The Comics Curmudgeon

100 responses to “Curses upon you, derivative koala artist!”

1. Dingo
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:44 pm [Reply]

   OY!

2. The Management
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:49 pm [Reply]

   ANDY CAPP! For the love of God, ANDY CAPP!

3. Mike P
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

   Dennis also demonstrates a latent man-crush on his effete pal Joey. Those come-hither eyes proves that Dennis’ future life will be upon a stage dressed as some sort of prisoner, hitting on men for money. His stage name will be the Menace, and he’ll be a heart-breaker.

4. The Management
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

   Also, Mary Worth would hold more of its artistic integrity if it used the more naturally choice of “Fuck you, Von!”

5. Mike P
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:52 pm [Reply]

   “Curses upon you, Von!” is much more memorable, though. The next time someone makes me angry I’m using that.

   Also, I agree: ANDY CAPP!

6. Financial Panther
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:53 pm [Reply]

   Seeing as we are talking about a simian artist, (and an anthropomorphic one at that), I’m quite suprised that we’re seeing shapes and definite colors instead of, well, scat.

   Can you imagine a simian Jackson Pollock? The mind reels.

7. Old Fogeyette
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:56 pm [Reply]

   Well, darn, I didn’t mean to kill the last thread, but looks like my double-post did it.

   Josh, thanks for mentioning “Curses upon you, Von;” I’ve been puzzling over it for several minutes. It’s such a strangely antiquated yet pungently hostile statement. I foresee good times ahead with Vera and Von and Ben. Unless we don’t get to meet Von, in which case I see boring meddleocrity.

8. Mike P
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:57 pm [Reply]

   Who’s a better artist, Luann or that chimp? My bet’s on the chimp, because he doesn’t need to get possessed to paint something.

9. commodorejohn
   March 18th, 2007 at 3:58 pm [Reply]

   I don’t know what’s more disturbing about Dennis The Menace – the oozingly gay first two panels, or the fact that the “candy” is apparently a small-animal turd. And Margaret eats it.

   Also, am I missing something about Andy Capp? Because it seems to be merely a six-panel Lockhorns knockoff (with three Silent Panels, one of them Penultimate.) Although I’d like to know what kind of church hosts a wine and cheese dinner. Probably the ones that have installed Starbucks in their Fellowship Halls.

10. Mike P
    March 18th, 2007 at 3:59 pm [Reply]

    Andy Capp is awesome because it’s friggin’ Andy Capp, for God’s sake. He has hot fries, man! HOT FRIES!

11. Chris Brown
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:02 pm [Reply]

    #9 – I find it easy to imagine that a British kind of church would hold a cheese-and-wine party. It’s almost a cliche.

12. willethompson
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:02 pm [Reply]

    Looking at Vera’s squalid surroundings, I’m guessing that ‘Von’ is actually the word ‘von’ from Clockwork Orange meaning smell or aroma, and she’s cursing the ‘von’ of her room which seems to have been lifted from the hospital in ‘Reds’ where Warren Beatty’s Reid character died. If so, I’d curse Von, too. That film went on FOREVER!

13. Mike P
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

    Also, Andy Capp began in 1957. The Lockhorns began in 1968. Therefore, the Lockhorns would be ripping off Mister Capp.

14. yellojkt
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:05 pm [Reply]

    Dennis is lame by comic kid standards. I’m running a survery on comic kids and teenagers as part of my March Madness. Come on by my blog and vote.

    I will atone for my comment blog whoring by linking to a good webcomic: I don’t think Gina is hott enough to work at the Questionable Content Coffee of Doom shop.

15. Uncle Lumpy
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

    I mean, ANDY f’n CAPP, fer Chrissake!

    I’m just sayin’.

16. stinky pete
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:16 pm [Reply]

    The Josh Reads Millenary Moment

    For as often as Josh references Judge Parker, it may surprise Curmudgeon Nation to know the strip did not appear until Josh Reads Post #215. Josh claims the strip is “difficult to follow” and then proves his point by repeatedly referring to Sam Driver as “Judge Parker.”

