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Hi and Lois, 11/15/23
The sun won’t blast off its outer layers, forming a planetary nebula and leaving only a tiny white dwarf behind, for another seven to eight billion years or so, and while that is the unfathomably distant future, it’s not strictly speaking correct to say that Trixie’s best friend will last “forever.” Still, Sunbeam will be around for a lot longer than Suzy here, who even in a best-case scenario will be dead by sometime in the 2110s.
Marvin, 11/15/23
If you had told me in the abstract that Marvin wanted to branch out beyond “Ha ha, Marvin has shat himself and is proud of it” jokes, I would obviously endorse it. But please, do not waste your time and mine with marital misanthropy jokes that are two orders of magnitude too unfunny to make it in The Lockhorns! Better poop than this!
The Phantom, 11/15/23
Yes, The Phantom is still somehow doing the “Death of the Phantom” arc, and no, I’m still not going to catch you up on the details. But I do need to point out that this strip, which has never been shy about tastefully implied nudity, has just discovered the funniest ever use of a word balloon.
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Judge Parker: Bitchy McCIAface there is trying to give Judge Parker a run for the money in the Pissyface Derby. She’s over half a lap behind at this point. Will she hit her stride? Will she out-pissyface perennial winner The Judge? I doubt it.
Bizarro: Gotta admit they hit the visual humor bullseye today.
Hägar the Horrible: Poor Hägar lost his nipple. Maybe the good vet’ll fetch one from the Giant Disturbing Jar O’ Disembodied Nipples.
For research purposes, the Phantom writer has watched all the women in prison movies from the 1970s, so he knows that gratuitous nudity is a necessary component
This is what Kit, whoever he is, told Mozz:
“My appointment with my metrosexual hairdresser for a perm and dye job is due, so get me out of here and back to the city now!”
H&L: One could argue that a baby bragging about her “best friend” while smirking at a window absolutely should require an explanation, but not even Trixie pretends this strip ever has any new readers.
CS: Look, Batiuk, if you want to re-invent the elevator operator joke, you still have to have the occupation match the punchline. Crankshaft drives a school bus for a living; it’s not exactly implausible for him to cross paths with a math teacher. And if it absolutely has to be a bank teller, say she’s retired and she misses her work so much she’s going through withdrawals.
Luann: I hesitate to call anyone in this comic “the smart one,” but isn’t Bets supposed to be one of the less-stupid characters? Gunther is, in theory, a popular and prolific cosplayer with a large social media presence, and thus likely takes pictures with other people all the time. There are probably hundreds of pics of Gunther standing next to some other girl just on Bets’ own social media. Why is she of all people acting like this photo with Luann, which has less sexual energy than a family Christmas card photo, has any significance?
RMMD: If I recall correctly, the split for the Mirakle Method revenue as well as Mud’s new songs is 50/25/25 for Rene, Mud, and Buzzy respectively. Now it turns out that money-crazed Buzzy is spending his own money not just on funding the MM project but also splurging on Rene’s legal representation. On top of that, Rene himself has made it very clear that he had little-to-nothing to do with either of these recent successes, but Buzzy is somehow still convinced that Rene’s a golden goose. I’m starting to think Buzzy may have suffered some brain damage from lack of air after those two days stuck in a car trunk.
H&L: Did Dot and Suzy dare each other to drink out of Lois’ coffee cup again?
Phantom: [Later, Baduban takes a drink from the river. Makes face, looks at water in cupped hands. Shakes head and dumps water back into river]
It is true that the “joke” in today’s Marvin is so unfunny as to be unrecognizable as an attempt at humor without the use of extremely sophisticated instruments, but on the other hand, look at Jeff’s face in panel two! Ha ha, he’s so mad! Ignore the text — just imagine it’s a lot of nonsense babbling like in some European cartoons for kids — and enjoy Jeff’s futile outrage.
What is up with Trixie’s outfit? The exposed nappy look went out decades ago with the invention of absorbent diapers, and then she’s wearing a t-shirt over a tutu? This simultaneously far too much and far too little attention to pay your baby’s clothes.
May we, like Trixie, treasure our relationship with Apollo, the Sun God, who is our personal friend and, dare I say it? Savior.
Hi & Lois: The NeoPagan Comic.
MW:
[in P-2, the young man and the young woman in P-2 are at a get-to-know-you lunch]:
[young man]: “So! — who’s your favorite musical artist?”
[young woman]: “Pink!”
[young man]: “Mine, too! — go figure!”
MW:
“Keith, with your brawny, albeit somewhat loutish, charisma, have you ever considered seeking an elective position? — you and an ‘Oaf of Office’ seem made for one another!”
JP: I knew I shouldn’t have taken a day off. Now look what happened.
We’ve already been over how Pavel won and everyone else lost. Though the device has been horribly mangled in this story, having the bad guy succeed temporarily is not only fine but typically very useful in building stakes in storytelling. The mitigating factors in this defeat were intended to be the accomplishment of two objectives: protecting Sam’s family from retributive murder and restoring the CIA’s confidence in April. The first was achieved by giving away Helena’s criminal network and convincing Pavel that he no longer had any reason to threaten our protagonists. The second was accomplished by convincing the CIA that April had turned Helena in on her own to prove her loyalty.
Today Sam torpedoed both of those goals.
Right now Sam’s in deep trouble because… I have no idea why. Both April and Helena should have vouched for his innocence with a pre-planned story, and the CIA has no arresting authority anyway. But for whatever reason, Sam was detained and now the CIA wants something valuable in return for his freedom, so at this point it’s basically just a kidnapping for ransom. Anyway, Sam’s brilliant idea is to tell the CIA all about his involvement with Pavel and Helena, which screws everyone over.
Pavel has eyes and ears everywhere, and he’d make a priority of placing a mole in the local CIA facility. So he would likely be tipped off regarding Sam’s betrayal, and he’d definitely put two and two together once the US government comes after him, meaning he’d put the death sentence back on Sam’s family and friends ASAP. April loses her regained esteem in the CIA and probably gets imprisoned again for her participation in the trickery. Helena gets locked up forever having protected no one. Everyone else – Abbey, Neddy, Sophie, Gloria, Yelich, Randy, Charlotte (and probably Lil Dunk, if anyone ever remembers he exists) – they all die violently.
How did this happen? Near as I can tell, Francesco Marciuliano has the storytelling equivalent of an inability to grasp the concept of object permanence. He said those goals were achieved, and so the book was closed on tricking Pavel and the CIA. And since those issues are settled, it’s totally fine to backtrack and undo all that work so that the perpetually worse-than-useless Sam Driver can have a nicer day. What are Pavel and the CIA going to do? Change their minds? “That’s not allowed,” says Marciuliano. So there. Problem solved.
