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Does a bear crap in front of April Patterson?

Dick Tracy, 8/14/06

So Lottie, in addition to not being dead, has changed from weird suit and tie drag to a weird 1970s suit jacket/turtleneck drag look that matches Al Kinda/Zombie Reagan’s. But this strip tells us something else: I’ve already established that I don’t know much about guns, but I know enough to know that if you can shoot a man in the heart with a handgun from, like, a quarter-mile away, you are a bad ass. Who cares about her nefarious past and gender eccentricities? Clearly we need her on our side. Don’t ask, don’t tell, detective Tracy.

Mark Trail, 8/14/06

Just when I thought the current Mark Trail storyline couldn’t get any better, that devil Elrod adds this crazy dude and his tame bear into the mix. Of course, we’re going to end up with some nail-biting adventures in which Mark and his friends need to rescue Molly from the poachers, but for the next eight hours or so, please let me hold onto the dream that tomorrow’s strip will involve Molly mauling Rusty while Doc and the porn-star named “Buck Jones” make small talk.

For Better Or For Worse, 8/14/06

Now, let’s be clear here: this strip exists to give April her stinky comeuppance, and I sincerely appreciate it on that level. However, I question whether her iPod (or non-branded “tunes”) is the culprit here. After all, the problem is with her vision and coordination, not her hearing. At least she didn’t have to hear whoever is hiding in the floorboards shouting “trip” as she falls.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 14, 2006 at 09:52 pm and is filed under Dick Tracy, For Better or for Worse, Mark Trail.

115 responses to “Does a bear crap in front of April Patterson?”

Uncle Lumpy
August 14th, 2006 at 10:03 pm [Reply]

Rusty Tony returns! But who calls a kid “Rusty” unless he has red hair?
Steve S
August 14th, 2006 at 10:04 pm [Reply]

Lottie appears to be Mickey Rourke’s character from Sin City, but you’re saying it’s a she? My goodness.
ben
August 14th, 2006 at 10:05 pm [Reply]

I think the point was that if she hadn’t been “plugged into” her music she would have heard the warning shout of “trip”.
Beasley
August 14th, 2006 at 10:08 pm [Reply]

I “get” the “joke” but it didn’t “play out” very “well”.
Monkey's Paw
August 14th, 2006 at 10:10 pm [Reply]

I love how April is filling some poor kid’s Radio Flyer with horse shit.
Sister Bunny
August 14th, 2006 at 10:23 pm [Reply]

Little Lotta has always been bad ass, just ask Dot Polka.
Doug Puthoff
August 14th, 2006 at 10:23 pm [Reply]

And in one fell swoop, “Dick Tracy” goes from “The Fourth Protocol” to “The Crying Game.”
catastrophile
August 14th, 2006 at 10:26 pm [Reply]

The thing that says “TRIP!” in panel four of Foob can be seen protruding through the gap in the border around panel three, radiating an aura of “about to give April a face full of horse$#!+” in anticipation.

But what exactly is it? The wagon handle?
Marc
August 14th, 2006 at 10:31 pm [Reply]

Doesn’t April look like Elly/Lizardbreath in panel 4?
DaveyK
August 14th, 2006 at 10:45 pm [Reply]

The stench is what would make shovelling stalls such an unpleasant chore. How exactly will headphones and music help with that?
ben
August 14th, 2006 at 10:56 pm [Reply]

And why is listening to music while shovelling out a horse stall so wrong? What, you won’t hear what the manure has to say?
Fred P.
August 14th, 2006 at 10:58 pm [Reply]

Okay, I’m willing to entertain the notion that Lottie is biologically female, despite visual evidence to the contrary. And I’ll believe that if you bust off a round right over the heads of generals or cops or whatever, they’ll just stand there looking constipated instead of clapping their hands over their ears and saying “DAMNNNN that was loud!” But white surrender flags flying over our capitol? No, friends, that -THAT- I cannot let pass. Not with the GOP on the beat protecting our freedoms from evildoers!

Also, I’m no expert on ballistics, but in panel I it sure does look like Lottie just tagged Al with a squirt gun.
Skooter
August 14th, 2006 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

Foobville- Glad to see that April has learned a trade- shoveling road apples. Now we can rest assured she’ll be able to earn a living when “For’ever and Eva” hits the skids. I foresee April moving to Migiwampum and shoveling bear scat, or into the auto business and shoveling bull*** for Anthony.