    This has been the “Josh Reads Millenary Moment.” 7 more posts till the millennipost!

17. PInk Haired Girl
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

    Curses upon you, evil people who have taken Mary Worth out of our newspaper!

18. Frank Drackman
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

    Gayest Dennis Ever

19. treedweller
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

    In today’s super Sunday Spiderman, JJJ repeats his question from last week and finds out that Spidey’s fake wife wants to be an actress; we find out the villain is named Crime Lord Kordok and he’s kidnapping said fake wife tonight (which might be exciting if we didn’t already know he was planning to kidnap her sometime soon); and Spidey is still reeling from the brick he took to the head.

    Wow, this strip has the proportionate boredom of a spider sitting on a web waiting for a bug to get caught.

20. kippetje2000
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:48 pm [Reply]

    At first I thought Dennis and Joey were wrestling over a condom. But then, Magaret receives a facial in the next to the last panel.

21. Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
    March 18th, 2007 at 4:59 pm [Reply]

    Andy Capp?

22. Trapper
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:01 pm [Reply]

    Is it me, or anytime that that particular “apartment” opens up in MW, it goes to some person with a “handicap”? Seriously, first it was poor, poor Aldo, then it was the “psychic” woman and now a ticked off woman with a ponytail & unibrow! I think that apartment has a mini bar filled with Jack Daniels. Cause we all know this new comer is just gonna drink herself right off a cliff!!!

23. Ron
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:09 pm [Reply]

    Y’all are missing the obvious solution: Vera hates VON HANEY.

24. Prehumous
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:10 pm [Reply]

    Is it just me, or are the parentheses around the word ‘apartment’ completely unnecessary in comment #22?

25. Frothy
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:10 pm [Reply]

    referents? (references)

    live pitiful? (life)

    I don’t get all the Andy Capp shout outs..

26. Mike P
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:18 pm [Reply]

    Andy Capp rules your schools, rocks your socks, and all other good kinds of things that rhyme. Also, Spider-Blog.

27. Sheilagh
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

    Parentheses? You mean those quotation marks? It’s okay, Trapper’s channeling Margo.

    WHAT is wrong with Gina’s hair? That’s the ugliest, scantiest hair I’ve seen on anyone outsideo of baby Trixie… or maybe Henry. Or Dagwood? Oh, never mind, it’s ugly as snake.

28. Heckler123
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:23 pm [Reply]

    #24 – Is it just me, or are those actually quotation marks around the word “apartment” in comment #22?

    I can be a total bitch sometimes.

    And it looks like it’s one of those times, so feel free to snark back with wild abandon.

29. Steve S
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:24 pm [Reply]

    I think Dennis and Joey’s fight was just a trick to get Margaret to eat that rabbit dropping.

30. Cafangdra
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:24 pm [Reply]

    Ha ha the Chron cuts off the throwaway panels in DtM; until I read it here I hadn’t seen the DELIGHTFUL bead of sweat forming on poor, about-to-be-molested Joey. That little droplet MAKES this strip.

31. Gabe
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:26 pm [Reply]

    Andy Capp > you

32. Uncle Lumpy
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:29 pm [Reply]

    Andy Capp could beat up Mark Trail and Spider Man with his cap pulled over his eyes.

33. Fred P.
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:35 pm [Reply]

    -25 Frothy
    “referent”, that which is being referred to (in this case by a pronoun), is correct.

    More information about artistically inclined simians can be found here

34. Old Fogeyette
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

    Well, I’ve read yesterday’s Andy Capp, and today’s, and it’s the same old boring sexist Margoing boxcar. What’s the deal?

35. The Management
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

    32. Beating up Spiderman is hardly an accomplishment. The insecure in his masculinity “superhero” has fallen to completely non-super butlers and bricks.

    And Andy Capp is ANDY FREAKIN’ CAPP! If he can beat his wife, he can beat up spiderman. As for Mark Trail, I’m faily certain most people could destroy Mark if they could convince him that they were a member of the local fauna. Then it would only be a matter of when to stab him or beat him with the nearest blunt object.