Between the blue-haired woman wearing what’s almost a Japanese school uniform and the other woman showering in a waterfall I get the impression the artist would rather be drawing manga than “The Phantom,” but maybe that’s just because I assume anyone whose job it is to draw “The Phantom” is dreaming of something better.
Jeff, are you sure she didn’t already ask you? If she has to remind you when your birthday is, the alcohol-induced memory loss must be kicking in pretty hard.
@jroggs:
On Luann : presumably, the intention is that Bets is so controlling and jealous and possessive, she has somehow prevented Gunther from being seen with a non-Bets girl this entire time.
Please ignore the several months Tiffany lived with Gunther unchaperoned.
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Hi & Lois : Trixie knows we’re NEVER seeing Suzy again, but that we’ll be seeing her lounging around in sunbeam for as long as this comic runs.
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Marvin : Wait, isn’t there TWO couples of old people (husband and wife) living with the Millers? If the second couple aren’t Jenny’s parents, WHO ARE THEY?
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Phantom : …why am I *still* so annoyed that the asterisk noting “In the Bandar tongue” no longer has its narration box?
Hi and Lois Got to give the writers credit for knowing that their target audience would need an expression like “B.F.F.”, which is so recent that it’s probably only been around since the Nineties, explained to them.
Repeated from late last night:
This is from Mike Manley’s Facebook page:
I have to thanks all of you who reached out yesterday, which was probably one of the lowest points for me, except for maybe last year when I had to have the amputation. Feeling much better today and I had a few wonderful things happen especially one or one of the Mary maids I had hired this week to come and clean the house, came back on her own, and did some things for me today, including bringing me some coffee and some sandwiches that I can eat over the next several days, so you never know even when terrible things are happening and the world seems like a horrible place. There are wonderful, bright spots of light who seem to come out of nowhere and you don’t even really know them but they are such kind and giving people. I am far from a religious person, but I have to say I feel very blessed.
Hope it’s okay to speak for all of you, but I sent him best wishes on behalf of the Mudges.
H&L: I don’t want to be the Anti-Cutesy League here, but has anyone addressed Trixie and sunscreen? She could wake up one day and be fifty. It happens.
SF: What makes anyone think that Hil can be trusted with children? She’s hopelessly neurotic at the best of times, and she hallucinates on a regular basis.
H&L: Is it just me, or do Dot and Suzy look like they’ve been topping up their juice with a bit of gin? Girls, everyone feels like your ‘BFF’ when you’ve had a few. Just stay cool and try not to get any matching tattoos.
Marvin: This little power move from Jenny might seem completely unprompted, but in fact it’s to get back at Jeff for installing desk bells on their doors instead of doorknobs.
Ph: Sure, the second panel features a nude woman, but I’d argue that the first one is pretty sexy too. Just look at the way the Ghostie is running his finger down Kit’s chest. I don’t know what he told Mozz, but I’ll bet it was hot as hell…!
FC: “Don’t read it, Dad!” Billy realizes that including a guest op-ed by Dan Savage was probably a bad idea.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Hope it’s okay to speak for all of you, but I sent him best wishes on behalf of the Mudges.
I’ll certainly co-sign that.
Sorry, I think I missed the earlier posts on this. What is he ill with?
Phantom damn you speech balloon!
@pugfuggly: Cellulitis, according to the Daily Cartoonist, a recurrence of what he had a year or so ago.
As I’m not that familiar with the strip, how long has the “Death Of The Phantom” arc been running?
And every time I look at “Between Friends” (which isn’t that often), they seem stuck in a plotline about one of the characters making arrangements to go to France. That seems to have been going for months….
To make a friend requires the most limited ability to see other’s perspectives. This generally forms at about three years old. Trixie will never achieve this and she recognises that. Calling sunbeam her BFF is the result of a devastating realisation that there will never be any human friends, much less multiple allowing one to be “best”. A sad state that will surely leave her cold into eternity notwithstanding her, purely by default, BFF’s warming rays.
Nothing about Ed suffering a substantial penalty for early withdrawal?
@pugfuggly: Sorry, I think I missed the earlier posts on this. What is he ill with?
Not sure. Someone made a comment a few weeks ago that he was out with some malady, when we were noticing the different art work. I checked his wikipedia page although that doesn’t have anything about it.
Yes, the Phantom word balloon covering butt crack is great, but is it necessary? A lot of comics, such as Dennis the Menace, show bare butts. Maybe tomorrow, she will be turned around with the word balloon covering her upper half. And then the next day . . . paydirt!
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Well, he’s not named “Ed” for nothing.
H&L: Certainly, the best depiction of drunken third-graders I’ve ever seen.
I hope in his updating of The Family Circlejerk that Jef Keane deletes the strip when Pa Keane sniffs the freshly mimeographed copies of The Family Times.
@jroggs: LUANN – “Gunther is, in theory, a popular and prolific cosplayer with a large social media presence, and thus likely takes pictures with other people all the time.”
Is he? I thought that Bets was the cosplayer and that Gunt mostly just stood around near her and sometimes appeared in the background of the pictures. Does Gunt have his own Insta/TicTok where he uploads his wormcock pics?
Gunt is always depicted as shy and withdrawn. When he wore the Wormcock costume, he tried to hide it from everyone else. But, I only ever remember to read “Luann” a few days a month, so maybe I missed his coming-out party?
@Rube: @Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
Oh that sucks. I didn’t realize that it could get so bad that it could require amputation. Well, hoping he recovers.
9CL – Yesterday, they were two kids who realized they were in love with each other. Today, suddenly, they are adults, but are trying not to fall in love with each other. Either way, he’s milked every one of these themes to death. If he can’t come up with actual plots where they actually do things together other than boinking and telling us how in love they are supposed to be, then maybe he could move on to some other topic?
Does he just not know what couples do when they like each other but are taking a break from the nonstop Hot Minute boinking sessions for now? Share common interests? Discuss topics other than “what do children think about sex”?
Marvin: Jeff is stuck in no man’s land at the moment. Sex with Jenny has gotten so boring that he no longer cares about insulting her parents. Yet, their relationship hasn’t reached the point where they can revel in hate-sex like the Lockhorns.
Hi and Lois – Trixie is competing with every housecat in the world to be the sun’s BFF.
