Egg hunt!
In most of the Western world, Easter falls on a Sunday this year — and cartoonists are taking full advantage! Let’s see what treats they’ve hidden for us!
Sally Forth, 4/12/09
Oh Sally, Sally. Remember this as you wake on your blood-soaked pillow, deaf to your own screams.
Family Circus, 4/12/09
Greed, Gluttony, Sloth, and Wrath can mean only one thing — Easter with the Keanes! They’ve dialed back the Pride, Envy, and Lust ’cause it’s a family strip.
Slylock Fox, 4/12/09
They’re all the same to the bunny, pal — all the same.
My Cage (panel), Hägar the Horrible (pänel), 4/12/09
Even pagans can join in the Easter fun! Here’s Demeter (Ceres to you Reform Pagans) passing out bread products, while Hägar welcomes Sól’s return.
Rex Morgan MD (panel), Phantom (panel), 4/12/09
And hey, never mind the calendar — June is bustin’ out all over! Mr. and Mrs. Oldfolks McTourist may take a jaundiced view, but young Heloise Walker seems, well, intrigued. So maybe one more Phantom and that’s it? You gotta admit, 22 is a pretty good run — and why do we need a Phantom, anyway? That whole “African piracy” thing — nobody worries about that any more — right?
In case you missed it (I did!) this PBS Mediashift article features Josh, Ces, the AJGLU-3000 and other local favorites! Link courtesy of Ces.
– Uncle Lumpy
Canaduck
April 12th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Now I’m quite sure I’ll have Tom Servo singing, “June is bustin’ out all oo-ovaaah!” in my head for the next few hours. Thanks a lot.
dreadedcandiru2
April 12th, 2009 at 2:02 am
S4th: Obviously Ted has failed to learn from experience; the Aria finagle should have taught him that ExecuSal doesn’t come equipped with the personality traits called ‘decency’, ‘empathy’ and ‘fair play’. Telling Hilary to appeal to those non-existent tendencies was a dangerous and stupid thing to do.
FW: Les fears and hates Second Life because his fearful nature made a bollocks of his first one.
Cathy: Call me crazy but I liked today’s strip.
Jessie
April 12th, 2009 at 2:14 am
The photo accompanying that PBS Mediashift article appears to depict Josh in an adult situation with Ms. Pacman.
Uncle Lumpy
April 12th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Once you go Pac, you never go back!
Rainbird
April 12th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Only problem with Hagar and My Cage would be that the Vernal Equinox was last month. Oh well. I guess all Christian holidays are suppose to be at the same time as Pagon ones, right?
So does that mean they will do something specail for us Pagans on May Day.
Thought now.
And Ces, I love your take on Sally Forth, but I am oh, so bored by the chocolate bunny ears thing, I could barf. Please, do something else next year, if only it is Sally giving up chocolate for lent.
Crankenstank
April 12th, 2009 at 2:51 am
Talk about beatin’ the papers to the corner. I know who I want to take that 3 AM call — Uncle Lumpy.
Mibbitmaker aka Mibbitmaker
April 12th, 2009 at 2:57 am
(Hilary wanders into Slylock Fox)
Hilary: “Well, at least I hid my other chocolate bunnies in this other str– AAAUUGH!!!”
Sheila Sternwell
April 12th, 2009 at 3:01 am
The ears went crunch! Augh! What in Ra’s name is that chocolate bunny made of, ground up bits of golf clubs coated in chocolate?
jasperjava
April 12th, 2009 at 3:02 am
#5 Rainbird:
40 days’ worth of strips involving chocolate withdrawal, only to culminate in a Easter bunny-mangling glutfest? No thanks.
ComicGoddess
April 12th, 2009 at 3:08 am
Well, the good news is global warming should no longer be an issue. As the Flying Spaghetti Monster declared it, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Now that they’ve returned, we’re saved! (And in the nick of time, too, since artice sea ice is at its thinnest ever this spring. It is scary when the sea ice starts mimicking celebrities.)
