Metapost: Will bring the laffs for food (also: COTW)
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With that bit of self-promotion out of the way, I now have an item or two before we get all COTWy. First comes this pic, sent from faithful reader Doug, who notes that “Marmaduke has gone beyond middle America to ensnare hotel residents in York, England”:
I find it particularly funny that this used to be a four-star hotel but has since been demoted. Jeez, a few dozen guests get devoured in their beds and the ratings people really come down hard on you.
Also of potential interest is this collection of cartoon titles rendered as death metal logos, because why not. Thanks to faithful reader Black Dracula for the tip.
And now, your COMMENT OF THE WEEK!
“Wolverine is going to watch a Broadway show instead of getting plastered in Hell’s Kitchen and clawing up some gang members. Note to Spider-Man writers: He’s not actually Hugh Jackman.” –150
And the hilarious runners-up!
“MW: The Rodgers and Hammerstein line makes sense if you note the sarcastic grin on Mary’s face plus the way she’s gesturing to the two slices of white bread.” –Peter Hillock
“Crankshaft’s All-American Burger Marinade: One package of Beano, mixed in a half-pint of the tears of frustration from family members who have to endure you. Add 1/2 cup of vinegar, a vat of bile, a quart of bitters, and a cup of sour milk. Stir well, then dump the whole thing all over everyone’s hopes for just one family holiday that isn’t ruined by your angry, soul-crushing hatefulness.” –Bob Loblaw
“What in the name of all that is holy is that thing clinging to the top of Martin Magee’s head? By no universally accepted definition could it even come close to being called ‘hair’. I suggested a wad of hot buttered yak wool, but perhaps a live weasel or a dead polecat is glued to his bald pate. Maybe his toupee is cut from a bathroom shag carpet, or faux fur, created from the upholstery of an abandoned ’79 Camero low rider. Whatever it is, I’m amazed Margo hasn’t pulled it off his head in a fit of pique and shame. The only ugly Margo tolerates is her own diva fits.” –Islamorada Girl
“Marvin should be used in sex ed classes across the US.” –Carly
“Somewhere exactly between 9 Chickweed Lane and Luann is a set of comic characters with a healthy sex life.” –Mibbitmaker
“Mary Worth for some reason is resorting to Brooklyn Italian Hand Signals. Her hand is clearly referring to the heft of Delilah’s husband’s testicles: ‘What about THIS? If all else fails, what about THIS?’” –Jimmy
“From lumpy schlub to Duran Duran member in three days. How does your ‘theory’ of evolution explain that, huh?” –Chyron HR
“I like to think of those three speech balloons in the last Mark Trail panel as three unrelated statements from three different people in three separate buildings, a snapshot of the mundane moment right before Squirrelmageddon descended.” –Steve S
“The past few days of MW have sent me to the Internets twice in a desperate effort to find a good descriptor for the dialogue. I haven’t succeeded. What I want is a pungent adjective that means ‘stilted and also insane.’” –Poteet
“Billy has obviously either invented an invisible chair, or he’s doing some sort of complicated glute exercise, either of which is more productive than carrying a newspaper around and gesturing vaguely.” –imjaredlookout
“‘Sorry if we insulted just your intelligence.’ Really? That’s it? Damn. I was hoping more for a Lynn Johnson-esque ‘And so, Ed was taken home to his maker by the M-80 — not immediately, of course, but after months of painful operations, skin grafts, and experimental treatments. Pam and Jeff continued to find unhappiness in every minuscule and trivial aspect of life; Max eventually took up smoking at the age of 63; Mindy realized her dream as a pole-dancing librarian during her sophomore year at Kent State. Thanks so much to my readers — it has been an honor to bring slow, unrelenting death and suffering to your breakfast table for the past years. Beginning next week, I will re-draw the entire strip from start to finish with updated suffering scenarios reflecting the current knowledge base of horrible, horrible diseases.’” –blammers66
“I can think of about 30 daily comics that should always end with the line, ‘Sorry if we just insulted your intelligence.’” –survivor
“With Wolverine’s enhanced senses he should be able to tell Spider-Man is really Peter Parker by his scent. That is, if Wolverine has ever met Peter. Maybe Spiderman is worried that Wolverine will pick up his scent on MJ. ‘Sniff, sniff. Say, that actress smells of TV Guide and anxiety! Maybe she’s married to Spider-Man!’” –The Great Kazoo
“Waitaminute — Nora was married to Tim, and now her new boyfriend is named Tom? Do Shulock and Bolle think that the fact that all the guys look alike isn’t confusing enough on its own?” –AirForbes
“Mrs. Wilson looks awfully sly there. If she just pinned the blame for her fecal incontinence on Dennis, my respect for her now reaches almost as high as my suicidal tendencies due to thinking of this.” –Dragon of Life
“As usual, we can feel sorriest for PJ; carrying a miniature American flag the day after July 4 suggests that he is turning to patriotism as a substitute for the love his bullying, violent family won’t give him. At least he’ll have a weapon with which to defend himself against the ant attacks.” –Jaime Weinman
“Peter Parker is obviously off his nut, asking for double the fee for his photos while J. Jonah Jameson and Robbie have to share a single chair.” –Patrick
“J. Jonah Jameson is totally getting ripped off — by the time those double-priced still photos appear in his old-time newsy-paper, a high-def video of the entire fight will have been running on TMZ for more than a day. (For that matter, Doctor Octopus was probably live-tweeting the whole thing with one of his free arms.)” –BigTed
“Woo, Gil Thorp on Twitter! Hold onto your hats, folks, ’cause the #sexting hash tag just got a whole lot less interesting.” –Rachel K
“I remember when I first read a soap opera strip and asked myself ‘What, are they taking out the interesting parts on purpose?’ And now, today, Judge Parker comes and says once and for all that ‘Yes. Yes we are.’” –Black Drazon
“Cherry is going to a PTA meeting? We all know that Rusty is an autodidact in the School of Dumb Choices and Duck Photography.’ –buckyswife
“I have to say I find it strange that Gil Thorp, the strip that never introduced a character too peripheral to have a first and last name, uniform number, on-field position, and batting average, opts to leave out all the nonessential consonants in the word ‘knock.’ I suppose they just ran out of room, what with Gil’s monstrous paws and all.” –Mollie
“What I deduced from today’s fashion faux pas is that Mary’s powers, like those of the Green Lantern, are driven by her willpower and are ineffective against the colour yellow.” –Jilliterate
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July 6th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Man, the Mary Worth and Slylock Fox ones should seriously be those comics’ actual logos.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I’m on the float! And in such hysterically illustrious company! I’m doing my “on the float” celebratory dance right now!