Marvin – Jeff may have been able to use this imposition to ask for something spicier than usual from Jenny for his “birthday special”, but Marvin has definitely killed any action in their bedroom since it was sex that led to this shitty curse in their life.
The Phantom – I will assume that is a cave with a waterfall feed by hotsprings, and add that to my list of decadent things I will purchase should I win the lottery. A Tesla, or any other Elon Musk product is still banned from my decadent mansion, however.
DT: Oh, for god’s sake. Arrest Xaveria Libris already, fill a sock with sand, and belabor her head and shoulders until she confesses. That’s how the headmaster handled her at Choate.
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: Bets was the main driving force, but yeah, Gunther has become renowned as Bets’ partner in the cosplay circuit, and somehow cultivated such a following that most of Bets’ fans are loyal to him over her. Indeed, Gunther is far removed from his days as a reclusive loser, and is instead as much of a swinging dick as the Evanses’ room temperature imaginations will tolerate. If that sounds tremendously unbelievable, well… that’s because it is. Regardless, that’s what the Evanses are going with.
Hi And Lois: Beginning to think that the writers of Hi And Lois believe human infants to be some breed of cat given how often they write Trixie as apparently wanting nothing more than to lay in sunbeams all day.
Marvin: Inviting people over without making sure other people who live there are okay with it is, like, a massive dick move in my book, so for once I sympathize with Marvin’s Dad here.
The Phantom: Prison Woman will be proud to know her ass is so juicy thick it takes a speech bubble of that size to cover!
Why do Trixie and Suzie look like they’re slurring their undying affection for each other after having one too many drinks at an after work Happy Hour?
@17 MKay: Why would she be in any special danger with Hilary since hopelessly neurotic at the best of times, and hallucinates on a regular basis describes all adults in Bettina’s life.
RMMD-“My goal with my share is world domination.”
JP-Sam. that line didn’t work on Abbey it won’t work on her.
FC-Talk to that Charles Foster Kane who lives down the street.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Thanks, Scratchy.
HnL: Trixie’s BFF can destroy the planet. Can Suzy do that? I thought not!
Marvin: I would have thought he’d be more upset she reminded him the birthday party was in “a few days.” He knows that already!
Phantom: Given what I know about these comics and how they handle transitions, Kit told his dad that he evidently told Mozz, “Oh, this is lovely!” It’s odd, sure, but maybe it will advance the plot. Somehow.
MW:
I’ll bet when those diners that are shown in the background of the second panel get their hair cut, they all use pinking shears.
Nobody is noticing right now because she’s just a baby, but when Trixie is in high school and would rather sit by the window and talk to the sun instead of making human friends and going to… the mall? The malt shop? TikTok? (Help me, I haven’t been a teen in a while.) Anyway, her parents are going to be rightfully worried.
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It looks like the Six Chix are a lot less worried about displaying full naked ass than Team Phantom. Alien, schmalien, there’s no ifs, ands, or butts about it.
We’ve all been there, stumbling into your home the morning after an all-night bender and introducing some fun stranger you just met as your new “best friend forever” to your roommates before passing out on the couch. Then you wake up in the late afternoon, there’s two well-intentioned but full glasses of water on the end table and a frozen pizza thawing out on the stove while the oven has preheated for hours. And Sarah?… Suzy?… Susan?… well, whoever they were, they’re gone now and you’ll never hear from them again, but you’ll always treasure the hazy memory of the time you briefly let go of inhibition and made a real, however fleeting, human connection. After the pounding stops that is.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
Hope it’s okay to speak for all of you, but I sent him best wishes on behalf of the Mudges.
This is one of the many things I enjoy about this forum – as much as we snark, we do really care about the artists.
When Al Scaduto died, the royal “we” sent flowers. His family was truly touched. I miss TDIET.
And think about how regularly and lovingly we suggest that Brooke McEldowney should get help?
I hope he gets well soon.
Frazz: It’s so weird how we never see Caulfield interacting with his peers. I just can’t figure out why no one his age wouldn’t want to hang out with him.
Luann: Two things: 1) Thank Gawd there’s not going to be a threesome, 2) Skydiving hasn’t been forgotten about (for the moment).
CS: ha ha ha its sad because she has had the same exchange with crankshaft every week going on twenty years now
Luann Gunther and Luann have known each other since childhood. They showed up at a costume party holding hands then stood around like morons for the rest of the night. In what fucked up world does everybody think they are now destined for matrimony?
9CL: Gosh, I was worried they wouldn’t ever fall in love. This “will they, will they?” plot has been driving me crazy!
Pibgorn: Oh, great, now Brooke is dealing with identity politics. This will not go well.
@Tabby Lavalamp:
It looks like the Six Chix are a lot less worried about displaying full naked ass than Team Phantom. Alien, schmalien, there’s no ifs, ands, or butts about it
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Will Baja do a mash up of shower woman with E.T.’s butt?
Zits: Just break up with Jeremy. That will solve a lot of your problems, beginning with the horrors of knitting.
FC: “This has dozens of spelling mistakes and barely touches on the topics it reports on, or is full of misinformation. Since this is 2023 (presumably), it’s perfect for online journalism.”
MW: “I’ll say you grew at your job. If we’re going to get back together, you’re going to have to hit the gym.”
I generally think that the characters in Dustin are the worst people in comics, but that’s because I forget about the characters in Marvin in between the times Josh features that strip.
FC: Printing a newspaper? Can’t Billy, Dolly and Jeffy do podcasts and save a tree or more likely a bush? Perhaps they could start off with one of those Family Circus holiday specials (which NBC broadcast in conjunction with Valentine’s Day, Easter and Christmas). Does anyone remember those?
CS – That teller’s expression as she gives Crankshaft her stock reply is going to stay with me all day.
Yes, the sun is my BFF, my big fiery friend, and soon his cleansing flame shall sweep the world! Tremble in the few moments before you are rendered into ash and soot. I shall reign supreme over the burnt Earth, with sunshine on MY shoulder! Bwahahahaha!
“Trixie’s laughing again. Such a happy baby!”
@Kevyn On Video: Now that might be something for the melonheads with their newspaper to report and photograph. Just like the good old days when Daddy was a fat drunk and PJ had yet to be born (right after The Family Circus debuted, during the heyday of Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet).
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Mimeograph? They probably use carbon paper!
@Bob Tice: I think Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma already has that spot filled.
(And he has a picture of himself with a cache of guns ready to send to any challengers).
The Family Circus Spanish to English.
Phantom: Josh, I warned everybody about the cock-blocking word balloon yesterday.
