The Comics Curmudgeon

87 responses to “It’s hard out there for a balanced part of this complete breakfast”

1. Archivalist
   March 10th, 2006 at 9:52 am [Reply]

   Is he adding sugar to those Rapper Puffs? “Errr…..I feel all twitchy all of a sudden….”

2. Grandpas Dead
   March 10th, 2006 at 9:53 am [Reply]

   Speaking of Flavor Flav, why not Flavor Flav Flakes?

3. Irina
   March 10th, 2006 at 9:56 am [Reply]

   I’m tickled everyone enjoyed it that much, Josh :) Thanks.

4. Anonymous
   March 10th, 2006 at 10:00 am [Reply]

   At least we see a child getting a well balanced breakfast. If he lived with RMMD he would be getting a whole box of empty promises.

   BARK! BARK! BARK!

5. blackgirl
   March 10th, 2006 at 10:01 am [Reply]

   WHAT is happening to the mom in that first panel of Curtis?

6. DCBirdblaster
   March 10th, 2006 at 10:03 am [Reply]

   I can see the commercial now: Cartoon Diddy bouncing down the road in his lowrider then the kids run out, “There’s Diddy! Get ‘is stash man!”

   Damn foo’ kids tryin to get my Rapper Puffs filled with marshmellows in the shape of yella bling, orange ho’s, green cash, blue mics, and black records.

   “Eat @$%t succa’s!!” Diddy yells as he lays rubber down the road shooting twin glocks in the air.

   Rapper Puffs! – Part of this balanced nutritious meal!

7. Too Cool For This
   March 10th, 2006 at 10:09 am [Reply]

   Yawn.

8. skippingthroughflowers
   March 10th, 2006 at 10:20 am [Reply]

   Brokeback Hospital rocks my socks. And, has answered the question of just how gay Sex Organ can get.

9. Library Cat
   March 10th, 2006 at 10:21 am [Reply]

   Can someone explain what happened in Sally Forth yesterday? In the first panel Sally and Ted are in bed, in the second panel Sally is continuing her sentence but Ted is at the office on the phone and in the last panel they are back in bed. What the hell is going on?

   http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060309&name=Sally_Forth

10. DCBirdblaster
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:23 am [Reply]

    Sally Forth: Is it just me halucinating or is Ted groping Sally in the first panel?

11. Anonymous
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:23 am [Reply]

    Can someone explain what happened in Sally Forth yesterday? In the first panel Sally and Ted are in bed, in the second panel Sally is continuing her sentence but Ted is at the office on the phone and in the last panel they are back in bed. What the hell is going on?

    Ted brings his work home with him?

12. Lulu
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:27 am [Reply]

    Irina, scott, & brucker– funny, funny stuff

    loudfan- they’ll never find you!

    Curtis- I thought the mom was Michelle at first and it freaked me out

    and finally, SF: Ted it copping a feel and Sally just talks right through it. Impressive. Most impressive.

13. DCBirdblaster
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:28 am [Reply]

    Library #9: My take is either the panel of Ted in the office is a flashback (wavy lines on the side) or Sally is doing what my wife does when she thinks, rambles on and on and on and on for what seems to be days and never makes any progress in the thought. So the Ted office panel is the same conversation continuing through the night throughout the next day and into the evening…

    Me, I would have shot her or myself by now.

14. MLH
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:34 am [Reply]

    Bummer. “Rex Morgan, MD”, turns out to be about golf after all. At best, it’s about enthusiastic gay golfers, a species that’s hard to imagine.

    I think that it’s time to focus on the important comics. In “Mark Trail”, a badly-drawn anti-environmental conspiracy is being fomented, using eminent domain powers ripped from the headlines. Likewise, in “Gil Thorpe”, the Coach is teaching valuable, badly-drawn lessons about empathy for those who have less. In “Mary Worth”, older people are doubtless drinking tea or coffee, although I admit to not actually having checked. Cutting edge stuff.

15. Ces
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:42 am [Reply]

    “Can someone explain what happened in Sally Forth yesterday? In the first panel Sally and Ted are in bed, in the second panel Sally is continuing her sentence but Ted is at the office on the phone and in the last panel they are back in bed. What the hell is going on?”

