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Mary Worth is become death, the shatterer of souls

Mary Worth, 1/4/09

While Mary Worth has always left a trail of shattered lives behind her, this is one of the first instances I can remember of Mary actually doing battle with someone else for the right to own, meddle in, and destroy a third party’s soul. I love the way that Mary pairs her figurative reflection with looking at her actual reflection. The high stakes of her meddle-war with Frank is indicated by the fact that she’s furiously thought-ballooning about Lynn all the while, when normally she’d just be thinking “There, my bouffant’s surface is perfect, once again. Aren’t I the prettiest?”

Incidentally, the fact that we can see Mary’s reflection rules out certain kinds of undead beings, for those trying to figure out exactly what sort of hellspawn walks the earth known as “Mary Worth.” Meanwhile, in the first panel of the bottom row, Frank’s eyes are beginning to glow red, as he draws strength from his demon master for the final conflict.

Crock, 1/4/09

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Algerian population was unable to resist French imperialism militarily, so they were forced to fight back with more devious methods. For instance, one Foreign Legion garrison was lulled into the pleasant haze of hashish addiction by the locals, then wiped out to the man when the batch delivered for New Years celebrations was poisoned.

Family Circus, 1/4/09

Barfy the dog is apparently unable to distinguish between a round-headed lump with an eternal dumb grin on its face and not a single thought in its head and a snowman.

Panel from Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 1/4/09

This panel shows a way that Snuffy Smith could become relevant to modern audiences: by highlighting the health dangers of meth addiction, which is so sadly prevalent in America’s rural suspender-wearing communities.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 04:02 pm and is filed under Barney Google & Snuffy Smith, Crock, Family Circus, Mary Worth. |

183 responses to “Mary Worth is become death, the shatterer of souls”

dyslexic dog
January 4th, 2009 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

COTW: Josh’s FC masterpice!
Poteet
January 4th, 2009 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

I still say Mary the Hellspawn is hoping Lynn will attempt suicide, so Frank will crawl, weeping and groveling, to Mary’s feet as he should.
McManx
January 4th, 2009 at 4:14 pm [Reply]

For one to sneeze so hard as to blow out one’s teeth, it’s no wonder they call him Snuffy.
Daveyk
January 4th, 2009 at 4:17 pm [Reply]

Rules of the Keane Compound require such rigorous and frequent cleansing of the foul flesh of the body that Barfy is unable to detect a scent-based difference between a snowman and an encephalitic child.
The Ghost of Jarrod
January 4th, 2009 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

#2 — Lynn killing herself would prove Mary Worth right. That’s why Mary’s next visit to Lynn will include a care basket of cyanide, double-edged razor blades, a six-foot length of rope, and a handgun.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 4th, 2009 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

I kind of like that Family Circus. It’s economical, it sets up and delivers its little anecdote without treading all over itself with bad text, the shape of the panels is visually interesting and livens up what could have been dull white space, the kid’s too bundled up and too distant for the anatomical quirks to be jarring, the increasing density of pawprints in the snow is a nice touch… it’s really far from the worst thing you’ll see on the page today, or even this week.

(For example: ???????????????????)
Evan
January 4th, 2009 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

Clearly Mary has finally lost it, as she has confused that hairbrush for a telephone…
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 4th, 2009 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

(Also, mirrors: not that god-awful complicated. Mary is looking to our right, therefore mirror Mary should also be looking to our right. So don’t pack away that undead hypothesis just yet. I believe she’s just standing in front of a portrait she had commissioned to remind her how human beings are supposed to brush their hair.)
Canuckguy
January 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pm [Reply]

I’m convinced that the “reflection” in panel 3 is merely a colouring error, the woman obviously has no reflection. Or soul.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pm [Reply]

#5 – and a Judas Priest CD.
Mibbitmaker
January 4th, 2009 at 4:33 pm [Reply]

FC: The snowman, in his attempt to placate the very stupid canine, accidently uses the stick to throw his arm in an understandable mistake…

…or…

When Barfy drops the stick in front of Snowboy for throwing, Snowboy screams, “OMIGOD! THAT MUTT’S GOT A SEVERED SNOWHUMAN ARM!! AAAUUGGHHH!!!”

Either way, it’ll go down in snowman history as the most gruesome scene since the Evil Magician melted Frosty.
Angry Kem
January 4th, 2009 at 4:37 pm [Reply]

I…hate…Crock.
Poteet
January 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

# 5 The Ghost & # 10 Wolfdog — BWAHAHA! Excellent! I wonder what else should be in that care basket. Maybe a closeup image of that ponytail.
bitter law student
January 4th, 2009 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

I know this should really go without saying, but I hate Mary Worth. She’s so infuriated by the thought of a stranger being able to raise his own child without her input that it’s actually causing her neck pain. Next up for Mary, a Vicodin and Flexeril addiction and the inability to urinate that comes with it.
Sly Robbie
January 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm [Reply]

MW: Lynn’s father appears to be in the opening stages of a Kelrastian bender. Let’s see if copious amounts of alcohol can counter Mary’s meddle.

/SR
Ben
January 4th, 2009 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

I think the guy in the window in Crock was trying to poop out the window into the bucket below before losing consciousness and you have to admit, that’s pretty funny.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 4th, 2009 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

Mirror Mary (*) seems to have adopted Cassandra’s keenly honed but thoroughly surreal instinct for earring placement.

(*) Do you smell Star Trek crossover fanfic? Oh-h-h-h Yeah!
Joey Jo Jo
January 4th, 2009 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

Am I the only person who laughed out loud at the second panel of today’s FBoFW? Click on my name to see the panel isolated…
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 4th, 2009 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

(If you’re not sure what that smells like, check for smell sort of like a mixture of Saurian brandy and badly overcooked brussels sprouts with a heavy 2-Nonenal note.)
Angry Kem
January 4th, 2009 at 5:05 pm [Reply]

#14 bitter law student: I have said before that Mary Worth would be improved infinitely if Mary were replaced by Gregory House. There’s your Vicodin addiction right there.

#18 Joey Jo Jo: Now I have to scrub my brain out with soap again.

Is it just me, or is LJ going a bit too far on the “rough-and-ready art” front? Check out panel 3. Whose hand is that resting on the chair? If it’s Elly’s, it must be attached to an extremely long, extremely droopy mutant arm that loops down out of the frame and up again to Elly’s shoulder; either that, or it’s jutting upward at an awkward angle that allows it to hide completely behind the other arm. If it isn’t Elly’s, whose is it? Who is crouched submissively at Elly’s feet, gazing up into her needlessly bulging eyes?

I’d guess John, but it’s a pretty feminine hand, so I’m going to have to go with Ted Forth.
Poteet
January 4th, 2009 at 5:05 pm [Reply]

ReFoob — If I were baby Lizzie and saw those eyes in the last panel, I sure wouldn’t eat whatever was on offer. I might not ever eat again.
Red Greenback...smiling and holding a donut
January 4th, 2009 at 5:07 pm [Reply]

Is it just me, or is today’s Mary Worth extra-HILARIOUS!!?
Calico
January 4th, 2009 at 5:24 pm [Reply]

I have been wondering all day as to why Mary Worth is trying to brush her whole head away, ripping out multiple clumps of hair in the process.
She’s also trying to use the brush to “Phone Home” or so it appears in panels 2 and 3.
Gosh, what a great “old friend” visit! Sweet!
Calico
January 4th, 2009 at 5:27 pm [Reply]

#21 – Jeezus, Poteet, have I got an incredibly surreal cat rescue story for you (and other cat lovers on CC). It happened today. I still smell like motor oil.
Comrade Denny
January 4th, 2009 at 5:29 pm [Reply]

I don’t think Mary Worth is any kind of demon-spawn. In fact, I think she’s angel-spawn.

And before anyone says, “Oh, but angels are beautiful celestial being who embody God’s grace and love. How could they spawn such a meddlesome meddler as meddling as Mary Worth?” I refer you to the 10th Plague in Exodus. Now that’s some meddling. Hard. Core.

And Lynn? Why, she’s Frank’s first-born, of course.
ZachDaniel
January 4th, 2009 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

In a time and place where people aim for the well when they sneeze, it only lends itself to poor dental health. Mmm, gimme another glass of water, Snuffy!
teddytoad
January 4th, 2009 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

Crock: even more drug-clueless than Apartment 3-G. Today’s strip leaves no doubt in my mind that the writer thought that “hash” refers to the breakfast staple, as in corned beef hash or hashbrowns. This streak of disturbing narcotics naivete will only continue through the pages. Next up: one of the 9CL nuns on ‘ecstasy’ (“I’m utterly transfixed by the transcorporeal religious rapture I encounter myself in, aren’t you, Father Quaint?”); Dagwood Bumstead on ‘coke’ (“Zowie, I should have asked for caffeine-free!”); Dolly on ‘angel dust’ (“Mommy, do the angels use their wings as feather dusters?” or some twee crap like that).
Anson Pants
January 4th, 2009 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

#17 One-eyed wolfdog: Hopefully someone with decent photoshop skillz can show us Mary with a goatee.