RMMD – I would think that a person with a gun stuck into the back of their head would at least have a few beads of sweat or concern lines or rays coming off of their head. Rex is a pretty cool customer.
saint ruby
August 14th, 2006 at 11:56 pm [Reply]

I am actually more concerned by the fact that Doc appears to be a zombie of some kind.
Cena_mark
August 14th, 2006 at 11:56 pm [Reply]

There is a war going on. Our leader John Cena’s father was assaulted by Edge, and the Chain Gang isnt going to idolly sit back. So Josh I’m demanding that you do something useful for a change and start dedicating your blog to the Chain Gang. We need to rally up the Chain Gang Soldiers so we can represent. We need all the help we can get at Summerslam, and Josh you and all your readers have just been drafted into the Chain Gang.
AppleGirl
August 15th, 2006 at 12:00 am [Reply]

April has a 4GB black iPod nano. With 13 songs on it. All by Avril Levine.
treedweller
August 15th, 2006 at 12:06 am [Reply]

foob: what I want to know is, how much time went on between panels 2 & 3, as April figured out you can’t shovel stalls very well with a bow rake? And who’s been feeding the horses lumps of coal, which they clearly can’t digest?
WRand
August 15th, 2006 at 12:09 am [Reply]

Not so much shouting as moaning “trip”. Clearly April didn’t trip but was pushed by an iPod hating baby boomer.
Buttplug
August 15th, 2006 at 12:13 am [Reply]

A Plugger always picks up a penny, whether it’s heads or tails . . . even if it means he poops his pants a little.
Dingo
August 15th, 2006 at 12:19 am [Reply]

*sigh* Okay, it looks like my animations are finally working so…

Mary Worth and Bea Arthur – separated at birth?

Mary Worth… and a surprise
Kiesha
August 15th, 2006 at 12:20 am [Reply]

I don’t know who mucks stalls in shorts, that’s just ASKING for trouble.
Mac
August 15th, 2006 at 12:39 am [Reply]

I just appreciate that April’s shoveling extra-realistic horse shit.
mooselet
August 15th, 2006 at 12:45 am [Reply]

I was thinking that the bear in MT was a stuffed one, like that fake dog in ‘Scrubs’. Because to me, carrying a stuffed bear from room to room as your pet would be funny.
Chromium
August 15th, 2006 at 12:51 am [Reply]

Panel 3 – Is April tripping over the actual PANEL?
BEG
August 15th, 2006 at 1:07 am [Reply]

#11: The general reason you’d want to be able to hear around horses is so that you remain aware of where they are…so you don’t bloody get kicked in the head for not paying attention to them!

That said, I rather liked the foob strip today. Although I admit the “trip” thing is a bit weird.

I want to just kick MW, though. If I ever came across a volunteer moaning platitudes like that while visiting my young relative in the hospital (leukemia), I’d fucking kick her in the fat ass. There’s something about do-gooder white middle class voluteer bitches that make my teeth just grind. Stop with the poking your noses in other peoples’ shit already…

Ahem.
Dingo
August 15th, 2006 at 1:11 am [Reply]

You wouldn’t say that to Bea Arthur.

mu ha ha ha
mu ha ha ha
mu ha ha ha
deeeeeeeeelightful
August 15th, 2006 at 1:29 am [Reply]

Oh man……If they had the music playing off little aprils foobpod playing, it would make it the first newspaper comic music video. I think kelly clarksons “Because of you” would be quite appropriate for this occasion…….
deeeeeeeeelightful
August 15th, 2006 at 1:32 am [Reply]

Oh, and maybe if she hadn’t had her foobpod playing she would have heard the hobo lying down on the ground shoutin’ trip, as a warning to watch her step. I think an appropriate end to this strip would have been her having a mental letter to lizfoob, stating,
“Well, I guess you did tell me to have a nice trip, but this is getting rediculous!”
jonnya
August 15th, 2006 at 3:57 am [Reply]

Luanne Worth! Animated!

http://acebonestudios.com/pages/luann.html
Dub Not Dubya
August 15th, 2006 at 5:00 am [Reply]

Jonnya, you continue to crack me up!

I did a little Photoshopping myself tonight, an alternate version of Captain Stalkeroo’s call to Mary:

http://members.cox.net/blogpicsaddy/maryphone.gif

Enjoy!
JB
August 15th, 2006 at 5:04 am [Reply]

No one has mentioned this but surely April is yelling at the horse for “laughing” at her? Maybe those tunes have fried her brains.
tefflan
August 15th, 2006 at 5:10 am [Reply]

Horseshit and Foob. I love it when two similar plots converge.
Pinback65
August 15th, 2006 at 5:56 am [Reply]

I don’t mean to suggest that Lynn Johnston’s work has been a model of integrity, but still…A falling in shit gag? Really? Guess it’s officially entered the “Late period of a long-running sitcom when the cast is in contract negotiations and the creative staff is bored and restless” phase.
Dalo Kelrast (Aldo's creepy Canuck cousin)
August 15th, 2006 at 7:14 am [Reply]

Uh, that was me hiding under the floorboards. I was just doing some uh, research on Canadian…floorboards and stuff.

