Metapost: Quick COTW
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Here it is! Your comment of the week!
“You know land lines are becoming archaic when even comic strip artists forget how you’re supposed to hold a handset when talking. Are Blondie and Dagwood trying to FaceTime each other?” –Tabby Lavalamp
And your funny runners up!
“What these stupid kids don’t know about autumn leaves could fill a book. Which really doesn’t matter, because apparently none of them has ever read one.” –BigTed
“We begin with our observers paying lip service to the notions that their subject is behind the times and requires reform. This is quickly met with reluctance and denial and insistence that its content is still good, even though many related enterprises have failed. Sentimentality and sluggish inertia then causes them to push that the art is still charming and the once-positive responses still hold. Leaving no allowance for anything new, be it fresh ideas, improvement, or openness to current feedback, they smugly decide to leave things just as they are and do nothing to solve their obviously apparent problems, determined to instead wallow in fruitless nostalgia. Hmm … are we really talking about a corkboard here?” –jroggs
“I sincerely hope that today’s Mary Worth is the beginning of a new storyline where every character has nightmares about Wilbur. Even the animals. Even Wilbur himself.” –Craig!
“No, Hi and Lois aren’t looking directly at us, the readers. They’re looking directly at you, Josh. This is their response to all the times you’ve called comic strips out for still having dogs living outside and whatnot. ‘It’s a time capsule. You should leave it as it is.’ They’ve become aware of you and don’t want you to interfere. Not that this should scare you — what should scare you is the fact that Wilbur’s also become aware of you, and the way you keep putting him down is turning him on.” –likeagrapefruit
“Cheers to Zits for having the courage to tell parents it’s okay for them to have a frank talk with their kids via text about what said kids should do when they’re horny! Jeers to Zits for forgetting that the only people still reading newspaper comics are retirees whose children are in their 40s, and who have never been given their grandchildren’s cell phone numbers, possibly to avoid this exact scenario.” –Briane Pagel
“Look, the joke in Crock wouldn’t work if the shovel was colored golden from panel one. On the other hand, it doesn’t work anyway. Hm.” –matt w
“I had to rack my brains to work out who ‘The Cueball’ and ‘The Stoner’ were, but you know what? The idea that Elon Musk would teach his shitty AIs to call Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson mean names is the most plausible thing in this story so far. If anything, these names aren’t cruel enough — the real Elon Musk literally tweeted that Bill Gates looks pregnant and made him lose an erection. Ian Mollusk’s robot should be saying things so libelous that the strip gets banned by English courts.” –Schroduck
“Dagwood’s insatiable appetite makes a lot more sense when you realize he’s trying to fill the void left by his professional and personal life.” –TheDiva
“Man, I don’t know if my heart can take any more of this wild, roller-coaster ‘handshake might hurt my finger a bit’ action right on top of the already pulse-pounding ‘friends reunite and everything turns out great’ drama in Rex Morgan. Let’s dial it down a little, people! It can’t be constant thrills, all the time!” –Chance
“Coach Martinez might lack Coach Thorp’s leadership skills or natural understanding of his players, but he compensates for this by inflating his neck like a tree frog.” –Ettorre
“Mary Worth is almost there in accidentally recreating the myth of Freyja.
✓ Husband absent.
✓ Frequent weeping.
✓ Can shape-shift into a falcon (see the 5/7/1972 strip, true believers!)
✓ Slept with four dwarves for a fancy necklace (see upcoming honeymoon storyline)
X Has a sled pulled by two cats (so close! Keep trying, Mary Worth.)” –Voshkod“Pierre is staring straight ahead in wide-eyed terror. ‘Damn, she’s still talking about this crap! I can’t handle the pressure of trying to figure out the correct moment to weigh in with woof!’” –Weaselboy
“It looks like Mud’s album is called ‘Mud in Your Eye?’ Honestly, that’s great. No irony, that rules. I hope he has a whole discography of mud pun titles, like ‘Clear as Mud’ or ‘Happy as a Pig in Mud’ or his post-cancellation album, ‘Drag My Name Through the Mud.’” –Dan
“Yes, this will render them helpless … three at a time! Surely they will all wait patiently in line for food that their compatriots will, to a man, audibly opine is terrible, and none of them will simply walk around this undefended little hut to, like, the front door! Also, are we implying that Grossie lives in the hut? That the hut is her home? Where she’s cooking the meals? For an entire army? I just hope those guys on the tower understand that the enemy isn’t taking their diarrhea home with them, is all I’m saying.” –els
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36 replies to “Metapost: Quick COTW”
Thanks to Josh for correcting my check marks, and Voshkudos to Tabby Lavalamp, likeagrapefruit, and TheDiva.
