Puzzles, meta-ness, war fun, nerds
Family Circus, 4/11/06
Ah, the desperate stab for relevance! See, Sudoku’s all popular now, and it’s Japanese, and … heh. Relevance. You see. Well, as a typical reader, let me assure you: it didn’t work. The Family Circus appears right under the Sudoku puzzle in my paper, but it still didn’t make this cartoon relevant or funny.
Also, this cartoon? Deeply racist. Sudoku means roughly “Single number,” and it’s an abbreviation for a larger phrase that means “the numbers must occur only once” (”Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru”). It is not, in fact, anybody’s name. Keep right on writing those letters to the editor, Sarah Ditmars.
Sally Forth, 4/11/06
This is an awesome meta-moment … but Ces, you tease us. We all know that whatever Ted’s new job is, it won’t be as good as any of these.
In addition: Tan shirt? Just-one-shade-darker tan pants? Electric blue tie? Ted Forth is not gay, everybody.
Gil Thorp, 4/11/06
I think the commentor who suggested that Trey Davis’ t-shirt is foreshadowing has hit the nail on the flat-topped head: Gil Thorp must be determined to match Funky Winkerbean and Doonesbury with a depressing Iraq War storyline of its own. Of more immediate concern is the snoopy reporter in panel three, who is clearly Andy Dick in a bad wig.
Luann, 4/11/06
Hey Gunther, even if she did want you to put on a dog suit, this is girl who you forced to dress up as a giant pen at a comics convention in your doomed bid for fame last year. You might want to dial down the self-righteousness while you’re adjusting the invisible control panel on your forehead there.
Happenstance
April 12th, 2006 at 2:04 am
Wait ’til ya see the Wednesday Luann; Gunth somehow manages to apologize AND keep his self-righteousness turned up to eleven.
Surprised Dolly didn’t call her imaginary friend “Sue Doku.” WOULDN’T DAT BE HI-LARIOUS?? WHEE HEE HEE!!
Ubiq
April 12th, 2006 at 2:13 am
Confident? Happy? Lack of color coordination?
Who are you, you bastard, and what have you done with the real Ted Forth?
Seamus
April 12th, 2006 at 2:17 am
Man, I never realized just how much Gunther’s mind defaults to wearing costumes. He clearly has a mascot fetish.
Doug Puthoff
April 12th, 2006 at 2:22 am
No! No! No! That snoopy reporter is obviously an alien. Look at her foreheaed. You could write “War and Peace” on it.
Len
April 12th, 2006 at 5:16 am
Wednesday’s Pibgorn Night’s Dream has a malevolent Oberon, toothpick in his mouth, asking for the Indian “boy” as his “companion.” (Anyone remember Lenny Bruce’s Lone Ranger routine? “Give me the hunky Indian!” What? Lone Ranger’s a fag!) And Titania is stuffing the “boy’s” waistband with dollars! His “sugar (plum) -Faerie Mamma”?
What ARE those scintillating brilliances on Titania’s wrists? Jewellry? Galaxies? Quantum anomalies? Titania is obviously never-aging and immortal (and worshipped as a Goddess in India!). But when are these Faeries gonna grow wings, and shrink to six inches tall? We know Pibgorn can do it.
http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/index.html
RichM
April 12th, 2006 at 5:29 am
GT: What do those little lines in panel three indicate?
That the glove is talking?
That the ball just bounced off of the pocket of Hat-Losing-Man’s glove?
That he’s throwing the ball with the wrong hand?
That the shemale is emitting St. Elmo’s Fire?
All of the above?
mooselet
April 12th, 2006 at 6:14 am
Why are Luann’s eyebrows in her hair?? Not under it, but floating on top of it. If they could do tricks that would entertain Mrs.Horner and her friends, no doubt.
Firegoat
April 12th, 2006 at 6:36 am
Huzzah! Shady Shrew’s missing peanut shells have been found in this morning’s Get Fuzzy! Mystery solved! Take THAT Slylock Fox!
Pozzo
April 12th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Did anyone notice the fact that both Gil Thorp and B.C. feature a background character in the last panel with a ball bouncing off of his mitt? Oooh — synchronicity!
