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Monday short takes

Garfield, 10/12/09

So it appears that when, in an epochal Garfield continuity shift, longtime love object Vet Liz submitted to Jon’s advances, it was part of a long-term plan on her part to kill him and his cat with an improvised explosive device.

Blondie, 10/12/09

Sorry that your dad created Blondie and not, say, the X-Men or the Transformers or some other insane revenue-generating piece of intellectual property, but cheer up! At least you’ve got that lucrative Dagwood Sandwich franchise thing going, right? Oh, wait.

Apartment 3-G, 10/12/09

The bad news for Professor Papagoras: when his current lust object Bobbie roots around in her pill-fogged mind for his name, all she can come up with is “Doctor Whositz.” The good news: she has a list of people or things to “do”, and he’s on it!

Marmaduke, 10/12/09

“No! Tell him you can use me as a substitute! Don’t let him think you don’t need meAARRRRGGGH” CRUNCH MUNCH SLURP

This entry was posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 01:56 pm and is filed under Apartment 3-G, Blondie, Garfield, Marmaduke.

125 responses to “Monday short takes”

nextplease
October 12th, 2009 at 2:05 pm [Reply]

That Garfield strip is screaming to be made into a “Garfield minus Garfield” strip.
Darkefang
October 12th, 2009 at 2:05 pm [Reply]

Curtis: Is Curtis’ dad eating a cat food sandwich really funny enough to justify more than a week without a punchline?

FW: How many weeks of strips a year does Batiuk spend on this cancer walk anyway? As much fun as it is to watch every waking second of this day each year, maybe he could at least skip activities like pre-walk sandwich-making sessions?

GA: Every single day, I read Mary Worth, Judge Parker and Rex Morgan – strips that are notorious for going weeks on end without anything happening. Yet somehow, Gasoline Alley has managed to concoct a story so long and so bereft of any activity that even I cannot stand to read another strip in this plotline. Somebody wake me up when this story is over.

RMMD: What exactly is the point of this storyline anyway? Is it meant to scare the strip’s elderly readership into believing that they’ll drown in a puddle if they go out in a rainstorm? Do humans become water-soluble when they turn 75?
Uncle Lumpy
October 12th, 2009 at 2:08 pm [Reply]

Man, in a world of sad franchising stories, that is one sad franchising story.
Ben Carlsen
October 12th, 2009 at 2:10 pm [Reply]

Heh. I don’t laugh at Garfield often, but I actually laughed at that one. I guess it’s funny when the main characters of the strip have a chance of being killed by an exploding purse. It’s what I keep hoping for, really…
commodorejohn
October 12th, 2009 at 2:12 pm [Reply]

#1 nextplease – I concur.
Darkefang
October 12th, 2009 at 2:13 pm [Reply]

It would probably have helped the Dagwood franchise a bit if anyone under the age of 85 actually knew who Dagwood was.
AndyL
October 12th, 2009 at 2:14 pm [Reply]

In the context of another human being “Do” can really only mean two things. It can either describe sexual intercourse, or a gang-style execution. With that in mind, Bobbie’s pill-induced absent mindedness is at least a slight cause for concern.
AeroSquid
October 12th, 2009 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

Garfield: We all know what’s going to happen. Jon will rifle through it, find some tampons, stick them up his nose and announce to Garfield that he is the walrus…as Liz walks up from behind him…..then Garfield says: “Kookoo-ka-choo.”
Dragon of Life
October 12th, 2009 at 2:19 pm [Reply]

Easy to miss, but a beautiful incidental, is the look of terror on Daisy’s face as she’s yanked from sound slumber by what must appear to her to be a volcanic eruption. I’d term it “soul-crushing horror”, but neither dogs nor legacy characters have souls.
buckyswife
October 12th, 2009 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

Josh, I think you’ve offered the only plausible explanation for Liz submitting to Jon’s advances.

#7 AndyL: Concern, or enthusiastic anticipation?
Sister Sestina
October 12th, 2009 at 2:24 pm [Reply]

I remember buying some kind of Dagwood-branded mustard — lots of stuff in it, pushing it closer to relish status — in a little gourmet market in Cambria, CA. Only place I’d ever seen it though it wasn’t a local product, can’t find it even on the Museum of Mustard’s website. Was it affiliated with this sandwich chain? Where can I get more?
Mibbitmaker
October 12th, 2009 at 2:24 pm [Reply]

#9 (Dragon of Life):

Q: Why do legacy comic strip characters have no souls?

