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The look of love

Panels from: Apartment 3-G, Rex Morgan, M.D., For Better or for Worse, Mary Worth, Mark Trail, 2/24/06

With apologies to Dusty Springfield:

The look of love
Is in your eyes
The look your smile can’t disguise

The look of love
Is saying so much more
Than just words could ever say

And what my heart has heard
Well it takes my breath away

I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you

How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you

You’ve got the look of love
It’s on your face
A look that time can’t erase
Be mine tonight

Let this be just the start
Of so many nights like this
Let’s take a lover’s vow
And then seal it with a kiss

Now that I have found you
Don’t ever go
Don’t ever go
I love you so

Have a romantic weekend, everyone. I hope it’s going to happen for you.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 07:33 pm and is filed under Apartment 3-G, For Better or for Worse, Mark Trail, Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, M.D..

105 responses to “The look of love”

gnome de blog
February 24th, 2006 at 8:06 pm [Reply]

Perfect. Dusty will forgive you for borrowing her song.
Uncle Lumpy
February 24th, 2006 at 8:26 pm [Reply]

Mark, I wish I could quit ‘ya.
Marc
February 24th, 2006 at 8:43 pm [Reply]

This hilarious. And when will the Sex Morgan storyline end? I dont need to hear about M.D. or PH.D SEX!
Firegoat
February 24th, 2006 at 9:01 pm [Reply]

What is the best toothpaste for removing vomit from between the teeth?
Dee
February 24th, 2006 at 9:21 pm [Reply]

“Theres so much more to remember now” Is that saying that our sweet little Luanne become a ::gasp:: Roadside?
RBF-at-home
February 24th, 2006 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

You make a GREAT Dusty, Josh! WAY monitor-spewing !!!!!!

And if this RMMD ISN’T a gay storyline (at least as far as Troy-boy coming onto RM) , I’m gonna go out and burn something, chanting death threats like they do over “there” when they throw a hissy-fit over cartoons.
randomdude
February 24th, 2006 at 10:26 pm [Reply]

Damn, Mrs. Horner never lets up!
What a self-righteous old coot!
pengoons
February 24th, 2006 at 10:53 pm [Reply]

I finished the comics and got online hoping that you would have done a riff on FBOFW and damn, man, you done good. Funny, funny stuff, Josh. Nice work.
randomdude
February 24th, 2006 at 10:56 pm [Reply]

I have not been following Mt. Foob at all for a long time… but my guess is that this dude is going to end up either becoming a creepy stalker, or teaching us a valuable lesson about preventing date rape. Nothing happy ever happens at Mt. Foob.
Marc
February 24th, 2006 at 11:14 pm [Reply]
Marc
February 24th, 2006 at 11:14 pm [Reply]

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8910/platout4dc.png

This may help Firegoat, it’s the closest I could find.
bubujin
February 24th, 2006 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

Re FBOFW: I think we’ve all missed some significatnt foreshadowing regarding Lizardbreath and DooRight. On Monday’s strips when her cat jumps up on her back, Liz complains that “the next animal I live with…will not be able to climb!”

So that’s why Liz seems to be fending off animal Paul’s amorous advances. No climbing (into the sack, etc.) allowed on Mt. Foob!
mooselet
February 24th, 2006 at 11:29 pm [Reply]

Aren’t they all a little late? I mean, Valentine’s Day was nearly 2 weeks ago.
plumberninja
February 24th, 2006 at 11:51 pm [Reply]

what is with alan’s apparent hallucination of his new girlfriend’s disembodied head floating before him? Or is it just some poor little sweatshop artisan, who grows so dreary drawing soap-opera strips for 18 hours a day that he forgets the minor details, such as necks. Necks are for squares, anyway. Or maybe Alan has some sort of twisted necrophiliac decapitation fetish… in the world of (I think; we don’t get this in my paper) MW, anything can happen except a plot.
Concerned Citizen
February 24th, 2006 at 11:53 pm [Reply]

…Sniff…Now you’ve got me all weepy….
It’s a beautiful thing. C’mon Mark, get with the program!
Marc
February 25th, 2006 at 12:11 am [Reply]

wow, Polly is becoming a Mary Worth in training. its scaring me.
Sarah
February 25th, 2006 at 12:59 am [Reply]

Priceless!
RBF-at-home
February 25th, 2006 at 1:33 am [Reply]

Weepy here too – Mark is left out of the romantic loop. He is reveling in saving Andy the dog and now must concentrate on saving “Lost Forest” or whatever.

