Henry wears a pocket square to church, he’s a real class act
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Hi and Lois, 9/11/23
Sometimes it can be easy to forget that we live in an age of technological wonders. For instance, if you have a leak in your house, you can contact a plumbing professional, send them a photo or video of the problem, and have them give a preliminary diagnosis and estimate, all without the need for them to make the trip out to your house. Hi and Lois absolutely hate this, for some reason.
Dennis the Menace, 9/11/23
Not sure if this guy is supposed to be the Mitchells’ minister (in which case their denomination’s clergy has undergone a significant sartorial downgrade in the last few years) or just some hapless victim Dennis has decided to annoy while Henry and Alice stand idly by doing nothing to stop him, but that is the face of a man who is either unable to politely get away from a little moron who’s so theologically misguided that he reinvented Scientology, or the face of a guy who isn’t listening to anything that little moron is saying because he has to take a huge dump. I guess it could be both.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/11/23
Look, Rene, the days which you’d get paid for your musical talents and flim-flam schemes in cash or cocaine are over, you current operate as part of an interconnected network of specialized professionals, so get used to it and stop kidnapping people.
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Mary Worth Mashups: Which missing final panel matches your emotion after reading today’s entry?
RMMD:
“None other than Einstein postulated that time slows down as the pace of this strip speeds up; which is to say, it never slows down.”
MW:
“I can say without a moment’s hesitation, Eve, that you have given me a new leash on life!”
RMMD: Rene is outraged when he finds that Mud has agreed to collect their royalties in crypto.
“You Doofus! Those guys are bigger scammers than I am!”
H&L: What’s even weirder is that they already had a plumber come over, so they should know how this works. Unless…wow…oh wow…the previous strip was about some kind of cucking roleplay.
DtM: Barack Obama regrets dropping in on that church.
RMMD: I am looking forward to the visual feast of Excel spreadsheets, and I know this strip will deliver.
RMMD: I look forward to Rene taking on Spotify.
Frazz: This is not the strip where I expected to see a rejection of grind culture.
Luann: It’s cute that Gunther equates himself to a US Marine. Also, Bets grinding that gear shift is not actually a metaphor for anything.
CS: Jeez, lady, Crankshaft was just trying to flirt with you! (Is that the joke? I can’t really tell what the joke is, or if there even is one.)
9CL: Don’t worry, Amos, swallowing your tongue won’t change how others perceive you.
H&L: I’m sure it’s just an accident, but if you’re doing a comic about building damage on 9/11, having Hi Flagston be all “Aw geez!” about a slightly leaky PVC pipe elbow isn’t a great look.
DtM: While I do wish more American comic artists would be a bit more daring and flexible with their work, these rare moments where they depict a single random character with a lot more detail are just creepy.
RMMD: Rene sure is fixated on the specific “royalties” (residuals might be the correct term) generated by partial rights to one song on a cartoon show launched what seems to be a few weeks ago. That dollar amount, however it is determined, would be relatively (and likely negligibly) low at this point, and more importantly it would be climbing over time as syndication, merchandise, and other related projects open up greater revenue streams. Is Rene planning to pull this double-kidnapping stunt every few months or so for the rest of his life? Why does he even care what his “fair share” is? He’s a criminal conman! He just wants all the money!
Zits: Was Pierce holding on to the gas that he was passing?!? You know what, I don’t want to know.
FC: Goddammit, Jeffy! Your mother is right there! You don’t like the cooking so much, why don’t you try it?
MW: I hope the owners of Charterstone get sued for millions when investigators find out they didn’t fix the pervasive carbon monoxide leaks.
@Baja Gaijin: I definitely feel like giving up.
DtM: Dennis sees church as a spaceship and Barak Obama as its pilot. Alice and Henry now know what happened to that missing tab of acid.
RxMD: “How many accountants? I have to steal a car with a bigger trunk!”
JP: I like this kid.
H&L: Looks like we have a classic ‘fakeout’ gag here today: initially you think you’re getting another bland ‘technology sure is weird’ joke, but instead they pivot to the ‘stuff sure is expensive’ punchline. Unfunny in a whole dirrent way!
DtM: After months of intensive polling research, Vivek Ramaswamy’s team has determine that his path to the nomination lies in the coveted Dennis the Menace readership demographic. He was originally going to try to appear in a Pluggers, but Chris Christie already has the Bearman vote tied up.
