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Funny punctuation, funny pointing

B.C., 2/27/07

B.C.’s love of the interrobang should come as no surprise to regular readers of the strip. But since it’s not a love shared by the population at large, it probably wouldn’t have hurt to actually, you know, show one (if your browser can display it, you should see one here: ‽). Since most readers probably never even heard of this useless punctuation mark even during its 1960s heyday, that first panel might as well have read “Who can tell me what a ‘shootupsuspect’ is?”

B.C.’s use of the accidental (or “accidental”) death of someone in police custody as joke fodder should also come as no surprise to regular readers of the strip.

Speaking of odd typography, what exactly is that symbol between the 2 and the 4 on the blackboard in the third panel? It looks like a backwards “R” — like the one used in the title of that Amerika miniseries in the 1980s, where the Soviets take over and then put all registered gun owners into concentration camps. Hmm, I’m seeing a pattern here.

Judge Parker, 2/27/07

You watch out, Angela! Cedric is going to point the hell out of at you! Look at that blast of energy — he points with the pointing power of a thousand temp butlers!

Lord only knows what sort of outfit Cedric favors when he’s not on duty, but panel two is proof that it’s physically impossible to look menacing and bad-ass when you’re wearing a bow tie.

Apartment 3-G, 2/27/07

Yeah, see, this is what I’m talking about: Margo, baby, Margo! Just as Lu Ann’s art studio adventure is a cautionary tale on the dangers of huffing paint, so Margo’s drama illustrates how cocaine use can ravage your relationship with others. In panel one, our girl Magee is a tightly coiled spring of rage, ready to punch the next person who crosses her — or even looks at her funny — right in the teeth. In panel two, she’s so happy to see Eric that she looks like she’s going to lunge at him and tear off his clothes, or possibly his face. I hope that the “someone special” that Eric wants her to meet is wearing a catcher’s mask, for his or her sake.

Dennis the Menace, 2/27/07

Ruff also doesn’t have to go to school, and gets to urinate outside and roll around in his own filth. On the other hand, there’s the whole castration angle to consider.

Momma, 2/27/07

If you have to repeat the same phrase twice — once to mishear, once to clarify — in consecutive panels, then your miscommunication-themed joke has gone off the rails. On the other hand, I appreciate the mace-like object that Tina is holding in the final panel. Apparently she feels that Mother Hobbes deserves to be bludgeoned to death.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 07:36 pm and is filed under Apartment 3-G, B.C., Dennis the Menace, Judge Parker, Momma.

291 responses to “Funny punctuation, funny pointing”

Anne
February 27th, 2007 at 7:41 pm [Reply]

I thought Tina was holding a toilet brush and was going to shove it down Momma’s throat.
Anne
February 27th, 2007 at 7:41 pm [Reply]

OK I know it’s annoying, but that’s my first “first” ever. thanks
HBGlord
February 27th, 2007 at 7:44 pm [Reply]

BC: If it were Wiley instead of Hart, “interrobang” would probably have been an Abu Ghraib reference.
Tweeks_Coffee
February 27th, 2007 at 7:44 pm [Reply]

I never have been able to figure out why Ruff’s eyes are always crooked. Is this supposed to show us that the dog is completely devoid of any sort of intelligence?
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 27th, 2007 at 7:46 pm [Reply]

Well I’m certainly not going to be the first to comment on Tina’s freakishly high breast-size/head-size ratio.

D’oh!
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 7:46 pm [Reply]

Ooh – gorgeous Angela’s a stalker chick! Does anybody else see a resemblance to Miss Bell of Ding Dong School?
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 7:51 pm [Reply]

Oops – Miss Frances.

Now I hafta go sit in the corner and wear the cone hat.
Tukla in Iowa
February 27th, 2007 at 7:51 pm [Reply]

#3: an Abu Ghraib reference

Which would have made a much less awkward punchline.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 7:51 pm [Reply]

Hey, Dennis! Less talkin’ and more rockin’. And Ruff looks a little like Luann’s portrait of Albert Pinkham Ryder.
lushj
February 27th, 2007 at 7:52 pm [Reply]

Someone has already added this BC to the Wikipedia’s entry for “Interrobang”- Curmudgeon readers are helluv quick!

P.S.- Thanks for finally forcing me to look up exactly what an interrobang is.
Josh
February 27th, 2007 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

lushj #10 — I wish I could take full credit, but that bit was already in Wikipedia before I put up this blog post. Of course, it’s possible that a Cumurdgeon reader added it earlier.

Josh
lushj
February 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pm [Reply]

Odd. When I see “interrobang” in a comic strip, just about the last place I think about going is an on-line encyclopedia. Glad someone’s doing it though, funny stuff.

P.S.- I’m so sorry about your Cathy moment yesterday. That strip has always been incredibly psychically painful. Ugh!
Johnny
February 27th, 2007 at 8:02 pm [Reply]

The symbol in the chalkboard equation is indeed an “R.” As in, “2 and 2 ‘R’ 4.” It’s backward because ants “R” dumb, I assume?
ohyes
February 27th, 2007 at 8:07 pm [Reply]

Cedric may wear a suit, but he has no couth. If Angela was following me to work and pouting, I’d be saying, “I’m glad you’re here! Your timing is perfect!”
PeteMoss
February 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pm [Reply]

Well, Dennis, it is Spay Day, USA if you really want the “Ruff” treatment.
dshea
February 27th, 2007 at 8:09 pm [Reply]

Maybe the backwards R is the form of blackboard-bold used in ant land. Rather than a simple incomprehensibly written equation of simple addition, the ants are actually learning a lesson in incomprehensibly written set theory. Or maybe Johnny Hart forgot how to write “=”.
gnome de blog
February 27th, 2007 at 8:13 pm [Reply]

Cedric went into the buttling business so he could wear his casual clothes at work. It’s no accident he’s named after Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Timbo
February 27th, 2007 at 8:14 pm [Reply]

#4 Maybe Ruff is from Flyspeck Island like our buddy Gunk.
Buck Ripsnort
February 27th, 2007 at 8:17 pm [Reply]

Cedric the Entertaining Butler is channeling the spirit of Phoenix Wright. “Objection!“
Anne
February 27th, 2007 at 8:17 pm [Reply]

17 gnome: I love the word “buttling”!
Buck Ripsnort
February 27th, 2007 at 8:19 pm [Reply]

Anyone sadly familiar w/ Momma knows that the old hag DOES deserve to be bludgeoned, along w/ her eunuch offspring, and of course, Mel Lazarus.
Zikar
February 27th, 2007 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

MW – She meets up with Jeff….and then has something to do at Charterstone that she doesn’t “want to wait a minute more to do there…”

Yes, Mary, I’m sure there’s something to do there that simply cannot wait…ewww….At least she has the decency to go back home first.

RMGMD: No…It’s not possible…Rex…is touching his wife?!?! ARRGHH! I FEEL THE UNIVERSE RIPPING APART AT THE SEAMS!

Judge Parker – I miss Ragu, personally, but I think Cedric is doing well picking up the foreign intrigue we’ve come to expect out of JP. While he may not have “inventory” skills, he’ll buttle the shit outta anyone who wants to step up! (Yes, buttle is a real word…)
Mooselet
February 27th, 2007 at 8:22 pm [Reply]

I think Ruff heard your castration comment – look at his face. “They’re gonna do what???”
Pendragon
February 27th, 2007 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

Damn, I’m so used to seeing “Margo” used as an expletive, I completely misread Eric’s greeting in the first panel. Which made it even better.
Weasel Boy
February 27th, 2007 at 8:28 pm [Reply]

BC, panel two: Is that ant kid raising his hand or is an alien bursting from his chest?
Non-Shannon
February 27th, 2007 at 8:30 pm [Reply]

Yes, Angela is officially the hottest thing going in the comics right now. Cedric’s just too uptight for such a free-wheelin’, sexy lady. And, I mean, if she’s his wife, why should she even NEED to spy on him? And what has he got to hide, dammit??? I swear, it’s all buildup and no payoff in these soap comics (Ragu, anyone?)?!
Tats
February 27th, 2007 at 8:32 pm [Reply]

Tina’s so desperate to gore Momma with a soup spoon and feast upon her decrepit innards that she’s clearly added several syllables and changed the pronounciation of what her husband said, as “hors d’oeuvres” and “something she deserves” sounds absolutely nothing alike.

Wishful thinking?
Anonymous
February 27th, 2007 at 8:33 pm [Reply]

All I saw in BC was “interrobang,” “whack” and “gun goes off.” Does that make me a dirty girl? I thought BC promoted Jesus-friendly ideas.
Steve S
February 27th, 2007 at 8:49 pm [Reply]

Dennis would actually be a lot more menacing if he went feral and started peeing outside, rolling in filth, biting the mailman, humping visitors’ legs, licking his own testicles, etc.

And then we’d have the series where the Mitchells keep Dennis on a choke chain in the back yard until the neighbors complain and he’s taken away to be adopted or destroyed.
Chromium
February 27th, 2007 at 8:52 pm [Reply]

27, Tats- It’s possible Mel Lazarus is severely dyslexic and thinks “something she deserves” is exactly how hors d’oeuvres is pronounced. Or else he just assumes his fans have poor reading skills and will take his word for it. Those are really the only two explanations that could make any sort of rational sense.
Prehumous
February 27th, 2007 at 8:54 pm [Reply]

29-

Dennis would also be awesome if we just went with your last suggestion, where he gets destroyed. Over an entire, Sunday in-color sprawl, preferably taking the place of that fetid mass of stinking garbage creatively titled Opus.
Rusty
February 27th, 2007 at 8:55 pm [Reply]

Johny Hart is a loathesome human being. One would think he would be delighted to meet his maker by now.
Some Guy Here
February 27th, 2007 at 8:55 pm [Reply]

I think it’s just supposed to be “2 +2 ‘R’ (as in “are”) 4″ or something incredibly lame like that.

Much more importantly, we need some Margo-Shaking-Fist merch. Would go real nice with the Margo Quotes merch.

Who’s with me?
Genetic_Mishap
February 27th, 2007 at 8:57 pm [Reply]

Is Ruff related to sloths? He has algae growing in his fur.
Ribinin
February 27th, 2007 at 8:59 pm [Reply]

I can hear that as “whore deserves”.
cheech wizard
February 27th, 2007 at 9:02 pm [Reply]

JP – I still say that’s Evil Neddy in panel 3. All she needs is the goatee…
Steve
February 27th, 2007 at 9:03 pm [Reply]

#27, 30 – In panel 2, he says “some hors d’oeuvres”. When he repeats it, leaving off the ’some’, is when she realizes he didn’t say ’something’.
Dave
February 27th, 2007 at 9:03 pm [Reply]

It looks to me like Cedric is channeling Stephen Colbert like a madman.
Mac
February 27th, 2007 at 9:04 pm [Reply]

That backwards “R” and a lesson on obscure punctuation are indicative of the mental bankruptcy of liberal insectoid public education. What is the root of this? Well, what do you not see on the wall? A crucifix, that’s what. Only Jesus will bring these smart-assed kids and lazy, underperforming teachers into line. This BC is not a joke: far from it, it is a very serious, if shrouded to pass unnoticed by the eyes of liberal elite editors in the mainstream media, call for the creation of government vouchers to rescue children from our failing public schools and move them into the always virtuous world of Christian education. Or maybe ants are just dumb.
BoShek
February 27th, 2007 at 9:06 pm [Reply]

Cheech Wizard- Well if evil Mirror Universe personae with goatees are running amok in the comics, that clarifies a few things and raises the important Gil Thorp question – who is the good non-goateed version of Marty Moon?
Nyssa23
February 27th, 2007 at 9:09 pm [Reply]

BC: I thought the “2 + 2 ‘R’ 4″ might be a reference to the song “Inchworm,” most famously sung by Charles Aznavour.

But it’s probably more likely to be stupid ants and/or a possible promotional deal with Toys “R” Us.

Momma: Personally, I would have liked it better if the last panel had Tina saying, “Well then, you better get your ass up and start cooking!” Or perhaps, “Great! So where did you make the reservations?”

A3G: Note the tree picture on the wall, clearly from Lu Ann’s “Kindergarten” period.

And I know it’s already been mentioned, but something about blousy, disheveled Angela is trÃ¨s, trÃ¨s hot. Is she Mirror Universe Neddy? And if so, has Cedric been robbing le cradle?
Nyssa23
February 27th, 2007 at 9:12 pm [Reply]

Gee whiz, you take a moment to see it before you say it and you miss the snarkin’ boat.

But #40 Boshek–Clearly, the “good” Marty Moon is Helen Marzano. Think about it, won’t you?
NEW-ME
February 27th, 2007 at 9:13 pm [Reply]

We call them “whores at the door”
benro
February 27th, 2007 at 9:16 pm [Reply]

JP – The resemblance is uncanny. Maybe Angela is Neddy’s real mother..
Woodrowfan
February 27th, 2007 at 9:19 pm [Reply]

Apparently she feels that Mother Hobbes deserves to be bludgeoned to death. Who doesn’t??
Woodrowfan
February 27th, 2007 at 9:20 pm [Reply]

Is it possible that Mother “Hobbes” is named that because she’s nasty, brutish and short??
Weasel Boy
February 27th, 2007 at 9:29 pm [Reply]

#46: I always considered her a Leviathan.
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 9:30 pm [Reply]

#46 Woodrowfan -

Hee!