JP: There’s no CIA Most Wanted list and for the umpteenth time Ces, the CIA has no law enforcement powers within the US.
CS: Isn’t that bank teller just Funky’s wife Holly with a different hair color?
@jroggs: #4: re-RMMD: I believe the split for the Little Fergie deal was supposed to be a three-way with Rene, Mud, Buzzy getting equal shares. As for the Mirakle Method since Buzzy had nothing to do with its creation and is only acting in the capacity of agent he should only be getting 10 percent of whatever Rene and Mud get. Unless of course, he’s like Tom Parker and manages to wrangle 50 percent.
Hi and Lois: Anyone remember the iconic scene in “Anne of Green Gables” where Anne and her B.F.F. Diana accidentally get drunk on raspberry cordial and almost destroyed their friendship?
Let’s just say “B.F.F” Suzy will probably never be seen again, probably due to a parent-imposed court order.
@Garrison Skunk:
Apparently aliens are okay, but literally everything else with a butt seems to be “inappropriate”
Like in “Lady and the Tramp” how The Tramp sleeps with countless girls (And Lady called him out on it, listing a bunch of them off) is okay to put in a kids movie, ONLY because they’re dogs.
(Although that was removed in the live-action remake)
Ah, yes, crawling-age babies, known for spending their days in quiet contemplation of nature’s beauty.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: @Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Necessary?
Sadly, still a “yes” in today’s newspaper climate.
Butt, let’s appreciate that “Austin Powers” level of nudity avoidance and look forward to tomorrow’s strip as Savarna walks several dozen yards to get a towel while flora and fauna move gracefully in the way so only Diana and “Mother” get a good look at what they’ve been missing.
Unlike Trixie, who will still be a baby living in the suburbs.
@Garrison Skunk: @The Rambling Otter:
Most primates also seem to be the exception towards butt visibility.
@Naked Bunny with a Whip:
I suddenly just realized that comic strips like Blondie and Hi and Lois will outlive all of us. I don’t know what to think about that.
Phantom: Clicking through the link was depression-inducing. First, regarding, the Phantom, the art quality then was better by an order of magnitude than what we’re getting now. Then, just for fun, I went through a few archived posts and came across an RMMD where Rex and June are having to deal with an actual medical problem with some level of emotional stakes to it, namely Sarah having an ear infection, and they display emotions other than exasperation.
How the mighty have fallen.
Phantom: Isn’t that shower relatively cold and infested with jungle river life?
@taig: Frazz: The loner kid who inexplicably hangs out with unrelated adults is a comic strip staple, though. Dennis, Elmo from Blondie, the kid from Dustin…
The Ghost Who Watches — There’s never been a better place to insert the Bandar tongue, if you know what I mean.
Marvin: Has there been much indication that Jeff has a strained relationship with his in-laws, or is this one of those things we’re supposed to assume is a given based on the immutable laws of comic strip family dynamics?
Phantom: “I ain’t your mother, you colonialist tramp, and I sure as hell ain’t your live-in maid. Let’s talk how much you owe me for this.”
@Tom T.: No doubt. It’s just that Caulfield seems singular (to me) in that trope, because he never interacts with other kids his age (at least Dennis menaces Margaret and Joey) or even talks about his peers (Elmo and Dustkid talk about their classmates on occasion).
I get the appeal of the trope. I was one of those kids who was awkward around kids my age and felt more at ease talking to adults.
PIG – New installment today. Zero chance that the choice of where Pibgorn is standing and how tall she is was not intentional….
Though I’m arguably soft on crime in general, I can be a bit of a skeptic when it comes to “twinkie defense” situations. Extensive Law & Order viewing has only exacerbated this mistrust. But I think Trixie’s legal team could—and I certainly hope, will (GO JUSTICE ??WHOO #1!!)—mount a very credible defense predicated on seasonal affective disorder. That and her status as a preverbal infant should at least be enough to take the needle off the table.
Chix (sic):
And why would you do that?
You gotta shit somewhere. Why not put it to good use.
In what would become known as Konar’s paradox, she advocates people take a stand on the issues by taking a sit.
Zits – Hey! Sara’s down to one ball of yarn, and I think we can forgive her for knitting in the English, rather than the Continental manner. But again, small projects Sara. Like I bet Jeremy would be thrilled to receive from you one if those dick covers like they used to sell at Frederick’s of Hollywood. He’d always have your love to keep him warm.
And the knitters here could laugh our asses off watching Sara struggling with DPN’s!
@Violet:
That “??” in my previous comment was meant to be a pennant and jazz hands. Just so we’re clear.
Trixie is so isolated from outsiders that she has no human friends and must rely on anthropomorphizing light beams to stay sane. That this is presented as sweet and innocent instead of deeply alarming suggests a welfare check on the artist and their family is in order.
H&L – Oh sunbeam – obliterate her humankind and bring forth the reign of the cockroach people….
Marvin – So much for a happy birthday….
Phantom – No one knows the day or the hour….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
It’s kind of funny, when there is obscure lore in a media. That EVERYONE who is a fan knows about…
For example, this one fantasy franchise “The Elder Scrolls”, has Nazi-ish Elves as part of their oppression, banning the worship of a specific God. One of the creator’s notes states that, if this God has zero worship, he will cease to exist, but is actually holding the universe together, which when all reality collapses, all of the Elves themselves will ascend to Godhood.
Every fan knows this, it’s common knowledge amongst the fandom. Which is funny that it’s never actually stated in the source material itself. (Which only implies that the Elves are just pissy, as that God was originally a mortal human)
But for someone completely blind to what Hi and Lois is… if this was their very first comic.
1-They would assume that Suzy is a long recurring character.
2- Trixie has a friend outside but not saying who it is.
Where was I going with this? I’m a slave to the ramble.
@Dennis Jimenez:
I once read a fantasy novel (stopped after like Chapter 3… couldn’t get into it) but it had a race of sentient giant cockroachs who live in dark areas. They always carry torches on them, not because they personally need it to see, but rather so others can see “them” and not step on/trip over them in the darkness.
I just found that extremely clever :3c
It was written by the writer of The Hunger Games.
H&L: I was sure Baja would give us options for Trixie’s BFF looking in the window. And my choice would be #3 (Wilbur).
CS: “I’ve come to make a deposit.” “Sir, we’re not that kind of bank.”
C’shaft: “Guess which category you fall into. Go on, guess.”
Dustin: For those of you who thought “Sure, the family dynamics in Dustin are toxic as hell, but at least he has one semi-functional adult relationship!” I have some bad news.