RMMD: God, I hope we get a solid week Renee kidnaping more and more of these dopey management people. Each time he takes the burlap sack off their head they just say something like ‘Geez, I don’t know that Lenny told ya — I handle merchandise, royalties is a whole other department…!”
FC: Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
Even the Lord can’t do much with the broken instrument known as Jeffy.
DtM: the Mitchells have apparently joined the local, suburban branch of the Manson Family.
@taig:
On Crankshaft : I’m MORE confused at the incredibly out-of-character bit of Crankshaft actually stopping to pick up a kid waiting for him in the rain instead of speeding past while splashing them soaking wet.
…Is this “every parent now drives their kid to school all the time” going to become a ‘thing’? If yes,
a) is this a sign that Crankshaft is ending, with his job getting cut because schoolbuses are now ‘obsolete’ (in the Funkyverse, I’m pretty sure EVERY family driving their kid to school every day isn’t a thing in OUR world)?
b) is the strip going to acknowledge that the people on his route preferring to NOT use the schoolbus is kinda his fault? That people turning away from bussing their kids might come from the quality of the service they’ve been receiving from Crankshaft?
I’m hoping for YES on all these questions, but deep down suspect that’s decreasingly likely for each question, starting with the first (this is probably just another week of one-shots)***********
On Luann : it’s been three weeks, so the Evansi are assuming every Trufan has received their copy of ‘The Summer Misadventures of Gets and Bun”, read it cover to cover, and can appreciate a week of references to it.
Is it wrong to wish for the shipping to miss the 3-5 week window, come in WAY later, and the Trufans to get incredibly irate at the Evansi winking at them for insides jokes THEY haven’t become privy to yet?**********
Six Chix vs Dick Tracy vs Heathcliff : I haven’t checked if they’re the ONLY only ones, but those three are the only ones on my pull list who took pause today. Weird mix.
DtM: I’m not getting Josh’s “pocket square” reference in the headline. What am I missing? That looks to me like a sweater that picked up Kleenex fragments in the dryer.
Oh, look. Rex Morgan, M.D. is trying its hand at comedy.
@Anonymous: I would not shed any tears if Crankshaft was ending.
Luann: No, the Marines do not polish their footwear and haven’t done so for a very long time. Meanwhile, the Trufanns are (justifiably) irritated that we’re back on the Gunther and Bets post-breakup arc when they haven’t received their books with the prequel(?) roadtrip story, so we’re going into two or three weeks of Gunther being whiny and self-pitying for reasons nobody understands. Sounds like a blast.
MW: Goddamn, another week of this. This puts me into the sixth of my five stages of Mary Worth epilogues, where I only bother checking the strip on Mondays until Karen and June finally move on. Since this means I’ll be taking the rest of the week off regarding MW, let me just say that Max and Greta look particularly awful today, like especially ungifted kindergarteners made sock puppets of the characters.
@Arabella: Check the linked comic in his comment.
@jroggs: Thanks. I hadn’t checked the link because I assumed “sartorial downgrade” referred to the minister, and I remembered that he used to wear robes, not a cheap suit with horizontal stripes.
Dennis has finally realized that Dolly Keane is more menacing than he’ll ever be.
Dennis the Menace-Sorry, Dennis, but you’re twenty-six years too late for Heaven’s Gate.
JP-“There’s this adult who is obviously having some sort of crisis named Ted Chadwell in my class.”
RMMD-“It’s a good thing I brought the accounting department with me in the glove compartment.”
FC-Jeffy’s a Born Again Mary Worthian.
Hi and Lois-Lois, you should text the plumber a photo. That’ll get him to come faster.
Hi and Lois – Yes, that’s their idea of a punchline. They really should just rename this strip LIFE SUCKS.
Dennis – “I don’t mind goin’ to church. It’s the unnerving stares of the grotesque giant-headed goblins that creep me the hell out.”
Dennis – Today’s special guest caricature is Marshall Applewhite.
Dennis the Menace: Having watched the funeral for the victims of the shootings at Emanuel AME in Charleston, I can testify that Barack Obama can rise to an occasion better than a lot of preachers, but given what’s coming out of Dennis’ mouth, I’d say he does about as well with the summer lectionary readings as any of us do.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Rodney! Stop jumping on those leaves! That tree’s too high!”
