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Hagar the Horrible, 9/5/25
Real Hagar heads know that Hagar is illiterate, and while Lucky Eddie also was at one point, he later learned to read and write. I suppose it’s possible that he was inspired to learn languages beyond his native Norse — Greek, for instance, which would be useful for reading the scriptures of the new religion from the south, and which he could pick up from Swedish kinsmen who served in the Varangian Guard in Constantinople. This knowledge may have led him to see that streak of light in the sky and dub it asteroeidēs, or “star-like.” Unfortunately, 18th century astronomer William Herschel will ultimately get the credit for coining the term, because the only person to hear Eddie say it was Hagar, and he said it right before they were both vaporized.
Six Chix, 9/5/25
OK, fine, I’ve said my piece about how most comics really lay too hard on the relationship between dogs and fire hydrants, but to their credit, at least they know what that relationship is (it’s pissing). Today’s Six Chix, on the other hand … have they watched Doctor Who? I guess you don’t draw this detailed a version of the 11th Doctor in dog form, and of his TARDIS in fire hydrant form, without having watched some Doctor Who. I myself have watched quite a bit of Doctor Who, and before today I would’ve said that the Doctor did not as a rule piss on his TARDIS, but now I admit I’m starting to doubt myself.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/5/25
Really loving Cody’s facial expression in the last panel here. “Hey, man, you can say that, but I know I was just kind of pushing on his chest imitating what I’ve seen on TV, probably inaccurately. The paramedics saved him, it’s OK to say so. No need to be condescending.”
Mary Worth, 9/5/25
“I learned that John Singer Sargent was part of a cosmopolitan milieu, traveling between the great world capitals and painting society’s elite! I want a comparable experience, which is why I want to go with this old lady to her ghastly mid-century condo complex in exurban Southern California for a week.”
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RMMD:
“You’re Jonah’s family?”
“Yes — how is he?”
“I have no earthly idea. I’m an actor trying to get into character for my upcoming stint on the daytime soap General Hospital!”
Mary Worth:
“Olive expressed a desire to travel more.”
“That’s easy, Olive. Just take one step with the ball without dribbling it, and that should do the trick — well, unless you’re in the NBA, in which event you have to take at least three or four steps without dribbling in order for it to be a travel.”
Mary Worth:
“We saw the infamous 1894 ‘Dogs Playing Poker’ painting by Cassius Marcus Coolidge ! Mary said he was born in Antwerp, New York and later studied in Rochester, none of which had anything to do whatsoever with the painting!”
MW: Love Dad’s expression; “We can get rid of the little weirdo for a while? I’m in!”
RMMD: I hope Cody can muster a happier face when he accepts The National Medal for Saving the Life of Someone Whose Heart Attack You Caused.
RMMD: We think we’ll be able to treat him with medication…or not. Frankly, with his attitude, he’s lucky we’ll treat him at all.
MW: I have questions. All this week, as these people have been facing this ghastly dinner, I’ve been wondering what the hell was on their plates and how they were supposed to eat it, when only Ed had a fork to begin with. Mary and Olive have kept their hands under the table the whole time. Now the food is gone, as is Ed’s fork, and ALL their hands are under the table and their plates are all clean except for…PUBIC HAIRS…??! Is this one of Baja’s Late Thread Cuisine meals? Did they eat it as from a trough? Where is the fork?? And WHOSE PUBIC HAIRS ARE ON THE PLATES???
“So, you want to go unescorted across the country with this old woman we barely know? This woman who flew across the country just to see you, a person fifty years her junior? Sure, honey, sounds fine. Anyway, Mary, we were discussing color-blindness, which sadly afflicts both myself and my husband. Did you know that red flags just look like gray flags to us?”
RMMD: ‘You’re Jonah’s *family*? No wonder he raged himself into a heart attack. If I knew I was related to a bunch of losers like you, I’d have stroked out years ago!’
JP: It’s called presents and neglect, Judgey Wudgey. All those sweet, sweet book royalties will help with that!
Mary Worth:
“And airfare cost won’t be a concern, because I’m a noted witch, and Olive can just ride on the back of my broomstick!”