Why oh why can MT never find time for some good lovin’?

Maybe he’s afraid of begetting another ~~hydrocephalic~~ ginormous-headed-kid.

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Back to work, ~~Soldier!~~ Mutant-Wildlife Preserver!
Len
February 25th, 2006 at 1:35 am [Reply]

#13 — No, Mooselet! This is just pre-Spring highjinx. If they were inspired by Valentine’s Day, they’d be wearing cute li’l Cupid outfits. Can you see Dr. Troy waggling his bow and arrow at Rex? Or Alan painting Luann with tiny wings strapped to his shoulders? Or Do-Wright stripping down to hot pink diapers for Lizzie?

Unh — I think I just made myself nauseous…
RBF-at-home
February 25th, 2006 at 1:42 am [Reply]

Len yeah that did it for me too
Len
February 25th, 2006 at 1:53 am [Reply]

While all the funny pages are a-drip with eroticism, note the slug-fest going on in Chez Popeye:

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060225&name=Popeye

Olive has received a proposal of marriage from royalty! And the sailor-man congratulates her — not the response she wanted. Isn’t it ironic that the shot of Popeye’s glass jaw, seen from beneath, forms a very Valentine’s-like heart shape? Poor Olive… if only she tasted like spinach, she could at least get a lickin’ from her sea-faring swain.
RBF-at-home
February 25th, 2006 at 2:06 am [Reply]

Len ” Aye sees what ya means”, but no woman would go so far as to hope to taste like spinach, to please her man.

Hello? is he a vegan or what? (Ya knows what I mean)
Hank Kimbel
February 25th, 2006 at 2:58 am [Reply]

Good to see Debra Norville make a cameo in RMMD
Firegoat
February 25th, 2006 at 7:01 am [Reply]

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8910/platout4dc.png

Oh my. Marc THAT was funny. Thanks! I feel mintier already!
Grinderman
February 25th, 2006 at 8:42 am [Reply]

“Rex Morgan, M.D.” should be changed to “Rex Morgan, F.D.,” the “F.D.” standing for FRIEND OF DOROTHY.
Sheila
February 25th, 2006 at 9:05 am [Reply]

Okay, this is way off the subject, BUT:

I’m in New Jersey visiting my parents. Whole new set of comics! (They get the Daily News, the Herald News, AND the Star Ledger — hog heaven!) So I’m reading along and preparing to skip Orphan Annie, which jumped the shark back around 1952, when I notice — a talking duck.

A talking duck?

I read the strip, but I totally could NOT fathom it from the context. Will somebody please, PLEASE tell me what is up with the Orphan Annie talking duck?

Thank you.
dlauthor
February 25th, 2006 at 9:09 am [Reply]

Dear Lizardbreath:

No, no, no, no. A hug and a “see you in a couple weeks” is not love. It’s … unnatural. Cripes, the two of you didn’t even make first base. At this rate, you won’t get roadside before menopause. And then you’ll be too busy flapping your arms.

You live in a thriving community that we know includes young men. Find a nice Mittwonkian who won’t split for a fortnight after every damn date and open your curtains. Thank you.

Also, today’s Doonesbury proves why it’s still head-and-shoulders above its supposed “counterbalance” strips. Mallard and Scribbly City would need actual characters with personalities in order to achieve the grace note Trudeau finds with that final frame of B.D. And we know that’s not gonna happen.
laska
February 25th, 2006 at 9:22 am [Reply]

Liz is happy and snow is falling- Doright is going to crash on his way home. Just a happy thought.