“Don’t you think that kind of game is too dangerous?”
“Maybe you’re right…”
“But I want to see how long my uncle’s bones hold out!”
Dennis the Menace alt joke: I can tell Dennis has been paying about as much attention as I did as a kid when my old man was preaching, which is to say, zero.
H&L: As Hi is being led away by the police he protests that he sent those pics to get estimates for his colonoscopy.
Hi and Lois-“I’m very flattered but I don’t swing that way,” the plumber responds.
Rex Morgan, M.D.: Never mind the assault and battery and kidnapping, I’m trying to extort you here!
C’shaft: I’m not a plumbing expert, but isn’t a leak like that something a) you want to take care of sooner rather than later and b) can file an insurance claim on? I mean, “we knew about it, we just being really cheap about the repair job” is going to make the increasing amount of water damage a tough sell to the adjuster.
DtM: The face of the gentleman Dennis is addressing is so different from the strip’s usual aesthetic (both in terms of art style and, ah-hem, skin tone) that it’s easy to miss the rest of his body, which is weirdly small and two-dimensional in comparison. Dooming the entire planet because you made an offhand “spaceship” crack in front of an imperfectly disguised extraterrestrial scout? Very menacing indeed.
RMMD: This is going to end with Rene getting a measly $57.32 in royalties, isn’t it?
DtM: Looks like Dennis the Menace has been infected with a severe case of Gasoline Alleyitis, realistically drawn people with cartoonishly drawn people.
DtM: All of their previous strips involving Dennis spewing blasphemy after church service had depicted the minister in full clerical garb. Has the recent schism in the Methodist Church caused the Mitchell’s to jump ship?
RMMD: Smart move, Rene. Put back in the holster the one thing that’s keeping Buzz and Mud from beating the snot out of you.
@Guillermo el chiclero: re RMMD: Nah, it’s fine. Mud is pretty much an Amos-like thrall for Rene, while Buzzy is such a cooperative hostage that he politely sat quietly in the trunk in the parking lot rather than thrash around and moan to get anyone’s attention, not to mention how he is so fixated on that crick in his neck that he is apathetic to anything else going on. And who can blame him? Buzzy has aged nightmarishly since we last saw him a few months ago.
Luann: We’re clearly meant to interpret this thought balloon as Gunther wishing that Bets was polishing his knob, right? The strip is basically a rebus.
@TheDiva: H&L: We just had a drip like this in our basement. Ours was slow, though, and for various reasons it took us several weeks to get our plumber out here, so we just put a bucket under it. Repair cost was a few hundred — not worth an insurance claim.
9CL: At least back then they were only swallowing their own tongues.
CS: “They took my keys away!”
C’shaft: “Also we’re new in town. So you’re the bus driver everyone calls ‘The Demon of Death,’ huh?”
DT: Did the Dick Tracy team time the arcs so they could insert a smarmy 9/11 memorial in between arcs?
Dustin: “You know what, on second thought don’t listen to your body. Eat fast food, drink heavily, ignore that shooting pain in your left arm. The sooner you stop taking up appointment space the better.”
GT: The idea of the increasing acceptance of queer identities leading older people who grew up in more repressive environments discovering new things about themselves is an intriguing one worth exploring, so it’s disappointing that this will get sidelined like every other LGBTQ+ character in Gil Thorp.
JP: No, no, I 100% approve of this response to bullies. Besides, it’s kind of sweet that Charlotte has gone from “Go away, you’re not my real mommy!” to “My mom is the coolest assassin-mom ever!”
Lio: If you had asked me which strips would do 9/11 themes today, this would have been near the bottom of the list.
MT: “Flapjacks”? Is Mark from the South or from a 19th century lumber camp?
MW: Damn, that is some viscous champagne. Forty-five degree angle on the glass and it’s barely even moving. Wonder what the legs look like.
Phantom: “Do we even know where we’re going?” is a perfect summary of the past year or so of this strip.
SH: “That’s what I get for selling our patent to Fossil Fuels Forever Inc.”
@Guillermo el chiclero: Looks like Dennis the Menace has been infected with a severe case of Gasoline Alleyitis, realistically drawn people with cartoonishly drawn people.