36. Josh
    March 18th, 2007 at 5:50 pm [Reply]

    #25 Frothy — Thanks for pointing out the live/life error — I fixed.

    #33 Fred P. — Thanks for pointing out that I used “referent” exactly the way I intended to!

    Josh

37. Pendragon
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

    I didn’t read all the posts in the last thread, so I hope this isn’t already breaking news but…

    Lucy is excited today because Charlie Brown got it up!

    I know you can’t do t-shirts from comics but I would totally buy one of those.

    If it has already been mentioned then Aldo looks like Captain Kangaroo. Film at 11.

38. Don
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

    What, no mention of Marmaduke’s pill problem ? I smell a cover-up.

39. Rhekarid
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:20 pm [Reply]

    In Dennis’ defense as far as being less menacing than Margaret, the puffs of steam that come from her mouth when she eats that candy would imply that she’s a robot.

40. Poteet
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:20 pm [Reply]

    A3G — Aggh, my comment disappeared into the ether! Thanks a lot, Chennux. I’ll try again.

    What is going on with this artist and profiles? It’s bad enough when Lu Ann turns sideways and ages twenty years, but Gina ages four decades. Look at her in panel 5. Now look at her in panel 6. Or is this a really vicious spell cast by an evil stepmother who’s talking to a mirror somewhere? That might also account for the hair.

41. Dicky
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:23 pm [Reply]

    14, yellojkt: Gina would get ripped apart by even the newest Coffee of Doom worker, Penelope. Lord only knows what would happen if Faye got her claws into her. The amount of snark that goes on in that coffee shop could possibly fill a few of us up…

    MW: Vera appears to be turning into Mary in that last panel. Maybe it’s just the anger at “Von,” but she looks as though she’s aged at least 30-40 years.

42. Sam
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

    Dennis is not only hitting on Joey, he’s also doing it via a joke last relevant in the 40s, thereby channeling Christian (the retrohipster gay friend from Clueless) and actually multiplying the Gay in that panel by ($)3.

    -sam

43. Dicky
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:25 pm [Reply]

    Oh yeah, and such blatant homopotentiality between Dennis and Joey. I love that they’re willing to beat Margaret to a pulp over stealing the candy, but can’t even come to blows themselves to settle it before she gets there.

44. Buck Ripsnort
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:37 pm [Reply]

    I’ve been reading DtM since Andy Capp could beat his wife and call it comedy, and I know– Margaret ALWAYS wins. She’s the epitome of the “good” little girl– Gina’s the bad girl in training– and, true-to-life, she’s about 5 years more mature than the boys.

45. Fred P.
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm [Reply]

    Well, Dicky, I’m not sure I agree with you about the homopotentiality in DtM. That doesn’t necessarily mean I can explain why Dennis and Joey are playing tug-o-war over a pair of egregiously stained underpants, though.

46. Toonhead
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm [Reply]

    It’s the Houston Texans. There was a contest that was the winner. Besides, petrochemicals, NASA and Gilley’s Houston is also home to a large number of strip clubs but the NFL would not approve of the Houston Titty Bars.

47. Artist formerly known as Ben
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:46 pm [Reply]

    Doodles: What do you get if you mix lots of paint and an angry artist? An angry, naked, paint-smearing performance piece. In the UK, a potential Turner Prize.

    DtM: Okay, what’s more disturbing? The idea that Marcus and Ferdinand (Hank Ketcham’s successors) knew what they were doing by having Dennis make come hither eyes at sexually ambiguous Joey and call him “handsome”? Or that they didn’t? Either way, Margaret seems to be saying, “Get a damn room, guys.”

48. Pendragon
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

    “She’ll fit into Charterstone just fine.”

    This is true. With phrases like “Curses upon you, Von” tripping from her tongue, Vera sounds like Professor Cameron’s soulmate. If he dumps Toby for her, it may make Mary worth reading.

    Nahh.