MT- a little peek at how the gossip mill works in Lost Forest- the fence overhears something from the main house, then tells the horse, who probably goes and tells the ginormous deer, who tells the ginormous beaver, who tells the ducks at the pond…
Kiesha
February 25th, 2006 at 9:42 am [Reply]

DooRight is SMOTHERING Liz. Can she not see that? He’s all up on her every time he’s around her. Isn’t it weird how in that second panel, he’s got his hands on her arms in a desperate attempt to capture her and not let her move?
Molly
February 25th, 2006 at 10:28 am [Reply]

What today’s FBOFW has really taught us is that love makes you give your cat a roundhouse kick to the head. And isn’t that what it’s all about?
Jeaneth
February 25th, 2006 at 10:47 am [Reply]

#28 — Your FBOFW car accident scenario would be the best possible outcome. Paul is bad news. Once he’s got his hooks into Liz, he will turn into an abusive, controlling psycho stalker. All the signs are there.

Also, your explanation of the Lost Forest gossip mill is perfect. The Mark Trail world makes a lot more sense to me now.

Has anyone commented yet on the name of the man with the many “political friends”? I’m just waiting for someone to say: “What in the Sam Hill –?”

Also also, what’s with Doc’s nose in today’s MT strip? Looks like he put on his clown nose but forgot to color it red.
randomdude
February 25th, 2006 at 11:06 am [Reply]

Ah, I didn’t think of that. This dude may go the way of Farley the wonder hound. In any case, I think we can all agree, bad stuff is gonna happen.
anonymous
February 25th, 2006 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

Aw, come on, give Lizardbreath and Paul a break. They’re at that wonderful “in love” stage only made more poignant by the brief separations. Absence making the heart grow fonder and all that. Such a poorly drawn cat, though!
Marc
February 25th, 2006 at 12:24 pm [Reply]

Yes, Firegoat, it all of the sudden came to me! You should have sais “Wow, I feel WASPier already!”

Shiela- I’m from Northern New Jersey, where I subscribe to the Bergen Record. We have most of the basic comics, but while I am down in Florida (for the last day, sadly) I got to experience Sherman’s Lagoon (Today was actually funny), ummmm Cathy (ACK!), and Brevity? I had never heard of it. But I must say that I would call DYFS on the baby’s mother from Baldo. Yup, it’s always safe to let your 15 month old baby wonder around a food court at a busy mall.

But Cathy made me wretch today at the thought that they need so many phone lines because people actually try to reach them!!! I would rather have Mary Worth recite platitudes for a day without any break, into my ear, then call Cathy!
Library Cat
February 25th, 2006 at 12:45 pm [Reply]

re # 31

Actually Jeaneth, it is going to be a “What th’…Sam Hill!” moment.
Woodstock
February 25th, 2006 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

Today (Saturday’s) Mark Trail features a great cameo by Mr. Ed in the center panel. I’m not sure when he became a political consultant, but I’m sure that some wacky hijinx will be coming if he’s involved.
Johnny Hart
February 25th, 2006 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

Am I the only one who can see what’s going to happen 100 “kilometres” away?? Paul, aka Barney Fife, aka Dudley DO-me, is going to meet a bad end while chasing down some bad guys. You don’t think Lynnie will weave his membership in the local constabulary into this very transparent plot?

However, three days after he buys it, he will be raised from the dead (hey, just like Jesus!) by one of the Saint Patterson clan.
Irina
February 25th, 2006 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

I was wondering/hoping that Jane would finally see that the grass was greener on the other side after she “spent some time talking” with Polly, and her true love and joy doesn’t lie with Mr. Hand, or any other man …

Unfortunately, it looks like she’s gonna fall for the next platitude-spouting creep who likes to hang out at the docks.
Howard Roark
February 25th, 2006 at 4:21 pm [Reply]

Famous political pundit Ann Coulter criticizes the “Garfield” comic strip:

“Taking to heart the lesson that violence works, I hereby announce to the world: I am offended by … Garfield cartoons … One minute after “Garfield II” goes into pre-production, some heads are gonna roll.” (source: http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/welcome.cgi)
Fred P.
February 25th, 2006 at 4:40 pm [Reply]

Looks like the Phantom is finally getting around to disencumbering himself from those pesky kids. Kids! They sure cramp your style! (At least if you’re a steroid fed latex wearing clown). Speaking of styleless clowns, it’d sure be funny if President George Walker* (”Dubya”) Bush were to pull some kind of crazy stunt to drop his own twins off a cliffside!