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I was just trying to work out who that was meant to be, and how much his worst enemy paid to have him so brutally caricatured.
“OK, I’ve kidnapped your accountants. Pay me my royalties!”
“Sorry, but those records are on computer. We need our IT guys.”
“Fine, I’ve kidnapped your IT team. Where are my royalties?”
“Uh, all that information is on cloud, AWS, and since we’re remote we’re locked out. We’ll need some AWS personnel.”
“It took some doing, and several large busses, but I’ve kidnapped everyone at AWS! Where’s my damn money?”
“Well, since you’ve got us all locked in a motel room, the servers have gone down, and we’re not there to fix it. You’ll need to . . . .”
“Stop. Shut up. Just tell me who is responsible for the post-industrial information economy and I’ll kidnap them!”
“Hate to tell you this, but Alain Touraine died a few months ago.”
Pluggers: We could say the same for old-school bankers and lawyers. Except all their socks are black. It’s a small world, after all.
Dennis has forsaken High Church Anglicanism for a more evangelical service at the feet of … former congressman Harold Ford Jr?… as his homage to the Heroes of 9/11. I guess?
FC – Breaking news! Thel has a collection of Betty Crocker recipe cards!
Pluggers – I’m sure that this is at least the third time this pluggerism has shown up. Plus the opposite one, where he can’t match his socks, has shown up, too.
Speed Bump – Sid’s bears are getting a lot of work.
@Baja Gaijin: All of them. Especially the first three.
Luann-Well Gunther does like a few a good men.
Vintage Hi and Lois – Chip’s friend (teenage version of Tubby from Little Lulu) is distraught because he’s running away from home right now and so far all his parents have done is change the locks.
MT: Stop whining and heat up your flapjacks in the microwave. Geeze.
MW: Married just a few hours, and Eve has already let her hair go gray. Next Saul will finally stop blaming Greta for his farts.
Berkeley Mews: The Star Wars version you thought you’d never get to see.
@Voshkod: I have a Bluesky invite for you.
@Sequitur: I never knew I needed Star Wars: After Dark.
Luann: If this were an interesting strip, that last panel would be the beginning of two weeks of a docuseries-style crime reenactment revealing Bets’ grisly fate and showing Gunther’s sociopathic nature as he unemotionally disposes of the evidence and permanently silences an unfortunate family who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. At the end of the reenactment, the narrative would come back to the present with a panel of Gunther doing an unhinged “Kubrick stare” at the audience, which would be made doubly uncomfortable by the knowledge that a number of Trufans would stare back at the panel and think, “Whoa! It’s like I’m looking into a mirror!”
@taig: Thanks; of course, I’m not sure how to get it without giving out e-mail accounts or the like.
RMMD: If only there were a doctor around who could help Buzzy with his sore neck. Oh well.
@Voshkod: I can put the code in a Google Doc, post the link here, and hope that no one grabs it.
@taig: I’d surely appreciate it, and I’m on here now.
@taig: Got it and thanks. I’ll play around with it when I’m at home.
@Voshkod: Excellent. I’m going to delete my post now.
@Anonymous: You have a tremendous amount of respect for the TruFans’ capacity for self-reflection.
@1 Baja Gaijin:
I kinda like the police woman there to arrest them for dognapping.
@56 taig:, @57 Voshkod:, @58 Voshkod:, @59 taig:
Shananagans on the Curmudgeon site.
@Arabella: He’s wearing one in the call back that Josh posted a link to. Do you even click?
@Voshkod: Rene’s going to come out on the losing end even after being paid royalties, as feeding his many kidnap victims costs real money.
@Sequitur:
You know, it’s weird – I’m friends, at least in the Facebook sense of things, with several folks on here – but I couldn’t tell you how we figured out who the other person was to make it happen. We just manage to put out the right vibe, I guess.
@taig: @Voshkod: I also have Bluesky invites to hand out like Chiclets. If anyone’s already on, you can find me @ Dandadad.
@Chance: re DtM: Thanks, but @jroggs answered that for me a few hours ago, and I explained then why I had not clicked on what I thought was a redundant link. Do you even read?
@Sequitur: Mild shenagengs at best.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: I’ll look you up once I’ve played around with the new system for awhile.