Crock: “They loved it, as usual. In fact they just cant seem to get enough!!”
John C Fremont
January 4th, 2009 at 5:54 pm [Reply]

Frank Griffin is a Gordon’s man? I figured him as more of a Schlitz/Boones Farm sort of guy who keeps a little peach schnapps around for class.
Rusty
January 4th, 2009 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

BGSS: Snuffy seems pleased by this outcome. It indeed must be the meth.

FC: Josh shows us who’s the man.

MW: Frank thought-ballooning “Mary Worth doesn’t know what she’s talking about” should be run as a disclaimer at the beginning of every Sunday strip.
Gold-Digging Nanny
January 4th, 2009 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

I wonder what happens when Mary Worth chants her own name in front of a mirror?
Red Greenback...smiling and holding a donut,
January 4th, 2009 at 6:12 pm [Reply]

Snuffy’s really not too upset upset about losing his teeth because he has a backup row of baleen under his nose.
Calico
January 4th, 2009 at 6:13 pm [Reply]

#29 – He ain’t drinking Old Mr. Boston, so props to Frank the asshole for that one non-faux pas.

#30 – At least Snuffy hasn’t had to rely on the pliers yet.
And yes, the MW disclaimer should be mandatory.
Grandstanding Oddball
January 4th, 2009 at 6:32 pm [Reply]

#17 – Woah, wait. Isn’t Mary Worth another name for Bloody Mary?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore)
Snuffy Jones
January 4th, 2009 at 6:42 pm [Reply]

And how about the rest of today’s Snuffy Smith?
Not only do you get to see the actual blowing out of the teeth but the throw away panels are funnier than the rest of the strip. Frogs in a bucket – HA!
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/barneygoogle.asp
Red Greenback...smiling and holding a donut,
January 4th, 2009 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

I agree with One-eyed Wolfdog @#6 about today’s The Family Circus, except for one thing: Every time I’ve ever played fetch with a male canine, there’s always been at one point where the dog will look at me as if to say; “Hold up a second, Red, there’s an object that is perpendicular to the ground, and I gotta go whiz on it, that’s just how I roll.” Now, if there were yellow, eroded areas at the base of the snowman, today’s FC would have been perfect. IMHO.
Brick Bradford
January 4th, 2009 at 7:00 pm [Reply]

MW I know that I’ve long maintained that Mary is a Bizarro Watcher, but I believe she is also the long feared Dark Lady of the Sith. The Sith use fear, suspicion, and soul killing rage to seduce Jedi over to the dark side. Around Mary’s condo that’s called Just Another Day at the Pool.

Beware her Dark Force Lightning Frank, beware.
Moriel
January 4th, 2009 at 7:40 pm [Reply]

I don’t know about anyone else, but I thought today’s Broomhilda was the most disturbing thing in the paper, including what was on the front page.

But that Family Circus? Clearly, Barfy knows who’s really in charge, and now that none of the kids are around to tattle on him, he’s offering a sacrifice to the mighty Snowgod so he’ll be spared when the invasion comes.

That, or he’s been brainwashed to the point of complete disorientation by his long stint in the Keane Kompound. One or the other.
Chance
January 4th, 2009 at 7:41 pm [Reply]

Haiku to Crock

Look at that fort’s size
With men pouring out of it
Like it’s a clown car
fluffy
January 4th, 2009 at 7:42 pm [Reply]

What kind of person just throws a stick for a dog to fetch and then leaves, abandoning their faithful companion outside? That’s even worse than pretending to throw something but holding onto it (unless the pretend-throw is into a busy street).

Billy is a dick.
druidbros
January 4th, 2009 at 7:58 pm [Reply]

MW – Oh now this one is gettin good! I like how Mary and Frank are carrying on their argument via mental telepathy. I can only hope that hairbrush in Mary’s hand will cause her to exhibit her S+M darkside as she spanks Frank until he yells ‘Uncle!’ or maybe ‘Aunt!’.
Esther Blodgett
January 4th, 2009 at 8:36 pm [Reply]

#27 teddytoad: “Twee” is a word that doesn’t see enough use today. “Twee crap” should be incorporated into common usage immediately.
Amateur
January 4th, 2009 at 8:40 pm [Reply]

MW: I’ve figured out what’s wrong with these people: They all have their hair on too tight. Literally. Lynn at least has a reason for it with her Eternal Strangulating Squared-Off Ponytail (TM). But how do both Mary and Frank, with short hair, manage to have some unseen force tugging it straight back from the brow? Loosen it up, people! A little mussing here and there and we’ll all feel better.
Esther Blodgett
January 4th, 2009 at 8:47 pm [Reply]

RMMD: Ah, here we have Guido in another all-that’s-missing-is-the-doobie drawing. I think he’s trying to convey to June what makes his “basil” cream sauce so special. And if Sarah is seeing invisible little boys holding donuts, apparently she’s already sampled it.

Meanwhile, the Old Sot is only too happy to share in the hallucinatory hijinks: “The little boy was at the window…I saw him too…and I’ve trapped his soul in this cocktail olive…listen closely, and you can hear his anguished wail…oh, wait, that’s just the sound I always make when I eat too much basil cream sauce.”
JupiterPluvius
January 4th, 2009 at 9:04 pm [Reply]

I, for one, am truly enjoying MEDDLE-GEDDON 2009. It’s like Godzilla v. Mothra: which interfering old busybody will win? First prize: the soul of a young girl. Second prize: Pittsburgh!
Artist formerly known as Ben
January 4th, 2009 at 9:04 pm [Reply]

Pibgorn: What’s your problem with Mama Cass, Brooke? And what’s acceptable about five panels of text-only?

BB: If you’re expecting me to make a pussy joke, you are sadly mistaken!

Momma: Shut up, Francis.

MW: Mary bought that mirror for a song off Queen Maleficent.

BH: That’s just nasty. And why isn’t the chicken more traumatized over her sudden miscarriage?
Curmudgeon Curmudgeon
January 4th, 2009 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

What the? That’s actually a NEW joke about FC.
Whippersnapper
January 4th, 2009 at 9:17 pm [Reply]

FC: Oh, Barfy knows which one is Jeffy and which one is the snowman. He’s just hoping the snowman will come to life like Frosty and free him from his soul-crushing existence as the pet of malapropism-spouting melonheads.
Ukulele Ike
January 4th, 2009 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

Crock: Well, if that one Legionnaire is trying to crap out of the window into the bucket before falling out, his aim is sadly off. The crap will hit the other Legionnaire below the window.

Mark Trail: As an admirer of Jules Verne, Charles Baudelaire, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I LOVE today’s strip.

Slylock: Hairy Ape again? Man, if we don’t get another Cassandra Cat episode pretty damn soon, I’m going to start blowing this strip off.
Beatrice
January 4th, 2009 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

The results of the local paper’s comics poll are in. I am delighted to report that my most loathed comic strip, The Born Loser is being dropped, as is The Wizard of Id. The other Hart legacy strip, B.C, inexplicably placed second in the reader’s popularity poll, behind Dilbert. (It’s either the Christianity or the placement at the top of the page.) Foob, Garfield, and Peanuts were third through fifth, so I shall have to continue to suffer through them. If they had axed more than two strips, Beetle Bailey and Blondie would have been next. Cathy, Dennis the Menace, and Hagar the Horrible are leaving the Sunday paper.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle ran the poorly-constructed poll in December. For starters, they asked which strips you read most often, I read them all, of course, but I enjoy few of them. And of course no one is going to choose a strip that runs only on Sundays as their favorite strip. I didn’t quibble here, fearing the existence of some secret Brutus Thornapple contingent. I shall be so happy to say goodbye to him, and Veeblefester and Mother Gargle, and the whole loathsome Id cast.
papa zita
January 4th, 2009 at 9:46 pm [Reply]

@31: You’ve seen Candyman, haven’t you? Pretty much like that.
Poteet
January 4th, 2009 at 10:11 pm [Reply]

# 24 Calico — Is the cat okay? Are you okay?

Sorry, I know I should have asked the other way around:-).

Monday Spoilers —

Will not be inflicted on CC tonight because my long rural driveway is a sheet of ice, and even wearing cleats, I was slipping and did not want to risk a broken limb. I’ve crawled on hands and knees to get the mail in emergency situations a couple of times in the past, but for ReFoob, it’s not worth it.

A beautiful sight, I’m happy tonight, staring at a winter wonderland…
Joe
January 4th, 2009 at 10:16 pm [Reply]

FG2: You know Monica, sometimes a blue dress is just a blue dress.

WoCH: I have a hunch that Liz Estrata will not put up with the boys’ fighting.

DF3: Ha, ha! Apparently, Little Bobo hasn’t quite grasped the concept of phenomenological hermeneutics. What fun!