49. Daijinryuu
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:49 pm [Reply]

    That’s a terrible puzzle. It’s not exactly hard to find six differences in a panel with exactly seven objects. Thank God we’ve got RIDDLES!!! to make up for it.

50. Josh
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:51 pm [Reply]

    #46 Toonhead — Gah, you’re right. Thanks for pointing that out; I fixed it.

    Josh

51. Ewald Schwartx
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:51 pm [Reply]

    Tell me that I am not the ONLY one who thinks that Vera looks like Tommy the Tweaker.

    PLEASE!

52. Victor Von
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:53 pm [Reply]

    I’m afraid Vera is talking to me. I did a terrible job redecorating her condo.

53. Ewald Schwartx
    March 18th, 2007 at 6:59 pm [Reply]

    I am sure it is Tommy in Drag!!!

54. Uncle Lumpy
    March 18th, 2007 at 7:28 pm [Reply]

    #25 Frothy, #34 O.F. -

    Re: Andy Capp – follow this link.

    And do we know anybody else who speaks in all, er, capps? I think we do!

55. julia
    March 18th, 2007 at 7:28 pm [Reply]

    Re. 3/18 “Hagar the Horrible”: Hagar looks like Elmo. ‘Nuff said…

56. Victor Von
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:10 pm [Reply]

    I’m glad other people thought Dennis and Joey were about to have some sort of horrifying chibi yaoi moment. I thought there was something wrong with me.

57. j
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:16 pm [Reply]

    Hey, does Dairy Queen still put Dennis and the gang on their cups?

58. Tats
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:32 pm [Reply]

    Man, you wanna see pure shattered heartbreak summed up in a single drawing, check out Tommie’s face in the last panel of today’s 3-G. She looks like she just saw Lassie get shot.

    Also, Mary Worth’s storylines are getting increasingly unpredictable and insane. If only they weren’t drawn out over several months, you could make a case for it actually being *good.*

59. Lynngineering
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:36 pm [Reply]

    Apt3g- There is something creepy about the attention and focus given to the black hair tresses, splitting ends and all, in comparison to the bland clip-art world that the girls are embedded in. Not quite fetish, but certainly standing out in extra detail on the color page. It’s like the artist’s assistant (if exists) has the chance to do hair, and goes all out. Maybe next week it will be fingernails.

60. Canaduck
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:49 pm [Reply]

    I think you dropped the ball on this one, Josh. I’d say that by merely uttering the words, “Age before beauty….handsome”, Dennis has not only regained his former status of “Menace”, but completely eclipsed it. The bedroom eyes don’t help, either.

61. andreavis
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:54 pm [Reply]

    Damn, Dennis and Joey are sweating a lot. WTF? It must be really hot out. By all rights, that chocolate candy should be all melty and smeared.

62. Hysterical Woman
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:55 pm [Reply]

    Josh, I know that reading Rex Morgan, Judge Parker, and Gil Thrope has probably fired your gaydar, but how could you not comment on the first two panels of Dennis the Menace? Finally, Dennis the Menace is a menace (to the Religious Rights).

63. Victor Von
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:59 pm [Reply]

    #60- Canaduck, you are so right. Dennis has never been more menacing.

64. Some Guy Here
    March 18th, 2007 at 9:04 pm [Reply]

    Wow. This is a sad day in meanacing, indeed.

65. queek
    March 18th, 2007 at 9:18 pm [Reply]

    14, 41: I agree. QC rocks.

    Tai ftw!

66. philip
    March 18th, 2007 at 9:30 pm [Reply]

    My wife’s name is Mina (rhymes with Tina), but most people want to pronounce it “my-nuh.” When applying the incorrect pronunciation to the playwright/barista in A3G (Gina), the strip suddenly gets way more interesting.

67. Sucros
    March 18th, 2007 at 9:46 pm [Reply]

    Last time I heard “Age before beauty, handsome” said to me, a guy in his fifties in bad drag had just cut me off at a seedy gay bar.

    Dennis is even giving Joey the same look look of ravenous lust.