The Phantom-“We go where the writer takes us.”
Dennis the Menace-Years later people will be wondering why Dennis would form a suicide cult.
Dennis Minus Menace: “Beam me up, Obama.”
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV:
Could I have a Chiclet™?
@Voshkod: Shouldn’t take long to figure out if you’re familiar with the Twitter interface. It’s different, but only a little.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: I followed you.
FC: I love the adults’ expressions here. Big Daddy Keane is wondering “I know all the kids are malaproping idiots, and he’s the worst, but … did he say that on purpose?” Thel, on the other hand, is absolutely certain.
Phantom: Devil somehow leads them all the way to a disused warehouse in Santa Royale, only to then realise that that’s the wrong story.
@Anonymous: is the strip going to acknowledge that the people on his route preferring to NOT use the schoolbus is kinda his fault? That people turning away from bussing their kids might come from the quality of the service they’ve been receiving from Crankshaft?
On the one hand, the strip made it clear the last time it mentioned this that it isn’t just happening on Crankshaft’s route, it’s the entire school district, which was probably intended to disprove that very theory. On the other hand, the strip has made it clear on many occasions that all the drivers are assholes; he’s just the “best” at it, so it doesn’t, really.
@pugfuggly: I kind of enjoy the idea of replacing all the male Pluggers with Chris Christie.
”If you haven’t seen your own dick for thirty years, you may be a Plugger.”
Dolly makes Christmas all about her at Family Circus.
AGGGGGHHHHH! Either Josh or Uncle Lumpy just made tomorrow disappear!
That can’t be good for the chrono-synclastic infindibulum.
@Ukulele Ike: I didn’t comment on that thread just to make sure I would still exist after it got erased.
@Ukulele Ike: I’m going to miss the alternate universe comics from tomorrow, like the Circus Family, a charming slice-of-life piece about the loves and losses of carnies, Fourth Sally, the only strip to forthrightly (see what I did there?) face the challenges of cloning, and Swine Before Pearl, a dramatic strip about a group of pigs trying to stop the Japanese attack on Hawai’i.
@Ukulele Ike: What happened? I had three comments posted consecutively and appeared in the forum, then suddenly vanished.
@cheech wizard: Based on past experience, they’ll still be there tomorrow when the entry posts on the correct day.
DtM – “That’s very nice Dennis, but it’s naptime now. Go put on your new athletic shoes and lie down with your purple blanket. Be sure to pull it all the way up over your face.”
@78 Ukulele Ike:, @79 taig:
I informed Josh about the postings.
This has happened before. Josh will keep all the postings on tomorrow’s thread and they will show up tomorrow morning.
Of course, some of them won’t make sense…
@Rube: What, we had a premature daily post from Josh? I guess I missed that part.
@cheech wizard: It was harder than usual to notice, as one of the strips was a Mary Worth, and they have all looked the same for weeks.
Hi and Lois-A plumber yesterday. A plumber today. They either have really bad pipes or the guy yesterday wasn’t there to really fix the pipes.
@Voshkod: Good idea! Some more favorites:
Blues Baby, about a precocious infant who sings just like Billie Holiday
Google Barney, an activity comic that urges children to look up fake dinosaur facts
City of the Heart, a medical soap set in the world’s largest cardiology clinic
GT – So are we moving closer to the permanent return of Holly Dobbs? She made a brief appearance when Barajas first took over the strip and he seems fond of some of the original elements of the strip, like having Gil be a pilot. Holly was a drama teacher at Milford and Gil’s gf up until around 1970 when she left to make it big in Hollywood. But she seems to have been a popular character. If she comes back, I expect it won’t be long until we see Joe Sharky and Billy Bumpkins make an appearance as well.
I have just had this feeling that dozens of wry, pithy comments have just been torn from the interwebs. Maybe there is a new hope to revive them tomorrow.
@Peanut Gallery: Bailey Beetle, a comic about a Coleoptera living in a castle fortification.
Menace the Dennis, an activity comic about threatening Dennis Miller.
Parker Judge, a gritty story about a parking enforcement officer in Neo-Chicago.
@Rube: re: MW: Exactly!
