Is “Sunbeam” distinct from the Sun itself, I guess is the relevant question
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Beetle Bailey, 7/2/25
Longtime readers know that one of my minor Beetle Bailey fixations is that Miss Buxley’s classic little black dress is actually a little red dress; it’s just that the daily strips depict black and white versions of underlying platonic forms that are in color, and red is depicted as black in that context, but then the strips are colored in by other hands later in the manufacturing chain, which screws up the whole system because the black apparently can’t be made red at that point. Or it least it couldn’t be made red, until today! Finally, Adobe Photoshop fill tool technology has advanced to the point where it can make the black area of a .tiff file red. Unfortunately it seems to screw up a bunch of other stuff, like make the text too small for the word bubbles and also kind of fuck up Miss Buxley’s face. It looks off, right? Is this AI? Will Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC be the first comics conglomerate to replace its human artists with AI? Anyway, I was going to do a riff here about the fact that “going pillow shopping” clearly seems like it should be a sex thing, but I got distracted by all this other stuff.
Bizarro, 7/2/25
Look, man, I love dogs. Huge fan of dogs. But the truth is, no dog, not even a highly trained one, would give even a moment’s thought to a beautiful sunset vista. This guy should be getting a phone call describing the incredible smells coming off a huge pile of turds that the dog found.
Hi and Lois, 7/2/25
Hey, Trixie, the Sun is an enormous ball of exploding hydrogen and helium more than 800,000 miles in diameter, and its motion is mostly determined by the gravitational forces of our galaxy, which contains millions of stars like it. You, on the other hand, are a baby with no job or anything else that imposes any kind of schedule on your days, so maybe you should be willing to accommodate your supposed “best friend.”
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/2/25
Aww, isn’t that nice? But seriously, insulin deliveries to Hootin’ Holler are intermittent at best, which is a big problem considering the community’s higher-than-average incidence of diabetes.
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BB- The AI also gave Blips slightly bigger blips.
BG&SS:
“Why ya sittin’ way over thar, Paw?”
” ‘Cause I don’t wanna interfere with yer peace ‘n’ solitude with this here phone call I’m about ta make.”
“Why would ya initiate a phone conversation sittin’ on a fallen tree?”
“It’s a ‘dial log‘ !”
MW:
You must remember this
A kiss is but a kiss
That guy is just a guy
The dumb and mental things apply
As brine goes by
And when two lubbers woo
He will say, “I love you!”
On that, you can espy
No matter what his sutures bring
As brine goes by
Moonlight and love wrongs
They are on a date
Scarfs full of gnashin’,
Zealotry and bait
Woman needs man
And man must have “first mate”
That, no one can decry
It’s still the same told story
A plight for love that’s sorry
A case of you-and-I
The world will always welcome lubbers
As brine
Goes
By
Bizarro: I could really go for some cherry pie pizza right about now.
TG: scene from election season in Chitown.
S4th: in middle panel, we see Ted transform into evil Raptor of Revenge
MW: Dr. Jeff still practices safe Covid Kissing.
MANDRAKE: If plane goes down and women are rescued by Mandrake, who put GPS tracker on plane, we’ll know this is set in the ’50s.
JP: bet Soph also can also count to ten in Norwegian. Berlitz is good like that.
BGSS: Forget checking insulin levels; they should really be studying the genetic condition that causes literally everyone to have their tongues loll out like a dog when they express “humor.”
MW: As if we needed more proof that Mary and Dr. Jeff have never had sex in their decades long affair. Mary is more frigid than Antarctica and Dr. Jeff prefers a man with a round muscular butt.
BG&SS: I’m not even going to begin to guess the sugar content of corn liquor.
BG&SS: Never realized Snuffy’s got serious rizz. You a playa, Snuff!
Bizarro: Is the Big Slug drink a stand in for the stick of dynamite? I think it is.
MW: I’ve had handshakes with total strangers that were positively orgiastic, compared to that kiss.
LUANN: Give it a rest, hypercritical boyfriend. Camp Skye will just assign Luann to table wiping; that’s literally her entire resume. Back off and let her become a weenie czarina.
H&L: I’m with Trixie. She does all the work in this relationship.
Snuffy Smith : So, Loweezy can just turn her head 180+ degrees like that, Exorcism-style?