(Oh, and I learned to bold today!)
Thanks, Josh!
July 6th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
If it helps, any Josh, I have read some of your articles that you link to when you tweet, that are not comic related, and they are quite good. Not that that will help you get work. Just saying.
It looks as though it was a hard choice, as some of the runner ups for COTW were quite good. brovo.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I can see Mary Worth in metal.
“Awaiting the hour of reprisal
Your time slips away
Stay with your husband Delilah
We think it’s better that way”
July 6th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
A great crop of comments this week, but Jilliterate’s was, in my opinion, the very funniest. Good job, all!
July 6th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
YAY! for 150 and all the floaters! And Chyron, Poteet, and Mibbitmaker and Rachel and Peter Hillock and well everyone made me laugh. Yet again, I missed some first time around. Thanks for keeping track Josh!
July 6th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
First, big congrats to 150 and the others. I was absent today and had a good time catching up.
Also I love the logos. But I’m puzzled by the absence of “Marvin.” Are even Satanic metalheads wary of invoking his unholy name?
July 6th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Love it, 150! :-) Congrats to you and the other float riders!
July 6th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I burst out laughing at the Mary Worth and Beetle Bailey logos.
Now, imagine if they actually were metal bands…
July 6th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
#2 – No more Mark Trail for you!
July 6th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Can I just say, as a long-time Onion reader (and I’ve had my picture in it twice!), the combination of the Onion AV Club and Josh would be full of win and internets?
And, in other news: Congrats to the floaters! A good week.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
The linked picture is making my browser choke. Can you stash a local cached copy perchance…? Lord knows I am intrigued by evidence that Marmaduke’s misdeeds have gone global.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Nice work, 150! And it’s an honor to share the float with you other funny people and see some excellent comments I missed the first time around. Monday just got better.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I should add, too, that the funny thing about those metal cartoon logos is that only the B.C. one really doesn’t look much different at all from what we actually get in the papers. I’m not quite sure what this says about B.C.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Oh, golly,
Ooh Delilah
Golly what a day!
[Appy polly loggies if I spooged that. I have always made it a point to avoid the movie it was in, but my co-worker used to make references to it from time to time.]
ps: Brush with greatness: I once baby-sat the guy who went on to do the Onion’s AV Club. I bought a hologram with the money.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
And congrats to those guys. I, I didn’t want to cheapen the sentiment by sticking it in the end of another post.
That’s my story.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:04 am
The winner sums up my feelings about what Wolverine has become.
Also, I gotta say, I’m a little disappointed to see see a PETA ad. But I guess you gotta make your money somehow.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Congrats all! Mibbetmaker and Patrick’s comments were special favorites of mine.
(Also: Dang it! I thought I was getting close to the CotW zone when I was posting last week, but I guess not…)
July 7th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Congratulations to 150 and the merry band of float riders! Wave and throw beads!
tanabata snark.
Sam Driver, Chick Magnet Sam is surprised to learn they are Rocky & Godiva’s new BFF, but then we have come to expect confusion from a man who persists in tucking the end of his tie into his pants.
Rex Morgan, Man Whore Frankly, watching two Big Bird-haired folks sit and chatter bores the crap out of me. Watching June in her bikini spoiled me, I must admit.
Meddle House Something wicked this way comes! Man, that is one hell of a “Capise” look Mary’s giving him, almost as hellish as his leery, eyeless freak show expression. All RIGHT, grab the popcorn and bring in the goats, kids; there’s gonna be something happening any month now.
Margo 3-D Margo does not look like a youngish 25 to 30 year old woman. She looks more like an Eve Arden-hardened wiseacre 50 year-old, tossing down snappy one-liners and eating small children for appetizers.
The Amazing Wolverine Yeah, we’ll have Wolverine go all ga-ga over MJ, and Peter will be ate up with jealousy and torn about helping him out with villains (like Spidey can really “help” in those cases!) and I still won’t give a shit.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:39 am
15, et al. I used to buy my comics from one of the Onion’s staff writers. Not a hard chore as they all went to school in Madison, but still….he did a strip called Badgers And Other Animals….basically the day to day of UW Students…but really damn good. Oh, congrats to 150. I laughed my ass off at that one.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:50 am
@True Fable #20, soon to be #19: Do you mean “bring in the goats, you kids”, or “bring in the goats’ kids” or “bring in the goats and kids”?
@Jamus #21, soon to be #20: Yes, I had a bit of an advantage living in Milwaukee, and going to Madison a lot, at that time.
July 7th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Congrats to all COTW floaters! Rachel, pithy yet amusing.
July 7th, 2009 at 1:20 am
#22 KarMann: Yes. yes, I do.
Actually, it was supposed to be “bring in the goats, you kids”. I mixed it up with one of my favorite sayings, “whinin’ won’t milk the cows, kids” with my standard “bring in the goats, y’all.”
Baby Blues EWWW
Cockroach Yay, another episode of Mex Morgan! I like these.
July 7th, 2009 at 2:53 am
7/7/7/7/7/7…:
666CL: Ha! MeanFakeGod has met his match, andOMIGOD, THORAX IS STILL SKINNY-DIPPING, OW, MY EYES!!!