I heard it said about Danny DeVito, but yours is better!
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

I think Momma asked to be served horse ovaries. Thankyew…I’m udder here. Waitress.Tips.Veal. Etc.
Bickle
February 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

Re: Interrobang.

This would be funnier if it weren’t true. In the late 1970s, I was in college in Philadelphia, then mayored by former police chief Frank “The Bambino” Rizzo. Under Rizzo’s reign of law-and-order, three cops were on trial for shooting a suspect they had in custody. And the defense they offered? “We wuz pistol-whipping him and the gun went off.” (It didn’t work)
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 27th, 2007 at 9:41 pm [Reply]

I know I said this in the last thread, but it kinda looks like that ant teacher in B.C. is topless! Won’t someone please think of the children, forced to look at ant boobs (never mind that insects don’t have mammary glands).

#16 dshea: “blackboard bold”? You must be one of the small-but-not-insignificant mathematical community in Curmudgeonland! (Or comp sci, or physics…)

And speaking of theoretical computer science and the philosophy of language, today we see the creator of Curtis misunderstanding the use-mention distinction. He means “another Curtis”, not “another ‘Curtis’”. Presumably they wouldn’t give their daughter a boy’s name that they’ve already given to an existing kid.

Of course, I’m just being an annoying pedant, but I assume that’s okay here.
dramashoes
February 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm [Reply]

I’d like to know what Dennis the Milquetoast did to deserve being put in the chair. As usual, all the actual misbehaving takes place off stage. It’s like watching “Apocalypse Now” with no guns and no Robert Duvall.
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 9:54 pm [Reply]

#51 SQB -

Okay? Required!
Tracer Bullet
February 27th, 2007 at 9:57 pm [Reply]

Cedric is terribly afraid Angela is going to catch him as he goes to “buttle” with Rex Morgan.
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

This is actually from the previous thread, but hey: I believe the lyrics to John Cage’s 4′33″ concern the brilliance of the artwork in “Cathy,” the coherence of the plots in “Gil Thorp,” and the sheer joy that suffuses the lives of the characters in “Funky Winkerbean.”
Cafangdra
February 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

Happiest day of my life was the day the Chron announced they were replacing Momma with Diesel Sweeties.

They could’ve replaced it with a big blank space or reruns of “classic” classified ads from the mid-eighties or long chunks of binary code and it would’ve been fine by me. But I actually like DS so it’s even better.
Chash
February 27th, 2007 at 9:59 pm [Reply]

I am consistently misreading Dennis the Menace as “masturbates,” which I can’t say makes it better, exactly, but is a horrifying glimpse into my own subconscious mind.
smokey
February 27th, 2007 at 10:06 pm [Reply]

It would have made so much more sense if Momma Hobbes had asked for “canapes” so that Tina could have waited for her behind the door with a #10 can of Del Monte sweet peas (or, if Mell Lazarus is as pronunciation-impaired as the actual strip suggests, a #10 can of Del Monte gorilla parts).
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pm [Reply]

#55 Gadge -

Sung by lambs.
andreavis
February 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pm [Reply]

BC: In Russian, the backwards R is pronounced “yah”. As a word, it means “I”, as in “Yah govorit porusski!” So either teacher ant is a no-good commie rat, or a bad grammarian (two plus two I four (?))
Canaduck
February 27th, 2007 at 10:15 pm [Reply]

Regarding Momma: That is the most ridiculously open-minded rendition of a “bludgeoning object” ever. What is it, a giant spoon? A magic wand? A BONG? Oh, and in the second panel, the guy’s nose is actually soaring up past his eyes! God, I hate this stupid comic.
reader-who-posts
February 27th, 2007 at 10:21 pm [Reply]

BC: “Interrobang” would make a great boy band name – or maybe it just reminded me of “Fingerbang”.

FW: Ewww! No, really, EEEWWWWW!!!!!!

DT: That looks like a fat Ent from Lord of the Rings.

JP: I would guess that 90% percent of the time drawing this strip was spent on her lips in the last panel.

MT: I bet Mark is anxious to get out on the lake with Dan.

MW: Why the hell does Dr. Cory’s daughter look just like Mary? Wouldn’t that be creepy? I mean creepier than dating Mary would be normally.

Pluggers: Today all true pluggers wept thinking about their empty lives. Then they stuffed candy in their mouth until they puked.

Spider-man: The master criminal twirls a loaded pistol around on his finger. Yep, he’s smarter than Spider-man, all right.
Tracer Bullet
February 27th, 2007 at 10:24 pm [Reply]

FW has again made want to kill myself today, but this time for an entirely new reason.
Joe
February 27th, 2007 at 10:30 pm [Reply]

They say you learn something every day. Today I learned about the “interrobang” which is a combination of the question mark and the exclamation point that was popularised in the early 1960s. Another thing I learned today is I’m not going to read BC tomorrow, or ever again.
treedweller
February 27th, 2007 at 10:30 pm [Reply]

Howcum DT(not so)M casts a shadow but Ruff doesn’t? I think Ruff is a vampire!
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 27th, 2007 at 10:37 pm [Reply]

#22, I was born in Canada, (you could prolly throw a rock from my granmother’s house and hit a Patterson) so Cedri doesn’t seem that exotic to me. Of course he could be a deep cover Russian spy. In which case, he should really know when his wife is shadowing him.
True Fable
February 27th, 2007 at 10:37 pm [Reply]

A3G Doggone it, Eric. There was fixin’ to be a catfight between Margo the Marauder and Luann the Loon, and you showed up and spoiled it. Well, there’s always tomorrow, where maybe Margo can throw that right cross she learned while doing Mark Trail a couple of years back.
#28 Anonymous – I thought the same thing when I saw those words and phrases. We’ll be dirty together. Heh.

New Word for the Curmudgeon Dictionary: Buttle, see also buttling and buttled. (n.) one who points while wearing formal dress. (v) pointing while wearing formal dress. (ant.) see Hagar.

My money is on Cedric being some sort of sneak theif who cases a joint and Angela cleans is out later. If it stays to comic soap standards, he means well and she is a bad influence/ from his checkered past that he’s trying to get past. zzzzzzt.

Furthermore, I say he has an eye for the ladies (don’t we all) and he is prone to the young stuff because he “wants to help them and his heart is pure and in the right place.” Is that where he keeps it, hmm.

I predict he will end up defending Neddy and Hot Stuff Abbey and Rachel’s millions and tax-heavy villas all over the globe of Europe, against Angela and her evil scheme to con someone out of villas and whatnot. Oh, and Roger Whosis will show up and blame Abbey for I don’t know, something.
yellojkt
February 27th, 2007 at 10:43 pm [Reply]

Little publicly educated ant-kids can’t write an equal sign but get quizzed on obscure punctuation like they are in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. This is what happens when your radio gets stuck on Rush Limbaugh and your TV only tunes in Garner Ted Armstrong.
King Folderol
February 27th, 2007 at 10:52 pm [Reply]

DM – As we all know here at CC, Dennis was castrated a long time ago by the estate of Hank Ketcham.

Momma – Why does Thomas appear to be carrying a large ruler with marks missing in Panel 1?
Sam L.
February 27th, 2007 at 11:02 pm [Reply]

Let me just knock the post count over the top here…
Alex Blaze
February 27th, 2007 at 11:09 pm [Reply]

So what actually happened when Eric and Margo saw each other? Margo say, “Eric, you’re here!!” and Eric replied, “Where else would I be?”, as in this Sunday’s strip? Or did Margo say, “Eric, I’m so glad you’re here!!” and Eric replied, “And I’m glad you’re here. Your timing is perfect.”, like in today’s strip?
We here at the Messianic Church of Apartment 3-G, or “Magists” as you may commonly know us, take the Revelation of the Life of the Great Magee very seriously. Every Word revealed through the Prophets Bolle and Trusiani is interpreted literally, as the Great Magee intended.
Doug Puthoff
February 27th, 2007 at 11:14 pm [Reply]

Since I haven’t posted here in a while, I’ll start with an oldie but a good:

More infomation about interrobangs can be found on the Internet:

But seriously, folks, Interrobangs are also frequently used in chess books (More information about chess can be found on the Internet–way darn too much more.
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

#71 Alex -

Is that a soft or hard “g”? And how can I join?
sawzy
February 27th, 2007 at 11:18 pm [Reply]

Through beer-blurred eyes “interrobang” somehow transformed into “interracial gang bang”, a common search phrase on search engines, and I thought maybe that was Hart’s attempt at jumping headfirst into today’s Internet society.

So that was just the beer, but you don’t need any alcohol to see that the wife in “Momma” is obviously gripping the enormous phallus of some super hairy gimp standing right behind her out of the panel, prepared to give Momma “something she deserves”.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
February 27th, 2007 at 11:20 pm [Reply]

71. Alex, just think of A-3G as the Rashomon of the comics page.
sawzy
February 27th, 2007 at 11:22 pm [Reply]

sorry, I forgot to mention that even without the well-endowed hairy gimp, the punchline in “Momma” is that the wife thought her husband said “something that whore deserves”
scan
February 27th, 2007 at 11:22 pm [Reply]

I looked up interrobang on wikipedia and they had already referenced today’s BC strip
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 27th, 2007 at 11:23 pm [Reply]

Since I’m in my forties, I’m entitled to be living in the past – and so it is that I won’t let go of last thread’s obsession with writing lyrics to TV theme songs that didn’t have lyrics (or didn’t have lyrics that anyone not creepily fixated on the shows ever knew). Thus, the lyrics for the theme to The Rockford Files:

It’s Jim Rock-a-ford, in his crappy old trailer!
It’s his phone machine, Firebird, cookie jar, with a secret gun there!
Watch out, Jim, that Angel’s got a bum scheme!
Watch for Lt. Diehl, he don’t trust you, he’ll trip you up and take your license away…
Mik Holmes
February 27th, 2007 at 11:24 pm [Reply]

I think someone should make a petition. On this petition it will state that all newspaper comics must:
a) Show a level of artwork higher then that of a second grader. It should appear that the strip took more then five seconds to spin off. The characters should be memorably drawn, easily distinguished, and above all, pleasing to look at.
b) In the case of joke comics, they must have proper content, such as, but not limited to: up-to-date and knowledgeable references when using pop culture as a joke; proper humour that works both on a child and adult level; and must be reasonably entertaining, with the joke told in a quick, humourous manner (for example, a quick set up to a quick punchline; it should be able to be easily adapted to a verbal format.) One should good at telling jokes.
c) In the case of soap opera comics, they must have a proper storyline that is intriguing and interesting. Attention must be payed both to tact, and factuality.
d) And, of course, avoid repeating contact.

I think that I’ve covered most of the things that annoy me with comics. Although, if they listened to that, this site wouldn’t be as great.
Red Greenback
February 27th, 2007 at 11:27 pm [Reply]

#73 Uncle Lumpy-Is that a soft G like Margo Gortner? You know, like Marjoe…I’m sorry, really sleepy…There’s peanut butter and balogna sandwiches for all the twist contest winnerssssss….ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz
Uncle Lumpy
February 27th, 2007 at 11:29 pm [Reply]

#79 Mik -

B-b-but then we wouldn’t have any comics!
Doug Puthoff
February 27th, 2007 at 11:29 pm [Reply]

Today’s JP is reason #1 superhero comic book artists should not draw soap opera comics: the finger-pointing in panel two would’ve been considered melodramatic ever for an issue of “X-Men.” This explains why Barreto is no longer in superheroes.
Trotzenbonnie
February 27th, 2007 at 11:30 pm [Reply]

#80 -
As a subset of a) can we add something about wardrobe consistency? Margo was wearing a brown coat, dammit and Eric’s tie was pink!
nintennuendo
February 27th, 2007 at 11:30 pm [Reply]

JP: His pointing power level is over NINE THOUSAAAAAAND!!!!!!
anon
February 27th, 2007 at 11:35 pm [Reply]

Problem is, Tina’s about the only sane person in that strip. Ugh.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
February 27th, 2007 at 11:48 pm [Reply]

I guess it was all the recent discussion about Col. Bogey and theme songs, but when I saw 33. Some Guy Here, I read:

“Much more importantly, we need some Margo-Shaking-Fist march. Would go real nice with the Margo Quotes march.”

That immediately brought to mind the mental image of a huge formation of Margos in a parade, all shaking their fists in carefully choreographed unison. Preceded of course by the Finger-Quoting Corps. And each would have their own band to play their special tune.

Until someone composes these tunes, I am imagining She Wears a ‘G’ for Generosity as a temporary substitute.
Wirrrn
February 28th, 2007 at 12:06 am [Reply]

BC- The shoddy Ant ‘Skool’ and little ant Johnny (who really should be a larva)’s failure to grasp the whole learning thing will make much more sense in next week’s lesson, when the strangely mammalian-figured teacher explains to her male students that in the Matriarchal world of their kind, most of them will be dead long before reaching adulthood and the one or two that make it will be used as a sexual slave by the queen for a while until she tosses him out of the nest to die of exposure in the Winter. Life is Crool, Johnny…
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 28th, 2007 at 12:08 am [Reply]

#74, Man, even gimps gotta draw the line somewheres.
Uncle Lumpy
February 28th, 2007 at 12:09 am [Reply]

Bang!!!

