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H5N1: My hero

Garfield, 6/29/06

Step 1: Garfield contracts avian flu.

Step 2: Avian flu passes from Garfield to Jon.

Step 3: Garfield dies.

Step 4: Humanity wiped out.

Frankly, I would say Step 4 is a small price to pay for Step 3.

Judge Parker, 6/29/06

Who knew Judge Parker was so lousy with weird alien cults? Randy has only just extracted himself from the clutches of Mimi — ~~High Priestess~~ CEO of the suspiciously Scientology-esque “Eon” — but now we find out that Horace’s wife has the freakishly robotic name “Alpha.” Presumably Horace himself will soon change his name to “Beta,” with children named “Gamma” and “Delta” to follow. Beware, Randy, beware!

As for Judge Parker himself, with his unnaturally stripey hair, I’m not sure he’s to be fully trusted by Earth-based humans either.

I’m quite looking forward to Horace making an appearance on the new JP artist’s watch. For those of you who don’t remember, this freak is Horace:

Yeah, try drawin’ that guy looking halfway normal, Mr. Skilled Artist Man!

This entry was posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 at 04:07 pm and is filed under Garfield, Judge Parker.

90 responses to “H5N1: My hero”

Camster
June 30th, 2006 at 4:12 pm [Reply]

Is it just me, or is this one of the weirdest Garfields yet? (I almost said “unfunniest,” but that would have so much competition it would likely be empirically impossible to prove.)
dlauthor
June 30th, 2006 at 4:16 pm [Reply]

See, Josh, in your rush to express your rampant misanthropy you missed the truly important question: is Jon reading a magazine called “Vet”? What kind of veterinary office puts out its trade magazines for people to read in the waiting area? I’d think reading about new techniques for spaying and putting animals to sleep would be … not relaxing. Particularly if there are photo illustrations. The photo-essay on heartworms must be a delight.

Weirdly, for a conservative-who’s-lightened-up-a-little-because-he’s-getting-laid-now, Horace looks quite a bit like Bruce Tinsley’s caricature of a frothing liberal. I wish cartoonists would sign some sort of agreement on the political leanings of strange-looking bald caricatures; these days, you need a scorecard.
B
June 30th, 2006 at 4:23 pm [Reply]

I think this is the funniest Garfield I’ve seen in years, and that’t not saying much. And Bruce Tinsley’s liberal caricatures have ponytails and/or goatees.
Fence Post Frank
June 30th, 2006 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

Doesn’t Judge Parker look like a father / uncle / brother of Rex Morgan?
Chris
June 30th, 2006 at 4:40 pm [Reply]

I think the big news is that Judge Parker actually has Judge Parker in it (even if in panel 2 he does look like Rex Morgan after a day of “golf”–lots of driving, shanked clubs, and puttin’ it in the hole–with his ex-con who learned his stuff at FPMITA prison)…and last week, the Pirhana Club was actually about pirhanas…I’m fully expecting to see Barney Google show up in Hootin’ Holler, probably on the lam from some blackmail scheme involving bears with arrows in their asses who eat little kids, with a smile on their ursine maws.
Chris
June 30th, 2006 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

#4, Fence Post Frank, yes, I obviously do agree with that assesment.

I wish we could introduce Randy to Margo…
Meggie
June 30th, 2006 at 4:46 pm [Reply]

“Horrace” looks like a deranged walrus who has rabies.
r., j
June 30th, 2006 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

Wait a minute. If Uncle Horace is “too conservative,” and the good jurist is agreeing, sort of, then that means that Judge Parker is a commie. Holy shit! Let’s send Judge Parker to Guantanamo. Oh, never mind, that was the old war. Where do we send commies now?
Mic
June 30th, 2006 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

GARFIELD ATE THE BIRD.
Len
June 30th, 2006 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

Hmm… A Gasoline Alley/ Sherman’s Lagoon mashup?

Slim says “Oh no! My grandbaby has been abducted into child-care by a misanthropic Crab and his man-eating shark buddy! They’ll devour him like a fistfull of Reese’s Pieces!”