Archie: That’s not Bigfoot. That’s Garfield.
DT: Everybody: “NO!!” (Gee, kinda like MST3K, no?)
GT: This is turning into a 5th season SNL skit with Bill Murray and Steve Martin, isn’t it?
JP: ….it was like a dream — as opposed to something that ACTUALLY HAPPENED!
MW: Cue “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” music sting. You know the one…
6C: “Look who’s talking, apple-picker!”
July 7th, 2009 at 3:48 am
7/7:
Baldo: Yep, we are definitely heading into Batiuk’s turf here.
BB: Sandwich perspective inspired by yesterday’s Gil Thorp cabinets.
Bizarro:(St)ripped from today’s headlines! (Yes, there have been actual cases comparable to this.)
FC: Attaboy, Billy! Fight the system! Don’t let The Man keep you down!
FW: Here it comes. I wonder what condition John’s getting this week?
GF: Nice touch on the caller ID!
MT: Sue really took “More information about Mark Trail can be found on the Internet” seriously!
MW: The Wringing Hands of Meddling! The Glower of Meddling! What’s next?
Piranha Club: Ah, the true story of how Wisconsin became the first state to recover from the recession.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:15 am
@5. commodorejohn:
Well thank you very much! I’m always kind of baffled (and delighted) when I see one of my comments appear in the COTW, particularly this week, when I was just geeking out (as usual). Stay tuned next week, when I compare Mark Trail, with his fondness for punching things, to Luke Cage, Hero for Hire.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Oh, you had me until the MA in history. Dealbreaker, sadly.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:56 am
FC: Do people in arid Arizona teach their children to complain when it rains?
MT: Mark can’t be on the Internet, didn’t Compuserve just go out of business?
OBH: Thumbs up to Ruthie, that is indeed a great song! And what an awesome grandfather to teach it to her.
Somehow a Plugger reading a book sounds like we’re getting a bit too retro in our technology. The ideal Plugger entertainment device is a black and white TV set with a coat hanger as an antenna—the kind with separate knobs for VHF and UHF. Or possibly an 8-track tape player. These days we might allow cassette tapes too.
A color TV with a remote is too modern. Big old tube radios in ornate wooden cases, The Saturday Evening Post, wind-up Victrolas, player pianos and books are too old-fashioned. Just in the same way that a Plugger’s beat-up pollution-spewing vehicle should be of 1970s vintage, not a Model T or a Dodge Wayfarer.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:13 am
@Mr. O’Malley #29, eventually #28: Here in Arizona, when it rains, it rains like it means it. The monsoon season’s just about upon us. We usually expect a few deaths of people trying to cross flooded washes in cars each year. So yeah, that aspect of it makes a sort of sense.
And damn you for making me defend Bil in the least!
July 7th, 2009 at 5:44 am
MW: Mary will cut you with her eyesight.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:12 am
I don’t think you can really get the full impact of that logo page unless, at some point, you had a box full of cassette tapes with hand-drawn logos that looked exactly like that. Whoever drew those really nailed a particular time & knows the genre tropes. I’m just surprised they didn’t work in the “inverted cross in place of letter T” motif somewhere. It is also sort of amazing how many inferences I’m tempted to make about the particular style of these nonexistant bands based on the logo (Garfield is clearly zero-production-values scandinavian black metal, Peanuts could be NYC hardcore, Sherman’s Lagoon is a bunch of prettyboys that play cover songs at the local bars, Marmaduke – which, notice, can be contracted to Marduk – and Shoe seem like probably Florida death metal, etc, etc.)
The one below Shoe (between BC and Beetle Bailey) is the clear winner because I still can’t read it.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:14 am
I can see schoolkids drawing that “Ziggy” on notebooks instead of learning algebra.
Beetle: How sad is it that this stale gag is openly stolen, and that that’s the gag?
Sam Driver, fashion forward fellow!: Want to keep your tie looking straight and neat? Tuck it into your trousers!
July 7th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Congrats to the CsOTW, I thought this was a pretty uninspiring week of comics but you guys spin gold from straw. “Straw” is probably overstating the quality and utility of the source materials in this case. “Pig’s ear” might be closer, but still not quite enough.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Ziggy probably has a keytar player and otherwise sounds a lot like Accept.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:23 am
@One-eyed Wolfdog #32: I’m pretty sure that’s “Mutts” under Shoe.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Oh way cool ! Thanks Josh : ) And to 150 and all your faithful readers for driving one another to ever loftier heights of pithiness.
And keep the pedal to the metal… good things WILL happen !
July 7th, 2009 at 6:55 am
#25 Mibbitmaker – Hey, a fifth season SNL reference. I am not alone!
July 7th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Congrats to the CoTW and the Floaters!
RMMD: What? No “Dude!” jokes yet?
Big Nate: I’m not reading until Saturday, if you’re gonna stretch out things.
MT: This is as Baretto as Jackelrod gets. Enjoy.
S-M: This is as Jackelrod as Stan Lee gets. Be patient.
Lio: Niiiiiiiiiiiiice! Someone *else* remembered!
Candorville: Has it been two weeks?
9CL: Brooke states what Catholic students have known for generations: a nun is more powerful and threatening than God.
July 7th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Congrats to you all, oh winners of exalted COTW! Hilarious stuff. Here’s a soothing haiku for all of us “also rans”:
Late Monday. Joshreads
Raised expectations and hopes,
Dashing mine. Ah, well.
July 7th, 2009 at 7:40 am
MT: What kind of “fancy place” still has an orchestra pit – especially one with cheesy musical notes on the front of it?
July 7th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Charley Smith is the Newman on Charterstone.
Hello, Mr. Smith.
July 7th, 2009 at 8:03 am
on=of
July 7th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Luann: And Evans fades back and gives us a classic cheesecake bikini scene. I tell ya, John….all season he’s been faltering, but when it comes to bringing nubile underage teens to light in his strip, he’s a regular Pacman Jones.