Six Chix: Along with the very popular “Doctor Hooves” fan character (sort of) from MLP: FIM. What if The Doctor was every animal?
I hope Cody hangs around and just keeps getting into medically themed hijinks that in no way involve the strip’s doctor protagonist. “Man,” June will say in a 2032 strip. “Can you believe Cody saved Buck’s life after that heart attack?” Looking up from his newspaper, Rex will reply, “Who?” It will be his first on-panel appearance in five years.
RMMD: “He’ll be staying with us for a week or so. Or until his insurance runs out, whichever comes first. He does have insurance, doesn’t he???”
Cody’s family looks at one another, and they smile at the doctor as they quietly back out of the room, never to be seen there again.
MW: “Mary said he was born in Italy and later studied in France. Mary herself was of course born in a cave somewhere in Africa when the species Homo Sapiens first evolved, and she later studied in… well, nowhere actually, since they didn’t have anything to study back then. But she would have been a brilliant student, if language had just been invented yet!”
MW: I like the way Ed’s face is drawn. It communicates the regret he feels at ever allowing that insane old woman into the home.
Crankshaft : “You could have just… quit. I understand that your editor threatened to cancel the strip when you did a controversial, unpopular storyline, why didn’t you just agree to let your comic be cancelled?”
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Hagar the Horrible : can summon world-destroying asteroids to strike right at the spot where he is standing!? What is he, a Final Fantasy villain!?… Wait, that WOULD explain a lot…
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Mary Worth : “two weeks before school starts”? WE’RE ALMOST IN THE SECOND WEEK OF SEPTEMBER. I know this storyline started back in mid-august and that, in-comic, only a day or so has passed, but it’s the principle of the thing.
(yes that’s what I decided to nitpick about)**************
Rex Morgan M.D. : the strip has FINALLY come around to featuring a medical professional, and it’s not the title character. Seriously, when’s the last time we saw Rex in his own strip? And why have we been following Truck’s fake son for what has been MONTHS now?
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Six Chix : Maybe the Chix got confused with Day of the Tentacle, where the time machines are disguised as (or made out of?) portable toilets.
Or maybe she picked “fire hydrant” because that’s the common street corner public utility object associated with dogs. If she had wanted to pick something a dog could enter and leave, she would have picked a doghouse, and there’s already a dog that has a “bigger-on-the-inside” doghouse that can time travel… okay, he doesn’t time travel, he only roleplay that he does, and he only ever goes to WW1, but…
Credit where credit is due – this is genius from Six Chix! Doctor Who is washed-up and in need of a reboot; they can’t even decide who to regenerate him into so they put in a well-loved character from the past as a placeholder while probably going on hiatus.
Regenerating him into a large friendly dog is the perfect way to forge a new path. And they can work on that new young audience they have always wanted!
MW: I know it’s a lost battle, but what terrible crime could an inanimate object such as the portrait of Madame X commit to be regarded as “infamous”?
MW: Olive expressed (through her anal glands?) that she’d like to travel. I agree. Seriously, Dr. Jeff should have a look at her.
Look at Olive and her dad. Follow their respective eyelines. Are they… reading the word balloons? Is this part of their array of psychic powers? Oh god. What if all of Olive’s powers are meta-based? She can see into the future because she can look ahead to the final panel of the strip.
Olive’s father is frankly skeptical, but if it gets her off their hands for a couple of weeks…
MW: Waitaminute. A “mini-vacation” of a week or two? (and you know it will be two, or more.) That’s what us actual people just call a “vacation.” But when compared to Wilbur’s regular, month-long exotic jaunts, I guess that fits in the Worth-o-verse. Add “vacations” to the long, long list of things Karen Moy doesn’t understand.
@Charterstoned: Aren’t you expecting too much from Moy and Brigman? I’m sure they are finding this too boring to bother to keep track of table implements.
@Gil Bates: That’s the way it was described on Goodreads, the source of all Karen Moy’s quotes.
@Gil Bates: It is, actually. Look it up.
Pardon my Planet: the vertical stripes are also pleasingly reminiscent of prison bars.