Lio: Not gonna lie, I would pay good money for Mo Willems to write Don’t Let the Pigeon Do Your Taxes!. (“Hot dogs count as a deductible expense, right?”)
Luann: “No, no, you must follow your heart and I must do the noble thing and let go of my boat an–er, boyfriend so he can be happy. Please, no tears, it’s better this way…”
MT: Anybody who buys a pack of colored gel pens at Target?
MW: “Not as proud as I would if you’d married me and allowed me to instill a proper respect for authority into your daughter, but still, you tried.”
Pibgorn: TL;DR: Luda changes her name to Pibgorn. Padraig is accepting of her new identity. There is a merciful lack of coitus for once.
RMMD: “That’s doing good, right? You know what else is doing good? Supporting the hard-working people in the megayacht industry!”
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
My goodness, that poor fellow! I had no idea. And that’s such a poignant message from Mr. Manley. I got a little teary at the sandwich part; I’ll not lie. I was thinking just before reading that how I wanted to enlarge, print, and frame panel 2 of today’s Phantom as a standalone masterpiece of glorious insanity. Perhaps I’ll write him some words of appreciation, most likely avoiding the term “glorious insanity” but I promise nothing.
Thank you very much, Scratchy, for extending our good wishes.
@Violet: Please don’t refer to today’s art when writing to Mr Manley — it was done by his fill-in, and it might not be great to give the impression that you like it better.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: #16
That’s very nice of you, Scratchy – thank you! We do send our best thoughts to Mike for his recovery.
@Rube:
Thank you! I was just looking into that because I was uncertain about the timeline and the nature of his malady.
@Guillermo el chiclero: JP: There’s no CIA Most Wanted list and for the umpteenth time Ces, the CIA has no law enforcement powers within the US.
THAT’S WHAT THE DEEP STATE WANTS YOU TO THINK!!!!
@Baja Gaijin: Re Bizarro – Are you sure that isn’t from a recipe card from 1973?
(I always enjoy the wordplay in Bizarro – it’s a comic that I like unironically.)
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Thank you for extending good wishes to him. You certainly can speak for me in that. I’m not on Facebook, so I wouldn’t have seen that and wouldn’t be able to comment myself.
9CL – Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely Amos’ Second Coming is at his hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Brooke’s notepad
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with long legs and the hair of a blonde,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its sexy thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That thirty years of Strong Women living together
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough twin beasts, their hour come round at last,
Slouch towards Manhattan to be born?
@TheDiva: “Pibgorn: TL;DR: Luda changes her name to Pibgorn. Padraig is accepting of her new identity. There is a merciful lack of coitus for once.”
Key context – PIB is now about 6-7″ tall and is standing upright directly over Padraig’s crotch when he expresses his fondness for her.
Phantom – Let me guess – this is some Bandar version of a niqab?
@cheech wizard: (continued) Because there’s no way they’re letting the eventual 22nd Phantom get his dick anywhere near her.
MT- So The Kudzu Crusader is……The Ghost formerly known as Prince?
FC – Thel thinks, “Well, we could go to the library and pay 25¢ a page on their copier. Or, instead of scribbling that drivel on paper, you could have typed it on the computer and then printed as many copies as you need. Only a moron wouldn’t think of doing that. Hell, I thought of it, and I’m sloshed.”
Mary Worth – I’m wondering why Keith has his fist clenched. I can’t decide if it’s anger issues or if he can’t figure out how to hold a hamburger.
Rex Morgan – I didn’t think it was possible for this story to branch into new directions of tedium, but here we are.
Crankshaft – It’s nice to know that the heavy lidded expression of bored ennui didn’t die with the FW strip.
Looks Good On Paper – Are we sure this isn’t Atomik Comics? Especially the part about making it up as he goes.
PHANTOM: Butt seriously folks (ha ha!), I haven’t been paying that much attention to The Phantom lately either, so can someone tell me why he’s point the finger at drugged-up Aquaman there?
PHANTOM (2): The prison woman is waiting for Diana (?) to thank a few more people so she can do full-frontal too.
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: Things are definitely falling apart in Brookeland.
Hi and Lois – Good lord Dot and Suzy look high as hell
Marvin – Ahhhh the bleak vision of marriage which the broader culture pushes as “normal.” I remember crying about this as a kid, the prospect of having to spend my life attached to someone who I could barely stand, and whose parents were terrible to me, for the rest of my life had 9 year old me in *tears*
Luann: All this “we’re not a couple” stuff would make a lot more sense if Luann and Gunther had been doing anything that could be construed as romantic at all. Hell, Bets just walked in the room, saw them standing near each other and decided they’re a couple.
Well, at least Marvin’s dad gets to indulge in some eyebrow calisthenics.
@Noel: It’s all part of how this has remained a strip about middle school, even though the cast are supposed to be college age. About all that’s missing is Gunther going, “Sheesh, you think I want Luann cooties?”
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: Very nice.
Phantom: OK, Dad. You wanna know exactly what I told Mozz, here it is. The fuck if I remember. Now get out of my face.
Luann:
Question: Why isn’t Bernice at the party?
Answer: She’s there. Just go over to the punchbowl. She’s the turd floating in it.
@I speak Jive: Considering that Keith was literally crushing one of Mary’s muffins (not a euphemism) earlier, I think he just generally has a problem holding food.
@I speak Jive: I stopped hate reading that strip a week ago. No regrets.
MW:
“At first I wasn’t 100% sure that she was yours, Keith, but when she started singing ‘from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli’ in the crib, that pretty much sealed the deal for me.”
Hi and Lois Everybody’s commenting on how wrecked Dot and Suzy look, but Trixie also looks half in the bag.
I don’t read The Phantom outside of this site, but the gentle touch of his finger on the other guy’s chest, the gathering of women in a sexy shower waterfall… this is a gay comic, right? Because if so, I’m suddenly interested.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: what happened to Manley??
Dog Eat Doug: How
Daddy-o’sScratchy‘s kid gets his attention.Phantom: Can’t wait to see what “Mother” has cooked up for Savarna to wear. A shapeless shift like she’s using to cover up her matronly bod, or a hot little number with plunging neckline and hip-high slit? Diana didn’t specify.
@Hibbleton: “ You gotta shit somewhere. Why not put it to good use.
In what would become known as Konar’s paradox, she advocates people take a stand on the issues by taking a sit.”
Close. Most experts recommend that, prior to taking a stand, you first should give a shit.