A: They souled out.

(ducks)

Hey, I could write comic strips!

(re-ducks)
MolyBendum
October 12th, 2009 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

I can’t wait til we get to Bobbie’s Big Reveal, when she yanks the blond wig off and it’s the bald guy who’s been scarin’ the oldsters in Rex. Or the bald guy from the Mary Worth shootout. What I’m saying is….the chick’s a dude, man, and I don’t think he’s got no hair.
AndyL
October 12th, 2009 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

Incidentally, there have been Dagwood toys made in the past. You can find them on eBay.
Sadly, action figures weren’t invented until the mid 1960s by which time Dagwood had sort of stopped making any sort of impression on people.

Still, I love the idea of cartoonists making their character’s love ones complain about how unmarketable they are.

“Ack! The addition of my worthless, milquetoast husband has not helped to broaden our target demographic!”

“That’s right Rusty! You’re too misshapen to be made into a plastic toy!”

[ .?????? u?sno? s?? ???1 ss???ns bu??????? ? ??o??q ?1q?ssod ?ou p1no? x?? ???? s?pn1?uo? pu? '???1 ?u?po? oo? s? ??u????dd? s,x?? ???? s????sqo ??o1?1s ]
Hogan
October 12th, 2009 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

Hmm, what was the name of that doctor I was going to do? Oh well, I’ll just do every doctor I can find. I’m bound to get to him eventually.
AndyL
October 12th, 2009 at 2:38 pm [Reply]

Aww. It didn’t render properly.

I used fliptext.org to end my last post with the following text, upside down :

[Slylock observes that Max's appearance is too rodent-like, and concludes that Max could not possibly become a marketing success like his cousin Mickey.]
MolyBendum
October 12th, 2009 at 2:39 pm [Reply]

Oh. Damn. I also wanted to say that one of you photoshop genii should take out the purse and Garfield’s thought bubble and just have Jon standing there saying “Touch it” to Garfield. Ha Ho Hee.
Calico
October 12th, 2009 at 2:41 pm [Reply]

Y #123 – either that, or “Darwin.”
Black Drazon
October 12th, 2009 at 2:42 pm [Reply]

Does Marmaduke seem to be drawn in a slightly different style today, or is it just the fact that the artist was mysteriously devoured by a slavering beast? Ha-ha! No, seriously, I kid. He would have eaten the new one too.
JH Pants
October 12th, 2009 at 2:45 pm [Reply]

I like that Bobbie’s nodding off in the second panel. But she needs more eyeliner and mascara to really make the “heroin chic” look work for her.
Cranky
October 12th, 2009 at 2:46 pm [Reply]

CORRECTION
From: United Features Syndicate
To: Subsrcibers, Luann feature

In today’s Luann strip, the final speech bubble should read, “I’m deciding if your tits are worth 15 grand.” Please note the correction in late editions and/or tomorrow’s edition.
Larry Fine
October 12th, 2009 at 2:47 pm [Reply]

FC — Here are some other words they don’t use in the Keane household:
“Relevant”
“Humorous”
“Insightful”
“Witty”
“Sophisticated”

The list goes on…
Master Softheart
October 12th, 2009 at 2:58 pm [Reply]

PHANTOM! You know, I really don’t envy President Lamanda. Imagine if George Bush had been forced to go on television after September 11th and announce to a stunned nation that this heinous terrorist attack had been planned and executed by someone already incarcerated in our nation’s highest security prison for previous terrorist activities.

I suspect that pressure to bring (back?) the death penalty to Bangalla will be difficult to resist.

I also can’t help but wonder how Chatu motivates his evil minions to commit mass murder in his name. With most real world terrorist organizations, there is a powerful motivating ideology that draws fanatical converts willing to risk their lives and become international criminals – anti-colonial nationalism, communism, religion, or something. So far as I can tell, Chatu has the unenviable task of winning over fanatical converts with a mixture of childish nihilism and Freudian resentment of a mythical superhero; and while surely anyone can sympathize with that, I’m not sure how many people would line up to die for it. he must be one hell of a charismatic speaker.

JP: Even setting aside Henry’s transformation into a hideous wolf-beast in panel 1, I love the noir effects that Baretto is giving us in this storyline. If Woody Wilson insists on making the strip about defending a broken man framed for murder in the shadow of the collapsing global economy rather than Neddy trying on sexy short dresses, then at least the scenes of white men talking will be dramatic.
commodorejohn
October 12th, 2009 at 3:00 pm [Reply]

#17 MolyBendum – You got it!
JH Pants
October 12th, 2009 at 3:02 pm [Reply]

#18 and #22 – And clearly not “contraception.”
AeroSquid
October 12th, 2009 at 3:04 pm [Reply]

24. dammit !