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060630&name=Shermans_Lagoon
Herold
June 30th, 2006 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

These past two weeks of Garfield have been pretty strange… a different location? Lines approaching actual jokes? The promise of a reoccuring character from the days when Garfield was actually entertaining? Eerie.
Mongrel
June 30th, 2006 at 5:16 pm [Reply]

Is it just me or does Horace look like the love child of Mayor McCheese and a walrus?
cheech wizard
June 30th, 2006 at 5:42 pm [Reply]

JP – Randy’s election is ensured once the necessary arrangement are made with Judge Parker’s cousin, Paulie Walnuts.

Pearls: So what do McNewtggets taste like? Chicken? Or is it snake?

FOOB – White Goose? Obviously a reference to Liz’s fat ass, and her waddling gait as she trundles around the village. Plus her funky lips.

Speaking of eating snake, Officer Doody takes Gooseshit aside from the Great Foob Feast to offer her a special gift, an invitation to partake of some “man-corn.” She is delighted to find it makes its own creamy butter.

The next day dawns and with it the realization that she has tarried too long at the Foob fest. The snows have returned to Miki-tiki-tavi, as they do every July, and she is stuck for another 11 months. Only this time without a job.

She is able to subsist on moose jerkey and boiled squash, at least until February, when the food runs out and the annual “Starving Time” ensues. Fortunately, she is able to draw upon the energy reserves of her larded ass, which has left her well-provisioned to endure such hardship.

Spring finally arrives, and she returns south to the arms of Grampathony. Regrettably, during their first connubial encouter, he neglects to tie a board to his ass beforehand and falls in. She returns to Miki-tiki-tavi, where legend says that if you listen carefully to the wind, you can still hear his muffled screams.
Goober
June 30th, 2006 at 5:46 pm [Reply]

For the record, I did not pee my pants (I checked), and I apologize for posting “self-righteous asshole,” which, though accurate, was inappropriate, but the load of vitriol dumped on me for a modest observation was excessive and offensive. I’m not sure that I can co-exist with the apparent “leftist rants only” policy here without it irritating me every day.
You guys are offended that Mallard Fillmore exists: I’m offended by how stupid it is, like today’s: Zarqawi’s death was on the cover of friggin’ TIME magazine, fer chrissakes, Tinsley.
Anyhow, nice site, Josh. C-ya.
dlauthor
June 30th, 2006 at 5:46 pm [Reply]

12: Now there’s a mental image I’d like to go away.
philip
June 30th, 2006 at 5:56 pm [Reply]

Or, keeping it in McDonaldland, Mayor McCheese and (the) Grimace.
The Paradox
June 30th, 2006 at 7:08 pm [Reply]

Re: #13- Bravo, cheech wizard, bravo! Your Foob commentary should be comment of the year! I’m still crying!
Scumbaggioni
June 30th, 2006 at 7:31 pm [Reply]

#14: Oh my, is this about our little spat yesterday? I haven’t been back to that thread since my last reply, because I don’t want to get into prolonged flamewars or any other battle of wits with someone who’s totally unarmed, and because I have better things to do.

Also because–although it’s not something I recommend–it’s tough to resist responding to a personal attack I’ve just read. And while Goob likes to pretend he’s better than all that, a quick breeze through past threads shows that whenever someone mentions right-wing politics, or personalities therein, in words other than worshipful, Goob responds with personal attacks as if he were himself personally attacked. This is not the first time we’ve butted buttheads; I took a prolonged vacation from here because I didn’t want to carry on some childish, pointless, months-long back-and-forth with him. (I doubt Josh is happy with such things.) Sadly, it didn’t take long at all for us to clash after I started posting again.

He’s careful to couch each accusation of hypocrisy and stupidity as a generalized, lightly-sarcastic remark, but there are always two incorrect assumptions by people who think they’re capable of flaming just because they understand sarcasm: (1) they think no one else understands it, and (2) they think they’re capable of flaming just because they understand sarcasm.