Way to go, Tabby, and the Floaters and upcoming Shadowers and the Scroters:
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
popomatic
October 19th, 2024 at 6:59 am Reply
FC: From where is Bil walking? My normal grilling routine is to make about two dozen trips between the kitchen and the grill, but Bil is shown coming from the fence. What’s over there? Maybe he had to answer the call of nature, or more likely, he’s talking to that neighbor lady again.
Lawyerbob
October 19th, 2024 at 8:43 am Reply
FC: “Hide, Jeffy! You remember what happened to PJ the last time!”
Tabby Lavalamp
October 19th, 2024 at 8:45 am Reply
Billy knows Jeffy goes apeshit on their father when he attempts to grill so he’s going to try to hold his brother back to keep his tiny fists of rage from bruising dad’s aging Millennial thighs.
Dr. Larry Erhardt
October 19th, 2024 at 9:51 am Reply
Family Circus: “And Mommy’s wearin’ the sailor suit! Wow, our parents have lame kinks.”
Side Aye
October 19th, 2024 at 10:06 am Reply
DOLLY: And grandma is wearing her dead-drunk old lady in a housecoat stooped against a dumpster in a Bayonne, New Jersey alleyway costume!
Myrtle
October 19th, 2024 at 9:58 am Reply
FC: This just happened to be the warm October day that Neighbor-lady decided to sunbathe in her back yard. A distracted Bil forgot that he put the grill near the only tree in their yard, the one with the dried, falling leaves. A sudden autumn breeze kicked up the flames from the blazing burgers he had neglected to turn…
It was a day that Billy and Jeffy, miraculously safe on the porch, would never forget.
Noel
October 19th, 2024 at 7:51 am Reply
MW: I am so goddamn sick of the fucking deeply unfunny, uncompelling dream sequences in every goddamn storyline in this strip. I know it hasn’t started yet but this is an obvious segue to one.
I speak Jive
October 19th, 2024 at 8:57 am Reply
Pluggers – I call BS. They get paper forms that they laboriously fill out.
Arabella
October 19th, 2024 at 9:22 am Reply
A Plugger entering information to send on his phone? Get real. If he’s actually sending it electronically, he’d be using a huge console desktop computer like Mary Worth used to have. More likely he’s “submitting” it into a mailbox in an envelope. Phones are only used to call someone if you have car trouble, or to answer spam calls.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Scroteworthy – Josh’s take on the Family Circlejerk: The Family Circus’ bread and butter is what I like to call “darndest thing saying,” which is the Keane Kids trying to explain some aspect of the world or talk like a smart adult but fucking it up very badly, due to idiocy.
Bob Tice
October 20th, 2024 at 4:32 am Reply
FC:
I think that I shall never see
Four gnomes as ugly as a tree.
— Joyce Kilmer (adapted)
Anonymous
October 20th, 2024 at 7:38 am Reply
FC: I really like the image of PJ squatting there, probably having a bowel movement in his diaper while staring intently at the leaf.
I’m Not Cthulhu, But I’m Part of His Clique
October 20th, 2024 at 8:43 am Reply
The Family Circus: Well, you know what they say about stopped blockheads: they’re always right twice a day. Once, on the Sabbath.
BigTed
October 20th, 2024 at 4:45 am Reply
Family Circus: What these stupid kids don’t know about autumn leaves could fill a book. Which really doesn’t matter, because apparently none of them has ever read one.
