Metapost: Oh, yeah, two other things
New comics coming shortly, but first there’s a couple of things I meant to put in yesterday’s COTW post and forgot.
First, faithful reader yellojkt as ever is running some comics bracketology on his blog to go along with the NCAA basketball tournament. This year’s tourney is the National Kinkiest Komic Karacter Kick-Off, and you can vote! Voting is already open for Kinkiest Kouple, Hottest Soap Hunk, and Hottest Comics Barely Legal Babe, with more to come, including Best Bear and Most Dutiful Dominatrix. Vote early, vote often!
Also! I’ve been meaning to put this up for a bit … you might remember a few weeks ago when I compared Hi and Lois to Revolutionary Road. This elicited an email from faithful reader zooby, who found that dialogue from the latter worked quite well in the former. Check it out!
One-eyed Wolfdog
March 24th, 2009 at 10:34 am
I think my life has enough self-loathing in it already without voting on the Hottest Comics Barely Legal Babe.
zenvelo
March 24th, 2009 at 10:42 am
what’s next? Mrs DeGroot in a conversation with TJ right from the pages of The Reader?
actually, given their conversation in the bath last week, that might work.
BenG
March 24th, 2009 at 10:47 am
I love Lois’ smile during the second panel dialogue.
Islamorada Girl
March 24th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Something’s been bothering me lately, so I bring it here. Has anyone else noticed that there are only male Croccos in Phantom? Is Crocco Island some kind of gay sandbar, or are they all just left sitting on giant eggs while the females are off somewhere else frolicking in the waves? Or do they switch sexes like oysters and reproduce themselves? I really need some answers here. Perhaps mainly why am I worred about the goings-on in a stupid comic strip where this white guy roams Africa in form-fitting purple latex?
Brick Bradford
March 24th, 2009 at 10:57 am
As Miss Buxley has been tormenting General Halftrack for lord only knows how many decades, listing her under the “barely legal” seems, uh, overly generous. She should probably be under barely ambulatory.
The Hi and Lois “remake” reminds me of an old Mad magazine feature called (something like) What If Famous Authors Wrote Comic Strips? My personal favorite was Little Orphan Annie as written by Tennessee Williams. “I feel old, Daddy, do I look old?”
“Not now Annie. Daddy’s writing his will”.
Peanuts, as written by Rudyard Kipling, was also good.
Brick Bradford
March 24th, 2009 at 10:59 am
#4 Being as the Croccos are reptiles and wear loincloths, how do we know we’re not seeing any females?
Or, maybe it’s like the Smurfs, where there was only one female. It always seemed like Smurfette had a bleak future.
commodorejohn
March 24th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Stop doing that, Josh!
A3G – Kenley’s hair expands and contracts in accordance with her mood. Which makes her more interesting than any other tertiary character in the strip.
A.D. – “POOP?”
Blondie – Actually, I believe they still do.
DTM – Wow, both Alice and her mother had shotgun weddings. That’s way more menacing than Dennis.
FW – Ha? Ha?
GT – Well. That was easy.
JP – I love the looming, ominous SUV that Sue Ellen’s mom drives. You get the feeling that if they could plausibly have put her at the helm of a Star Destroyer, they would have.
Luann – “I’m kidding. Of course. I certainly wasn’t coming on to you. Especially not you, TJ.”
MT – Guys, you’re being unwittingly outsmarted by Rusty Trail. Rusty, for God’s sake. Forget the Fist O’ Justice, you’re being cherry-tapped to defeat. (WARNING: TV TROPES WILL EAT YOUR LIFE.)
MW – So whose idea was it to cast Louise Brooks as Adrian, anyway?
OBH – This strip gets off some really esoteric but hilarious punchlines.
Phantom – So juicy SWEEEET!
PBS – Wow. Rat is pretty much coming to my place of employment. Maybe I’ll call in sick today.
SF – Oh, I so want to peek ahead, but I know this will be better one day at a time.
SM – “Hi, Aunt Decay…er…”
Poteet
March 24th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Yellojkt, thank you for the Hottest Soap Hunk contest. First because your prose is so entertaining, second because it will be fun to see the results, and third because the candidates validate my feelings of deprivation in regard to the assortment of comic-strip males available for hunk-watchers. Is that all there is…is that all there is…if that’s all there is, my friend, then let’s keep dancing…
Ethan Shuster
March 24th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Lesson for the day: I won’t be seeing Revolutionary Road.
yellojkt
March 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Thanks for the link, Josh. The statmeter is spinning as I speak. And just to entice people to come back, I’m saving the Hottest MILF category for last, because I just know that’s what the CC readers crave the most.
Poteet,
I sympathize with you. Perhaps the fact that about 97% of the comics are written by guys has something to do with the sever lack of hunks. It’s been a long time since we’ve even seen SuperBaldo.
Niall
March 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
That H&L is pure GOLD.
Jackuul
March 24th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Perhaps there should be some sort of contest to see who can make the most outrageous comic mix, using just two strips and combining the dialogue? In that case, I am inclines to attempt a Mary Worth and Garfield crossover… however there is a chance I might divide by zero – and we know what happens then.
Amateur
March 24th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
As one who saw (and detested) “Revolutionary Road,” that’s pretty darn funny.
P. Unicorn
March 24th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
My favorite part of that Hi and Lois is Lois’s shrug in the final panel, like she doesn’t even have the will to be properly outraged.
Sheila Sternwell
March 24th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Ethan at #9, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Kanomi
March 25th, 2009 at 4:01 am
A3G: Tommie can simultaneously nod her head yes and shake her head no, much like the Church Lady. And like her TV twin, she’s just as afraid of prurient contact.
Blondie: Dagwood’s comical confusion about 1980s era slang is funny. That sound? Just my grandfather laughing at this cartoon 25 years ago.
Hagar leaps from the viking ship of mediocrity into the swamp of senility.
MW: Ted has given all his money to “Arnie” Madoff and was fired from Nation’s Geography. What next, he was robbed by an oregano cartel from Calexico?
Marmaduke: My God, it’s like Art Frahm in an AC/DC video.
Pluggers: Oh that’s it, Pluggers. That’s war. I am so ending you snark, Web 2.0 Pluggerisms until I can get one published… as you soon as you get an email address!
Crankshafts funky smelling corpse
March 25th, 2009 at 8:19 am
RMMD: You go, old drunken lady!
FW: Old people breaking their hips! Hilarity! What hijinks will be next? Maybe a customer will choke to death on the pizza at Montoni’s, and there’ll be a lawsuit!
Crankshaft: Distilling his own ethanol? The fiery possibilities will be endless!
GT: Does anybody really use the word “playdowns”?
Phantom: @4: Good catch with the all the
gayguy croccos. And now the Phantom wants to “swim” with them. If I was that Hindu ship captain, I’d Full speed ahead the minute purple-pants cleared the rail.9CL: Aren’t gay stereotypes so cute?