HooT: Am I the only one who felt a little sad by Mr. Biddle’s amputation?
These Strange Worlds
January 4th, 2009 at 10:37 pm [Reply]

Tom the Dacing Bug

TTDB generally exists in a place beyond snark, but today’s was exceptional — finally a cause I can really get behind.

http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/td/

(BTW, this is Saxman, with a new handle, a new web page and link, and even a new blog)
bats :[
January 4th, 2009 at 10:54 pm [Reply]

54. TSW/Saxman: sign me up! I think I even have a recipe for making fortune cookies…and I can write really small, too.
Esther Blodgett
January 4th, 2009 at 10:55 pm [Reply]

#50 Beatrice: My local paper runs a “comics poll” every so often, which of course is code for “we’re going to lay waste to the comics page and force you, loyal readers, to name the condemned.” They did it again a few months ago, at which time the paper had one of the largest comics sections in the country. Now it’s gutted: MW, RMMD, MT, Lio, Piranha Club, FBoFW, Wizard of Id, Cathy, Beetle Bailey, just to name a handful of the strips that were dropped. In addition, the paper went to B&W only (previously, about half the strips had run in color every day). The reality-show twist in this poll was that we could vote to bring back one of the dropped strips. The winner? B.C. Ugh.

In fact, it was the sudden dearth of comics available in print that led me to a search for online comics and, ultimately, to CC. So there was a happy ending…but I’m getting closer and closer to reading more strips online than I do in the paper, and that’s a shame. I hate scrubbing Silly Putty residue off my monitor. :)
Muddtallica
January 4th, 2009 at 10:58 pm [Reply]

#49 Ukulele Ike – How can you bemoan the absence of that skank cat when you’ve got the lovely Bonnie up top, looking alluring as ever in her formless broccoli-shaped black dress? Man, you people have no taste. >:(
Spamhead
January 4th, 2009 at 11:10 pm [Reply]

While talking to my 10-year-old daughter about how some comics live on after their expiration date, I brought up B.C.

“I don’t think B.C. was ever actually funny, though” I mused.

“Of course not”, she replied, “it was Before Comedy!”
Poteet
January 4th, 2009 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

MW — If Mary and Frank were operating in some dimension of actual reality, wouldn’t Frank think “Mary doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” without adding her last name? Maybe he was really thinking “Mary (Margo)ing Worth.”
Hasty Penguin
January 4th, 2009 at 11:17 pm [Reply]

What kind of kid throws a stick away and then runs inside without his dog? Ho, ho, Family Circus – I get it. The family doesn’t include dogs anymore. They don’t have souls!
Red Greenback...smiling and holding a donut,
January 4th, 2009 at 11:36 pm [Reply]

#1- dyslexic dog: Is that Josh’s new barbeque sauce?
Mister Beautiful
January 4th, 2009 at 11:39 pm [Reply]

That Mary Worth is a mean mother . . .
Joe Blevins
January 4th, 2009 at 11:48 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth is the funny page’s greatest optimist. Look at her trying to run a brush through that immobile titanium “hair” of hers. That ‘do of hers has withstood wars, earthquakes, floods, and more coke-fueled Santa Royale condo board New Year’s parties than I care to remember. Nothing short of a Large Hadron Collider would make a dent in it. In the event of a nuclear war, three things will survive: cockroaches, Cher, and Mary Worth’s wig. The wig will promptly eat Cher and will meddle shamelessly in the private lives of the cockroaches until they bow to its superior will. And thus will begin the Millennium of the Noodge.
Steven
January 4th, 2009 at 11:59 pm [Reply]

liberty meadows brought up something very important today, which is dog owners who don’t control their pets. Oscar learned the hard way to be less of a pest, and Brandy got a surprise visitor.

The last time we saw this visitor was when Frank asked Brandy out to dinner.
blueberrygrrrl
January 5th, 2009 at 12:00 am [Reply]

A3G: I should have seen this plot twist coming. The hospital’s been losing revenue … because Dr. Kelly, addicted to the dope, has been stealing from the pharmacy to support his habit. Meanwhile, Gary, under pressure from his complicated IT / CPA job, has become hooked to the dope supplied by his neighbor / platonic female friend Kaley. He feels Tommie doesn’t deserve him, and in a rage, splashes black paint all over his spreadsheets. In China, Eric goes in search of more dope but finds he must embezzle from his sherpa, whom he first splashes with blonde hair dye, to fuel his addiction. Then, a druggie named Jay storms the ER and shoots Dr. Kelly; a programmer named Trey shoots Gary; a backpacker named Shay shoots Eric.

Preposterous, yes, but it explains why they all look alike.
Hibbleton
January 5th, 2009 at 12:00 am [Reply]

Ugh! Lynn. If you’re going to sneeze into your pillow, at least cover your mouth.
dyslexic dog
January 5th, 2009 at 12:22 am [Reply]

#61 — Red Greenback…s&had:
Oops. Not fixed!
mollificent
January 5th, 2009 at 12:33 am [Reply]

Mister Beautiful: Hahahaha! That Toby/Ian strip is awesome. Great blog!
Kallista
January 5th, 2009 at 12:33 am [Reply]

Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.

If we can see Mary Worth in the mirror, it means she can see us!

Let’s lower our eyes and back away slowly, people.
commodorejohn
January 5th, 2009 at 12:36 am [Reply]

By the way, folks, I’ll be taking the wheel over at The Family Circus Of Values for a while, until C. Sandy Cyst gets over whatever horrible disease he contracted in a house of ill repute. I’ve already got yesterday’s and today’s up, and lemme tell ya, I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be quite a week.
Poteet
January 5th, 2009 at 12:36 am [Reply]

A3G — This is my January once-a-month shout to Lu Ann or her mouldering remains, whichever applies. You are not forgotten! Some of us still wonder how you are doing out there in South Dakota! Hang on, if you are still alive! If not, try to keep some DNA intact so your corpse, or some portion of it, can be identified! Good-by until February!
texas buddha
January 5th, 2009 at 12:50 am [Reply]

Fresh installment of the New World Order Family Circus is now up and this episode puts a timeline on just how long the Keane clan will have to stay in their underground bunker now that “Barack Osama” is the President.

Enjoy:

http://texasbuddha.wordpress.com/
NoVan
January 5th, 2009 at 1:13 am [Reply]

Mary Worth: Oh man, as if we needed more proof that in this strip, as Josh said, “no matter who’s talking, it’s all about them.” First Lynn’s not-quite-boyfriend drives off a cliff just to break her heart, now Lynn herself faints in a desperate attempt to get Mary to meddle her problems away. But maybe I’m giving this strip too little credit: Any ‘Mudges out there who can faint on command? If so, you gotta teach me that trick!
Angry Kem
January 5th, 2009 at 1:19 am [Reply]

Re. Monday’s BB:

Oh, if only. If only this comic had a story arc! If only Beetle would just keep on walking down that road, all done up in civilian gear, and not fall victim to the Reset Button. If only some Walker somewhere were brave enough to say, “This situation is played out. Hell…this situation was played out fifty years ago. Let’s have Beetle leave the army to eke out a living as a busker.”

If only…
Anonymous
January 5th, 2009 at 1:30 am [Reply]

Am I the only one who looked at Mary Worth and started to hear a penetrating but merciless voice demanding “Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” The mirror’s only possible response, of course, will be to urinate itself in sheer terror.
Crankenstank
January 5th, 2009 at 1:41 am [Reply]

Why does Mary Worth remind me today of the Talent Exam one takes to enroll in a Famous Artists’ Correspondence School via matchbook cover? Is it the “draw a person looking in the mirror” panel? Or is it the six or seven repetitions of the “draw an emotion” exercise? Regardless, I feel gypped: there’s no pony or funny guy with a mustache depicted. Flunk the applicant, I say, and keep the $25 talent evaluation fee.
Muffaroo
January 5th, 2009 at 2:45 am [Reply]

Zippy – I don’t usually have much to say about Sunday comics, but this time around I have to give a big thumbs up to Griffy for this pastiche of my favorite American painting of the 20th century, “The Subway” by George Tooker. We went to the Whitney to see it one time, only to find that they didn’t have it on display just then. It’s not an exact copy, but it sure looks to me like he has it in mind.

Spamhead @58 – BC used to be freaking hilarious. It was the most wildly inventive strip on the page. Some time during the 70s, the humor started leaking out — slowly at first. It has to be said: it used to rule. Look at any of the first three collections — Hey, BC! – Back to BC – What’s New, BC? — and you’ll wonder whatever happened to that guy.
True Fable
January 5th, 2009 at 2:49 am [Reply]

Archie Many, many questions.
1. How can such a tiny head have the brainpower to move that massive body in panel three? What’s the opposite of Keane Kid Syndrome?
2. That’s not a flea, that’s a bigass tick. Or if it IS a flea… holy shit.
3. What are Archie and Jughead doing sitting in the floor that way? Unless they are just exercising squatter’s rights in an empty house, they are reading the comics while sitting on the floor. Oh yeah, man; that’s livin’. No wonder Jughead’s so bored he’s checking out his dog’s ass for fleas.
Mibbitmaker
January 5th, 2009 at 3:02 am [Reply]

California Dreaming…
I mean…
Monday, Monday:

9CL: Brooke’s choice for oops-I’m-late reruns are not from back when the strip was good (which I missed most of!). That figures.

A3G:
Bad News: We’re left hanging over Tommie’s storyline.
Good News: Margo!!! …and no Tommie storyline.

BBailey: Oh, no, not another one!

Curtiszaa: Cheese is the answer to everything, isn’t it? No? Yeah, didn’t think so.

MT: Why not? This strip’s been in the toilet for quite a while now.

GA: STOP USING CRANKSHAFT PUNCHLINES!