MW – “I grew at my job. Though I guess that happens once you’ve had a baby and as you get older, huh?”
“Yeah, but I see you’ve got some boobs now. Nice.”
@Guillermo el chiclero:
Question: Why isn’t Bernice at the party?
Answer: She’s there. Just go over to the punchbowl. She’s the turd floating in it.
Hah! Ok, that’s a Floater, no pun intended. All right, I’m lying. I definitely intended that.
Phantom: Stripey Pants seems to be reading Junior the riot act. What’s going on.
@Guillermo el chiclero: As much as I admire that answer, I think a turd in the punchbowl gets way more attention – and is far more interesting, if only for the questions of who and how – than Bernice.
The Phantom-“Why are we even discussing this? In the next panel are three women and one of them just got out of prison and is showering. Let’s see where that goes.”
Marvin: “Y’all have a nice dinner. I’ll be at the bar.”
@Anonymous: Marvin: I think those are Jeff’s parents living there.
@Anonymous: Phantom: I hate unresolved asterisks!
Phantom – Don’t give me that “Thank you, Mother” crap! You’re just saying that to cover your ass. Or somebody else’s ass.
Don Abundio, translated:
“I’m so pround of myself! Taking you to this buffet dinner was a great idea!”
“You haven’t even tried to grope me once”
“Yeah, I know”
“I hate having to choose between lust and gluttony!”
@51 Garrison Skunk: No. The speech bubble would cover the alien ass.
DtM – “My dog says he doesn’t like the cut of your jib, mister.”
Luann: I think the reason Bets thinks the two doofuses are a couple, is because that’s what all her loyal followers are saying. And if your followers say something, you better get out in front, and lead them. And now, they’ll get some drama when she dumps Gunther.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: And then the next day . . . paydirt!
Leave graphic Marvin panels out of this discussion.
Would someone please tell the drafters of the Phantom strip that if you put an asterisk at the end of a sentence, you’re supposed to have a footnote explaining what the cursed things mean? As it is, they mean that the characters are saying “asterisk.” Even in a world as fantasy-based as the Phantom, people just don’t do that, do they?
The Phantom-“The day? Why it’s Christmas Day.”
Dennis the Menace-“Gee, Officer, I have no idea how that blond kid could get himself stuffed into that mailbox.”
@Ukulele Ike, DT: The only twist is that she is so rich and powerful, even with concrete evidence and iron-clad testimony, she’ll escape jail and only the underlings who did the job get sentenced.
And we wonder how Rene in RxMD keeps getting out of jail.
LUANN: I have always feared that the actual official coupling of Luann and Gunther would be like the coupling of Zuul and Vinz Clortho in GHOSTBUSTERS, potentially bringing about the apocalypse. So I would really like Gunther to scream “WE ARE NOT A COUPLE!!!” like he means it. And if poking his own eyes out would help him scream, I’m okay with that.
I’m not sure. And it seems like his amputation from a year ago is different from what he’s dealing with now.
@Lloyd S.: They’ve used the “…..in the Bandar tongue” trope so often, I think the writer now believes it’s implied.
Phantom – if that broad would shut up we’d see that chick’s ass….
Dustin: Go ahead, Dustin. Bludgeon Fitch to death with that rake and hide his body under that pile of leaves. Just hope that one of the Plugger beastmen doesn’t come by with his leaf blower.
The Phantom-I’m liking this new subplot of ‘Prison Woman in the Shower’.
@The Rambling Otter: #68: Josh did once comment that if you look hard enough, there’s probably a small town paper somewhere in the US that’s still running The Yellow Kid, drawn by the great-grandson of its original creator.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Thanks for that, and for being on Facebook so I don’t have to.
@2+2=7: Phantom 2 – The good news is she turns around in panel 3 – the bad news is Kathy takes over as towel girl, so you can’t see a thing….
DT: Wow, Dick looks so huffy that every piece of evidence is blatantly pointing towards the same person. Like, just for a moment, he thought he was dealing with an actual mystery that might require deductive reasoning, and deluded himself that, given the chance, he’d prove to be quite good at it. But no, time to round up the obvious suspect and have her “accidentally” fall to her death, same as always.
JP: “So, you see, I had to leave the building with Helena so Pavel wouldn’t try to kill my family.”
“Wouldn’t he have tried to kill your family anyway, as soon as he knew we’d illegally detained you both, and you’d therefore failed?”
“Yes! That’s where the second and even more nonsensical part of the plan came in…”
Marvin: In addition to not experimenting with “marriage is terrible” jokes, Armstrong should also stop experimenting with eye shapes beyond “wide-eyed ovals” and “lidded Garfield eyes of contempt”. Jeff’s angry version of the Garfield eyes almost works, Jenny’s attempt at Hi and Lois sly eyes really doesn’t.
MT: Hmm. On the one hand, we’ve got the narration box practically telling us the Kudzu Crusader is Violet. On the other, we’ve got the fact that that would make literally no sense whatsoever. Then again, it’s Mark Trail, and Mark’s own story strand was resolved as “everything connected to the mysterious lights in the sky was actually just a lost hiker, except for the mysterious lights in the sky”, so I think I’m going to go with the narration box.
RMMD: Oh, there we go. There may be a slew of witnesses ready to testify that Rene is an attempted murderer, but between his Mirakulous repentence and Buzzy hiring the best lawyers he can find, he’ll be back on the streets long before Beatty needs his go-to villain again. (Even assuming the “I spent five seconds thinking about how my dad didn’t love me, and now I realise everything I’ve done is bad” bit is genuine, is there any reason to assume it’s permanent?)
SH: It’s a good thing they explained earlier this week that Samantha isn’t really running animal behaviourology experiments, because if she was then “the mouse ‘cheated’ at running the maze” would be a paper and preventing it would be bad science. Luckily, she’s only making the mice run mazes to keep them busy while she searches for a magic anti-shapeshifting gene to block others from using the magic shapeshifting gene, so her scientific integrity is fine!
@jroggs: on Crankshaft: Yeah, it feels like Batty was trying for “It has its credits and debits”, then realised that even in Centerville, nobody would actually say that.
@Lloyd S.: #128
[asterisk] I don’t think that’s how people normally converse [open parenthesis] but what do I know? [closed parenthesis]
@Y. Knott: As I’m not that familiar with the strip, how long has the “Death Of The Phantom” arc been running?
“To Wrack and Ruin at Gravelines” began Monday, May 24, 2021.