I prefer the straightforward James Walcott sort of response: let them attack–then let them f***ing have it. (I’m nowhere as good as he is at this, granted, but then no one is.) Then–if I can resist peeking–I waltz off to download porn, or play with my pets, or engage a flamewar in a more appropriate forum, while they scream fruitlessly into the ether, pounding their keyboards in tears and other leakages. Like I said, it’s tough to resist the back-and-forth–but I am learning.

And it IS occasionally rewarding; as it is now, to see a complete WATB (look it up) bring his squabble into another thread completely unbidden, declare “I did NOT wet myself! I checked!,” and then run off squealing like live bacon because The Great Commie-Rat Conspiracy won’t let him have his waaaaaaay.

It’s tough for neocon WATBs on comic forums, because the smartest guys out there who regularly criticize liberals are Gerry Trudeau and Wiley Miller. I don’t know if “Day By Day” has a forum, but it must be as fascinating and nauseating as a visit to FreeRepublic or LGF, and equally incoherent.

Sigh.

Now that I’ve had my fun again, I’m going to make a vow. Josh, you’re perfectly free and within good cause to totally ban my ass, but if you choose not to, I promise not to engage and enrage any more WATBs. When a forum loses one, it loses a source of amusement. I apologize for my actions in that regard. I’ll still make fun of Tinsley and Big Fat Impotent Drug Addict Rush Limbaugh and other neoconservative polititards, but not other posters.

It may kill me, but I’ll do my best.
Da Scrodfather
June 30th, 2006 at 8:08 pm [Reply]

Holy codfish! I thought I left Eschaton and environs. Did P*tics take over the internerd today?
At least nobody took offense that the “too right” Horace will be played by a walrus.
Len
June 30th, 2006 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

Poor Hamhock. He’s used to the priviledged life of a Toon pig. On the farm there’s no clothes, no food on plates, no respect, and the final outcome is nestling up to some home fried potatoes and a couple of eggs over easy.

http://www.gocomics.com/inkpen/2006/06/30/

At least he doesn’t have retarded crocodiles calling him “leetle bacon boy.”
Len
June 30th, 2006 at 10:05 pm [Reply]

#9 — Garfield forgot about his lasagnia and ate a bird like a normal cat? No, surely the poor bird is just taking a break in the bathroom… Is this cough going to pass its way up along the food chain? Who would eat Garfield? (Please?)
Josh
June 30th, 2006 at 11:07 pm [Reply]

People, y’all are killing me. I’m begging you. Scumbaggioni, that’s the least convincing apology in the history of apologies. Why d’ya gotta make one of the great joys of my life the site of your little squabbles? I don’t want to hand out bans, but I might start.

jf
Marc
June 30th, 2006 at 11:07 pm [Reply]

Did anyone get yesterday’s Dinette Set? Is the point that they were on the floor because no one liked them, and the Pennys are cheap? I mean, the message on the screen was very prominant. So, the people who bought the Good and Plenty hated it so much it was on the floor?

MW: Mary, you live on the first floor of an apartment building, what do you mean “come up for cocoa.” That reminds me of Loudfan’s Mary Worth Mashup.

http://accordionguy.blogware.com/Photos/2006/01/mary_worth_does_my_humps.gif
lilybdcsa
June 30th, 2006 at 11:10 pm [Reply]

Josh, don’t sweat it. This too shall pass.
treedweller
June 30th, 2006 at 11:19 pm [Reply]

I actually didn’t notice that the bird disappeared in the third panel. That almost makes it funny. Almost.
Josh
June 30th, 2006 at 11:20 pm [Reply]

Actual email address for TDIET: alscaduto2@optonline.net

Update: Er, this is a response to something someone put on the last thread. But I thought I’d leave it here. In case anybody needs it.

jf
Ted
June 30th, 2006 at 11:35 pm [Reply]

Today’s mary worth…I just about barfed when I realized that “cocoa” is MW + Jeff’s euphemism for doing it.
lilybdcsa
June 30th, 2006 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

I’m submitting this one for the Pluggers

A plugger’s beach vacation is a lawn chair, an iced drink and a kiddy wading pool in the back yard. (It’s been working very nicely for me the last few sweltering days.)
Swift
June 30th, 2006 at 11:43 pm [Reply]