JP: A lady cop stalking you is never a good thing! (Same with genders reversed)

Mallard Fillmore… Mark Trail (the Mrs.)….. uh-oh…

MW: If Lynn hurts her neck swinging it like that, she doesn’t have to skate. Meanwhile, Frank, who won’t follow Mary’s advice, follows Mary’s advice, only to have it backfire, which’ll only steel his resolve to keep on bullying his daughter. Hey, nice going, all involved.

OBH: Ruthie’s brain is in maximum security lockup.

Prickly City metacomics?? Never would’ve guessed! Also, Lio is great even as a cameo in another strip!

RMMD: Hey, June, even the Snuffleupagus (sp?) had to be discovered sooner or later.

SFx: Slick Smitty? Bill Clinton probably took a minute, then went, “…Heeeeeey…..!”, indignantly.
Mibbitmaker
January 5th, 2009 at 3:11 am [Reply]

1/5:

Mixing Mallard Fillmore with Mark Trail means that Cherry Trail will try to sell a senate seat.
True Fable
January 5th, 2009 at 3:20 am [Reply]

BB Twenty-three skidoo, hep cat! Geez, talk about a strip stuck in the past! By the time he gets to the Camp Swampy gate, it might be 1961 and he can move to Suburban Hell.
JP Sam may be not be easy, but he ain’t cheap either.
Luann And just how does Delta figure she’s even going to get to MEET the new president on Inauguration Day? It’s not like he’s Clay Aiken or anything.
MT As the owl and the mouse have a pleasant chat before the bloodletting begins, Cherry imagines that her helmet head of hair has actually changed somehow. (Jackelrod! Now’s your chance to enliven Mark Trail! KILL OFF CHERRY!!)
MW Good Lord! The Gorgon is loose!!
Phantom They’re not even aiming at them! This looks like a job for the Arizona P.D.
PC This is the first Prickly City I can remember that I enjoyed, in a looooong time.
RMMW No, because you didn’t say a thing about no half-eaten donut, kid.
S4th Ted is having a crisis! Joy! Interest! Entertainment!!
S-M WTF, they can’t even draw his COSTUME with any accuracy!
“Oh sure, Spiderman’s always had handy little places on his costume to tuck Great Big Honkin’ Cameras, and no one will associate it with the fact that his pictures go in the paper! That’s because Nobody in Comicsland NYC or at Marvel Comics has any fucking sense at all!”
xyzzy
January 5th, 2009 at 3:48 am [Reply]

S4th: Haaaave you met Ted??
Mr. O'Malley
January 5th, 2009 at 3:49 am [Reply]

Just so much fun stuff today!

9CL: I’m with the syndicate on this one. This is much better than anything that’s run for a while. Even if I’ve read it before.

A-3G: Ha! Now we’re getting somewhere. No point in going to South Dakota until Lu Ann thaws out.

Let’s Foob Again: Looks like quite a party at the Patterson’s. Unfinished drinks on the coffee table, someone knocked over the slide projector, and the bottom half of Elly’s torso is missing. And what is that sign in the first panel?—disco dancing school? Two panels of bellbottoms today!

JP: Does she need an escort for the funeral? And wouldn’t Sam’s hotel bill be on his expense account anyway?

Lockhorns: Strange that cartoon restaurants have yet to install dishwashers.

Luann: They must have washed a lot of cars if they have enough money to make a donation sizeable enough that will enable them to meet the president.

MT: Well, I called it a few threads back. Evidently the guy who was so sweet on Sue that he paid Rabbit to hire a bunch of lazy naptakers to do away with Mark is going to get away with his crime. Sue’s off the hook, though—by now the shareholders will have figured out that a property development company that doesn’t develop any property loses less money than one that does.

The Trails have gas lighting in their log cabin? Their cabin is piped for gas but they haven’t gotten electricity in yet? How does the water get pumped up into their water tower?

I don’t know if that giant talking owl is quite big enough to tackle that megamousodon.

“It’s only a Jack Elrod moon, conversing in a light blue night sky…”

Yes, even I noticed that your hair in panel three is different from your hair in panel one. And the rest of your face too, plus the color of your clothing and the hand that your father’s pipe is in.

MW: The Long Program—is that the figure skating competition founded by Mao Tse Tung?

I think Frank is making a strategic error by wearing those trick shoes that enable you to lean forward at a 45 degree angle. But I love the angry literary criticism, delivered with such force as to rearrange the contents of the room and replace all the drawer handles on the dresser with a different model. “And an ellipsis at the end of a sentence should have four dots!”

Phantom: Do I want to know why the lizard people are wearing Speedos?

You must be a pretty old Plugger if you’ve been working in that same office since before Xerox started selling office copiers back in the 1960s.

PC: Points for effort. The tilted horizon in MW is a nice touch. Also Lio’s book. It would be funnier if I knew what “pay-to-play” is supposed to mean.

SF: A winner.

SlyFo: I think Slylock would be better off worrying about why the workers are installing a pipeline to dump raw sewage into the ocean. And turning down any invitations for a fish dinner from Max.

ZtP: Nice dashboard. If only the characters didn’t keep standing in front of the backgrounds!
True Fable
January 5th, 2009 at 4:53 am [Reply]

Here’s a scary off-topic notion: the Sham-Wow guy might be the next Billy Mays.
Mars
January 5th, 2009 at 4:53 am [Reply]

Does anyone ever examine the barely readable posters on Luann’s wall, or am I the only one who does that?

She’s always got flavor-of-the-month bands and stars up there. Only two were readable this time: Zac Efron, and Smallville (why does she still have a Smallville poster?)
True Fable
January 5th, 2009 at 5:01 am [Reply]

# 85 Mars – She also has Lost and one that says “A Way with (?)” I don’t know, I can’t read it.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 5th, 2009 at 6:53 am [Reply]

#75 – I get more Hansi Kürsch screaming “You’re a damned kind can’t you see / that tomorrows bears insanity”.
Dangerous Danny Dumbutt
January 5th, 2009 at 7:09 am [Reply]

How on earth is Mary Worth
Brushing her marshmallow hair?
While Barfy the dog will surely show
That non-stick throwing Frosty
Turns to yellow snow.
gleeb
January 5th, 2009 at 7:25 am [Reply]

Curtis: What happened to the frogs?

Dick: Again with the no-eyes! Anyway, who wants to smell like Dick Tracy?

‘bean: Harry Dinkle and his cosmic cube are out to get his old job back!

Sam Drive, useless baggage: Extra Heidi Roberts, yeah!

Mark: No fist o’ justice today, but the need for violence is met with owl-on-rodent action.

Monty: I saw this. Ray Milland goes crazy in the end.

Slylock: Well, his name is Slick Smitty. Would you believe him?
Lolsworth
January 5th, 2009 at 8:16 am [Reply]

But…but why is the title burping?
Amateur
January 5th, 2009 at 8:16 am [Reply]

MW: Good heavens, they actually jumped to the day of the competition after ages of conducting and reflecting on one conversation! This whirlwind pace is making me dizzy!
Calico
January 5th, 2009 at 8:33 am [Reply]

#89 – Yes, and the puking and sneezing too?
And how did the Nice Girl get her jug back? Or is said magic pottery still with the 3 jealous ones?
My mind hurts.
Calico
January 5th, 2009 at 8:45 am [Reply]

Hahaha – I got an ad on the FOOB site just now that says “Pimp your profile.”

I guess that would specifically refer to Mike Patterson as he grows up and writes his “classics.”
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 5th, 2009 at 8:46 am [Reply]

BB: Nice fucking pants.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 5th, 2009 at 8:49 am [Reply]

Curtis: Later today I’m going to have a sandwich with bread of wheat grains and ham of pig parts. It could definitely use some cheese of cow’s milk.
jouster
January 5th, 2009 at 8:51 am [Reply]

Mary’s reflection? Seems more like an ur-Mary, staring through a portal from whatever foul dimension it inhabits…….
Saluki
January 5th, 2009 at 8:53 am [Reply]

Monday’s strips:

Blondie: I like to toot in the bathtub too sometimes, if you know what I mean, and I think that you do.

GT: Are the Westminster Owls refered to as “The Lady Hooters”?

Luann: It would seem that Delta is in training to become Governor of my great state of Illinois.

MF: Once again behind the curve and not funny. And quit making fun of my great state of Illinois!

Marmaduke: Hell, if you were Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, or Jewish, you would wonder why people bring a tree in the house for a couple of weeks and then bring it out again.
Anonymous
January 5th, 2009 at 8:59 am [Reply]

MW: Cherry changed her hair? The only thing I notice is more blue sheen. But, it seems to me that what has changed is the location of their Lost Forest cabin.
It appears to have moved from a woodsy setting to the dusty towns of west Texas. Er, since I have never actually been to west Texas, it appears to have moved to what I imagine west Texas looks like. Cue Marty Robbins.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 5th, 2009 at 9:00 am [Reply]

Winners today:

Mutts: Unexpectedly brilliant.
My Cage: The frozen expression on his face is hilarious.
Sally Forth: Perfectly executed gag.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 5th, 2009 at 9:03 am [Reply]

Fred Basset: I bet you’d love to criticize it, wouldn’t you. But you can’t. It’s not for you.
ChattyGenes
January 5th, 2009 at 9:05 am [Reply]

#85 Mars, #86 True Fable.