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Crankshaft : See, EVEN LILLIAN HERSELF believes she should be put out of our misery!
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Hi & Lois : Weird to see this strip’s Anti-Joy sentiment coming from Trixie, and about her relationship with Sunbeam, too! I genuinely thought that was the one bit of carefree happiness this strip held sacrosanct, but apparently not!
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Luann : is going to quit her job at Weenie World to join up the Camp Skye staff, but it’s going to turn out they don’t have any available spots for counselors or activity instructors left, and she ends up working in the Camp’s cafeteria, wiping tables.
The Doctor was just warning Snuffy not to raid his beehive.
Beetle Bailey: Sure, facelifts are available at discount for military employees of Camp Swampy, but no one said they’d be good (or even competent) facelifts.
Bizarro: “Humans be damned! We’re setting the gorge guard rails at ‘dog on hind legs’ level!”
MW: The golden disk on Mary’s earlobe glowed imperceptibly as a message from the mothership transmitted the intelligence that Jeff had reached maximum fertility. Her kiss seemed chaste, but Mary knew she was imparting the seed for a new generation of beings for her dying planet. She smiled, imagining Jeff’s surprise when what he would self-diagnose as a goiter would actually be their offspring, developing in his neck.
It was too bad, though, she mused. On her home planet, the male’s neck expanded to accommodate the developing fetus and then returned to its normal dimensions shortly after birth had been accomplished through the mouth canal. Earthlings were different, Mary had discovered. The unborn developed without incident, but the pregnancy inevitably resulted in the human neck exploding during birth. Yes, it was too bad, because she liked Jeff and, even more, Jeff’s boat. She had had no such sentiments about Aldo or his car, although she was rather fond of the offspring from that union, their son Zak. And Ted Miller, who had no boat, had forced his attentions on her: she didn’t like him or their daughter, but at least his body hadn’t yet been discovered, and their daughter had been transported to another part of the galaxy. Out of sight, out of mind.
Jeff suddenly grunted in pleasure, and as they drew apart, Mary’s disk glowed again in confirmation that the seed had been implanted successfully.
Me: Get a room.
B. Bailey: Regarding the red dress, good to know the non-joke works equally well for those of us with anomalous trichromatic vision. Thank you Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC!
H&L: The Sun claps back: “How’d you like a neutrino blast? You little ingrate!“
GT: Just what every high-schooler wants, a parent to drive them to the prom.
Crankshaft: “Something called YouTube” is what you say when your entertainment is provided by an Atwater Kent.
MW: It’s like watching a kid press Barbie and Ken’s faces together, except with paper cutouts.
@Charterstoned: Make that “MW: Get a room.”
MW: Can someone toss a note over the convent wall telling Moy that seniors can have passionate sex lives.
@Charterstoned: I was wondering what you were up to.
Today’s Bizarro make me smile, it’s just cute. The only thing they would need to add is a tail-wagging motion for the dog.
Beetle Bailey: Ms. Blips got bee stings and Miss Buxley got stung by a bee?
@Hibbleton: Moy’s too busy trying to figure out how to give Mary the Barney Goggle treatment so that she can focus on her favorite character: Wilbur.
BB: “…and the staff at Bed, Bath and Beyond just let him sleep there, for like, days. It’s kinda scary what a grip the military has over this town…”
H&L: Jesus, Trixie: Sun Beam is with you 8 to 14 hours a day. How much more of him do you want??
BGSS: Do you think that Snuffy is referring to Loweezy as a person, or just to her breasts? Take a look at that second panel again before answering.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Well….
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV:
Beetle Bailey: Ms. Blips got bee stings and Miss Buxley got stung by a bee?
If a third character shows signs of having been stung by bees, then it’s no longer coincidence, but enemy action.
Then, Camp Swampy would be attacked by some kind of… deadly bee weapon?
Bees. My God.
BB: Has anyone pointed out that Buxley only has one boob? I mean, if she was facing to the side sure, but she’s not at any more of an angle than Blips (that I can tell)
MW: I think it would be prudent to never discuss whatever that is going on in panel two today ever again. Because it isn’t a kiss. And I think they’re holding their breaths…
Hi and Lois has taken the no-punchline bit to its logical extreme: depicting clinical depression in infants. Can you pass Prozac in breast milk?
Beetle Bailey: Maybe he’s taking today’s Stephan Pastis challenge.