FE
April 12th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Do not, NOT, click that Phantom link unless you are psychologically equipped to deal with an image of the Phantom with breasts. Now I must go drink to forget.
jasperjava
April 12th, 2009 at 3:14 am
There’s something disturbing about that Rex Morgan panel. They’re not “Mr. and Mrs. Oldfolks McTourist” – this is an older man with a young girl. He ogles the young woman in the bikini, while she scowls.
Why is she scowling? I’m reluctant to step into that psycho-sexual minefield.
Is the man her father, and the girl is upset that Dad is lusting after a woman who’s not her mom? Is the old guy and the young girl in a may-december romance, and she worries about being replaced by a newer model? Is she just exhibiting jealousy out of inadequacy towards a woman obviously better endowed than she?
The Phantom: Woman in uniform – Captain’s bars on her collar, but what country puts such a fetching shade of magenta on their armed forces? For some reason, it reminds me of the Lithuanian flag.
Nice change from olive drab, but I can’t imagine the environment where it would provide camouflage.
jasperjava
April 12th, 2009 at 3:21 am
11.FE
Thanks for the heads-up, FE, but that strip was pretty HAWT.
Zoroaster
April 12th, 2009 at 3:34 am
Maybe I’m missing a joke here but Easter is always on a sunday correct?
Parmalat Loire
April 12th, 2009 at 5:03 am
MW – Ted, Ted, Ted… You’re about to have your scheme be derailed by someone who has had their mind redacted by Mary Worth. How does that make you feel?
Ted Confey’s head-bobble of agitation provided by Frank Bolle from the Apartment 3-G stock footage storage shed collection.
Baka Gaijin
April 12th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Sally Forth: I’m surprised the bunny’s ears lasted until panel 5. I’d have expected her to snatch that thing out of Hil’s hand faster than Margo with a Toaster Tootie. Toaster Tootie! The joke that just keeps on giving.
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 12th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Even PBS can’t get Ed Power’s name right.
Fashion Police
April 12th, 2009 at 6:43 am
We are intrigued that in addition to her bikini, sheer coverup, hat and sunglasses, June Morgan appears to be wearing a veil of some kind – and not for the sake of modesty. Clearly June is more fashion-forward than anyone imagined, or else hopelessly kinky.
Sheila Sternwell
April 12th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Yeah, Zoroaster, that’s the joke.
In other news, I’m watching “The Green Pastures” on TCM right now, and even in heaven little kids get spanked when they’re bad. If I was a dead kid, I would be seriously pissed at that.
Baka Gaijin
April 12th, 2009 at 7:03 am
#Y137 bats :[, et al.: What have I wrought? Fistulas are icky. Stop talking about them. There’s a reason I included a link in my original post.
Here’s a new, hopefully less disgusting, topic: Is Josh really on vacation or stepping out on us with
Bob BarkerDrew Carey? Could he be in Hollywood auditioning for the part of Phil Winslow?buckyswife
April 12th, 2009 at 7:41 am
A3G: Given that we’ve only seen Joe Kelly as a bland doppleganger of every other bland male in this strip, I’d say it’s pretty courteous of him to provide empirical evidence of his ex-wife’s claims by revealing the Eyebrows of Fury.
JP: How many other celebrity cliches do you think they’ll be able to layer on to this couple? Next, we’ll learn that he’s thinking of running for governor of New Mexico and that she once had an affair with a baseball player.
SF: When I first read the “crunch” in Sally Forth, I thought Hillary had sabotaged the ears with something tooth destroying.
zerowolf
April 12th, 2009 at 7:49 am
This year Thel replaced the jelly beans with Xanax so this year by dinner the little melonheads are nice and lethargic rather than bouncing off the walls from sugar enduced euphoria
Naked Bunny with a Whip
April 12th, 2009 at 8:03 am
SlFox: Kid…that’s not a chocolate rabbit. Oh God, the screams..
spiderbaby
April 12th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I have a filthy mind (sorry) and so was traumatized by panel five of Sally Forth.