I was only tipped off by seeing Sprocket Nitrate nefariously obtaining a phony passport, after already reading Monday’s weak 9/11 tribute during my morning perambulation through the Seattle Times funny pages. “Hurrah! More barefoot adventures of Sprocket Nitrate,” I shouted in delight.
9CL – Oh. Joy. They are children again.
And having another tongue-sticking-out contest. Which Amos has lost.
Entering a tongue-sticking-out contest when you have no lower jaw must be like being the one-legged man in the arse kicking contest. The only way to win, is not to play.
RMMD – Unfortunately, Rene won’t see any royalties from Mud’s next song, “My Manager Got Locked in a Trunk by an Idiot.”
PIBGORN – Those arrows go right into her back around where her lungs would be, I’m surprised she’s not bleeding out from the wounds. They are deep enough that you can’t even see the arrowheads. I hope she’s got good insurance and that it isn’t too long a ride to her HMO.
JP – So Ces got the jump on us and said what all of us were thinking? Well played, sir.
(this will likely reappear tomorrow, but it only makes sense today)
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: See, if she’d just stayed her original size where she could sleep in a candle flame, those arrows would have missed. Then again, if this is her origin story, this IS her original size. So how does she get shrunk? Maybe the fat unicorn has something to do with it.
@Voshkod: You got me to look up “bailey.” So that’s where the name The Old Bailey comes from!
FC: HTT Grandma is thinking, “Hmph. It would probably require divine intervention to make one of Thel’s meals edible.”
DtM Reverend Stare-You-Into-Hell there is terrifying. It’s like they took the head from any other cartoon and slapped it on the body of a DtM character.
I wish every Rex Morgan strip was about Rene improving everyone’s lives through his schemes and scams. We could lose every other character. They could pull a Snuffy Smith.
@cheech wizard: PIB – Well, originally the arrows were able to tear her wings off and make her fall out of the sky, but they weren’t lodged in her back. But maybe she landed on top of some more arrows or something? Because these two just suddenly appeared with no entry wounds or blood or anything. And the idiots who were originally shooting at her must have became bored and wandered off, leaving only PIB and Teen Monk and Clydesdale Unicorn to deal with the situation. I just hope her HMO is open so they can save her!!
9cl — Edda won’t appreciate the lack of tongue when she goes rampant of that Bosendorfer.
RMMD — So now Rene’s got them outnumbered 1:2, with no weapon in sight? If I’m Fergus, I’m shoving a Muddy Boot up somebody’s ass.
RMMD: As someone who has watched “eww shows,” a.k.a. reruns of procedurals, I’ve been amused by just how fast the characters sometimes bounce back from being nearly killed by gunfire, nearly suffocated, nearly blown to bits by explosions, etc. And I’ve seen them bounce back from being bound and gagged and shut up in vehicle trunks and transported by perps.
But boy howdy, this Buzz guy beats them all. His bemused expression says this day has not been going very well for him, but he’s had worse.
Will Saul Wynters adopt Fred Bassett if the rumors are true?
@Sequitur: Bwahahaha! And also, belated congratulations on your recovery from your illness, and welcome back! It sounded kind of serious according to comments yesterday — glad you are here again.
@Sequitur:
I informed Josh about the postings.
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But did you inform Post about the joshings ? You know how these cereal companies are.
@cheech wizard:
Maybe the fat unicorn has something to do with it.
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No one ever suspects the fat unicorn.
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box:
Tune in tomorrow for our next adventure “Male Call” or “They call me MISTER Pibbs”.
This Hi and Lois is _not a joke_ and the guy in Dennis the Menace is clearly a real person who either paid to be immortalized in the strip, or did something to make the artist want to very specifically make fun of his appearance.
Sex Organ V.D.:
Rene: “I’m innocent! I was just cosplaying Seinfeld’s “The Susie” episode!”
Buzz Limpear: “Oh, so THAT’S why you kept calling me ‘Susie’! I thought it was a riff from “Airplane! III: Just What They Thought We’d Do”
Pibgorn-What’s more annoying the arrows piercing her back or the arrow piercing her front?
Hi and Lois – Hi could also use his phone to look up how-to videos on YouTube is the cost for a professional is too high, or send pictures/video of the aftermath of his do-it-yourself repair to his insurance adjuster all within the same app he pays his premiums.