Also Hi and Lois: I’m just a simple country hospice chaplain and elder god (on television), but I reckon that yes, a sunbeam, as an emission of photons from the body of the sun, is separate from the sun itself. Wait till Trixie finds out about the billions of neutrinos passing through her without so much as even stopping to say hello!
@LTJpezcore1: MW: I think it would be prudent to never discuss whatever that is going on in panel two today ever again. Because it isn’t a kiss. And I think they’re holding their breaths…
On the upside, in yesterday’s first panel, it looked like Jeff was developing a leprous sore on his lower lip.
DT: So all the art theft setups that got Lovejoy on the police’s radar are now going to be swept under the rug as part of the uncle’s plan to get his attention? So the big plan is to swap into present-Lovejoy’s life … under investigation from the police for some *really* high-profile stuff. Count Weirdly’s plans make more sense than this.
GT: “Whoa – is that *ever* a horribly-fitting suit” “I know, it fit right when I rented it but by the time I got it home the artist had forgotten how to draw it”
JP: “We have our own lives” – sorry, Norwegian barista, but Sophie’s in town now. Soon you’ll be an appendage to her story just like Reena.
MT: once again, I repeat, this ranger who _knew_ the swimming lake was closed agreed to his son going off for the day with the Trails to _swim_
NOTE: google whether dogs are colorblind.
ANSWER: Dogs have only two kinds of cones in their eyes, whereas humans have three; dogs cannot see red, orange or purple.
Chief colors in a “beautiful” sunset: red, orange and purple.
SCIENCED IN YOUR FACE, BIZARRO!
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: I actually used a variation on this line recently, turning down a slice of cake because the person offering was all the sweets I needed. Oddly enough, I got accused of being cheesy. How do you figure?
@Anonymous: I was literally thinking earlier, “I hope someone on here brings up bees, so I can share a screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons of a villager reacting to me, while bees are literally swarming around my head” (They do say hilarious things)
So, off I go to get a screenshot… literally none of the trees (that I have access to) in the game have beehives to disturb inside them… except then I find one way way way off to the side. Now I’m running from the bees while looking for a villager to talk to, while the bees are swarming, then I accidentally press the ZR button which opens the emotes menu, causing the game to pause. Meaning that the bees have caught up to me and will be upon me once I exit that screen…
@Buck Ripsnort: Seeing as that dog can talk and stand on two legs, I’ll give the benefit of the doubt that he can see like a human too.
@Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women:
Well, the small dogs anyway.
“Great Danes be damned too!”
If AI is gonna just remove one of Buxley’s boobs, they’ll have to rename her Unibuxley.
Bizarro-Nice to see Brian Griffin getting work when ‘Family Guy’ is off.
Sunbeam, you better take care
‘Cause I look just like Sluggo but with three weird hairs
Today’s Bizarro is actually relatable.
My mother and sister are going on a trip to the Canadian East Coast this fall.
I being stubborn as I am, refuse to go. I find long car trips extremely boring, and I get homesick very easily. I would rather stay home, chat online and play videogames.
Bizarro is mocking me here and I don’t like it.
Edit: Hell, that guy even kind of looks like me.
That’s the face of a future supervillain who is going to encase our sun in a Dyson sphere so she can have it all to herself. She’s so adorable!
@The Rambling Otter:
Other than you? Not sure.
@Tabby Lavalamp: You might say she’s…. Sundere?
@The Rambling Otter: You got me wondering…Do Canadians refer to the horizontal edges of their
country as East and West coasta?
@Nobody:
*coasts
@Nobody: East Coast and West Coast :3
“You would not believe all the grays here, man! There’s gray light washing over the gray mountains, and the stream below is dappled with gray sparkles. As the sun gets lower, the sky lights up with gray, the clouds are rimmed with gray! It’s beautiful! I’m gonna hang around to see if I can spot the famous gray flash as the sun drops below the horizon!”
The Little Mushroom People of Nova Scotia live on the est coast.
British Columbifornia is on the ouest coast.
“Why does your face look so bloated, Buxley?”
“I dunno, why does the end of your cowlick disappear into thin air, Blips?”
“Fuck you.”
“No, fuck you.”
The real coloring issue in Beetle Bailye, is, why does Miss Blips always wear olive drab when she’s a civilian?