Mary Worth: Wilbur is now officially the Romantic Boogeyman, a monstrous creature who haunts the dreams of single women throughout Santa Royale. Oh, and he’s still the local newspaper’s advice columnist, right? Ha, print media sucks.
Baja Gaijin
October 20th, 2024 at 4:28 am Reply
Mary Worth: AAAAUGH! THERE SHOULD BE A TRIGGER WARNING ON THIS STRIP!!! Triggered a violent reverse peristaltic reaction in me that shames the pea soup kid in “The Exorcist.” I need a bolus of lactated ringers STAT!
Mary Worth: Everyone thought the most terrifying scene in Mary Worth‘s history was Wilbur Weston in a speedo. Today, that hurdle has been breached by a long shot.
Pozzo
October 20th, 2024 at 4:41 am Reply
Estelle’s pets, whose names I haven’t bothered to learn (is one Pierre?) are looking at her as if to say, “Yeah, we’ve had that dream, too — freaky, huh?”
MKay
October 20th, 2024 at 4:49 am Reply
MW: If Mary made this happen, then color me impressed!
Ettorre
October 20th, 2024 at 5:13 am Reply
Wait, Estelle is getting married dressing all white?!?! I assumed she was too disgusted to copulate with Wilbur, but you are telling me she never consummated her previous marriage?! Work stress my ass, her husband died of blue balls!
Jerp+jump
October 20th, 2024 at 5:28 am Reply
You know she’s seen Wilbur’s O-face, right? I bet it looks a lot like that.
Buck Ripsnort
October 20th, 2024 at 6:29 am Reply
MW: Moy has to be trolling us at this point, right? She’s not planning to have Stell and Wilbur reconcile, IS SHE? Somebody hug me, I’m scared.
Lawyerbob
October 20th, 2024 at 4:45 am Reply
MW: You have to give it up to Moy and Brigman. Today’s strip cannot be improved. I mean, chef’s kiss, ten out of ten, no-notes level of Wilbur-horror greatness.
Horace Broon
October 20th, 2024 at 7:39 am Reply
MW: “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. Mary Worth never makes any damn sense.”
Patrick+Duke
October 20th, 2024 at 7:29 am Reply
Obviously, Wilbur is the most terrifying part, but she should have realized it was a nightmare with Les Moore sitting there in the audience.
Poppy
October 20th, 2024 at 7:33 am Reply
MW: Estelle wearing white could be taken a number of ways, I guess, but I like to imagine it just means she hasn’t had sex with Wilbur. Luckily, she woke up right before having to dream about his sandwich-penis.
Hibbleton
October 20th, 2024 at 5:29 am Reply
MW: And here I thought ‘shit the bed’ was just an expression.
Briane Pagel
October 21st, 2024 at 5:06 am Reply
Cheers to “Zits” for having the courage to tell parents it’s okay for them to have a frank talk with their kids via text about what said kids should do when they’re horny! Jeers to “Zits” for forgetting that the only people still reading newspaper comics are retirees whose children are in their 40s, and who have never been given their grandchildren’s cell phone numbers, possibly to avoid this exact scenario.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
MKay
October 21st, 2024 at 5:03 am Reply
MW: Did Ed have an epiphany too? Maybe he dreamed that all of his wedding guests were the pets he’s put down.
Rube
October 22nd, 2024 at 4:37 am Reply
GT Still 3:15 left on the clock, and a touchdown will seal the night? What’s the score supposed to be?
Little Guy
October 22nd, 2024 at 7:00 am Reply
GT: I know they are making shit up for football drama, but how much of a deficit do you have with 3:15 left in the fourth quarter for one more touchdown to cue Dandy Don to start singing “Turn Out the Lights”?
But What Do I Know?
October 22nd, 2024 at 6:04 am Reply
GT — Apparently “YEET” is something you say when a teammate loses the sleeves of the shirt underneath his jersey after making a good play to keep the opponent from covering the spread..
A Grave Mind
October 22nd, 2024 at 8:45 am Reply
I’ve decided to add “yeet” to my regular vocabulary, right up until my fully-justified murder several hours later.