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2491/4005185313_6cc7bbbb92_o.jpg
BigTed
October 12th, 2009 at 3:05 pm [Reply]

The Dagwood Sandwich chain really went downhill after their money-losing “five-dollar foot-high” promotion.
Larry Fine
October 12th, 2009 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

MW — It’s not looking very good for Scott: He’ll probably live.
heraldguy
October 12th, 2009 at 3:29 pm [Reply]

MW - Hope for the best, expect the worst,
The world’s a stage, we’re unrehearsed,
Some reach the top, friends,While others drop, friends,
Hope for the best, expect the worst!

- Mel Brooks, “The Twelve Chairs”
MolyBendum
October 12th, 2009 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

#24 john – Haha, you left Garfield’s bubble in. I started playing around with it and noticed it worked better that way. Then I found myself searching the internet for pictures of a penis to put poking up over the edge of the counter. Then I closed photoshop.
minor flood
October 12th, 2009 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

Bobbie is doped to the gills but still up assembling lists in the “wee hours,” and she has her own personal, horny script writer. Is a tragic death from propofol overdose far behind?
Jackuul
October 12th, 2009 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

The Dog of the Damned movie is going to be something to look into if it is anything like the comics, with children being devoured and people going missing in a small town…

“…it was a quiet town, haunted by a secret… …first it was the neighbor’s cats… *cut to a shadow and a horrified meow* …then it was little Billy… *scream and a shadow of a boy vanishing* …but now, more and more are vanishing. *three separate people grabbed by a blur followed by crunching sounds and gurgles*

Marmaduke is here to play.”

Then just have a lone woof in the distance with a shriek and the mailman looking over his shoulder at the camera with a tear in his eye – but a grin on his face.
Calico
October 12th, 2009 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

Well, it appears that the Canadian Dagwood’s is doing ok (obviously not related to the US counterpart):
http://www.dagwoods.ca/
Isaac
October 12th, 2009 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

Curtis, we get it. Curtis’s Dad is going to eat the cat food sandwich. He’ll be in trouble instead of getting rewarded, like he expects. Please move on from unfunny build-up to unfunny resolution, thanks.
AhClem
October 12th, 2009 at 3:39 pm [Reply]

#2 Darkefang -
Re Curtis: “Is Curtis’ dad eating a cat food sandwich really funny enough to justify more than a week without a punchline?”

A week? I don’t recall Curtis ever having a punchline.
One-eyed Wolfdog
October 12th, 2009 at 3:39 pm [Reply]

#16 – Allow me!

˙ʎǝʞɔıW uısnoɔ sıɥ ǝʞıl ssǝɔɔns ƃuıʇǝʞɹɐɯ ɐ ǝɯoɔǝq ʎlqıssod ʇou plnoɔ xɐW ʇɐɥʇ sǝpnlɔuoɔ puɐ ‘ǝʞıl-ʇuǝpoɹ ooʇ sı ǝɔuɐɹɐǝddɐ s,xɐW ʇɐɥʇ sǝʌɹǝsqo ʞɔolʎlS
One-eyed Wolfdog
October 12th, 2009 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

9CL: Seth understands that when Edda tires of him as a confidant, she will chop him into bite-sized pieces to attract fish.
One-eyed Wolfdog
October 12th, 2009 at 3:43 pm [Reply]

Mutts: “Do you eat beans? Would you like to see a new movie starring George Wendt? Do you eat beans with George Wendt? Would you like to see George Wendt eating beans in a movie?”
One-eyed Wolfdog
October 12th, 2009 at 3:49 pm [Reply]

Pluggers: “That cloud reminds me – I need to buy another gallon of prune juice.”
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 3:54 pm [Reply]

Or better yet…
Uncle Lumpy
October 12th, 2009 at 3:59 pm [Reply]

#23 Master Softheart –

Well, Chatu is a Wambesi terrorist, so maybe Bangala has a substantial Wambesi minority disaffected with the racial favoritism of President Lamanda’s economic policies, or just angry that Mawitaan’s nightclubs now embrace “The Forbidden Dance” in the president’s honor.