@matt w: She’s not civilian, she’s enlisted military, even though she works beside a private contractor. Her actual title in the strip is “Private Blips”.
@Rube: Well I never! Thanks for the info.
@matt w: No problem. As with many of us here, I kinda hate myself for knowing this stuff.
BB: Beetle could be looking for a waifu to introduce as part of a throuple. (Thanks to this site, I’ve typed a sentence I never thought I would)
Bizarro: “It’s gray, which is the only color I can see reliably.”
HnL: Children are, pretty much by their limited experience, inherent sociopaths. I can, however, see Josh’s narrative applying to Wilbur Weston complaining about Sunbeam.
“What did you do to Miss Buxley’s drawing today? She’s totally off model!”
“That’s okay, we’ll just say that to increase diversity we have made her Asian”
“But that’s worse! She doesn’t look Asian, she looks like a caricature of an Asian!”
“Perfectly in line with our art style!”
@Astroboy: That’s to make it more relatable. The average American has one tit.
H&L: In twenty-five years, Trixie’s therapist is going to have one hell of a time unearthing the childhood trauma behind her fixation on emotionally unavailable men.
@The Rambling Otter: Makes sense. Why wouldn’t they? Just never thought about it.
Trixie, be wary about asking the Sun to accomodate your desires! You know what happened to Phaethon?
H&L: Trixie is a ungrateful jerk who expects others to cater to her free time between diaper deposits.
Luann: “Tara is so irresponsible, getting a full-time summer job related to something she likes doing. I’m not irresponsible like her, though. I’m too dumb. Phil? Phil? Why are you running after Tara?”
CS: Don’t worry, Lillian. You’re not the only one who thinks you’ve lived too long.
9CL: Oh, good. They’re actually going through with their suicide pact.
@Astroboy: No, she’s even more of a Miss if one of her boobs has gone astray.
Hi and Lois – “I love Sunbeam. I know the brand is just a shadow (sorry!) of its former self, but I really think they can still bounce back from that whole ‘Chainsaw Al Dunlap’ episode.”
Don Abundio, translated:
“Abundio! Your car is rolling away!”
“O-oh! It’s been driving off on its own a lot lately!”
“Good grief! How is that even possible?”
“It’s just looking for a good time”
“Please take me down to that Jiffy Lube!”
@Astroboy:
Sunbeam, I think it’s a sin
When I can’t wake my mommy ’cause she’s drunk on gin
Blip’s ‘blips’ ain’t so blippy today. I guess she got married over the weekend to Lt. Col. Busty.
Zits: “It’s going to sound even cooler when we autotune the shit out of it.”
FC: Billy is trying to not-so-subtly encourage Jeffy to get the sledgehammer.
MW: You know what? I saw 9 Chickweed Lane before I saw this, so this doesn’t bother me so much.
Dustin: Don’t sell yourself short, Dustin. You got 14 words out before she left. I’m honestly surprised you don’t have a record with fewer words, like zero.
BB: Miss Buxley is pretty chill about Beetle’s relationship with his dakimakura.
Bizarro: Stuffed cherry pizza? I dunno…
Has the army tested Beetle for mono, because his girlfriend can barely keep her eyes open long enough to mumble her unfunny lines, and sloth usually isn’t contagious.
@Daisy (last night’s thread):
“The Drunken Driver” by Ferlin Husky? (The B-side was “Homesick.”) I can see how that song might appeal to a kid, in a “Gashlycrumb Tinies” sort of way. But yeesh, those lyrics! The kind of thing that lays it on so thick I suspect it of being a put-on — like Terry Jacks’ “Seasons in the Sun” and its B-side “Put the Bone In.”
“While the little boy in a puddle of blood in the ditch lying there did lay” is… remarkable. :-D
Lio: Oingo Boingo themed alarm clock?
MW: “Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one leaves them all behind and runs shrieking in the opposite direction. This is an anti-kiss.”
Bizarro: A cat, on the other hand, would never make you feel guilty about staying in. A cat would be like “Another day on the sofa? Awesome, count me in.”
Beetle Bailey-Explains why Miss Buxley has to finish herself off.
BB: “If a comic is drawn, and the human who owns the property isn’t around to draw it, does he still get paid?”
Luann-“Weenieworld’s training me in food prep.” Which they should have been doing from the start.