Dont judge me.
ginevra
August 15th, 2006 at 7:26 am [Reply]

This Lottie character looks entirely too ‘I ate all the pies!’ jolly to have just shot someone off the Capitol building.

Although really, a female Hasselhof-Leno melding breaks most of the rules of the universe too, so I should just give up now.
R
August 15th, 2006 at 7:50 am [Reply]

“2- in that case, ‘it’ must be Rourke’s character from The Animal Factory instead!
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
August 15th, 2006 at 8:13 am [Reply]

Where I read my comics doesn’t have the semi-animated version of FBOFW. So somebody please tell that they used that technology to make it look like the road apples are flying every which a-way off April’s shovel.
yellojkt
August 15th, 2006 at 8:16 am [Reply]

jonnya, hilarious!

For the teen stalker crowd, I like that we are getting a weeks worth of Luann running around in her perky jammies.

I hope the FBI can’t trace this comment.
Smitty Q. Smedlap
August 15th, 2006 at 8:23 am [Reply]

Some missing dialogue from the last panel of today’s (dt)GT — “It’s called ‘curtain puller’. Pulla pulla pulla!”
Justafoob
August 15th, 2006 at 8:25 am [Reply]

What is cool on the fooberverse website is the new smell-a-rama feature. Not only do you get blinking eyes and “Bunting” horses, you also get the smell of a horse stall. What a great use of technology.
mere cog in the machine
August 15th, 2006 at 8:31 am [Reply]

#9: It’s true – the same thing happens with Lizardbreath at times. That is what makes the Empress of Mt Foob so sinister. Her eerie ability to make both daughters the host creatures of a nascent, parasitic Elly that will regularly claw her angry, fat middle-aged way through the surface of those poor young girls is terrifying.
MotoMike
August 15th, 2006 at 8:35 am [Reply]

Mallard – Tinsley has today inexplicably decided to not mine the public school system of the USA for laff-riot material and instead fixate on James Taylor getting a spoofy award from a magazine that Tinsley wouldn’t know the first thing about. Why? Not because of Taylor’s songs or anything – but… JT is bald. As previously noted, Mallard Fillmore gets extra points for making sure he skewers any of his targets that are follically challenged. He must have a dickens of a time keeping away from Dick Cheney (except he knows he’d get a visit in the middle of the night by three guys in Ted Kennedy masks wielding truncheons if he did make fun of our VP). Oh yeah!
anonymous
August 15th, 2006 at 8:38 am [Reply]

I simply have to inject the following horror I noticed in Sunday’s comic section, it’s too creepy to overlook:

Grand Avenue – the old granny is trying on swimsuits in a changing room (pretty good figure, BTW) – it’s basically a “Cathy-Tries-On-Swimsuits” ripoff. The creepy part? The two little kids are sitting there on a bench RIGHT THERE IN THE DRESSING ROOM. Apparently watching the old gran trying on various swimsuits! Jeez Louise!!!
Craigers
August 15th, 2006 at 8:42 am [Reply]

Eight fifteen madness… Part The First

Archie : Once again, Jughead’s narrow eyeslits, dangling shirt-tail and fuzzed-out expressions betray the horrors of MARI-JU-ANA.

B.C. : I hope this is “trip around the amino acids” month at B.C. Do methionine next!

Crankshaft : Soup. Grind the older $#^*&er up and serve him with crackers, already.

DT : “Tunic”?

Dinette Set : I try not to pick on the comics that are obviously the work of the mentally challenged, but has anyone else noticed that whoever draws Dinette Set has absolutely no sense of comic timing? The text is worded all wrong. If it’s not clumsily phrased, it’s unnecessary – the punchlines are all explained in full.

FC : I want to stay in the hotel room with the bright sky blue carpeting. Aaaahhh… relaxing!

FOOB : “Bunt”?

FW : I see Mr. Jackass is up to his jackassish jackassery again. Listen, jackass, why don’t you take your ass and jack it into the canyon before you start complaining about how miserable it makes you that your 10-week vacation is ending. Jackass.

GA : “PLANET! EXPLOSION! DAGGER! HANDGUN!”

GT : Coach, I can’t do my gymnastics routine today; the knife-fighting tournament yesterday did not go well.

MF : Oh no, Mallard Fillmore called me a wuss. (Mallard Fillmore reads “Blender”?) All I have to console myself if my millions of dollars, my gorgeous wife, my place in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and the thought that if I ever meet Tinsley, I could cave his fat little face in with one hand tied behind my back.
TheMagicMel
August 15th, 2006 at 8:46 am [Reply]

Marc, all Patterfoob women are destined to a zombie-eyed, large bottomed, frumpy fate, no matter how roadside they are. Lizardbreath went through a little crop-shirt hottie period in college there herself before the Granny Clampett set in.

