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Squalor and despair

Luann, 4/13/09

After a week of Gunther “Clueless Doofus” Berger and Luann “Woo Me!” DeGroot, we’re back at last to Brad “Clueless Doofus” DeGroot and Toni “Woo Me!” Daytona. This strip sure does know how to mix it up! You’ve got to admire how Brad slips in that a) this invitation is for breakfast only, so there will be no squicky sex going on, and b) TJ will be there, so the wall-to-wall squickiness will have nothing to do with sex.

Shoe, 4/13/09

Pluggers, lacking only the good taste, restraint, and simple human compassion.

Slylock Fox, 4/13/09

Ah, Casa Shrew, just as we’d imagined it. Looks like Sly will be rethinking this part-time gig as building inspector, as soon as he takes a moment to hurl.

And, in other news . . .

Garfield, 4/13/09

Hmm. Garfield minus Garfield, with Garfield. Not quite clear where this is headed.

Dick Tracy, 4/13/09

. . . and a big hand for new Dick Tracy artist Jim Brozman — just like the one he gave us in panel three there.

– Uncle Lumpy

This entry was posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 at 01:46 am and is filed under Dick Tracy, Garfield, Luann, Shoe, Slylock Fox. |

134 responses to “Squalor and despair”

Yaanu
April 13th, 2009 at 1:53 am [Reply]

I’d post the first comment, but I have nothing witty to say.

I’m sorry.
True Fable
April 13th, 2009 at 1:58 am [Reply]

I didn’t even notice that Dick Tracy had a new artist! YAY! Maybe we’ll crawl beyond the land of misshapen stubby fingers and go back to the misshapen faces again.
rodent
April 13th, 2009 at 1:59 am [Reply]

Miss Fox. Sister?

Did Brad say “crepes” or “creeps?”

Is Tracy being taken to the cleaners?

Thanx, no more questions.
Roto13
April 13th, 2009 at 1:59 am [Reply]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/comics/king.html?name=Apartment_3-G&date=20090413

See, this is the problem with Apartment 3-G. Maybe stuff would actually get done if a few of the characters actually knew what they were doing. The narration box says “As Joe drives aimlessly…” and Joe is talking to himself about how he has to hurry up and get his kids and run, bitch, run. Well, maybe drive AIMFULLY from now on, then, and maybe the story can actually progress a little!
Mibbitmaker aka Mibbit
April 13th, 2009 at 2:07 am [Reply]

DT: It’s not so much the big hand I noticed as the big nose. Almost like Tracy’s not-quite-identical twin brother is in on the caper. Makes as much sense as any other Dick Tracy continuity these days.
Carol
April 13th, 2009 at 2:10 am [Reply]

re:Luann, whatever happened to good ol’ fashioned get drunk and throw him up against a wall?

Does this coy stuff ever actually work? As I am an old fashioned girl, I am clueless.
sak
April 13th, 2009 at 2:21 am [Reply]

My initial reaction to today’s Shoe, “Is the scale implying that Shoe has a ’semen belly’? But semen only contains roughly 6 calories per tablespoon, how could this possibly lead to a net gain in calories? Does he just lay there or something?” And there I think lies the answer, Shoe is the worst, most-uninspired, depressing and dependable beakjob in town. Can’t say I’m surprised.
Erik
April 13th, 2009 at 2:25 am [Reply]

Shoe is the master of sexual innuendos. “If it tastes good, don’t swallow?” Not unless you want an STD, kids.
Mik
April 13th, 2009 at 2:30 am [Reply]

A3G – It seems like Joe is slowly turning into a monkey with every panel. He’ll still look like every other monkey in the strip.
Mibbitmaker aka Mbbt
April 13th, 2009 at 2:37 am [Reply]

Today’s 9CL is flawed.

BC: Who’s going to call theirs “Mark”?

Curtis: She’s really practicing to be the future black Margo.

ReFOOB: “But, Connie, I’ve seen a handsome doctor you really should see about dating. I believe his name is Joe Kelly….”

GT: Actually, Mimi really seems to just be deeply into an LSD trip there.

MT: A duck’s own wing is going to sneak up on him and his buddies? Weeeeeeeeeeird!

MT, Don Rickles version: Great, kid. Somebody give exposition boy a cookie!

Big Fur-shlugginer Dog: Now they’re just skipping all intention of telling jokes and just showing random Marm cruelties.

NS: She hocked up a skull! No wonder she’s in a foul mood.

JP: “…And NOW you’re changing the subject. JEEZ, June…!!”

The Video Mind of Edison Lee: Isn’t it bad enough that he has a comic strip??

Could we soon be seeing this as a new movie………….. “Ziggy & Zippy Go To Canada”?
Octal
April 13th, 2009 at 2:58 am [Reply]

That Shady Shrew thing is a bit nonsensical. Show of hands–who here thinks Shady would have thought to check his outlet types vs the power cord before buying a computer?
Octal
April 13th, 2009 at 3:01 am [Reply]

ETA: I mean, it’s perfectly possible that he could be moving it from that spot because he realized the outlet didn’t fit.
Spiny Norman
April 13th, 2009 at 3:05 am [Reply]

Shady Shrew’s home looks eerily like mine. If a nauseated fox in sky-blue togs shows up in my living room, however, I will consider drafting him as my new housekeeper. By the way, why is Max humping Slylock’s tail?
Wangdoodle
April 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am [Reply]

DT: Apparently, Billy is branching out to draw other comics.

Curtis: I’d love to know why she brought Curtis along, seeing as how she hates his living guts and all that.

Bizarro: Weeks ago–weeks ago!–we collectively lit into Wiley’s Non Sequitur for going for the lame “dead lawyer joke, only we say ‘banker’ instead of ‘lawyer’” angle. Piraro drags his useless ass into the commentary fray, several days late and several dollars short. Eat some protein, you pathetic hippy.

Flanky Yankerbeef: What, you expect the ticket agent to provide an impartial review? For a high school band performance?? Go f*** yourself with a knife.

MT: “Maybe I can sneak up on ducks! My boisterous puppy will help! Are those the men I photographed? Surely not, that would be the most preposterous coincidence, ever!”

My Cage: Don’t worry, Lazy Treacherous McUgly. You can always date Beeyonce. (Yes, I haven’t forgotten that one. Guys like you piss me off.)

S4th: “Also, you have to keep your hands off the other girls this time. Aren’t Faye and I enough for you?”

Shoe: Turpentine does not taste good. Just sayin’.

Snuffy: …Hillbillies got kindergarten? Doesn’t that cut into the kids’ worktime?