Mumblix Grumph
April 12th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Was Bil Keane doing strips during World War Two? If so, I’d love to see some propaganda strips.
“Mommy, there was a Japanese girl in my class. Boy is she lucky! Her whole family gets to go to a ‘camp’! I’m sure gonna miss Suzie Backstabbingjap!”
Ianscot
April 12th, 2006 at 8:22 am
The fielder in the background of Gil Thorpe’s panel three is wearing that glove on the wrong hand. Not surprising, is it, that the ball bounced off the tip?
No doubt he’s also wearing the wrong size hat, explaining its flying off that way.
(I could’ve sworn B.C.’s bad fielder took the ball right on the head, Jose Canseco-style. Too lazy to look back, though.)
Marc
April 12th, 2006 at 8:30 am
YAY! Sarah Ditmars! A reference to me!
And…I await her letter in the “YOUR VIEWS” section of the Local Section.
Renee
April 12th, 2006 at 8:33 am
No, no, you missed the joke entirely. The joke is that OF COURSE Dolly doesn’t have a Japanese friend – or a black friend, or an Indian friend – that’s just SILLY. Her mom’s smiling in an incredulous “kids say the darndest things” way.
BigJoe
April 12th, 2006 at 8:49 am
MW: Mary thinks, “They’re so close to bickering, I hope this helps.” Then she offers them some fattening pie. They’re bickering about diet and exercise, and she hopes that will help? Obviously Mary must want them to get into a full-blown, knock-down, drag-out argument. That way she can rehash all the divorce related platitudes she used on Jane Hand.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060412&name=Mary_Worth
BassoGap
April 12th, 2006 at 8:55 am
RMMD – I want to know how Troy and Rex managed to get through the last panel today without laughing. You can tell each of them is having a tough time keeping a straight face.
“Donations (ha!) from…wait for it…big pharma!”
Yeah, that’s going to happen *real soon now*.
SF – Do readers really believe Ted will tell anyone off? My bet: he’ll hand in his resignation letter, which will include an apology for leaving. Yesterday’s strip could have led to a Friends-style storyline, where nobody ever really knew what Chandler did for a living.
Chet McCord, Wildlife defender
April 12th, 2006 at 8:57 am
I just have to say that this Mary Worth story is the greatest Mary Worth story of all time, and that the fat husband might rival Rita as one of the best visiting characters. He’s fabulous.
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
April 12th, 2006 at 9:15 am
BassoGap: Considering everything that’s happened in the RMMD storyline, is it even possible for Rex and Troy to have “straight” faces under any circumstances?
BigJoe
April 12th, 2006 at 9:19 am
To expand on Josh’s FC rant, as I said yesterday in comment 41 on this page: http://joshreads.com/?p=575
By the way, how do you set the link to a specific comment on a page? I see in one of Josh’s links he adds “#comment-30089″ after “?p=565″, but how do you know what the comment number is that you are trying to link to? Or does only Josh have the ability to tell what the comment numbers are?
Sheila
April 12th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Neither of those people at Mary Worth’s table is especially fat. So what IS the big deal??? Oh, wait — the very limited Mary Worth artist simply can’t draw fat people convincingly, is that it?
Mary could lose a couple pounds herself.
Jocko
April 12th, 2006 at 9:30 am
#18
BigJoe, It’s the hyperlink with the time stamp under the name
April 12th, 2006 at 9:19 am
http://joshreads.com/?p=576#comment-31447
Rozenn
April 12th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Re Ted Forth’s incredulity when his daughter doesn’t know what his job is : did anyone at ten (twelve, whatever) know what their parent’s job was ? Unless your parent was a firefighter or something ?
rich
April 12th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Steve Forbert makes another cameo in today’s Gil Thorp.
BigJoe
April 12th, 2006 at 9:50 am
SF – Isn’t it obvious? He’s so certain he’ll get the job that he won’t get the job. C’mon, that’s taught in Sitcoms 101.
yellojkt
April 12th, 2006 at 9:51 am
My dad was a fighter pilot. The ugly green jumpsuit was a clue. A shirt and tie could be anything. One of the running jokes on Friends was that nobody really knew what Chandler did, but he made a lot of money at it.
And the guy getting told off is Smarmy Twice-Divorced Guy. Nice touch of continuity there.
