Metapost: Almost plug-less comments of the week!
I don’t have the usual pleas for you to buy crap pre-COTW this week, so we’ll get to the top comment after only some quick links:
- Faithful reader Angry Kem has set up a spiffy comics blog called Japes For Owre Tymes, in which she takes on the too long neglected task of translating the dialog in modern-day comic strips into Middle English.
- And faithful reader Short (I think? Let me know if I mangled your nickname) points out that God has punished the Kalamazoo Kings for their Elmer-hiring ways.
Oh, and finally, for those of you who use the Facebook, did you know that there is a Readers of the Comics Curmudgeon Facebook Group? Well, there is! Feel free to join it and do, uh, whatever it is one does with such things.
And now, without further ado, here’s the comment of the week!
“I was initially inclined to regard Toby’s reply of ‘Not excessively’ to Terry’s inquiry as to whether she used her computer much as one of the most ineffably unnatural and cryptic responses imaginable, but on second thought I guess she could’ve said ‘Twelve,’ ‘Sure they will,’ or ‘I LOVE cornflakes!’” –Violet
And the runners-up!
“My theory is that Jones has been selling him smarties or some other sugar pill. This explains why Alan never seems bedraggled or mussed, why there are no other drug dealers while Jones is away and why Alan’s competence level seems unchanged. The sugar crashes also explain why he sleeps at odd hours. Jones probably thinks this is a clever way to get some very green dough without actually harming Alan, but he will be filled with regret when Alan finally slides into adult onset diabetes.” –Les of the Jungle Patrol
“Kids, this is what smoking crack will do for you — you’ll turn into Alan! Is it worth it to be so boring and blonde and clean?” –crossbuck
“Damn, Crock is heartbreaking today. The chef is clearly depressed at the prospect of having to boil his friend alive. Which explains why he’s slumped, unshaven, and appears to be wearing a noose fashioned out of a napkin. Why he’s wearing a boot on his head makes less sense, until you remember that this is Crock, where where not even the act of grief may be drawn correctly.” –RaJ
“So FINALLY Toby is going to figure out just what the fuck she did wrong. (Well, figure out = having someone explain it to her step by step over many hours.)” –T. Chicana
“A thing happened in a soap opera strip? That’s right, isn’t it? That was a thing, right? Shooting somebody over drugs is a thing?” –captainswift
“Yes Uncle Mark, to pet Sneaky just go ahead and lean against this impossibly small light blue chair placed right in the middle of the room. We chose the model with the 6-inch wide back for extra discomfort!” –mikey
“Herb, I’m going to put you on an exercise program. You’ve already started it by climbing up on my 5’ 6” exam table.” –Patrick
“Another way to look at Ray with the gun (his ‘raygun’ as it were) is to imagine Ray being played by Faye Dunaway. Not Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest but just a bald-headed Faye Dunaway desperate for a part. Contemplate her voice with the ‘Liars — All liars!!!’ and you’ll see that it makes perfect sense.” –Dingo
“I like how Billy imagines himself in the dress. That leads me to believe that he’s not sad about the gift, but at his fat legs.” –Buddy and Hopkins: Music Cartoons
“I just think it’s pretty damn telling that Dolly is alone, all alone except for her psychopath brother, on her birthday.” –NotThatGuy
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Mars
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:47 am
I’ll join the Readers of the Comics Curmudgeon Facebook Group, as long as it doesn’t require Facebook.
Oh shoot, it does….
The Ghost of Jarrod
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 am
In A3G news, Margo is devastated today by the news that she will have to hire a new curator for her gallery. That’s going to require putting an ad in the newspaper, interviewing people, and then calling for references — work, work, work, does it never end?
Oh, also the police let her know that Alan died in a hail of gunfire or something; whatever. Now where is the phone number for the Times‘ classified section?
Amateur Snark
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:12 am
Your posts always prompt an exorbitant amount of comments, so I end up kind of skimming and not reading all of them. This week, however, I guess I paid more attention than usual, since I distinctly recall reading three of those Comments of the Week. I’m a little too excited about that.
And yay, Facebook group! Now, in addition to supporting the naming of some stranger’s kid Batman, and expressing my initial distaste for New Facebook, I can proudly boast that I like to Curmudge.
Yes, that’s a verb.
niobedancing
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:27 am
Woohoo!! I just became member #900 of the Facebook group.
Canaduck
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:47 am
Congrats to everyone! I’m glad to see Patrick’s comment up there; when I first read it I thought it was pretty great.
yellojkt
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:31 am
Hey! I had already joined the CC FaceBook Group. But them I’m also a Pirate and a Zombie. Here’s a sheep tossed at ya!
Shoshi
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:56 am
Luann – Wow! Is TJ going to start dropping HINTS now??
gleeb
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:30 am
Brenda: Like I said, Sage seems to be kind of a dumb kid.
Cathy: Having spend some time establishing Cathy and Irving as an overprivileged, underrestrained upper-middle couple, Gusiewite starts backpedaling madly.
Curtis: Derrick’s still angry Letterman got passed over for The Tonight Show.
Dennis: Dennis the lobbyist.
‘bean: You’re fat. You are a neglectful father. You work too much. And to no effect, as Montoni himself has rebuked you. Do it.
H&L: Lois is unusually smug for a real estate agent who has been evicted and is sitting on the sidewalk outside her locked offices. (Check the words on the picture window).
Naked Bunny with a Whip
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 am
do, uh, whatever it is one does with such things.
Flirt with FBI agents posing as 14-year-old girls?
Patrick
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 am
Woo! Another runner up, AND Canaduck likes me! I can’t think of a better start to my Tuesday.
Muffaroo-who-walks
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
Congrats to all the… new thread! Gotta go, luvyabye
Poteet
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 am
I curtsey before you and your tiara, Violet. And I curtsey again before the float full of funny. Thanks all!
PeteMoss
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:48 am
Hahahaha! Very nice comments, one and all.
Gold-Digging Nanny
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Great comments this week! But I do feel obliged to point out to Buddy and Hopkins: Music Cartoons that he’s probably sad about both. I’m sure he’d love that dress if the hem didn’t cut him off at the fattest part of the calf.
dale
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
gleeb – 8
H&L
I thought we had lost 30 year’s worth of progress in comic strip window lettering, but you are correct. That explains why Lois is wearing her hat and coat and has her purse slung from the chair back.
It still seems odd to have her monitor right between the clients and herself.
fashion police
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
14: Gold Digging Nanny
You’re probably right. Although he may be disappointed because pink isn’t his color. He was hoping for lavender and teal so he could play Foob wedding with his friends.
Lisa
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
So, does Josh Never take suggestions from the crowd for COTW? Just curious… :o)
Lisa
September 24th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I killed it! I’m sorry! Mea culpa!!