@seismic-2: No way that the hospital/doctor didn’t check on the insurance thing well befo now. Heck, even Rex knows to verify insurance before making pissy faces and prescribing aspirin!
Olive has mystical powers of perception but she hasn’t figured out that you can read the little plaques next to the paintings.
RMMD: YOU’RE Jonah’s family? But, how can that be? One of you is B…um, one of you is B…er, one of you is BALD!
Rex Morgan, M.D.: Fun fact: the nurses I know hate CPR, because it inflicts broken ribs and sternums, even damage to the lung or liver, and for what? Overall survival rates outside of the ER are around 7.5%. For patients over the age of 70, that drops to 6.7%. So if you’re trying to, let’s say, resuscitate a comic strip born in 1948, it’s just not worth it. Get Rex Morgan, M.D. a DNR order, stat!
MW:
Olive: “Mary invited me to go WITH HER to Santa Royale for a week or two before school starts….Its not as exotic as Italy or France, but I could LEARN so much from interacting with the NATIVES there! I could learn KARAOKE from Wilbur Weston, and take GUITAR lessons from Keith Hillend, develop BARTENDING SKILLS by working with Toby Cameron—as well as how to SCULPT HORSIES! Mary can teach me how to BAKE, and I can even observe the DOVES O’ LOVE in their natural habitat! It would be such a CULTURAL IMMERSION!”
Ed: Yeah, whatever.
Evy: I ALREADY have your bags all packed, dear. You know, maybe you should consider a GAP YEAR.
Hägar the Horrible: [Looks up from newspaper] Joke’s on us, we’re all praying for an asteroid these days.
MW: I confess, I come here for your Mary Worth commentary. You almost never let me down. Today was particularly good, as we were thinking along the same lines, but you articulated it better. A deep bow. Enjoy the weekend.
6C: Ain’t no rules says the dog can’t be The Doctor.
HtH: It was a practice run for Tunguska.
MW: “There must be more than this provincial New York life… “
Lucky Eddie is downright giddy about this turn of events, having secretly affixed a GIANT METEOR 950 sticker to Hagar’s ship some time ago. The people of Norway have spoken, and he is not alone!
Pardon My Planet: Boo! Bring back the fourth Dr. Who’s A Good Boy, the poodle with the absurdly long scarf! I demand the wasted Saturday mornings of my childhood spent watching PBS be acknowledged!
HtH: I am loving Eddie’s manic expression in that last panel. ‘Finally, the sweet release of death! It’s more than I could have hope for!’
6Cx: I know that this is a dumb joke but…I’m down for it. Look at that little guy: he is a good boy! The best boy :)
RMMD: “…so until we get some proof of insurance, that’s who we’ll be charging. Hey, you save it, you bought it.”
MW: I like how Olive’s dad looks like he’s perking up his ears like a German Shepherd. ‘What’s that? Fourteen days of humping while you’re three time zones away? Hey, I bet it we drove down to the airport right now you could get a red-eye on standby…!’
@Gil Bates: They’ve got to work within the confines of the speech bubble, and “at the time considered infamous because her pose and dress were sexually suggestive, although nowadays you routinely see popup ads on Comics Curmudgeon with women wearing far less” wouldn’t fit.
HtH – This is gonna be a blast! Bigger than the Tunguska blast….
6C – But this saucy fellow pisses on your Tardis call box….
RMMD – I’d like to shake the hand of whoever started CPR on him. The hospital’s financials weren’t looking so good this month until now. Leave your address at the desk for billing purposes….
MW – I like dad’s look. His tummy brain is on the fritz – let’s consult the Magic 8 Ball….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
You might wonder, what did Vikings think of shooting stars? Unfortunately, history does not work this way. You can ask as many questions as you want, but you can only answer those for which you have written or archeological sources. So if there is no references to shooting stars in the three-four written sources about Viking mythology that were written centuries after by fully Christianised monks, you won’t get your answer!
FC: It’s the weirdest case of lycanthropy ever.
Dustin: What kind of
comics creatorparent saddles their child with the name “Dustin”?!? A monster, that’s who!MW Sure, going back to the condo you lived (and almost drowned) in a few years ago is just like expanding your horizons by travelling to the Middle East or Europe!