A gunshot echoes from the Morgan garage – and not a moment too soon! Rex almost had to kiss his wife!
Lammergeier13
February 28th, 2007 at 12:53 am [Reply]

FW: (Yesterday) Is that woman kidding? EVERY WOMAN wants that haircut. It’s the Britney Buzz, the Spears Special! (Today) Dear God, No. No, no, no, no, no! You stop that right now, do you hear me? Stop it, or so help me, I will turn this strip right around and we both know what’ll happen then, don’t we? There are just certain things we don’t talk about in conjunction with sex, things like mangled baby ducks, Strom Thurmond, raw sewage, foob, or CANCER!!!! Do…I…Make…Myself…Clear?
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 28th, 2007 at 12:57 am [Reply]

83 Trotzenbonnie (responding to 79 Mik Holmes): Color in comic strips isn’t real. Except in Sunday strips, comics are clearly intended by God to be in black and white. Light and shade, even variations in color, can be conveyed through hatching and other tools of the comic artist’s trade. Colorization is an abomination, existing for the most part as a result of editors’ decisions that people can’t abide a world in which color doesn’t hit them over the head. You don’t colorize old movies (I mean, you shouldn’t), and you shouldn’t colorize daily comic strips. Hrrmph. (Apparently someone slipped me a grumpy pill earlier today. Damn kids these days…and get the hell off my lawn!)
Dean Booth
February 28th, 2007 at 12:57 am [Reply]

Maybe Cedric could have a “point down” with Gary Dent — Could Cedric’s super single-point power overcome Gary’s lightening fast points per minute?
I am Tinas Reticular Formation
February 28th, 2007 at 1:01 am [Reply]

Thanks to me, Tina not only feels that “Momma” deserves to be bludgeoned to death, she knows it’s true down to the very core of her being!. Tina might have some surface concerns about the meaning or practicality of doing so, but I’ll make sure she not only strikes the old woman, repeatedly, again and again and again, but that she feels tremendous relief doing so.

Suddenly, Tina’s brain activity will be greatly revved up, giving her the feeling that she’s on the cow-catcher of a speeding train, hurling towards her intended victim. Sounds and other distractions will fade, giving her a feeling, as she’ll say to police and psychiatric personnel later, of “being in a tunnel.”

That’s because I’ve activated, and now her brain realizes it needs to stay “awake” and stimulated. Her adrenal glands, given marching orders by her sympathetic nervous system, will kick into overdrive, pumping adrenaline into her system, which will flow to her brain, making her blood pound in her veins and her heart feel like it’s smashing its way out of her chest.

That’s my job, and I am a reliable partner for Tina’s so-called higher nervous functions. I’ve been “watching out” for Tina, her great-great-grandparents, and all her ancestors back to the primordial swamp where the dinosaurs chased the scurrying mammals with ill intent. I don’t ask for thanks, just that you “stay alert” and give your brain the amount of stimulation I “think” it needs.
Uncle Lumpy
February 28th, 2007 at 1:04 am [Reply]

#93 -

Gah! Neuroscience porn! Count me in!
Caged Tygre
February 28th, 2007 at 1:05 am [Reply]

#92 Dean, Bucky beats them both.
Lammergeier13
February 28th, 2007 at 1:17 am [Reply]

#93, I think I love you.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
February 28th, 2007 at 2:04 am [Reply]

FOOB: OK, no more puns, we are resuming the slow but inexorable trek to the Comic Strips’ Graveyard. But just of out curiosity, I’d like to know how does April jumping into two inches of snow (sorry, I mean 5 cm) result in Dad’s getting a faceful of it? Seems to conflict with some basic physical properties. And how far out from downtown Toronto do they live if $25K makes a down payment on a house? Michael must have been driving 4 hours each way to get to his magazine job. And who wouldn’t want to live only a couple of houses away from their parents?
Kitsune Warlock
February 28th, 2007 at 2:17 am [Reply]

I know the image that…rectal device…France’s wife is holding will bring about some nightmares tonight.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
February 28th, 2007 at 2:18 am [Reply]

OK, last Sunday Pluggers had cable TV, and today they’re buying rabbit ears. Technology marches in reverse. And if you weren’t a complete idiot, you’d go to Radio Shack, which still features a good selection of rabbit ears. Oh, the Radio Shack in Pluggerville got driven out of business by WalMart? They’ll do it every time! Oh yeahhh!
Len
February 28th, 2007 at 2:19 am [Reply]

I”ve always liked how Ruff’s hair droops over his forehead, like Dennis’s does. When Dennis becomes a teenage hippy, his beard will make him further resemble good ol’ Ruff.

I wonder if the “someone special” that Eric wants to introduce Margo to is his friend, Mr. Happy. The Viagra finally kicked in!

I followed the interrobang link, and was surprised to find Mr. Fry, creator of “Over the Hedge,” was once a poster. Wonder if Fry still lurks, and howcum nobody snarks about OTH anymore. (That movie wasn’t much of a much, was it?)
Nyssa23
February 28th, 2007 at 2:24 am [Reply]

#100 Len–Even stranger, at least to me, was the fact that posts here used to inspire no more than 11 comments. Back in the day, indeed.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
February 28th, 2007 at 2:28 am [Reply]

A-3G: Mary Worth has gone to Hanoi and back, and meanwhile Margo hasn’t done a damn thing about that kid’s birthday party she was supposed to be working on back last October. She does this for a living?
Edward
February 28th, 2007 at 3:19 am [Reply]

I don’t think this has been mentioned yet, but is it possible Mel Lazarus thinks hors d’oeuvres is pronounced EXACTLY as it’s spelled?

That is, his wife thought she wanted what some whore deserves

I’d really, really like to think so.
MrP
February 28th, 2007 at 3:27 am [Reply]

Cedric is clearly channelling the spirit of Phoenix Wright. In the next strip, he’s going to present photographic evidence of footprints following his walking path that day, and then one of the shoes he grabbed out of her closet when she wasn’t looking.
“The shoe size and brand clearly matches the foot print!”
Now watch her face contort into pain as she goes, “WAAAAAAGH!”
The Avocado Avenger
February 28th, 2007 at 3:49 am [Reply]

BC: I used to be a member of the Internet band “Interrobang Cartel”. There was an umlaut somewhere in the title, too, but I don’t remember where. Over an “r”, probably. The band consisted of 17 theremin players and a roadie.

#97 Mr O’Malley: I’m glad I’m not the only one completely befuddled by today’s FOOBian insanity. April must have had a few off-panel seizures to get that much snow on her dad. But at least the strip managed to be even dumber and less funny than the last two strips. I know, edgy dog-walking humor is all the rage in Canadianistan, but I’m just not into it.

A3G: Is Eric’s niece bald? I was having Funky Winkerbean flashbacks there for a minute.

MW: Heh. Now we finally know why Mary was in such a hurry to get back to Charterbland Apartments. She’s trying to come and go quickly, in order to establish an alibi for when Ella goes missing.

RMMD: Thank goodness that gunshot kept Rex from having to touch icky girl lips.
Lynngineering
February 28th, 2007 at 4:00 am [Reply]

FBOFW: The return of the house. It all sounds like Michael’s coma still – he can’t let go of the 25K number, like this is some symbolic object he can open magical doors with on his trek to win everything in the world (Job? Screw you, I’m leaving I have 25K; House issues? Screw it, I am going to put a downpayment, I have 25K; Authorially challenged? Hell no, I have a 25K advance, and so on) Now he has April drafted in to repeat the same nonsense to who else, DAD, the ONE WHO REALLY WANTED the small house…FOR HIS TRAINS. In Michael’s dream, April serves the first whack against Dad’s knees – MICHAEL SHOULD BUY THE HOUSE, HE HAS 25K (and you don’t old man).
I guess now the fantasy will continue unhindered, very little chance for intervention, he’s a vegetable soon enough: Oh, Michael, you are so great, won’t you take our larger house and save us so we can have the smaller house? Michael, as you have 25K you can do anything, and we can live down the street and serve you, be your on-call babysitting service, and feed you when Deanna is too busy working her ass off because you just watch tv.

The only one left for him to mess with big-time is Liz, and the clock is ticking there…
Lynngineering
February 28th, 2007 at 4:05 am [Reply]

DM: Oh and as for Dennis, really the only thing left to respond to him; “Dennis, Ruff is stuffed, he’s been dead since that incident years ago, ok? We just moved him in and out of the house to keep you unaware, sometimes to serve as a doorstop when Mom brings in the groceries. “
daryljfontaine
February 28th, 2007 at 5:28 am [Reply]

#106: As we all know, the FOOB talking points are distributed to all major media outlets by the FOOB National Committee. From there, certain key phrases are repeated in every public appearance by the regular FOOB dramatis personae until they become part of the public consciousness, regardless of whether there is any fact behind them: “Michael has $25,000″ and “I’d put my money on Anthony” are the Johnston Administration’s “stay the course” and “cut and run.”
willethompson
February 28th, 2007 at 6:50 am [Reply]

RMMD: Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis has left the building! And possibly, this world!

You read it here first.
Shave Ezra
February 28th, 2007 at 7:08 am [Reply]

No one’s mentioned today’s Lio?

http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2007/02/28/
Sheilagh
February 28th, 2007 at 7:22 am [Reply]

Okay, I didn’t read all the comments cuz I gotta get to work this a.m., so apologies if it’s already been explained… but I totally do not get FOOB this morning. April jumps in the air and somehow her father and the dog are magically covered with spooge? How am I supposed to interpret that? Did the universe finally have enough and puke on them?

Thanks for any help!!!
Pozzo
February 28th, 2007 at 7:55 am [Reply]

I think the writing on the blackboard is supposed to indicate “2 plus 2 ARE four” with a backwards “R” for “are”. This is from the same strip that regularly shows the anthill school with “Skool” over the entrance. Johnny Hart is nostalgic for the good old days of illiteracy, I suppose.
Ham Gravy
February 28th, 2007 at 8:02 am [Reply]

Waaaaah! The comics are broken!
willethompson
February 28th, 2007 at 8:07 am [Reply]

#110 Shave Ezra – you beat me to it. My 12 year old has become a sateliite Mudge and he rereads all of my Far Side collections and Calvin&Hobbes – he also loved Foxtrot (and this week’s PBS shout-out). After reading Lio, our breakfast conversation became theological with overtones of “Why do the good strips die and the Ziggys live on unto the second generation?” Frankly, that’s harder to explain than why Mr. Bubbles the betta became a toilet fish (see Frazz).
Galactic Emperor Chennux
February 28th, 2007 at 8:18 am [Reply]

ATTENTION EARTHERS! REND THY GARMENTS IN TERROR! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU THAT LOOK GOOD WITH RENT GARMENTS! CHENNUX SPEAKS!

CHENNUX HAS DISABLED A3G, JUDGE PARKER AND OTHER SNARKWORTHY STRIPS! CHENNUX DEMANDS THAT THE BLONDE GIRL FROM THE DIRTY MICROBE AD BE COVERED IN SYRUP AND TRANSPORTED TO CHENNUX’S HYPERCRUISER IMMEDIATELY! AND THEN ALL MUST SING THE THEME FROM STAR TREK, ORIGINAL LYRICS, DURING OUR LIGHT DINNER WITH HER! OTHERWISE, NO MARY WORTH FOR ANYONE! HAHA!

END TRANSMISSION!
Ribinin
February 28th, 2007 at 8:20 am [Reply]

#105 The Avocado Avenger: A thereminist That’s hot! I LOVEthereminists.

Are you performing solo now? Do you have a tour set up for the summer?
Squawk
February 28th, 2007 at 8:27 am [Reply]

BC: Never mind the “2 + 2 R 4″ on the blackboard, does anybody wonder what the hell “A + B = C” is doing there? You need three equations to solve for three unknowns!

JP: Cedric: “Dammit, why won’t all you beautiful voluptuous women just leave me the hell alone? Following me around, marrying me, having sex with me! All I want in my life is to be a nerdy subservient butler for a withered old crone!”
teenchy
February 28th, 2007 at 8:41 am [Reply]

“itâ€™s physically impossible to look menacing and bad-ass when youâ€™re wearing a bow tie.’

Then why do all those Nation of Islam guys favor them?
Calico
February 28th, 2007 at 8:44 am [Reply]

#106 – Respect my authoritaaah, sayeth Apwil!

#86 – Thanks for bringing my brain creepy visions of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” and North Korea. All hail the Nation of Margoes! (And by the way, she could learn some new stalking/anger techniques from Angela in JP, instead of just fist-shaking.)

I would love it if Cedric turned out to be a Part-time Gigolo…
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 28th, 2007 at 9:01 am [Reply]

Check it out. Royal Flush is sending Dick Tracy a monster 20-sided die. This must mean she’s challenging him to the mother of all Dungeons and Dragons nights.
Ran
February 28th, 2007 at 9:02 am [Reply]

Why do good comics slip off the coil, yet crap comics remain? Because they cannot die. The can recycle the jokes, the artwork takes less than ten minutes and if that’s too much of a problem, just hire some kid to draw for you. Hell, even if you die they can keep it going forecer. Why is PEANUTS still leading every sunday paper’s comics section? Its almost 50 years old and 40 years out of date! I’ve seen them all twice already! The joes were lame when I was a kid. Its the same thing with radio stations, nothing but the music I heard when I was fifteen. Doesn’t anyone do anything different? Sorry, its been a tuff week so far and I need to rant.
Quacks Like A Duck
February 28th, 2007 at 9:08 am [Reply]

#4 — It means that Ruff is related to Curtis’ backwards friend Gunk.
Howard Erk
February 28th, 2007 at 9:16 am [Reply]

Mediocre strips have to be around so that we can appreciate the truly great ones.