Also! It’s pretty amazing how much Rex Morgan, M.D. and Judge Parker are improved by de-colorizing them. (Separate channels CMYK; discard CMY; invert K; reset black to 0-0-0, white remains at 255-255-255)

#37 O-e W –

I’m impressed!
One-eyed Wolfdog
October 12th, 2009 at 4:02 pm [Reply]

I happen to have a pair of red/blue glasses in my desk here and I tried them on today’s Rex Morgan to see if maybe, just maybe, any of this is making some sort of progress in the third dimension. (A: No.)
Bingo Little
October 12th, 2009 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

A3G: “Fellow”? Really? “Fellow”?
“That fellow I hired is worthless, I daresay! I could’ve found this bally information myself, eh, what Jeeves?”
“I do believe it is in public records, ma’am.”
“Oh, well, I’ll put it on the old T.D. list, along with Doctor Whositz… you know the chap? Beard and moustache?”
“Perhaps madam means Professor Aristotle Papagoras.”
“That’s right. Pythagoras.”
teddytoad
October 12th, 2009 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

Yes, and too bad we’ve never hammered out satisfactory IP treaties with Japan, otherwise those famed Blondie-shaped Tokyo sex robots would be pulling in a handsome penny for Dean.
Larry Fine
October 12th, 2009 at 4:07 pm [Reply]

Dagwood is out like a light. He must have been reading his Ziggy anthology.
One-eyed Wolfdog
October 12th, 2009 at 4:07 pm [Reply]

Zits: My general impression has been that for a large fraction of people this age, Ironic Dress Day is in fact 365 days a year, and they would derive greater interest from having one day a year when they are forced, at gunpoint if necessary, to admit to the things they actually like and enjoy them unironically for 24 hours.
Jumper
October 12th, 2009 at 4:10 pm [Reply]

I can’t figure legacy boy Young or any of his crewmembers, as a Madoff. No, I’m thinking one of those fast talking career girls put a bug in their ears, one of those marketing types that spins bullshit into cotton-candy dreams of gold, sticking her serpent tongue in their ears and offering a hint of a promise of illicit franchise-marketer poon along with the fast accounting and promises that the business cycle is just a holdover fantasy from old men who can’t quite perform in today’s go-go marketplace. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.

So I take it as Young’s simple regret that he didn’t just market some Dagwood action figures made in Korea and marketed himself on E-bay, instead of getting involved in this mess.
Écureuil Écumant
October 12th, 2009 at 4:10 pm [Reply]

46 One-eyed Wolfdog: Yeah, how many takers would they have if they called it “Dress Like A Plugger Day”?
One-eyed Wolfdog
October 12th, 2009 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

Curtis is a brother plucker.
Pozzo
October 12th, 2009 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

Couldn’t Dean have squeezed out a few fast bucks by suing Deborah Harry?
Jimmyleg Jehosephat
October 12th, 2009 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

Jon, stung by unjust accusations that he is gay, a tragic misinterpretation of his well-known marijuana addiction (shared by his cat, by the way), makes sure to not touch the purse, and risk the most purebred form of cooties traveling up his arm and into his psyche.

Much of the unpleasantness of the strip could be resolved if Jon took up with a tokin’ mama, instead of the rather corn-cob-ally stricken, disapproving blue-stocking his current beard is.
Steve S
October 12th, 2009 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

Thank you, Davis Industries, for proving to me that there is nothing in the world creepier than Jon Arbuckle saying “Touch it,” no matter what the context.
Ringo Beaumont III
October 12th, 2009 at 4:23 pm [Reply]

A3-G: I love Doctor Whositz. Especially the episodes where he battles the Dalekmacallits.
Alfred E. Neuman
October 12th, 2009 at 4:23 pm [Reply]

FW— Les should be less concerned about the whereabouts of Summer and Keisha, and more concerned about the whereabouts of Cory. With all those participants making contributions, it looks like Cory once again will be able to make a substantial payment on the debt he owes to his drug dealer.
Baka Gaijin
October 12th, 2009 at 4:26 pm [Reply]

#53 Ringo Beaumont III: COTW!!! “Dalekmacallits” rules!
TheDiva
October 12th, 2009 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

FW: And that was a non-joke. Any questions so far?

Luann: Oh boy, did they put THAT punchline in the wrong mouth. Of course, after the past couple weeks I don’t think anyone in this strip could have said it convincingly.