My trick is to put a magnifying glass up to the screen. I think it MIGHT say “A Way with words.”
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 5th, 2009 at 9:06 am [Reply]

“Hi, I’m Harry L. Dinkle’s corpse and I’m here to…. wau-u-urgh…” [lurches] “…braiiiinnzzzzz.”
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
January 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am [Reply]

True Fable @ 86: Luann is clearly a big fan of “A Way With Words,” National Public Radio’s lively language call-in show. T-Brick likes to listen to podcasts of it in the car during her morning commute.
kalki
January 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am [Reply]

9CL: The zombie strip walks the earth searching for brains to consume as it creator has none…

Archie: Is Jughead going to eat that?

Beetle: To stand in front of a firing squad for desertion, we can only hope.

Blondie: Well either way, it is just Dagwood’s way to keep his family from hearing him spanking his monkey in the tub.

Crank: Can’t Crankers just burn the house down to kill the mouse like he does for everything else?

CircusJerk: Taint punny.

FW: Wow, this chick spreads it around. Now she is after Harry’s Dinkle. I knew Les wasn’t enough for her.

GA: Clovia’s head looks 50% larger in the third panel. Weird.

Luann: So, Delta was having all of the Caucasians in the school working for 3 years…just to get them to Washington to see Obama take office? Pretty conniving. Thing is, in real life, they wouldn’t get within a mile of the President, but I’m sure Greg is hard at work right now trying to draw his second black character that he hopes will look like Obama.

I await the horror that befalls the class in Washington when the food runs out and Oprah charges them like a mad bull as her hunger overwhelms her.
Crooked Soricidae
January 5th, 2009 at 9:30 am [Reply]

The 3rd panel of today’s MT shows that Cherry’s new hairstyle involves layering her hair with 90WT transmission oil, and mounding it up so that it resembles the blob.
Eric the baker
January 5th, 2009 at 9:32 am [Reply]

#84 True Fable – I’ll agree with your analysis of that gent’s career trajectory. I will say though, that the Sham-Wow guy irritates me much more than Billy Mays. At least I’ve never heard Billy make a statement like: “It’s made in Germany. You know they make good stuff.” (I’m paraphrasing slighty, I think)

Pitchmen who say things like that make my eyes cross in irritation.
True Fable
January 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am [Reply]

# 101 Chatty Genes – I was at work where they do not feel the need for magnifying glasses since every little thing we do is scrutinized down to the subatomic particles anyway, but thanks for the suggestion, sugar pie! I have a magnifier at home but if I bring it to work it just might be assimilated into the Borg.

# 103 Spectacular Spider-Brick – You mean they have more on public radio than “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and “Car Talk” and the Sunday Afternoon Screech-Along at the Met, or whatever that opera show is called? I must investigate this wonderland of which you speak, further!
True Fable
January 5th, 2009 at 9:37 am [Reply]

# 106 Eric the baker – Oh GOD the first time I heard him say that I just about came unglued! I didn’t know whether to curse at his assholiness or laugh at it. In the end I decided I wasn’t going to buy any Sham-Wow since their pitchman was a dickhead, and you know dickheads always try to sell you useless stuff.
Brick Bradford
January 5th, 2009 at 9:39 am [Reply]

MT As Cherry wonders if Mark will notice her latest, totally out of date hairstyle (no, he won’t), nature, red in tooth and claw, goes on outsider her window. Things are usually so bucolic in Lost Forest–the animals all getting on like Disney characters. Here we see the drama of predator and prey. A sign of something wrong? The edenlike balance of LF disturbed by something? Like the stench of Cherry’s hairspray? Hurry home, Mark.
The animals are acting like animals!
alchemist
January 5th, 2009 at 9:45 am [Reply]

Phantom: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!!

– long time reader, first time poster. Loooove this blog. Thanks all for many laughs!
Cranky
January 5th, 2009 at 10:09 am [Reply]

Dick Tracy Toiletries??? Seriously? “Y’know, Dick, sometimes I just don’t feel… fresh.”
Chyron HR
January 5th, 2009 at 10:15 am [Reply]

9CL – This week, dear readers, we will give you a break from Edda’s snotty attitude. Instead, enjoy her mother’s snotty attitude!

Curtis – “Oh, my drought- and diarrhea-plagued fellow villager, I would be happy to share my magic secret of fresh water with you, you only needed to ask.” And thus begins another week of the Africanesque tale of “The Maiden Who Liked to Screw With People”.

Luann – Gee, Delta, how nice of you to hoard all the money your classmates earned over the past three years in the hopes that somebody you approve of would be elected President in the brief window of time you’ll be attending Generic California High School. Sure, all your right-leaning classmates might have preferred to go visit the guy who’s President right now, but they don’t count for squat!

Luann 2 – Not that “Let’s save money all through our high school careers and then buy new computers for the school when we’re about to leave” is a brilliant idea, either.

Rex Morgan – “Okay, enough about the kid, I think we’re all missing something important. THERE ARE DONUTS?!”

Zits – Did you know that Connie Duncan is a child psychologist? That’s okay, neither do Jerry Scott or Jim Borgman!
papa zita
January 5th, 2009 at 10:31 am [Reply]

9CL: At least now I know why Edda’s chinless. Runs in the family. Another thing Dr. Burber forgets – pre-med doesn’t mean you’ll ever be a doctor, or is that just too damn obvious for McEldowney to understand?

A3G: Breaking and entering, tampering with evidence, suspicious of her “future husband”. Good to have you back, Margo!

Rex Morgan, Croaker: Yeah, that’ll be good for your daughter’s self-esteem. Believe the drunken crone that’s about to fall out of her chair instead of your own lil’ lollipop-head. Remember, just because that head went through your loins is no reason to take your frustrations out on her.
Pete DuKane
January 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am [Reply]

RMMD: They have donuts in the lifeboats!?
Calico
January 5th, 2009 at 10:51 am [Reply]

#108 – I hate the fact that he’s wearing a freaking HEADSET while he talks to the camera.
Christ, what an asshole.
Calico
January 5th, 2009 at 10:52 am [Reply]

#114 – Must be a Tim Horton’s onboard somewhere.
ladadog
January 5th, 2009 at 11:01 am [Reply]

Oh, sorry, #98 was me.
Since I lost my job last month, I had to purchase my very own laptop, get a new email address, blah-blah-blah,and I am still working out the kinks.
While I’m on the subject, could anyone tell me the process for crossing out a line of text? I love when you guys do it, and I would love to know how it is done.
Thanks!
UncleJeff
January 5th, 2009 at 11:05 am [Reply]

#114, #116 — Saw a funny promo for the USA Network series “Psyche” where a guy steals a donut out of a box that had been held by a murder victim.
Anonymous
January 5th, 2009 at 11:11 am [Reply]

Rex has gone from the Voyage of the Damned to the Night at the Opera.

The stowaway looks like Harpo Marx. I am assuming that this is going to lead to everyone on board being in one state room by the end of the voyage.

Margaret Dumont must be sick because she looks so emaciated. Maybe it is all the drinking.
Julian Meteor
January 5th, 2009 at 11:25 am [Reply]

#108 LOL!!!!!
Someone tried to sell me a MAGAZINE in a shop today!!!! lmao
I was like “WTF???!!!”
Bootsy
January 5th, 2009 at 11:28 am [Reply]

My international houseguests leave tomorrow, so I’m enjoying some alone time at the office. I think I’ll sit at Rex ‘n June’s table. Bring me a martini! And a donut. And smile while you’re doing it!
Bootsy
January 5th, 2009 at 11:31 am [Reply]

ladadog, use the “greater than, less than” thingies, as you would for bold, but put STRIKE in them.
Calico
January 5th, 2009 at 11:43 am [Reply]

And for ending the strike text, place a “right facing divider line” like this / before the word strike in between the bracket thingys. The “/” commands an end to the function.

You can play with the preview too to see what it looks like before you post.
buckyswife
January 5th, 2009 at 11:45 am [Reply]

JP: So I see that JP will continue the thrill ride of eroticism and violence, as we wait, breath held, to find out who paid Sam’s hotel bill.

Continuity is conveyed, of course, by Sam’s unchanging facial expression: stripper blown to bits, no charge for the hotel room–it all warrants the same blank stare.

MT: Good god, Cherry, how can you worry about your hair when a rodent homicide is about to occur outside your door? That owl clearly wants to know when Mark will return so he can swoop down, giant talons grasping, upon everyone’s favorite nature writer.

And while Mark might not notice your hair, Cherry, surely he’ll notice the way your facial features are sliding off to the right side of your head….
Esther Blodgett
January 5th, 2009 at 11:49 am [Reply]

#95 Wolfdog: I nearly spit out my tea of peppermint leaves at that!
Anonymous
January 5th, 2009 at 11:50 am [Reply]

Mark would notice a hare on her head long before he noticed her hair.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 5th, 2009 at 12:00 pm [Reply]

For example, typing

Rex Morgan, <strike>Gay Blade</strike> MD will yield

Rex Morgan, ~~Gay Blade~~ MD.
AMSTERDANG
January 5th, 2009 at 12:04 pm [Reply]

GT: Well I now know how I will end any recitation of a plan of action or to-do list. Milford! I’ve got a dentist appointment, so I guess I get that cup of coffee afterward. Milford! I need to hit the ATM and, as a precautionary measure, I’m going to stop at the drugstore to pick up some ointment for crabs. Milford!
These Strange Worlds
January 5th, 2009 at 12:05 pm [Reply]

9CL

I kinda like the rerun better than the Belgium interlude. Does that make me a bad fanboy?