*for the President Who Walks.
RBF-at-home
February 25th, 2006 at 7:44 pm [Reply]

Wazzup with RMMD today in last panel with exaggerated over-reaction shaking to Becca?
Was he really out with Eyepatch’s wife AGAIN? Oh my, or is Becca just screwing around with him cause SHE knows who Rex is really into?

Bet Becca gets a nice raise soon.
Schteve
February 25th, 2006 at 8:28 pm [Reply]

#36

Clearly Mr Ed has wandered into the wrong strip. He should be in Mary Worth where he can say “Awwww, WilBURRRRR!”
Schteve
February 25th, 2006 at 8:32 pm [Reply]

Re Mallard Fillmore over the past few days (The Washinton Post/Veronica Mars thing), methinks this “conservative journalist” (his words, not mine) protesteth too much.
AwfulArt
February 25th, 2006 at 9:35 pm [Reply]

“Unfit” was funny today.. In stark contrast to Trudeau’s very poignant “Doonesbury”….
Occam
February 25th, 2006 at 9:39 pm [Reply]

#38 Irina: You mean Jane is going to fall for Mary Worth?!

Or is there another platitude-spouting creep about to hove onto the horizon?
zillahgirl
February 26th, 2006 at 12:22 am [Reply]

Awww, Jane (in Sunday’s MW), but this bird you cannot change.
Jimmy
February 26th, 2006 at 12:53 am [Reply]

With that gang controlling the White House, all we’ve got left IS love… in all its foggy permutations and / or reasonable facsimiles. That’s why the comics are erupting in hormones. It’s the end of… something. And what’s the last thing any of us would do if we knew the end was coming?
yellojkt
February 26th, 2006 at 1:01 am [Reply]

In panel one of the FBorFW, Paul is pulling his pants back on. No more booty calls for a couple of weeks. Just lots of hot Foob-phone-sex. Lets see some transcripts of those calls.
kippetje2000
February 26th, 2006 at 1:12 am [Reply]

josh, bravo. this is a piece of art. Please let the muses continue to bring you more material with which to work. Bravo, jongen.
Ubiq
February 26th, 2006 at 2:30 am [Reply]

Considering the whole “I’m so totally in love” thing that we saw Saturday, does anybody else suspect that our young Mr. Wright may well be killed off in an accident soon?
Dub Not Dubya
February 26th, 2006 at 2:48 am [Reply]

Sunday’s BC: huh?
Occam
February 26th, 2006 at 5:18 am [Reply]

#51 Dub Not Dubya:

I think the “throw-away” panel at the top (the first “joke” that often editors cut for space) gives the clue: the Olympic rings being a symbol for cops–as in handcuffs. I assume the “lymphing” refers to all the steriod testing and cop searches for drugs done during this Winter Olympics.

Speaking of cutting for space (warning: whingeing ahead), our local paper, for reasons known only to them (no doubt spelled MONEY) used one of the eight comics pages for a full-page ad for a furnace, of all things. By using the most incredible reduction techniques, they managed to cram SIX regular-sized comics onto each page. Naturally, “Opus” wasn’t trimmed a hair–that cartoonist must have a heck of a contract.
Irina
February 26th, 2006 at 8:40 am [Reply]

Occam:

Ooops! Sorry — forget sometimes that I get the Sunday comics on Saturday. Was referring to Sunday’s MW about the PSC down on the docks.
Fred P.
February 26th, 2006 at 8:42 am [Reply]

That whole “yes yes yes yes YESSS” thing of Liz’s is vaguely off-putting. I mean, there’s nothing per-se wrong with self-gratification, but I know very few (non-cartoon) females who can achieve such an enthusiastic climax by merely rubbing her own breasts. While fully dressed. And anyway I don’t feel that its all that appropriate a subject matter for newspaper comics.

re 43 – I don’t know if Mallard Fillmore protesteth too much, but he certainly doth repeateth too much. Basically a whole week of strips based on minor textual variations of the same non-funny pseudo-joke? What a maroon!
Firegoat
February 26th, 2006 at 10:38 am [Reply]