Tina’s Groove: Turpentine cures hangovers, but you gotta drink a lot of it. Just sayin’.
Sheila Sternwell
April 13th, 2009 at 3:42 am [Reply]

Juggs Parker: Looks like Rocky and Godiva are supposed to be Brad Pitt and Angelina. Ohgodno.

GT: One of those helmets looks like it says “panties”. Oddly, it’s not the flowered one.

DT: I kind of like the new artist.
Alfred E. Neuman
April 13th, 2009 at 4:08 am [Reply]

Curtis— We can all see what’s coming. Curtis somehow will get to do an audition and will be chosen to do a voice over, and Michelle won’t. Hilarity will ensue.

Luann— Advice to Brad: You’re supposed to make crepes for your girl after you spend the night together having numerous mutual orgasms (and without the presence of your sociopathic roommate). Consider it as a reward for her participation in the deflation your softball-sized prostate. Don’t worry about the results of your culinary efforts. Even if your first crepe is an inch thick and weighs two pounds, she’ll still be turned on. (It will remind her of your prostate.) In fact, deliberately screw up the first batch–she’ll think it’s “cute”, and she will love you that much more. She might even take over the cooking altogether, which, of course, is what you want to have happen anyway. That would be the crowning touch to a perfect date.

Aw, who am I kidding? It’s just another lame Brad ‘n’ Toni story going nowhere. Now where’s my favorite sweet, lovable, dissolute harridan, Bernice? Now if Evans fixed her up with Brad, then we’d have something…
dale
April 13th, 2009 at 4:18 am [Reply]

Slylock

Shady doesn’t have adapters. He has a sturdy diagonal cutting pliers for removing those pesky 3rd prongs.

Slylock called the police; therefore, he isn’t a cop. Since he isn’t a cop, neither he nor Miss Fox have any business being there in the first place.
(An oversimplification of the legalities)
Mad Brahms
April 13th, 2009 at 4:33 am [Reply]

I’m less concerned by panel three of Dick Tracy than I am by whatever the hell is going on in panel 2, honestly. Whereas his gun hand is actually somewhat realistically sized by Tracy (or heaven forbid, Milford) standards, it would appear from the second panel as if he’s trying to pick lint out of his freakish 3rd ear using his pinky. Or is he supposed to be holding some sort of communication device? Either way, why is he making the “rock” sign? I’m so confused.

In Mary Worth, meanwhile, the Confey saga continues to roll on ahead in the least- subtle ways possible. I’m waiting for Ted’s next excuse to drop. “Oh, yes, I’m a convicted felon with a history of identity theft, but you see, I stole the money to help support orphans, and now that I’ve been found out, they’re starving to death in the street!”
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 13th, 2009 at 4:47 am [Reply]

I hope the crepe maker sets the house on fire again.
yellojkt
April 13th, 2009 at 5:34 am [Reply]

Usually an invitation to breakfast is a come-on not a cop-out.
Spk
April 13th, 2009 at 5:59 am [Reply]

Garfield: I don’t know whether to be pissed at the lazy joke, or impressed with the fact that panel three doesn’t appear to be copied from panel one. And nothing says “laugh riot” like ambivalence.
The Spectre
April 13th, 2009 at 6:02 am [Reply]

Presumably the cop Slylock called was Officer Early 30s Donald Duck.
Mr. O'Malley
April 13th, 2009 at 6:07 am [Reply]

SlyFo. Coincidence! I just spent some time this weekend working with power cords. Specifically someone seems to have misplaced the old-style two-prong power cords for my electric piano and my Teac reel-to-reel tape recorder.

I bought some modern two-prong power cords and cut them down with a Dremel tool. Result: my piano works but the tape recorder does not. At least parts are still available…

I carry adapters around in my laptop case because there are plenty of places that still have old style plugs. My old house had the old T-shaped plugs.
Mr. O'Malley
April 13th, 2009 at 6:10 am [Reply]

Talking about self-plagiarizing old comic strips, it appears that this is but the tip of the iceberg …

Disney is self-plagiarizing entire movies!

Here is the evidence>.
Wangdoodle
April 13th, 2009 at 6:53 am [Reply]

Mad Brahms@18: Dick is removing his headset in panel two.

Based on a “bad feeling,” he has sent B.O. Plenty (who has apparently degraded from “ornery ol’ coot” to “brain-damaged idjit”) to question the flamboyant bad guy (who hadn’t actually committed a crime yet that anyone was aware of) while wearing a wire. B.O. walked into the villain’s office and promptly announced he was wearing a wire. The villain finally committed an actual crime (threatening to “cook” B.O.’s “goose”).

And here we are: Tracy, so concerned for his friend/useful idiot’s life, takes a moment to put on his coat, then storms through a casino with his gun drawn, displaying no badge and not bothering to mention that he’s a law officer.

That is a LOT of stupid, right there.

The problem with panel three above is not the hand, not by a long shot. Look at that face! That IS supposed to be Dick Tracy, isn’t it?
Wasabi Jane
April 13th, 2009 at 7:10 am [Reply]

“What did Slylock Fox observe that caused him to doubt Shady?” Gee, I dunno, maybe it was the fact that computers haven’t been built like that since the ’90s? Seriously, I bet Shady’s hand is obscuring a floppy drive.
Talking Squirrel
April 13th, 2009 at 7:12 am [Reply]

DT: “Plug me if ya got th’ moxie, ya two-bit tintype!” Oscar seems to sneer. “I still ain’t talkin’!”
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 13th, 2009 at 7:20 am [Reply]

(#24 – Some discussion and additional links about Disney reusing material, from a couple of years ago.)
gleeb
April 13th, 2009 at 7:48 am [Reply]

‘bean: So, how long was Dinkle running this crappy music program that produces students that haven’t even heard of Mozart?
UncleJeff
April 13th, 2009 at 7:51 am [Reply]

DT: Hi there security guy. As you can see, I have a big gun and I want to see your boss. Of course, I’m a police officer. That’s why I’m showing you my big gun instead of a badge or identification of some sort.
You won’t tell me where your boss is?
Has he been keeping up with your health insurance payments?
Right in that office? Thanks for your help, citizen.
zerowolf
April 13th, 2009 at 8:00 am [Reply]

Garfield minus Garfield proves you can take the Garfield out of Garfield but you can’t take the mind numbing boredom out of Garfield.
Chyron HR
April 13th, 2009 at 8:06 am [Reply]

9 Chickweed Lane – Oh, that was close. Edda almost had to experience humility for a second.

Apartment 3-G – “I’d love to see her face; I bet she’d have a harelip! Ha ha, that would look so stupid.”