Since my day job is helping write proposals, I am accutely aware of imovable deadlines. I’ve flown 500 page engineering proposals from Johnson Space Center to San Francisco the night before they were due and shown up at Bechtel HQ with an hour to spare (this was two day jobs back. We have our act together here thank ghod).

But the situation makes me wonder. Do comic artists send in a week’s worth at a time? They must, or else 9CL would only be a day’s rerun, not a week’s rerun. Right?

And I can’t help but wonder what happens in a genuinely episodic comic. Do they just rerun an earlier one and hope nobody notices? Hmmm. That would explain a lot.
Artist formerly known as Ben
January 5th, 2009 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

1/5

MT: Brother Owl, thank you for taking time out from mouse hunting to express an interest. And Cherry, I hope the new ‘do helps you to get Mark to put out. Not optimistic, though.

9CL: I for one, am enjoying this brief respite from Belgian cello soap opera.

FC: Grandma undergoes major medical tests, to the amusement and delight of all.

Blondie: Hell, he’s got to drown out the fart sounds some way.

Phantom: I dream of the day when Hollywood pirates and giant lizards in Speedos learn to settle their differences peaceably.

DT: Detective shoots drag queen 6 times. Internal affairs investigating.

Popeye: Wimpy, realizing that he’s intruded on a private moment, slowly and silently backs away.

H&J: Too bad Bentley forgot how to draw her.

GA: Other questions come to mind. Why call in a mechanic when the diner is short staffed? Aren’t there any other unemployed or underemployed men, with the new depression and all? Can we not get any relief from Slim? Corky, have you no mercy on us at all?

OBH: Grandpa is reading “escapist literature” whose title starts with “The Pants.” Color me curious.

BB: Beetle figures that if Peter Parker and Elly Patterson can reboot their strips, he can go back to being a late forties frat boy.

S-M: “Phew! Thank God he’s gone. Now we can say what we really think about him.”
Niall
January 5th, 2009 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

Monday of Horror

Archie: …the AJGLU3000 needs to lay off the thesaurus. The correct word to make this at least within the overall definition of “humour” is bugged. At least it would bring it in the category of “antideluvian joke”, but it would at leats have been a joke. “Followed” is not a joke, or anything for that matter.

Beetle: Oh, do this on a Monday, do you? Sorry, we already know this would not lead into a different direction for the strip, with Beetle realising it’s actually a voluntary term, he can quit, he can go home if he wants. The strip didn’t start with him in the army, it doesn’t have to end with him in it… wait, are they setting up the end of the strip?? No, no, sorry, that was a momentary lapse of reason. Things will be back to uniformed normal tomorrow.

Blondie: …has featured the highest number of panels with a naked male in the newspaper for over 50 years.

Kwanzaa: Still showing artistic chops, but sorry, the story is so badly setup not even a golden otter could save it. Badly setup, did I say? Try for a setup as subtle as a sumo wrestler is svelte. (Note I’m not saying sumo wrestlers are fat – I know it’s a lot of muscle. But everyone can agree they’re not svelte.) Meanwhile, in the wings, await three giant animal monsters. If they combine, we’ll know that Billingsley has finally discovered cheap anime.

Dick Tracy Toiletries is a phrase to plunge anyone into depths of horror. An weapon of olfactory destruction is about to be unleashed.

Thorp: Starting a strip with “Ashley Aiellosubamrine’s hot hands lifts Milford’s girls” threatens to make a brain come up with cheap pornographic images in flat nearly-non-Euclidian geometries; witness the girl in the corner seeming to make a beeline for that thrust chest. The circle-jerk in panel three is not helping. Way to start the new year in horror.

Hagar asks the question if a jet of urine can put out a blazing torch. It’s the only way to resolve this situation. The horror continues in the funnies.

Hi has the remote and tries to drive his wife crazy by not turning down the volume. He’s numbing himself to his situation through sensory overload. Oh yay, great way to greet Monday.

JP: So, is this when the strip finally goes for porn? “I settle the bill, now sleep with me”? Chicka-chicka-bow time.

Mary Worth meddles by distance. The explosion shoudl take all week. The scars will last a lifetime. Mary lives on. I guess psychic vampires can be seen in mirrors.

My Cage: First, major win on Sunday, I had a great belly laugh! Ed Power had hinted this was going to be addressed. Just beautiful. As for today: and wham, more character-based humour addressed through situations. Development! It can happen on the funny pages!

…now to try and catch up. I haven’t even gotten to the Bee-Grinding Awards!!
Perky Bird
January 5th, 2009 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

Is everyone in Curtis’s Kwanzaa village a maiden? If so, I think this might be the first Kwanzaa tale that actually takes place on the island of Lesbos.
Spunky N. Tadpole
January 5th, 2009 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

BTW, I see that we ‘Mudges aren’t the only ones cheesed off at Dixie’s demise in Judge Parker (“nee Kathy Patterson of San Diego”? – didn’t know that – somewhat of a letdown, there!). But at least Mr. Cavna has Sam Driver pegged (“IQ: dumb as hair gel”). Too bad – Dixie is one the few comics “regulars” I’ll really miss.
sugarpie
January 5th, 2009 at 12:20 pm [Reply]

~~Thanks for the instructions. I’m horrified by how much I still have to learn.~~
Muffaroo
January 5th, 2009 at 12:24 pm [Reply]

Smiled and/or snickered at Bizarro, Monty, and Mother Goose & Grimm today. Nice work, folks.

Blondie – Dag’s first number will be “I’m Forever Biting Bubbles.”

DTracy – I see her point.

DTracy II – I wonder if she knows Marshall Brodien, Professional Magician (who ended up as a clown on the Chicago “Bozo” until the show ended).

FBasset – Fred, Fred, Fred. Even with my low expectations, you never fail to disappoint.

GThorp – Ah, the Milford pre-game ritual where the players remind each other of which team they’re supposed to be playing for. After the game, they get together and shout “Parking lot!” so they’ll know where they left their cars.

HtHorrible – It’s funny because they’re in a deadly situation and Lucky Eddie says something really stupid and irrelevant again.

MTrail – Meanwhile, nobody will remember to turn the water off going into the swamp, and a duck might drown!!

Mduke – Actually, Marmaduke is wondering why every year you buy and throw out an artificial tree.

Mutts – I find that no two snowflakes are entirely dissimilar, and that the similarities of any two flakes far outweigh their differences. Maybe that’s just me.

PBSwine – Timing is everything. This strip is about half as funny as it would have been when gas cost twice as much as it does now. Otherwise, good one.

Phantom – How long now before somebody says, “There were monsters here, yes, but they weren’t the gill-men. We were the monsters.” Stop the madness now.

Plugger – You’re a senile plugger if you think there was ever a time when you could make eight carbons with a manual typewriter.

PCity – It’s an interesting departure. I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I don’t get it.

S-Man – Spidey’s camera was bitten by a radioactive spider as well, so when stressed it shows half of itself with the other half hidden by webbing and red cloth. This strip takes place in a mythical past before the fickle public turned against Spider-Man. And his camera.

True Fable @108 – I’d made that decision within the first couple seconds of the first time I saw that ad. Problem solved.

Cranky @111 – They’ll just call the perfume line “DICK” and the tag line will be “Smells like Dick!” (Footnote: Once a week I am in a chat on a provider called “meebo” that routinely censors 2/3 of Dick Van Dyke’s name so that it reads “**** Van ****.” But they let people spam us with porn cam links several times a night.)
Spunky N. Tadpole
January 5th, 2009 at 12:39 pm [Reply]

BB: Beetle’s anachronistic “civvies” – which appear to be sort-of late-1940s fashion (?) – might be explicable by it being the last sort of “civilian” getup he owned before originally enlisting – in the early 1950s – when the Beetle Bailey strip started. But since it’s 2009 already, his appearance in this outfit needs more explanation:

1). Beetle just has the worst fashion sense of anyone in the entire universe.

2) As Camp Swampy seems to exist in a weird bubble outside the normal space/time continuum (probably due to weird military experiments conducted there because no one would notice, or miss the place) he really does think it’s still 1955 or so.

3) The artists just got lazy/sloppy and copied the “Beetle in civvies” template out of an old file. A very old file.
Little A from Da Bronx
January 5th, 2009 at 12:40 pm [Reply]

BB: If somebody has already pointed this out, don’t read too far, but… I have no idea where this strip is going, but about 173 years ago, before he entered the army, Beetle (that was his nick-name in college) used to dress like this, and one day he was running down the street to escape something (I forget what) and dashed into an army recruitment center. The rest is history. He had no eyes then, either. How do I know these things? I read one of Mort Walker’s books, about 40 years ago, is how.