MW: Why is Scott’s arm in a sling? There’s nothing to indicate it’s been broken or dislocated…aesthetics, perhaps?
Uncle Lumpy
October 12th, 2009 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

Say what you will about Funky Winkerbean, the artist has a sure hand with a buttock.
hogenmogen
October 12th, 2009 at 4:46 pm [Reply]

Jon: Let’s see what’s in Liz’s purse!
Garfield: A long, plastic silver bullet.
Jon: That’s just Liz’s pager.
Garfield: Pager?
Jon: Yeah. Look, it’s set to vibrate. (zzzzzzzz) See?
Pharmacistrix
October 12th, 2009 at 4:49 pm [Reply]

Has anyone ever seen a cat in the Curtis household? I’ve been obsessing about it all week.
Calico
October 12th, 2009 at 4:52 pm [Reply]

#40 – Hahah!
Reminds me of a fan’s Zen rendition of DTWOF, referencing “Om” instead of the character Mo.
The result? Absolutely nothing. : D
Calico
October 12th, 2009 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

#22 – Oh, and another:
“Topical”
Bitter Scribe
October 12th, 2009 at 4:56 pm [Reply]

Using Dagwood as a fast-food icon makes as much sense as using Homer Simpson (which Burger King tried to do, more than once). Hint to agency creatives: When a cartoon character’s appalling eating habits are a running gag, he probably won’t make a good spokesman for a food or restaurant company.
UncleJeff
October 12th, 2009 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

52 Steve: Good one!
62: Bitter Scribe: Would that you had been around to give out that advice before they lost all that money.
Love Is: Why is Little Naked Guy naked in every panel except the one where he’s on the beach?
DT: C’mon, tiger. Let’s get on with the show!
Violet
October 12th, 2009 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

And yet again I am drawn inexorably to the conclusion that Dagwood is the most relatable character on the comics page.
Calico
October 12th, 2009 at 5:01 pm [Reply]

#62 – From what I read (past and present tense) in my early 70’s Archie comics, there were a few Archie’s Restaurants in the Midwest, that seemed to try and cater to tourists and families on the road/vacationing. I wonder what happened to them.

Some time ago, Dairy Queen and Dennis the Non-Menace had a marketing arrangement as well.
Laocoon
October 12th, 2009 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

MW: I share their pain–light pink drapes? Ugh!

Beetle Bailey: Look, I know you want to try and be diverse in this politically correct era, but if that Asian guy is your best effort, you might as well not try

Marvin: …and then Bitsy was found the next morning, his body dismembered and then sewn back together
commodorejohn
October 12th, 2009 at 5:11 pm [Reply]

#63 UncleJeff – Normally, I couldn’t tell you. For this particular strip, though, it’s obviously because if the swim trunks weren’t there, there would be no possible ambiguity about the fact that today’s Love Is… depicts underage copulation.
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 5:14 pm [Reply]

DT – I sense a Buck Owens song coming on.
Gunk
October 12th, 2009 at 5:16 pm [Reply]

59 Pharmacistrix says: “Has anyone ever seen a cat in the Curtis household?”

I’ve never seen it, but I can smell it every time I go over there. And, my gecko comes home with fleas.

62 Bitter Scribe says: “When a cartoon character’s appalling eating habits are a running gag, he probably won’t make a good spokesman for a food or restaurant company.”

It works for Popeye’s, but only because they serve deep fried poultroid instead of spinach. (And originally, the name was inspired by “Popeye” Doyle, not “cartoon Popeye” — but they gave up explaining it after about the billionth time and just went with the flow.)
Violet
October 12th, 2009 at 5:17 pm [Reply]

Even if Bobbie doesn’t end up coming across for Da Professa, I think the process of getting to know her will have significantly streamlined his internet dating search routine by isolating the keywords “bleary,” “jowly” and “blonde Moe Howard.”
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

69. Gunk
Well, there is a Popeye Spinach.
Calico
October 12th, 2009 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

If Mary Worth were a cat…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbEXr9-5UjI&feature=related
Yadda yadda
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 5:26 pm [Reply]

72. Calico
Is that Adrian to whom she’s talking?
Gothmog26
October 12th, 2009 at 5:26 pm [Reply]

The white slave trade is going well for Marmaduke, apparently.
gnome de blog
October 12th, 2009 at 5:46 pm [Reply]

41 Unc Lumpy – or just read them in the newspaper.
bats :[
October 12th, 2009 at 6:04 pm [Reply]

24. commodorejohn: so disturbing.
One of the best Garfields I’ve seen.
bats :[
October 12th, 2009 at 6:07 pm [Reply]

30. MolyBendum: I have the picture of a turkey drumstick — would that help?
Father McKenzie
October 12th, 2009 at 6:08 pm [Reply]

In Mary Worth, how come Adrian’s lab coat disappears then reappears? See: Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Joe Blevins
October 12th, 2009 at 6:08 pm [Reply]

Has Marmaduke’s nose always been Venom from Spider-Man?