It helps that I didn’t catch the ‘crunch’ on my first go round.
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 12th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Les feigns disinterest for now, but at the first opportunity he’s out in his woodshed crafting a far-too-detailed Lisa figure to play with in idle moments between lurking around Summer’s coffee shop and messaging random excerpts from his novel to strangers. I imagine he appears as a gaunt, patchy-furred weasel. Sporting a 4-foot cock as thick as a firehose.
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 12th, 2009 at 8:57 am
(Actual sentence I encountered today: There is activity on the grassy plain: Weasels are butchering a unicorn.)
True Fable
April 12th, 2009 at 8:58 am
RMMW “Oh, Mommy…. can’t you quit talking about your affairs for one day?”
Sam Driver, Chick Magnet Beautiful artwork about beautiful people talking about characters we’ve never met yet but I don’t give a damn about!
Children of the Circle I like Uncle Lumpy’s take on it today. All I could think was, “Oh yeah, this will convince people without kids who are thinking about whether or not to have them, that they should NEVER bother.” Nothing like giant-headed greedy lil’ bastards to really make parenthood appear distasteful.
Girls Gone 3G KELLY SMASH!
Meddling Heights Let the bobble-heading begin. Ohhh Ted, this is going to be such a delight to watch… at least until Mary shows up.
queek
April 12th, 2009 at 9:07 am
weasels? please let it be the unicorn from 9CL. . . .
Zits, I was thinking that it was too bad that the Sunday strip wasn’t synchronized with the dailies, as the joke could have been reworked as Jeremy and Dad “I can explaining” to the just returned Mom. Then I got to PBS, and saw how it is supposed to be done. WIN!
PV: o joy, 1001 Nights action. *yawn*
RMMD: June-tastic!
HotC: awwwwwwwww. how sweet!
NS: orcas do not work that way!!! (but I giggled anyway.)
Patrick
April 12th, 2009 at 9:27 am
One supposes that Sally bought the chocolate Easter bunny for Hillary. I’ve also always been under the assumption that Sally is a grown-up with her own money who could buy as many chocolate Easter bunnies as she wants, just to eat the ears off of.
So I didn’t get the reasoning behind Hillary having to hide the bunny that her mom bought for her, until I took a closer look at Sally’s outfit.
Obviously, Sally didn’t dress herself, which means she’s somehow become mildly retarded, and as such, has lost impulse control. Or something.
Or maybe Ted could just buy his wife a goddamned Easter present. Cheap bastard.
temujin
April 12th, 2009 at 9:45 am
“Hägar the Horrible (pänel)”
LOVE the umlaut. I mean I REALLY love it – enough to have glanced up to it again from June’s boobs and chuckled.
Mel
April 12th, 2009 at 10:01 am
SFox: Sorry, Bob, the coloring gnomes couldn’t do chocolate brown. How do you feel about meatloaf?
rodent
April 12th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Nice PBS article, but leading with the Silent Penultimate Panel Watch, which is close to two years dormant, was a bit odd. Good to see Josh hard at work parsing comics via Ms Pac Man.
Baka Gaijin
April 12th, 2009 at 10:05 am
#29 Patrick: No, no, no. You don’t understand. It’s ONLY Hil’s bunny that she gleefully chomps, no one elses. She gets no satisfaction by de-ear-itating a bunny bought by herself or a gift to her from someone else. She just likes causing Hil misery. It probably started when the child was 2 years old, old enough to be aware what was going on but too young to do anything but cry. Hil’s plaintive wail stirred a feeling in her smirking mother, a high she can get nowhere else. For years, Ted has tried various mechanical and oral manipulations but failed every time. Nothing causes such glee in Sally as ruining what should be a happy day for her daughter. I’m sure there’s a psychological term for this condition but “twatwaffle comes to mind. Mmmmm, waffles.