And the truly great ones know that when the time is done, the time is done.

Had Calvin and Hobbes be still running now, it might be on autopilot and a rehash.

If Gary Larson hadn’t hung up the brushes, we might be seeing him in the same light as Berke Breathed.

We need the mediocre in this world like American Idol, or Get Fuzzy, or Wonderbread so that when something truly good comes around it will really shine.
Jason
February 28th, 2007 at 9:23 am [Reply]

29 – Hands down, comment of the week.

123 – Since when is Get Fuzzy mediocre? best comic strip since Calvin and Hobbes in my opinion.

BC – Never heard of an Interrobang, but it sounds like some sort of rape based method of extracting information from someone. So Johnny Hart has a weird Interrobang obsession. Anyone wonder why Charles Schultz always seemed to have a weird zamboni obsession?
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 28th, 2007 at 9:27 am [Reply]

mutter mutter grumble… Yeah, right I’m a little groggy this morning, because last night around four a.m. some clown drives by with his car stereo cranked, blasting Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s “A Taste of Honey.” I mean, literally, a clown: he had a bright red, bulbous nose, shocking pink hair that flew up in the air, pancake makeup – the works. Of course, half-asleep that I was, I wandered up to the window to see what that trumpet-ridden racket was – totally forgetting I was buck naked and had turned on the light.

So I might be groggy – but Clown-Boy’s probably traumatized for life. Ha. How do you like them apples?

Chennux: If we earthers send you the one called Britney, along with plenty of syrup, would you bring the color comics back? I think that would be known as a “win-win” situation.
Hogen Mogen
February 28th, 2007 at 9:32 am [Reply]

Foob: Yes, April is a genius for pointing out what we at the CC have suspected ever since the apartment burned down in December. Maybe we could include John and Elly in that genius category since they suggested a while ago that Liz and Blandthony were a good match (although not smart enough to realize that dating tips from your parents are vaguely disgusting and rarely have the desired effect).
Smitty Smedlap
February 28th, 2007 at 9:33 am [Reply]

“I don’t go in for that hippity hop” needs to be on a t-shirt. Pronto.
rope erasers
February 28th, 2007 at 9:36 am [Reply]

I never noticed before just how much Eric looks like the offspring of Conan O’Brien and Ron Howard.
Hogen Mogen
February 28th, 2007 at 9:40 am [Reply]

A3G: Speaking of genius, if Margo thinks Eric is slumming with Luann, why did she go to Eric’s studio instead of Luann’s?

And that neice – I imagined her to be younger, like around 8. Margo realizes now that she’s planning a party for a 20-something. Drop the “Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey” game, and find a good table to play “Quarters”. Here’s the trick, Magee, find one with fake wood laminate. Real wood, though aesthetically pleasing, doesn’t give enough bounce.
Ten Day Dinosaur
February 28th, 2007 at 9:42 am [Reply]

115 Chennux – Thank you for killing Mary Worth (however temporarily). Have an over-the-internet toaster strudel.
Justafoob
February 28th, 2007 at 9:45 am [Reply]

Like many children born way after their siblings, Apwil is gifted.

She is above us all in being able to see the obvious.

Too Bad she can’t help Mike use the 25K over and over and over again.
cheech wizard
February 28th, 2007 at 9:54 am [Reply]

40- BoShek: The answer is Leonard Nimoy.

Lio -very creepy today, with the parade of the Undead going past the cemetery.

Interrobang: When your girlfriend has sex with you in order to initiate deep and probing postcoital inquiries about the status of your relationship.
zeeba
February 28th, 2007 at 9:58 am [Reply]

2/28

Lio: agree with all previous comments. When I first read it this morning, I went awwwww, a tribute to the comics. yeah, it takes me a couple of looks to get it. Then, I went oh, it’s the march of the mediocre comics, marching along forever, while only the good die young.

JP: (sorry, no link, JP appears to be down today):
Jealous Angela questions Cedric about the German girl who called their flat day and night. Cedric says, “She was a client Angela..we’ve been over this.” Which can only mean one thing. Besides being a temp butler, Cedric is also a pimp. And this makes sense, as he couldn’t wait to help Neddy walk the streets her first night in Paris.
Perky Bird
February 28th, 2007 at 10:04 am [Reply]

2/28-

Mary Worth—Oh, pooh, Ella’s still alive! My prediction from yesterday was wrong. But who are those little kids running about? Did Mary adopt some Peace VIllage children as souvenirs?

Family Circus–Billy is channeling Richard Dreyfus from

Close Encounters. And what kind of mom gives a kid that big a serving of potatoes? They obviously aren’t on the Atkins diet!

Spider-Man–Who is that woman, and why is she leaning over MJ’s bed in such a creepy manner? Ick!
Dennis the Menace–If he were really a menace, he’d just sneak into the theater without paying—or steal someone’s wallet to get the cash.
Mumbles
February 28th, 2007 at 10:13 am [Reply]

(DT)GT: this story line reminds me of an episode of “Veronica Mars”, if “Veronica Mars” was interminably slow and acted by ugly people.

MW: I like how the strip’s authors grafitti-tagged Ella’s door. You wouldn’t think a gated community like Charterstone would have such, er, “urban” (cough cough) problems.

RMMD: first Elvis is introducing the kid to mediocre premium cable showsn but now he’s cockblocking Rex. Good riddance, kid.

A3G: I can’t figure out what’s going on with this niece. Is that her hair (is she all “punk-rawk” with magenta Manic Panic?) Or is she wearing a hat from the “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” line?
Galactic Emperor Chennux
February 28th, 2007 at 10:13 am [Reply]

ATTENTION EARTHERS! EVACUATE YOUR BLADDERS IN HORROR! CHENNUX SPEAKS TO CERTAIN ONES!

#125 PREENER OF MOLES – I DEMAND BLONDE DIRTY MICROBE GIRL! NO SENDING THE ONE YOU CALL BRITNEY SPEARS, UNLESS YOU SEND HER FED-EX! HAHA! CHENNUX MAKES AN EARTHER CULTURAL REFERENCE!

#130 TEN DAY DINOSAUR – INTERNET STRUDEL! MMMMMM! SYRUPY! GARGLARGLARGLE!

COLOR COMICS WILL NOT BE RESTORED UNTIL THIS DEMAND IS MET! UNTIL THEN, DO SOME WORK OR SOMETHING!

END TRANSMISSION!
anne
February 28th, 2007 at 10:15 am [Reply]

134 perky bird — where are you seeing today’s MW? I can’t see any color comics, still.
HBGlord
February 28th, 2007 at 10:23 am [Reply]

As stated in a comment a week ago, i had actually considered “Interrobang” as my nom de snark before i settled on the ol’ standby moniker above that we all know and scratch our heads at.

Lio: Lord love a duck! Someone’s gonna have a special ingredient added to his punch at the next Comics Convention!
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 28th, 2007 at 10:26 am [Reply]

#127, not to rain on your parade, but the “hippity-hop” line is a direct steal from the Coen Brothers’ remake of The Ladykillers. I could go on about how much better the Ealing Studios original was, but then I’d be so pretentious that I’d have to wedgie myself.
HBGlord
February 28th, 2007 at 10:28 am [Reply]

No, seriously (and that’s a word that’s not uttered in these parts lightly) — in today’s Lio, Tatulli has made a most eloquent yet clever statement about zombie strips in an absolutely stunning manner. I am gobsmacked!
smacky
February 28th, 2007 at 10:33 am [Reply]

#123: Howard, did you just call Get Fuzzy mediocre?

Just want to get a clarification on this.
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 28th, 2007 at 10:33 am [Reply]

I’m also dismayed about the color comics being down. We were just about to find out if Margo commits cannibalism after sex. (Weren’t we?)

#140, I wonder if Tatulli is saying that he intends to stop doing Lio when the well runs dry. It’s hard to imagine “Bud” Tatulli and a crew of anonymous ghost-artists putting this strip together in 2074.
Perky Bird
February 28th, 2007 at 10:41 am [Reply]

137–anne
Fortunately (or unfortunately) The Washington Post carries Mary Worth. (And yes, I still read the old-fashioned paper version, as well as online.) But she’s not in color in the Post, so I don’t get to see her groovy magenta pantsuits and lavender turtlenecks in all their hideous grandure.
Indiebass
February 28th, 2007 at 10:41 am [Reply]

Dang it, y’all! Not only did I call out Cedric’s awesome pointing yesterday, but not one mention of the awesome artwork contributed to the Funky Winkerbean plot debacle that was last week.

Whatta ya gotta do for some recognition in this two-bit gin joint? Dance? Cause I’ll dance…

*tappa tappa tappa*
Chris
February 28th, 2007 at 10:43 am [Reply]

Today’s MW–in addition to selling her oracular powers for profit (mercenary bitch), it looks like Ella is running a midget porn ring right out of Charterstone.

A real renaissance woman.
Bitter Scribe
February 28th, 2007 at 10:47 am [Reply]

…itâ€™s physically impossible to look menacing and bad-ass when youâ€™re wearing a bow tie.

And the rimless glasses don’t help either.
Howard Erk
February 28th, 2007 at 10:47 am [Reply]

Calling Get Fuzzy mediocre is a compliment.
Calico
February 28th, 2007 at 10:49 am [Reply]

#127 – Mrs. Wade sounds paranoid, period, interrobang. Unless Mary Worth is tweaking this poor woman as well, driving her to a permanent delusional state.
Never teh Bride
February 28th, 2007 at 10:50 am [Reply]

In today’s FOOB, it begins…April has suggested that Mike buy the little house down the road. I see the elder Pattersons buying the house and giving their larger house to Michael and company, kicking Elizabeth back out into the real world…and straight into Anthony’s waiting arms.

A perfect segue into the strip’s eventual non-aging Mike-centeredness.

Lynn, I loved ya, but the love affair is over.
Dan Coyle
February 28th, 2007 at 10:52 am [Reply]

Hey, is someone ghosting Judge Parker again? Doesn’t look like Barreto; his lips aren’t usually that full.

Jumpin’ Jehosephat, Momma is still running?

Funky Winkerbean: Does Batiuk really think Lisa’s ironic murmurings are life affirming and funny? How small is this guy’s world?

Overboard: Hey, it was kind of funny today. Okay, not really.

Jump Start: Okay, nobody knows who W.E.B DuBois is. But does Armstrong have to spend several days reminding us of this fact?
Hogen Mogen
February 28th, 2007 at 10:56 am [Reply]

106: Lynngineering:
Didn’t you know that $25K (in Canadian money) is like having super powers?
Superman: People of Metropolis, I am here to save the day!
Mike Patterson: Don’t worry, Supe. I got it covered.
Superman: What? You’re just a mortal. Do you have X-ray vision?
Mike: Well, uh, no.
Superman: Can you fly?
Mike: Like go fast in a car? Oh, you mean – fly like in the air? No but my sister once dated – well, almost dated a helicopter pilot. That doesn’t count, I guess.
Superman: Are you bulletproof?
Mike: No. But I have C$25K (minus $50 for parking).
Superman: Holy Kryptonite! You really have $25K?
Mike: Well, it’s more like a promise to get $25K.
Superman: Still beats what I’ve got! I need a gig that doesn’t involve wearing red speedos.
Mike: It’s more like a loan of $25K borrowed against my future royalties, actually. But it is sort of a zero interest loan.
Superman: Though you lack physical prowess, courage or any other quality generally regarded as essential to being a protectorate, you have certainly topped me. Metropolis, I leave your city in trust of this guy with a letter promising a zero interest loan for $25K (Canadian)! I will now seek another city without such strong, determined protection.
Mike: This city-saving thing, does it take a lot of your time? ‘Cuz I’ve got another book to write here…
andreavis
February 28th, 2007 at 11:00 am [Reply]

FOOB: I think April’s snowshower of John is a tortured metaphor. John thinks the house would be perfect for him, while April thinks it would be perfect… for Mike. In your face (literally), Dad!
Pelagius
February 28th, 2007 at 11:00 am [Reply]

Tina is holding a Hitachi Magic Wand, which is a given considering the sexless marriage that resulted from her husband’s Freudian obsession with “Momma”.
Eric G
February 28th, 2007 at 11:01 am [Reply]

GT: Here Comes Peter Cottontail…
Hopping down the bunny trail…
Hippity Hop…Easter’s on its way…

If my neighbors were blaring that song, I’d do more than just close the blinds.
Calico
February 28th, 2007 at 11:04 am [Reply]

…But then, Apwil will have to live in a cardboard box in back of the little house along with the dogs, unless Gewald takes her in.
Paperback Rifler
February 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am [Reply]

So I’m late on the interrobang train (which, in my mind’s eye, is one of those Thomas the Tank Engine-type trains with a perpetually surprised facial expression; but that’s really neither here nor there), but I have to say that I’m glad that the interrobang didn’t catch on. Otherwise, who knows what lame punctuation hybrids we would have had today – perhaps the asterisk and pound sign mix (aka, the “asteropound”)? Or maybe the colon sign and exclamation point combo (i.e., the “colonbang”)? Well, maybe not.