Re: #1 nextplease – I’ve often suspected that Garfield strips are now being turned out with Garfield Minus Garfield specifically in mind. This strip is another example. Here’s a preview. Incidentally, in the field of deconstructionist Garfield parodies, GMG gets all the attention, but I’d like to give a nod to the less-appreciated but in some ways more innovative Arbuckle.
Gabby
October 12th, 2009 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

A3G That’s IN the public record, you drunken floozy. ‘On the public record’ sounds like you heard on an LP playing on the hi-fi.
Anonymous
October 12th, 2009 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth: Dr. Good said that the bullets didn’t hit anything vital, yet Scott is lying there with a bandage around his head. Did Dr. Good skip the day they discussed the brain in Vital Organs 101?
zerowolf
October 12th, 2009 at 6:20 pm [Reply]

I tried to go to the official Funky Winkerbean website. I got the blue screen of death. Serious.
Baron Bizarre
October 12th, 2009 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

Anaonymous @ 81: Mary Worth: Dr. Good said that the bullets didn’t hit anything vital, yet Scott is lying there with a bandage around his head. Did Dr. Good skip the day they discussed the brain in Vital Organs 101?

Perhaps Dr. Good just doesn’t consider Scott’s brain to be all that “vital”…
Jimbo
October 12th, 2009 at 6:29 pm [Reply]

Dear God, no! They’ll be scraping lasagna off the ceiling for weeks!
Vince M
October 12th, 2009 at 6:30 pm [Reply]

2. Darkefang: re. FW – I’m afraid the strip’s trying my patience much like something that happened to me last year about this time that I am loath to admit – I was driving out to the local farmers’ market, I had to make a left turn to get in, and there was a breast cancer walkathon taking up the oncoming lane. Basically I sat there forever as this unbroken line of humanity filed past, and I really had to go to the bathroom, badly. So while these walkers filed by, all sunny and bright in their sense of purpose helping such a good cause, I’m thinking “Stoopid cancer people!”
Did I mention I really had to go to the bathroom?
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 6:31 pm [Reply]

How ’bout Blondie Without Dagwood?
Poteet
October 12th, 2009 at 6:33 pm [Reply]

BLONDIE — I thought a major point of Dagwood sandwiches was that only Dagwood can build and eat them. He is able to unhinge his lower jaw and wolf down 2,000 calories in three bites and never gain an ounce, and he is able to take any ingredient in the fridge and make it part of the sandwich and have it turn out utterly delicious. Trying to turn these magical abilities into a franchise deal was bound to fail.
Patrick
October 12th, 2009 at 6:35 pm [Reply]

I, for one, would welcome a new era of comics where Garfield is replaced by Liz’ purse.

In fact, Liz’ purse could replace a good number of comics characters, starting with Tommy in Apartment 3-G and Sam in Judge Parker.

I’d suggest replacing Peter Parker with Liz’ purse in Spider-Man, but then the strip would be far too action-packed for its regular readers.
Poteet
October 12th, 2009 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

MW — During the past week, the snarking about Scott’s medical situation has been quite wonderful. It makes me really wish that characters in this strip would get shot more often.
Écureuil Écumant
October 12th, 2009 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

81, 83: What can I say? Last night at choir practice the director handed out copies of Haydn’s “Grosse Orgelmesse” and the only thing I could think of when I saw the title was Scott’s injuries.
MolyBendum
October 12th, 2009 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

#77 bats :[ Ahh, if only you could show a turkey leg sticking out of Jon’s ass…”Touch it”….man it gives me chills.
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

88. Patrick
True. You never know what’s gonna crawl out of Liz’ purse. That could be interesting.
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 6:40 pm [Reply]

91. MolyBendum
Or a turkey leg sticking out of Liz’ purse.
Vince M
October 12th, 2009 at 6:46 pm [Reply]

65. Calico: I lived in Michigan back then and never saw one – they might have gotten somewhere if they opened up a chain of ‘Pop Tate’s Choklit Shops’.
There was a bar in Lansing in the mid-70s called Dagwood’s that was a nice normal dive alternative to the earnest, earth-toned ‘young people’s’ bars clustered around the university. If I really had any marbles, though, I would have gone to ‘The Boom Boom Room’, back when Tiki bars were absolutely un-cool.
MolyBendum
October 12th, 2009 at 6:48 pm [Reply]

