Happiness and sadness
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Hagar the Horrible, 8/23/26
I honestly don’t know if we’re supposed to understand “Lucky Eddie is an animal lover” and “Lucky Eddie’s girlfriend is a half-human, half-fish” and “Lucky Eddie is getting off on doing undercover furry stuff with hot human ladies” in combination as showing that he’s slowly and methodically trying to figure some extremely specific kink out or if he’s got a set of polymorphous perversities across this whole general conceptual space. As long as everyone involved is having a good time, that’s all I care about!
Dustin, 8/23/26
God, Dustin’s eager facial expression in the third panel here is heartbreaking. “Were you embarrassed? In front of all your friends? Was this a situation where you were humiliated, instead of me? Tell me more. Tell me everything.” This is why Dustin’s dad never takes his son to work.
14 replies to “Happiness and sadness”
Dustin:
“Were you embarrassed?”
“No, but a little insect with a top hat came out and started singing ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ !”
Hagar: The fact the girls know it’s a “big guy” makes me wonder exactly where Lucky Eddie’s genitalia are placed.
HtH:
“I’d give my canine teeth for a dog like you!”
Dustin: I was well into my teens before I figured out that “Jiminy Cricket” was a euphemism. I was fully an adult before I realized the same about “For crying out loud!”
Slylock Fox-“Wanna see my pearl,” Cassandra Cat says uncrossing her legs.
MW-Oh I’m sure Dawn lifted Tommy up a few times.
MW-“My dear friend you’ve talked me off the ledge too many times to count.” Unfortunately it was off the other side of the ledge instead of the one we want.
HtH:
“What would you like your ‘dog’ name to be, Lucky Eddie?”
” ‘Sammy,‘ Hagar!”
FC: Can a house vomit a bad meal? Just asking.
DtM: Will you put that book down and stroke my ego, already!
Speaking of stroking egos…
MW: Without a witness, it’s just words, Wilbur.
MW:
“Tommy thanked Dawn for making him feel like he matters…truth be told, though, he doesn’t!”
HtH:
“Oh, look! — Ann Akranizzam and her friends are at the park!”
Dustin: Meanwhile the customers of the Sexy Wet T-Shirt Car Wash are furiously demanding their money back.
S4th: Okay, credit where it’s due, this is actually a pretty solid premise with a good payoff. I liked it.
DT: ‘Gee Widescreen, you’re a swell guy, letting me out of our criminal enterprise with no questions asked! Right after I insulted you too! I can’t wait to pick up the big sack of money you’ll have waiting for me in an hour!’
Sheesh, for the ‘smart’ one Shaggy here might be the stupidest one in the bunch…
CS: This damp squib of strip tells me we have at least another week of ‘Whaaaa? Montoni’s has a picture of mah fadder?!?!?’ glurge before we cut back to the never-ending Batton Thomas interview.
Hey, an avid interest in Ed Kudlick’s humiliation is the first normal healthy impulse Dustin’s ever had.
@Pozzo: [as an adult, pronounces “For crying out loud” in his head]
Gee whillikers!
@matt w: Ah wait, “crying” works like “cricket” here, it’s not a euphemism for what you would get if you say “For crying out loud” in an accent that drops the “r.” As our friends to the north would say, tabarnak.