    Here ’s the tale behind my SNAFU: Throughout the week Ted and Sally have been in bed (not on top of each other) as they discuss whether or not Sal will get that promotion that has been discussed for thousands of f*cking weeks in the strip. Well, imagine my surprise when I got this week’s strip run and saw that for no discernible reason whatsoever Ted suddenly appears at the office in the second panel, talking to Sally on the phone, only to reappear back in bed in the third and final panel.

    After a few moments of utter confusion, I realized what had happened–I often use earlier daily scripts as a template for writing the latest submission. Apparently for the “bed week” I had used a strip involving Ted at the office and forgot–for just one panel–to change the scene description. The artist followed the scene description to the “T”–you couldn’t get more “T” than this–and thus the sudden and seemingly inexplicable change.

    In short, I screwed up. Hopefully that clears up a few things.

16. Library Cat
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:48 am [Reply]

    Thank you DCBirdblaster and Annonymous for the SF responses. I think you may be right about the timeframe DC.

    Mary Worth: Granted someone who trolls the docks looking for a pickup can’t have high standards to begin with, but…he admires women who have no fear of flying. Well that’s really narrowing it down. I’m not afraid of bugs; build me a temple.

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mary.asp

17. Ces
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:48 am [Reply]

    I just looked at today’s strip and I gotta say, that certainly looks like Ted is making his move on Sally’s chest. What a strange, strange week it’s been at the Forth household.

    Join us tomorrow when Hilary finds a severed ear on the front lawn in the second panel, ony to cut back to the bed in the final shot.

18. Ferd Berfel
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:52 am [Reply]

    RMMD – As I and others have suggested over the last few weeks, I am even now more firmly convinced that Wilson and Nolan lurk at this site. How about this story line though? Nearly a month about golfing? Where’s the dramatic narrative? A gator attack at the 8th hole’s water hazard maybe?

    Luann – We get rid of the cat and Dirk comes back. Sheesh… Restraining order? What restraining order?

    MT – Let’s all plot to corrupt the eminent domain process in front of our grandchildren. Even today’s ginormous chipmunk was a relief from the vaguely unsettled and utterly ignored child wandering around the background.

    MW – Will they just wrap this one up?!?!? Damn, even Rit-zilla left quicker than this. I hope these two take their first flight together in Payne Stewart’s Lear jet.

    SF – Another strip that should get the lead out. Sally is whining about the promotion process to Ted? Who are they kidding? We all know that Whip Mistress Sally doesn’t care one whit about Slaveboy Ted’s opinions on any matter. She might as well be talking to herself.

    9CL – When it was nothing but Seth, Juilliard, and the NYC story I missed Sister Steve and the school. Now that we’re back to Sister Steve and the school, I miss Brokeback Juilliard. Go figure.

    (DT)GT – I wouldn’t think that anyone could trowel on social commentary any more hamhandedly than Lynn Johnston, but this strip proved me wrong. And that’s not a good thing.

    GF – I know Josh is a vegan or some other such nonsense and I like cats, but why isn’t Bucky in a shelter yet? Or at the bottom of a river in a burlap sack with Garfield?

19. Archivalist
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:02 am [Reply]

    The last line in today’s SF may be the sexiest line ever uttered in a comic strip.

    Um…man do I need some sleep.

20. Ces
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:05 am [Reply]

    “The last line in today’s SF may be the sexiest line ever uttered in a comic strip.”

    Jeez, this week just keeps getting better and better.

    Sigh…

21. BigJoe
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:05 am [Reply]

    #18 – As far as the RMMD writers lurking here and changing the strip based on our comments….isn’t there a long lead time on these things? Ces, if you decided to do a shoutout in response to a post on this site, how long would it be before it was published?

22. Endoplasmic Reticulum
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:08 am [Reply]

    An angry hobo army arises in today’s Gil Thorp.

    And I didn’t realize the homeless still carried their belongings in a bandana tied to the end of a stick. I thought grocery carts were all the rage now.

    Must be some cutting edge “retro hobo” style.

23. Library Cat
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:14 am [Reply]

    #15 Ces thank you for the explanation. Now I feel bad for calling attention to the problem. But I really like finding out about all the behind the scenes action of comic strip writing that you provide us. So sorry, and I’ll do it again.

24. Zorba the Geek
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:39 am [Reply]

    “Hopefully she will not be sued by the combined lawyers of King Features and the Black Eyed Peas.”