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Tom Baker and David Tennant rival for the spot of “Best Doctor”
Or to put it in safer less fan-rivalry terms.
Baker is the best classic Doctor, while Tennant is the best revival Doctor.
I found David Tennant just so beyond charming, personally.
“You’re Jonah’s family?”
“Yes, for now. Maybe in a couple of months one of my father’s bastard offsprings will take a DNA test and we will add another one”
@Ken: They made the artist re-paint her shoulder strap, which was dangling on her shoulder – the sl*t!
Hagar: Even if the name is ironic, I feel like a guy called “Lucky Eddie” should have a firmer grasp on the definition of the word “luck”.
Wait. We’re finally getting some medical drama in Rex Morgan, M.D. and the doctor handling the emergency isn’t even Rex Morgan? I haven’t seen a comic more loathe to use a title character since Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, and even ol’ Googs has made a few appearances this year.
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Oh crap. Mary is brilliant! Once Olive meets the Westons and the Camerons, all thoughts of wandering far from the comforts of home and meeting strangers will be driven from her head, and she’ll abandon her wacky beliefs when she realizes she never saw that coming!
Six Chix: Well.. canonically The Doctor has a device called “The Chameleon Arch” which can change one’s species.
It’s only ever used to turn Time Lords into humans, but The Doctor said in its first episode “I have it set to human” which suggests there are other species settings as well.
So… he COULD hypothetically speaking turn himself into a dog if he wanted?
Luann: Heh heh heh heh. Bernice said, “sperm.”
CS: “And before I left, I yelled at the owner for not having a comix spinner rack.”
9CL: Amos always registers as “Possible Spam.”
HtH: this is the Tungaska Event of Scandinavia. Trees and vikings will be flattened for a 200 mile radius. Generations will speak of the event.
MW: This is a freeking comic! France! Italy! Egypt! Do em all in two weeks. Be Auntie Mame, it costs you nothing!
Look at Dad. He’d rather she hang with bad seed bangs Naomi than go back to the place where she nearly died.
Chix (sic): Dog Dr Who starts humping a Dalek. “Cut!”
6c- this puts a new spin on things, as presumably his greatest foe is ” the Master”.
Would help explain the animalocalypse in Slylock fox
@CanuckDownSouth: At least if Olive goes to Charterstone, we won’t have to suffer through her past-life experiences as an Egyptian princess, which was looking like a real possibility. Unless… something at Charterstone triggers her past-life memories. Then we’d have the worst of both worlds.
Six Chix: This reboot of Wishbone is weird. Did they run out of books?
Will they at least go to the Morgan clinic for a second opinion? “Yep, looks like a heart attack. Who are you people and why are you here? Is this Rene Belluso in another disguise?”
HtH: I wonder if Baja can sue the Walker-Brownes for stealing his flaming meteor?
For the record, on her Facebook page, Patrinos has captioned this Six Chix with “God this is dumb. I’m sorry.”
RMMD:
Doc: We’ll see how he responds to lunch. I ordered him up a nice, ham sandwich.”
Lorna: “Noooooooooooooooooooo!”
Hagar the Horrible-And thus ends ‘Hagar the Horrible’.
Six Chix-The role of K9 will be played by a human.
RMMD-“You’re Jonah’s family? But I just paid your husband to wash my car.”
MW-Oh goody. Olive, you can leave right now.
MW-Ah. Two weeks in Santa Royale with Mary and with no parental supervision. This doesn’t raise any sort of flags.
@Anonymous: A few weeks ago, I commented that cartoonists shouldn’t wait until late September to show children going back to school.
The strip I had primarily in mind was “Curtis.” Yet this year, even “Curtis” established that Curtis and Barry were going to school on the day after Labor Day.
For “Mary Worth” to run a strip on September 5 suggesting that there is time for a kid to go on a two-week vacation before school starts is just embarrassing.
HtH: After yesterday I was expecting Hagar to kidnap an American boy dressed up like an Indian, and discovered it was not worth the bother.