Dingo
April 12th, 2006 at 9:55 am
So, I’m taking it that the creator of Get Fuzzy must read this site. Why else would Satchel find the peanut shells from Slylock Fox today?
Short Stop
April 12th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Comment #11 from above:
No, the artist was just holding their pencil in their wrong paw. Ooooo ooooo aaaaa aaaa eeeee eeeeee.
BigJoe
April 12th, 2006 at 10:06 am
#25 – It must be one of those organized comics collaboration days. The peanut shells are showing up everywhere – Satchel finds some, Luann gets some in her hair. I think I see some on the floor in the back room in RMMD. MW used some in her secret apple-pear pie recipe. April has some in her hair too in JP.
Must be part of Shady Shrew’s plot to embarrass Slylock Fox by spreading the evidence everywhere. Now there are several suspects. The case will get thrown out of court, as Slylock once again can’t get a conviction.
Eric
April 12th, 2006 at 10:15 am
“So, I’m taking it that the creator of Get Fuzzy must read this site. Why else would Satchel find the peanut shells from Slylock Fox today?”
Well, that would be a good theory if the lead-time on comics weren’t like two months.
mako
April 12th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Rozenn: uh… yeah. I actually highly doubt that many people *didn’t* know or at least have some clue what their parents did at that age. And my dad was a chemist, hardly a glory job.
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
April 12th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Don’t be so sure about that verdict, Big Joe. I hear the judge assigned to that case is Slammer Sloth…the hangin’ judge.
Oh lord, I’m so sorry.
Sassy_Rocks
April 12th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Here’s a theory on Lou’s “motivation”. He suffered for years from erectile dysfunction. Recenty (in Mary Worth time) he went to Wally World and had a titanium chubby surgically implanted. Since then, he won’t leave “Hon” alone and wants sex morning, noon and night. That is all that matters to him anymore and Kelly is doing the makeover mostly just to get away from him.
Justafoob
April 12th, 2006 at 10:28 am
In today’s FBOFW we see dad racing to go lock the workshop. Now we KNOW that is where the gayporn is hidden. Apwil will have to zoom up to her room and hide her collection of “Roadside” magazines before mom goes and tosses them.
King Dogmeat
April 12th, 2006 at 10:37 am
I like the Family Circus precisely because it is so vacuous. But that “sudoku” cartoon even has me perplexed. I have a friend who is very good at word puzzles; his name is “The Daily Crossword.” I have another friend who is good at descrambling anagrams. His name is “Jumble.”
Irina
April 12th, 2006 at 10:47 am
GT: I thought the outfielder was running trying to catch a ball many feet away, and our dear reporter just got hit by a rogue ping pong ball.
tommy
April 12th, 2006 at 10:50 am
family circus hitting a new low in the absence of humor.
Hogenmogen
April 12th, 2006 at 10:53 am
#18, BigJoe, FC: I have a friend good at science. Her name is Kim S. Tree. I have a friend good at reading, his name is N. Glish Majors. I have a friend good at writing, his name is Joe Rnalist.
Maybe it was all meant like “I’m so good at running, my middle name is ‘Speed’.” Also “I’m so good at vomiting, my middle name is ‘Ralph’.” Either way, Familcy Circus has utterly failed yet again.
Hogenmogen
April 12th, 2006 at 10:57 am
You’ve got to hand it to GT, though. “Heck of a rebounder” as the ball bounces off his glove. Creative to use a double entendre, no?
What I find curious is how no one seems to notice how art is immitating life here. Wasn’t there a famous basketball player who took to baseball where he “struck out” so to speak?
I’ll give you a hint, he was a VERY famous basketball player.
Smitty Smedlap
April 12th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Howard Erk’s sister appears in today’s Dilbert.
rich
April 12th, 2006 at 11:06 am
The Get Fuzzy haters should note that today’s strip did have a real punchline, aside from the “Booty” call in panel 2. (And I understand, the strip is not everyone’s cup o’ tea, so let’s not go down that road again.)
There’s also been a lot of analysis of the significance of the word “Booger” in these strips – I don’t think any of the words he’s been shouting mean anything in particular,they’re just unique Bucky variations on the word “BOO!”, for the purpose of scaring Satchel.
