It’s a weird chin, man. Not right for the head. Not right at all
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Family Circus, 1/17/25
OK, I know comics are, by their nature, cartoonish, and there isn’t always that much variety between faces so other characteristics are used as cues to ID characters, but when I first saw this panel I immediately thought that the lady behind Dolly has Ma Keane’s face and now I can’t shake it. It’s Ma Keane in a weird wig and a weirder fake chin! It’s like one of those movies where Tilda Swinton plays multiple characters (which also makes me think that Tilda Swinton could plausibly play Ma Keane, which would be terrifying and amazing).
Intelligent Life, 1/17/25
Damn, Dark Haired Intelligent Life Character Whose Name Is Not In The Dialogue Today And I Don’t Remember It And Refuse To Look It Up: your friend Mike sounds like he wants to do drugs with you, which frankly would be the coolest thing that ever happened in this dork-ass comic strip. And you suggest watching Doctor Who instead, like a damn nerd! I love Doctor Who and never do drugs myself and even I’m kind of embarrassed for you.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/17/25
God, I love the way Michelle is waggling her wedding ring at Summer in the first panel. “Oh, are you sad and lonely at home by yourself? Couldn’t be me! Check out the bling! Big spouse haver over here!”
Curtis, 1/17/25
WARNING: GREG WILKINS KNOWS HE IS IN A COMIC STRIP AND IS AWARE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HIS FICTIONAL UNIVERSE, CONTAINMENT BREACH IMMINENT
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MW: Unaware that he’s holding his ophthalmoscope backwards, Dawn’s optician sees his own healthy eye and mistakenly proclaims Dawn’s eyes as “good” and ready for contacts. Dawn cries “HALLELUJAH!” at the news, not realizing that resuming her use of contacts prematurely will lead to her permanent loss of vision.
All right, Ray Billingsley. It’s obvious that at some point, you “gave a really good tip to a server who gave [you] really bad service” and you’ve sort of regretted it even though you pride yourself on being nice, and this is your way to retake control of the narrative. But Ray, let’s try to inject some humor into our artistic catharsis.
RMMD: Michelle stops Summer’s bi-curiousness dead in its tracks.
FC: Jeffy would be blurting this out because he’s a dumbass. Dolly is “blurting” this out to deliberately humiliate her mother. Pack it in, Dennis, the real menace has come to town.
Curtis: I was thinking how comic strips often break the fourth wall, then that they’re two-dimensional so do they even have a second wall much less a fourth, and man have you ever really looked at the lines in your hand? I mean it’s so trippy.
Or is the real menace Ma Keane, who decided only half the guests and family members could have chairs? Dolly is taking justified revenge for being forced to levitate.
Ah, Doctor Who, that movie we all know and love. Which Doctor Who movie do you think they’re watching? The unofficial 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks starring Peter Cushing as a human Dr Who who accidentally teleports his grandkids into space, or the 1996 Doctor Who made for the US market which was so unsuccessful that they immediately killed off the character again?
RMMD-“Oh yeah. That’s it. Rub your marriage in my face.”
MW-“Doctor, will you go out with me. I’m looking for a man to love in the Biblical way that my father won’t.”
FC-“It’s a shame that I can’t do anything about Dolly’s faceprint,” Thel says before slamming Dolly’s face into the cake.
Luann-Meanwhile Luann’s parents are bound and gagged in the basement.
@Chance: Disagree, I liked this joke, easily among the top ten percent jokes in newspaper comics today, not counting Wilbur.
FC: The fact that when last seen PJ’s diarrhea laden fingers were the same color as the icing probably explains the sour expression on everyone’s face.
FC: The chin is weird, but I’m struck by the glum expressions all around. Did someone notice that there are six plates, but only five forks, and no napkins whatsoever?
Why does the maker of Intelligent Life seem to think that people contort their bodies into the shape of a suckerfish mid-conversation?
Family Circus: Y’see, I’m not that interested in the Ma Keene wannabe (Slylock reader solution: this one would have to have had a nostril drilled in) as I am by the tall sweatered man behind her: he looks not so much nonplussed as terrified by what’s going on, but he is literally being kept out of the circle.