MW: Finding herself amidst the world of art? Olive needs to go method and live how Madame X did. And that starts, of course, with Santa Royale.
Luann: I was first surprised to find out how little dogs brains weigh. Then I recalled my family’s time with a Labrador Retriever.
Dustin is continually being shot down. But I genuinely ask: Has he ever had a drink thrown in his face? Is he so unremarkable that that’s never happened?
BG&SS: It’s research day for me: Have we ever seen Snuffy Smith literally in church, or does he just get credit for being salt of the earth and god-fearing because he’s a rural male?
@Drew Funk: While every Six Chix comic should have that line as a prerequisite, this one was actually cute. The one rare Six Chix that made me smile.
Hagar: So… no follow up on talking Snert?
I know that Hagar doesn’t do multi-day arcs, but it really felt like it was leading up to something.
@Gerry Quinn: And leave us face it, there’d damn well BETTER be a loo or two on the Tardis. I don’t know the ins and outs of Gallifreyan urology, but when you’re 1,500 years old, certain things take on a whole new importance.
Fred Basset Spanish to English.
@Gil Bates: It implied women have their own sexual lives rather than being a mere receptacle for male desire, which was practically criminal in the late 19th century–and, given the way Mary is hedging around the subject, still is for the strip’s target demographic.
Hagar the Horrible – Literacy has opened up a new world of ideas and languages for Eddie, but at heart he remains a Viking, so an asteroid being flung at Earth could be the glorious start to Ragnarök, where the world as we know it will end, and all but two humans (a man and woman) will survive to renew the world.
Christian salvation sounds good, but seeing his indigenous gods’ prophecy come to fruition in his lifetime truly excites Eddie.
Rex Morgan, MD – We should really redo that DNA test again to see if Cody is related to Rex, since that’s pissy face is all Morgan.
Mary Worth – John Singer Sargent was a cosmopolitan and controversial artist whose travel fed his talents and shook up the art world. Olive’s talentless narcissism is best contained domestically in the cesspool of Santa Royale, where people like Wilbur are kept from the actual centers of power and cultural production.
6C: I have no complaints. A perfectly fine “Sensible Chuckle” strip, which is better than 99% of this strip’s normal output.
Okay, one complaint: if you needed a fire hydrant for the dog Doctor (Dog-tor?) to do his business on, the Daleks are about the right shape…
MW: Good thing Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison. Ed and Evie would’ve pawned Olive off on her in a second.
MW: The looks on the faces of Olive’s parents tell me that they orchestrated this whole Mary Worth trip to pawn Olive off on Mary for an undisclosed length of time, and the final hurdle is making Olive think this is her original idea (and not bursting into tears of joy at the thought of time away from Olive in her presence).
MW: “We saw John Singer Sargent’s infamous Madame X with her strap on.”
The canonical, and long-time, Doctor Who dog is K9 (a robot dog), so I feel like Six Chix found a way to fail even harder here.
MW: The very latest school districts to start, start the Tuesday after Labor Day, or three days ago. So yeah…
Maybe Olive’s tummy brain is messing with the timeline.
Dustin: “No it’s pretty cool! My last name is ‘de Wynde!’ Ah, ha ha ha. Ah, ha ha ha.”
JP: “Alan, are you crying again? You little bitch.”
GT: ”Jesus, FOUR coaches? So how do you manage to lose so many games?”
So, Baja Gaijin is now part of the HtH creative team. Good on ‘im!
6C: Boo for not using the existing in-universe “Good Dog” of K-9.
MW: John Singer Sargent’s portrait if Isabella Stewart Gardner would be more appropriate for Mary, “halo” and all.
@Dan:
Cody making the Rex pissy face does suggest that he knows he was only supposed to appear for one storyline, but with Rex uninterest in being in his own strip, this is a chance to be like Snuffy Smith to Barney Google. His days as a mere session musician could be over, acting will pay the bills (and get him on the comic actors union health insurance and pension)
DT: still need that explanation of why a VC funded enterprise needs grubby loan shark money.