July 7th, 2009 at 8:20 am
LOVE the fiery stare that Mary is giving to Mr. Smith. Oh, if only her eyes were equipped with lasers, we’d see a skull burst into flames. Haven’t seen ol’ Mare get that wrathful since… ALDO.
But what did Mary expect? Del went out in tight pants and a halter top. Maybe Mary is getting a little from Charlie on the side, and doesn’t appreciate him gawking at someone else. Is “Charlie Smith” even his real name? Maybe it is, but he bills himself online as “Hugh Long, Gigilo to old Biddies”.
Ziggy: “Do you have any hobbies other than popping bubble wrap?”
“Sure, does masturbating violently to Sinead O’Connor videos qualify?”
“Yeah, you’re hired!”
Mark Trail: “I understand your concern about the drums.”
“Yes, they’re a bit too loud. Can we tell Glenn Miller back there to play something smoother? When Joey gets here, I want the mood to be sultry.”
July 7th, 2009 at 8:26 am
#32 – One Eye – I think you’re referring to “Mutts” that you can’t read.
Congrats to COTW and runners up. Again, I find myself bereft. What does it take? What must I do??
Oh, write as funny as the float riders? Oh. Yeah. Uh. ok…
July 7th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Spiderman: Parker getting double price for the photos was a coup. However, if I recall correctly, the last batch he had only cost JJJ a mere $25. So Parker, in guise of Spidey goes out, risks his life to get a few snapshots for a whopping $50. Yeah, that’ll buy ya dinner.
On today’s Spidey, I don’t know what to make of the giant hand reaching up from the stage. It points to that woman in purple, who herself is subtly pointing back with the hand on her chin. Perhaps they’re trading accusations. “You came to see a horrible play inside an awful comic strip!” “So? You’re IN an crappy play inside a horrendous comic strip!”
BLAM! “What was that?” Gil, that’s the sound of your foray into high tech crashing to the ground. You’re a plugger. You’re a plugger, and don’t you forget it. Your “facebook” is when you fall asleep reading, and your nose drops in to the binding.
Seriously, what could that be? Certainly not kids playing with fireworks in July? Don’t we have old man Crankshaft for that?
July 7th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Lio: nice tribute. Well done, Mr. Tatulli!
GF: my departed Dusty agrees with you, Satch. He feared the Vacuum Monster greatly.
LaCuch: another week of Mex Morgan, MD!
Mutts. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, or just groan at the pun.
RwO: from loldogs to fursuits, its a shorter trip than you think.
today’s Sinfest has a *wonderful* C&H riff. Yeah, its a webcomic, but worth checking out. (Sunday’s strip was sublime.)
July 7th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Archie meets The Vault of Horror. WTF?
July 7th, 2009 at 9:01 am
A3G – I’m glad to see that the men in Dharamsala haven’t given up wearing fedoras.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am
MT: Devilishly realistic domestic subplot unfolding here. Mark gallivants off to dinner at a fancy jernt with the smart/sexy CEO of a chemical plant so he can plug up the source of her effluent.
Invites Cherry for propriety’s sake, but she’s having none of it: “I have a PTA meeting scheduled. You go enjoy your night out while I’m making sure they don’t sneak evolution into next year’s science textbook so our son’s head isn’t filled with secular humanist nonsense.”
Don’t be alarmed, folks. She’s just making a record that’ll impress the divorce court judge when she files for full custody.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:10 am
That Sinfest puts a huge grin on my face (and makes me all the more disappointed by C&H references in Lio and Medium-Large that seem pitifully crude and joyless by comparison). Thanks for pointing it out.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:12 am
queek @ 48: Thanks again for leading me to Sinfest. I’ve been on vacash for the past wek and a half and have had the leisure to read about half the archive, and I am totally smitten.
Sunday’s strip was indeed classic, and the Criminy/Fuchsia quasiromance has me on the edge of my chair.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Ah, is there a sweeter phrase in the Funkiverse than “All things considered, he’s doing OK?” No, of course not. Life was too good. Funky taking some well deserved time off, Summer’s softball team finally gets a win, Les gettin’ it on with the school’s secretary … we knew it couldn’t last. So, Komikbookguy is the next victim of Fate’s (or is it Destiny’s?) special little sniper. Which bullet will she (or is it he?) use to smite this sideline character?
July 7th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Funky Winkerbean logo / album cover.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:32 am
*does the COTW float dance*
*it looks like a more spastic Thriller*
July 7th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Mary Worth: I’m sorry but the only way for two people to have that much contempt for each other is if they’ve slept together at some point in the past. Maybe he yanked her pearls at the moment of orgasm sending her breasts flying into porcelain swans. Maybe she commented on his “size.” Either way, these two bumped ugly in the night and Delilah had better watch out.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:41 am
In the collection of cartoon titles rendered as death metal logos, I at first thought I saw a logo which said ‘Satan.’
Then I realised it actually said ‘Cathy.’
Then I realised it actually did say ‘Satan.’
July 7th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Congrats, float-riders!
BaBl: Ah, the “stepping in the cat’s latest hairball at two in the morning” reaction. I know it well.
FW: “You know, considering he’s doomed to a life of meaningless despair like the rest of us…”
Lio: Nicely done.
MW: Mary recognizes Obviously Evil Charley’s obvious evilness immediately. Unfortunately Delilah (who, like all the women of Mary’s acquaintance, has the perception and common sense of a bowl of tapioca) will remain oblivious to his dishonorable intentions until it’s almost too late, at which point she’ll be wracked with guilt at her near brush with adultery leaving Mary to do her usual damage control. After a few well-placed platitudes, Delilah will return home with a newfound appreciation for her marriage, and all will end well. There, I saved you at least two months of reading this strip.