Dennis the Menace – The Heaven’s Gate cult is long gone, andComet Hale-Bopp won’t return to Earth until 4380 CE, but a potential bright comet could come near Earth in 2024. Please check in on your more gullible friends and family members and advise them not to read any further Dennis the Menace comics.
Rex Morgan, MD – Rene’s problem isn’t that he is a crook, it’s that the real hustles are legalized behind binding contracts and an army of professionals to enforce the lopsided standards. Music industry accounting has long managed to defraud musicians and entertainers of their hard-earned money, and no two-bit “manager” can expect to come in from the outside and get a (un)fair share for themselves. If Rene wants to defraud Mud, he ironically has to play by the rules.
@Jeffmcm:
and the guy in Dennis the Menace is clearly a real person who either paid to be immortalized in the strip, or did something to make the artist want to very specifically make fun of his appearance.
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……or Barack Obama p.o.ed the Six Chix Witches who cursed him into the Dennis Dimension Zone for not signing their bill moving Halloween to August officially.
@Peanut Gallery: Lagoon Sherman: A post-modern comic that features an M4 Sherman tank slowly rusting away (in real time) after being abandoned off a Pacific atoll. Known by critics as the only comic that moves as slowly as Mary Worth.
Trail Mark: Less a comic and more of an illustrated guide to hiking the Appalachian Trail. Not much use to actual hikers, though, as few newspapers deliver that far into the forest.
Valiant Prince: This one really isn’t that much different that our version.
@Liam:
Pibgorn-What’s more annoying the arrows piercing her back or the arrow piercing her front?
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Yes.
rmmd if you don’t know how much money renee gets buzz then that proably means you don’t know how much mudd is making either time to go begging buck to take over. for the quicker renee gets his money the faster he will vanish straight to jail at last as little do the three know truck is on his way to talk to mudd. with some friends. luann and thus looks like gunther is regretting letting betts go and is hopeing she will return soon after her road trip. that or he secretly is huffing as a hobby the shoe polish.
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box:
hope she’s got good insurance and that it isn’t too long a ride to her HMO.
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Pib went to Prudential for her piece of the c(r)ock.
@Voshkod: Brave the Wallace: A comic strip that spans generations of people having to deal with various Wallaces, such as William Wallace, Marcia Wallace, and Wallace Shawn.
Oop Alley: A whodunnit style comic strip where, each week, the reader has to guess the cause of the accident that befell a victim in a spooky alleyway.
Id of Wizard: This is a wordless comic following a wizard who just randomly turns people into toads, salamanders, and newts, or fireballs their houses.
FC: I’m trying to interpret Thel’s face here. She should be looking at least slightly amused at the funny way her son is mangling the prayer (because these things are funny, dangit, or otherwise she would be out of her job!). But instead she’s looking, well, is she
1. Bored, because she’s heard her son say grace in this “funny” way every day for years now, and even a good joke grows weary after a year or two.
2. Sad at how stupid her children are.
3. Resigned over having to endure this for another fifteen years or so.
FC: I’m trying to interpret the way the Keanes hold their hands as well. While Bil and the Melonheads are holding their hands in visible, ostentatious prayer, to show the audience just what a God-fearing comic this is. But Thel is holding her hands in her lap. Why? Is she
1. Too tired from doing all the housework and then “repairing” dinner for her hungry family to lift them in prayer?
2. Not even bothering, since the burden of living with and caring for her half-witted brood has made her lose her religion?
3. Not letting her hands distract the audience from her jutting bosom?
@Voshkod:
Bailey Beetle, a comic about a Coleoptera living in a castle fortification.
Not to be confused with “Barely A Beatle”, the English comic strip featuring the misadventures of Pete Best which appeared in the Sun between “Andy Capp” and “Fred Bassett”
@Sequitur: This has happened before. Josh will keep all the postings on tomorrow’s thread and they will show up tomorrow morning.
Just wait until you see what we said in Wednesday’s comments section.
SFx: While Slylock is “teaching” by presenting the class with random puzzles he’s found on YouTube, Max is presenting the teacher with a big, juicy apple. Why? He’s not one of her students. Could it be that he’s hitting on her? Doesn’t he already have a girlfriend?
Max should be ashamed of himself. He should also be very, very careful, because while I’m not quite sure of what species the teacher is, she sure looks like a carnivore. One who would normally eat mice for breakfast. I hope the apple is enough to sate her appetite!