As for Dick Tracy, all I can think about is that Phantom of the Opera song…” Little Lottie, let her mind wander, Little Lottie thought: am I fonder of goblins or shoes, etc” I’ll be singing that all day now.
Ned Ryerson
August 15th, 2006 at 8:54 am [Reply]

Mary Worth’s Dr. Jeff is doing his philanthropic medical duty in the Land of Skunk People
Craigers
August 15th, 2006 at 8:58 am [Reply]

Eight fifteen madness… Part The Second

MW : Dr. Cory delivers the “Istanbul Twist” to another unsuspecting victim. Prepare the dry ice for the organ cooler!

Monty : This whole running gag has been great.

RMMD : If this whole thing doesn’t end with RM raped at gunpoint by Whiteface Grace Jones, I’ll be kinda surprised.

Tank : The COTW has given me an idea… every time I see a slanted panel in the comics I’m gonna assume that it’s a code for “character is not straight” or at “is thinking about doing something not straight”.

TDIET : On the other hand, SKIN CANCER! OH, YEAH! And one other thing… removes his robe? What the hell!?
Old Fogeyette
August 15th, 2006 at 9:10 am [Reply]

Jonnya,

You are too funny! I actually Laughed Out Loud.
Adfella
August 15th, 2006 at 9:11 am [Reply]

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE AND FAMILY CIRCUS

Did I just miss it, or has no one commented on the recent Pearls Before Swine strips? Pastis hits new heights of brilliance by showing us the obnoxiously cute FC children grown up.
Mr Froth
August 15th, 2006 at 9:30 am [Reply]

Has anyone else come to the conclusion that Rex Morgan being held at gun point by the Heat Miser’s gay daughter?
Hogenmogen
August 15th, 2006 at 9:39 am [Reply]

TDIET clearly by the position of the sun and the umbrella this guy would be getting crispy, not shaded. Ordinarily, this isn’t that big a deal, but since the whole cruxt of the alleged joke hinges on this guy being in the shade, it doesn’t work.
Marc
August 15th, 2006 at 9:40 am [Reply]

MW – I like how everyone at Santa Royale General Hospital is smiling and laughing away while some boy is unconscious on a stretcher.

Jonyaa & Dingo – Absolutely funny!

Josh, you should make a page for all of these guest submissions!
Hogenmogen
August 15th, 2006 at 9:40 am [Reply]

Maybe that’s Pale Perko’s real color, and there is no shading. Maybe he’s made of marble, and his little bag, too.
yellojkt
August 15th, 2006 at 9:49 am [Reply]

The only way Tinsley could have heard of Blender is if someone at FreeRepublic.com mocked it first.
BigJoe
August 15th, 2006 at 9:49 am [Reply]

49 – Yep, you missed it.
rich
August 15th, 2006 at 9:50 am [Reply]

51: Pale Perko has fair skin and is susceptible to skin cancer … BUT — when he goes to the beach, he covers up! Howcum?! Th’ nerve!!!
Joan
August 15th, 2006 at 10:00 am [Reply]

Tinsley mocks Boomers for their whiny self-indulgence as if he, born in 1958, was excluded from that generation somehow. Maybe he lies about his age.
SmartPeopleOnIce
August 15th, 2006 at 10:13 am [Reply]

Mallard (8/15):

Hey Tinsley,

Say what you will about James Taylor, at least he never advocated beastiality.

Giant talking waterfowl lusting after our women. OUR WOMEN!

You filthy heterophylates make me sick.
Maughta
August 15th, 2006 at 10:18 am [Reply]

Anyone else creeped out by pre-teen Michelle sending out her picture to random strangers/stalkers in “Curtis”?
BigJoe
August 15th, 2006 at 10:18 am [Reply]

DT: I like how the bad guy took a running start and pushed off before he fell. That’s the only explanation for his trajectory. Actually even that doesn’t explain it, it looks more like he was shot out of a cannon.

And really, as a previous poster commented, he shot his gun inches away from the heads of the other cops and they didn’t even flinch? Guess they’re stone deaf.
MotoMike
August 15th, 2006 at 10:45 am [Reply]

Joan, (#57) thanks for the Tinsley link; I like especially the line “(And, he told Fox News, “I’m trying to make people laugh.”)
Emma
August 15th, 2006 at 10:53 am [Reply]

Life would be WAY better if inantimate objects yelled things like “trip” or “fall” or “ouch”! ha.
rich
August 15th, 2006 at 11:04 am [Reply]

34 (Dalo Kelrast) – Made me chuckle.

MW – Is it just me, or is Doc Jeff looking kinda svelte since he’s been away? And what happens when the new, trim Doctor J has to return to Mary’s fatty cooking? They’ll be put in conflict, that’s what! (Where have I seen this storyline before?)