Luann-For god’s sake apply for the summer camp job. You may or may not get it.
Weezy and Snuffy are a strange couple in the physical sense. Weezy: raw-boned, hardworking, able to bear physical suffering as the peasant she is. Snuffy: child-like, small skulled, apparently the victim of fetal alcohol syndrome and some debilitating inherited genetic deficiency. The morbidly curious among us are forced to examine exactly how the sexual act between the pair might take place, then shudder involuntarily.
@Peanut Gallery: Yeah, years back I once read a story on Deviantart, about a man who was a wolf hunter and the spirits of nature or whatever decided to punish him by turning his son into a wolf, so he ends up fatally shooting his son.
I said to the author (At least I think I did…) that not only is that extremely dark, but seeing as the father never finds out it was his son (and would never have any reason to assume) he doesn’t learn any lesson, no “What have I done!!?” revelation.
I recall the author just said “That’s life” or something like that. I don’t remember, but that was over 10 years ago.
@Doc Wonmug: I was once watching a Guinness Book of Records clip, on Youtube. It was of The World’s Smallest Mother. She was a primordial dwarf. While her Husband must have been over 6 Ft tall.
One person in the comments asked. “How in the world do they f***?”
Another replied. “None of your goddamn business!” (That person received hundreds of upvotes for that)
C’shaft: Tom Batiuk, it is the Year of Our Lord 2025. YouTube is twenty years old. Roughly a quarter of the world’s population uses it on a daily basis. Anyone who is still saying “something called YouTube” has severe cognitive and memory issues and should not be living alone, much less running a bookshop out of their attic.
Dustin: Whoever introduced Parker and Kelly to the term “stay-at-home-son” has a lot to answer for.
GT: “Horse Girl” Is really rocking the “1970’s career woman” look.
JP: Expecting that her arrival is the most interesting thing in a town of some thirteen thousand people is pretty on brand for Sophie.
Luann: You keep your eye on that brass ring, Luann! Why, with hard work and maybe some extra education, you’ll be qualified enough to run the deep fryer!
MT: We were joking, but it turns out the problem really is someone pooping in the lake, just on an industrial scale.
MW: I guess Mary laid down a firm “no tongue” rule with Jeff.
Phantom: The fiends! They’re luring people away from their virtual enslavement to colonialist jewelry corporations!
Pluggers: But what if your watch is a smart watch synced to your phone, huh?
@Bob Tice: #2
No no no no no…*clunk*
When John Pasche donated at the Hootin’ Holler fertility center, he never imagined that his work, rather than his genes, would be expressed in the faces of his progeny.
@Charterstoned: #14
So often have I longed for an honest “xenomorph/soap-opera strip” crossover, and this is well-nigh perfect. \0/
@The Rambling Otter: #37
Mercy, Otter – I do hope you brought an epi pen with you!!!
@The Rambling Otter: #43
Does your family have a dog? Maybe he can send you screen shots of the scenery! :-)
Beetle Bailey – A rival foreign nation has replaced Miss Buxley with a spy, and did a pretty bad job on the cosmetic surgery. Beetle’s eyes are covered with his hat and he’s pretty inattentive, and General Halftrack is a drunk, so I get them not noticing the difference, but Private Blips is usually competent. Luckily for the US, Campy Swampy holds no intel of value.
Bizzarro – Like humans, working dogs have seen their labor shift over time, from agriculture to service functions. However, Sightseeing Eye Dog wouldn’t serve as a lazy gamer’s vacation dog, it would be a TikTok influencer dog.
Hi and Lois – Trixie has the same attitude toward the Sun as people who hate clean energy for political reasons. No amount of joy, utility and life sustaining energy will be enough because they will always focus on the fact that night happens, and it occasionally gets cloudy.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith – Doc Pritchart is absolutely looking to get back at Silas for overcharging him for pliers for tooth extraction, even though sugared food contributes greatly to the poor dental health of the area. The pillars of this community (including the Parson, Sheriff, and Judge) cannot help but try to screw each other over while extracting what little wealth Hootin’ Holler has, even if it makes them all poorer in the process.
@Peanut Gallery: #73
OH MY GOSH – THAT’S IT!!! *GASP!!* THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, I think… :-)
FC – “Sir, this is a Cracker Barrel.”