I basically never comment on anything, but I really have to say: If today’s Garfield leads into some post-apocalyptic The Stand-style decimation, I will personally give Jim Davis one thousand dollars. That I am unemployed has no bearing on this offer.
Rusty
June 30th, 2006 at 11:52 pm [Reply]

Humanity cannot be wiped out by John contracting the avian flu from his cat, because he has no contact with other human beings. Flu bugs need a carrier, not a cipher.
dlauthor
June 30th, 2006 at 11:53 pm [Reply]

Seriously, Josh. Dude said he was going to back off. You’ve got to stop going off on people after they call truce. It only prolongs things even more.

Here’s the deal — I already said I was sorry for pushing the bruise earlier today, and I reiterate that here. It was unfortunate, and inadvertent, and I’ll be more careful in the future. Scum’s explicitly said he won’t engage other posters any more. That leaves Goober, who will do one of two things:

1. Let it pass without comment.
2. Post one more salvo in this foofaraw, which Scum will not respond to, and which will therefore go howling off unacknowledged into the ether.

And that’s it. Unless, of course, you KEEP RESPONDING. You put a soapbox in the town square by allowing comments on this blog; you’ve got to be able to roll with it when crazies hop up on it now and then and start ranting about the chocolate elves who live in their beards so they can talk to the black helicopters from Saturn. Really, if a few random idiots (myself included) sniping at each other is enough to kill the joy you take from this blog, maybe you need to take back and take a vacation or something. I hear Crete’s nice this time of year, as long as the locals don’t kill you in your sleep or something.

Now enough of this. Back to work — it’s Canada Day, for the love of Foob. Time to mercilessly mock my home country again in your next post. Don’t worry, I can take it.

Oh, and more Finger-Quoting Margo contest winners, mule!
Rusty
July 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am [Reply]

#28: That Plugger’s idea is a good one, I thought of something similar in post #38 on this link:

http://joshreads.com/?p=610#comments

But I was just being snarky. If you submit it in a sincere manner it has a shot.
Maggot
July 1st, 2006 at 12:02 am [Reply]

re. 31: No Josh! No more vacations — too many of us depend on you.
lilybdcsa
July 1st, 2006 at 12:24 am [Reply]

Ooops, Rusty. Sorry about stealing your idea. I blame rampant middle-age CRAFT.

But how did you know my backyard is weed-filled? (All 20 acres of it.)
Jives
July 1st, 2006 at 12:55 am [Reply]

woah woah woah

Canada has a day?

btw I’ve sent chiefplgr@aol.com some choice entries.
image of a wolf/bear/overalled man at a drawing table with a #2 pencil in one hand and a can of Busch Lite in the other, passed out in a pool of his own vomit with copies of NASCAR WORLD strewn all over the floor.

caption: Chief Plugger

Don’t think he’ll run with it …
Power of 1000 Lemons
July 1st, 2006 at 1:12 am [Reply]

Did anyone know it was Ziggy’s 35th anniversary? Because the good folks at CNN are happy to remind you:

Ziggy’s 35th

Not that I’m surprised, but good Lord do the people associated with Ziggy have the big head about it. People seek solace in Ziggy? Solace?? Really??
tefflan
July 1st, 2006 at 6:26 am [Reply]

#2 dlauthor: yes, I agree. Why WOULD a professional put a magazine dealing with his profession in the waiting area? I went to the doctor’s office, and I noticed he had several copies of “Golf Digest” in his waiting area. Knowing full-well that he is really a golfer and practices medicine just to be able to afford golfing (and make his Porsche payments, of course), I quizzed him at length on this. He seemed pretty upset about the whole thing, so who knows?

Judge Parker: The judge has been around forever. It’s about time we got to see his interociter and watched him communicating with his superiors on Metaluna. Yes, he’s an alien, or at least a collaborating Terran thrall. When the invasion starts, all of the comics will be the same. Everyone will look like Mary Worth and have the glassy-eyed stare of the characters on FBOFW.
Hank Kimble
July 1st, 2006 at 6:43 am [Reply]

7/1 RMMD–If Sally would open her eyes, she’d probably get more work done.
tefflan
July 1st, 2006 at 7:39 am [Reply]

Okay, everyone on their knees.