Pluggers consider reading to be a chore.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:55 am
No love for the Ziggy board game?
July 7th, 2009 at 10:01 am
7/7
MT: Nice touch Elrod. So the meeting will be held in a pre-WW2 jazz club filed with ghosts. I look forrward to dialog emanating from a giant trombone.
MW: This is how Mary sees the world. Men with their striped bowling shirts and they’re innocuous questions are leading her Delilah astray. Why this one must be an emissary of the Devil himself.
S4th: Well, Ted is talking to more people at the office. That’s a good thing, right?
C-Shaft: Just to give fair warning, maybe the dairy should stencil Josh’s “Jesus Christ! Ed Crankshaft is such an asshole!” on the side of the ice cream truck.
FW: “All things considered, he seems okay.” I think in Westview, that can be translated as, “You know. The trocpical fungus has only eaten half of his foot.”
S-M: Oh please tell me that the cast of the play has to make air quotes every time they get a line of dialog.
Luann: Apparently–and I wish I had known this in high school–you can attract a harem by peppering your speech with a few “g’days” and “fair dinkums.” Of course judging from yesterday’s comic, at least one of them thinks spending more time in the sun will make her black. But what the hell, brains aren’t everything.
Blondie: In the third panel Daisy is still stunned by the sight of hairy mailman balls.
DtM: Well it’s not everyday you see a pedophile trying to work the system in order to keep his distance from a kid. But Mr. Wilson is barking up the wrong tree. You have to bribe a judge, not a beat cop.
Phantom: A few more stale airline jokes from Ghost-Who-Sucks-at-Disguises and the dude in the wifebeater will be begging the Jungle Patrol for the death penalty.
M-Dawg: “He’s always putting his tongue on the screen. Well, when we’re lucky it’s his tongue.”
July 7th, 2009 at 10:19 am
A3G – C’mon, Margo, snap. Snap.
Archie – Oh dear. I think Archie is about to embark on a storyline. At least, that’s the explanation I’m coming up with for the utter lack of any kind of joke-like object.
BB – Dean Booth is hereby advised to replace this with one of Dagwood’s sub sandwiches. If you get what I mean.
Blondie – I’ll leave the “under the kilt” jokes to everyone else, because I can’t get over how friggin’ sweet that bag is.
Crankshaft – “Hey, you think this truck runs on pixie dust? Now, me, on the other hand, I can’t get outta bed without the stuff.”
DT – And by “pretty bold plan” Tracy of course means “good God how could they ever have made it more obvious that they were up to no good, Inspector Clouseau could have figured this one out.”
FW – Wait, what? What humiliating tragedy befell him in the time-jump that we haven’t learned about yet?
GA – Man, I haven’t rooted this hard for the lawbreakers since O Brother, Where Art Thou?
GT – This summer’s thrilling storyline: the BLAM that wasn’t there!
JP – Cripes, even Sophie recognizes the ridiculous dream-logic powering this storyline.
Lio – Okay, is there some other site than goComics where I can get a copy of today’s Lio that hasn’t been shittily color-reduced? I mean, Jesus, goComics, if you absolutely have to pare it down to three colors, there’s this magical tool Photoshop gives you called dithering.
MT – So I was beaten to the “more information about Mark Trail can be found on the Internet,” but I do want to take a moment and appreciate the fact that Sarah’s face changes shape every single panel here. Perhaps she emigrated from Milford?
MW – Can I please take a moment to imagine that Mary’s icy reception of “Mr. Smith” precedes a grand Matrix-style kung-fu battle? Yeah, I’m just going to savor that image for a bit.
Momma – Today I learned that Momma is in fact an immortal being hovering on the outskirts of various historical tragedies. I’m experiencing some minor symptoms of Lovecraft Protagonist Syndrome.
MC – The difference between this and Funky W-uh, one of the differences between this and Funky Winkerbean is that I can believe that at some point in My Cage there’ll actually be a chance of ever seeing some closure on this issue. In fact, it looks like he’s making progress already.
RMMD – It’s a pity one of the residents isn’t a duck, or they could just call in Mark Trail. Over the Internet.
SM – If nothing else, I will say this for the current storyline: the sight of Wolverine sitting in the front rows of a theater, with his enormous side-beard jutting out so far that it overlaps the hair of the woman in front of him, is funnier than many nominal “joke” strips.
Ziggy – It’s his twisted little smile that makes this so unspeakably creepy.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Oh, apparently the actual goComics site has a copy that doesn’t look like ass. Hooray.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:19 am
A3G – I’ve never understood why women seem to go for the jerk instead of the nice guy. Then Margo comes along with her free swinging, atomic bitch attitude and it all makes sense. God bless her and the New Jersey DMV Clerk she was probably modelled after.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:22 am
MT: Geez, where are they going for dinner? 1939?
Actually, I’m kind of charmed that this is Elrod’s idea of sexy and sophisticated—as if his only sense of “what grown-ups do when they go out in the evening” comes from Turner Classic Movies.
FC: You’d think that a kid who can turn his head around backwards like that would have some power to influence the weather, too.
NS: Can we add this one to the lengthy list of overused comics tropes: wildlife fishing for humans at the same time that humans are fishing? (Gary Larson used to do a version of this better, didn’t he? Maybe that’s why so many lesser others think they can use it, too.)
A3G: You know, I don’t expect that the crack A3G research team would actually travel to Dharamsala to find out what it looks like. But you’d think they might look up some pictures on, say, the internet to make it look a bit less, well, Brooklyn.
MW: As Mary confronted her old nemesis, she remembered all the battles that had come before; each time, she’d successfully deflected his advances, saving another young woman’s innocence. Except one—the loss that will haunt her forever: Delilah. She couldn’t save her then, but now fate was offering her a second chance, and she would do whatever it took to defeat her enemy and protect Delilah’s virtue—whether Delilah liked it or not.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Alternatively: today’s strip puts the “crank” in Crankshaft!