    I suppose any of them could be sued by the various “corporate masters.” Since brucker, Scott, and loudfan have links to blogs or websites, it shouldn’t be too hard for the corporations’ law-droids to find them. Irina, however, does not have a link- so they’ll come after you, Joshua Fruhlinger, to give them her IP address, so they they can try and locate her through her provider. I want you to stand firm (unlike Yahoo!™ in China), and refuse to divulge. Be strong.

25. Ianscot
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:57 am [Reply]

    3/10 Mary Worth: Have we just seen a completely obvious reference to the old Erica Jong book “Fear of Flying”??

    That’s a superb comics come-on, even if it’s a little dated. “I admire women who have no fear of flying.” Says it all, really. He’d really enjoy taking one of her “flights.”

    Has to be as stark obvious as RMMD’s gay references.

26. Sassy_Rocks
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:58 am [Reply]

    “I admire women who aren’t afraid of flying”. That is inane, even by Mary Worth standards and a major letdown after his clever initial salty platitude. You’d think a stalker who hangs out at the docks picking up chicks could come up with better conversation. The question is by “flying” does he mean piloting a plane or sitting there in first class as a jet potato? Either way, it’s a throwaway remark, at best and this episode has been “hu tou she wei”, “tiger head snake tail” for sure.

27. Marc
    March 10th, 2006 at 11:59 am [Reply]

    If Loudfan gets a letter saying she has to delete the comic, I’ll be sad. I look at it for laughs when I’m angry. Better copy it, and save it to my C:// drive.

28. theGrowler
    March 10th, 2006 at 12:04 pm [Reply]

    If it weren’t for the Kwanzaa Bat-Bears that show up every year in Curtis, I would swear the strip was drawn by Strom Thurmond’s corpse–look at those lips in panel 3.

    Thanks for the explanation, Ces–gives that “artist” a few extra lashes this time.

29. Canaduck
    March 10th, 2006 at 12:09 pm [Reply]

    5–Blackgirl–Looks to me like she’s putting on her coat.

    Either that, or she’s fighting the phone.

30. Anonymous
    March 10th, 2006 at 12:37 pm [Reply]

    ole Strom didn’t have a problem with African-Americans. He loved them. some more than others.

31. Ferd Berfel
    March 10th, 2006 at 12:47 pm [Reply]

    Big Joe – Yes, there is a lead time. However, we were all cracking wise about Rex’ gay crush on Pus Boy last Sept./Oct. in the great ‘Fence Post Frank’ sage. That was two story arcs ago.

    Wilson and Nolan may taken the many ‘tent pitching’ ideas from our Pus Boy comments and run with it. I’m fairly certain they aren’t reading comment today and incorporating them tomorrow.

32. David
    March 10th, 2006 at 1:12 pm [Reply]

    Ces, if it’s any consolation, seeing the Sally Forth after reading your explanation made me laugh harder than any single strip I’ve seen yet this year. I mean – it’s just plain funny, the artist not questioning things and all. Yeah. Good times.

33. loudfan
    March 10th, 2006 at 2:21 pm [Reply]

    Personally, I don’t think the Mary Worth lawyers will come after me, because my mash-up makes ol’ Mare look “with it.” When you’re competing with gay golfers and homeless basketball players for readers, you have to grasp for every advantage! (Actually, I think it counts as parody and is therefore protected.)

34. Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
    March 10th, 2006 at 2:24 pm [Reply]

    #2: “Speaking of Flavor Flav, why not Flavor Flav Flakes?”

    Don’t forget to add some Doug E. Fresh fruit for a balanced breakfast

35. dlauthor
    March 10th, 2006 at 3:00 pm [Reply]

    Rice Kubes, new from Kellogg’s, yo.

36. tex ritter
    March 10th, 2006 at 3:08 pm [Reply]

    I haven’t seen rapper cereal, but in stores here we have “Rap Snacks:”
    http://www.rapsnacks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv

    I’ve only seen the “Lil’ Romeo Bar-B-Quin with my Honey” flavor locally.

37. DrBear
    March 10th, 2006 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

    Does he get teh 50 Cent box?

38. kippetje2000
    March 10th, 2006 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

    I bet that box of puffs comes with a free bobble head doll seeing as how there were thousands left over when the tour went belly up.

39. Anonymous
    March 10th, 2006 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

    I, for one, cannot wait for the cutting edge Curtis to be animated and shown on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. I hear that it should be out in time for the May sweeps.