On another note, I was bummed to hear that the Detroit Free Press cancelled Preteena. If you want to complain or get them to reconsider, their email address is letters@freepress.com
Benicillin
April 12th, 2006 at 11:06 am
My Japanese friend is good with blowjobs. Her name is “Sukonyu.” Her Siamese twin is “Stukonyu.” Their dry-humping dog is named “Fukonyu.”
Man, am I hilarious.
Smitty Smedlap
April 12th, 2006 at 11:10 am
(dt)GT — Not 100% sure on this, but I think college coaches are not allowed to be present at a recruit’s announcement or signing. I think JoePa got busted on that the first year it went into effect.
Howard Erk
April 12th, 2006 at 11:15 am
It looks more like my girlfriend.
Or, should I say, she would look like my girlfriend if I had a girlfriend.
Mark
April 12th, 2006 at 11:16 am
GT: Trey Davis is joining the ARM? God, no! That would be horrible! …Um, what’s the ARM?
Harry Worth
April 12th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Mary is such an enabler.
On the edge about having a major blowout about food and exercise? Here, have a big slab of apple-pear pie to get you going.
If she wanted them to divorce, she could offer ala mode as the coup de grace.
Eric
April 12th, 2006 at 11:42 am
“I like the Family Circus precisely because it is so vacuous. But that “sudoku†cartoon even has me perplexed. I have a friend who is very good at word puzzles; his name is “The Daily Crossword.†I have another friend who is good at descrambling anagrams. His name is “Jumble.—
No, no.
I have a German friend who’s good at puzzles. His name is Croßwürd.
Abbey the Wonderdog
April 12th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Actually her name is mbujel
BARK! BARK! BARK!
Frank Drackman
April 12th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
I see MW has prepared apple-pear pies, to go along with her guests apple and pear shapes.
loudfan
April 12th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
I think today’s Luann proves that Gunther is a budding serial killer. Yeah, he’ll saw the lady in half… and he’ll enjoy every minute of it!
Canaduck
April 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Yeah, I don’t see the racism in FC either. Stupidity, sure, but racism?
#36 Hogenmogen had the best explanation for what was going on, but either way, FC sucked.
Frank Drackman
April 12th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Why is Gunther wearing a Merkin on his head?
BigJoe
April 12th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
#39 – Rich – Arrgh, another one I didn’t realize at first that the Free Press dropped….Sherman’s Lagoon.
Atewl
April 12th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
‘I like the Family Circus precisely because it is so vacuous. But that “sudoku†cartoon even has me perplexed. I have a friend who is very good at word puzzles; his name is “The Daily Crossword.†I have another friend who is good at descrambling anagrams. His name is “Jumble.†‘
I’ve been lurking here for about six months now and haven’t felt a strong need to comment on anything until now.
I have a friend who’s really good at The Jumble. Her name is Anna Graham.
I feel better now.
Thanks.
Hysterical Woman
April 12th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
If Irish-American parents can name their kid a name that translates to “girl”, Japanese-American parents can name their kid “single number”.
yellojkt
April 12th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
And today’s lightly sourced, completely ridiculous Mallard-quack:
“The costs of operating the tax system eat up an estimated 65% of every tax dollar collected from us.”
Tinsley needs to realize that according to Big Conservative Think Tank, gullible isn’t even a word.
Sheila
April 12th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Smitty, that’s not Howard Erk’s girlfriend… oh, well, maybe it is. But it’s ALSO Dilbert’s mother.
Don’t you love the hair? Like a cow pie on her head. I thought that was just a figment of Scott Adam’s deranged imagination (or crappy drawing style), until a software company I worked for hired a business analyst with THAT EXACT SAME HAIR. (And YES, she looked like an idiot!) Scary.
grendell
April 12th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
help me out here, i know you know it: what’s the name of mary worth’s boyfriend again?
Harry Worth
April 12th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Mark Trail?
Rex Morgan?
Mallard Fillmore?
Howard Erk?
dlauthor
April 12th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
43: I believe that ARM is over fighting in some place called Ira. Soon to be two places called Ira!