I for one would just like to note that Dr. Rex Morgan M.D. looks simply radiant this morning in anticipation of his “date”
Bassogap
February 26th, 2006 at 10:46 am [Reply]

Sunday’s Luann…Mom’s showing a bit of thigh in that skirt…

I guess that gives Brad hope re: Toni, seeing how well his dad did.
plankface
February 26th, 2006 at 11:26 am [Reply]

Fred P., I’m so glad to learn someone else is following the thrilling Ghost Who Is Trying to Kill His Kids. I wish there were more comics in the world that featured the teaser “Next: Fear Makes Them Fall.” Brilliant!
randomdude
February 26th, 2006 at 11:45 am [Reply]

#53:
Johnny Hart is finding irony in the idea that women would play hockey (a macho, man’s sport) and wear lip gloss (a feminite, girly thing). Perhaps he is even going so far to say that women should stay out of men’s sports and all wear burqas. WWJD?
http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/merchantfiles/4663423/HX13978-Hockey.jpg
bigben
February 26th, 2006 at 2:26 pm [Reply]

Aww, damn, I promised myself I wouldn’t cry . . .

and I didn’t–’cuz I was laughing too hard.
Rozenn
February 26th, 2006 at 3:34 pm [Reply]

#51 – Dub not Dubya and Occam :
I think you give Johnny too much credit. When I saw it I thought (after a second of total confusion naturally) it was just a stupid pun : they’re *lymping* after the O*lymp*ics. Get it ? Get it ?
That guy is just *so* hilarious…
AwfulArt
February 26th, 2006 at 3:43 pm [Reply]

Lizzardbreath got laid?? Holy halitosis!!
SillyRabbit
February 26th, 2006 at 5:31 pm [Reply]

My Foob prediction: I really think Paul the Mountie is going to get into some sort of car trouble (spine-crushing-crippled-for-life type accident) during the next two weeks. Or maybe he’ll get jumped by some Canadian thugs. There was some pretty heavy foreshadowing going on (following the heavy petting.) “I wish you didn’t have to go… safe drive!”

“Ah, sweet Liz, we all have to go sometime.”
Marc
February 26th, 2006 at 6:07 pm [Reply]

Yellojkt- or as Sassy_rocks says: “He’ll be having a long date with his friends palmetta and fistina.

Okay, so I’m back in 21 degree Jersey, just caught up with all of the comics, and they now made Peach frickin Fuzz half a page, squeezing good strips like Baby Blues and Non Sequiter up against the edges of the paper (in a verticle fashion).

And we see how bad a pet owner April Patterson is today.

Also we get a lovely view of Jane Hand looking at seagull’s underside, and then at a royal-blue haired man.
Anonymous
February 26th, 2006 at 6:58 pm [Reply]

55. Forsooth!
Bill Peschel
February 26th, 2006 at 7:25 pm [Reply]

Marmaduke is pretty much at the bottom of the heap, but they found a new way of going lower on Sunday by spelling the title of the strip “Marmadkue.”

Early tee time, fellas?
Marc
February 26th, 2006 at 7:51 pm [Reply]

Has anybody checked out today’s Dear Abby? Read the second letter, I believe!
Marc
February 26th, 2006 at 7:54 pm [Reply]

Good observation, Bill! I’m sensing a little lysdexia.
Romanetti
February 26th, 2006 at 9:04 pm [Reply]

RE: Occam, #52
I thought that full page ad taking up an entire page of the Sunday comic was just our local paper (Oregonian). It was bad enough when they started attaching 1/8 sheet ad “strips” on the side…now this! I don’t care what they do with the rest of the damn paper, but leave my Sunday funnies the hell alone!!
Hank Kimbel
February 26th, 2006 at 9:06 pm [Reply]

Let’s see. . .the nurses like Troy the same way Grace likes Will.
Lady Penelope
February 26th, 2006 at 9:10 pm [Reply]

Something tells me LuAnn’s new relationship will somehow or other just … not … work out. What do you wanna bet he’s a stalker-type, with a whole room dedicated to photographs of Lu Ann when he didn’t know she was watching.
Sheila
February 26th, 2006 at 10:37 pm [Reply]

No no no, you’re all wrong!