Caroline a.k.a. Lady Marmite Loire
April 12th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Love June’s color-change bikini. Yesterday purple, today turquoise. Maybe it’s a mood bikini. Tomorrow, it turns red.
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 12th, 2009 at 10:15 am
HotC really is charming today.
gleeb
April 12th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Dick: Remember, you’re not in private, so cover up those hideously deformed arms! Also, B O must hate Stacy, but why? My guess is Junior Tracy neglects Sparkle while mooning for Moon Maid.
Fox Trot: Is Jason hiding or finding the pro-Romanian eggs?
’shaft: Of course there is, or else all of you would have joined hands and walked into the sea to drown yourselves years ago.
‘bean: Coffee shop? Not Montoni’s? There will be blood to pay.
Mary: The gig’s up, Ted! Run!
Rhymes w/Orange: The pastel camouflage is a nice touch.
Pluggers: …work their womenfolk into the grave.
Brenda: BAM! The week is whiled away arguing with a security guard, and then suddenly, India. Where her telephone is promptly stolen by the most gleeful urchin in Mumbai. Too bad Brenda chose to pick an argument with the forces of law and order recently.
Patrick, Interlibrary Loan Lending Divison
April 12th, 2009 at 10:45 am
A3G-metamorphosis: Sunday’s strip is nothing less than amazing. Joe Kelly goes from looking like Peter Graves in the first panel, to looking like Jonathan Harris in the second panel to Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. in the third. Who knew he was a shape shifter who can only morph into TV stars of the 1960’s?
Mary Worth: I finally figured out what this Ted storyline needs. A theremin playing in the background something along the lines of the original The Day The Earth Stood Still. In this case, it would be The Plot That Stood Still.
Sequitur
April 12th, 2009 at 10:51 am
CROCK There’s got to be a joke there about how do you tell a male cannonball from a female cannonball but my mind’s just not doing it. C’mon all you clever people. Help me out here.
Alan's Addiction
April 12th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Today’s Sally Forth offers a fantastic piece of dialogue. In fact, it’s so good, I’d like to see it randomly inserted into other comic strips. Imagine how great it’d be…
CHERRY: Mark, I’ve discovered a smuggling operation in Lost Forest while –
MARK TRAIL: WHAT KIND OF MONSTER ARE YOU?!?
Today’s Family Circus offers a new, untested form of therapy for ADHD: instead of Ritalin, just give the kiddies narcotics in a candy-coated form.
Wow. What’s the difference between today’s Slylock Fox and Sally Forth? That should have been the puzzle (HINT: it involves the phrase “WHAT KIND OF MONSTER ARE YOU?!?”)
It’s good to see Hagar get back to his roots. Hopefully, he’ll get back to slaughtering those obnoxious missionaries as a form of sacrifice to Odin and Baldur.
I’m beginning to think that the writers/artists behind Judge Parker are taking time off and filling in for Rex Morgan, MD. That’s the only reasonable explanation I have for why June Morgan’s (obviously surgically enhanced) body has been on such prominent display this past week. It certainly can’t have anything to do with attracting her husband’s attention; he’s officially the second least-sexual being in the comics page after Mark Trail.
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 12th, 2009 at 10:56 am
By the way, I’ve returned to that My Cage panel quite a few times now. It’s a beauty. More like that, please!
danzig
April 12th, 2009 at 11:00 am
The My Cage goddess looks like Jane Jetson.
No Longer Craggy Gulch
April 12th, 2009 at 11:04 am
A3G – Joe Kelly is not just crazy, he’s Rick Jason crazy! Being Rick Jason is a lot like being Justin Tarr, but with 38% less blandness.
MT – “I’ll take you home again, Baleen,
Across the ocean wild and wide…”
JP – “Glooooo-ria, G-L-O-R-I-A…” (Patti Smith version)
A personal note to Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan; Thank you so very much! In fact, as John Cleese once said, “Thank you very, very, very, very much!”
queek
April 12th, 2009 at 11:19 am
comments from the online comics.
MC is so cute!