54: Oh, Tinsley knows full well that the think tanks are full of stuff and nonsense. All the windbags do. What they count on is that their _readers_ don’t know it, and are too lazy/misinformed/lockstep to learn otherwise.
MaryAnnTheRest
April 12th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
#30… Slammer Sloth, the hanging judge!! Don’t apologize, I just laughed so hard, I had a coughing fit. It’s actually not Shylock Fox’s fault he can’t get a conviction, it’s that high-priced defense lawyer, Shyster Shark.
rich
April 12th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
56: Dr. Jeff Corey
(Jeff Corey, Wilbur Weston, Kelly’s Lou, Professor Beardo…about the only skinny guy in Mary Worth was that meth addict.)
Howland Owl
April 12th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
56: Mary Worth has a boyfriend?
Harry Worth
April 12th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
61: Dr. Jeff Corey is more of a “platitude” buddy.
They go on his boat at the end of each arc and mutually platitude each other.
juggernaut
April 12th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
#39 – even WITH a punchline, tho, GF still sucked. i stopped reading it a few days ago, your post got me all excited that everything was back on track, but no – the horse, having been beaten, has now been tied to the bumper of some redneck’s pickup truck and is currently being dragged through the streets of some texas border town.
Ketil Flatnose
April 12th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Whew! Had to look through some archives of Luann to see what the story arc had been. I’d quit after the last interminable Dirk and Toni show.
“Dog act” had alarmed me, since here in Washington State we have a new law which makes that sort of thing a felony. (Thanks to the equestrian in Enumclaw). Then again, I suppose furries with Gunther might be a felony as well…
yellojkt
April 12th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Here is Gunther’s real announcement from today’s Luann. I’ve always suspected him and Aaron had a thing going.
Goober
April 12th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Mallard: I call bullshit. Here’s the article. Money quote: “And of course there are the costs of operating the tax system: compliance costs, litigation costs, tax planning distortions, and so on. A few years ago I made an attempt to add up all these burdens. The total was a 65 cent loss for every dollar of taxes collected.” In other words, it’s a totally made up figure, based on God knows what deranged assumptions, and even then Tinsley misrepresented it.
MT: Mark can’t figure out who could be behind the explosion. Seriously, he must be retarded. Good thing Tony was present to overhear every aspect of the plot and has a digital photo of the explosion.
MW: Mmmmm, humongous piece of apple-pear pie! Seriously, that piece is the size of Kelly’s head. And I agree that neither of them look fat, except for Kelly’s neck. But where is the hand coming from in panel one? Lou’s upper arm goes straight down, but his elbow would have to be behind Kelly for the wrist to be coming out at that angle. Looks like someone’s kneeling on the floor between Lou and Kelly.
RM,MD: The donations from the drug companies will be experimental or outdated medicines that they normally would dump on the Third World. But why worry about a few deaths or mutations? The losers, I mean patients, don’t even have health insurance!
FC: Seems more ignorant than racist, but it seems that Dolly is showing signs of psychosis and should be institutionalized immediately.
GT: I hope everyone’s memorizing who’s playing what position! And ANOTHER extreme close-up of Jimmy.
Marc
April 12th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
HERE! STOP YOUR BICKERING AND FILL YOUR PIE HOLES WITH…..WELL…..PIE!
Sassy_Rocks
April 12th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
#61: Actually, there has been a little inappropriate dishwashing ass grab intimacy between them but that is as far as it goes. Maybe Mary Worth will loosen up a little now that her beloved Walmart ChiComm swans are broken. Doc Jeff is the opposite of Lou Stirling, carnally. He has to be really desperate to pursue that meddling old windbag hag in the first place, let alone to continue pursuing her when she never puts out.
Hank Kimble
April 12th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
I have a friend who is really good at making Tennessee whiskey. His name is George Dickle. We had to tell him not to name his daughter, Tess.
gnome de blog
April 12th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Re: #39
Erk.
Lisa
April 12th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
That is an AWESOME smirk Sally’s got going in that third panel.
Sheila
April 12th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I nominate Sassy Rocks for COTW! “Meddling old windbag hag” is such a PERFECT description of our Mary!
Jim C.
April 12th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Goober,
Let’s see.