40. Sassy_Rocks
    March 10th, 2006 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

    Why is unrequited lust a recurring theme in television advertising for breakfast cereals?

    Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids (not for tricky rabbits)

    Always after me Lucky Charms. I’ll escape by building a sugary bridge to Ireland

    Barney! You can’t have my Cocoa Pebbles

    Why must these pathetic characters employ such devious methods as impersonating humans or pretending to be Fred rather than just buying the sugary breakfast crap at Safeway? It never made much sense. Do rap cereals use this marketing?

41. Mooncity
    March 10th, 2006 at 4:29 pm [Reply]

    I just hope the Mary Worth lawyers haven’t seen “The Cocktail” yet! I might get sentenced to a year’s worth of platitudes!

42. Grandpas Dead
    March 10th, 2006 at 4:34 pm [Reply]

    For a truly balanced breakfast, Curtis needs a big glass of LL Cool OJ.

    Wonder if all his consumer products are rapped based?

    His laxative? Runs DMC.

43. lilybdcsa
    March 10th, 2006 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

    Oooooh my…that nearly made me snort coffee out my nose.

44. brucker
    March 10th, 2006 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

    Thanks for the compliments people. I’m hoping that there will be enough material for another episode or two, but my mind’s not dirty enough to get anything out of today’s strip. (You don’t have to stretch too much to get something out of “whacking those balls”, do you?)

    15: Yikes, ces, you’ll have to tell us how many angry/confused letters you get asking for an explanation.

    18: Fred, you’re thinking exactly what I think most of us are. A month of strips about GOLF? What the heck?!? I mean, is the normal pace of RMMD narrative not quite slow enough or something? Gainer had better have an ulterior motive for inviting Rex out there (which, unless it really is gay sex, there’s not the slightest inkling of it yet), and he’d better admit it before another month passes, or this will truly be the dullest plotline of any comic strip of all time.

    Dr. Gainer: Let’s go golfing, Dr. Morgan!
    Dr. Morgan: Um… Uh… (oh, $#*&, not golf!) Well, okay, I guess.
    (skip forward to sometime in mid-March, 2007)
    Dr. Gainer: Great game, Rex! See you at the hospital sometime.

    21: Ces can verify, but to my knowlege, most syndicates seem to have a two-week lead time. For instance, I remember that no newspaper comic strip had a reaction to the 9/11 incident before 9/24.

    40: Sassy, don’t forget a handful of cereal mascots that have the flipside of that, like Sonny the freaky bird-thing that tries each commercial to *avoid* going “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!” Also I seem to remember a cereal in the early 80’s that had a porcupine mascot that was always breaking in on other cartoon animals’ breakfasts and convincing them that *his* cereal (I think it was Corn Pops maybe) was a much better breakfast. Personally, I always thought that the Trix Rabbit and Sonny should find some way to switch groups of child tormentors. (”Hey rabbit, wanna try some muchy, crunchy Trix?” “Are you $#*&ing me?! Gimme that bowl!”)

45. RichM
    March 10th, 2006 at 5:19 pm [Reply]

    Hey, I was all over the grope sighting over in the “Grab-Bag/Grab-Ass” thread. But if you all think it’s better here as part of a Balanced Breakfast, I am cool with that. Way for Ted to try to establish his straight cred.

    I do like the hallucinatory offfice bit in that comic from yesterday. Maybe we can have a strip which has panels 1 and 3 set in the office, where Ted has a flashback to a time when he and Sal are in bed.

46. Sassy_Rocks
    March 10th, 2006 at 5:31 pm [Reply]

    “dullest plotline of any comic strip of all time”.

    The RMMD golf story line is deathly dull but has has blatant gay sex undertones. What does Judge Parker have going for it? My candidate for this award would be the current Judge Parker episode. The dual plotline is supposed to cause suspense by switching from Neddy to April periodically but because each sublot is so mind numbingly banal and mundane in and of itself, I find myelf just remembering details like “April has a prominent moustache” or “Neddy cries latex tears” and forgetting what is actually going on in the plot (next to nothing). It seems more like a stall method to double the amount of time to stretch out an inane and meaningless episode as far as it can possibly stretch.

    Sonny is not really trying to avoid going cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, he is merely expressing his unbridled enthusiasm for their sugary goodness to gramps. It’s really more of the recurring lust theme.