#85 Vince M – Motto for next year’s Cancer Walk: “Cancer is Inconvenient for the Incontinent”

#93 Sequitur – Makes as much sense as Sandman’s daughter playing in him in Spiderman.
Loopina
October 12th, 2009 at 6:48 pm [Reply]

DT: Today’s tiger was drawn by Kevin Anderson, age 7, of Minneapolis, Minn.
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 6:53 pm [Reply]

95. MolyBendum
Actually, Cancer Walks are inconvenient for the incontinent.
Vince M
October 12th, 2009 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

95. MolyBendum – Well, I certainly wasn’t gonna dump on them for, uh, nevermind…
Poteet
October 12th, 2009 at 6:57 pm [Reply]

# l82 zerowolf — I just went to the official Funky Winkerbean website and it was alive. A blue screen might have been better.
bats :[
October 12th, 2009 at 7:14 pm [Reply]

I think this is the first Garfield mashup I’ve done. I hope no one construes it as a slam against Canadian Thanksgiving.

Happy T-day to our Canadian Curminions! (And completely by coincidence, we’re having a turkey for dinner…the last of the 2008 holiday sales birds…)
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 7:17 pm [Reply]

A purse that belongs to Ms. Liz
Was sitting out right where it is
It was open with no latchet
Yet nobody would touch it
Which is a shame because inside were the answers to all the questions everyone had about Mary Worth, Judge Parker, Funky Winkerbean, Popeye, Gil Thorpe, Ferd’nand, Crankshaft, Marmaduke, Little Lulu, Homer Simpson, Josh Fruhlinger, etc, etc,…
MolyBendum
October 12th, 2009 at 7:20 pm [Reply]

#100 Bats :[ HAHAHAHAHA. Excellent. “Ooh…”
Calico
October 12th, 2009 at 7:28 pm [Reply]

#73 – I think it’s everyone in Santa Royale except Dr. Jeff.

#94 – I would, seriously, like to know the history of Archie’s resto. Any info on the subject would be much appreciated.
buckyswife
October 12th, 2009 at 7:40 pm [Reply]

91 MolyBendum and 100 bats:[ —But… but I LOVE turkey; I don’t want to think of parts of my Thanksgiving turkey sticking out of Jon’s (or Garfield’s) ass. Promise me we won’t see this image again until the holidays are long over? Please?
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 7:44 pm [Reply]

100. bats :[
One question. Is Jon wearing pants? That may make a difference for buckyswife.
kallista
October 12th, 2009 at 7:50 pm [Reply]

Today’s Garfield reminds me of Drew Carey’s favorite joke (slightly adapted). While having dinner out, Liz asks Jon if he’ll take her back to his house for some kinky sex. He enthusiastically agrees. “Finally!” He goes into his bathroom to pee, and when he comes out, Liz is walking out his front door. He says, “Hey, what about the kinky sex?” She says, “Oh, I’m already finished. I fucked your cat and shit in my purse, but I left some room for you.”
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 7:52 pm [Reply]

106. kallista
**Rimshot**
buckyswife
October 12th, 2009 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

105 Sequitur: Thanks. But there’s still Garfield–who, as we know, never wears pants… ((shudder))
bats :[
October 12th, 2009 at 7:59 pm [Reply]

104. buckyswife: oh, yeah, I’m a big turkey fan, too, and if mr. bats :[ and I had our way, Someone would develop an 8-legged turkey (we could call it Sleipnirhauk or something like that).
So no graphic illustrations. I’m sure everyone’s imaginations are just fine.