Bob Tice
October 22nd, 2024 at 4:29 am Reply
GT:
The Milford players look as animated in the last panel as the figurines in the electric football games that were popular when I was a kid.
ectojazzmage
October 22nd, 2024 at 7:26 am Reply
Gil Thorp: Y’know, if you’re gonna get a new artist for a comic strip about sports, you might wanna pick one who can and will actually draw sports scenes and not impressionistic cave paintings.
Weaselboy
October 22nd, 2024 at 6:02 am Reply
GT – Note to the new artist: please include motion lines to accurately represent jazz hands.
Guillermo el chiclero
October 22nd, 2024 at 8:10 am Reply
GT: Ms. Merrill, if you can’t draw a rounded object like a football helmet without it looking all lumpy and bashed in how are you ever going to land that Family Circus gig drawing those melonheaded kids?
Hibbleton
October 22nd, 2024 at 5:38 am Reply
FC: Most big brothers would just say; “The side with the head on it, stupid” but Billy has his fist wound up to give her a backhand punch in the mouth. A little harsh but quite understandable living with Dolly.
I speak Jive
October 22nd, 2024 at 9:30 am Reply
FC – Jef Keane is trying to turn Dolly into The Stupid One, not realizing that there’s room for two morons.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Schroduck
October 22nd, 2024 at 4:58 am Reply
Blondie: Big fan of the Bumsteads’ ridiculously low furniture. Sure, the prudes at the syndicate won’t actually let them draw Blondie bending over to pick up the phone in her tight clothes with her ass in the air, but they can’t stop the artist giving us all the pieces for us to put together in our heads.
Ukulele Ike
October 22nd, 2024 at 6:31 am Reply
Crank: Uh oh. How many of the Indistinguishable Blondes is Batuik going to stuff into one small pizzeria? Hope everyone brought a name tag.
Hibbleton
October 22nd, 2024 at 4:50 am Reply
B. Bailey: As Julius drives himself and the General off a cliff, they both wave to Sarge still hanging from that lonely tree branch on the way down.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
MKay
October 23rd, 2024 at 4:33 am Reply
MW: Estelle: “I love you, even though you’re a workaholic, and I’ve come back!”
Ed: “You were gone?”
Bono Vix?
October 23rd, 2024 at 4:33 am Reply
MW. Anyone lose notice that Estelle, with that towel covering her hair, looks exactly like 90% of the women in the strip, including Mary?
Bob Tice
October 23rd, 2024 at 4:32 am Reply
GT:
Confused about the meaning of the acronym AEW — does it mean Airborne Early Warning?; Army Electronic Warfare? — a distracted Milford team loses concentration and loses to NTT, 14-10.
Everything Is Better With Monkeys
October 23rd, 2024 at 4:43 am Reply
@Bob Tice: I think it’s something to do with American football… I know almost nothing about the sport. Which puts me one up on the creative team here.
Golf Is Hard
October 23rd, 2024 at 4:46 am Reply
@Bob Tice: AEW is All Elite Wrestling, the hot new sports entertainment show on Turner TV networks (and coming soon to Max)!
Coach Hernandez is in part responding to yesterday’s YEET controversy, because YEET is the catchphrase of “Main Event” Jey Uso… except that he works for WWE, not AEW! Turns out Hernandez doesn’t know what he’s commenting on.
Baja Gaijin
October 23rd, 2024 at 4:46 am Reply
Pluggers: Ha ha! Pluggers have realized as they’ve aged, they’ve become so hideous no one looks at them so they can dress in what they pulled their clothing and shoes out of a K-Mart’s dumpster.
GarrisonSkunk
October 23rd, 2024 at 7:40 am Reply
@Guillermo el chiclero: Remember the bell bottoms with fat cuffs from the 70s? Those things were magnets for lint, food crumbs, dead bugs, and assorted scutz off the streets.
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You had the Pluggers at “Food Crumbs”, G.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Guillermo el chiclero
October 23rd, 2024 at 5:02 am Reply
FC: Neither, Jeffy. You’re just a plain idiot.