SFx: Ed, please tell Melissa to stop submitting stuff for the “My Drawing” section. ;-)
For those that can actually read the answer, is it lack of open windows or lack of evidence of braking that has tripped up our shady Shrew?
FW: Summer as a catgirl. mrowrr!
Calico
April 12th, 2009 at 11:28 am
FC – Haha, PJ is going to puke chocolate spew everywhere in the Keane Kompound!
FOOB – Haha, Farley is going to fart rotten egg stench everywhere for five days!
Happy Easter!
Hank
April 12th, 2009 at 11:30 am
RE: Pluggers. I just read the official “about Pluggers” blurb over at the Yahoo Comics site and was surprised to read this:
Didn’t they ever hear of “Ripleys Believe it or Not” or “They’ll Do it Every Time”?
Johnny Q
April 12th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Just so you know, that FAMILY CIRCUS Easter Sunday funny is recycled from a Sunday that appeared back in the ’60s. (I wish I had the proof on hand.)
P
April 12th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
46: I have the proof on hand, but I don’t know how to put it up on here.
Honeypot
April 12th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
45 – Hank – they are talking, I think, about Comics Kingdom, which is being previewed at the Seattle Times. It’s a new site that has a blog/comments area after each strip with an opportunity to rate it. It also features something called ‘motion comics”, which I found to be utterly appalling. The one I watched was an animated gif strip of Zits with actors adding voiceovers. The dialogue bubbles are still on the print, but now we have an actor’s interpretation as well. This is horrifying precisely because I believe it is one step closer to removing the written word from the colorful images – we have more functionally illiterate people in this society than ever before, and it’s designed for them.
On the FW / SL debacle, I see two futures for Les: wandering about as a pathetic noob with a freenis, getting rejected everywhere – or creating a new female avatar for himself so he can BE Lisa. Maybe both, depending on the mood he’s in.
Poteet
April 12th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
FC — It would be fun to see Super Nanny reduce Mom and Dad Melonhead to weeping, guilt-ridden blobs for their clueless parenting. Well, for two minutes, anyway.
Jilliterate
April 12th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Ok, I enjoyed today’s Sally Forth too much to snark at it…the obstinate glee with which Sally chomps down on the poor rabbit, like the Archbishop of Canterbury hacking off the ears of his chocolatey detractors…the blassé doofishness that Ted affects, as yet again his bad advice leads to the doom of another…the…ok, that’s pretty much it, but isn’t that enough? Gold, pure gold!
Sparky AKA Able Bodied Seaman Craggy Fjord
April 12th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Last thing I want to be reminded of during Passover is Chocolate Bunnies I can’t eat. I hate pushy Xtians.
Ned Ryerson
April 12th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
JP: I like the name Brunhilde Akerman a lot better than Godiva Danube.
Phred22
April 12th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Zits:Jeremy’s explanation:
“This tornado followed us home…”
Niall
April 12th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Thank you Uncle Lumpy for using the Albany Times-Union for the My Cage panel. Its beauty really needs the big treatment. Ed, tell Melissa she outdid herself here.
Also, I predict Bridget will be tempted, and this will precipitate the breakup. The signs are all there, and it still will be painful to watch… sign of good writing.
If the Slylock puzzle is that the inside of the car is still dry, I wonder.. are cars and vans today meant to be completely airtight like this? I don’t think so… then I wonder how do cases like this get resolved in the real world. Because they do happen at least a few times.
Niall
April 12th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
51. Sparky: Yeah, I’ve been talking with a woman who hates the very taste of matzoh. She’s about ready to snap by now…
Niall
April 12th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
…just saw the Sly resolution, and waddayaknow, that looks about right, too! Good job!
Sparky
April 12th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
“Day by Day” is just too odd …. Palin as Captain Kirk. WTF. What a waste of talent … I’m mystified by people who think a lunatic like “Pebbles” Palin is even newsworthy now let alone hot. Others do “Sexy Librarian” much better.