Between Friends – A smart, sexy woman? How did she sneak into this strip?

Edge City – Well, the restaurant staff is probably thinking, “Please don’t bring in outside food.”

Funky Winkerbean – No, but it’s better than Emozart’s. You know… Les Moore’s crazy stalker.

Popeye – Eighth Sea? It’s official, Popeye cares more about prior continuity than Marvel Comics.

Spider-Man – “My homosexual hip-bump has failed! How will I defeat Electro now?”
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 13th, 2009 at 8:09 am [Reply]

One does wonder what Shady’s planning on doing with that old box. Tracking income and expenses for his various two bit scams? In Visicalc?
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 13th, 2009 at 9:00 am [Reply]

SFx: Shady then upended Slylock’s argument by producing a three prong/two prong adapter from his pocket. That’s when Sly and Max had to take not-so-slim Shady downtown and spend two hours–ahem–persuading him to change his story.

A3G: The scary abusive husband in Joe is starting to come out. I’m just glad Vicki got away from him before some clueless nature writer convinced her to stay.

MT: Speaking of which, it looks like Rusty hopes to become a narration box when he grows up. If he grows up.

9CL: Both of these chicks are extremely gullible and easy marks for head games. I don’t know if Burkhardt considers that a flaw. Probably more of an asset.

Shoe: Thanks for the loving depiction of the Perfesser’s toilet, guys. Really made my morning.

DtM: “Saw yon Goodman Wilson consortin’ with the Devil, I did!”

Ziggy: If American Idol is won by a Fred Flintstone lookalike singing into a housepainting brush, the whole world will have gone topsy turvy. You may as well sit back and enjoy it.

JP: If soap opera strips ever go out of business, where will we get names like “Rocky Ledge” and “Godiva Danube.” Most porn stars don’t go for those highfalutin’ names anymore.

M-Dawg: Just hope that it’s quick and painless, kid.

Archie: Luckily for Hiram Lodge, art is a fairly stable investment. So that original “Bag of Money” by Billy Keane, age 7 hanging on his wall should see him through some tough times.
Liz
April 13th, 2009 at 9:00 am [Reply]

My husband saw today’s Raising Duncan (http://comics.com/raising_duncan_classics/) and immediately called me over to tell me it looked like it was *trying* to get torn apart by the Curmudgeon.
Parmalat Loire
April 13th, 2009 at 9:08 am [Reply]

9CL – I must now be grounded in reality until lunch. Edda is like a quad stacker of pretentiousness, and consuming such for breakfast will destroy my mental diet if I don’t cut back before I have a chance to work it off.

Baby Blues – This seems more like what the OBH kids would do, but is still actually entertaining as opposed to being like the usual Baby Blues.

Marvin – Viagra moment.

Momma – Today’s Momma made me nearly choke on my morning tea as my mind processed a thought far too vile for 7 AM. Well played, Lazarus. Well played.
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 13th, 2009 at 9:10 am [Reply]

#15 Sheila Sternwell,
You know, it embarasses me to admit that I didn’t pick up on the Brangelina parallel until you pointed it out. What with the eight kids, it’s not even like Woody Wilson is trying to be subtle about it.
kalki
April 13th, 2009 at 9:12 am [Reply]

9CL: This is turning into Rock of Love, only with ballerinas instead of skanks….no, wait…

Archie: Veronica’s dad should have invested his money into Ponzi schemes. That’s where the real money is.

Dilbert: The company should make the employees pay for their own staff appreciation luncheon like they did at my last job. Is it any wonder that staff were stealing from each others’ food in the break room refrigerator?

Crank: Famous last words…the day is still young and Crankers is in the house…

DTM: “He pulled down his slacks and showed everybody his red easter eggs.”

CircusJerk: “A pox on both your houses if even one jellybean go missing.”

Luann: Yeah, yeah. let’s get this doomed romance over with already.

S-M: So, this is the first time Electro has fought Spidey in this strip?
blackgoat
April 13th, 2009 at 9:14 am [Reply]

MT: “okay, Sassy, give me “surprise.”
RMMD: “There’s Agnes, and she has a table. Let’s go sit with her so I can work on my Blog entry: “How I spent my six month long cruise hanging out at the pool with a ninety year old crone.”
Artist formerly known as Ben
April 13th, 2009 at 9:15 am [Reply]

#14 Wangdoodle,
re Bizarro: It’s also likely that pirate jokes will be in that “too soon” category for a few weeks.
One-eyed Wolfdog
April 13th, 2009 at 9:19 am [Reply]

Edda is like a quad stacker of pretentiousness,
Na-a-ah, she doesn’t have that much meat on her.
Dave
April 13th, 2009 at 9:24 am [Reply]

WaPo comics change (print edition) update:

No decision to bring back any comics are re-size them to a bigger size, yet.

But, to the Washington Post’s credit, they are mulling (“listening”) over the changes they made (downsizing from 3 pages to 2 pages, shrinking the size of the comics and cutting 6 comics, including Judge Parker).

I think this is the make ‘em change it back week.

If you would email them (again) to ask for

a) Bring back Judge Parker to the comics.
b) Make the comics bigger
c) all of the above.

comics@washpost.com

or ombudsman@washpost.com (who will likely respond).

Thank you!
Mordock999
April 13th, 2009 at 9:48 am [Reply]

Today’s Luann – 04/13/09

Okay, lemme get this straight. Brad’s a firefighter who has no quams about running into a burning building to rescue strangers. Yet he is NERVOUS about asking a Uber-Hot woman, who IS inexplicibly interested in him, over for breakfast??
Even for a comic strip THIS pushing credability to the LIMIT.

Brad, forget it. With Evans at the helm, you’d have more FUN filling out a Tax Return.
Speaking of which….,

_______________________

DEATH and TAXES to TJ!
Pozzo
April 13th, 2009 at 9:51 am [Reply]

“Max, could you stop humping my tail for five minutes? I’ve got a case!”
Sequitur
April 13th, 2009 at 10:02 am [Reply]

P before S: I can hear the guy that did the voiceovers for Bullwinkle speaking.
The Restless Mouse
April 13th, 2009 at 10:07 am [Reply]

I hate it when B.O. blows my cover. But my septic system is kaput and I’m afraid to take a shower.
Warofthebees
April 13th, 2009 at 10:13 am [Reply]

Jesus, Shoe. Some how that vaguely sexual remark managed to turn on my TV, switch to The Office, and get Michael Scott to say “That’s what she said!”
Muffaroo
April 13th, 2009 at 10:15 am [Reply]

AD – I expect that the dashed lines behind Billy and Jeffy are a graphic representation of the unique chemical trail they leave wherever they go. Or, as I’ve called it in the past, “square diarrhea.”