Tefflan (looking up to heaven with a pained look on his face): “Let us pray. Oh, Lord, when we visit Josh’s site we’re just trying to have some fun. Please, please don’t let this turn into another political site with its narcissistic egoists, self-centered squabblers, and indefatigable backbiters. All we care about while visiting this site is making fun of the comics. We don’t care about Rush Limbaugh or Bush or anyone else while visiting. Help us keep the site safe for mocking Mary Worth and deriding Dr Morgan’s gayness, please. Amen.”
grinderman
July 1st, 2006 at 7:48 am [Reply]

A frothing liberal?

Try President WILLIAM H. TAFT!

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/travel/images/taft.jpg
Jnickola
July 1st, 2006 at 8:10 am [Reply]

#36 — I was surprised when I heard that Ziggy’s 35 years old. Only 35? Why does it seem like it’s been stumbling along for waaay longer than that?
Len
July 1st, 2006 at 8:29 am [Reply]

#36 — Cute dimples, Tom Wilson!

I think I preferred Ziggy when he was dressed in a polka-dotted muu-muu and asked “Are we having fun yet?”

Put on some pants, Zig Man! You are NOT Donald Duck!
r
July 1st, 2006 at 8:57 am [Reply]

uh, did anybody else notice the blinking eyes and sniffs in today’s FBOFW?
anonymous
July 1st, 2006 at 8:57 am [Reply]

#42 – Oh, nonononononono, #42. That was Zippy the Pinhead, not Ziggy the Bigroundhead.

This “Horace” pictured above – does anyone besides me wish you could punch his stupid looking face about a millilon times?
Len
July 1st, 2006 at 8:59 am [Reply]

I’m still unsure of the taller, older character’s relationship to little Lio… Father? Big brother? Lio has the mischief in his soul of Dennis the Menace, or of Calvin, but he hangs out with an assortment of Occult weirdlings escaped from an early Addams’ Family view of reality.

http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2006/06/29/

I guess Lio was hoping big brother would turn into a hop-toad after drinking his refreshing potion?
dlauthor
July 1st, 2006 at 9:00 am [Reply]

35: Yes, Bucky, Canada has a day. You guys celebrate July 4th as a celebration of winning a guerrilla war; we celebrate July 1st because … um … we signed a paper … that sort of made us independent of Britain … but not really until 115 years later. It’s a rich day of national pride. And beer, and Canadian Pluggers playing Bachman Turner Overdrive until you want to pull your own teeth out.

On to today –

Dilbert: What the hell is Alice’s facial expression here? Are her lips puckered and her cheeks puffed out? Is that even possible, physiologically speaking? How popular did this talent make her in high school?

Mother Goose & Grimm: Some cartoonists just shouldn’t even try to do politics. And for once I’m not just saying that about Tinsley and Stantis.

Spidey: OK, lemme get this straight. This pseudo-Sean Young person snuck up onto a highly visible billboard, evidently in the middle of the day — Christ, is this still the same day as the big earthquake? — and defaced it in full view of the public? Yeah, Access Hollywood won’t be covering that at all.

Bliss: Nice take on this joke. I’d love to see what he does with the Aristocrats.

Pluggers: No. You just live in the country. Try again.

Mallard: I’ve often wondered what’s in that box Mallard always has with him when he’s ~~giving Tinsley an excuse not to draw anything interesting~~ watching television. Now we know it’s drugs. Although I imagine his name’s not on the prescription.

Heart of the City: How cool would it have been if, instead of “Stay ‘Tooned!” (yish), the text at the bottom of today’s strip had read “The End!” It would have made my day.

Foob: … in my left boob.

F Minus: Man, the art in this strip is awful. LOOK at those buildings. But you know what? Funny, so I don’t mind.

Monty: Moondog rules.