47. Schteve
    March 10th, 2006 at 6:11 pm [Reply]

    Mark Trail 10 March

    First the pigeons spoke out in favour of the road, now it’s a chipmunk or something. Only the arrival of the Vogon Constructor Fleet can stop it now.

48. Schteve
    March 10th, 2006 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

    #22

    I can just about handle the depression-era hobos showing up to a high school basketball game but what’s that Amish guy doing there in the back of panel 2? Shouldn’t he be helping raise a barn or something?

49. Goober
    March 10th, 2006 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

    The bag on a stick is truly a touch of genius for the fauxboes in GT, but they don’t look nasty or angry. In fact, they have no expressions on their faces at all. Postmodern comment on anomie and emotional disconnect in modern society, or utter inability to draw?

    Goatee guy is another genius touch. Is he a beatnik, or just dressing like one? Looks like Maynard G. Krebs has been power lifting.

50. gnome de blog
    March 10th, 2006 at 7:01 pm [Reply]

    Maynard G. Krebs powerlifting. Perfect!

51. gnome de blog
    March 10th, 2006 at 7:06 pm [Reply]

    Ces: I thought the office middle panel was some kind of surreal cutting-edge flashback. I was a little disappointed to find out you didn’t do it on purpose.

52. Marc
    March 10th, 2006 at 9:08 pm [Reply]

    Balloonist!

    Finally a sidebar add that is useful!

53. Ferd Berfel
    March 10th, 2006 at 9:25 pm [Reply]

    Goober – Fauxboes! Oh man, I can’t wait to use that term! Thank you so much!

    Marty Moon, the beatnik, weightlifting, Krebs wannabe, is (DT)GT resident weasel. Sadly we’ll have to await a MT-(DT)GT crossover for Marty to kick Right Cross of Justice he so richly deserves.

54. Bill Peschel
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:49 pm [Reply]

    Ces, I, too, noticed the changed panels, and I assumed that since Sally has been talking about this for so long that she’s now talking about it all the time.

    As Marcus told Jason during the “Encyclopedias Brown and Black” episode in “Foxtrot”: “Hey, I was with you during the first four hours of your rant!”

    I figgured Sally was just going for the record.

55. yellojkt
    March 10th, 2006 at 10:54 pm [Reply]

    Fear of Flying was an ode to the female fantasy of completely anonymous casual sex. I think Jane and Flyboy have had too much bantering already for it to be truly “zipless”.

56. 2fs
    March 11th, 2006 at 12:11 am [Reply]

    My theory about the sudden appearance of Ted on the phone in yesterday’s “Sally Forth”? Ted actually has an identical twin brother, Ned, who screwed up and called home to say he (as “Ted”) was working late, forgetting that Ted was already home. Will Sally catch on that both gay identical twins have been using her as their beards, for years, gallivanting around with certain golfing doctors while their suburban neighbors and clueless daughter (who’s the real father? Perhaps John Elway?) remain unsuspecting? (That inept and ineffectual-looking groping the next day might give Sally pause…if she’d noticed it, which she seems not to have. Poor Sally…it’s been a long time, hasn’t it…)

57. lilybdcsa
    March 11th, 2006 at 1:12 am [Reply]

    Re: Today’s Zits….where does one buy shirts for 50 cents. Not even Sally’s sells them that cheaply.

58. rich
    March 11th, 2006 at 1:36 am [Reply]

    56: Good theory, 2fs!

    46: Great summary of Judge Parker. “Numbingly banal and mundane” – so true! I keep being drawn back to this story, only to be driven away again by the sheer grind of it. I started reading JP during the Eon cult storyline, seemingly provocative but in the end just a tease, leading to more bad soap opera. I find it hard to care about any of these characters, other than April, the blonde CIA wannabe – who I’ve taken a shine to, against my better judgement. Perhaps it’s the cute, Frida Kahlo moustache. Or more likely, memories of her in that Shirley Partridge getup.

    And the weirdest thing is that this latest Proustian/Joycean saga is taking place in one day! Randy and the Eon girl broke up around November, or as they refer to it in the strip, “yesterday”! The kids and the horses, Randy asking April out, and now the girl passed out on his floor – all one day. The strip has advanced about six hours in the last three months. That’s almost admirable.