I think this was during The Korean War, or maybe The Civil War, one of those wars back then.
odinthor
January 5th, 2009 at 12:52 pm [Reply]

Crock. — Didn’t work. Not smiling.

GT. — Now I’ll be wondering all day “Is number 13 copping a feelie, or is he holding hands with the dude on his left?” Intellectual challenges such as this are what keep comix readers sharp and pleasant to converse with.

JP. — Points for using “whom,” and doing so correctly.

Luann. — “Actually, computers and prom are way more important than meeting the president,” said odinthor, noted bon vivant and raconteur who once upon a time shook the hand of President Ford.
mollificent
January 5th, 2009 at 1:02 pm [Reply]

Quick on-my-way-to-work note: I was reading “Shortpacked” this morning and wondered briefly if David Willis is going to weigh in on the Spidey-lameness question at all. If so, that would be AWESOME. :)

All right, fine, I’ll get dressed…*sigh*
UncleJeff
January 5th, 2009 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

BB — Mad Magazine in the 1970s was doing comic strip parodies and they had one where Sarge and an officer grabbed Beetle just to see why he wore his helmets/hats so low on his forehead. They yanked off the helmet and found he had “Get Us Out of Vietnam” tattooed on his forehead.
docweasel
January 5th, 2009 at 1:28 pm [Reply]

Lynn assumes the position and bites the pillow, awaiting the inevitable anal rape from her father that follows a poor skating performance. :(
indoor voices
January 5th, 2009 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

those of us who were still commenting on the bumsteads’ warped ideas on interior design in yesterday’s post wondered where the rest of you were.

hangs head and sighs
Gabacho
January 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

Coming Back to Gil Thorp – owing to a series of family issues, I have been away for about a month. The first thing I checked when I got back were the comics and I made a discovery:

Reading Gil Thorp backwards from its current date to the last one you remember in no way detracts from the plot line. Try it. It’s amazing.

Family Circus – The worst set up to a poorly thought out pun ever. It was more like a bowel movement than a joke.

Mary Worth – Third panel: “No, unfortunate really is the right word. Now your ponytail, that’s tragic. Well, I am glad we had this little father-son chat, Lynn.”

Sally Forth – Sandwich shop guys can be so cruel. That’s why I do all my bitching at Blockbuster and Ted should too.
Old School Allie Cat
January 5th, 2009 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

Luann – Um, Delta, I’ll be honest. Your classmates don’t give a damn about anything other than themselves. If you all go to DC, they’ll primarily be concerned about making out on the bus, sneaking out after roomcheck, and possibly scoring some booze. Also – have you made reservations, or were you just going to wing it once you got there? Come on!

9CL – Not that I’m complaining, because really, I’m not complaining, but I really don’t get what happened with the cello contest. I didn’t want another week of Happy Hands Belgium, but can we safely say that the chick won? And if so, why is Edda so happy? I figured they’d spell it out for us a little – but they’ve thankfully killed the storyline for a week of Professor McBitchyshrew.

MW – No, no tragic is how long this story has been meandering on. Even 9CL knew when to call it quits… either Lynn slashes herself or her daddy with the skate blade…and…scene. Then Mary returns to Charterstone and a mysterious new tenant moves in. So on, ad infinitum.
ladadog
January 5th, 2009 at 1:44 pm [Reply]

Dear Bootsy, Calico & One-eyed Wolf Dog,
Thank you for the information. I would have replied sooner but, after reading Wolf Dog’s advice I was laughing so hard I had to ~~run to the bathroom~~ compose myself.
Thanks again, kind Curmudgeons.
lettuce
January 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

A3-G: I’d assume someone in regular congress with Beelzebub, The Prince of Darkness and King of Lies would be more discreet when illegally obstructing justice. But Margo doesn’t show up to my work telling ME how to goof off by reading comics, so I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt.
Lorem Ipsum
January 5th, 2009 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

Since most of the literate snarkers here are fluent in HTML, can we get another lesson, Please?

My question is the posting of a link with it being renamed. I know it is using the <a href code but everything after that becomes chaos for me.

I’ll be here patiently waiting for a response, thank you and here’s my address….
lettuce
January 5th, 2009 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

Dick Tracy: With”Angelorious” Either Dick Tracy is about do to the gay subculture what it did to the science of robotics with “TRAZ-R”, or Margo Magee is slumming it.

Crankshaft: Lady, you know that’s not a mouse. It’s a kid who backsassed Crankshaft on the bus. Pretending otherwise will not help you once the police show up.

Mark Trail: That owls are surpringly involved in Mark Trail’s goings-on is not surprising to me. That mice, right before their slaughter, would respond is.

And no, he won’t notice that you changed your hair or that you have a vagina.

Phantom: You know, when I set up a Sea Monkey tank, they turned out much, much smaller.
Mel
January 5th, 2009 at 2:08 pm [Reply]

144: Old School Allie Cat,

Brooke was late getting this week’s continued storyline of the cello competition to the syndicate, so they are using reruns.

As for the story thus far: The second place winner was announced and then the judge extended his hand. A female hand was then seen shaking his. So Amos was first place, and Edda was happy/cannibalistic (depending on your take of her gaping maw — geez, why would Amos put anything in that thing).

Somebody shoot me down if I misunderstood the handshake — with all the handjiving, who knows what’s going on?
comicsgrl
January 5th, 2009 at 2:12 pm [Reply]

MW: Strip begins with Mary brushing her hair in an oval mirror. The only thing missing is the last panel where all you see is a well and the phone call you will get 5 min later with a gravelly voice stating that you will be dead in 7 days.
Muddtallica
January 5th, 2009 at 2:14 pm [Reply]

Blondie – Well, there’s one suggestively-shaped bathrobe-knot I never needed to see. :S
Curtis – …cheese or no cheese, this story is losing pace now that we’ve cut away from the “grisly revenge” part. Make with the frog-vomiting, Billingsley, or I’m losing interest.
Dick Tracy – Jesus Christ. If Christopher Nolan is looking for somebody to step into Heath Ledger’s shoes as the Joker, I’d like to nominate this thing. I don’t know if it’s the pig nose, the fixed grin or the LACK OF EYES that’s doing it, but whatever it is, I feel even more ill looking at “Angelorious” than I do when I look at any other member of the Dick Tracy cast, and that’s really saying something.
Get Fuzzy – Can I just say how refreshing it is to read a Get Fuzzy with one clearly defined punchline, as opposed to the usual incoherent dogpile of mini-jokes that add up to nothing? This can be a charming sort of strip when it actually exercises some self-discipline…
Fred Basset – …having said all that, having ten attempted punchlines is better than having no attempted punchlines. Like, ever.
Mark Trail – Well, I certainly noticed that Cherry has changed her hair, given that seems to do so at some point between the first and third panels, whilst the owl and rodent are having their little heart-to-heart. I can’t really speak for Mark, though, because I doubt that Mark can even notice the difference between the genders of humans without lifting them up by the scruff of the neck and poking at their undercarriage.
Marvin – Perhaps inspired by Gasoline Alley and Spider-Man’s recent forays into bizarre onomatopoeia, Tom Armstrong today throws his hat into the ring with his own opus, “FWiPSLAM!” Like the rest of the strip, it pretty much fails to convey any kind of intelligible information or sentiment, but on the other hand it does end up filling an entire panel that might otherwise have contained a Marvin character, so I guess I can’t complain.
Mary Worth – Oh, Frank, Frank, for someone who demands the highest standards from others, you’ve really let yourself down with your form in this phase of the Grand Meddle-Off. This is amateur meddling at best; look at your uncertain stance, your lack of lizard-eyed determination, and the shameful lapse of concentration that has allowed your chosen meddlee to actually interrupt you.
My Cage – What’s this? Worthwhile character development in my comics page? Never! Heresy! Burn it!
Pearls Before Swine – Note to Pastis: more Pigita, please. It doesn’t even matter what context she’s in, because even her name is funny. :D
Slylock Fox – Ah, Slick Smitty, the Slylock villain who raises the most questions. In this case, I’d actually be in favour of letting him keep the buried coins; sure, he’s trying to scam them, but those coins might well be the only remnants of the proud human civilisation that once reigned supreme before the Slyverse was commandeered by the anthropomorphic beast-men. Let’s cut the homo sapien refugee a little slack, eh?
Calico
January 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm [Reply]

Re: Beetle – pleeease don’t tell me he’s going back in time too a la FOOB and now Spidey.

I may have posted this a century or two ago, but in either 1985 or ‘86 there was a fabulous Mark Trail where something bad happened to him, as usual, and Cherry got the news via telephone that he was OK. She says to Doc, “Mark’s alive-thank God!”
Doc replies, “Where are you going, Cherry?’
Her answer: “To get my hair done.”
I sh*t you not. That particular strip produced many a laugh.

#147 – I have yet to try that as well.
Old School Allie Cat
January 5th, 2009 at 2:26 pm [Reply]

#149 – Mel – Aha! If I had actually read the panel correctly, it would have helped – I didn’t realize he was awarding second prize.

So, OK. That makes sense. As to why anyone would put anything near Edda’s mouth, I couldn’t tell you. Of course, Amos isn’t any prize either.
One-eyed Wolfdog
January 5th, 2009 at 2:29 pm [Reply]

Making linked text:

Typing

I wonder if <a href=”http://darklyrics.com/lyrics/ensiferum/iron.html#7″>this song</a> is secretly about Mary Worth.