Prickly: Holy crap. Actual humor! The joke’s ancient, but the coyote-shaped scribble’s facial expression sells it. Both this strip and Day By Day (unlike Mallard) show glimmers like this now and then, when they’re not just quoting the latest entry in the Karl Rove playbook. It makes it all more tragic that they continue to drink the Kool Aid.
Len
July 1st, 2006 at 9:05 am [Reply]

#44 — So, if Zippy is a Pin-head, is Ziggy a Gin-head?

No wonder he forgot to put on pants! He’s a major alky-holic!
lilybdcsa
July 1st, 2006 at 9:12 am [Reply]

#46: Re: the country Pluggers. I guess it’s just saying that the majority of Pluggers are really, really Rural — which is probably not far from the truth.
NotThatGuy
July 1st, 2006 at 9:23 am [Reply]

Re: Today’s Dilbert, I thought Alice’s expression in the second panel was one of the most evocative I’ve ever seen. Oh yeah!
dlauthor
July 1st, 2006 at 9:31 am [Reply]

48: Well, yes, I got that. But that’s not how it’s phrased. It says “if you need a cooler, you’re a Plugger.” Now, anyone who’s taken a course in logic will tell you that this means you can’t _not_ be a Plugger if you need a cooler. “If A then B” doesn’t support B being false, but A being true. Now my parents live (gasp!) 15 minutes from a grocery store, and while they’re nice people, they sure aren’t Pluggers. For one thing, neither of them has ever, to my knowledge, wiped up a spill with his or her besocked foot. So there you go — proof that today’s strip is factually wrong.

Wow. That was way longer and scarier than I wanted it to be. But today’s strip (yeah, panel, I know) is emblematic of one of the two attitudes that make me want Jeff McNally’s hungry corpse to rise and devour Brookins. The first is the hideous sense of smug superiority of jus’folks that permeates it. But second, and on display here, can be summed up as the following (and maybe I’ll make this my submission in the contest):

“If you think everyone who’s similar to you in some way must be exactly like you, you’re a Plugger.”
mere cog in the machine
July 1st, 2006 at 9:40 am [Reply]

Ginormous Patterson Can Alert: Panel one of todays FOOB demonstrates to the world (from the rear as always) the bloated, angry Elly forcing her way out of Elizabeth’s twenty-something body. Lizardbreath is even abetting this demonic process by wearing that incredibly frumpy dress. The only things missing are the schnozz and the leg-stubble. Run, Dudley Do-right. You don’t want to hang around for this slow motion train wreck.
mere cog in the machine
July 1st, 2006 at 10:16 am [Reply]

On another note, I have always been a fan of Prince Valiant – it is by far the best of the serial comics, putting such tripe as Mary Worth and Judge Parker to shame. Nonetheless, I am beginning to think that the artists of PV may do well to take a page out of the hack’s book with regards to the Prince himself. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that he looking a little, well, feminine lately. The way he is colored even suggests a hint of makeup, which is just plain wrong. Perhaps a prominently displayed forearm frothing with Mary Worth-style manhair might help to remedy the situation.
treedweller
July 1st, 2006 at 11:36 am [Reply]

Garfield’s vet really does have some range. She can heal dogs, cats, birds, and . . . just what is that thing sitting next to him in the waiting room today holding a chihuahua? Actually, it doesn’t look as bad in this color version, but the B&W strip I got in the paper today was incomprehensible.
Islamorada Girl
July 1st, 2006 at 11:40 am [Reply]

Cog–You are so right! Our once butch, manly man Prince Valiant is starting to look like silent film star Louise Brooks. Only prettier. Yikes! Queen Valiant, coming right up!
treedweller
July 1st, 2006 at 11:44 am [Reply]

Josh,
thanks for clarifying the TDIET addy. I have made my fifth attempt to submit my admittedly marginal ideas. I can’t believe I’ve put so much into this–it just gets personal after awhile. I better win, that’s all I can say.