Artist formerly known as Ben
October 24th, 2024 at 9:17 am Reply
GT: While the Bucket looks more than ever like a former Burger King where the new owners changed nothing, the lettering on its rooftop sign in the Merrill Era seems designed to trigger an eating disorder.
Anonymous
October 24th, 2024 at 4:51 am Reply
Gil Thorp : …is the new artist literally drawing the characters as being ‘fatheaded’ whenever they’re being jerks? Is that why their head sizes keep changing from panel to panel?
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Luann : The ‘Moony University MULES’, huh? Was that established before, or is that all a pretext to sneak pictures of a cartoon butt with the word ‘ASS’ next to it past the censors?
Tom T.
October 24th, 2024 at 10:39 am Reply
Luann: I first read this as: “You wearing any body paint?” “Down there or up here?”
It didn’t make sense entirely, but I was ready to laugh at an unexpectedly naughty joke.
Activist
October 24th, 2024 at 10:39 am Reply
LUANN:. So agreed! Nothing friendlier than drunken ball fans. Indeed, I worked concessions for pro sports and a number of women admitted they didn’t care anything for sports but came to find a man to buy them drinks.
Scratchy’s Scrotums of the Week
Schroduck
October 24th, 2024 at 4:42 am Reply
Mary Worth: I am begging you, for the love of god – never let of your any characters call their lover “Daddy” ever again. Estelle calling Dr. Ed that is bad enough, but the idea of Toby and Ian engaging in a bit of daddy kink is making me actually ill.
Hibbleton
October 24th, 2024 at 4:44 am Reply
MW: I found the stage directions for this scene online: (Estelle speaks, dubbed) And Libby, (pause) if you’re worried about me marrying Wilbur (crash of symbols) it’s not (emphasized) going to happen! (scene)
Lord Flatulence
October 24th, 2024 at 5:09 am Reply
MW: Daddy? Barf!
Lauralot
October 24th, 2024 at 5:18 am Reply
So now that this strip has confirmed a relationship with Wilbur is a fate worse than death, can Moy please explain the last Wilbur arc that dragged on forever? If we weren’t supposed to feel sorry for him and his bout of depression after his fish’s death, what was the intended reaction? Pointing and laughing? Because we can only do that for so long when day after day is Wilbur decaying on his couch.
LTJpezcore1
October 24th, 2024 at 5:30 am Reply
MW: Dying sad and alone or living with Wilbur….at least we know Estelle is making the right choice there
nescio
October 24th, 2024 at 5:33 am Reply
MW: Estelle is subtly telling Libby he can piss during the walk, no need to save some to spray around at home.
Tabby Lavalamp
October 24th, 2024 at 5:34 am Reply
That’s the face of a cat who is going to have no problem eating Estelle if she dies alone.
pugfuggly
October 24th, 2024 at 5:36 am Reply
MW: I like how Estelle only has to reassure Libby that she’s not going back to Wilbur. Pierre? He don’t give a fuck. Give him some Alpo and a walk in the park and he’ll cuddle up to Mussolini.
Earwig
October 24th, 2024 at 5:50 am Reply
I totally am ready for the punchline where Stell lets herself into the vet’s office to apologize, only to find out that he has “moved on” and by “moved on” I mean that he’s deeply into his 23 year old new vet tech if you know what I mean, and hard at work, if you know what I mean.
Maltmash3r
October 24th, 2024 at 5:56 am Reply
MW- hmmm I wonder. Moy has spent a lot of time building Stell up from lonesome loser getting scammed, to being manipulated by Wilbur’s “quirks” , to bridezilla with a mask fetish.
If she does marry Ed, you’d think she’s moving out, and would we ever see her again?
All I’m saying is don’t go all in on those bets for Ed just yet.
Weaselboy
October 24th, 2024 at 6:56 am Reply
MW – Pierre is staring straight ahead in wide-eyed terror. “Damn, she’s still talking about this crap! I can’t handle the pressure of trying to figure out the correct moment to weigh in with ‘woof!’”
