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Pardon My Planet, 8/20/26
OK, here’s a sentence that I’m reasonably sure I’ve never written before, and probably nobody else has either: I’m actually enjoying the art in Pardon My Planet today. Specifically, I love how incredibly exhausted the girlfriend character (the Pardon My Planet gang may have names, but I steadfastly refuse to learn them) looks. How long has her boyfriend been nattering on with this nonsense? Hours? She doesn’t have to get ready for school either, but she does have to get up in the morning. She just wants to sleep, damn it! She just wants to sleep!
The Lockhorns, 8/20/26
Speaking of comic panel faces I’m enjoying, I’m enjoying Leroy’s boss’s face here. Specifically, I enjoy how mad he looks. He’s not one of those LinkedIn influencer execs bragging about replacing his workers with AI! No, he’s discovered that AI is slowly and silently replacing his workers one by one, right under his nose … and there’s nothing he can do about it. You can’t even test to see if someone’s a robot anymore, according to the killjoys in HR!
Mother Goose and Grimm, 8/20/26
No, Attila, it’s a joke! You’re a character in a comic strip, where ostensibly there’s a joke every day! I say “ostensibly” because the specific comic strip you’re in is Mother Goose and Grimm, but still, you should know this.
18 replies to “Good faces”
Mary Worth Mashup: What Wilbur really wanted to say.
“The shareholders said no to the Voight-Kampff Test,” said Leroy’s boss, slamming the table in frustration, “but we’ll find a way to suss out those body snatching replicants yet!”
He was then dragged away by two security guards with suspiciously identical faces
Mother Goose and Grimm:
“Ricki Lake?”
Phantom And it’s time for the rogue AI plot folks, confirming that Invicta/Mollusk is not only oblivious to decades of computer-takes-over plots*, but also the news in recent years of AI deleting things it wasn’t supposed to and even cyber-attacking sites.
*everything from Star Trek planet-of-the-week to Yokpo Tsuno bande dessinee stories in my childhood, it’s not exactly an obscure plot point!
PMP: “…nothing excites me more…” Nothing bores a woman more than mansplaining morning wood.
FC: To bad they weren’t fishing in shark infested waters. Dolly would make great bait.
RMMD: So Tweedledum and Tweedlestupid are actually going through with it. Looks like it’s going to be The Ransom of Red Chief after all.
Luann: Go ahead, Toni. Projectile vomit on TJ, that’ll show him.
CS: John Philip Sousa on a snowmobile! It’s my dad, and he’s naked!
PmP “…then remembering that I still have to work, a prospect that is much much worse…”
MW Geez, Moy is desperate to have people accept Wilbur. I now think the whole arc is to be able to sweep any criticisms under the “he had alcohol problems!” rug, but we all know he was stone cold sober when he hid his survival, spied on Iris, and endangered his daughter by not even considering her observations about Belle.
Loretta considers calling the authorities on the suddenly compliant “Leroy” but decides machine oil smells better than BO.
Wary Morth:
“Tommy seems earnest in his desire to live sober! Unlike me, seeing that I’m clearly high as a kite!”
@Baja Gaijin:
Mary would have about 120 heart attacks.
Pardon My Planet:
I’m part of the generation of what Alfred, Lord Tennyson aptly dubbed as ‘The Lotos-eaters’ in a different context two centuries ago. I don’t want to do anything other than be an ‘influencer’ and get paid bushels of money for displaying myself online as the epitome of calculated, slack-jawed lassitude. What do you think of that, Jesse?”
“ZZZZZZZ.”
PMP: Gen X Hipster Lady is definitely regretting trying to talk dirty to Gen X Hipster Man by whispering “Tell me what really excites you?” in his ear.
Lockhorns: You know how generative AI image generators struggle with fingers? Well, just look at Leroy’s boss’s hands here. THE SLOP IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
MG&G: Grimm’s whispering because he respects the sacred art of the crossword. Sure, we can all have a laugh about the Great Lakes, but making Mother Goose write the wrong word into the crossword grid? He would never betray Will Shortz like that.
What is going on in Mother Goose and Grimm? Is the oval supposed to be some time later, when the dog and the cat are alone and relaxed, free to crack wise about what Mother Goose reads aloud to them from the newspaper? Is it what Grimm wishes he could say, of only. . . Why do they both look terrified in real time?
MW: Look at those lovely red tomatoes! What does Mary do to turn them beige?
The Lockhorns:
“Now, pull out your Androids and let’s have all of you make a note of that!”
PMP – And I sleep in adult sized Pull Ups (TM)! I’m a big kid now….
Shlockhorns – Those that remain (like Leroy) can’t tell a bridge from a bicycle, anyway….
MG&G – Inferior it’s said, always spits up it’s dead when the gales of November come early (well, that’s what I heard)….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
The Lockhorns:
“Think of AI as a productive practitioner of the creation of original, creative ideas and concepts. Remember that the anagram of ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘a fertile, legit clinician’ !”