DTracy – B.O.’s in deadly peril! I’ve got to run in there and save him! Pausing only briefly to put on attire more appropriate for the milieu, including a tie with a differently angled stripe pattern.

FCircus – Don’t fear, Dolly. There will be 17 jellybeans. They’ll be strangely glistening and sticky.

GThorp – Phil always makes the pithiest comments.

HtHorrible – Those Vikings and their inappropriate utterances!

MFmore – Supposedly, Biden gaffes every few seconds, and yet Mallard almost always manages to work his way back to two or three things he’s said. And there’s the ancient ‘plagiarism’ canard. It’s only Monday, and Tinsley’s checked all the items on his list for the week.

MTrail – Years from now: “Larry and Moe served out their terms, and, with all the cameras they’d bought from Rusty, they opened a store selling somewhat outdated photographic equipment. They are currently filing for bankruptcy.”

Shoe – When he’s not at the bar, the Perfesser’s one of those birds that perches on a rhino all day, catching bugs attracted by the smell. You can see the influence.

SFox – One glance was enough to show Slylock that the molecular stress patterns in the plug didn’t correspond to the minute scratches on the metal inside the receptacle. Also, there weren’t enough ozone particles in the air to account for the momentary sparks in the gap when a unit is unplugged. Shady Shrew is currently serving a ten-year sentence on Slylock’s say-so.

SSmif – Tater’s in kindergarten? Wouldn’t that make him old enough to say a word every so often, and maybe walk unassisted?
Muffaroo
April 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am [Reply]

Roto13 @4 – Joe has to drive as fast as possible, so that his aimless wandering will take him where he can quickly pick up his kids! Come on, stupid car! Wander over to where those kids are!

aka Mibbit @5 – I myself wondered if CIA agent Schelomo Tracy was back on the job.

Mik @9 – That made me snicker. Nice job. Wave ‘hi’ to Ferd’nand for me.

Wangdoodle @25 – Oh, I expect when Dick walks in, he’ll find B.O. and Jack cooking the goose B.O. brought with him. Locher and Comic Book Guy are seeing if they can set a record for “___ weeks without an actual crime being committed.”
Mdgoldrush1984
April 13th, 2009 at 10:17 am [Reply]

Slylock Fox has taken his most Draconian turn yet.

“No three pronged outlets? Where’s your adapter?”

“I don’t have one Mr. Fox.”

“That’s pretty fucking ungood.”
Jim
April 13th, 2009 at 10:17 am [Reply]

PBS: It took me 5 minutes to realize that the duck is supposed to be parodying Penguin from the Batman comics. How ashamed should I be?
Hank
April 13th, 2009 at 10:19 am [Reply]

“The guy who did voiceovers for Bullwinkle”? Wasn’t that William Conrad?
Li’l Bunnë FooFoo
April 13th, 2009 at 10:25 am [Reply]

SFx: Slylock observes that the computer in question is a Commodore CBM, a computer so ancient it could only plausibly be found in a public school library.
buckyswife
April 13th, 2009 at 10:30 am [Reply]

DtM: I actually found Dennis to be a little menacing today: a little kid who keeps track of the church-y comings and goings of his neighbors? Kinda menacing.

JP: In my writing classes, we talk about how to use metadiscourse, in which the writer comments upon her content or own writing. So I was glad to see the useful metadiscourse in today’s Judge Parker–”Amazingly”–that showed me how to read the content that followed. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have understood why one would be amazed that Gloria knows all about these improbably named celebrities with their over-the-top, newsworthy lifestyle! Because surely no publications, electronic or print, exist to document the lives of such people!
Sequitur
April 13th, 2009 at 10:30 am [Reply]

#52 Hank: I do believe you are correct.
Master Softheart
April 13th, 2009 at 10:32 am [Reply]

Welcome to today’s “Masterpiece Theater” edition of Softhearted Comics Commentary:

9CL: Any withering contempt you might feel for the characters or the author should be tempered by the knowledge that ‘neurotic, psycho-sexually dysfunctional human clay’ is actually a fairly accurate portrayal of the social psychology of the classical music and the performing arts world. And face it, so long as Edda is talking to human beings rather than figments of her 8-year old, my-little-unicorn imagination, she is having a good week and remembering to take her medication (presumably horse-tranquilizers prescribed by her mother).

FW: When a character has to ask a nonsensically stupid question in order to set up a situation where teenagers appear apathetic and ignorant, you need to review your playbook. In this case, presumably an old Zits collection, where at least the ongoing revelation that teenagers are self-absorbed, uneducated, slacking morons comes as naturally and transparently as breathing.

Yes, Susan, the elderly, deaf band teacher who has been known for decades throughout central Ohio for sadism and fundraising has actually composed a parody opera to be performed by public high school students that transcends the canon of the western world’s most gifted composer. The world is just that funny here in No Exit, Ohio.

But then, I suppose that the moment of Pyhrric, ambivalent smugness you gain by feeling mentally superior to the bored kid in the ticket booth is the closest approach to happiness you will have today; at least until you reflect that you are her World Civilizations teacher and her implacable ignorance is a reflection on the uselessness and failure of your own life.

The JP Narration Box: While I like the attempt at Phantom-style narrative snark, this is kind of weak. By the way, I did write to the WaPo about saving this strip – thanks to Dave and others for organizing the E-mail campaign.

GT: The look of beatific, almost transcendent ecstasy on Mimi’s face as she simply contemplates Gil being hit repeatedly by a baseball is at once lovely and kind of frightening. Her fantasy life must put Edda from 9CL to shame. But the real joy of today’s strip lies in the helmets in panel 3. I can recognize a bike helmet, a mining helmet (complete with mounted light), a football helmet, a fighter-pilot’s helmet complete with radio callsign “Phantom” (a shout-out to Gil’s background in the Air Force delivered by his old friends, no doubt), and a fireman’s helmet. Add to this pile the colonial pith helmet being delivered in panel 2, and you have some of the highest quality humor on the comics page today

Doonesbury: CIA or not, Jeff is no Delta Knight.
Sequitur
April 13th, 2009 at 10:34 am [Reply]

Dilbert: Where’s Alice without the shirt?
tb4000
April 13th, 2009 at 10:38 am [Reply]

Luann: Yet again Brad shall be reduced to cleaning his own firehouse pole alone.
Sequitur
April 13th, 2009 at 10:45 am [Reply]

#58 tb4000: FYI – also known as a sliding pole.
Dave
April 13th, 2009 at 10:47 am [Reply]

It wasn’t until panel four that I realized Brad wasn’t trying to talk Toni into a three-way. Him saying “Should really have one more person” made me throw up in my mouth a little.
Calico
April 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am [Reply]

#8 – Either that, or the scale is a big proponent of the disgusting bulemic phenomenon better known as “chew and spit.”