@Daisy: Yeah, now you have to decide whether to listen to it again, heh heh heh…
Thus we have the origin story of Trixter, the evil scientist who plotted to disrupt the sun’s fusion and bathe the earth in darkness — on her schedule.
@Peanut Gallery: #92
Heck yeah, I’m gonna listen to it again!!! Such childhood memories!!!
Snuffy Smith-Nice to see a couple that’s been around for a long time still loves each other.
“The doctor said I should keep away from sweet things. But he also said that I should avoid inbreeding and I still married you!”
Beetle Bailey-Sadly Sarge went with Beetle. “Sir, sir, you can’t beat a man into consciousness.” “YOU WANT SOME OF THIS,” Sarge roars.
Bizarro: Here we get a look at Brian’s older brother Barry.
@Daisy: The song my wife listened to over and over when she was a kid was The Playmates’ “Beep Beep” (“Little Nash Rambler”). There must be something about cars!
@Daisy: Except that, for some reason, I keep picturing those baby Wilburs (I know Baja refreshes us with the image from time to time) and wondering how they were spawned. I should stick to just reading comments instead of contributing to them.
@Charterstoned: “Me” worked. It was you saying it.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Some people put cheese on apple pie; is that what they were talking about?
Pluggers – Grammar failure. Why would I check my watch for my phone?
@The Rambling Otter: Either uni-boob or mono-boob.
I guess you can consider me a dork since I read the title to today’s post and immediately thought, “Well the ancient Egyptians worshipped Ra (sun god) separately from Ahten (also a sun god but more focused on the physical aspects of the sun, including the sunbeams themselves) so it stands to reason that maybe the sun is the physical embodiment of Trixie’s personal mini-deity: Sunbeam, thus making them two separate entities.”
It’s not just you, Josh, Beetle Bailey looks off today. I spent some time staring at it trying to figure out what was wrong before reading your commentary.
BG&SS: “‘Cause I cain’t tell whether it’s yor back or yor front yappin’ at me, woman! I mean, what the hell?”
9CL: Well, Brooke has officially run out of ideas.
Fudge Packer: If that were Dawn Weston getting a compliment like that instead of Sophie/Neddy/Reena/Whatever, her soaked panties would already be at her ankles.
Luann: Missing strips or just losing touch – all camps start firing way before schools let out. Makes more sense for Luann to be asked to step in for someone who took ill.
DT: OK – so this Lovejoy ancestor’s plan is to take over Present Day Lovejoy’s life and be an investor tycoon. Is there some conservation of matter/energy/time rule at work that is forcing him to propose the trade? It looks like both are in this time simultaneously.
GT: I appreciate different artistic styles – like Emil Ferris graphic novel, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, but really the quality of the art has just collapsed. The art once could shore up bad writing but no longer.
MW: The smooch is the official end of the current Wilbur arc. The fates of Bats, Avery, and the picture frame remain unknown. Having gone to the Wilbur well with great response (if Joshreads is a barometer – these are among the best story arcs) we’ll now have to see what else they can come up with.
RMMD:So each day in real time is about 15 minutes in RMMD time?
@Nobody: You got me wondering…Do Canadians refer to the horizontal edges of their
country as East and West coasta?
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Horizontal? Aren’t all the edges of their country horizontal?
BB – Troops with narcolepsy are often assigned to Camp Swampy….
Bizarro – The problem with a seeing-cam dog is for every panorama you get a dozen dog assholes. Though, I suppose there are those who go for that….
H&L – Oh Sunbeam – how many strips can I possibly wring out of this bit….
BG&SS – And saturated fat….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Hi and Lois:
Sunbeam is but one manifestation of the sun. The Flagstons are in fact devotees of the Egyptian sun god Ra in his various forms: Khepri, Ra-Horakhty, Amun-Ra, etc. Sunbeam is most likely Shu, the God of Light, or an emanation of the Aten, the solar disk itself.
Crankshaft: Ooh, new technology is scary.
@Mountain Mama: If Mary Worth’s kiss seems a little unspontaneous, then you can find it on Nov 22, 2024 , in Mary’s apartment.
JP: Always wondered what happened to the comic-art version of Morten Harket after the “Take On Me” video. Shame he’s ended up in Judge Parker, but hey, at least he’s in colour now!
Pluggers: This honestly comes across less as “Pluggers are old” and more as “Pluggers are the 2020s equivalent of those tiresome people who spent the 90s saying ‘I don’t even own a TV.'”