F&E – I always thought it odd how Bob Thaves would claim that Frank & Ernest was “the first newspaper cartoon to use block lettering” (as well as “the first comic panel presented in a strip format”). I’d heard this stuff a few years ago, and it was repeated this week in Thaves’ obituary. I’m a bit skeptical about both — the “block lettering” claim would seem particularly hard to prove — besides being an odd thing to brag about.
smacky
August 15th, 2006 at 11:08 am [Reply]

Is Aldo waiting in the hospital parking lot? Because Mary pontificating and fantasizing up and down the hospital floors is boring as hell. I thought Dr. Jeff went to Africa? Why do all the natives have Asian people hair? Can Mary Worth simply not successfully imagine a black person, never having seen one?

I think Dr. Jeff, after years of living with Mary’s “no physical contact” rule, is on a three month sex tour of the lower pacific rim.
BigJoe
August 15th, 2006 at 11:20 am [Reply]

62 – And horses would laugh at you when you tripped.
Joan
August 15th, 2006 at 11:29 am [Reply]

64. Doc Jeff is in Cambodia, which is cradled by Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. The sex tour is not a bad guess, though.
Jennifer
August 15th, 2006 at 11:48 am [Reply]

Does anyone read Lost Sheep?

I get it with my MyComicsPage subscription. It only started in ‘03 and it’s been rerun at least twice with no explanation anywhere that I can find? It’s cute ‘n all, but it just isn’t that good. If he stopped doing already, why don’t they drop it?

…puzzled.
SmartPeopleOnIce
August 15th, 2006 at 11:50 am [Reply]

while Doc and the porn-star named â€œBuck Jonesâ€ make small talk…

If I was a porn star, my name would be (wait for it…):

George Bush

(ba-boom!)
Jennifer
August 15th, 2006 at 11:50 am [Reply]

I meant it isn’t good enough to rerun, not that it’s sucky… this third time around, however… yep. sucky.
cheech wizard
August 15th, 2006 at 11:52 am [Reply]

FOOB – The fleeing horse is clearly the physical incarnation of the Greek god Zeus, who has become enchanted with April and assumed earthly form to rendezvous with her. She will pursue it into the meadow, where he will put forth his godly powers to compell her to submit to his will.

At least, that’s what she’ll tell her aunt when she gets caught fucking a horse behind the barn.
Cathy
August 15th, 2006 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

#59 — I was waiting for someone here to mention the crreeepy “Curtis” storyline (or have I missed it?). Weirds me out even more than Aldo, which I didn’t think was possible.
MJ1066
August 15th, 2006 at 12:57 pm [Reply]

TDIET: Yuck. I thought that prejudice against non-suntanned people was out of fashion, now that the dangers of too much sun are better known than they were twenty or thirty years ago. I guess in TDIET’s world, it’s still acceptable to mock fair-skinned people.

This reminds me of something that happened to me in high school about twenty years ago. One of my classmates had a deep suntan that she was very proud of. I, on the other hand, didn’t have a suntan because my skin is very sensitive and it starts to sting after only a few minutes on a hot day. (I still don’t have a tan.) No one else had a fit about my fair skin except Deep Suntan Girl. Kirby was always scolding me for not having a suntan. “Isn’t there some kind of sunburn lotion that can protect your skin while still allowing you to get a tan?” she demanded. “No, there isn’t,” I replied. This went on and on, and she would never back off. A few years ago she sent me an e-mail saying that she had “moved on” from all the pain I caused her in high school with my inability to tan.

Here’s one for TDIET: Nervy Kirby was physically strong enough to stay out in the sun for hours a day perfecting her suntan. However, she wasn’t emotionally strong enough to bear the sight of someone with skin lighter than hers. They’ll do it every time!
Hogenmogen
August 15th, 2006 at 12:57 pm [Reply]

Mallard Sh!tmore
Tinsley, go on and blame a whole generation, of which you are a part. Your hero Geo. Bush Jr. is two years older than James Taylor. James Taylor is three years older than your good buddy Rush Limbaugh, and only two years older than Karl Rove. Although I can’t confirm this, I bet first Lady Laura Bush would rather have listened to James Taylor during the ’70s than Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. “Confessional, self-indulgent, listen-to-my-troubles music” – wait, that’s country, isn’t it? How about a “Semi-autobiographical, self-indulgent, listen-to-my-pet-peeves comic?”

Tell me, Tinsley, will anyone be reverential to your strip when you have quit/retired/died? Simply being mean spirited and argumentative isn’t funny, despite the fact that the targets you select are liberal. Your fans are far between and the cheerful memories you bring are non-existent. If you fell off the Earth tomorrow, few would mourn your passing.

And I’m not a boomer. In the ’70s, I DID listen to Deep Purple/Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath. I just don’t like to see comics used as some kind of political tool to attack teachers, musicians and UN peacekeepers. Just draw a duck with a bomb in his reporter’s hat or something.