July 7th, 2009 at 10:26 am
#42 Ned Ryerson: That’s exactly the voice I heard in my head when I read it, too.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Whoo Hoo! I’m a- ridin’ the float! Have some beads and miniature Snickers bars! Whoo Hoo!
July 7th, 2009 at 11:17 am
9CL – Ha ha. God’s a wimp, and doesn’t know anything until somebody tells him. I say “ha ha” because there’s no universally understood onomotopoeia for “that’s bleeding stupid.” Maybe “Duh duh”?
DTracy – What a cunning plan. It’s almost as if somebody had read The Big Sleep.
Gfield – Duh duh!
HtHorrible – Whoa! Are we seeing another Viking who says things as inappropriate as Lucky Eddie? Is Lucky Eddie on vacation? (”Ah, Lucky Eddie! Always in ze middle!”)
Mduke – Looks like one of the TDIET characters is still working. (Still miss you, Al.)
MWorth – “And may I say you’re looking most vivacious today, Mrs. Worth. I was just telling Theodore and Wallace that we should always listen to the wisdom of our elders.”
Momma – Ah, Ira, we hardly knew ye. My regards to Miss Peach.
Pluggers – You’re a plugger if your every move is dictated to you by people whose names appear in a floating box with a PO address in it.
R=R – “I’m explaining that I am riding on a turtle, because I know my readers might not deduce it from my often obscure and overly stylized drawings!” Duh duh!
6Chix – It’s like if Shary Flenikin completely lost her edge and didn’t know it.
S-Man – That’s pretty innovative staging there, having the actors face away from the audience to deliver their scenes. If they’re standing in front of a large mirror, it explains the enthralled look on MJ’s face.
Hey Logan! When you chat her up after the show, compare her to Sarah Bernhardt and Maud Adams! Chicks probably dig that.
July 7th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Black Drazon’s comment on soap opera strips, “What, are they taking out the interesting parts on purpose?”, is so true. Soap opera strips are always trying new, current topics to draw in readers – drug trafficing, identity theft, stalking, illegal immigration, water rights. But they still bore us to death beause they continue to treat all subjects as talking heads, maybe so they don’t have to draw any new art. No wonder we like Mark Trail so much; at least he punches people.
July 7th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Gasoline Alley featuring Slim the 60-year-old man-child: Okay, so Upton and Mona first told Slim that Upton was the preacher he was supposed to pick up, and now Upton has referred to “the preacher’s stuff.”
That would be a huge red flag to most people in this situation. I’m guessing Slim will miss it completely.
Meanwhile, the real visiting preacher has probably begun walking or hitching back to town, since the tow truck he was told was coming has never shown up.
This sort of thing goes a long way towards explaining the garage’s cash-flow problems described by Clovia in the Sunday strip. “Gasoline Alley Garage and Towing. We’ll be there for you. Or not.”
July 7th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Late comments…went to see “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” at the cheap seats last night. I didn’t see one theatre in the whole movie! I did see Hugh Jackman’s butt, though. That was cool.
29. Mr. O’Malley: absolutely not. Everybody’s out splashing in the puddles (and the gutters) when it’s raining here.
Billy’s just an asshole. If he’s swept down a storm-drain, all the better.
MT: wow, swanky place! I’m guessing we’re meeting at the nightclub that’s part of Johnny Malotte’s “We Gonna Win Big Now” casino.
MW: great. Now that several folks have alluded to Charlie Harper from Two and a Half Men, Charterstone Charley now has Charlie Sheen’s voice. And wardrobe.
RMMD: ah, well. At least I have Mex Morgan to keep me warm (thanks for the heads up, True Fable!).
July 7th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Right on, Josh!
I came to Curmudgeonland via a link on the Onion AV Club site. They would do well to invite a periodic submission from you for their site! You have my ringing endorsement! HUZZAH!!
July 7th, 2009 at 11:53 am
56. So, we meet again, Mr. Dingo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/3698436868/sizes/o/
July 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am
And love him or hate him, La Cucaracha had a nice tribute to Michael Jackson on Monday, 6 July. (Lio’s remembrance of Farah is sweet.)
Why these are on a sucking site like gocomics.com, I don’t know…
July 7th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Josh:
It probably doesn’t do any good to obfuscate your email address (”bio at jfruh dot com “) if you hyperlink it with a “mailto:” link with your address unencoded. The spambots can just scrape it off the hyperlink.
Nick
July 7th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
The Plugger lady could have finished the book much sooner if she didn’t have to point her finger under the words and move her lips. Do chicken women have lips?
July 7th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Congrats, 150, you have me snorting iced tea up my nose.
And for your consideration for next week’s COTW float, #68 Muffaroo on Mary Worth: freaking classically funny.
Oh, and Josh + Onion AV Club = <3
July 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
MT – After reading today’s strip, I can’t seem to stop thinking of Gene Krupa.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Runner-up COTW by Jimmy said, “Mary Worth for some reason is resorting to Brooklyn Italian Hand Signals. Her hand is clearly referring to the heft of Delilah’s husband’s testicles: ‘What about THIS? If all else fails, what about THIS?’” (http://joshreads.com/images/09/07/i090701maryworth.jpg)
Apparently Delilah learned that hand signal from Mary, because now she is using it to judge all prospective male companions by checking the heft of their testicles: http://joshreads.com/images/09/07/i090706maryworth.jpg
July 7th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Wow, it must be Tough Chicks Sass God Day — Here’s Margaret Shulock’s Origins story for Margo Magee. Ha ha Margo makes God look like Ted Forth.
July 7th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I missed some rip-roaring hilarious COTW runners-up! Yay for laughing now!
I think if we give it about, oh, three months or so, we just might see that Metal Slylock logo in Slylock, somehow referenced or drawn on someone’s t-shirt (near-invisibly due to the small size). Because we know Mr Weber reads this, and because we know he’s cool and has a great sense of humour.