@Voshkod: Lagoon Sherman:
Trail Mark:
Valiant Prince:
GornPib: A fantasy comic about a legal-age heroine who is drawn in a consistent manner and with the correct number of fingers each and every time, featuring plots that have self-consistent logic and make some remote sense. Like I said, fantasy at a meta level as well as the genre.
@106 Poteet:
Thanks, it was a rough go.
I certainly did not feel like posting the past two weeks. I read Josh’s writing every day but read few, if any, comments. If you guys came up with a new Curmudgeon mime the past couple of weeks I would be in the dark about it.
At least I didn’t have to look at any food atrocities Baja may have posted, as I’m sure he did.
@Only Here For The Ads: Unlike the version in our world, I’m guessing this one updates daily? Also, from the title, I’m thinking it’s about a lizard alien that enjoys a Dr. Pepper knock-off.
@gardenornament:
FC: I’m trying to interpret Thel’s face here.
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Thel’s Jutt (chorus,repeated) (Steve Martin) Now when she was a young girl,she thought she’d never see /her young son drawing her so
sex-u-al-ly /(Thel’s Jutt, Not her butt )/Hardly disgruntled/about her bouncing upper frontals (That’s Thel’s jutt)
(Spoken little kid voice) “Mommy, who’s Eddie Puss and why does everyone say I have his complex?”
(Born in Australia, moved to Keanesylvania Thel’s Jutt).
(HTT Grandma and In the clouds Grandpa call her a slut Cause of Thel’s Jutt).
(Steve Martin) “Stop me before I filk again, Anyone have Buzz Limpears’ contact info?”
@Garrison Skunk: I enjoyed the storyline with the Syd Barrett cross-over.
DtM: Absolving himself of the sins of the father, Scott Ketcham accurately depicts a Black person.
@Voshkod: “Menace the Dennis, an activity comic about threatening Dennis Miller.”
I would read that every day.
Tracy Dick: an activity comic requiring a drawing pad and a No. 2 pencil. (I can’t believe no one got to that one yet.)
@Sequitur:
If you guys came up with a new Curmudgeon mime the past couple of weeks I would be in the dark about it.
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Well J. Nebus reported that high placed sources say “Fred Bassett” may be headed for a Dr Ed special in the near future.
I’ve been trying to come up with a parody of “King Tut” called “Thel’s Jut”. And I started calling Mud’s agent Buzz Limpears. Hope that shines a bit of light on the situation.
Clearly, Dennis has converted to the Nation of Islam. Very menacing.
It’s not for Johnny Mathis to say whether Dennis is going to heaven on the twelfth of never or any other time, but it’s wonderful! wonderful! that the lad is thinking about it, and it wouldn’t hurt to give him a certain smile.
@Garrison Skunk:
Bravo! Or perhaps, considering the chorus, that should be spelled Bra-vo?
@TheDiva: C’shaft: “Also we’re new in town. So you’re the bus driver everyone calls ‘The Demon of Death,’ huh?”
She’s mistaken. He’s the Deacon of Death. Or maybe Doom.
@Sequitur: If you guys came up with a new Curmudgeon mime the past couple of weeks I would be in the dark about it.
Zooty! Zoot-zoot!
@Rebo: I got the reference!
@Arabella: Chance is a cranky jerkolix.
Pig-born, the story of a farmer trying to overcome the stigma of large scale genetic modification to the human race.
Phantom: Sarvana: “Do we even know where we’re going?”
Sometimes it’s better to only understand the Bandar tongue* **
* Ancient jungle saying
** Phantom’s thoughts right about now
The strip Legends in the Heights posted its last strip today after only about a year. Too bad, it had a different voice and style to it and an interesting story. So it goes away and we’re stuck with dreck like Luanne. Drat!
@Kevin On Earth:
“Does she even have any underwear on under that shift?”**
**Phantom’s thought right about now
It always disturbs me when a comic that doesn’t have realistic faces features a character who has a more realistic face thank is normally depicted (though in Dennis the Menace‘s case here, the head is way out of proportion to the body). It feels like parallel worlds collapsed in on each other and everyone is just too polite or terrified to say anything.
@Arabella: I was wondering the same thing.