Sorry, I was out of sweetner and my coffee this morning was BITTER!
MJ1066
August 15th, 2006 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

FW: If Les dislikes kids so much, why did he become a teacher?
BluelineGoddess
August 15th, 2006 at 1:33 pm [Reply]

FBoFW: I’m a horse owner. I’ve cleaned many a stall. I’ve NEVER used a Radio Flyer wagon to do so, as April appears to be doing. Are wheelbarrows extinct in the Great White North?
moonsownsister
August 15th, 2006 at 1:39 pm [Reply]

Who’s going to be the brave one and call the numbers on the cellphone in Jane’s World first?
mere cog in the machine
August 15th, 2006 at 1:42 pm [Reply]

#73: According to Tinsley’s standards, the guy who wrote ‘Greensleeves’ would also qualify as a wuss. And he’s like 600 years old! C’mon Tinsley you cranky mean-spirited prick! Give the tired old bastard a break!
RichM
August 15th, 2006 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

And the sound effect follies continue at FOOBville today. I don’t exactly know what is happening in the “BUNT!!” panel, is she getting a head-butt Zidane style? Shouldn’t the correct sound effect then be “BUTT!!?” Did the horse at bat just pull a squeeze play on April or what? And someone tell me that that darkness on the seat of her shorts is equine, not human, in origin, please.

What a horror show.
Deckard Canine
August 15th, 2006 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

#74 – There’s only one answer: so he can punish them.

Sorry to go OT, but I didn’t respond soon enough to comments in a previous thread. I want to clear my name here. Anthrocon does have a lot of “furverts,” but that is not it’s raison d’etre. I go for the many clean parts of the fandom. And from what I’ve seen, Guy Gilchrist is more interested in serving on a panel of cartoonists or attending a Christian Furs seminar than in drawing or viewing anything racier than usual.
Mibbitmaker
August 15th, 2006 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

#73 & 77: You guys know what it was like for me when “Calvin & Hobbes” attacked anyone who listened to classic rock, which happens to include myself (including Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and *some* Black Sabbath). And THAT was a *good* comic strip.
yudantaiteki
August 15th, 2006 at 3:31 pm [Reply]

The doctor’s expression in the last panel looks like he’s thinking “please don’t kill me…”
Scumbaggioni
August 15th, 2006 at 3:34 pm [Reply]

Discussion moved to this cockpit thread:

http://www.joshreads.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=591
Marc
August 15th, 2006 at 3:34 pm [Reply]

Am I the only one who noticed the abnormally large header on the top of this webpage?
Islamorada Girl
August 15th, 2006 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

Mallards are good eating.

And they have nasty habits. In mating season, several drakes will pounce on one hen, sometimes piling on so heavily they can down her. All this piling on sound like someone we know?

And they’re not black. They’re got green heads with a gold neck ring and dark bodies.

Black ducks are solid black. So the demented Daffy copyright violation isn’t even a real mallard.

Get a Peterson’s, Tinhead.
Mibbitmaker
August 15th, 2006 at 3:48 pm [Reply]

(Actually, C&H is a masterpiece. “Good” was needed for the MF snark.)

8/15:

Curtis: Curtis stole “puddin’-head from Moe Howard! … and some of that facial expression, too. Besides that, I agree with #59. Maybe Michelle watched Capt. Kangaroo when she was younger.

Foxtrot: Well, with two faces on opposite sides of her head, she should catch any possum befire it goes too far. Don’t worry, though, Paige, maybe it’ll just be Pogo.

A3G: Forget the head bobble; Here comes the head swivel!

(DT)GT: Yeah, and, in that job, Riya, your immediate supervisor will be April Patterson (heh-heh).

FW: At this point, more people will have reason to be mad at Les than just Bruce Tinsley.

Spiderman: Tommorrow, Spidey spends one of two panels singing, “You can’t always get what you wa-ant”. In the second/last panel, he swoops down to LeMarr, continuing, “…but sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need”. (In retrospect, that sounds more naughty than I meant it to, meaning not at all. Oh, well)

FOOB: “Bunt”?? Shouldn’t that read, “Headbutt!”? Hey, classic Mad fan Lynn: you’re no Don Martin, either!

FC: “Now, Billy, stop your trite, ironic tv-bashing cliches and get your butt out there!”

Marvin: Why is Marvin in the kiddie pool with Calvin? (Obviously not listening to classic rock!) And shouldn’t baby Calvin be planning for where he wants to be for 10 years, then taking an all-too-permanent sabbatical? Getcher plans right, kiddo.
SmartPeopleOnIce
August 15th, 2006 at 3:57 pm [Reply]

84 – (I-Grrrl) On the old Partridge Family show, Danny Bonaduce would bathe with a rubber duck that he INSISTED was a “mallard”. And we all know what became of Danny, don’t we?