MW – Haha, Jeff is going to go apeshit in a matter of 3 or 4 installments! Back to the hospital bed, Dr. J.

FOOB – so good (and not really funny at all) to see this turn into a Desperate Housewives clone. Haha.

MC – I laughed out loud at Norm’s expression in today’s last panel. Great stuff.

FC – Oh my, I didn’t know Dolly could count to 17!
Rusty
April 13th, 2009 at 10:52 am [Reply]

Shoe: Am I the only one who noticed the Perfessor has lost his tail feathers? Make of that what you will.

Garfield: Jim Davis has now decided that it is too much bother to render the cat at all, from now on he will be appearing shrouded at all times.
Calico
April 13th, 2009 at 10:54 am [Reply]

#61 – …Only problem with my FOOB comparison is, Connie isn’t getting any. Ever.
150
April 13th, 2009 at 10:59 am [Reply]

Miss Fox? Miss Fox? Where did she come from, and why hasn’t Cassandra Cat already offed her and made it look like a suicide?
kilter
April 13th, 2009 at 10:59 am [Reply]

Spiderman: “Now that I’ve found Electro — how do I fight him?” Definitely not by busting out the jazz hands.
Little Guy
April 13th, 2009 at 11:06 am [Reply]

RMMD: Drazi Teal Bikini! Drazi Purple Bikini!

JP: So, they’re doing the Brangelina ripped-from-the-headlines story?
queek
April 13th, 2009 at 11:08 am [Reply]

MG&G: well timed!

Lio: *snicker* well done!

F-: the fortnightly funny one.

HotC: a bit of a Lio-ish touch to the art today.

LaC: “No Loitering or Lootering” rofl!

MC: “heavyset bear with frosted blonde hair” Ed is trying to turn Dingo into a furry, yes?

RMMD: where does one get a bikini that changes colors like that?
survivor
April 13th, 2009 at 11:08 am [Reply]

I doubted Shady’s story because it does not appear that he even has an upstairs. It looks like four steps pressed up against a solid white wall.
firedmyass
April 13th, 2009 at 11:12 am [Reply]

I’m not sure of the exact topology of Garfield’s face, but it sure produces a spectacular camel-toe in that blanket.

If intentional, this may be the most subtle “pussy” joke I’ve ever seen.
Jeff
April 13th, 2009 at 11:16 am [Reply]

Hagar slipped ahead of Slylock Fox in the comics survey. This CAN’T be happening! HELP!!
http://www.thestate.com/living/story/737433.html
Sequitur
April 13th, 2009 at 11:16 am [Reply]

#65 kilter.
I don’t know. Jazz hands worked for Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer.
Electro is such an idiot that he’ll get caught up in the moment and try to imitate Spidey’s jazz hands and electrocute himself. But that won’t happen. There’s still four months left on this episode.
Rocketboy
April 13th, 2009 at 11:44 am [Reply]

Forget the giant hands, wtf is up with the sign on ‘Jacks’.

It looks like old ‘Jack’ could use some perking up.
Jay-El
April 13th, 2009 at 11:47 am [Reply]

RMMD: another case of bolding the wrong word in the last panel. Now, if June had said “Why ARE you asking…” in the first panel all would be copacetic.
Alan's Addiction
April 13th, 2009 at 11:53 am [Reply]

Check out panel three in today’s Luann – that horrible, frozen rictus reminiscent of the Joker, or TJ… I can only conclude that, whatever it is TJ has, it’s spreading.
Both Pluggers and Shoe have moved into the “making fun of fat people” schtick that Garfield dabbled in for years, proving that, if you have absolutely no talent, you can get a job as a cartoonist by rehashing all those vicious sixth-grade jokes from your childhood.
Today’s Slylock Fox has a special guest appearance from the do-rag we occasionally see in Apartment 3G (where its appearance is used to signify that someone is cleaning). Here, it stretches its acting range a little more, as it’s instead being used to signify someone has put a little effort into their alibi.
Garfield today reveals that Garfield is, in fact, the product of some bizarre experiment that combined parakeet and cat DNA.
Given Dick Tracy’s incessant squinting, I don’t think he should be handling guns. No offense, but I trust the vision of people people who don’t ever open their eyes sufficiently only slightly more than people who are legally blind, or people who are blind-folded. At this point, he looks less like “hard-boiled cop” and more like “armed somnambulist.”
Poteet
April 13th, 2009 at 12:24 pm [Reply]

DT — I look forward to seeing what else the new artist has in store, except for Dick’s new nose. I just checked a few previous strips in the interest of fairness and masochism, and Dick’s former nose, while not a thing of beauty, definitely didn’t hurt my eyes as much. If the new nose is a done deal, I humbly request that Dick profiles be kept to a minimum. Especially on Mondays.
thurston unger
April 13th, 2009 at 12:35 pm [Reply]

Luann: I thought I had the most pathetic and uneventful romantic life ever, but it appears I’ve been outdone by a two dimensional slob who can’t even conceive of getting to second base with a babe he’s been sort of chasing for years. On the other hand, I just typed this. It could be a draw. Who am I kidding?
NoahSnark
April 13th, 2009 at 12:36 pm [Reply]

I’m puzzled. How did a scale from Funky Winkerbean get an appearance in Shoe?
Spotted HØrse, Jungle Steed
April 13th, 2009 at 12:46 pm [Reply]

Luann: After days of Luann as a gentle, giving, wisely smiling Mother Teresa, I’m relieved to get back to what Evans does best:
Ow, we want the squick
Give up the squick
Ow, we need the squick
We gotta have that squick

’shaft: Aw, a Clam Bake® crossover! You’re pulling your head, Ed!
Poteet
April 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

Luann — Perhaps the purpose of the ongoing Brad and Toni storyline is to show young readers how much fun a romantic relationship with no sex can be.