This is Lynn Johnston wrapping up the Liz Love Life thread once and for all. Paul is The One. They’ll get married and spawn. Mark my words…

Oh, wait, I said that about MW, didn’t I? And so far it didn’t happen. Well, I still bet I’m right on this one!!!
Monkey David
February 26th, 2006 at 10:40 pm [Reply]

I’m just pleased that Blondie highlighted the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning today. I’m looking forward to Mondays strip, when the coroner removes their cold, dead bodies.
Dingo
February 26th, 2006 at 11:24 pm [Reply]

I really enjoyed the truth-telling in today’s Mt. Foob. Folks, when your own rabbit tries three times, unsuccessfully, to kill itself in a day via electrocution, it’s time to give up your dreams of pet ownership and resign yourself to a life of roadsite pleasure for your sister’s stalker/cop boyfriend with just a lop-sided “J” for a nose.

It’s far more humane to end a pet’s life with a roundhouse kick of love while grapefruit-sized snowballs pelt your home.

btw, did anyone notice that Liz’ cat practices telepathy? Notice in Saturday’s strip (02-25-06) in panel one that the cat is beaming some type of signal from it’s brain to Studley Do-wrong’s mind. Begorah! With that, he jumps up and leaves, dragging his seemingly paralyzed left arm with him.
Occam
February 27th, 2006 at 1:05 am [Reply]

#68 Romanetti:

Small world department! The Oregonian was the dastardly paper I was referring to earlier that keeps messing with the comics.
Sheila
February 27th, 2006 at 6:20 am [Reply]

Yeah, what about the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s new format, where they squeeze three comics across onto one folded-out sheet of newspaper? (I.e., one and a half comics across on a page.) You HAVE to lie down on the floor to read ‘em, as you can’t fold ‘em back to read on the couch. I believe they’re saving one page of newsprint this way. Idiots.
Pozzo
February 27th, 2006 at 8:09 am [Reply]

Saturday’s FBOFW works much better if you bypass the Comics Authority-imposed cleanup and imagine that, in the first panel Paul is getting up from Liz’s bed and buttoning his shirt. (”Whoa! I’d better get moving!”) Meanwhile, Liz is sitting up arms around her knees, sheet covering her front, but slipping down a bit in back…excuse me, I have to go for a minute…
Mibbitmaker
February 27th, 2006 at 8:34 am [Reply]

Belatedly, genius on this one, Josh. You should be your own COTW.

BTW, you need to get to today’s Curtis right away! This one is just ASKING for it. Suddenly, the alley and homeless man DON’T EXIST?? Weird, dopey turn for this kind of storyline. It made more sense with George Costanza and the supermodel club – relatively speaking.
Mibbitmaker
February 27th, 2006 at 8:57 am [Reply]

2/27:

(DT)GT: Yeah, we guys can’t be sweet without being idiots as well. Gee, thanks for that insulting cliche. Most females don’t think like that, DO — uh, that IS a female…right?….

SF: I read Sally Forth today, oh, boy…

The TV vs. Books cliche?? That’s as boring as it is annoying.

Adam: That’s kind of an overexagerated ‘take’ to the reader in panel 2, ain’t it, @ Home? I’m surprised Margo 3G Magee didn’t come up with that first (did she?).

A3G: Speak of the oft head-bobbling devil…
Uh, Lu Ann, do you really think introducing Margo – to ANYbody – is a good idea? Good luck on THAT one…

Garfield: At first, I didn’t think the taking-the-cat’s-thought-balloons-out bit would work on this one. But I covered them up, and… It still worked, albeit very surreally.

Foob: Huh; all the gibberish-y plays on words with the nationalities of Liz’s stalkerluv… y’don’t think Lynn’s been reading our takes on “Mitigawakkipotrzebie”, do you? Eh, probably not – though it would be better form to joke back indirectly instead of a swarm of Foob lawyers decending to throw a monkeewrench in our fun, wouldn’t it?
BigJoe
February 27th, 2006 at 10:02 am [Reply]

RMMD: When the hell did this strip turn into a lame 80’s sitcom?

