   That Marmaduke. What a player! Why the hell haven’t the Hitler’s gotten him neutered yet. I should send Bob Barker over the their place

8. Red Greenback
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm [Reply]

   Also based on a two year old paint by number kit: http://www.amazon.com/Real-Art-Paint-Number-Book/dp/0761135863

9. Sili
   August 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pm [Reply]

   Has noöne linked to Milholland’s Super Stupor yet?

   http://www.superstupor.com/sust08062008.shtml

   How many jurors do you recognise?

   (I got three wrong.)

10. CortJstr
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:10 pm [Reply]

    So Vulture is no longer an old man with a thing for Aunt May? I guess there’s already enough old people lovin’ in the comics pages.

11. Gold-Digging Nanny
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:11 pm [Reply]

    I think we all know how Marmaduke described himself.

12. jvwalt
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:17 pm [Reply]

    More “jokes” for Parker’s consideration. Ready? The King’s not too hip on current events, because…

    “He thought ‘Gone With The Wind’ was a weather forecast.”

    “He thought The Civil War consisted of two armies slapping each other across the face.”

    “He thought The Bronze Age was a tanning salon.”

    “He thought The Big Bang was a title from his porn collection!”

    Ba-dump ching! Thanks very much, I’ll be here all week.

13. LTBF
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pm [Reply]

    Yesterthread 271-Liz had a bunch of friends in Mtgrjsdkfjdjfjnjhd? Like all those whio knew Paul was banging Susan but didn’t bother to tell her?

14. Telemachus
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:36 pm [Reply]

    Wait. The Vulture has an anti-gravity device and he uses it to be a flying thief? Did it just never occur to him to sell the device itself for millions, or is there some sort of law in Spider-Man’s world that technology must be put to the most mundane, short-sighted use possible?

15. LTBF
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

    Is anybody besides me bothered when strips that take place in the past mention things that take place in our times?

16. bats :[
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pm [Reply]

    13. LTBF: I think you’re forgetting that wise old proverb, “What happens in Mtgrjsdkfjdjfjnjhd stays in Mtgrjsdkfjdjfjnjhd.”.

17. Kris
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm [Reply]

    When will Marmaduke be uploading the videos?

    Ah (ahem)… I am enquiring for a friend. (Ahem.)

18. zenvelo
    August 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm [Reply]

    Marmaduke doesn’t use MySpace or Facebook. He has his own section in Craigslist Casual Encounters –
    K9 4 M,W

19. Amanda
    August 10th, 2008 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

    So is Mary Worth always like this: picking an interesting issue, building up to it by way of weeks of intense boredom, and then ending without any kind of interesting climax whatsoever? It’s like digging for treasure and finding only my own grave.

20. Henning Makholm
    August 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pm [Reply]

    14: It’s the law. Not just for Spiderman villains.

21. name
    August 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm [Reply]

    Considering the Wizard of Id takes place in some sort of medieval times, the Da Vinci Code, or even Da Vinci himself wouldn’t be so much current events as things from the distant future. Just like Jesus in B.C.

22. Cody
    August 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pm [Reply]

    Isn’t it more likely that Hitler-lady is talking to one of her [off panel] Hitler-kids? If that’s the case, I really don’t want to hear the answer.

23. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch
    August 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm [Reply]

    I tend to avoid “Spiderman” because it’s mind-numbingly boring, but sometimes I read it accidentally, like I did about eight weeks ago, when Peter was whining about having the flu. So all I have to say today is: Jesus, Peter STILL has the flu?! This strip moves even slower than “Mary Worth,” if that’s possible!

24. Anonymous
    August 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm [Reply]

    14: I’m sure if he had a gravity device, he could have sold it. But try to sell an anti-gravity device, and nobody thinks you’re serious.

    Plus dressing like a vulture doesn’t help.

25. Donald The Anarchist
    August 10th, 2008 at 7:52 pm [Reply]

    #13 He was following his path. And if you can snag a girlfriend who accepts that infidelity, threesomes, and hitting on her hot sister constitute your “path,” I submit she’s either too dumb to live or a keeper, whichever floats your boat.

26. Poteet
    August 10th, 2008 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

    # 14 Telemachus — BWAHAHA! I hope to see you on the float next week.

27. Poteet
    August 10th, 2008 at 8:31 pm [Reply]

    S-M — While I appreciate The Vulture taking the trouble to explain to me exactly what’s going on, that does tend to take the edge off the dramatic sense of fear.