@Professor Well Actually: #116
I’m guessing Kit Jr was not supposed to return to Skull Cave when he did, and now it has thrown Mozz’s prophecy way out of kilter. Prophets find it very distressing when that happens.
@Danielakiiki: #106
There is serenity in my life now that I walked away from 9CL and its demented cousin Pibgorn and never looked back.
Sid, Agent to the Animal Stars: Sid – are the two magnificent Irish Wolfhounds in Sunday’s “Prince Valiant” yours?? I’m very impressed!
@I speak Jive: #96
FC: Come to think of it, have we *ever* seen anything resembling a computer in this comic? I honestly can’t remember. I’m skeptical, as we still see flat-screen TVs on bare carpet. Nor do I remember seeing anyone in the household with a smartphone (well…not-so-smartphones for the kids…) either.
PHANTOM: For some reason, today’s strip made me think hard, though briefly, about what it would be like to be a young teen and have a father who dressed like that. It is my general understanding, though I don’t follow the strip, that The Phantom does admirable things within his sphere of influence. But I still would not have wanted him to drop me off right in front of my junior high.
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: Bwahahahaha…ha…RUH-roh. No, I am NOT going to look. Not.
@Daisy: I look back at 9CL once every two or three months, but I still have a whole lot more serenity.
GA: Slim is a seriously-sound sleeper. Unless he somehow fell out of the truck onto the road awhile back, which would be very amusing.
Hey, you trying following GA for a few years and see what it does to YOU.
Hi and Lois: “This is Suzy, my B.F.F.” “That stands for lesbians. The initials are just to throw you off.”
Marvin: “I would be harder for you if you dressed a little sexier.”
@Voshkod: “Someday a real sunbeam will come and burn all this scum off the streets.”
Phantom:
“Oh, that’s a lovely view.”
“What are you looking at?”
“Tit pics.”
MW: “That’s great, Kitty. I’m proud of you… um, so, do you still give proficient blow jobs like you used to? That’s really the only reason I agreed to meet up.”
How did Dot get Ditto to put on a wig and play the part of Suzy?
Late Thread Cuisine: It’s punch with a fifth of dark rum, another fifth of golden rum, a fifth of brandy, and a cup and a half of peach and apricot brandies and some lemon juice, dry white wine, and sugar.
This is Suzy, the long lost third entry in the increasingly inaccurately named “Flagston Twins” —“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Flagston Clan.”foreword.
H&L: Fun to know that if/when Trixie ever starts talking she’ll sound like a Dean Martin Celebrity Roast.
Phantom: Fanservice azz-ide, it’s hilarious to me that the Bandar are just calling Savarna “the prison woman.” They know where to go if they need advice on making a shiv out of a toothbrush.
@159 Baja Gaijin:
The fish. It’s staring at you. It wants you. You can’t unsee it.
C-Shaft: She could have said “credits and debits” instead, but maybe she figures that Crankshaft doesn’t merit her wordplay.
GT: The good news is that Barajas turns out not to have gotten rid of the bonfires after all. The depends-on-your perspective news is that the human sacrifice aspect is now blatant, albeit carried out off-panel. During the game seems like weird timing to me but I’m not the coach.
Lio: Guest appearance by an unnamed Far Side kid.
Luann: Non sequitur-ing Luann doesn’t know you’re supposed to pack the parachute in back. (Free blonde jokes, slightly used.)
MT: Cherry Trail still believes that paper will immediately catch fire if you try to write on it in any color but blue or black. But I found out a few months ago that this is not the case!
RMMD: Start shopping online for civvies, Rene. Now that Buzzy has Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe on retainer you’re as good as a free man.
@Daisy:
There is serenity in my life now that I walked away from 9CL and its demented cousin Pibgorn and never looked back.
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Glad you didn’t look back, you would have been turned into a pillar of porn.
@162 Sequitur: Are you high? It’s a recipe for punch. No fish.
@Daisy:
FC: Come to think of it, have we *ever* seen anything resembling a computer in this comic?
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When Bil does his taxes he drags out a portable Texas Instruments™ style desktop printing adding machine. That’s a type of computer-ish device, isn’t it?
The Phantom: On Wednesday, Savarna takes an open air shower. The Pygmy penises grew three times larger that day.
@Baja Gaijin:
@162 Sequitur: Are you high? It’s a recipe for punch. No fish.
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‘Hey, how ’bout a nice Gaijin punch?” “Sure!”
@168 Garrison Skunk: Did you see the punch? It has stuff floating in it.
2110s? C’mon, Josh, you know we’ll never hear from Suzy again. Her raison d’être is to be the BFF for exactly one day.
@Baja Gaijin: Fish House Punch!
@Baja Gaijin: And a freakin’ dead fish staring at me!
@171 Ukulele Ike: Yeah but does it have a Peach Ice Ring? No.
@172 taig: Are you taking the same thing as Sequitur? It’s a punch recipe, not a deskinned striped bass stuffed with carrots, onion, celery, and a half-pound of mushrooms sitting next to a bowl of punch with a tiny life ring floating in it recipe.
@Baja Gaijin: The presentation on the recipe card leaves a lot to be desired, then. A dead fish instantly makes the punch unappetizing.
@174 taig: The fish doesn’t have a sliced olive eye. Does that count for anything?
Phantom – So the asterisk means Diana is applying the Bandar Tongue to Savarna’s ass?
Phantom – “Your answer, Kit! The day, the hour! Tell me exactly what you told Mozz!”
“Aww….geez, Dad! I dunno – nobody wears a watch up there. Or pays much attention to calendars. You know that.”
@Baja Gaijin: It has its plusses and minuses. (zing!)
@Garrison Skunk:
How did Dot get Ditto to put on a wig and play the part of Suzy?
It was easy once she found him trying on her clothes.
MW: Why is Keith holding a shiv?
@Peanut Gallery: Sunlight is the ultimate disinfectant.
@Professor Well Actually:
Professor #21
Easy fix for all those deflated by word balloon. Go to yesterday’s Six Chix, copy the little green butt, and paste over word balloon. Green butts rock!
@Baja Gaijin: To get the full effect, the flayed fish has to be floating IN the punch bowl.
@Baja Gaijin: It does too!
@Daisy: re PV: Yes, those regal Irish Wolfhounds, Baron and Hunter, are part of our prime Canine talent! They made their debut in Prince Valiant a few months ago and have become popular favorites – earning a permanent role in the royal household!