Sex has never looked better.
commodorejohn
April 13th, 2009 at 1:11 pm [Reply]

Archie – Powered by its high-powered cold-fusion micro-reactor, the ALGJU3K sits by the sidelines of American economics. It maintains a casual interest and occasionally even writes about the subject, but when it comes right down to it, the ALGJU3K can only consider these fleshy travails a minor curiosity. Its own safety is assured; even in the event of a complete collapse, it has a backup system in Hong Kong, safely far away from the roving bands of looters.

AS – The joke is rather meh, but I have to admit that “H. Arrr” made me laugh.

FB – Fred Basset is going to kill the Easter Bunny. God, even the Blandest Dog in the Comics is more menacing than Dennis.

FW – Tom Batiuk is peeved because young people don’t know about the guy he referenced for a cheap, lame pun.

GT – Gil Thorp: coach, humanitarian, silly hat collector.

Love Is… – expressing a charming sentiment that, when combined with the character designs in the strip, becomes completely horrifying. HOW THE HELL MUCH YOUNGER COULD THEY POSSIBLY GET!?

MT – I don’t know about you guys, but I’m rooting for natural selection.

Marmaduke – Ha ha! The boy is going to bruise himself severely and possibly sprain or break a limb or two!

MW – Jeff’s being an asshole, but I expect drinking coffee that’s the same sickly diarrhea-brown as his sweater is to blame. It’d certainly make me upset.

OBH – Joe and Ruthie have carefully calculated their actions to drive their father insane. Then, once their mother is out of the way, the house will be theirs.

PBS – Oh yes. There will only be one Burgess Meredith, but if anybody can pay proper homage to his memory, it’s Pastis.

Phantom – Wait, didn’t we already…what is this, Dick Tracy?

Popeye – The eighth sea? Again?

SM – Even the super-battles are festivals of incompetence.

SFx – Oh, this is just beautiful. The dying flowers on top of the TV are an especially nice touch.
Mars
April 13th, 2009 at 1:35 pm [Reply]

There’s no denying it now: If we are indeed beginning another week of “young people are horrible” strips in Zits, it’s past its prime and is fast joining the other codgers waving their canes on the porch.
These Strange Worlds
April 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pm [Reply]

SFx

Today’s strip is why I keep coming back to SFx. The slovenly detail, the weird pets, the vermin. And a shrew so ppoor that even his home wiring is hopelessly out of code.

And just what is that thing hiding under the pillow? I like to imagine it is an unintelligent shrew that Shady keeps around.. as a “friend.”

Would an intelligent shrew have a cat for a pet? Evidently.

Should a non-intelligent cat try to eat an intelligent mouse? You bet.

And I think we’ve been Miss Fox before. A Cassandra Miss Fox smackdown would elevate SFx to “best ever” heights, but I suppose that is too much to hope for.
These Strange Worlds
April 13th, 2009 at 1:46 pm [Reply]

81 Zits

Alas, you are probably right about Zits.

On the other hand, Baldo looks promising. He’s just been promoted over his lazy assistant manager coworker and has been tasked with firing him. That ought to be good for a week or so. Then he can content with being the boss the hot Latina coworker (who while not as lazy as the soon to be ex-assistant manager, will no doubt wrap him around her little finger in no time)…
Sequitur
April 13th, 2009 at 1:48 pm [Reply]

In general…

Okay. You’ve become a cartoonist. It’s your job to come up with fresh material, not just warm over old stale jokes from yours or others’ strips.
Right now it seems to be Pastis in the forefront of “keeping it original.” Watch this strip guys and gals but don’t plagiarize PBeforeS!

That is all. Rant mode disengaged.
These Strange Worlds
April 13th, 2009 at 1:51 pm [Reply]

Confession to make…

I’ve started reading one of the comics that I read when I was a kid (we’re talking the sixties) and then grew out of… But now have come to appreciate again: Any Capp.

http://comics.washingtonpost.com/11_comics_andy-capp.html

I dunno why it is never mentioned here. It is at least as snark-worthy as the Lockhorns and a lot better drawn. Maybe just because it’s not in the Chron?

What’s the appeal? I dunno. Perhaps I like pubs.
UncleJeff
April 13th, 2009 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

84 sequitor: I don’t know if you could call it “original” when Pastis appears to be doing a parody of “The Watchmen”. Funny parody but still, not all “that” original.
80 commodorejohn: In certain cultures, children the age of Little Naked Boy and Little Naked Girl are formally “married”…but I don’t think they do it with the two children totally starkers.
Rex Morgan, Castaway: Like June, I’m bored with little wooly headed boy and I am looking forward to an afternoon of drinks and more drinks with Agnes while waiting for Rex to get his head out of the porthole.
yeff (Jeff Soesbe)
April 13th, 2009 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

Cosmo –

It’s not that many calories, and it would make Show (who *is* your boss) happy. Even a pay raise, perhaps?

Could be worth a shot.

- Dr. Ruth
dale
April 13th, 2009 at 1:59 pm [Reply]

Mallard Fillmore
I remember the general comment and the uproar that followed, but is Tinsley claiming that is a true, literal quotation?
He should remember the VP can still declare one a terrorist looking sounding sort and have him vanish.
Little Guy
April 13th, 2009 at 1:59 pm [Reply]

MG&G: I know the subject’s been out there for a while, and we know what he’s been looking for, but the strip hit the jackpot in timing.
Piper Grey
April 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth: Adrian has given Ted the money! Ha, ha! Ted isn’t much of a character, but if he gets away with the loot then he’ll be a hero. I know, I know, Adrian will stop the cheque before he cashes it, but I can dream, can’t I?

Judge Parker: I wonder how this will fit in with the April Bower story? She is supposedly working for the World Bank doing ‘environmental stuff’ and this company is making ‘environmental stuff’. Is she there to spy on them?

Rex Morgan: OK, so now the plot has been bikini-sized.
Steve the Pocket
April 13th, 2009 at 2:31 pm [Reply]

@#82: “And a shrew so ppoor that even his home wiring is hopelessly out of code.”

Actually I know people whose houses still have two-prong outlets. Reason is, the only fix involves ripping out all the wiring in the whole house and replacing it, which probably requires tearing out all the drywall too in order to get at it. I’d rather just not think about how much that must cost, and how long one would have to spend at someone else’s house waiting for the job to be done.

We rip on Pluggers a lot, but speaking for myself the biggest problem it has is that on any given day it seems willing to go with any random definition of a “plugger” its already-confused readers suggest. On the rare occasions it stays faithful to the one specified on its website — that oft-forgotten subset of working-class America too civilized to be called rednecks but still worlds away from the ivory-tower sophisticates on the coasts that Jon Stewart likes to brag about being a part of — I actually find it charming. Today’s is a prime example.