28. Black Drazon
    August 10th, 2008 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

    “The King isn’t too hip on current events.”
    “You’re telling me, the other day he was ranting about a book written 800 years in the future about a painting that won’t be painted for about 400.”
    “Actually, I was going to say he had no idea we were at war with the French.”
    “We’re at war with the French?”

29. Ptycho
    August 10th, 2008 at 8:48 pm [Reply]

    I totally read the spider man villain as saying, “Nooo, you’re jamming my anti-gravy device!”

30. aloria
    August 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm [Reply]

    mmmm… gravy

31. Mark in Boston
    August 10th, 2008 at 10:40 pm [Reply]

    #14 et al: What about that web fluid? Peter Parker could have made a fortune, and he wouldn’t need that horrible photojournalism job.

32. Yanni
    August 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pm [Reply]

    Speaking of web fluid, doesn’t Vulture know that Spider-Man has some sort of Spider powers that may prevent “them ALL” from falling?

33. Snopester in Exile
    August 10th, 2008 at 11:24 pm [Reply]

    Perhaps the reference in Wizard of Id is to the actual da Vinci code since da Vinci lived at the end of the middle ages.

34. Grant Rogers
    August 11th, 2008 at 12:30 am [Reply]

    Im surprised Id was even remotely up to date

    Id expect to see something like “the king isnt too hip on current events, he thinks the ‘electric slide’ is a method for punishing dissidents children”

35. Sorako-chan
    August 11th, 2008 at 12:48 am [Reply]

    Wait- the Vulture isn’t a real super-villain? Come on, Spider-man people, not every villain need be as pathetic as The Shocker.

36. Canaduck
    August 11th, 2008 at 3:24 am [Reply]

    That response to Wizard of Id couldn’t have been more perfect, Josh. Sigh.

37. js
    August 11th, 2008 at 11:34 am [Reply]

    To be fair, the distribution scheme for most movies means that Id doesn’t see anything that hasn’t been taped off of TNT and smuggled into the country.

38. VoVat
    August 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm [Reply]

    So how come Marmaduke is on MySpace instead of Dogster?

39. WarOfTheBees
    August 11th, 2008 at 1:00 pm [Reply]

    Marmaduke is arranging an orgy allright…but an orgy of dining on human flesh. I wouldn’t sleep tonight, Frau Hitler.

40. Colinski
    August 11th, 2008 at 2:20 pm [Reply]

    I has a anti-grav device!
    Noooo! They be jamming mah anti-grav device!

41. SpiffBereft
    August 11th, 2008 at 3:08 pm [Reply]

    Marmaduke has a much larger scheme: to lure Chris Matthews to his house and eat like a king.

42. AT
    August 11th, 2008 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

    I’m calling the FBI on Marmaduke. Some of those pups look underage.

43. CJ-in-Weld
    August 11th, 2008 at 5:58 pm [Reply]

    Spiderman, Panel 3: The hands reveal that JJJ is actually the mysterious Gecko-Man! Who knew?

44. Joe Blevins
    August 11th, 2008 at 7:05 pm [Reply]

    THINGS NO ONE NEEDS TO SEE: Spider-Man giving birth to a full grown J. Jonah Jameson. And yet, there it is in panel 1.

45. R. W. Watkins
    August 11th, 2008 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

    I’ve been reading thru the past five years worth of Spider-Man courtesy of some large piles of a local Newfoundlandic telly guide, and I must say, I find that the Lee/Lieber strip takes me back to the halcyon days of Amazing Spider-Man (1960s/early-to-mid ’70s) far more so than any of the various Spidey titles and story sequences of the past 15 years. The strip has its drawbacks, for sure; but I much prefer it over not just the Spidey titles, but any of the mainstream superhero comics of today.

46. ScienceGiant
    August 11th, 2008 at 9:25 pm [Reply]

    #29 — OMG. I totally read Mary Worth as having Toby saying “Oh, the usual… (Planning a happy ending for you)”

    =:O

47. Phred22
    August 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm [Reply]

    Will it actually happen? Will Spidey finish his battle with the Vulture over the Chrysler Building with no reference to its nickname, “The Parachutist’s Nightmare”?

    We can only hope.

48. Zen Redneck
    August 12th, 2008 at 9:34 am [Reply]

    And a three-year-old Frank & Ernest:
    http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=11579

49. Tim
    August 13th, 2008 at 9:29 am [Reply]

    It’s a shame that United Features screwed up and published the last two Marmaduke strips out of order.

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