26. And what has he got to hide, dammit???
Oh, I’ll tell you what he’s got to hide! If you look carefully at panel two, you’ll see that that isn’t any ordinary, snooty, Canadian, temp butler – it’s actually Clark Kent, who not only is faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive, but also has the power of super pointing that is fueled by the light of our yellow sun!

Foob (2-28) I’m with everyone else who commented on Papa Foob’s inexplicably being covered with snow in that last panel. How the heck did that happen? Was there an omitted panel that showed April reveling in her SOO-PAH-GENIUS by savagely pelting her dad and their pets with snowballs? Or maybe it’s not snow at all; maybe John just copiously threw up all over himself at the thought of his foob brood permanently living down the street. Eww.
Foobar
February 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am [Reply]

46- That was a good one.
NEW-ME
February 28th, 2007 at 11:18 am [Reply]

Please Please end this thread. Here is a cup of coffee and some toast. .. Do your magic
HBGlord
February 28th, 2007 at 11:20 am [Reply]

#142 — That’s how i read it as well, AFKA Ben, and judging from the quality of today’s strip, he’s not giving up the ghost (sorry…) anytime soon. (And re: “Bud” Tatulli — you slay me, you do!)
RoboMax: Agent of C.U.R.M.U.D.G.E.O.N
February 28th, 2007 at 11:23 am [Reply]

I’m pretty sure the creative team behind Apartment 3-G, after much drinking, just realized that noone except for a diehard group of people on the internet have read this strip in 40 years. The murder-suicides then followed. Hence, re-runs.

B.C:
Someone justify the existance of B.C to me. You truly can’t. It’s not like it’s a particularly clever concept, I mean, we’re talking about a comic strip whose premise is ripped off of the Flintstones for margo’s sake. Even taking that in consideration, there aren’t even any jokes about cavemen or hunting mammoths or anything!

What’s the point?! Seriously, you’ve got a comic whose whole premise is it’s about cavemen, but all they do is talk about refrigerators, guns and seldom used language devices.

Johnny Hart is not a man. Johnny Hart is the devil himself. Or at the very least a fucking moron.
dreadedcandiru2
February 28th, 2007 at 11:29 am [Reply]

FOOB – I don’t know how Papa JerkAss got covered in snow, either. Maybe the thought of someone else living in his dream home caused him to have an attack of the vapors and pass out.
Eric G
February 28th, 2007 at 11:30 am [Reply]

160: Someone tell Hart it’s OK to just die. We’ll make sure he won’t be Left Behind…
Perky Bird
February 28th, 2007 at 11:31 am [Reply]

2/28
Mark Trail–OK, so Mark’s friend Dan has gone out early to “practice” fishing? Who on earth practices fishing? Don’t you just toss the line out there and sit back and drink beer all afternoon? Doesn’t sound like an activity that requires a lot of practice.
briantologist
February 28th, 2007 at 11:36 am [Reply]

As #139 pointed out, the Coen brothers ripoff in today’s Gil Thorp is in full effect. Combine this with an obvious nod to “Pulp Fiction” in B.C. (”I accidentally shot Marvin in the Face!”), and and frankly it makes me a little uncomfortable. Granted, I’m pretty sure Johnny Hart’s cinematic awareness is such that he’s pretty sure “Glory” is this year’s surefire Oscar contender, but nonetheless, I need my batshit-crazy comic artists separated from my valuable cinema. Or my middling-to-poor cinema, in the case of “The Ladykillers.”

Also, Galactic Emperor Chennux is correct in accepting no substitutes for the Dirty Microbe girl. Sweet Lord.
Old Fogeyette
February 28th, 2007 at 11:42 am [Reply]

#158 Thanks for the coffee and toast. Today is one of those days where I just can’t get enough coffee.

I’m still too sad to snark. I may also be too sad to end a thread, but I’ll give it a try.

And by the way, I “got” Lio on about the third look, but I can’t appreciate it because the art is so hideously ugly. I believe that is the ugliest strip ever created and I HATE HATE HATE it.
mav
February 28th, 2007 at 11:47 am [Reply]

â€œitâ€™s physically impossible to look menacing and bad-ass when youâ€™re wearing a bow tie.”

I promise not to tell Sean Connery you said that.
queek
February 28th, 2007 at 11:52 am [Reply]

todays Lio: its not just that the zombie strips are going past the graveyard, but Hagar the Very Horrible is *whistling* past the graveyard!!

I do love that strip.

Frazz: “sturgeon” are funny. Just saying the word is giggle-inducing.

PBS: even not-so-good Croc strips are fun. “Woe to the Tofu Cow” was brilliant.
Lyman Returns
February 28th, 2007 at 11:53 am [Reply]

#79-Amen, brother!

#118-Another guy who manages to look menacing in a bow tie would be The Joker. I can actually see Cedric, in the right context, being scary…kind of like Elijah Wood’s cannibal character in ‘Sin City’.

FBOFW-And here I thought ol’ Doc Patterson was just dripping snot everywhere. Use your coat sleeve, man! It would have been awesome if April had leaped into the air, landed on some ice, and slammed onto the pavement…ah, the missed opportunities. As for Mike and family living ‘down the street’ from the parents and April…what is this, ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’, the lame Canadian version? Sorry April, Mike doesn’t have the 25K anymore, he’s already used it to bribe parking lot attendants all across the province.

BC-Wow, Hart references a punctuation mark from the 1960s that no one uses…it’s like he’s trying to see if he can make his comic strip even more irrelevant than it already is. You go on with your bad self, Hart! We’ll gaze upon your slow downward spiral into the abyss and cackle! Plus, you have to love how Hart goes out of his way to show us these aren’t just ANY ants…they’re AMERICAN ants! Of course, I’m just assuming that’s an American flag stuck in the top of the anthill…it’s so poorly drawn it could be the flags of Togo or Liberia.

Momma-What kind of jackass comes home from work, plops down in his chair and starts reading the paper, all the while giving cooking orders to his wife, without so much as going into the same room she’s in? His wife should be beating HIM to death with the vaguely-defined thing in her hand, not her mother-in-law. Seriously, between ‘Momma’, ‘Hagar the Horrible’, ‘Beetle Bailey’, ‘Andy Capp’, and ‘Foxtrot’, the comics pages are neck-and-neck with TV sitcoms for which media format can foist the most simultaneous depictions of jackass tool fathers/husbands on the public.
jules
February 28th, 2007 at 11:55 am [Reply]

Oh, how I do wish there had been an extra “T” in the final line of today’s Gil Thorp: “No butts. We spent our Saturday striking out.”

It sure would make this storyline more exciting, if they could see their way clear to this sort of creative editing…
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 11:57 am [Reply]

Topless Ants in BC…Boring.
Topless Aunt Fritzy in Nancy…Now we’re talking!
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 12:01 pm [Reply]

Pointing powers of a thousand temp butlers.

Man, I’d love to have that power while commuting…or when choosing salmon filets in my grocer’s meat/seafood display. That guy behind the counter never can tell which one I really want and I end up settling for second one he picks up.
MossMoses
February 28th, 2007 at 12:04 pm [Reply]

170. Fellow MossMoniker, way to keep up the fine Moss reputation for lewd and lascivious comments! Aunt Fritzi is hot and she and Nancy are genetically related yet they look nothign alike. Maybe Nancy suffers from the same deforming HGPS as kids in Mary Worth.
Ribinin
February 28th, 2007 at 12:08 pm [Reply]

#142 Artist formerly known as Ben: We have pretty good circumstantial evidence on the issue of Margoâ€™s mantis-like mating habits. The recipient of the â€œpartyâ€ Margo threw recently on Long Island has never been heard from again.

#149 Never teh Bride: I agree, the elder Pattersons will buy the house and giving their larger house to Michael. There have been plenty of hints of that in the past.
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 12:10 pm [Reply]

As others have already hinted, Ruff is a rare Flyspeck Island Splotching Spaniel. It’s not yet recognized by the Westminster Dog Kennel Association, the fascist. Obviously Dennis acquired it in a rather bad marbles bet with Gunk. The Splotching Spaniel was bred to produce methane and lure away parasites. Splotching Spaniel makes a fine companion for the comatose and the self-loathing.
Kate
February 28th, 2007 at 12:14 pm [Reply]

Oh … my … frogs. I just now really looked at Judge Parker. Can I switch my fealty from Margo to Angela? I bet Angela has William Morris designs on the soles of her shoes, so that when you’re rolling on the ground and she lifts her foot to grind it into your face, you get a brief shiver of artistic pleasure before her heel descends.
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 12:14 pm [Reply]

172. MossMoses, thanks. Yes it’s FRITZI, FRITZI, FRITZI and not Fritzy. Boxcars. I don’t understand why spell check didn’t catch that one. Anyway, I’m a little embarrassed about revealing fantasies involving the comics.
Ned Ryerson
February 28th, 2007 at 12:15 pm [Reply]

Can sexy shapeshifting mechanic Mercy Thompson maybe take a look at the flux capacitor on the color comics engine and see if we can get that thing running again?

Which Dirty Microbe girl does Chennux prefer? Is it Effie?
kate
February 28th, 2007 at 12:17 pm [Reply]

176, Pete Moss — clearly you have company in your comics-fantasy-revealing shame. I even referenced the Arts and Crafts movement in mine.
gh
February 28th, 2007 at 12:21 pm [Reply]

#165 Old Fogeyette

Sorry, but I got to talk about sad. I had reached a point myself about two weeks ago where I was ready to call the whole thing off. I didnâ€™t mean to depress Poteet with â€œEleanor Rigbyâ€ but I was depressed when I wrote it and thought about using it as a sign-off. A number of my favorite posters had gone underground or out of town and wading through 300 comments (which is where weâ€™re headed again today) was more like work than â€œwork.â€ But before I posted I started reading, and a core group had returned and, well, I stayed. I donâ€™t see the serious insults that Dingo alluded to, though Iâ€™m in no position to be the judge of that, and heâ€™s received, to my mind, some very good advice comments at the end of the aptly named â€œI Am Immatureâ€ [arenâ€™t we all?] thread which are more to my thinking â€“ especially whoamItoday?. But the dilution issue remains. Too much filler between the BWAHAHAHAs!

Call if you need anything, but I think Iâ€™ll just watch for awhile.
rich
February 28th, 2007 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

Congrats to the person on this site who predicted yesterday that Apes and John’s dog walk would lead them to the little dream house!

165: Wow, Old Fogeyette, I guess I just don’t see the ugliness — I like Lio’s artwork. Uglier than Prickly City? Close To Home? Cathy? Drabble? Momma? Mr. Boffo? Rhymes With Orange? Some of those can be quite funny at times, but talk about lazy, hideous art!

Did you at least appreciate Tuesday’s anti-duck hunting Lio?
Kate
February 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

179, gh & Old Fogeyette:

Um, did you hear about the adulterous woman from Galilee that walks into a bar? “I’m sorry, I can’t serve you,” says the bartender. “You’re already stoned.”

*tappity tappity tap, heel toe heel*
â€™Round the Wheel
February 28th, 2007 at 12:36 pm [Reply]

I’ve never seen or heard of Momma before now, but I’m absolutely appalled by the art.

I’ve decided that the only way the joke in Momma comes remotely close to working is if Tina didn’t hear her husband the first time because she was banging a gong with that thing she was holding while he was talking, and even then they botched it with horrendous dialogue.

Also, the newspaper looks like a ruler in the first panel and only barely qualifies as a newspaper from that point on, actually looking more like a calendar in panel 3.

Also, why does the guy apparently find sitting on the arm of his chair so comfortable?

In conclusion, this comic should die.
Lynngineering
February 28th, 2007 at 12:37 pm [Reply]

#151 HogenMogen – well, ok that’s a quarter of a hundred thousand of possibilities there for Michael, all waiting to happen. Maybe the strip should just be each day starting with Michael, he wakes up, and thinks to himself: Hey, I’ve got 25G promised to me! What could I do with that money..” and off he goes, boring everyone along his path (”Oh God, it’s that fool Michael Patterson again, stop, don’t make eye contact with him! He’s going to start talking about that book advance he never got…”)
MossMoses
February 28th, 2007 at 12:39 pm [Reply]

176. PeteMoss, it could be worse. One poster revealed that his self gratification fantasy involves a girl stepping on his hand at the high school prom.
Catya
February 28th, 2007 at 12:40 pm [Reply]

#151 Hogen Mogen

Mike: No. But I have C$25K (minus $50 for parking).

(That made my heart happy.)
gh
February 28th, 2007 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

#181 Kate

Nice try, but I’m pining for the fjords. Damn you.
Indiebass
February 28th, 2007 at 12:44 pm [Reply]

Real question: Is anyone else having problems viewing comics today? I can’t see anything on the right-hand column of the chron.com website, and any time I try to look at those comics on a different newspaper’s website I get the broken image. It is just me or is it everyone?
cinephile
February 28th, 2007 at 12:46 pm [Reply]

I can’t get APT3G to open on the chron page! Nooooo! CHRON!! CHRON!!! CHROOOONNNN!!! (To be read in the voice of William Shatner).
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

The Wrath of Chron was my favorite, too.
queek
February 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

who needs Dingo links when there is Pibgorn?