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060227&name=Rex_Morgan
BigJoe
February 27th, 2006 at 10:18 am [Reply]

MT: What is that hawk talking about in panel 2? The gopher took a right of way without permission. What does that mean, he jaywalked, so now he has to pay for it with his life? This strip is surreal.

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060227&name=Mark_Trail
Mac
February 27th, 2006 at 10:46 am [Reply]

I don’t normally read Luann, but the comics page was left to dry out (stupid paperboy) and it caught my eye. Was anyone else’s first reaction that Luann was showing off her boobs to her father?
Marc
February 27th, 2006 at 12:16 pm [Reply]

MW: Jane Hand! Never talk to strangers! Especially when they have royal blue hair, Electric blue slacks, and hang out at the dock after business hours!

Am I the only one who wants to see him take her captive in his burnt sienna boat and tie her up with a lavender rope? (suggested MW color scheme. haha!)
lilybdcsa
February 27th, 2006 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

JP: Is Mimi dead or faking it? Is this some ploy on her part to gain sympathy or will Randy have to explain the body on his floor?
BigJoe
February 27th, 2006 at 12:29 pm [Reply]

#82 – This guy is a male version of Mary Worth. He starts butting in to a total stranger and throws out bizarre platitudes? “Salt water is a cure-all in the form of tears, sweat or the sea.” It’s either of bad platitude or the worst pickup line ever. Or both.

#83 – She’s faking it to “prove” to Randy that he still loves her. Didn’t you see her peeking today?
Fred P.
February 27th, 2006 at 12:37 pm [Reply]

80- Note that the villain in the currently developing Mark Trail storyline is one Sam Hill, which as we all know is a euphemism for satanic deviltry, as in such old-timey expressions as “God-DAMN Jethro! What in Sam Hill you doin’ with that there goat!?!”. So the supernatural hi-jinks foreshadowed by last week’s magical talking mirror are definitely coming to pass!! I am SO thrilled!

Also, considering that Lost Forest is a National Park, (at least according to the “About Mark Trail” blurb) why exactly does Mark and/or the talking hawk think they need Doc’s permission to build a road? I mean, did like somebody die and make Doc king of the National Forest Service or something?
katya
February 27th, 2006 at 12:38 pm [Reply]

Don’t you remember?
Paul on FBOFW is Mr. Wright. What bigger signal do you need that this is the one that Liz is going to marry. Why the inital courtship stage was off-camera (or off comic strip) is beyond me.
Library Cat
February 27th, 2006 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

re #86

Considering what the on-strip courtship was like last week, we all need to give Lynn a big thank you for any details that were glossed over early on in their relationship.
lilybdcsa
February 27th, 2006 at 12:58 pm [Reply]

#84 I wasn’t sure if that was peeking or a dead-eye stare.
gnome de blog
February 27th, 2006 at 2:48 pm [Reply]

Re 52, 68, 74:

Hey, Occam and Romanetti: Youse guys is right. I was shocked, mind you SHOCKED, at the Oregonian’s latest desecration of the funnies.

What really gets me is when they wrap the section in a half-page ad pulloff in addition the tearaway flap (which used to be perforated for easy disposal, but isn’t any more). Then you have to comb through all the Fred Meyer and Safeway garbage just to find the funnies. That’s a hell of a thing to do to somebody on a Sunday morning.
Library Cat
February 27th, 2006 at 3:04 pm [Reply]

There must be a nationwide trend in shrinking the Sunday comics. The KC Star has gone too far. Family Circus is now two inches wider than Fox Trot. A one panel strip is now allotted more space than a six panel strip. I will need a microscope soon to read the Sunday comics edition. And even Opus has been shrunk to a size more befitting the originality and humor of the strip. It is deserved, but what would Berke think?
Sassy_Rocks
February 27th, 2006 at 3:13 pm [Reply]

Looking for love in all the wrong places sums up Jane Hand’s wharf stroll. The magical curative powers of saline H2O notwithstanding, one really has to wonder how she’d fall for such a corny pickup line from a platitude spewing stranger. So much for her much hoped for violent revenge attack on Wilbur Weston.
BigJoe
February 27th, 2006 at 3:49 pm [Reply]

I was hoping the “curing properties of salt water” included jumping in the ocean and letting it cure her problems by sweeping her out to sea. But alas, I suppose in a day or two we’ll see those seagulls pairing up once again as Jane falls for Mr. Salty Platitudes.
Marc
February 27th, 2006 at 4:07 pm [Reply]

I wish Jane Hand was a snail lost in a salt factory.
MLH
February 27th, 2006 at 4:35 pm [Reply]

At least Josh didn’t post anything from”Cathy”.