Lael
April 12th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Is anyone else totally frightened by the bunny in B.C.? Among the other things wrong with today’s strip?
Lael
April 12th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Also, after reading today’s Shoe, I can’t help but wonder what species Cosmo thinks he is or why he would bring up what species use tools while his car is being repaired, but maybe it is an elaborate conscious joke as the strip also notes that it is a comic strip.
kthnxbye
April 12th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I liked today’s Cathy too, you could read it as religious or simply a secular celebration of spring. I hadn’t realized Guisewite was at all religious, but strip doesn’t feel pushy and it felt like at least there was something more to her than clothes and dieting.
I think a few other strips (Family Circus) could take note.
NoahSnark
April 12th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
My Easter became a day of unremitting horror when my brain tried to visualize the Keane family and Lust. It burns, it burns!
Batman Beatles
April 12th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Maybe Hilary’s chocolate bunny is made of Nestle Crunch.
bats :[
April 12th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
20. Baka Gaijin: okay, no more about that certain subject (you know, fistulas).
Josh leads a far more exciting life than most of us, so why not live vicariously through him. The Jeopardy gig was a big secret until it drew close to the airing date, but dang, that was fun! NPR gigs! All sorts of media interviews!
34. Caroline re RMMD: there are apparently two troops of color monkeys for this strip, and the Sunday clothing consistent with other Sunday panels; unfortunately, they are almost always at odds with the weekday strips.
Makes it damned hard to do mashups when I’m trying to use panels from all over. Darn you, color monkeys!
Oh, speaking of monkeys!
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/288316.php
Wait! There’s more!
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/288406.php
Gotta love a paper that, while it won’t post its comics line-up online, actually uses “Poo Monkey” on the front page’s first article title…
Generic Username
April 12th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
FW: Wait, Summer is an anthro cat in Second Life? …I’m not the only one noticing a rise in easy furry jokes for this blog, right? There’s something going on here…
Honeypot
April 12th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
64 – There’s a big neko (Japanese for cat) community in second life, and I was startled when I realized that’s what Batuik was getting at. Her version didn’t include the slut clothes or the pouty grunge kitteh look that is mostly standard for that group, though. Wait until she graduates from the Teen grid for that, I suppose ….
I think I even have some scripted ears and tail in my own inventory, somewhere.
The Late Dent Arthur Dent
April 12th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
#48 Honeypot – I just checked out that “motion comic” version of Zits. Holy crap!
Winky's Spleen
April 12th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Zits – Hahaha! It’s funny because teenagers are destructive morons!
(Say, didn’t Zits once consist of more than a steady parade of “teenagers suck” jokes?)
sak
April 12th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
The look on Sally Forth’s face in panel 1 says “I can see my daughter standing on the head of her future self. What was that pot laced with?”
Lorem Ipsum
April 12th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Zits in motion: GAAAA!!!
Jackuul
April 12th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Well, since Mary Worth and Garfield both skipped Easter, I decided that… well… maybe they’re not worth doing anything about. Also, to the Palin as Kirk… that was… rather… uh… well… wow. I would have never thought of something like that unless I was watching Fox News, smoking a car worth of special green, wet that is, while also sucking on catnip and huffing paint – all the while having an IV drip LSD into my carotid.
Also, Sally is an abusive person – you can tell the glee and joy she gets from uckfaying her daughter up. Wait, is that even her child? Is that really? Or some poor dumpster baby she picked up and raised? Or is the love child between an ex and her manslave?
What horrors go on there, I do not wish to know – and yet at the same time I know I would be unable to turn away. One day the child wakes up with poor Scruffy’s ears in her bed, the next day it is the tail. Then the head on her birthday is cooked into the cake. Finally when her desensitization regime is done, the child will make the perfect assassin for her Russian contacts. Yes, they train them well for the Motherland.
Oh, I did make fun of Garfield and Mary Worth and I did it while I was writing this… I just get carried away sometimes…
Mibbitmaker aka Mibbit
April 12th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
A3G: The Joe Kelly Complete Retcon is in full swing!