Will yield

I wonder if this song is secretly about Mary Worth.
Eric the baker
January 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pm [Reply]

MT – Cherry, you could tap-dance on a table, naked, with multi-coloured flashing LEDs surrounding your nipples, your hair on fire, flapping a cow-bell like a lunatic Winter Olympics fan, while singing “Ding Dong Merrily on High”… and Mark wouldn’t notice you.
Darling, he’s just not that into you!
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
January 5th, 2009 at 2:38 pm [Reply]

Lorem Ipsum @ 147: Glad to oblige:

Surprise! <A HREF="http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl"> Spider-Man </A> still sucks! Let the fruit-throwing begin!

becomes:

Surprise! Spider-Man still sucks! Let the fruit-throwing begin!
Amateur
January 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm [Reply]

PBS: Aw, cute!

I don’t know, there’s just something about a pig in a little Dutch boy outfit holding tulips that gets me. :-)
Erich
January 5th, 2009 at 2:44 pm [Reply]

A question: I’ve seen single-focus blogs that concentrate on Mary Worth (“Mary Worth and Me”), Herb & Jamaal (“A ‘Blog’ About Things”), Mallard Fillmore (“Duck & Cover”), Spider-Man (“The Amazing Spider-Blog,” now part of “The Meekrat Entertainment Group”), Gil Thorp (“This Week in Milford”), Gasoline Alley (“Going Antisane”), Slylock Fox (“Reynard Noir” and “I Found All Six”), and many others. (Granted, many of these blogs have been inactive for a long time, but some of them continue to be updated regularly.) My question: Is there a blog devoted to a daily (or at least semi-regular) analysis of Curtis? If so, I’d appreciate the URL so I can see what they’re making of the annual Kwanzaa insanity.
Amateur
January 5th, 2009 at 2:44 pm [Reply]

#83 — agree that PC was pretty funny. (As for “pay-to-play,” think “Governor of Illinois.”)
Lorem Ipsum
January 5th, 2009 at 2:48 pm [Reply]

Wolfdog and Spiderbrick…you guys are the snarkrifiest. I have saved to a special place so I don’t have to ask anyone ever again.
Artist formerly known as Ben
January 5th, 2009 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

#147 lorem ipsum,

To be honest, I’ve always just copied pasted from w3schools. It’s worked for me so far.
Angry Kem
January 5th, 2009 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

Crock may be too insane for the Middle Ages, but that’s never stopped me before.

S-M: I shall ruin the suspense and predict that the next ten strips will run as follows:

1) Spidey swings through the air while bemoaning his poverty. People look up and say, “There’s Spidey! What a great guy!”

2) through 10) Ditto.

What dark secret is Margo going to discover in What’s-His-Name’s apartment? Is he already married? Has he been “smoking” “dope”? Is Ray his long-lost love-child? Is Margo his long-lost love-child? What gripping detail will prevent the Princess of Darkness from marrying That Other Guy With the Sand-Coloured Hair? Stay tuned!
He Brought Queenie Baby Jesus
January 5th, 2009 at 3:02 pm [Reply]

My fellow Curmudgeonteers, I have a question for you:

What the hell?

seriously what
TheCasey
January 5th, 2009 at 3:05 pm [Reply]

83 – Mr.O’M – The reason they’re wearing Speedos is because the artist doesn’t want people to know how lovingly detailed he draws his lizardman genitalia.
Calico
January 5th, 2009 at 3:09 pm [Reply]

#163 – I have absolutely no idea.
Lorem Ipsum
January 5th, 2009 at 3:17 pm [Reply]

AFKAB-I went to that W3schools and unless you know wtf they are talking about, its mostly gibberish. I surf the internet and somedays I just want to scream, what the hell is not found 404and chuck my PC out the door! I want to surf and be able to decipher what I am trouble shooting without having to find another website that explains the explanation.
odinthor
January 5th, 2009 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

FB — Today’s wild japery constitutes an hilarious allegory of the mid-13th century (and, thus, timeless) human condition, juxtaposing the well-off (possessing a ball but, upping the madcap risibility of the situation, unable to use it) conservative (tree-like) Guelphs with the sly imperial aspirations of the possession-hungry Ghibellines (symbolized by the eponymous Fred). The falling and, indeed, largely fallen leaves indicate the precarious “health” of the possessor-tree while infusing with melancholy the laughter we derive from the ironic position of the unpossessor, on whom they fall, the “unable to keep” losing them to the “unable to use.” On the whole, a savage tour de force fearlessly exposing the Janus-like character of human greed and ownership, prompting the observer to cry, “Bravo!—Oh ~~Magoo~~ Fred, you’ve done it again!”
Marthas Rolling Pin
January 5th, 2009 at 3:53 pm [Reply]

#149 Mel: Panel one: Amos has handsex with the Asian girl. Panel two: Therefore, he must be devoured.

That’s what I believe happened.

Meanwhile, Steve Canyon has a late entry in the awesome transition to Christmas greetings sweepstakes.
Anonymous
January 5th, 2009 at 3:57 pm [Reply]

Did anyone else notice that “Greg” in Lynn’s photograph looks amazingly like a young Bob Keeshan?

I don’t like where this strip is headed.
Bootsy
January 5th, 2009 at 4:08 pm [Reply]

# 163, HBQBJ, I especially like the phrase “touch your phone to move around” but also, I have no idea.

Red Greenback, gimme that donut! And make me a martini.

True Fable, I’ve been awol a few days. Did I miss the Bee Grindng Awards? If so, please point me to which thread contains them. Thanks, love.
jamoche
January 5th, 2009 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

#163 – That it exists doesn’t surprise me. That the author is charging $5, doesn’t appear to be associated with whichever comic syndicate owns it, and that it actually got approval to be a shipping iPhone app? Um, right.
True Fable
January 5th, 2009 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

#170 Bootsy darlin’! – They’re here at # 617!

I tried to link directly to it but I’m not sure it will land right on it. It’s in the Festive Metapost thread, anyway.
Spunky N. Tadpole
January 5th, 2009 at 4:37 pm [Reply]

#163:

Well, it’s obvious: you just have to read the explanation:

Heathcliff:
Comic wordt dagelijks bijgewerkt. Raak de telefoon om te navigeren op de comic.

Simple!

On a more serious level (why, though?) – someone seems to be under the apprehension that there is a market out there for an iPhone app that will let interested users touch-navigate through a daily update of a Heathcliff strip.

A significant misapprehension, IMHO: a juxtaposition of three concepts that don’t really seem to go together:

iPhone.
Interested users.
Heathcliff

Even for $5: personally, I wouldn’t download a Heathcliff app even if it were free – now Mary Worth, or Apartment 3-G — that’s different!
Swine Before Pearls
January 5th, 2009 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

#163 Ack! Not Heathcliff! I wouldn’t let that cat anywhere near my phone!

In fact you can collect the entire set here .
Of if you want something more non-traditional, try this!
Bootsy
January 5th, 2009 at 5:19 pm [Reply]

# 172, True Fable – Truman! That was magnificent! If I were a goat, I’d faint at your feet.
Steve the Pocket
January 5th, 2009 at 5:25 pm [Reply]

Speaking of iPhones, is there any way to make mobile-device-specific versions of websites that are optimized for their small screen size? I know there’s a “handheld” CSS spec that you can essentially use to make a whole different layout, but I don’t know if the iPhone or any other “smart phones” are designed to use it.
Steve the Pocket
January 5th, 2009 at 5:27 pm [Reply]

…I ask because it seems like syndicates making simplified, “mobile” versions of their sites would be a good move and maybe keep strip-specific apps like these from popping up.
bats :[
January 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

Just wadin’ late into the day’s fray:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3171610005/sizes/o/
He Brought Queenie Baby Jesus
January 5th, 2009 at 9:24 pm [Reply]

Steve, it absolutely is possible, and in fact everyone’s favorite Chron seems to have quite a nice one. I can’t see any indication of comics up in here, though. Sigh. Happily, enough phones have decent browsers now (especially, for an alternative to paying $5 for Heathcliff, the iPhone) that the full-blown chron page can be pretty easily navigated.
mollificent
January 5th, 2009 at 11:47 pm [Reply]

Angry Kem: I was mystified as to Crock as well. Then, as I was reading your medievalization :) it occurred to me: He smiled, and waited for something to happen, and smiled, and waited. Rinse and repeat. Round about midnight he finally ventured a “Well?”

Make sense? No? Well, it is Crock. ;)
sugapie
January 6th, 2009 at 12:36 am [Reply]

#166 Im probably not as stupid as I look, but I have no fucking idea what that link is talking about. I finally did figure out the stroke through bit though. I guess, sigh, Im doomed to another learning annex class.
Alex Blaze
January 6th, 2009 at 1:33 am [Reply]

Thanks for the shout-out, Josh!

Everyone, go out and vote for the Comics Curmudgeon! This will help his site grow a lot, and we all know he doesn’t ask for much from us!
Alex Blaze
January 6th, 2009 at 1:40 am [Reply]

Oh my, this is so the wrong thread.

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