BB: He tends to jerk off when testing them.
@Downpuppy: But I do want to do that to myself?
Probably. Be right back.
Good Lord. *shudder
@Austria:
#106. BB: my guess is that the pillow of Ms. Buxley and Mr. Bailey seriously malfunctioned last night. Check his face too.
CS: That’s one thing I’ll agree with Loathsome Lil on, she’s lived way past her expiration date. Even one of the carnivorous plugger beastmen wouldn’t eat her. She should’ve been buried alive with her sister, whose life she ruined.
@White Rabbit: #111: Canadians usually refer to their Atlantic coastal regions as the Maritimes.
Phantom: Yes, commander, how do I use this weird stick hook thing?
MW: For all those complaining about the weird closed-mouth kiss between Mary and Jeff, be careful what you wish for as June is quite capable of drawing something you’ll regret. Exhibit A: Wilbur in a Speedo.
I’d have more respect for Ted Kaszynski had he been the unaboober.
MT: It would be entirely possible to create a storyline around wastewater contamination of a lake without making the characters in the story look like fools. But, come to think of it, why should outdoor professionals in a serial strip look any smarter than most doctors in serial strips? Or teachers? Or coaches? Or college students? Or phantoms in jungles?
Duhh, it took years, but I think I’ve finally sort of seen the light. I will still make observations, however, like how interesting it was to see that Lake Poopy in this story not only had a sign, but also a partial fence. Was the fence there already, or was it installed along with the sign?
@Wool Worth: Welp, I’m not gonna complain about that kiss now. Nope nope nope.
CRANKSHAFT: Public comments are allowed on YouTube videos, aren’t they? Perhaps the twins should warn…naw, let her find out the hard way, she deserves it. Hey Batiuk, your attempted makeover of Lillian from a horrible human being into a sweet old lady cozy-mystery writer did not work on some of us.
@Downpuppy: Good catch! Hey, if I were June Brigman, I woudn’t want to draw that more than once either! I’d probably have something set up so I could paste it into the strip without even having to see it!
LUANN: I spent two summers as a camp nature counselor, and while the job was a lot of fun, lucrative it was decidedly not. But my camp was inexpensive to attend, and maybe Tara’s camp is an upper-crust camp that pays the staff well. But if it’s a top-tier camp, why would that camp want to hire Luann? Why, so she can meet a handsome male camp staffer who will, inexplicably and bizarrely, find her utterly irresistible. I want you to know, real young men out there, that I have more respect for your taste and brainpower than the Evansii do.
@Mountain Mama: Bwahahaha!
@Poteet: The creator can turn off comments on a YouTube video, but they have to take the time to actually do that. So, yeah, it’s going to end up being a typical YouTube comments section.
@Poteet: Wait, you were a “final girl” two
moviesyears, running?!? (Sorry, too many Friday the 13th movies, rip-offs, and parodies for me)@Downpuppy: So, are you saying Mary PRACTICED that awkward peck, or that Jeff kissed the turkey before it was killed for dinner?
BGSS: Looking forward to finding out how the salt-of-the-earth rustics of Hootin’ Holler pronounce “diabetic coma.”
H&L: Trixie overheard Dot and Ditto talking about their Sunday school lesson on Joshua 10:12-14 and it’s given her ideas.
@Guy Nerdlinger: One of my weirder college memories was a drunk guy living on the top floor of our 10 story dorm yelling out his window on a warm spring night “OINGO BOINGO RULES!”
@TheDiva: re Luann — If she can run the deep fryer, that’ll make her overqualified for management!
DT: But….if present-day Lovejoy is going to be sent back to 1917 and 1917 Lovejoy is going to be an investment tycoon…..WHO WILL WORK THE NIGHT SHIFT AT THE BISCUIT FACTORY???
Biscuit-fanciers of neo-Chicago are biting their nails.
Only Trixie Flagston has the gall to throw shade at a sunbeam.
You’re right about Miss Buxley’s face. Normally her nose is depicted as a cute little upturned triangle, while here it looks like the scar left behind after the Taliban has cut it off. Good for the military cartoon to start depicting the horrors of war
9CL: Best way to enjoy this is to imagine their in the befouled lake from Mark Trail.