As always, Mark Trail tells it like it is. Comics love is sometimes just too disturbing.
T.J.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:30 pm [Reply]

Ok people. Those of us in Houston need your help. They’ve removed Gil Thorp from the paper. No, no, don’t worry, it’s still available online, but goddammit, I read the PAPER, and I want my GT fix! They installed that damn sudoku puzzle and put Dear Abby and Hints from Heloise on the funny pages. Please, for your good buddy TJ, send a note to “comics@chron.com” and ask them to put Gil back in the paper. At the same time, ask them to remove B.C., Cathy, Shoe, Peanuts, and whatever other moldy strip you hate. If you’re feeling really frisky, ask them to add Frazz, Speed Bump, and Candorville!

Thanks for your time.
Marc
February 27th, 2006 at 6:46 pm [Reply]

I agree with B.C., Cathy, and Shoe, but not Peanuts. Although it is stale 1950’s humor, it is what at least I think of when I think about comics. Peanuts has been a newspaper comics staple for over 50 years. I do agree with Peanuts being as funny as Malaria (which it is not), but seriously, a comic section without All American Peanuts, is just a piece of paper with Foobs falling in love.
Marc
February 27th, 2006 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

And….Am I the only one who thinks Heloise is post-op?
smallstreams
February 27th, 2006 at 8:24 pm [Reply]

The Post-Gazette comics stinginess is either dumb or evil. The comics are so small, I lack the emotional investment other CC readers have in Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, and For Better or for Worse. At least the size of Sunday’s Spiderman was small enough so that the semi-nudity was only demi-semi-nudity.
anonymous
February 27th, 2006 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

What’s with the deformed-looking drawing of Rex Morgan in today’s strip? Doesn’t the guy drawing our Rex LOOK at his work before submitting it?
weiser
February 27th, 2006 at 9:03 pm [Reply]

I’m sooo glad to read all the complaints about shrinkage (comics wise that is). I thought it was just old age; as in my eye sight is shot so things look smaller and I just don’t remember all those tire ads in the funnies of my youth.
Although they don’t belong in the funny papers, be careful about bad-talking the Sudoku. It’s what saves me when I can’t read (or can’t stand) the comics.
Mibbitmaker
February 27th, 2006 at 9:42 pm [Reply]

#99: That’s why he’s often covered up by some huge talking animal. Can’t bear to show deformed Trail, so a giant fire ant (or whatever critter’s around) takes his place for a panel.
plumberninja
February 27th, 2006 at 10:05 pm [Reply]

So,it appears that in today’s Dinette Set, we have numerous almost funny tidbits that actually do make me laugh on their own.
~the hideously deformed tom cruise on the front cover of ‘people’ magazine
~the word ‘Politkians’. Is this some new republic in the heart of Dinetteland? Politkia? More Politkians, mule!
~the movie ‘a confederacy of STONERS’ on top of the TV
~papaya-boy’s hideous tumor growing out of his forehead is just, well, amusing. That’s all I have.
plumberninja
February 27th, 2006 at 10:16 pm [Reply]

And I know what happened to RM’s golf clubs… June was using them to clean out Sara’s closet.
brendan
February 28th, 2006 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

FBFW: Do-wright is doomed, either way.
As 28 and 62 argue, he’s probably going to perish in a car crash or a crime.
But considering Lizzy’s reluctance to give up the snatch, he’s doomed even if he DOES live. The way she keeps the box under lock and key, he’s lookign at a lifetime of once a week sex, and only in missionary position. And he has to refer to it as “making love”, nothing else, or he’s cut off.
Josh, you’ve inspired my own FBFW abuses, among others. for that I bless you!
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