68. Virginia
    March 18th, 2007 at 9:48 pm [Reply]

    MW-The room offered Ad Lady looks less like a part of an apartment and more the stripped down offerings of a mental hospital. Not that I would know or anything…

    As for the Andy Capp mentions, I think I’d be more into it if it wasn’t the “Our church is giving a function, could you not invite your husband as he’s already headed to hell” strip that pops up twice a month.

    Judge Parker- Neddy and Abby aren’t off the metro yet? My god, if the artist were to retire like LJ, this strip would end in mid-sentence. Mug them or don’t, Punk Thugs! Just get the story moving already!

69. Uncle Lumpy
    March 18th, 2007 at 10:12 pm [Reply]

    #67 Sucros -

    The best response to, “Age before beauty” is probably Dorothy Parker’s, “Pearls before Swine.”

70. Christopher
    March 18th, 2007 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

    Well, Maybe Vera’s a witch, and the Charterstonians will all learn a valuable lesson about accepting people of alternative religions.

    Like, “don’t do it”.

71. Frothy
    March 18th, 2007 at 11:08 pm [Reply]

    #54 – Wait, what? People are shouting Capp’s name because of some nitwit? Say it ain’t so!

    By the way, it’s also possible the “Von” that Vera’s cussin’ up there is the Von from Gil Thorpe… At least I think there’s a Von in there. All those lightbulb heads look alike.

72. Captain Caveman
    March 18th, 2007 at 11:24 pm [Reply]

    Is Janeane Garofalo guesting on 3G to make it more “New Yorky?” They should have done that 10 years ago, before she went all “L.A.”

73. kippetje2000
    March 18th, 2007 at 11:55 pm [Reply]

    MW: Perhaps our friend Emily is a Canadian transplant; forced by her own increasing health costs (you name the disease) she has been forced to take the flat at Charterstone. She is bemoaning the tragedy of not being able to return home to take advantage of her motherland’s national medical system. More information about VON can be found on the Canadian Internet. (.ca) That manipulative Victorian Order of Nurses. They’ll turn you every time.

74. Randy S
    March 19th, 2007 at 1:35 am [Reply]

    60: Does giving the audience the heeby-jeebies count as menacing?

75. Foolster41
    March 19th, 2007 at 3:52 am [Reply]

    Dennis should have said at the end “Curses apon you margret!”

    Mary Worth: Wow, it’s nice seing the young generation apealing to Mary’s good nature and kindness. Wait, this is Mary Worth,. Never mind. He should hang up now while he still has his soul intact.

76. Goose overhead (HS Edition)
    March 19th, 2007 at 4:50 am [Reply]

    speaking about best comic contest:

    So, what, are Joey and Dennis ineligible for the contest because it’s past “ambiguously” gay duo? What about Dennis’s cover flirtation with Gina, who will never “mean business” the way Margaret will?

    I second whoever proposed Sally Forth. I have maintained for years that the Forths are a lesbian couple, with Sally NOT being the one you’d pigeonhole as more femme and less butch, if you must pigeonhole. Neither of them is a bulldyke or a lipstick lesbian, which is part of the genius of the strip. But it’s ambiguous in that it pretends to be a het couple.

    How many times has the “husband” made with his “I feel *old!*” and other pleas for reassurance. Not saying Boys Don’t Cry, but Ted seems on the verge of weepy much of the time. Much more than Sally. Hillary has two mommies, pass it on. My guess would be “Ted” as birth mom, since they look more alike and he/she is much more often involved with Hillary than Sally is.

    By the way, for those keeping score:

    BC: Really set in the post-apocalyptic future.

    Wizard of Id: Really set at a Renaissance Faire in the 1970s.

    Sally Forth: Really about a lesbian couple and their daughter.

77. Marion Delgado
    March 19th, 2007 at 5:11 am [Reply]

    Okay I have to post this while Josh is commenting on actress barristas. have to have to.

    This is from my radio show a few years ago:

    It’s part of a serial called “Hentaido vs. Chai-Tea Thrown” and it’s a crucial scene wherein the young Chai-ti thro’n student Lao-tse Tipa is buying two cups of chai preparing for his freestyle martial arts bout with the (extremely) dirty fighting hentaido champion.