@Baja Gaijin: re late thread cuisine: Ya know, it may just be a coincidence – but that stewed Fish looks a lot like one of my ol’ man’s clients who went mysteriously missing in 1977! Yeah, Stuart the Striped Bass, aka Salmon in the off season, was reportedly last seen near some disreputable Fish House. Oh well, he’s probably past the three-day limit heh heh heh That punch looks like it would pack a “punch” – I think I have all the ingredients. Maybe I’ll stir up a batch. Don’t worry if I don’t check in tomorrow… I may be up late. First I gotta freeze one of those fruit-life-saver rings…
@Garrison Skunk:
Tabby #51 – you said it better 13 hours before I tried. :-0
@173 Baja Gaijin:
There’s a bowl of punch in that picture?
@183 Peanut Gallery: Uh, fish floating in the punch? I didn’t think that recipe could get worse and yet, there it is!
@184 Sid, Agent to the Animal Stars!: Stuart may have been suicidal?
@173 Sequitur: The punch bowl is a bit hard to see underneath all those fern fronds.
@Baja Gaijin: Scroll down.
@188 richardf8: Did you feel the wind from the big “Whoosh” going over your head when reading my comment? I was winding Sequitur up.
@Daisy: No Smartphones, but Jef has updated wall phones into cordless phones.
I don’t remember any computers. It’s real laziness that the current story wasn’t updated to show the melonheads composing their newspaper on a computer like every other kid would.
@Baja Gaijin: I’d have to get sloshed on a few cups of that punch before I would try that fish next to the punch bowl. The olive eye looking at us is bad enough, but the fish is stuffed with spinach and mushrooms, overcooked in broth, and then chilled. And did you notice the tomato topping? It’s tomatoes cooked with gelatin. (I really can’t tell if the fish has the tomato topping or is just red.)
Cold fish with its head intact and an olive eye looking at you. *Shudder*
@Garrison Skunk: #166
Ah, Texas Instruments! That takes me way back to the heady days when I worked with a big, cumbersome punch card computer in college. I bet the Keanes have a Commodore 128 on the floor somewhere in their house. With a dot matrix printer. And I bet they’ve already traded in their rotary dial phones for a new fangled push button phone!
(I make gentle fun of the Keanes but I fondly remember the 50’s and 60’s and how amazed I was when cassette tapes came out!)
@Garrison Skunk: #164
Yikes, yes! That’s saying a lot.
@Baja Gaijin: #165
That fish is straight out of a horror movie – ye gods!! I’ll need a good pitcher full of that punch just to get that image out of my head!
@Baja Gaijin: #158
Wow! A punch that packs a punch!! That’ll put you under the table after one sip!
@Poteet: #152
I’m pretty tired of ol’ Joel and Rufus…I’d like to see how Talking Bear and Jones are getting along with Boog and his family. Or how Becky is faring without her dim witted humans.
@Poteet: #151
I believe the Universe is telling us something.
@190 I speak Jive: Cold naked fish with its head intact and olive eye looking at you. The fish was skinned.
@193 Daisy: How could anyone think rum punch and cold fish stuffed with spinach would make a good combination?
@194 Daisy: You’d need strong drink to go near that scary fish. Wait, is the fish’s head ripped from its body then sorta shoved back into place? [shudder]
@Baja Gaijin: No no no no nonono NO thank you.
For some reason I’m thinking of Edgar Allan Poe.
@198 Poteet: Nevermore!
@The Rambling Otter: Yes indeed. From the book when I was about nine. The comparison with Dot and Suzy works for me because it makes Anne and Diane look even classier.
@Baja Gaijin: HAR! We can hope.
@Garrison Skunk: May that ride again come Friday.
Baja, are you sure that the fish is dead? It doesn’t have x’s for eyes. Stick a fork into it and it’ll curl up and sing “Take Me to the River.” Then you swear off ever drinking that powerful punch again.
@Lord_Flatulence: Thanks for the info!
So we’ve just passed strip 900 of this arc. If they can make it to February 17, that’ll be strip 1,000. That’s kind of impressive in an I’ll-never-ever-want-to-read-this-arc sort of way.
Phantom:. Correction- the demise of hundreds of people in Kit Jr’s Mountain City, of his esteemed mentor, and of the Phantom-Palmer legend, will take place when Savarna goes to Mountain City and shoots Jampa. Dead. Stone dead. That’s according to Mozz:s mostly accurate prophecy. So I said the other day Mozz might have gone to extract Jampa from Mountain City.
But reading today’s strip, I think both Kit Sr. and Mozz understand the prophecy changed the minute Kit Sr stopped to listen to the prophecy. Unlike in the prophecy, prisoners have been freed, Kit Sr was not shot, the vet has not operated, Diana knows what’s going on. So now I predict Mozz has instead left to starve himself into getting an updated prophecy.
@Avoiding the Madding Crowd: !?! You think Stuart might still be alive? He does look “well preserved” – that punch woulda done it. You know, this is good stuff! I skipped the frozhren fhruit ring due to the loooong freeeeeze time… why doncha pull up a cupp and have some…
@jroggs: which has less sexual energy than a family Christmas card photo
Hey! Speak for your own family.
@Garrison Skunk: Glad you didn’t look back, you would have been turned into a pillar of porn.
I don’t like to give unsolicited advice but I must say this technique has always worked for me.
@203 Avoiding the Madding Crowd: EEEEE!!! [QLUNQ!]
@207 Maude R. Fawker: I think jroggs means a Family Circus family Christmas card photo, especially if Mushroom Cloud Haired Holier Than Thou Grandma is included.
@Baja Gaijin: I think jroggs means a Family Circus family Christmas card photo, especially if Mushroom Cloud Haired Holier Than Thou Grandma is included.
They’re certainly not Fawkers, I have to concede that.
EMERGENCY! LOTS OF BLACK COFFEE AT @206 Sid, Agent to the Animal Stars!:
@Avoiding the Madding Crowd: Ah yes, a skinned fish that’s served alive. A big hit at pool parties in the Klingon edition of Mary Worth.
Phantom: In 1984, Marvel Comics’ G.I. Joe #21 famously told an entire story with no dialog. The Phantom would have done well to follow that example.
@UncleJeff:
Thank you for the explanation. I’d have to follow the strip to know that. But I am proud to say that the only place I ever see The Phantom, or ever will see the Phantom is here, on our beloved Comics Curmudgeon blog.
Dude, going back to 2006 (!?) for that Phantom nude scene is definitely going above and beyond.
Your automatic internal comic database indexing unit must go back extra far for that sweet, sweet comic porn?
Phantom – “So that was two and a half years ago. What the fuck took you so long? I could have crawled here faster than that!”