*fans self*

(come back, Dingo, you’re missed.)
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

187. Houston, we have a problem.
AhClem
February 28th, 2007 at 12:50 pm [Reply]

#160 RoboMax –
It defies all the rules of logic, not to mention common sense, to use “creative team” and “Apartment 3-G” in the same sentence.
Catya
February 28th, 2007 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Actually, I think it’s definitely possible that April could have kicked up snow into her dad’s face. But, to be sure, I went outside at lunch and invited passersby to participate in a little experiment. The homeless man outside my building agrees that, given the right arch and flick of one’s Achilles’ tendon, a healthy amount of slightly wet snow could indeed ascend from one’s shoe to a bystander’s face. I didn’t take into account the shoes April’s wearing (Runners? Kicks?), but it does seem to make a difference if you say “WOOOO-HOOOO!!!” compared to “YIPPEE!!” or “YEAAHHH!” and whether the snow hits with a “KER-PLUFF!!” or a “POOT!”

Just saying, is all.
Zikar
February 28th, 2007 at 12:52 pm [Reply]

Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: I loaded my Chron comics page, and only three comics loaded – B.C., Foob, and (DT)GT. All the rest were gone.

I’m going to pull the covers over my head now, and await the impending doom.
Quacks Like A Duck
February 28th, 2007 at 12:52 pm [Reply]

Loved this comic by Tom Tomorrow!

This Modern World: You can’t trust science!

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=22047
rich
February 28th, 2007 at 12:59 pm [Reply]

180 (continuation of my previous remark):

Close to Home is my ultimate “can’t bear to look at it” comic strip. No! No! Those chinless grinning people just pain me too much. Here’s a good example. (Too bad, because the jokes are sometimes okay.)

I actually used to cut the artist, John McPherson, some slack, because I had him confused with the famous disabled cartoonist, John Callahan.
Galactic Emperor Chennux
February 28th, 2007 at 1:01 pm [Reply]

ATTENTION EARTHERS! ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT CAN’T READ! CHENNUX WAITS WITH CROSSED ARMS AND TAPPING FOOT!

SEE MARGO-ING POST # 115! CHENNUX HAS DISABLED COLOR COMICS ACROSS THE PLANET UNTIL THE SYRUP-DRENCHED FORM OF THE BLONDE DIRTY MICROBE GIRL IS DELIVERED AND YOU ALL SING THE THEME FROM STAR TREK WITH THE LYRICS POSTED YESTERDAY! NOW GET CRACKING BEFORE YOU ALL START GETTING THE DTs FROM MARY WORTH WITHDRAWAL!

END TRANSMISSION!
Montag
February 28th, 2007 at 1:06 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Please don’t rag on April. She’s the only identifiable, empathetic character left. Remember how much better she dealt with Grandpa just the other day compared to Mike’s sociopathic repulsion upon learning of Grandpa’s speech troubles the other week?

As for the snow question: Living in a cold climate myself, I can tell you that that is slush; especially at this time of year when it starts to melt-off. Jumping in a puddle of slush can very well result in what you see in the last panel. I cannot explain, however, why said substance was not adequately grayscaled to show this.

Guess I’m somewhat a FOOBapologist today.
cheech wizard
February 28th, 2007 at 1:07 pm [Reply]

197- Please stand by. Dirty Microbe Girl is being Sanitized for your Protection. Please be sure to break the paper strip before use. Thank you.
willethompson
February 28th, 2007 at 1:10 pm [Reply]

gh, old fogeyette and probably poteet:

Did you hear the one about the woman who walks into a bar in Africa and screams, “A dingo ate my baby!”

And then the large guy sitting on the barstool next to her stands up and slaps her and screams, “GOT! GOT! GOT! GOT! GOT!”
willethompson
February 28th, 2007 at 1:11 pm [Reply]

or is that Australia? I could never tell a joke right…
2xMartini
February 28th, 2007 at 1:12 pm [Reply]

This just in from the gutter…Angela magically transforms from looking like she just stepped out of her run-down double wide in her dirty, tattered housecoat in panel one to, “I wanna interrobang her, a’ la good cop bad cop” in panel three…it must be Cedric’s mystical pointing…
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 1:14 pm [Reply]

I believe the Emperor wants the jailbait known as Kelli, the one that always distracts me from snarking.
Uncle Lumpy
February 28th, 2007 at 1:23 pm [Reply]

I like all the Microbe Girls, dirty or not!
maerry
February 28th, 2007 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

Does Cedric remind anyone else of Tek Jansen, of Colbert Report fame?
Caged Tygre
February 28th, 2007 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

What? King Features is out again? I remember a little:

A3G: This has been pointed out already, but the girl that Margo’s planning the party for does look like she’s sporting a chrome dome under her cap.

RMMD: It sounds like there’s some interrobanging going on at the Morgan household.
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pm [Reply]

Can I have a mulligan on #170? Please?

Topless Ant in B.Câ€¦..Boring.
Topless Aunt in Judge Parkerâ€¦.Ewww.
Topless Aunt in Nancyâ€¦.Now weâ€™re talking!
Montag
February 28th, 2007 at 1:45 pm [Reply]

RMMD: Nikky didn’t just “clean out the garage” just so Rex could “park his ‘car’” in it did he?
SmartPeopleOnIce
February 28th, 2007 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

MARGO ON A CRACKER! What the boxcar is up with Chon?… Jeez, if Chexlics needs some recreation, why doesn’t he just, I dunno, gorphoplex the stock market or something (er, oops).

Bletch! Saturn!

Anyhoo…

#41 (Nyssa23) Lu Annâ€™s â€œKindergartenâ€ period – heh heh!

#64 (Joe) I will add this to my two other hard-won life lessons: 1) never ride with a naked bus driver and 2) never ever ask a woman if she’s pregnant if you don’t know the answer is “yes” beforehand.

#89 (Lumps) Bang!!! – A gunshot echoes from the Morgan garage…

I’m guessing that sound hasn’t been heard in the Morgan domicile for quite some time.

#141 (Smacky). Yeeeesss, I believe he did. Fetch the sporks….

#175 (Kate) Congratulations, I believe you just made the COTW short list!

PS: OK, which one of y’all is responsible for I am Tina’s Reticular Formation?
cheech wizard
February 28th, 2007 at 2:04 pm [Reply]

207 -PeteMoss: “Tie me Aunt Fritzi down, sport, tie me Aunt Fritzi down….”
Ned Ryerson
February 28th, 2007 at 2:21 pm [Reply]

Am I to understand that this Kelli (of Dirty Microbe) regularly appears in the advertising of this blog? I never see her. I had to hunt for her to find out what makes Chennux go all glorbczyx in his skezennixizyrk. I wish she would show up instead of the weird ass baby doll that cries blood.
Raznor
February 28th, 2007 at 2:21 pm [Reply]

Oy, Momma, why must you torture us so?

“Hors D’ouerves” has 2 syllables.

“Something she deserves” has 5 syllables.

Even if Senor Squiggly horribly mispronouced it as “horse doo-vrayz” that still sounds nothing like “something she deserves”. This doesn’t work on any levels.

A better last line would have been, “actually, instead of hors d’ouevres I thought I’d just bludgeon her to death. Want a beer?”
cheech wizard
February 28th, 2007 at 2:24 pm [Reply]

211 – Kelli’s not a girl on the side. You usually find her on the comments page wedged in between Josh’s posting and the start of the comments.
Aaron
February 28th, 2007 at 2:32 pm [Reply]

The ampersand can kick the interobang’s &$$!
MarrG
February 28th, 2007 at 2:40 pm [Reply]

I’m 3 years late, but I’d like to send forth a cyberbackpat for not only knowing about but caring about the proper usage of ellipses and em dashes.

-Elitist Grammarian
Poteet
February 28th, 2007 at 2:45 pm [Reply]

Deep apologies for not reading the comments before posting, as is my custom, but as far as I can tell, His Amazing Unpredictability, a.k.a. Galactic Emperor Chennux, has been messing with the comics again. I beg you, O Omniscient One, to change your mind and let us read them. Please. Please. See these tears?
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 28th, 2007 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

Hey everyone. I’m too young to remember Steve Canyon, but it’s been mentioned fondly in the comment threads here, so I thought I would point out that today is the Milt Caniff centennial.
reader-who-posts
February 28th, 2007 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

RMMD: My God does Rex look excited that the gunshot kept him from having to kiss his wife.

MW: Those can’t possibly be kids. The girl looks like she’s a 50 year old midget.

FBOFW: How does jumping in snow get an adult and two dogs wet? Did she land in a ’snow-puddle’?

Crock: Chicken blood!?!?!? I think being afraid of Buffalo is the least of his concerns, given that he’s dead.
Paperback Rifler
February 28th, 2007 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

Looks like the Mighty Chennux is appeased, at least far as the Chron functionality goes. Geez, I’m really going to miss that blonde Dirty Microbe girl.

Speaking of which, today’s installment of Slylock Fox looks a lot like the gorilla is thinking of throwing the explorer and the snake into a pit to see if they’ll fight.
anne
February 28th, 2007 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

ahhhh! thansk for the update, Paperback Rifler. I’m so relieved!

So Margo is planning a party for cancer girl?
Old Fogeyette
February 28th, 2007 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

#179 gh, once again our minds seem to be in sync. I am considering not posting anymore also. A few years ago I belonged to an email list that, like this one, was populated by witty and literate folks. And then two things happened: it got too big and there was too much to read; and three of the members started snarking on each other. It was a game list, and even though winning meant absolutely NOTHING, two people accused a member of cheating. The whole thing was so ridiculous and mean-spirited that I quit, for five years (just recently re-joined, but may not stay).

Yes, 300 posts a day is a lot. Maybe too much. I mostly just skim through now, looking for posts of a few favorite regulars (including you, of course), and no doubt missing a lot of good commentary, snark, and wit. But we may have reached the tipping point. Just reading (skimming) for a while sounds relaxing.

One final note: I don’t know which comment(s) finally drove poor dear Dingo away, but I know how it feels to be on the receiving end of mindless insults, whether personally meant or not. I am getting very sick of the snark about old people; even though I’m not “old old” I’m of Social Security age, and I have all my wits and all my organs functioning, and I resent the constant implication that everything about me (as an old person) is disgusting. Even His Popeness does that occasionally. I understand it, because I felt the same way when I was young, but I kept it to myself.
MossMoses
February 28th, 2007 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

213: “Kelli’s not a girl on the side”. Maybe she’s lying down but she’d cast a really protuberant profile viewed from the side also. Are those her God given breasts or did she go chest shopping with Gitsum Girl?
Jason
February 28th, 2007 at 3:22 pm [Reply]

I’m surprised it took 156 comments before the butler got outed. I’ve been saying for years that “glasses” is a really stupid disguise and now it goes and bites him in the butt.
anne
February 28th, 2007 at 3:24 pm [Reply]

I’m sad that many of the seasoned regulars are going away. Please continue to post occasionally even if you can’t read all the comments. or, there’s always the discussion boards.

Luann: what’s with Brad’s friend (T.J., right?)’s head? Here’s what I think it should look like.
MossMoses
February 28th, 2007 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

224. Anne, being a seasoned regular myself, I second your emotion but it is cool having the new blood on this board, too. The true comics addicts won’t go away. I know I need my daily fix of comics snarkasm. It really livens up my otherwise life sucking IT job.
gh
February 28th, 2007 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

# 221 Old Fogeyette

I hear ya, sister. Dance card’s still open, though.

#223 Jason

FYI: Cedric was outed as Clark Kent the first day he showed up.
Lyman Returns
February 28th, 2007 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

FBOFW-Man, but April can jump high! Girlfriend should try out for the WNBA! Or whatever the Canadian equivalent is…
AppleGirl
February 28th, 2007 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

FBOFW – Mike doesn’t realize it, but Deanna already spent the $25K on scrapbooking supplies to recreate The Memories lost in the fire. Good thing he ran in and saved that Windows 95 laptop though, eh?
AtomicDog
February 28th, 2007 at 3:46 pm [Reply]

#224-Nah, I can’t imagine T.J. as The Leader.

http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/l/leader.htm
dimestore lipstick
February 28th, 2007 at 4:19 pm [Reply]

**Un-funny post alert**

I try to keep it impersonal and on topic and upbeat when I’m posting, but I need to throw my appreciation of this crew into context, so sorry for the downer–
On New Year’s Eve, my father-in-law–my beloved “Papa”–passed away after a long illness and decline. On February 13th, my 39-year-old little brother succumbed to severe depression and took his own life.
Due to these losses, and a lot of other personal and professional issues, I have been devastated and depressed lately.

This site has been one of the things that keeps me going. You have all lifted my spirits and engaged me at a time when I needed it. It is important to remember that you have that power–a power to do good.

There is a lot of talk about the destructive powers of a message board or comment thread, but let this serve as a reminder that this community can have powerfully positive effects, as well.