    =====================

    [Barrista] Okay, that’s $5.95, please, here’s your …
    {PAUSE. . .[BACKGROUND SOUNDS AND MUSIC STOP] }
    OKAY, wait. That’s IT? That’s my PART? Those are my LINES?? ‘OKAY THAT’S 5.95 PLEASE??? OKAY HERE’S YOUR CHAI???’
    …
    I mean, I was Outstanding Drama Student for 2 years in a row in high school, I’m getting my BA in a year, I’ve been in three critically acclaimed local plays, I got 5 TV commercials and a walk on on a soap opera, but I still have to work at this caffeinated watering trough, and it’s NOT LIKE I’ve been complaining or anything, but this is the last straw. TWO STUPID LINES in some hopelessly adolescent dirty martial arts comic book sketch on a college radio station?? I don’t THINK so!

    If you want your little chai tea in the face happy ending, I think maybe I’m going to need more than two lines here.

    [Lao-tse]: (Sighs.) Oh by way. Much impress your performance “To Kill Mockingbird” you total reinvention of part of Scout.

    [Barrista]: Thanks! And here’s your chai tea – I hope it’s hot enough! And by the way your depiction of an “Oriental” accent is a stereotypical disgrace – fire your acting coach.

    [Lao-tse]: No tip for stuck up wanna be starlet bee-yotch. Lao-tse Tipa give NO QUARTER!

    ==================

    If you must know, hentaido means the art of fighting dirty – REALLY dirty, including molesting your opponent (hentai means, roughly, pervert, and the hentaido master tells you to, among other things,’ learn art of dung-flinging from wily monkey!’). Because of this, no one will fight the hentaido student, who wins year after year in the freestyle martial arts championship. Our hero quickly sets him in his place at the conclusion of the serial with the art of Chai-t’i thr’on – flinging a hot tasty Oregon Chai right in his face then beating the @#$#$@# out of the wounded, blinded opponent.

    The young woman who played the barrista/actress slumming was brilliant and really made the episode. If it’s confusing, it’s the old dodge of having a character break the fourth wall and address the play as a play and herself as an actress.

78. Marion Delgado
    March 19th, 2007 at 5:14 am [Reply]

    by the way i am with the koala here. True artists think like the koala, not the obsessive ape.

79. Cobra
    March 19th, 2007 at 6:36 am [Reply]

    MW: All right, I keep waiting for someone to say it, but maybe I’m the only one who sees the resemblance between Ben and Mary. Granted, it’s mostly just the hair, but in MW, what else is there?

    The color strips at least give the yellow/white differentiation. But when Ben first called Mary (it’s been, what? Three weeks ago, now?), I literally couldn’t tell them apart in my black-and-white old-timey newsprint paper (the *actual* Houston Chronicle!).

80. Schlimmerkerl
    March 19th, 2007 at 7:54 am [Reply]

    No, no. She’s cursing the late, great hipster hot-rod artist Von Dutch. Jealous, obviously, of his pinstriping expertise.

81. jules
    March 19th, 2007 at 8:04 am [Reply]

    Ha ha ha! A tempera tantrum! Get it? Get it? Tempera! Tantrum! Ah-ha ha ha ha –

    Oh hell.

82. Foobar
    March 19th, 2007 at 8:21 am [Reply]

    In Grade 5 I invoked 1000 curses on the head of another. That was embarrassing and surprisingly ineffective.

    66- I hear that. Today’s was particularly jarring: “Thanks for stopping bygina.”

    Also, it really is Affect Advertising. Hi-larious!

83. Harold
    March 19th, 2007 at 8:41 am [Reply]

    Did anyone else notice the dripping blood that has dried and darkened on the framed picture on Vera’s nightstand, next to the giant Tylenol caplet? Curses are apparently not the only weapon at this woman’s disposal.