    22: Thank you for the image…I keep cracking up when I picture those hecklers showing up for a game dressed as hobos, but instead of carrying bindles on sticks, pushing shopping carts!

59. Ubiq
    March 11th, 2006 at 1:40 am [Reply]

    Mr. Furry McBrickington and Dirk are in the same area.
    I repeat: Mr. Furry McBrickington and Dirk are in the same area.

    Come on, Brad, clock Dirk in the head with Mr. Brickington. You know you want to. It won’t bother Furry a bit, he’s a brick. Come on, get it over with.

60. Firegoat
    March 11th, 2006 at 3:55 am [Reply]

    More gay fodder.
    “Thanks, I have no idea what I’m doing!” (while bending over.)
    “I seriously doubt that”

    oh my.

61. Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
    March 11th, 2006 at 7:42 am [Reply]

    Nothing is duller than comix golf though this gay golf has an interesting aspect to it, and I always appreciate a well constructed obscenity. Haven’t seen one since Rita.

    How about that drug reference in Foxtrot?

62. Library Cat
    March 11th, 2006 at 1:51 pm [Reply]

    RMMD: Going by Troy’s line of vision when he says it, is “nice par” slang for nice butt?

63. Smokey Stover
    March 11th, 2006 at 3:34 pm [Reply]

    Totally off topic: the Red & Rover strip on Tuesday this week:

    http://www.comics.com/wash/redandrover/archive/redandrover-20060308.html

    was a direct rip-off of an old Peanuts featuring Linus and Snoopy:

64. Scott
    March 11th, 2006 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

    Oh, great, now Zorba has me anxiously awaiting a phone from my boss wondering why there is an FBI agent in his office regarding a gay comic strip….

    I’m just so used to plugging the company I work for (and well, I embarassingly don’t have a cool website or blog to pimp) I just put that in automatically as a url entry. And now, I’m doomed.

    I’ll probably add a little more functionality to it in any case, such as selectable insert and delete, and save as jpg. And then next step would be to have the user point it toward a local folder, and load up all the pics that the user has saved locally into the program, ala the “MAME workaround”.

65. Zorba the Geek
    March 11th, 2006 at 4:04 pm [Reply]

    Scott, sweetie, I wouldn’t worry about the FBI- they won’t be coming to your office. It will be the minions of the syndicate that distributes/owns Rex Morgan, MD, plus possibly representatives of the producers of Brokeback Mountain, serving you with notices of a civil lawsuit. Relax, it’ll probably turn out okay (just as did the lawsuit in Mary Worth against Wilbur Weston). You can always argue that it’s legitimate parody.

66. Islamorada Girl
    March 11th, 2006 at 4:40 pm [Reply]

    Log Cabin Republicans love golf.

    When did Rex betray Universal Health Insurance to become a conservative gay?

    I feel so . . . used.

67. dimestore lipstick
    March 11th, 2006 at 5:39 pm [Reply]

    #62 “RMMD: Going by Troy’s line of vision when he says it, is “nice par” slang for nice butt?”

    Library Cat, I’m now so used to seeing blatantly gay banter in this strip, I had to read it three times before I realized Troy wasn’t saying “Nice PAIR, Rex…very nice!”

68. Marc
    March 11th, 2006 at 8:00 pm [Reply]

    Alert! Alert! Major platispews in Sunday’s MW! Caution! There is a platitude in nearly EVERY PANEL!!

69. grendell
    March 11th, 2006 at 8:36 pm [Reply]

    I was going to ask how you knew already, but then I realized you were talking about Mary Worth.

70. Bill Peschel
    March 11th, 2006 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

    Yeah, Marc, you can say that about every Sunday strip.

    It’s like saying “there’s a ginormous BEAVER in Sunday’s Mark Trail”

    In the meantime, check out FBOFW. What kind of spastic dance is that girl doing?

71. Marc
    March 11th, 2006 at 11:10 pm [Reply]

    Grendell, I get the comics on Saturday, both Saturday’s and Sunday’s, but touche.

72. Marc
    March 12th, 2006 at 12:08 am [Reply]

    Sunday’s Rex Morgan Innuendos:

    “What club are you hitting, Rex?”
    –
    “Oh sure, that’s plenty!” (With smug Sally Forth-esque look ((except nobody is gay in SF except Ted, possibly)).)
    –
    The best: “I have plenty of extra balls!”