105. Sequitur: only Garfield knows for sure.
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm [Reply]

108. buckyswife
You could be wrong, you know.
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 8:14 pm [Reply]

109. bats :[
I think John Madden had one of those on a Thanksgiving Day football game.
zerowolf
October 12th, 2009 at 8:22 pm [Reply]

#99 Poteet — I did get to the FW website and not suprisingly I didn’t get an answer to my question of who the hell is Cory mentioned in post 54? I find trying to keep track of FW characters requires more effort than its worth.
buckyswife
October 12th, 2009 at 8:25 pm [Reply]

110 Sequitur: Ya know, I’m not sure that helps….
zerowolf
October 12th, 2009 at 8:26 pm [Reply]

BB: I’m not sure which is more disturbing that Sarge tried to eat the TV or took three huge bites out of it before realizing its not food.
Soccerhead
October 12th, 2009 at 8:36 pm [Reply]

#62: I remember back in the 80’s McDonalds had Cathy in ads for their salads.
I guess that was Cathy’s peak.
Fred B: Wow, they have a smuggler for a neighbor.
Id: Is Hagar that successful a warrior?I figure he’d just rat something.
Alan's Addiction
October 12th, 2009 at 8:46 pm [Reply]

Obviously, after a while spent dating Liz, Jon has yet to learn of the concept of a “date purse,” which contains a checkbook, petty cash, breath mints, and a lipstick tube. That’s it. Women generally leave their bombs in their heavy duty “work purses,” which are larger, crammed with junk, and have “Death to the Infidels (and their cats)” written on the side.
There is a subtle tone of bitterness in “Dagwood” today, it’s downplayed somewhat by the fact that the character expressing this sentiment can’t focus on the emotion for longer than ten seconds. I can only assume that “Dagwood” has stopped trying to become a symbol for work-related laziness and huge sandwiches, and will now attempt to corner that coveted “Narcolepsy Awareness” market.
I like the half-thought in Bobbie’s head in today’s “Apartment 3G.” “I could’ve found this information myself, it’s on the public record.” Bobbie, you really need to learn the crucial difference between “could” and “would.” I’m sure that you could’ve shown up at the right building and located the right room for the files in question, but most of us are usually lost after that when it comes to searching for official government documents. Pill-poppers are even less likely to complete the task.
Marmaduke’s insatiable hunger for human flesh is well established. Today’s strip shows us another, scarier aspect of America’s favorite hell hound: he’s also into slavery and kidnapping.
Écureuil Écumant
October 12th, 2009 at 8:46 pm [Reply]

115 Soccerhead — You had to remind me of those ads. Those salads had so many calories, they might as well have had Cathy in them.

“Cathy: The Anti-Jared”
seismic-2
October 12th, 2009 at 8:48 pm [Reply]

Ziggy: Ziggy’s appearance on their doorstep shows that the club’s loss of optimism was well founded.

JP: OMG – Sam Driver is Masky McDeath! “Dance with me, Henry.”

MW: Scott would do well to stay unconscious, lest the first thing he sees upon awakening is the color scheme of that 3-way Adrian Sandwich, in front of that wallpaper.

RMMD: “If Henry and Mom are out in this, they’re goners! So, we might as well just give up, climb into the back seat, and screw. It’s what they would have wanted!”
Big Sims
October 12th, 2009 at 9:39 pm [Reply]

Pluggers
“Yeah, and THAT cloud looks just like the pillow I’m going to suffocate you with tonight.”
Karmyn
October 12th, 2009 at 9:43 pm [Reply]

Is anything ever going to happen in RMMD? And where are Rex and June? I bet they’re off somewhere not having sex. And poor Sarah is left with Abby the Wonder Dog to look after her while Nikki gets high.

I personally thought today’s Garfield was very funny in a ‘haha, Jon’s paranoid’ kind of way. Just the expressions were enough to make it funny.

Die, Scott. You know you want to. Go towards the light. There are no salmon squares in the afterlife.
Strangefate
October 12th, 2009 at 10:11 pm [Reply]

The last panel of Blondie leads me to think Dagwood is some kind of robot that just malfunctioned. “Sknx-xxx” is simply not a sound a human being makes.
Sequitur
October 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm [Reply]

120. Karmyn
No salmon squares? Sounds like heaven to me!
NSP
October 12th, 2009 at 11:06 pm [Reply]

Knowing Bobbie, it’s probably Dr. Whositzonmyface. Eww, wait.
queek
October 13th, 2009 at 9:38 am [Reply]

94: It’s still there, still a dive, and still some of the best sandwiches in town.
BunnyHugger
October 13th, 2009 at 11:14 pm [Reply]

94. Vince M, Dagwood’s bar in Lansing is still in business. I went there Saturday night. It has a place of dubious distinction in my personal history: I discovered my now-ex-husband was having an affair by pulling into Dagwood’s one night and being confronted with the sight of him and the office tramp making out in the parking lot! Now that’s class. I jokingly dubbed it “the seediest bar in Lansing” (even though I’m sure that’s not true) based on that incident and yet, it’s still my regular hangout place.

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