84. fizzy logic
    March 19th, 2007 at 8:53 am [Reply]

    Really? Cracked plaster in Vera’s apartment is so cliche. I think the artist could have been more creative in showing poverty…I dunno, like showing the vermin infesting the place receiving government cheese or something. But – what am I thinking – this is Mary Worth, where creativity is limited to Mary’s inapproprate facial expressions.

    She’s just going to be so embarrassed if someone offers to help her move.

85. Joeypants
    March 19th, 2007 at 9:13 am [Reply]

    Just like all A3G strips, this one is so much better if you immediately white-out all dialog and then fill in your own. If you watch a lot of porn you’ll have no problems thinking of “quality” material.

86. t007
    March 19th, 2007 at 10:51 am [Reply]

    A3G – Since when has Crisco been used as a substitue for hair product?

87. MrP
    March 19th, 2007 at 11:30 am [Reply]

    I’m less worried about Dennis making a pass at Joey than I am at the two of them apparently storing their “candy” in a used condom.

88. Douglas E. Iannucci
    March 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pm [Reply]

    Why is the coach-went-to-the-bank-to-get-his-quarterback riddle antisemitic? What’s so antisemitic about it? Especially since it was contributed by a kid from Wyoming, Rhode Island (which isn’t far from Uspequaug).

89. Andrew Cunningham
    March 19th, 2007 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

    Have I been reading too much manga, or do they appear to be fighting over Margaret’s panties in panel five?

90. The Porridge Bird
    March 19th, 2007 at 4:02 pm [Reply]

    “Toby Da Vinci Needs Some Help.” No instructions, just a statement of fact. Toby Da Vinci is slipping into dementia.

91. AppleGirl
    March 19th, 2007 at 5:05 pm [Reply]

    Greetings! I mean Hello! What a fabulous weekend I had in the Sixth Dimension. Of COURSE shopping took place. What cute shoes! And instead of just two shoes to a pair, it’s six. Simply genius. Thank you, Emperor Chennux. It was a special weekend. And thank you for the awesome ride back to Irvine in the intergalactic convertible. Text me!

    76 – Goose overhead (HS Edition) – Thank you for putting into words what I’ve always believed about Sally Forth and “Ted.” They truly are a loveable lesbian couple.

92. Mooncattie
    March 19th, 2007 at 6:49 pm [Reply]

    The only other instance of “Curses!” in the comics that comes to me is Snoopy’s famous “Curse you, Red Baron!” — who was actually Manfred VON Richthofen. Perhaps our Ms Shields has an angry Peanuts fixation, or, more likely, Mary and the denizens of Charterstone will soon be called upon to once again protect a damsel of brief tenancy — this time, from an evil, stalking, monocled World War One flying ace.

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93. Blondie
    March 19th, 2007 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

    DtM: That is one tough plastic bag.

94. Poteet
    March 19th, 2007 at 10:02 pm [Reply]

    # 92 — Welcome, Mooncattie! (If you ever drop by this thread again, which of course isn’t likely.) And an evil, stalking, monocled WW I flying ace would certain be more appealing than (blech) Ben.

95. Korvo
    March 20th, 2007 at 11:53 am [Reply]

    #79, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to notice that. Maybe he’s her long-lost son that she can’t remember having because of those hazy “valley of the dolls” years.

96. usuck
    March 20th, 2007 at 7:44 pm [Reply]

    Andy Capp is awesome especially the way he degrades others and is constantly at a bar I try to follow his example….

97. Sigivald
    March 21st, 2007 at 2:27 pm [Reply]

    The real question: Who made the talking replica of Mary Worth out of delicious butter?

98. Dick
    March 23rd, 2007 at 7:06 am [Reply]

    “… or the kind that Mary needs to kill?”

    Well she looks like the mom from Family Ties and her name *is* an anagram for ’slavish deer’. You do the math.

99. Hat Hat Hat
    April 23rd, 2007 at 8:58 am [Reply]

    oh god that drop of drool make it go away

100. Carly
     November 27th, 2007 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

     Why does Vera look like Tommy there? It’s the hair, isn’t it?

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