Thanks, and can I just add?–please don’t let this community implode!
willethompson
February 28th, 2007 at 4:23 pm [Reply]

JP: With Neddy and Abbey at Le Ecole de Finguerpainteaux and Cedric out shopping for pan de phallaux, what, the world wonders, is going on back at Stately Rachel Manor? I’m hoping, like any other adults with the kids out of the house, that Groves and the Mistress are thumbing thru the Kama Sutra (”this Congress of the Cow looks interesting…”). playing the ‘Naughty Butler’ game or, at absolute least, garage cleaning.
xomom
February 28th, 2007 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

This is so cool! I had no idea what an interrobang was until today. Long-time reader, first time poster. Thanks, BC. Thanks for the memories, thanks for teaching me about an entirely useless piece of punctuation that I, as an English major, hadn’t even heard of. It’s so irrelevant outside of the sixties that it hurts.
It’s kind of like when you take archaic comic characters like Blondie and you have them talking on cell phones: “Gosh, Dagwood, I can’t talk with you right now! I’m talking on my keen new cellular phone!” and you realize how the juxtaposition just doesn’t work. I’m fairly sure I’ve seen cell phones on BC too. Ok, I get it. Technology is new.
Except that this is even worse because it’s so out of context! Interrobangs? What elementary school would even teach this? Apparently these ants are stuck in some sort of unfortunate time warp. That would also explain the R symbol, which is a Russian character which makes a sound like “ya”.
Incdentally, at first I thought it was a sexual reference.
I’m sure all this has been said before, but I wanted my golden moment in the sun too.
AppleGirl
February 28th, 2007 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

230 – Dimestore Lipstick, I am so sorry for your sad losses.

I have to agree with you. Reading this site is usually the best laughs I have all day. During my dark days in Northern Virgina, it was often the ONLY laughs I had all day.

It’s a great thing for a website to have the goal of funny. The snark is brilliant. The jokes are always flying on here so fast that usually there isn’t time for anyone to get mean-spirited.
Trotzenbonnie
February 28th, 2007 at 4:46 pm [Reply]

#230 – Dimestore Lipstick
My heart goes out to you.
I started lurking on this site at some point during my post-Katrina exile here in Lafayette LA and it always provided much needed laughs. There has been a subtle shift in the climate around here recently but there always seems to be enough good bad stuff said (if you know what I mean) to outweigh the mean-spirited comments. When things become overwhelming, let’s dig into that Plugger-sized 2.81 pounds of candy in a sack and try to keep on keepin’ on.
Kate
February 28th, 2007 at 4:56 pm [Reply]

#230, Dimestore Lipstick — I am so incredibly sorry.

For me, stumbling into contact with intelligent, kind strangers is like finding a diamond in my desk drawer; I didn’t do anything to deserve it, It makes me happy, and I don’t even know who to be grateful to. I try to keep this feeling somewhere near the front of my mind as much as I can, so that when someone needs my forbearance or help, I can give it as gracefully as i can (”I got all these advantages from the universe recently, so I can afford to be kind to you”).

I’m telling you this so you know I’ve been enriched by total strangers too. I’m a member of a message board where we’ve been posting for three years now … eight of them came to my wedding a few months ago, and it was the first time most of us had ever seen each other.

And, to switch the focus from me to you at last, whatever good you can get from this board or any other, please let it do you as much benefit as possible. You can feel happy for real when people say smart things, whether or not you’ve ever met those people; reading S.J. Perelman cheers me up and I’ve never met him. If this message board gives you any help or support through this dark time for you, let it. The help and support is real; what people say might be hooey, but being cheered up by it, that’s as real as it gets.

Also. Suicide tears the survivors apart and flips them upside down. I have had only a brush with it and I look back on that time as some of the most insane months I ever had. I stepped so far away from myself that it took me a long time to get back. So please don’t think *you* are crazy … it’s the situation that is, and you’re just trying to keep your head above water.

Love the name, by the way.
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
February 28th, 2007 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

Dimestore Lipstick – That is terrible, and I am so sorry for you. I can’t really think of anything else to say, except that I hope somehow our ridiculous little snarking-at-the-comics world will provide some sort of relief for you. About the only non-ridiculous thing about this place is that, over time, we come to get a sense of the persons behind the silly names – and therefore, it becomes less of a mere website and more of an actual community. In that way, I hope we can help you out. Best wishes – Jeff
gh
February 28th, 2007 at 5:17 pm [Reply]

#230 dimestore lipstick

You’ve made me laugh as recently as yesterday, when I needed it. Thank you for that. We’re all in this together.
Old Fogeyette
February 28th, 2007 at 5:23 pm [Reply]

#236–Dimestore Lipstick, I’m so sorry for your troubles. Losing multiple loved ones is possibly the hardest thing that can happen in life. It’s great that this site can be of help to you. I hope that everything looks brighter for you soon.
MossMoses
February 28th, 2007 at 5:24 pm [Reply]

Dimestore Lipstick: Sorry about your family. You really do need some comic relief and this blog is the best place to get it.

AppleGirl, I like your “dark days in NoVA” comment since I live there and can really relate.
fizzy logic
February 28th, 2007 at 5:35 pm [Reply]

#230 dimestore lipstick – I’m so sorry to hear of your recent losses. I’m glad this site was here to keep your spirits up, even in some small way.

And I’m sorry to think of the losses we would have if we lost gh and Old Fogeyette from our community. Both are witty and thoughtful snarkers, their comments always well presented and thought out – never saying something just to hear themselves talk, and/or to add to the post count. Gh & Old Fogeyette, you are true originals, and I hope you consider sticking around for a while, at least until another Aldomania comes to liven things up around here, and your “will to snark” returns.

One of the things I like most about this site is that people seem to actually read the comments before posting, so they don’t duplicate something that has already been said (for the most part). This gets more difficult once the 250+ mark has been reached, because people don’t have the time to wade through everything, or read thoroughly. I hope people continue to read the posts prior to posting, and continue to be thoughtful, literate and witty in their comments, even if we lose some of the supersnarkers. Newbies have a lot to live up to.

This place has more drama than a soaper strip! Certainly faster pacing than Mary Worth!
Dub Not Dubya
February 28th, 2007 at 5:36 pm [Reply]

Hugs to Dimestore Lipstick. And I echo what you said about the positive effects of this community. It got me through my divorce and other difficult times. My thanks and love to all.
anne
February 28th, 2007 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

Dimestore Lipstick, I’m so sorry to hear your sad news. I can’t imagine what you’re feeling right now, i’m glad this weird little community can give some relief — take what you can get right now. i went through a terrible loss 2 years ago, and i remember how fortunate i felt for the little bright spots here and there.
MonkeyHawk
February 28th, 2007 at 5:55 pm [Reply]

#230 — Dimestore Lipstick:

A cyber-hug from me, too.

(hell, I’ll probably even try to cop a feel)

Sorry. I’m one of this group’s true aboriginals.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
February 28th, 2007 at 6:03 pm [Reply]

I would just like to mention that my comment 97 about the Comic Strips’ Graveyard was made before I read Lio today. I was actually thinking about the elephants’ graveyard.

I was dubious about Lio when my local paper picked it up, but it’s growing on me.
cheech wizard
February 28th, 2007 at 6:03 pm [Reply]

My condolences, dimestore lipstick – there’s not much I can add beyond what’s already been said by the others, but I think it’s pretty clear you have the sympathies of the entire CC community. I think we all come to this site for those flashes of brilliance that lift our spirits and help make our day, and to indulge our own comic muses. Even if others don’t always get it.
Techinin
February 28th, 2007 at 6:10 pm [Reply]

gh and OldFogeyette: I’d miss reading your comments if you left. Even as a newb, it’s been easy to tell who the great supersnarkers are: yours stand out from the posting crowd and I would miss your comments as much as I’d miss petemoss’, wille’s, truefable’s, gadgecube’s, poteet’s, Chennux et al. Take a break but make it temporary.
Techinin
February 28th, 2007 at 6:16 pm [Reply]

Dimestore Lippystick: I’m very sorry for your terrible losses. My on & off boyfriend tried to commit suicide on Thursday and the past few days have been hideous… I read a lot of stuff online, but come back every day to CC. I always laugh out loud and marvel that there is a place for intelligent writing and comments. It makes my heart feel lighter when I start reading the posts.
Techinin
February 28th, 2007 at 6:21 pm [Reply]

One last thing, I’d feel a lot better if I could buy my very own Chennux doll (designed by Wille). Any chance Josh can commission something from pixiegirlshop and sell it on cafepress? I’d love a green felt Chennux with pointy white felt teeth.

Awwww! So cute!

NOTE: HRH does NOT have to be anatomically correct: I’ll pass on the skrxtort thankyouverymuch but I’d appreciate an operable magmacannon, if possible.
MossMoses
February 28th, 2007 at 6:35 pm [Reply]

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is a rare disease but it has afflicted every child in Charterstone. They all have 6 year old child bodies with waspy 36 year old faces. Why can’t any comics artist draw kids or Asians photo-realisticly? Rex Morgan’s freak “child” doesn’t look her age either.
Old Fogeyette
February 28th, 2007 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

Fizzylogic and Technin,

Thanks for your compliments and good vibes. As you can see, I continue to post. Hmmm…

What everyone says about laughs here is true. There are few threads, even those I skim, that don’t provide at least one LOL. I will reconsider non-participation and just see what happens, with this blog and with the comics themselves.

But I will NEVER EVER like Lio.
fizzy logic
February 28th, 2007 at 6:40 pm [Reply]

#248 – Techinin

One Green Felt Chennux Doll with Pointy Felt Teeth and Magmacannon – $XX.XX

Fizzy Logic’s husband’s expression upon seeing the package opened upon arrival – priceless.
jules
February 28th, 2007 at 6:46 pm [Reply]

This is starting to feel like the last episode of Seinfeld; are we all going away? I have to admit the last two weeks or so have seemed…different. Not as much fun. Lots of snark, but more mean snark, and not as much witty, literate, laugh-till-I’m-afraid-my-kidney-will-fall-out snark.

Dimestore Lipstick, I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through lately, and glad that you found some cheer here. Dingo, we’ll miss you if you really decide not to come back. To all who are considering not coming round anymore, we’d miss you too. Honestly, if too many of us disappear, I may quit reading the comments altogether, though Pope Josh need not fear that I’d quit reading his hilarious take on the comix!

It’s something unpredictable that in the end is right – I hope you had the time of your life. :)
fizzy logic
February 28th, 2007 at 6:50 pm [Reply]

#250 – Old Fogeyette –

And I will fight for your right to not like Lio!
Uncle Lumpy
February 28th, 2007 at 6:56 pm [Reply]

#248 Techinin, #251 fizzy logic -

Not an actual Chennux (oops, I mean CHENNUX) plush toy, but an incredible simulation!
Chromium
February 28th, 2007 at 7:01 pm [Reply]

165, 180 – I think the problem isn’t so much that Mark Tatulli is a bad artist, but that he tackles artwork he doesn’t have the talent for. I really think he’s trying to copy the art style of Bill Watterson. He does this thing in his “Heart of the City” comic where he tries to switch from realistic, soap-style artwork to cartoons, much like Watterson did, and it’s always painful to look at because he can NOT draw realistically for the life of him. It’s even worse when he tries to do caricatures of famous people like George Lucas. The dimensions of his characters suck, too. Heart’s eyes are way too big and as a result her bangs, which should be going straight across her forehead, are always crooked. And his characters’ noses are way too small. It bugs the [margo]ing shit out of me.

This post probably speaks more about my own mental state than anything Tatulli’s done, though.
fizzy logic
February 28th, 2007 at 7:04 pm [Reply]

#254 – Uncle Lumpy – Too funny! Magmacannon sold separately!
Galactic Emperor Chennux
February 28th, 2007 at 7:07 pm [Reply]

ATTENTION EARTHERS! FIND A COMFORTABLE CHAIR! CHENNUX SPEAKS! AND DROPS the caps lock for a moment.

First, my sincere condolences to Dimestore Lipstick and Techinin. Sometimes life gives you lemons and neglects to send the sugar and water – or even a pitcher.

Your Emperor runs a pretty hectic metaphorical universe and needs an occasional brain break. This site provides it. From AhClem to zeeba, it’s sometimes too much fun. So nobody leaves, or CHENNUX WILL GET HIS SKXCRITORT IN A FIGHTING MOOD!

Oh. Sorry, that occasionally slips out. Anyway, Chennux understands that Microbe Girl has been packaged for freshness and is on the way, so the color comics have been restored. so BACK TO THE MELKARDAMMIT SNARKING!

END TRANSMISSION!
dimestore lipstick
February 28th, 2007 at 7:14 pm [Reply]

Well, after reading the posts from the last couple of hours, I have three things to say–

Thank you for being so lovely

you have all proved my point admirably

death to Gil Thorp
SixFootJen
February 28th, 2007 at 7:20 pm [Reply]

Dimestore Lipstick – If I had a magic wand, and could make it operate over the interwebs, I would use it to make you feel better, bring your loved ones back, and make them feel better.

Hilarious posters – I read every post every day, often whilst sitting in a law school class, and usually have to duck my head under the desk “looking for my pen” while I snort in laughter at the snark. However, I’ve stopped putting up my own posts, for the most part, because you do it better than I do. Y’all are hi-larious! The wit! The wordplay! The snark! The innuendo! You leave me speechless — which is to say, I’m not going to post unless I have something useful or hilarious to say.

Newbies — hearken unto the wisdom of #240 fizzy logic! Read the posts so thou duplicate not what has already been said… be thoughtful, literate and witty in thy comments… thou hast a lot to live up to. It’s like the ‘mudge version of what Thumper’s mom said: If you can’t say anything original and snarky, don’t say anything at all.