Oh yes we do.

82 (Baggs) Oddly enough, I find Tinsley’s charactures of Ann to be consistently less-than-flattering. Sort of like Alice Cooper in a blonde wig (and I don’t mean youthful Alice of the Michael Bruce/Dennis Dunaway days – I’m talking solo career Alice).

A subtle jab perhaps? Careful there Tinsley – you’re flirting with darkness. The real deal, the Violent Night. A legion of basement-dwellers that would happliy eat your corpse if they thought the deed would grant them a glimpse up Ann’s miniskirt. Genuine Triminions. Sort of like the Michelle Maulkin crowd, only not quite so geriatric (what can I say, those Asian beauties really bring out the AARP demographic).

Don’t forget that George Carlin was cowered by the Coulterbeast when they were on Leno together, and he has 10 times the venom you do…

Flap lightly, Bruce. Flap lightly.
Craigers
August 15th, 2006 at 3:58 pm [Reply]

Anthrocon does have a lot of â€œfurverts,â€ but that is not itâ€™s raison dâ€™etre. I go for the many clean parts of the fandom.

I really have a hard time believing this, sorry.
cheech wizard
August 15th, 2006 at 4:13 pm [Reply]

People still get shot to death in Dick Tracy? I’d have thought that would have been a major no-no these days — the Detroit Free Press even bans comics that make what they consider inappropriate references to firearms – Curtis got yanked for it a few times, before they yanked it entirely.

Of course, Ron Zombie’s demise is nothing like the way Chester Gould would have depicted it back in the day – plugged right through the head, leaving a gaping hole and the bad guy grimacing horribly as a crumpled bullet goes spinning out the backside. But that was a more wholesome, family-friendly era.
cheech wizard
August 15th, 2006 at 4:17 pm [Reply]

PS – oh yeah, and what’s with that sweet smile on Lottie’s face just after he’s killed a man? That is deranged.
DarkHorse02GT
August 15th, 2006 at 4:36 pm [Reply]

Oh my God… I just laughed out loud at today’s B.C. I feel like I have betrayed you and all of your curmudgeonliness. Please oh please let me know that just this one time it was actually funny. It had nothing to do with golf or religion or any of the identical recurring human characters… I desperately await your blessing.
Rob
August 15th, 2006 at 4:36 pm [Reply]

Lottie, or whoever it is, looks so much like Al Kinda and add to that the black spot on his/her chest – I thought it was the shot Al gloating in his martyrdom.
Deckard Canine
August 15th, 2006 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

#87 – This may be headed for the Cockpit, but… first, I know that con organizer tries to keep the naughty stuff separate from the clean. He is successful enough that some people bring their children (that crawling baby with the raccoon ears and tail was precious). Whatever Anthrocon was to begin with, it’s not just a giant “ew” fest.

Second, the thing that brought me to Anthrocon in the first place was the presence of family cartoonist Bill Holbrook. I steered clear of the adult art auction and bought a few pretty and non-titillating items. I went to sessions on video games, creative writing, cartoons (clean ones), mascots, mad libs, and religion. If you still think I went for the porn, I have nothing more to say to you.

I will say that I skipped the con this year. It becomes an expensive habit for annual tradition.
Mooncity
August 15th, 2006 at 5:04 pm [Reply]

People complain about the shrinking size of comic strips in the newspaper. But the art in “Dick Tracy” would actually benefit from it.
ohgrl
August 15th, 2006 at 5:11 pm [Reply]

FW: “Sweetie I know this cancer thing might kill you, and this is your dream vacation, but everything I see, smell & hear reminds me of school, so I’m gonna go back to the hotel and watch tv for the rest of the trip. Oh, and I’m gonna need the keys to the rental car. Wouldn’t want to run into any children on my way back….I’m sure there’s a tourist bus you can bum a ride from. Love you!”

MW: Yes Mary, very similar work…examining the orifices of children all over Cambodia with his “instrument.”

Also, Hogenemogen and Scumbaggioni, you two are my favorite MF bashers…I look forward to reading your comments everyday. Fight the good fight, amigos. Oh Yeah!
Sigivald
August 15th, 2006 at 5:12 pm [Reply]

Well, there’s some weird shit going on with her toe and some action lines at the bottom of the third panel.

But what that is, and whether or not it would have made a sound (and why doesn’t she feel it?) is another matter.

Maybe it makes sense in The Mind Of Johnston.
Pendragon
August 15th, 2006 at 5:34 pm [Reply]

To quote Eric Idle, “What a silly bunt!”
SmartPeopleOnIce
August 15th, 2006 at 5:42 pm [Reply]

94 – Also, Hogenemogen and Scumbaggioni, you two are my favorite MF bashersâ€¦

What, my “heterophylate” quip doesn’t buy ME any sugars? It took, like, 11 years of graduate school to come up with that.