Special Scrotal Awards to the Best No. 69 and Beyond of the Week
69. GarrisonSkunk
October 19th, 2024 at 10:41 am Reply
That’s one weird game on Mark Trail’s phone….two red Pac-Men, well at least one of them scored a cherry. Good for it!
169. Poteet
October 20th, 2024 at 9:18 pm Reply
FC: Those trees are short. The melonheads have been portrayed cavorting with their dad, and the top of Billy’s head barely reaches the bottom of Dad’s butt. Short trees, I’m just sayin’.
69. 2+2=7
October 21st, 2024 at 8:01 am Reply
REX MORGAN M.D.: Truck (under his breath): “‘Specially since I won’t be payin’ the bill.”
June: “What was that?”
Truck: “Never you good folks mind! Enjoy this cheaply-produced t-shirt that an eight-year-old Malaysian girl lost a finger to make!”
Special Scrotal Awards to the Best No. 69 and Beyond of the Week
69. Weaselboy
October 22nd, 2024 at 8:04 am Reply
GT – I hope I don’t get penalized for piling on, but the narration box in P3 is worded awkwardly. It should read either “3:15 left on the clock” or “three minutes and fifteen seconds left on the clock.” I know I’m in rearranging-deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic territory, but still.
69. Old School Allie Cat
October 23rd, 2024 at 6:56 am Reply
Rex Morgan – PLAY ISLANDS IN THE STREAM!!!!!!
Thanks for mentioning my 69, Scratchy!
Thanks for the mention Scratchy and congrats to all you funny individuals!
Well, this is an unexpected high to end a middling week on. Thank you!
@GarrisonSkunk: The pleasure is mutual.
Pleased rustling of the tentacles to Tabby Lavalamp and all the floaters, and specially-lessened malevolence to Scratchy and his scrotii for his mention!
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I’m Part of His Clique: Scrotuses? Scrotums? The Old Ones find Latin confusing.
Thanks, Scratchy!
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I’m Part of His Clique: Might be fourth declension, scrota.
Congrats to Tabby Lavalamp and my fellow floaters and thanks, Josh and Scratchy!
@White Rabbit: Correct, but it’s the second declension
Special Long-form Shadow COTW
jroggs
October 24th, 2024 at 5:01 am Reply
Rex Morgan: Narrator (VO) – “Truck Tyler and Mud Mountain Murphy: Talkin’ ‘Bout Doin’ would go on to sell zero copies, ending the pair’s long musical careers. Tyler’s professional miseries were compounded as his painful finger-straightening condition spread to other parts of his body, resulting in the dissolution of his relationship with Wanda after the ailment reached his other extremities, often causing him to collapse screaming from the painful snapping of his erections. As for Murphy, he chose to focus on his Mirakle Method work, but sadly took his own life after having to listen to Lyle Ollman talk one time too many. Murphy’s last remaining fan was in a state of disbelief for years after, often visiting his grave to beg him to play her favorite song one last time for her. And so ended another tragic chapter in the history of Glenwood’s music scene, just as another was beginning. Stick around after the break as we explore the emergent and emetic history of a viral found footage music video: ‘Spew For You (Dysphagic Magic)’ by Justin.”
Daily Shadow CsOTW
Saturday
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Bob Tice
October 19th, 2024 at 4:34 am Reply
Family Circus: “I know why Dad’s outside with that silly chef’s hat of his. He’s toquing up!”
Lionheart
October 19th, 2024 at 7:09 am Reply
Gasoline Alley: I kind of love how in Gasoline Alley we’ve got a demon-possessed talking doll and a small sentient robot yet the scariest things currently in the strip are the young school girls’ faces. Those eyes paired with those smiles are like if there was a Kenneth Copeland nightmare paralysis demon.
Sunday
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BigTed
October 20th, 2024 at 4:45 am Reply
Mark Trail: Oh, look, a new species of giant spiders is invading the U.S. But they’re perfectly harmless, ACCORDING TO THE SAME PRINT MEDIA THAT EMPLOYS WILBUR WESTON. Sleep well tonight, citizens!
matt w
October 20th, 2024 at 7:02 am Reply
Karen Moy says to herself, “This story arc needs a little oomph. I’ll give the people what they want–A HORRIFYING WILBUR WESTON DREAM SEQUENCE!” We did this. It’s us.