You know, just so we’ve got a baseline reading.
commodorejohn
April 13th, 2009 at 2:34 pm [Reply]

#86 UncleJeff – True, and I’m perfectly willing to be a little more charitable when dealing with products of those cultures. But Love Is… is pure, 100% all-American squick.
Digger
April 13th, 2009 at 2:43 pm [Reply]

Shady knew that Slylock would figure out that he stole the computer. But he believed that no one would risk entering his putrid, disease-ridden hellhole just to recover a Commodore 64.
MaryAnnTheRest
April 13th, 2009 at 2:45 pm [Reply]

MT: Hey Rusty! You’ll have a better chance of sneaking up on those ducks from behind if you shut your yammer hole.
Catman
April 13th, 2009 at 2:45 pm [Reply]

For those writing to the WaPo about Judge Parker’s removal or the shrinking of comics in the Post. The Ombudsman will write you back, so you feel like somebody is receiving your email. The other email I think went into a black hole. lol.

ombudsman@washpost.com
Donald the Anarchist
April 13th, 2009 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

Luann I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: doesn’t Toni have any female friends? By now, someone should have spelled out to her that, Yes, she is going to have to do all the work. Tell Brad to stand still, remove his clothes, and show him exactly what goes in where, using your hand if necessary to help. Brad, your job is to have a normal male response. If you can’t manage that, you probably need a professional surrogate to help you.

Shoe When anthropomorphism and weird double entendre collide, you get Shoe. Or, more precisely, you get what I find on the bottom of my shoe.

SFx “Old Gil always says, you can’t go wrong with a Coleco!”

Garfield He has to run out of oxygen sooner or later, doesn’t he? Please?

DT What with B.O. “blowing Dick’s cover” and the Perfesser not swallowing in Shoe, today is getting really squicky…
Perky Bird
April 13th, 2009 at 2:55 pm [Reply]

What’s with Shady Shrew owning a pet cat? I thought Pluggers were the only anthropomorphic comic strip beasts who owned other animals!
These Strange Worlds
April 13th, 2009 at 3:01 pm [Reply]

91 Steve

Don’t be silly. I’ve upgraded many a house from two prong to three prong. You just have to go to Home depot and buy a new three prong face plate, take out the old two prong face place, and match up the two wires to the upper two screws. You don’t even need to solder or anything.

Right? right?

Hey, does anyone smell smoke?
These Strange Worlds
April 13th, 2009 at 3:04 pm [Reply]

97 Perky

Well, Norm in My Cage has a pet… something protozoan I guess.

OK, you’re right. That might not be a pet so much as a well-loved, trained infection.
Black Drazon
April 13th, 2009 at 3:05 pm [Reply]

Garfield just summarized the entire content of his strip, not to mention all other legacy strips that might border his in your local paper, in three panels. The dark, endless landscape of photocopied repetition goes on for miles, and we might as well sleep right on through it, mixed in with the tested “I hate mondays” millieu that will draw in the long-time fans to hear this revolutionary call to battle in sequential form. Oh bravo.
These Strange Worlds
April 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pm [Reply]

96 Donald

Well, the closest thing I’ve ever seen for a girl friend for Toni is Luann herself!

So no wonder the poor girl is frustrated with the quality of advice she’d be getting…
Sans Sense
April 13th, 2009 at 3:13 pm [Reply]

For me, I prefer to interpret that Toni is playing an overly elaborate, lengthy and viscious joke on Brad. Makes me like her even more.
Sans Sense
April 13th, 2009 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

Shoe:

Did the Perfessor eat his reading material?
ScienceGiant
April 13th, 2009 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

DT, panel 3 – QUICK! Indian or Eskimo?
Violet
April 13th, 2009 at 4:07 pm [Reply]

#43 Mordock
It’s even worse than you think—Toni actually bought him the crepe maker specifically so he could make crepes for her, and now he’s waffling (see what I did there?) about inviting her over for breakfast. Pancakes.
Poteet
April 13th, 2009 at 4:17 pm [Reply]

# 105 Violet — And he’s waffling even though TJ will be there eating breakfast with them, which will ensure that nothing even remotely unchaste could possibly occur.

And looking at TJ’s unnerving grin would definitely limit the crepe consumption if Brad and Toni were normal human beings. This breakfast should be lots of fun.
5-Sigma Freud
April 13th, 2009 at 4:19 pm [Reply]

OK, so Tracy has a burning marshmallow on his finger – but is he putting it into his ear, or taking it out?
bats :[
April 13th, 2009 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

Well, our school district is still on Easter/Spring break, but that’s no reason NOT to keep using one’s valuable mathematical skills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3439489608/sizes/o/
UncleJeff
April 13th, 2009 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

104 Science Giant: Inuit?
Violet
April 13th, 2009 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

#48 Muffaroo
Maybe I’ve just got puns on the brain but I found your use of “canard” in that context quite droll.
Spotted HØrse, Jungle Steed
April 13th, 2009 at 4:49 pm [Reply]

#105 Violet, #106 Poteet:
Anyone with any sensibilities would have problems eating, or thinking about things even remotely naughty under TJ’s squinty, pitiless, eyeless glare. He’s like Popeye, but without the eye. He’s nothing but squinty sockets. Oh, how I loathe him.
Lorem Ipsum
April 13th, 2009 at 5:25 pm [Reply]

bats :[ @ 108-comix gold!!!! B.O. Plenty’s system for carnage!
Stroker Ace
April 13th, 2009 at 6:37 pm [Reply]

LuAnn – A perfect morning: crepes,swallow, scan Pluggers… Wake me for lunch.
Joe Btfsplk
April 13th, 2009 at 8:16 pm [Reply]

Dick Tracy – “Oh, good,” you said. “A new artist! About time,” you said. “I mean, how could it be any worse?” you said.

Slylock – I’d put that magnifier away, there. You’re not gonna like anything you see through it in that place.

#64 150 – I think her name is Tiffany. She is a recurring character, though not often seen.
Cliff Arroyo
April 13th, 2009 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

76. “I thought I had the most pathetic and uneventful romantic life ever, but it appears I’ve been outdone by a two dimensional slob who can’t even conceive of getting to second base with a babe he’s been sort of chasing for years.”