Huges on First
What’s on second
Ida Knows on third…
Actually, I shouldn’t call Brent “huge.” That gratuitous butt-shot of him is rather flattering. I guess he carries his weight in his gut, breasts and hair.
Dan Perducci
April 12th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Gunther is finally growing a set. He knows that nothing he does, no matter how degrading, will get him into Luann’s pants. Go, Gunther!
Sassy_Rocks
April 12th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Sheila, thanx a megabyte for the compliment. If familiarity breeds contempt than I hate Mary Worth’s interloping, beldam guts. I’ve been reading that banal tripe for the past couple of decades and she hasn’t changed a bit.
AwfulArt
April 12th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
“PBS”… After Dilbert & Hagar, who’s next Zippy The Pin Head??? Will he pop the bubble???
Sarah
April 12th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Get Fuzzy: awesome. Except that I’m really tired of Bucky Katt’s tired dialogue of late.
Smitty Smedlap
April 12th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
#61 & 68: At the risk of being a little too obvious at pimping my own site, here’s the legendary Dr. Jeff/Mary dishwashing episode.
Ferd Berfel
April 12th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
#21/Rozenn – I guess my siblings and myself were weird. My mother was a nurse and my father sold machine tools. I knew that for as long as I can remember. I can’t remember not knowing it.
Hell, my father had us playing with micrometers in kindergarten. We all even brought them to grammar school for Show & Tell.
Hilary not knowing what Ted does for a living is just an artifact of the “Sally-centric” nature of the strip. It’s called Sally Forth after all, not the Forth Family or even A Control Freak Bitch Raising A Girl-Child With An Essentially Ineffective Husband Who Is A Cardboard Cut-Out Of A Closeted Homosexual.
While the last ‘fits’ perfectly in a descriptive sense, it doesn’t fit from a printing or marketing angle.
Pansy
April 12th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
SF: I think Ted Forth kinda looks like Ken Jennings. I mean, he’s got the tan shirt and the suburban hair. And nobody really knows what his job is. God, I hate that strip.
GT: Are there any women in this strip? I mean, I’m seeing a lot of drag queens and guys with no necks, but where are the girls?
MW: Are there any women in this strip? I mean, I’m seeing a lot of drag queens and guys with no necks, but where are the girls?
MT: “I remember talking to that bald guy about a road through Lost Forest; and I talked to an attorney about a road through Lost Forest; and I talked at the wife about a road through Lost Forest. But gol’darn it! WHO would want to blast these rocks across this road? It just doesn’t make sense!”
A 10 year old kid would have those stones cleared off that road in 15 minutes.
Ferd Berfel
April 12th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
RMMD – Yup, the pharmaceutical companies will donate all the drugs you need, Dr. McCheesey. Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy will cover the rent too.
GF – Further proof that Conley lurks at this site.
MW – Have the colorists for the strip been changed? Are they on vacation? Have they been revealed as illegal aliens and deported? Why is Kelly’s hair still Sunday brown instead of weekday blonde? Btw, good move Mary. Handing Lard Ass some pie will put his pie hole to other uses.
Gasoline Alley – What should you do Skeezix? How about calling your daughter Claudia and that human schmoo she married to give you a lift? Sheesh… Are you sure that Walt is the only one who is senile?
9CL – Amazing how the homosexual is the only one who can communicate with the Catholic priest, huh? I still say if Edda and the Flailing Nun had been 9 year old boys, Father Durley would have recognised them immediately.
(DT)GT – Lots of holes in the baseball team’s roster. Not to mention the holes in this story arc.
MT – Mark Trail is a super genius. I keep waiting for him to hand Bugs Bunny a business card stating so. Dynamite stick bits? Rocks across the road? Obviously intentional? Well duh. How much you want to bet that Bright Boy doesn’t put two and two together and realise that Rusty and Tony were out taking pictures of animals engaged in sexual congress, were near the site of the explosion, and therefore may actually have a picture of the event? Mark puzzling that important clue out should take another month or so. Andy will most likely help.
Bill Peschel
April 12th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
I read the comics tomorrow, oh boy.
There are some deeply, deeply disturbing sexual innuendos going on.
I direct your attention to the following strips:
Sally Forth’s–, no, I don’t want to give anything away. You. Just. Have. To. Read. It. And. Squick.