    I really don’t think the artist is that oblivious to what he’s writing and drawing…Seriouisly, I sense some closet action here.

73. monkeyhawk
    March 12th, 2006 at 1:12 am [Reply]

    Josh…

    I understand that you probably have a life outside “Comics Curmudgeon,” and some days the funnies just don’t provoke comment.

    I’m pretty new to this website and can still hit the archives to get my fix, but days that you skip are already becoming troublesome.

    I come to this site and see yesterday’s post and I’m struck with the fear, “Either he’s dead by the side of the road, or else he’s not inspired.” And I hope that you’re dead. I could live with that.

74. Firegoat
    March 12th, 2006 at 7:09 am [Reply]

    Saturday’s Judge Parker. Abby is concerned that her hubby “lobbed Bob”

    what the hell?

75. Firegoat
    March 12th, 2006 at 8:01 am [Reply]

    Um, anyone read Judge Parker this fine Sunday morning?????

76. Hank Kimble
    March 12th, 2006 at 8:21 am [Reply]

    No, but I read what the talking horse and chicken said in MT.

77. johnwhorfin
    March 12th, 2006 at 8:37 am [Reply]

    Here is a link to the Judge Parker from Sunday: Judge Parker.
    I just love cross referential comic strips.

78. yellojkt
    March 12th, 2006 at 9:16 am [Reply]

    Back to Ted and Sally. I missed being confused by the office in the middle panel. I just assumed that Sally had droned on about her career dilemna for 18 hours straight. Maybe I’ve been married too long.

79. Marc
    March 12th, 2006 at 9:57 am [Reply]

    Sally Forth needs some action! (Not, sex, please.)

    It’s dragging on! We need something to interfere, perhaps, Uh-oh Kitty’s lost again, but this time they have to take out a loan and rent Hilary’s room out to pay for the $15,000 heart-bypass surgery. Ces, bring in a conflict soon! I can’t just see Sally and Ted groping each other!

    Judge Parker: Wow, apparently we have another closet gay to join the ranks with Ted Forth, Rex Morgan, and Troy, is it?

    MW: I’m drowning in the plats! Save me!!!!!!!!!

80. Firegoat
    March 12th, 2006 at 10:54 am [Reply]

    Could we please give some props to Bizarro today. It was the only even slightly funny comic in Sunday’s mess.

81. weiser
    March 12th, 2006 at 11:42 am [Reply]

    It IS a slow comics Sunday (what a surprise). PBS made me laugh, but it didn’t make up for the lack of bizarre-color issues in MW. Dock boy’s coat is the same color today as yesterday. What’s with that?

82. Firegoat
    March 12th, 2006 at 11:53 am [Reply]

    They took PBS away from us here in Tulsa. I guess because they hired the guy who draws Kudzu as an editorial cartoonist. I say, gimme back my PBS and pay a few bucks for Toles

83. Firegoat
    March 12th, 2006 at 11:56 am [Reply]

    Okay, will the CIA wanna be tramp in Judge Parker get lucky and get worked like a claw? Frankly, if a)I were a guy and b) I was her boss and c) I came over for a first date and she was dressed up like a slinky muffin-puff, with the whole fire, wine, campy music, I’d either work her like a claw or run like hell.

    Seriously. Does anyone else wear a full length halter formal for a casual dinner date at the house?

84. Sarah
    March 12th, 2006 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

    74. lobbIED. lobbIED.

    I never read Rex Morgan before getting hooked on your blog. Omgoodness, though, I love it: “I have plenty of extra balls.”

85. Hank Kimble
    March 12th, 2006 at 3:12 pm [Reply]

    Is the woman in JP 3/11 wearing a codpiece?

86. plumberninja
    March 12th, 2006 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

    I don’t know about codpieces, but now I now that Mrs. Bumstead actually doesn’t wear panties. In today’s blondie she was demurely sporting a strapless bra and itty bitty skirt.

87. Mibbitmaker
    March 12th, 2006 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

    Don’t worry about the mistakes and unintended bits this week, Ces, it makes the comics page much more interesting, like the thought-balloon-free Garfields online lately and brucker’s Rex remix. Honestly, artist-writer miscommunication and internet re-editing should be the future of comics; shake them out of the 21st century doldrums.

    And I agree, it’s even funnier after reading the explanation.

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