RMMD: Poor Jonah. For a few moments he was going into the light and reunited with a past time when he was a boy and was truly happy. Before he learned his dad was a louse and before life had kicked him down so often that he adopted the snapping turtle as his personality type. He would have thanked Cody except Cody broke several ribs, caused a pneumothorax and pulled him back to his painful existence. He knows he is miserable wretch but for a few moments he was free. Thanks Cody!
FG: I know this competition is based on the Olympics but they could have added competitions of intellectual skill to involve Dale and Zarkov. Like how esports competitio have driving games fps and now chess.
JP: the creators should just leave as one of mysteries in life if what happened to April and Randy.
BCN: I don’t know enough about astrology to dispute this, so I’m just going to assume it’s accurate.
C’shaft: Look, Skip, there has got to be something more interesting going on in this town. Isn’t there, I don’t know, a school play or an unusually large zucchini you should be covering?
DT: Top-tier detective work there, Dick.
Dustin: Who do the writers of Dustin hate more: people under the age of 40, or women in general? Discuss.
JP: You won’t have to; you’re Judge Parker, remember? Everything will work itself out without any effort from or inconvenience to you, and the most difficult park (for both you and the audience) will be sitting around waiting for it to happen.
Luann: Well, your brain needs to be registered in nanograms, so…
Pluggers hear a wide variety of synonyms for “really, really old” and haven’t figured out why yet.
MW: Everyone who’s said it’s September so Olive should be back in school has a valid point. However, what are writers to do when their timeline gets out of sync with reality because a day-trip to the beach takes two weeks of strips? It’s not like they can just break off in the middle of a story arc, and stick in a text box saying “We jump ahead a few months…”
@Ukulele Ike: y#157: The pun was accidental, but I realized it right after I posted.
FG: Here’s my predictions for the Mongovian Death Olympics:
1) Bok will be sporting Wolfang’s severed
ponytail as a neck ornament.
2) General Tahl will play sleazy manager to the
Kiran champion’s wrestling heel, slipping him
weapons while the ref is distracted.
3) The Kiran champ will cheat with Kiran magic
instead of skill at arms.
@TheDiva: I think Dustin’s writer is an all-around misanthrope.
Hagar The Horrible: Lucky Eddie wishes only for the sweet release of deafh and his wish has been granted.
Six Chix: Optimistic, for this comic to presume that the average newspaper comic audience knows what Doctor Who is.
Rex Morgan: Only in the world of Rex Morgan could a man hear that he saved his brother’s life and react by just frowning kinda blankly as if he’s annoyed about it.
Mary Worth: How does this storyline just get creepier and creepier with each installment?
Mary Worth: I like the concerned expression on Olive’s father’s face here. “Wait, you took her to the largest art museum in New York City, which we’ve managed to avoid her seeing in all the time we’ve lived here? And you told her that Europe exists? I mean, it’s bad enough that we let her attend school, where the other kids noticed how weird she is… now she’s going to want to go all sorts of places, and she’ll definitely be burned as a witch!”
RMMD – Medical dude’s incredulous “You’re Jonah’s FAMILY?” was responsible for what was probably the first time I’ve ever laughed out loud at a Rex Morgan strip. But it was kind of undermined when I read further and realized this guy just has some sort of Tourette’s-like random bolding disorder. “We think we’ll be able to treat him with MEDICATION!”
RMMD – “You’re Jonah’s FAMILY? I thought you were his entourage!”
Don Abundio, translated:
“Whatcha doing, Abundio?”
“Carving reminders of who I am and am not, because I’m having an identity crisis”
[On fence: ABUNDIO IS NOT SALLY]
“Great idea! I’ll have one too!”
“He always has to top me!”
[On fence: JUAN S. PERFIL IS NOT JUAN S. PERFIL]
MW: Olive can look forward to so many different things in Santa Royale. Trips to the Bum Boat on Dr. Jeff’s dime! Boat rides on the S.S. Compensation! Inappropriate conversations with Wilbur about how he’s the victim despite being the ex from Hell! Watching Dawn grind on men she doesn’t know! Toby’s death glares over her wine glass because how dare this fourteen year old flaunt her fourteen year old-ness in front of Ian! And dogs with their owners who can’t answer the question about why there’s so many empty jars of peanut butter!