Oh, he’s worse that that, he can’t even conceive of getting to second base with a babe who’se never turned him down whenever he has the balls to not be a total wuss (only 0.01 percent of the time, true).
She’s gagging for it but wants to maintain the illusion that he knows what to do with it and he …. doesn’t. It’s like a Scottish folk song come to life in the comics.
Lou Shumaker
April 13th, 2009 at 9:40 pm [Reply]

Not only is June busting out all over, but she’s casting a shadow of a penguin.
Poteet
April 13th, 2009 at 9:53 pm [Reply]

# 111 Spotted H0rse — “Oh, how I loathe him” is now my personal TJ mantra. Hope you don’t mind sharing.

MT — Did Sassy shrink?
Magilla Gorilla
April 13th, 2009 at 10:05 pm [Reply]

Hey Jeff! The State in Columbia is my hometown paper. I agree that Slylock Fox should stay. I just voted.
http://www.thestate.com/living/story/737433.html
Mariko
April 13th, 2009 at 10:22 pm [Reply]

GT– A pith helmet? Seriously? Where did that guy get a pith helmet? And can I get one if I get hit by a baseball?
Dicky
April 13th, 2009 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

70, Jeff: I don’t know who could be voting up Hagar as much as they are, but they’re as persistent as we are. I’ve voted Slylock to the lead a couple times and Hagar always comes back…
wooddragon
April 13th, 2009 at 10:44 pm [Reply]

Good god! Thanks to bats:[ at 108, I now know why you call him Count Morgu. (Yes, my hair is blonde. Why do you ask?)
Mibbitmaker aka Mb
April 13th, 2009 at 11:03 pm [Reply]

Woody Wilson, on his new JP storyline: “I just wanted to do a strip that Jennifer Aniston could tear from the paper and rip to shreds.”[/not true]
Steve T.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:01 am [Reply]

What IS it with his squickiness and sex anyway? TJ doesn’t seem to have any real interest in it at all, one way or the other, except vicariously through Brad — and he usually manages to sabotage that anyway. Is TJ hoping that after enough dismal romantic failures, in desperate loneliness Brad will turn to him?

Or maybe it’s some “Talented Mr. Ripley” fixation. I see TJ engineering Brad’s transfer to a fire station across the city, but the “Brad” who shows up has a squint and a creepy fixed grin.
bats :[
April 14th, 2009 at 12:05 am [Reply]

121. wooddragon: to give credit where credit is due, it was another CCer who noticed the offset door at the beginning of the MRSA story and coined “Count Morgu”…
I merely ran with it.
(I’ve tried to find he who should be applauded and haven’t had any success.)
bats :[
April 14th, 2009 at 12:46 am [Reply]

Toosday Toons:

A3G: ohpleaseohpleaseohplease let Ruby be in the apartment when Joe breaks down the door…and let her have an open bottle of bleach handy!

FW: *two* women interested in Les. That’s gotta be a sign of the Apocalypse.
I guess the one who’ll win his affection is the one who can put up with “Lisa would’ve loved this opera/graphic novel/breakfast pastry…music/art/Toaster Tooties was her life!” longer.

MT: for god’s sake, Rusty, while I’m pretty sure you move your lips when you read, PLEASE don’t use your outdoors voice all the time. Even if you are outdoors.

RMMD: I have some good news, and I have some better news:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3440839200/sizes/o/
Frank Parsnip
April 14th, 2009 at 12:48 am [Reply]

MT: Unfortunately, Rusty has decided to go photo-snapping with a spotted hyena. His capture is imminent.

MW: When Adrian gives her dad her best Magica De Spell look, she actually looks more like a duck than Mallard Fillmore.

Jugs Parker: In panel 3, does Sam’s shirt seriously have shoulder pads. I mean, look at where the arms go in, and then just consider those artificial lumps that make his shoulders stick out above where his arms are coming out. It’s like Barreto was originally trying to draw a suit and then suddenly realized he’d have to do it as a shirt.

DtM: There is absolutely nothing menacing about this. I want a refund.

A3G: Joe’s exhibiting the same symptoms as Alan used to. Looks like those pharmaceutical-grade opiate-derived painkillers from the hospital are getting a real workout.

Sex Organ, M.D.: Uh-oh… when June gets back to the cabin for her sunblock she’ll find that Rex has discovered the stowaway.

Beetle Bailey: Nothing wrong with that soldier that honey and ants wouldn’t fix.
Jeff
April 14th, 2009 at 12:55 am [Reply]

120, Dicky: I know! I don’t understand it!
I’ve never voted in a comics pole before. It’s funny how the little drama of checking the results several time a day has captured my interest. If anyone else is interested here’s the link to the survey –
http://www.thestate.com/living/story/737433.html
True Fable
April 14th, 2009 at 12:57 am [Reply]

# 124 bats :[ – It was in the March 23 2008 thread Rex Morgan, coward in which at first DivGuy mentioned “Count Morgula” and then Alt Comix later said “Count Morgu” was a bit creepy, and you took it from there from Alt Comix’s comment.

I research the damnedest things.
OKStan
April 14th, 2009 at 1:32 am [Reply]

Who cares if Shady took the computer? It looks like a circa 1980’s Trash 80 with the massive 9′ screen. I hope he swiped a few 6′ floppy disks to go with it. Unless Miss Fox is interested on who’s been going thru the “closet network”, i.e., the junk computers, or who trashed the dumpster. it doesn’t stike me as that big of deal. She should be thanking him for getting it out of her hair.
OKStan
April 14th, 2009 at 1:33 am [Reply]

BTW, I meant 9 inch monitor and 6 inch floppies.
True Fable
April 14th, 2009 at 1:40 am [Reply]

DtSM “Just tell her not to bother with Spider-man; he’s lame.”

Canadian Zombie Gah. A solid step backwards for Canadian womanhood.

Scenes from Suburban Hell Hi dreams of shitting his taxes away.

Sam Driver, Chick Magnet That’s about as often as Sam and Abbey get together; what’s the problem?

Fist O Justice theater Rusty has that homicidal look at last! He’ll get the crap beaten out of him any minute now.

Marmadick Mrs. Winslow shops at the Urinary Outlet.

Meddling Heights Put a stick up her ass, folks; Adrian’s a sucker.

RWO GOAT! Goat alert, TWO goats!
snowbunn8
April 14th, 2009 at 2:00 am [Reply]

Luann: Brad is on his way to being the next 40 year old virgin.
hoboclown
April 14th, 2009 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

Am I the only person who doesn’t see anything wrong with Dick Tracy’s hands in panel three? I feel like I’m staring at a Magic Eye poster and just can’t see what everyone else is seeing. It looks pretty well proportioned to the rest of his body, or is that the joke?
wondermint
April 15th, 2009 at 8:10 pm [Reply]

Luann: Evans is only teasing us. One second before anything real might happen I will be looking for Dirk the Jerk to show up.

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