Incidentally, I disagree with Joan about the winner of that earlier contest. I think the raving old lady with the bluetooth is more modern and funnier than the “2001″ reference. After all, bluetooth still hasn’t reached the great unwashed masses.
totalretard
July 1st, 2006 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

My fiancee’s name is Alpha. She is only mildly robotic.
tefflan
July 1st, 2006 at 12:32 pm [Reply]

Zippy the Pinhead is WAY too highbrow for me. Such thoughts, such observations, such a clear way of looking at life. Griffy is a downer for me, but when Zippy pwns him, it’s worth the time I feel I’ve wasted reading the strip. And I mean that in a good way. I had trouble getting through “The Brothers Karamazov,” too. Fydor is a little on the highbrow side, but pretty standard for a Russian intellectual.
monkeyhawk
July 1st, 2006 at 12:59 pm [Reply]

Treedweller —

Okay, you’ve inspired me. I just submitted my Blue Tooth TDIET suggestion.
Marc
July 1st, 2006 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

Ziggy: They weren’t funny 35 years ago..like other comics, so why bring them back? I’d rather see 10 year old Ziggy cartoons than ones which mention the 1973 Gas Crisis and Platform shoes.

Sunday’s MW: Ohh ho ho! Mary takes a charcoal colored “frisbee” and puts it into her everchanging CD player. Mary and Jeff have one last dance around her living room while lyrics from the song play on a banner attached to the CD player.
Lambnesio
July 1st, 2006 at 3:46 pm [Reply]

Letting you know that I submitted two ideas yesterday, and I heard back on one today.

And I am fulfilled.
Bill Peschel
July 1st, 2006 at 3:48 pm [Reply]

Does anyone think Doc Jeff’s invitation to “cocoa” is a nod to Grand Theft Auto’s “Hot Coffee” insert scene?

No, I didn’t think so either.
davidicus
July 1st, 2006 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

This Garfield is notable for actually having a setting other than the horizontal line that signifies Jon’s table. Quite a stretch, and it only took decades of strips and scores of assistants…
mon-ma-tron
July 1st, 2006 at 8:56 pm [Reply]

OMFG, I’m older than Ziggy.
Just kill me now.
jeanne
July 1st, 2006 at 10:00 pm [Reply]

re:#51
Cog:
I, too, noticed the Elly-ass (as if you could miss it) but I came to the conclusion that it’s mainly because whoever draws these women can’t draw a shapely ass.
weiser
July 1st, 2006 at 10:10 pm [Reply]

we just had the “big-butted” woman versus a woman with a big butt at my house today.

Ellie, now there’s a woman with a. . .
weiser
July 1st, 2006 at 10:12 pm [Reply]

we just had the â€œbig-buttedâ€ woman versus a woman with a big butt CONVERSATION at my house today. (and I did see it before I said it, just didn’t see it clearly)

Ellie, now thereâ€™s a woman with a. . .
mere cog in the machine
July 1st, 2006 at 10:31 pm [Reply]

#64: Jeanne, you may well be right about the elly-ass. Actually it would be sort of comforting to know that my fevered imaginings are just that. But dammit, cartoonists should know how to draw a shapely ass! Shapely asses are much appreciated in this vail of tears!
jeanne
July 1st, 2006 at 11:43 pm [Reply]

Cog, that’s what Brooke McEldowny is for :}
jonnya
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:10 am [Reply]

New animated A3G! Bobbiliciousâ„¢!

http://acebonestudios.com/a3g.html
rich
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:10 am [Reply]

59 – Thanks Marc. I guess you get your Sunday comics early. Wow, you described that Mary Worth scene so well that now I wish — gaaak — I could forever erase those repulsive images from my memory. I dread seeing/can’t wait to see the real thing tomorrow.

Saturday’s A3G – “I just saw Lucy with that other man! She’s cheating on Ted — two of my oldest friends! Oh, what to do, Tommie?” (Um, MYOB?)