@Guillermo el Chiclero: Points for not noticing it; points off for not going back to edit it out.
@BigTed: “I was perfectly content with keeping her locked in her room and giving her fish heads once a month! Damn you, Mary Worth!”
CS: Having written exactly one newspaper article in the past, my experience in journalism is very limited. But does it honestly take 5 interviews to get to asking that question?
@Charterstoned: And Justice Clarence Thomas wants to know who took his damn Diet Coke!
RMMD: Cody looks like he’s just realized he’s saved his hate-filled brother’s life. If he’d had just a few moments to think…well, things might have been different.
@astroboy: @Drew Funk: I liked it!
No apologies needed.
@nescio: I congratulate you, both on the comment and on timing it for #69.
@Rover Berkeley: No. An interviewer would ask questions and try to direct the conversation, not just let the subject ramble on about whatever.
Eh, Norway had a good run.
MW-“Mary, says that she was the inspiration for Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings.”
Plugger Catt-Mann looks in the dictionary and finds a picture of himself staring back at him.
@Rover Berkeley: @Banana Jr. 6000:
And I feel like Skip already asked the “What was it like, to see your work published in a newspaper for the first time?”.
And he’s gotten two different answers; first, it was “I couldn’t believe it. So I bought the ENTIRE PRINT RUN of that issue of the paper, just to make sure someone wasn’t pulling a prank on me”, now it’s “If I realised I was going to be doing this everyday for the next 50 years…”
(Granted, it’s because it’s chronological, and apparently, Bat
iukTON Thomas is saying that the novelty of being published for real vanished quickly, and by the time he was nationally syndicated, it had turned into just being a job….)MW: Ed’s thinking, “what the hell does seeing Madam X at the Met have to do with traveling to Santa Royale? On the other hand, it gets this weird kid out of our apartment for a whole two weeks, so why not?”
@Anonymous: 14 -I backtracked this story line a few weeks ago and it goes back to around May 13 or 15. Far too long. On the other hand, how much more lame would it be if Rex and Comrade Junski were hanging around? BTW- Are Truck and Wanda common law yet?
MW: Madam X? Didn’t she used to work out of that second floor apartment on 14th St.?
MW: I hope Ev and Evie have learned a lesson about inviting Creepy Mary into their home. Say, doesn’t Dracula need to be invited in?
RMMD-“You’re Jonah’s family? I’m hip. I’m cool. I’m down with it. I saw ‘Roots’.”
@Sprobert: Palm Olive?
This Mary Worth storyline really seems like it’s just the plot of the movie An Education with Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard. Sorry, but it’s true.
@Bill Loguidice:
I did like that scene, where Mickey and K9 were waiting outside in Sarah Jane Smith’s car, while The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Rose were inside the school battling the villain of the week.
Mickey: Okay, no time to explain, we need to get inside the school. Do you have, like, I don’t know, a lock picking device?
K9: We are in a car.
Mickey: Maybe a drill attachment?
K9: We are in a car.
Mickey: Fat lot of good you are!
K9: We are in a car.
Mickey Smith: Wait a second. We’re in a car.
K9: Affirmative.
(Mickey drives through the school’s front door)
K9 was best boy.
@The Rambling Otter: Does Dr Who need to urinate and deficate? If so, does the TARDIS have a john, if not for him, for his “Companions”? How about it, BBC?
@GarrisonSkunk: Actually that’s a good question.
I literally don’t know if Time Lords would need to.
His companions would of course.
He probably has some sort of futuristic toilet on the TARDIS that just evaporates any waste.
@Professor Well Actually: Technically yes. But apparently The Sims 4 Vampire DLC doesn’t follow those rules, as vampires can just fly into your home and attack your Sim no matter what, I only bought the DLC for the cool items and I’m stuck with them… and for whatever inane reason, unlike The Sims 3, you can’t turn the Vampires off.
@Bob Tice: @The Rambling Otter: @GarrisonSkunk: Actually that’s a good question.
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To put Doctor Who in a particular perspective.
The bizarre adventures that he got into.