Zits’ intimations of mom-sex
and, of course, Mary Worth, especially when Mr. Chubbo positions the pie slice in front of him.
I’ll be on vacation tomorrow, but I’m sure y’all will carry on in the great CC tradition.
OP Corduroy Shorts
April 12th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Get Fuzzy: Two to three panels of potential … then the inevitable letdown.
“Hear that noise Mr. Conley? It’s your potenial … on a train driving away from you … rapidly.”
Sarah
April 13th, 2006 at 2:49 am
A3G: Tommie=”Ravishing”???
SF: My eyes! Ted and Sally planning to get it on… nooo…
Safe Havens: Silent Penultimate Panel alert!
Hahahaha… can’t remember what else I was going to comment on. Must be gettin’ old…
Ianscot
April 13th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Rex Morgan today, 4/13/06: How many hand gestures are possible in a three-panel strip?
Doctor Troy’s last flamboyant twist of the wrist may be throwing a Spidey web over his prey, Rex, with whom he has just admitted to golf “sharking.”
Howard Erk
April 13th, 2006 at 6:44 am
Flabby.
Oh what a turn of a phrase.
Such a writer.
Such pacing.
Such. . .
dimestore lipstick
April 13th, 2006 at 7:41 am
In an effort to avoid thinking about the implications of Ted’s remark in today’s Sally Forth, my brain fixated on the fact that Sally drives Ted to work, so how is he going to get home and meet Sally?
Lyman Returns
April 13th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Mary Worth reminds me of my sister-in-law…my mother-in-law and father-in-law are both trying to lose weight, but every single holiday, sister-in-law brings cookies, cake, or candy, knowing full well her parents have a weakness for sweets, but she doesn’t care, as baking bring sister-in-law a sense of fulfillment and validates herself in her own eyes as a great human being. In the meantime, my in-laws head for early graves. But hey, that’s cool, it’s more important that Suzie Homemaker feels good about herself.
For the 2nd time…if you have guests over who struggle with their weight (or you go to their house and bring food), do NOT put out enough food for 25 people, and do NOT serve dessert! That Mary Worth needs to be smacked in the head. Along with whoever supervises the coloring of the strip. The most interesting thing about MW is seeing what color Kelly’s hair will be on any given day. Maybe we should form a betting pool?
jeanne
April 13th, 2006 at 8:56 am
#39 and #51,
I gave up on the Freep and the News for my comics. I just read online. For the last several years, they arbitrarily decide to run ‘contests’ to see which new strips they should run, and kill off good strips for crap. They never get rid of the bad ones, though.
King Folderol
April 13th, 2006 at 10:03 am
In order…
Family Circus isn’t racist so much as oblivious. Bill Keane still lives in an ENTIRELY WHITE TOWN. It’s better that he went with the “little girl Sudoku” punchline than the “disease Sudoku” punchline as in, “I got a 100 on my math test – I guess I have a bad case of Sudoku.”
Speaking of oblivious, Ted isn’t gay – he probably wouldn’t even know how to be gay if he was approached. “You want me to do WHAT with WHAT?”
I’d like to see Luann do what Funky Winkerbean and jump 10 years ahead, just so we can see Gunther all un-nerdy and rich as some sort of web guru while Luann’s living in a trailer trying to decide what kind of bread goes best with today’s toe jamb.
googoodoll
April 13th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Gil Thorp, panel three. Is the baseball being deflected by andy dick-with-a-bad-wig’s word balloon?
Dan Perducci
April 14th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Why does Gil Thorp have so many young men who wear a not so fashionable flip hairdo? And if the reporter is not a guy, is it Martina Navravtalova [sic]?
Billy
April 21st, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Another reason that Family Circus is offensive is because it’s, as always, so badly drawn. I won’t nitpick too much, but Dolly is obviously in the background, looking past Thel, and Thel is obviously in the foreground, looking past Dolly, standing about five feet to the side of each other. Poor Thel… her spinal column has finally collapsed after decades of stooping to fit into the circle because her husband is too lazy to draw the family at a further distance from the “camera” because that would accentuate the fact that the house hardly has any furniture, and that the house itself is a constantly shifting structure ala Stephen King’s Rose Red.