Hail Chennux, my [over]lord and master!
Trotzenbonnie
February 28th, 2007 at 7:27 pm [Reply]

All hail the mighty CHENNUX for restoring the web comics!
I biked (yeah. You guys got me all paranoid about causing global warming yesterday) all the way to the Piggly Wiggly only to find one raggedy copy of the NY Times rotting on the newsstand! A day without comics can give you the shakes. Nothing beats the feel of cheap newsprint and BLACK ink-smudged fingers, reading the funnies the way God intended but our local “news”paper only carries strips that have the Precious Moments seal of approval…so I takes ‘em where’s I can gets ‘em.
softdog
February 28th, 2007 at 7:32 pm [Reply]

Today (2/28) it looks like Margo’s hands of fury are forestalled today by Eric’s niece Katy Mills, who appears to be completely bald underneath her trendy cap.

I’d like to thing Katy is doing the Britney thing, or is perhaps Brit in disguise, but I’m sure this is a sign of chemo, meaning Katy Mills must be visiting her Uncle while on break from Westview High School.

She’s even gotten Margo to give out one of the classic Batiuk wry smiles of pathos in panel 3.

Katy also mentions how Eric is “too good” at keeping secrets. Which is very creepy. Although if you’ve every been on a crank binge with Margo, you have to be able to keep your mouth shut. Like about where mom keeps the good scissors.
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 7:36 pm [Reply]

Hey, to misquote Yogi Berra, nobody goes to Comics Curmudgeon anymore. It’s too crowded!
SmartPeopleOnIce
February 28th, 2007 at 7:45 pm [Reply]

Um, just curious… Is this the source of all the Recent Trouble? (skip down to the last line).

I’m not exactly the most sensitive cat, but as a third party (who has found many laughs in both Dingo’s and MH’s posts) I read this as playful rather than malicious (albeit not impossible to misinterpret). Is there some subtext I don’t understand?
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 7:48 pm [Reply]

Dimestore Lipstick, I, too am sorry about your loss and pain and I wish you well. I also enjoyed your insight about the redeeming qualities of this site and I now feel less guilty about spending so much time here. Sorry if I’m running up the post count.

Oh, Techinin (# 246 & 247), sorry to hear about your troubled friend. Iâ€™m sure it isnâ€™t easy to deal with. Also, I’m quite flattered to be included in that list! Thanks. I’ll try to let it go to my…my…to late! ME ME ME ME ME! IT’S ALL ABOUT ME! (And Liz Patterson.)
PeteMoss
February 28th, 2007 at 7:50 pm [Reply]

264. try to NOT let it go. oh well. gotta run. see ya.
SixFootJen
February 28th, 2007 at 8:05 pm [Reply]

#263 — SmartPeopleOnIce, I am with you. I just spent about an hour scouring the past posts for the horribleness that drove Dingo away. And all I could find was “I recognize and appreciate you all. (Well, not Dingo so much, but the rest of you).” Is that the snark heard ’round the world?! Because I, too, read it as a joking, playful prod.
xomom
February 28th, 2007 at 8:10 pm [Reply]

Oh man, I totally know that my post was dumb…and in retrospect it’s basically copying what he already said, but…(sobs) I want so badly to fit in!

Imitation is the best form of flattery.

Josh, I love your work
xomom
February 28th, 2007 at 8:11 pm [Reply]

Oh btw, I tried posting this and it wouldn’t let me before, but I just wanted to say this blog’s hilarity helps me through hard times too, and I wish you all the best.
cheech wizard
February 28th, 2007 at 8:13 pm [Reply]

Finally! The color comics have been restored! It’s kinda been like a power failure after an ice storm, only the electric company is run by a pissy reptillian meglomaniac who’s got his shorts all in a …

Shit. They just went out again. (Bangs on monitor) And I didn’t even get around to the Lockhorns.

Oh, well – a few observations:

JP – Is Angela referring to “that German slut in the kitchen”? And wouldn’t Polly Walker make a killer Angela? (Warning: this will be intelligible to only select HBO subscribers)

RMMD – Rex’s first instinct is to go charging TOWARD the sound of gunfire? I thought they let only smart people into med school.

And I’ll bet that gunshot was from the cops. Niki’s going to have to get a mop.

A3G – Oh, joy, another cancer girl. Nothing like the funny pages to help you forget all your worldly cares.
Tedlick
February 28th, 2007 at 8:23 pm [Reply]

I can just hear the Slylock Fox editor when he saw the penciller’s work on today’s strip–

“good lord man, what are you thinking? oh, never mind, I’ll just have the inker change that to a banana & canteen.”
Andy
February 28th, 2007 at 8:24 pm [Reply]

Doesn’t anyone read Liberty Meadows?
cheech wizard
February 28th, 2007 at 8:29 pm [Reply]

263 – SmartPeopleonIce – I think the proper term is “The Recent Unpleasantness.”
Happy Happenstance
February 28th, 2007 at 8:31 pm [Reply]

A3G — I think that little girl does have cancer and, soon, Margo will be learning A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON.

MW — “I went overseas following your advice.” I thought she went overseas to get Dr. Jeff.

Mutts — That’s how this Comics Community makes me feel.
Allie Cat
February 28th, 2007 at 8:35 pm [Reply]

Dimestore – add me to the list of those sorry to hear about your recent troubles.

I keep coming back to this site because when I realize how many other people are analyzing FW, it makes me feel less alone.

I’m in a new city, in a new job that bleeds me dry on a daily basis, and this is where I come to feel authentic.

Also, FOOB letters should come out tomorrow… who’s excited??? ME!
stinky pete
February 28th, 2007 at 8:37 pm [Reply]

221 young-at-heart fogeyette, whenever my kids make a less-than-thoughtful remark about “old people,” I remind them that an old person is what they should aspire to be someday.
Mr. Oâ€™Malley
February 28th, 2007 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

Let me add my voice to those urging the old-timers to stay.

Yes, I’m sure it’s different than when there were only 11 posts a day. I frequently don’t add a “wow that was funny” if other people have already done so, just in order to keep the number of posts down. I’m sure there are others who do the same. So the amount of received applause should be multiplied by a factor greater than one when assessing how well your effort went over.

I recently had the experience of reading this site while in the cancer ward, and for unavoidable reasons I was generally a few days behind in reading. Nevertheless it was a bright spot in my day, and if I had to skim a bit, I made a point of checking out all the old-timers because I knew they would generally provide some much-needed laughs.

So please stick around if you can, because although I’m home now, I could still use a few daily chuckles, and if I have to get them out of the local birdcage liner, they’re going to be awfully thin on the ground. (Is there a metaphor lurking in there?)

That said, there have been a few posts that I found offensive, but I let them go by because I’m not very argumentative. But now I’m thinking that perhaps it’s better, especially for those with well-established credentials, to pile on right away.

It’s a funny view you get of people. You learn that they don’t like Lio, have a huge collection of vintage Smokey Stover or like to drink coffee. But their race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religious preference and home town will remain completely unknown, unless they choose to reveal it. Something to keep in mind when posting…
ohyes
February 28th, 2007 at 9:02 pm [Reply]

My sympathies to Dimestore Lipstick, with two dreadful losses…

And Mr. O’Malley, be well! And others!

I hope no one quits. No quitters! I found I’d dropped away recently, for weeks and weeks, no mojo, no time, hundreds of comments behind, but I came back anyway because it’s fun here.

As to whether things have changed in February’s doldrums – Aldo is truly gone, now Molly is gone, so, yes, things have changed. I’m feeling despair that Dr. Jeff is back in his celibate relationship with Mary. Maybe that’s affected us all. How can we go on?

But there is a bright side. At least now we have an Overlord, Hail CHENNUX!
True Fable
February 28th, 2007 at 9:06 pm [Reply]

Hugs and kisses to you, dimestore lipstick & Techinin. I hope time heals and things get better for the both of you. And, I hope we can continue to amuse each other and make the world go away for a little bit.

Let’s do the TF Snarkin’ Two-Step!

A3G Oh geez louise, ANOTHER plotline! At least it’s probable that Eric the Wonderful has a niece. So, what do we have for our gals? (1)Tommie has the hots for a Sleaze while toying with the tender feelings of a small hapless nerdling; (2) Luann’s getting high on paint and is painting crummy Orchid Still-Life with the help of a Ghost Artist (this happens to me all the time) and (3) Margo is planning the birthday party for the hip young niece [alert all battle stations, "Relevance for Today's Youth" has been sighted!) of the man she wants to, er, [margo]. You’ve got a VERY interesting name, Miss Magee. Let’s go [margo], Margo. Heh.
Dean Booth
February 28th, 2007 at 9:12 pm [Reply]

Sorry to hear about your losses, Dimestore. I’ve also found CC to be a great place to escape the real world and focus on the less urgent problems of the 2-D world. Of late, I haven’t been able to spend as much time here as I’d like to.

One comment on MW: I was very surprised that Ella did not know the Mary went to Vietnam. How odd that Mary did not tell her, and doubly odd that Ella’s psychic powers failed to reveal Mary’s absence.
Dean Booth
February 28th, 2007 at 9:22 pm [Reply]

Excuse this snarkless comment, but, Fogeyette, I sympathize with your complaint, and see it as symptomatic of our culture. A large percentage of Americans are obese, millions work in fast food, the average age get higher ever year, and millions live in trailer parks. Yet these characteristics are continually disparaged in our media — why do we hate ourselves? My best guess is that if people don’t like themselves, they’ll buy more stuff.

P.S. I would have used the word ubiquitous, but I can’t read that word lately without thinking of ducks.
techinin
February 28th, 2007 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

Thanks fellow mudgeons for the kind thoughts, they’re very much appreciated. I now retire to bed to dream about spewing magma, flaming skxcritorts, shards of green felt and bags of $25,000 Canadian dollars ($17.50 American).

Nite nite!
MonkeyHawk
February 28th, 2007 at 10:01 pm [Reply]

#263 — SPOI:

You interpreted my comment (”Dingo, not so much.”) as I intended it: just a playful little snark.

I’ve exchanged a few personal e-mails with Dingo and doubt that he misunderstood. I hope not.

It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been misunderstood. Live by the snark, die by the snark.
fizzy logic
February 28th, 2007 at 10:19 pm [Reply]

#267 xomom – Everyone has a first post. I’m a newbie too. We’re a rough crowd – it’s trial by magmacannon, that’s for sure. Most of my posts I wish I could take back the minute I hit the “At long last, say it” button, so I could improve, make funnier, fix typos, erase.

I think we all aspire to the supersnarker (snarkerstar?) level, but most of us don’t have it in us. So keep it short and shweet or try to keep to the commandments, some of which I discussed earlier — three others of which I’m breaking now:

Thou shalt talk about the comics, for that is our purpose.

Thou shalt be funny, not an insufferable ass.

Thou shalt not post so many times in one day that people are sick of seeing your name.

So I’ll quit my yappin’ and welcome you to the playground…. Look out for Chennux, and I hear that MonkeyHawk can get kind of “handsy”.
AhClem
February 28th, 2007 at 11:35 pm [Reply]

Dimestore Lipstick and Techinin, there isn’t much I can say that hasn’t already been said by so many others here. In a world filled with insanity and chaos, our little corner of the internets is a quiet respite that can recharge ones soul. As a relative newbie, I stumbled upon it by accident last fall, towards the end of Aldomania, and quickly became hooked.

This really is a special place, made possible by Josh and the many, many talented snarkers here. Oh, and credit should also go to the many talentless drones who write and draw the comics, without whom all of this would not have been necessary.
Poteet
March 1st, 2007 at 12:00 am [Reply]

Is this thread over? Will anyone visit here again? Does it make any sense to respond to this thread’s comments here, now? Dang. (Walks about for a couple of minutes, hearing the hollow tap-tap-tap of her footsteps…) Oh well. I guess I’ll leap on over to the new thread. I suppose most snarkers have gone to bed now.

“All BY mySELF…don’t wanna be all BY mySELF aaany more…”
SixFootJen
March 1st, 2007 at 2:32 am [Reply]

285 — Poteet — I’m still up. :)
HBGlord
March 1st, 2007 at 11:28 am [Reply]

#230 — dimestore lipstick, i also extend my sympathies, but i’m suspecting that you told us about your tragedies because you want more than that from us. Like snarkiness and wit — and even an ocasional group cyberhug. And as someone who went into work the day after my dad died suddenly, i understand the need to be surrounded by your loved (or even merely liked or tolerated, in our case) ones. I’m touched that you feel we qualify.

And the CC community at its best — which is 99% of the time — really is a strangely caring, supportive one (unless you misspell something) and so i completely understand why you’d share your sad news with us.

Besides, we’re also some funny-ass bastids, and we have the social advantage of being dots on a piece of glass, so we won’t careen artound your parlor and break your fine china.

xo,
hbg
PixelFish
March 1st, 2007 at 1:22 pm [Reply]

I’m glad I’m not the only person to notice Cedric’s affinity for Phoenix Wright.
.Doc
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm [Reply]

I haven’t seen “Momma” for a while. I didn’t realize that Tina had such a nice rack. I can’t wait to see Momma bludgeoned to death with that Green Giant size serving spoon.
Marion Delgado
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:40 am [Reply]

Hey SmartPeopleOnIce, now that it’s months later, I can say I like to give voice to the voiceless, such as wastrel heirs seeking justice and cash and the hypertrophied murder glands of unassuming girls like Tina. I assume you know the Reader’s Digest weirdness I’m parodying here?
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