It really is amazing.
As with the episode that I previously mentioned.
Sarah Jane and Rose had a sort of contest as to who saw the more outlandish things while traveling with him and THIS pretty much sums up what to expect while watching this show.
Sarah Jane: I saw things you wouldn’t believe!
Rose: Try me.
Sarah Jane: Mummies.
Rose: I’ve met ghosts.
Sarah Jane: Robots. Lots of robots.
Rose: Slitheen. In Downing Street.
Sarah Jane: Daleks!
Rose: Met the Emperor.
Sarah Jane: Anti-matter monsters!
Rose: Gas mask zombies!
Sarah Jane: Real living dinosaurs!
Rose: Real living werewolf!
Sarah Jane: THE. LOCH NESS. MONSTER!
Rose: Seriously?
Dog Eat Doug: Eew!
@Uncle Lumpy: Norway had a terrible run! Mostly, it was Sweden. They they got Quisling.
Pretty grim for a newspaper comic strip to have a character wish for death and immediately get his wish. Don’t children theoretically read these things? I mean there’s only one way to read the phrase “I want my troubles to be over,” right?
OTOH, they also nurtured Nobel winner Knut Hamsun.
“It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him.”
— opening line of Hunger, Knut’s first novel (read it, it’s amazing) [“Kristiania” is what they called Oslo back in the day]. {Knut was also a Nazi-supporter, ouch. Still a great and influential writer}
Mw- like a good scientist, Olive is going to check out the relative strength of the Pacific Ocean’s undertow.
Fortunately for us, the LA lifeguards are auditioning for BayWatch III, so they won’t see her.
@Ken:
They go to the Getty, and she can natter on about her Greek and Roman Past Lives
Ooh boy
@Amelie Wikström: Either “death” or “somehow wins the lottery”
Whatever mood the Monkey Paw feels that week.
MW- ” Wake up Mary I think I got something to say to you.. It’s the first week of September and my tummy brain should be back in school.” A trip to Santa Royale may be just the thing. Olive and Dawn hit it off, Dawn’s Vegan diet enhances Olive’s ESP and Deja vu Egyptianism. Best of all, Wilbur will have someone to pull him out of the way so a seagull doesn’t shit on his head.
6C: (Warning: terminal nerdery ahead) I started off being annoyed about this because the Eleventh Doctor didn’t use the diamond logo, but then I remembered that there’s a long history of Doctor Who paratext putting the diamond logo on everything. I think it started with the VHS releases, then during the wilderness years it gradually supplanted the McCoy logo on merch, including the masthead of Doctor Who Magazine, possibly because the McCoy logo looked kind of terrible on merch. And now it’s the current logo again (assuming there is still a current logo and we’re not in wilderness years part two). So sure, whatever.
So now I’m just annoyed about the TARDIS-hydrant thing. And also, a quadruped in a jacket looks weird? I’m reminded of that old “Would a dog wear pants like this? Or like this?” meme
DT: I feel like I say it a lot, and yet still don’t say it enough: these people are terrible at investigating crimes! “Welp, we’ve spoken to almost everyone on this list in the order we found it, and they all say they didn’t kill him and don’t know how to build a zappy electric gun anyway! Guess I might as well talk to the lady from the mysterious lab I’ve not bothered to learn anything about, and if she doesn’t break down and confess, or take out a zappy electric gun right in front of me, we’ll just have to drop this one in the unsolved file!” Luckily for Dick, she will.
EC: I suspect where this is heading is Spendwell Academy explaining that they maintain their high SAT scores by being very careful which students they accept, and Len being outraged by this snobbery and statistical manipulation … once he realises it means “not his kids”.
FC: Jeffy’s mind is blown, because it had never previously occurred to him that ice cream men even existed when he wasn’t looking at them, never mind all year.
MW: I’m torn between irritation that Olive keeps saying “I remember a past life in ancient Egypt!” and nobody regards this as at all concerning, and irritation that she then immediately changes the subject and we don’t even get a dumb fantasy flashback.
Zits: Crysanthemums (yellow and white) are no guitars, and are also no delphiniums (blue) and geraniums (red).