July 7th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Remember that ridiculous enormousshop.com storyline from Mary Worth with Toeby and her being ripped off on her credit card? Well, it just happened to me for real with my Visa ™ debit card. Cleaned out my checking and savings accounts both because the credit union kept transferring from my savings to checking. Ugh.
Unlike the hand wringing twit from Mary Worth, I do pay attention to my account and follow up and just like Toeby it started with a charge for 88 cents made to Foundation for Stray Bangkok Th and then went from there. I’m careful with my debit card and the bastards still got me.
However, no hand wringing. A call to my credit union, a later visit to fill out a form and my funds will be restored by the end of the day. I’ve already cancelled the card. Dismayed? Yes. Wailing and gnashing my teeth? uh, no.
July 7th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Luann–I can’t wait until Quill shows up at the pool and takes off his shirt, only to reveal the grotesque, misshapen parasitic twin that’s attached to his abdomen. Still want him now, Tiffany?
July 7th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
MT – Where are they dining – The Cotton Club?
Mark is more concerned about the drum set on stage – he prefers Gretsch to a Premier kit, for that crisp, big-band sound.
July 7th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
#82 – Oh man, Patrick! What a heist. I had my credit card info stolen a few weeks ago. Apparently it was caught up in one of those big computer breaches last January. The imposters didn’t waste any time with 88 cent charges, though – they went straight to charging $6000 dollars with a travel agency in the UK. The Visa people caught it right away, though, and disabled my card and called me. They figured I wasn’t in London and buying a vacuum cleaner here at Lowe’s at the same time. My co-worker said, “Yeah, they knew you’d never vacuum.”
July 7th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
#82 Patrick: Yikes–that’s awful! I’m guessing, though, that if you had Chinbeard and LaWorth staring at you with the lethal 3 Cs mixture (concern, contempt, and condescension), you’d be engaging in some wailing and gnashing, too. (Good for you for your reasonable attitude in the face of this, though!)
July 7th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
# 73 bats:[ — BWAHAHAHA! You and Dingo are an excellent combination.
Wait a minute…
July 7th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
A3G: When did India become such a white country? And when did they elect Eisenhower president?
MT: Yes, because only a well-known environmentalist would be pissed that someone threw a bunch of leaky drums full of toxic waste on their property.
MW: Wait, does Mary not like this guy because she knows something about his personality, or because he’s not wearing electric blue slacks?
July 7th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Congrats, 150! That was a great comment. :)
#82 Patrick: Ouch! My sympathies…that can’t be a good experience, despite your coolheaded approach. Sorry you had to go through that.
Vacation snarkage:
You know, kilts are very comfortable. And you can always go the Utilikilt route if you don’t want to declare clan affiliation. /scotsgeekery
MW: This is a particularly fine example of the Mary Worth Death Glare ™. Which what’s-his-face is blithely ignoring. Let the thermonuclear meddle begin! (p.s. to commodorejohn…I totally thought of The Matrix too. :))
My Cage: *sigh* Oddly enough, I’m going to visit my grandparents’ graves in about an hour (they helped raise me). Luckily for me, I know my grandmother would be proud of where I am in life…but it still hits a little close to home. I’m glad, though, that there’s a comic strip out there actually able to evoke a genuine emotional response (suck on that, Batiuk).
Sally Forth: Haha…this on the other hand is genuinely hilarious, if only because I relate to Ted. My neurotic overanalysis of situations is often the despair of my friends and family. :)
July 7th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
74: bats :[, La Cuch at least can be found on Yahoo Comics as well as the Chron. Lio, not so much. :-(
GoComics is the only place for Lio and Cul de Sac, I think. Since I’m there anyways, I also get my daily squick from Love Is. . . , and then get the heck away from that site.
July 7th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I see my original follow-up comment to AirForbes didn’t make it in the weird “taking too long to respond” glitch. I had written something to the effect that I wonder if it wasn’t caught by Visa because it was a debit card instead of a credit card? Fortunately, I did catch it before it got any worse. The only different charging pattern I’d displayed in the last couple of weeks was when my fiancee and I went to Dallas to get the rest of her stuff and I made several charges on the debit card for gas at Shell stations and for some food along the way and back.
Back to Mary Worth: I’m now actually enjoying the current storyline because they have introduced a character whose leering visage I find actually quite refreshing compared to all the forlorn and emasculated clones that normally populate the “male” Worthian landscape.
July 7th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
#74 bats :[ – I actually put together a viewer script for goComics a while back because I was so exasperated with the increasingly Byzantine site design; you can access it by clicking on my username.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
#89 – Haha, Stuart from DTWOF wore a Utilikilt, until the strip went on hiatus.
Fish (ex Marillion) wore a kilt during a vacation in Vietnam last year – gotta love it – a 6′5″ Scotsman in some Eastern Asiatic city wearing a plaid skirt.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Okay, what is going on in Funky Winkerbean? I’m guessing that it has something to do with Wally. Funky did say he needed to go to the airport and John would be affected by Wally suddenly returning since he’s married to Becky now.
And just what is the new plot in RMMD? I’m confused by the sudden switch, especially since I have no clue who those people are. I expect that from A3G, but not RMMD.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
#56 Dingo: Yeah, again with the disgusting imagery. Mary Worth’s unconstrained leathery titties flying around? During sex? You’re just trying to scare heterosexuality out of us, aren’t you? :)
Blondie on kilts: Yeah, ripped from the headlines of yesterday. At least it’s this century.
Sally Forth: Ces, I am so stealing the unnamed coworker’s lament. It’s better than throttling them.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
92. commodorejohn: oh, heck, I KNEW that…I, um, just forgot it. I’ve bookmarked and placed it next to my Dean Booth comics finder.
Whew. Better now. (Can you add La Cucaracha?)
Thanks!