GT – The famous Hughes brothers, side by side at last … how is it they share no family resemblance? One looks like Jim Thorpe and the other like Steve Forbert.
tefflan
July 2nd, 2006 at 8:59 am [Reply]

Is there anyone else out there that thinks that Aldous Huxley and Marshal Josip Broz Tito look like identical twins that were somehow separated at birth?
FleaBailey
July 2nd, 2006 at 9:22 am [Reply]

Re: Today’s MW

What the heck is up with Jeff’s hair? Has he been hitting the Grecian Formula? In the last panel, he looks like nothing so much as Mary’s grandson. Very creepy. Shades of Harold and Maude. Ick.
anonymous
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:03 am [Reply]

OK, July 2, Sunday comics, Dilbert:

Hilarious, but WTF did the last panel mean? Pointy head boss says “I want to see you later in my office to Dilbert” – why? Am I missing something?
treedweller
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:37 am [Reply]

#73 He said human resources needs to see him–i.e., he gets to be the next guinea pig in the ambidextrous experiment.
Anonymous
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:57 am [Reply]

Get your Sunday comics ! Foxtrot rips into Family Circus, Granpa Foob continues fantasizing on girls one-fourth his age, Doonesbury nails creationists (is it a rerun though ? That strip was somehow familiar), and the Phantom Sunday storyline continues in its boring predictableness. Some interesting dialogue though :
Mrs Walker noticing everybody is unarmed : “Oh they must be extremely pacifist !
Mr Walker noticing everybody is unarmed : “Hmm, they must be good at unarmed combat“. Love it.
“She’s far too sophisticated for science !” Got a problem with science, buster ? How did you get all this “native technology” we’ll find about next week anyway ?
Oh how stupid of me – aliens of course !
Rozenn
July 2nd, 2006 at 12:07 pm [Reply]

Oh and can someone explain Sunday’s BC to me ? I am totally baffled, even by BC standards…

(I also wrote the post above btw)
Jennifer
July 2nd, 2006 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

FOOB:
*guuuuh* SO grossed-out by today’s Foob. Am never going to walk past weird old men in parks ever again. As if, too. SURE, he’s fantasizing about young him sharing an ice cream with the pretty girl.

Also, that chin just makes it all the more ewwwww.
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 pm [Reply]

Can’t quite understand Sally Forth– or if I do, I don’t see why it’s funny. Is it that they don’t recognize any of the classical music except the theme from Star Wars? Is that it?
AppleGirl
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:24 pm [Reply]

Sunday’s Foxtrot is a keeper!

http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/ft/

Go see!

#69 – Jonnya, I really am getting a huge kick out of your animations. As soon as the things start, I always laugh out loud. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us here.
MossMoses
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

In panel 4 of Sunday Foob, Grandpa’s prominent chin scrotum makes his nose look erect. The pathetic thing is that he doesn’t fantasize copulating with these scantily clad hot chicks but instead imagines himself sharing ice cream, car rides and waltzes with them. Lynn Johnston’s moral lesson is that saints would be sinners if they had such impure thoughts. Pattersons are so pure and saintly that even their fantasies are wholesome. It’s either that or ol’ scrotum chin’s dementia is worsening.

I wish Doc Jeff would leave ASAP. I’m afraid there will be too much time for gratuitous, platitudinous treacle before he finally gets to Cambodia.
Frank Drackman
July 2nd, 2006 at 4:16 pm [Reply]

Next Scene in Mary Worth should borrow from “The Deer Hunter”, Dr. Jeff in a Cambodian hut playing Russian Roulette with his Khmer Rouge captors.
Panama Red
July 2nd, 2006 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

Please kill the Judge Parker strip. The story lines are nice, but the artwork now looks like it’s drawn by an artistically-challenged nine-year-old. It’s positively painful to look at.

We need to petition the syndicate to either go back to the old art or kill the strip.
Jack
July 19th, 2006 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

Why does the artwork in Judge Parker suddenly seem so weird? Is there a new person drawing the strip?
PInk Haired Girl
November 27th, 2006 at 8:22 pm [Reply]

That IS some pretty awesome hair in Judge Parker. I should dye my hair like that.
Gagott68
January 8th, 2008 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

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Gagott68
January 8th, 2008 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

what is this going to do?
Gagott68
January 8th, 2008 at 6:46 pm [Reply]
Gagott68
January 8th, 2008 at 6:46 pm [Reply]

is this an italic?
nemoErensenuT
February 9th, 2008 at 8:35 pm [Reply]

I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
TheMan370
July 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pm [Reply]

Hmmm….not sure I am following this thread very well.

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