Monday
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johnny lt
October 21st, 2024 at 4:34 am Reply
Phantom: Hey, Robocop’s got a new job!
Voshkod
October 21st, 2024 at 7:21 am Reply
Phantom: “Tonight on Cueball and the Stoner, our unlikely detectives face their greatest foe, a billionaire mollusk with a war machine. Can baldness and pot smoking save the day? Find out, only on NBC.”
Tuesday
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Ukulele Ike
October 22nd, 2024 at 10:10 am Reply
Frazz: Those people worked really hard to make a lot of money so they could move into an expensive neighborhood and keep well away from people like you, Grown-up Susie Derkins.
Artist formerly known as Ben
October 22nd, 2024 at 5:01 pm Reply
Mary Worth: It will sound kind of funny at the wedding when Estelle says, “I, Estelle, take you, Not Wilbur to be my husband,” but I guess it counts.
Wednesday
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Ettorre
October 23rd, 2024 at 5:42 amReply
Gil Thorp: Coach Martinez might lack Coach Thorp’s leadership skills or natural understanding of his players, but he compensates this by inflating his neck like a tree frog.
Peanut Gallery
October 23rd, 2024 at 6:07 amReply
Rex Morgan: This is how these guys decide the future of their music careers? I’ve seen more heated discussions about whether to go to Taco Bell or Burger King for lunch.
Thursday
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Tabby Lavalamp
October 24th, 2024 at 5:34 am Reply
Mary Worth: That’s the face of a cat who is going to have no problem eating Estelle if she dies alone.
Weaselboy
October 24th, 2024 at 6:56 am Reply
Mary Worth: Pierre is staring straight ahead in wide-eyed terror. “Damn, she’s still talking about this crap! I can’t handle the pressure of trying to figure out the correct moment to weigh in with ‘woof!’”
Friday
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MKay
October 25th, 2024 at 4:44 am Reply
Mary Worth: The vet’s office is in for another show when Estelle bursts in to discover Ed nose-to-butt with a middle-aged Maltipoo mom.
matt w
October 25th, 2024 at 5:44 am Reply
Crock: Grossie’s costume does mark her as a North African woman but this raises the question, what is Maggot? I meant this as “Is he another legionnaire or a civilian colonist or something” but “human or weeble or eldritch horror sent to scour us” also works.
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Shadow COTW
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Beaston
October 23rd, 2024 at 9:02 amReply
When I read Gil Thorp, I wonder what the hell is going on. When I look at Gil Thorp, I wonder what the hell is going on in our art schools.
Congrats to Tabby Lavalamp and the gang on the float. Kudos also to the shadow-ies and scratchies, with thanks to Scratchy Scrotum LXIX and Baja Gaijin. Tips of the beret to Craig!, Briane Pagel, and Voshkod.
Thank you ever so, Scratchy and Baja!
Thanks Josh, Scratchy and Baja!
Thanks, Baja!
Congrats to all the COTWs, and thanks Josh (and Scratchy and Baja)!
Thanks, Baja!
Thanks, Scratchy and Baja!
Congrats to all of you! :3
And Baja and Scratchy are very awesome for adding more CotW bonuses!
I love you guys!
Sometimes I consider maybe starting my own “The Golden Otter Awards” or something like that, but it’s a lot of work for me personally, so again, I appreciate what Baja and Scratchy do every week,
Congrats to Tabby, Beaston, and the whole gang!
@30 The Rambling Otter: You can do “The Golden Otter Awards.” You don’t have to put 40 comments on the list, just the ones that tickle your fancy.
@Baja Gaijin: Awwww thank you :3
I’ll see about doing that :)
Thankee kindly, Scratchy!
Kudos to all the winners and thank you, Scratchy and Baja!
Thanks to our host, Scratchy, and Baja.