July 7th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Baldo. — So he’s a gasper. You got a problem with that, Carmen?
Ballard Street. — “It was only then that Blaine stopped taking Mr. Wags to the driving range every Saturday.”
GT. — “Oh, you mean that corpse over in the Zinnias? No, that’s been there several days now.”
Luann. — “Saving this spot for Quill”? “There’s room right here”? Unspeakable filth. I’ll be right over.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
OK. Bad kilt joke comin’
Ian Anderson told it at a Jethro Tull concert about his kilt-wearing lead guitarist.
“I know you ladies always want to know what’s under a Scotman’s kilt. So I asked (guitar player) and he showed me. Let me tell ya, it was gruesome. So I looked again, and it grew some more.”
Cue sound of 15,000 people groaning.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
#98 That would most likely be the great (!) Martin Barre.
Rock on!
July 7th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
bats :[ That was wonderful! Thank you for the shoutout. Poteet, I believe that if bats and I collaborated, we could take over the world in a scathingly brilliant manner. Force the minions into Funny Hat Day or Yellow Peril of Halter Top and Fishnets month. My stupid foreigner friend, I believe you flung your last shred of heterosexuality out the window with the purchase of ABBA’s The Visitors.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
#100 Dingo – Now, now, it’s entirely possible be a heterosexual male ABBA fan. We’re a rare breed, but we do exist.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
#97 – OdinThor – He’s a gasper? Like Ted Forth and his new lunchtime friend?
La Cucaracha is way off base with its Rex Morgan parody. See, to be an effective satire, you have to show just enough of the original to get the flavor, but then you change the flavor. Rex Morgan seeing patients? What are you talking about, dude?
July 7th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
#94 – Karmyn – Admittedly, this has me concerned as well.
Mostly because they’ve trotted this tired plot device around the block before.
Since my years are all starting to blur together… let’s say four, five, ten years ago… real time, that is. After Wally went missing in Afghanistan, they had Becky go on a few dates with John after they both realized they were big movie buffs (and were paired up online somehow – her screenname was Cassieblanca, I think his was CitizenKaneMutiny).
He fell in love big time, showed her the antique comic book rack he’d salvaged and she told him it would bring a pretty penny on eBay. He sold it to buy her an engagement ring. At which point, Wally gets found and returns to Fuckstick, OH – where Becky forgives him for causing the drunk driving accident that cost her an arm and a free ride at Julliard.
They get married, go to Afghanistan for their honeymoon, adopt Rana, get pregnant with Wally Jr. and then he got redeployed. He was still gone when the bambino was born, and John was there to take Becky to the hospital, then got pushed out when her family arrived.
Jump ahead “ten years” and Wally isn’t in the picture. The only clue we have is that on the day Les was in NYC scattering Lisa’s ashes, there was a tiny newspaper box with a story about some hostages taken…and then a few veiled grave visitations, MIA/POW references. And nothing more. Until now.
So is Wally back? Again? And John once again gets shoved aside?
Well, if so, I hope John cracks, goes on a shooting spree and puts everyone in Winkerworld out of their misery.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I don’t work well under pressure! Since it’s a common stand-by joke in Hagar to be in the midst of battle while having a relaxed conversation like this one, I can’t imagine where the pressure comes from.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
#103 Old School Alllie Cat – I employed my magic scrying powers to try and find out what these latest FW developments are all about. Mouseover for spoiler.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Not to nitpick, but Hell’s Kitchen hasn’t had gang members for a good fifteen years or so… despite the name, it’s mostly condos, gay clubs, and really good takeout.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
commodorejohn – you rock my world!
July 7th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Kilts. Heh. Well, if you’ve ever said to yourself, “I wonder what this OeWd looks like from the waist down in a quite oddly cropped photo”, click away….
July 7th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Huh, I’m on a roll as of late. I stand by what I said, too: Marvin sure makes ME want to not have kids. Could work pretty well on teenagers as well.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Because crossover strips always rate mentioning, it looks like this week Rip Haywire (comics.com, Yahoo comics) is using his action-hero know-how to lay waste to other strips’ homes. To the Keane Kompound!
July 7th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
# 103 Allie Cat — On one hand, I’m extremely grateful for your FW storyline explanation, since I wouldn’t know what the heck was going on otherwise. And your narrative is well-written. Thank you.
On the other hand, your story reminded me that reading any explanation of any FW storyline tends to induce a vague feeling of despair and lassitude, an inability to rise from my computer chair, and a deep need for chocolate. Ooooooog…
July 7th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
# 109 Carly — I concur. MARVIN makes me want to decide not to have kids all over again. And I only read the strips that appear on CC. I salute the Mudges who read it *shudder* every day.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
#111 Poteet – Cheer up! Happatai are here to remind you that life is great!
July 7th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
#111 – Poteet – What scares me is that I can’t remember how long I’ve been reading Funky Winkerbean, or what got me started on it – it wasn’t in the Atlanta paper growing up, but I can’t remember when I first saw it. I can roughly assume it was college, which means I’ve been reading for at least…
Sixteen years?
NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
July 7th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Marvin doesn’t concern me much. My child is human.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Really, Josh? Shilling for PeTA? I’m so disappointed.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
#70 Paul1963: (Gasoline Alley) It’s not as big a red flag as it seems. The regular pastor is on vacation, and a visiting pastor is supposed to come and replace him during the vacation and stay in the regular pastor’s house. Upton is impersonating the visiting pastor and trying to loot the regular pastor’s house and get away. When Upton refers to “the pastor’s stuff,” he is talking about the furnishings of the regular pastor’s house, where he is staying until he can finish looting it.
July 8th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Never commented here before (nor do I usually read the comments aside from COTW) but I do appreciate the AV Club shout-out. As a regular reader/commenter on that site I’m eternally grateful to it for making me aware of the Comics Curmudgeon.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Joshua @117: Yeah, I guess that’s one way to look at it.