C-Shaft: If it’s any consolation to Lillian, the fact that people will be able to watch this video on their phones doesn’t mean that they’ll actually do so. Come now.
DT: Uh-oh. The kid’s only hope now is that his great-to-whatever-power uncle struggles for a coldblooded one-liner like, “Correction, was your life,” giving him the chance to escape.
JP: Romcom Baker/Barista just blew Sophie’s mind. She doesn’t know the people back home have their own lives either.
MW: Both of their mouths are closed and let’s face it: it would be unbearably weird if they weren’t.
Phantom: “Short version, the rebel militia doesn’t think much of their work ethic and wants us to take the Zoomers off their hands. It’s all very Dustin.”
RMMD: The great debate of Nature vs. Nurture vs. The Extremely Limited Number of Career Options in The Morganverse.
SFx: One thing that’s consistent between both versions of the scene—be she mom, teacher, or what-have-you—has been bored into unconsciousness. I’ve thought for a while that the MCU should be put on ice, and the Hulk’s fight with starter robots and jaundice doesn’t convince me otherwise.
@Dennis Jimenez: I take it you aren’t including manboobs in that calculation?
Phantom: Hmmmm….which global billionaire lunkhead got his seed money from emerald mines? Will we be seeing…the return of Noel Muskrat?
@Artist formerly known as Ben: Re: 9CL: If that’s infected human feces befouling that lake, these two are less than 24 hours away from an agonizing death from cholera. (That’s why Brooke made them twins. He’s a got a spare nympho to use.)
Either turds or the dog should be “I’m getting so much wee! Dog of course, but drunken human as well plus a strong undertone of what can only be bobcat, and is that a hint of elk as well? So magnificent, if only you were here! Tho your wee is a disappointing melange of Doritos and Baja Blast signifying nothing.”
@Ukulele Ike: DT: WHO WILL WORK THE NIGHT SHIFT AT THE BISCUIT FACTORY???
Luann, of course. And it will make her sleepy.
Bliss – His mistake was asking Belle Batsfrey to choose the mushrooms.
Crankshaft – Oh, come on. I’m old, I’m a Luddite, and I watch YouTube videos a lot.
Cut the aw shucks shit, Lillian. You’re not sweet. You’re a loathsome hag.
FC – That’s a view of the Keane living room that we’ve never seen before. I don’t remember that rocking chair and fireplace. Not to mention the walls – Thel must have been sloshed when she decided on that purple paint.
Mary Worth – No tongue – heck, their mouths are clamped shut, and their lips barely touch. However, we can be thankful that Mary and Dr. Jeff aren’t reenacting the scene in 9CL. There isn’t enough brain bleach in the world.
Pluggers – That all purpose pluggers comment works here – they’re smug about so little. (Credit to Rube and Scratchy).
Rex Morgan – Ye gods, this is boring. It would be slightly more bearable if I could stand either of these people.
@Artist formerly known as Ben: (9CL) In a previous post, I suggested this group was responsible for the contamination.
@Charterstoned: Me: Get a room.
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Oh, Hi,Mark!
@Anonyminimouse: No, but statistically, also a single ball….
Beetle Bailey Spanish to English.
The Family Circus Spanish to English.
@taig: Sorry I missed that, but yeah, it sounds credible.
BB: Buxley ought to have those swollen adenoids checked.
@Daisy: That would be adorable! :3
@Guillermo el Chiclero: Hey, I’m sure there’s a lot of guys at Camp Swampy who’d be glad to check out the sweet swell of her adenoids.
*checks dictionary*
Never mind.
Judge Parker: “Town’s been talking about us?”
“No, we have our own lives. It’s the accent.”
Is this the harbinger of a storyline in which a Judge Parker protagonist discovers that she is not, in fact, the center of the universe?
@Horace Broon: June’s level of effort goes up & down depending on how bored she is. This victory lap is absolute basement level.
@Astroboy: Does she have a third nostril. Because Dall*E has a nostril fetish.
Late Thread Snack: What do you think a “Baby Body Burger” looks like? Click the link to find out.
@Baja Gaijin: Looks delish but I’d have to read the ingredients to make sure the recipe wasn’t cribbed from an old Jonathan Swift essay.
@157 Baja Gaijin:
To answer your question, not like that!
Is that 2590 the price in yen? Of so that’s an eighteen dollar burger.