MW: When your daughter is THAT much of a dimwitted, naive, moronic numbskull (Hey, numbskull, GIVING MONEY TO AN OBVIOUS SLEAZEBALL FOR SOMEONE YOU NEVER KNEW OR SAW is NOT YOUR JOB!), you better damn well spy on your braindead offspring’s dates.
commodorejohn
April 12th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
And now, for the comments I really should have had posted quite a while ago!
A3G – Really, isn’t “meanwhile, as Joe drives aimlessly” pretty much the quintessential template for Apartment 3-G narration? Just replace the character name and maybe the verb, and you’re all set.
AS – AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH
BB – On behalf of my brother geek: shut up, you twits.
BrS – Hey, it’s one of the zombies from the Indian “Thriller” ripoff!
Crankshaft – Ha ha!
Crock – It’s comforting that, no matter what the time of the year, the state of the world, or your view of reality, Crock continues to be completely fucking insane.
Curtis – “C. Lam Baker?” Hallelujah, Clambake is risen!
DT – Even Dick realizes how stupid this plot is.
FW – Oh. My. GOD. Summer is a furry. Never woulda figured that one, but what the hell; gooble gobble, one of us, and all that. So all it takes to make Second Life seem normal and wholesome is to set it against the backdrop of Funky Winkerbean. Makes sense.
MC – The whole thing is great, but panel three was especially glee-inducing.
PBS – I do so love this strip.
Phantom – Hey, is that Michael Jackson?
Pluggers – Pluggers will never escape.
PV – Prince Valiant is taking a turn for the crazy here. Let’s just hope that it works out to crazy-awesome, instead of crazy-disturbing like that recent Mark Trail storyline.
RMMD – Sarah is a far more entertaining cynical little girl than Danae from Non Sequitur could ever hope to be.
SF – Hilarious.
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 12th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
#67 – I think it’s funny because that single panel is jam-packed with more imaginative large-scale visual chaos than you’ll find anywhere else on the page today. Compare this to this (one panel of which got its due compliments above, but sadly it just underscores the depressingly shallow and static plod of the remaining five) and – eh. I won’t draw the conclusions for you.
GW
April 12th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
What happened with the “save Judge Parker” in the WaPo campaign?
Steve the Pocket
April 12th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Blah blah blah Summer Moore is a furry etc. — I’m more amused by the “virtual Westview” sim that someone took the time and effort to create. As if the idea of making a fan site of your hometown wasn’t laughable enough!
For added funny, try to look at this from the perspective of someone who’s never heard of Second Life — i.e. almost everybody who still reads the comic. Why does Les look like a balloon with a Sharpie’d-on face? Why the deuce is he being led around town by Cassandra Cat’s kid sister? Why is there a “virtual Westview”? Did some sort of alien cat-people civilization suck the minds out of the citizens of Westview and upload them into a low-budget Matrix type thing in which they attempted to recreate their natural habitat? Is this person its ambassador? Or is Les having some kind of acid-fueled dream sequence, and the cat person is… somehow… related to Le Chat Bleu?
If these questions sound like a poor attempt at guessing the mindset of these non-Second-Life-savvy readers, they aren’t: they are, word for word, the very questions that ran through my own head before I saw the last panel. They are also infinitely more entertaining than anything you ever did or ever will see in Funky Winkerbean.
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 12th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
#74 – It was a big bust.
Dave
April 12th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
#74/76:
They are still “listening”.
No decision has been reached was what I was told on Friday.
But, the fact they haven’t said “no” is a good thing.
Thank you for the continued emails. It may take this week before they come to a decision one way or another.
Save the Judge.
Comics@washpost.com
Muffaroo
April 12th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
9CL – Seems to be playing the prelude to the first suite for solo cello by Bach.
Can’t think of much else to say. Cute panel layout in PCity. DbDay is as wretched as ever. MFmore is reverent. AD… I don’t know if they really want Peter to be their representative of organized religion. Isn’t he supposed to be an arrogant fake intellectual?