Fine. Be that way.

Sniff.
Chris
August 15th, 2006 at 5:54 pm [Reply]

Discussion moved to this Cockpit thread:

http://www.joshreads.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=591
caughtonthebound
August 15th, 2006 at 5:55 pm [Reply]

April is flirting dangerously with being “roadside”
ohgrl
August 15th, 2006 at 6:03 pm [Reply]

SmartPeopleOnIce—aww, my bad. Here, I’ll share some of my Icelandic honeyweeks with you…
Pendragon
August 15th, 2006 at 6:08 pm [Reply]

Discussion moved to this cockpit thread:

http://www.joshreads.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=591
pigFoot
August 15th, 2006 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

It could just be me*, but the third panel of Dick Tracy seems to directly evoke the (still ubiquitous on the web, so I’ll spare you a link) photo of person jumping from the World Trade Center.

*I’m about halfway through “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” and this picture has already been reproduced at least three times.
ohgrl
August 15th, 2006 at 6:22 pm [Reply]

Josh, I wanna start a Cockpit thread…your site called me a loser for using Firefox on a Mac when I clicked on the Cockpit link .

Uh…yes, I do see the irony in that statement.
comics
August 15th, 2006 at 6:26 pm [Reply]

Sorry ohgrl, the links should work now. Wordpress has been acting weird with the hyperlinks, but I think I have it under control.

That 404 message just tells everybody they’re losers, regardless of browser or platform. It just detects whatever browser and platform you’re using and then uses them as the basis of its taunt. I’ve been meaning to fix that.

Josh
Ohyes
August 15th, 2006 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

Today’s Mary Worth:

In panel one, is that female physician or operating attendant smiling with condescension: “How cute! This septuagenarian has sunset fantasies. And for that rogue, Jeff Cory, of all people! I’ll humor her!”

Or is she beaming with malicious spite: “Honey, I’ve heard stories about Jeff Cory on Viagra – and none of them include you!”

Or, “You do know he went abroad to let several entanglements cool down? But I’ll be waiting!”
Clumzee
August 15th, 2006 at 6:50 pm [Reply]

#90 DarkHorse: Humor is highly subjective, and different people will find different things funny. Similarly, our moods and attitudes will make something seem funny to us on one day that would not seem funny on another. So you go right ahead and enjoy that BC without apologies or guilt.

But, having said all that: No, it is not funny. Not at all.
smacky
August 15th, 2006 at 7:45 pm [Reply]

#91: “…gloating in his martyrdom.”

For some reason that phrase just made me laugh.
catastrophile
August 15th, 2006 at 11:22 pm [Reply]

smacky said: “I think Dr. Jeff, after years of living with Maryâ€™s ‘no physical contact’ rule, is on a three month sex tour of the lower pacific rim.”

So, you’re saying that he was so desparate he took the first rim job he was offered?
Occam
August 16th, 2006 at 3:06 am [Reply]

#83 Marc:

Not only is the header a lot larger, the box for the National Lampoon’s Humor Network is gone as well. And the notices about the RSS feeds for posts/comments seem bigger, too.

#43 Anonymous: Yes, that was creepy. The kids in “Grand Avenue,” particularly the boy, seem too old to be watching granny trying on swimming suits.

I am loving the Pearls Before Swine portrayal of the adult Family Circus kids–particularly today’s Dolly.
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
August 16th, 2006 at 11:43 am [Reply]

109: Better known now as Jowelly
Trubbaman
August 16th, 2006 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

Check it out–James Wolcott has given a shout-out to this site: http://www.jameswolcott.com/
Disembodied Brain in a Fluid-filled Jar
August 16th, 2006 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

Haven’t we seen Dr.Pullman in the Lockhorns before?
dan b
August 16th, 2006 at 6:06 pm [Reply]

Nice plug from Wolcott, who incidentally is one of my favorite occasional blogger types.

I’ve been absent a little bit (no internet), but no love for Mary Worth the last few days? All I’ve been able to picture is doctors muttering under their breath “Jesus Christ, would you please drop dead lady? You’re getting in the way!” I’m guessing that Mary hovers over surgeons as they perform open heart surgery and comments: “Oh no Doctor, I might take care not to get too close to that left ventricle. A wise person once said that ‘The heart is a vehicle in which we all travel occasionally.’ So watch out where you put that scalpel, Doctor!”

I imagine that Mary Worth is a horrible bitch who is intolerable to all who meet her. Go Stalkeraldo!
Baron Von Foobenstein
August 20th, 2006 at 12:52 am [Reply]

Is the part of the horse being played by my favorite redneck, Larry the Cable Guy? “WEEEHAAAA!”

Indeed.
Kip York
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