Think I’ll go see what’s on TV.
Gus
April 12th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Did anyone else notice today that apparently Slylock Fox lives in or around Tucson?
P
April 12th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Someone on Youtube put the old Family Circus Easter special up, and- it’s disturbing. By the end of this special, you will be questioning if there’s even an FCC to control Television & Radio.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BIXTJuyig
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgK72o_ZIos
Part 3: (Dizzy G & Dolly deliver the worst & most bizarre 5 minute sing-dance routine you have ever seen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSztesge-k
gleeb
April 12th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
45: Do you really believe the people who make Pluggers care about humanity? They despise their declared audience and, most likely, anyone else. Lies mean nothing to them.
heckler123
April 12th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Uhh…am I missing some sort of sarcasm here? The beginning of this post states, “In most of the Western world, Easter falls on a Sunday this year…”
Easter’s always on a Sunday, right?
For most of us, it’s the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. That’s today. The Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate it next Sunday, but it’s still on Sunday.
Calvinette
April 12th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
P: Just watched Part One of the Family Circus special. Oh. My. Immediately had to come here and end my months long lurking.
“Dying the eggs isn’t the same as killing them, is it Daddy?”
Oh, I could read hours of snark about these clips, but I’ll settle for mentioning my personal favorite highlight around 3:40:
The viciously passive aggressive Dolly browbeating Billy into joining her weird, PJ-obsessive plan. His dejected “I know it” just puts me over the moon every time.
Muffaroo
April 12th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Baka Gaijin @33 – Psychiatrists call it Hasenfreude.
Heckler 123 – It was a joke; a jest, a jape, a jeu d’esprit. (I thought it was funny.)
Jeff
April 13th, 2009 at 12:55 am
How the hell do I not get a Sunday Luann? I mean, lots of strips don’t make sense a lot of the time, but Luann? It’s Sunday–where’s Bernice and the quiz from a women’s magazine?
Jeff
April 13th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Whoops–poor tagging there. Should look like this:
How the hell do I not get a Sunday Luann? I mean, lots of strips don’t make sense a lot of the time, but Luann? It’s Sunday–where’s Bernice and the quiz from a women’s magazine?
boojum
April 13th, 2009 at 1:58 am
83 Calvinette — Welcome! (We saw you lurking, by the way. You weren’t fooling anybody.)
Intriguing handle, by the way. Does the phrase “Grand Rapids” mean anything to you?
heckler123
April 13th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
# 84, Muffaroo – aah! Now I understand. I had mistakenly thought it was a canard, a vagary, a raillery, or a drollery; hence, my conufsion.
Katya
April 13th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Hey, I just discovered this website recently, and I love it! It’s so funny!
I know others have commented on this already, but I just have to, as well. To wit:
Easter always falls on a Sunday! Duh! Were you perchance thinking of Christmas, which varies, or some other holiday? No insult intended; all in good fun! Ha, ha, ha!
To Zoroaster: Are you by any chance a Zoroastrian? Just asking ‘cuz I’m married to a Persian whose dad was one…
Little Guy
April 13th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
SunS4th: The way Sally bites into those two ears, I can now understand Ted. And his falsetto voice.
Calvinette
April 13th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
87 Boojum- a welcome on CC?? Be still my heart. I’m honored.
Grand Rapids? sorry to disappoint, but I’m strictly East Coast…
Wincey
April 14th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I may have missed it in one of the earlier comments, but that My Cage thing about Ceres, the goddess of the harvest and all? Not unless you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, kiddo! Round these parts, the harvest comes sometime *after* the seeds are planted. Like six months from now, say. This is what you would call the *opposite* of the harvest. Yes, the pagans had parties for planting, too. Perhaps we should chip in and send an almanac to the comic’s author. Unless, of course, s/he comes from down under somewhere (but I sort of doubt it; I’d rather assume basic seasonal ignorance).