FC: Do the Keane kids HAVE that many grandparents? Or did they just invite a nearby nursing home to party?
MW: Next up: Dawn loses a limb and gets upset when Dirk won’t stop calling her “Tripod.”
MW – Dawn is very happy that her appearance will no longer force her boyfriend to be an abusive bully towards her. Good girl, Dawn!
RMMD: Part of creating a strip is world building the characters’ environs. Have we ever seen what’s outside Summer’s house? Is it safe? Maybe it’s like the Road Warrior…or Florida.
MW: “Your hair looks GOOD, Dawn! Your HAIR, on the other hand, looks like it got caught in a PAPER SHREDDER. Is your stylist BLIND?”
FC: Watch out, Dennis. There’s a new nefarious backstabbing preschooler on the block, and her name is Dolly… erm… the Collie? Dolly By Golly? Dolly Svengali? Hmm. Well, we’ll put this on the backburner until we can workshop a better nickname, but you’re on notice, menace.
JP: Alan and I shared the same expression while experiencing today’s Judge Parker proceedings. Randy was 100% on Ann’s side when she was doing all the selfish things he’s accusing her of, and then after she stopped using and endangering her family and turned herself in to focus all the heat solely on herself, Randy became this sister-denouncing crusader who cannot shut up about how she can’t be trusted and deserves no loyalty. It’s all so wacky. If Ann went on a shooting spree at a NASA facility and hijacked a space shuttle to escape, Randy would insist she didn’t do it while simultaneously insisting she had a good reason to do so, and if she then used that shuttle to crash into and divert the path of a massive meteor on a trajectory to destroy Earth, he would blame her for damaging government property and wanting to get as far away from her family as possible.
MW: Yep, we really are done with Dirk’s self-justifying traumatic history. This was, in theory at least, an extremely important fulcrum point in the story’s narrative with massive ramifications for its characters and how we view them and their relationship. So naturally Karen Moy blazed past it as fast as she could to get to bigger and better things, like how soon Dawn can start wearing contact lenses again.
Intelligent Life: “Doctor Who” is a TV show, not a movie. So watching it on “movie night” would be slightly weird… but not, like, sci-fi time-travel wormhole multiverse weird.
Curtis: “I helped a server make a living in exchange for them doing their job, even though they didn’t take my order and bring my food and fill my glass and clear my plates as well as I would have liked. I’m just too darn nice, is the lie I’m telling myself now!”
Family Circus: “Actually, this cake looks pretty terrible… do I really have to eat some?” (Is what everyone at the table is obviously thinking, as they lean over and frown at the lumpy brown dessert. Other than Dolly, who would literally lock her little brother in a closet for an extra hit of sugar. And, given that he isn’t present at dinner, probably already has.)
H&L: Unfortunately, Chip skipped right over Chapter One, which describes how to raise the hood. Hi exercises great patience in pointing out to him that it was not necessary to remove the hood entirely. He then pays a visit to Thursty.
GT: Milford’s badass girls’ wrestling team regularly bullies the boys’ basketball team for fun.
Mary Worth. Optometrist: “So, just see the receptionist for an appointment in six months, BadBreathGirl.”
JP: As Alan sits in front of his laptop his frustration mounts as he cannot complete his comments on CC because of Randy’s constant interruptions.
“What should we watch for movie night tonight? Let’s start with [something that is not a movie, but rather a show that’s been going on for literal decades, like even the revival is on its 15th season at this point, watching just one season would take at least nine hours unless it’s the most recent ones, how is this something you “start with” for “movie night”].”
(Yes I know Schroduck mentioned the actual Doctor Who movies they could be referring to, which kind of undermines my point, but I doubt the writer was thinking of them.)
“You covered up PJ’s fingerprints real good, Mommy” is also what Dolly will say while helping her mother cleaning the floor with bleach
RMMD: Can’t wait… it’s the Winter of Summer!
You all are nerd enough to complain that Doctor Who is not a movie, but not nerd enough to know that the great Peter Cushing starred in two Doctor Who movies in 1965 and 1966. When my father visited London at the time, he knew nothing of the character and he convinced his friend to watch it with the argument that it must be good because it had Cushing. Anyway, his friend has spent the last six decades blaming him for having to watch that disaster.
@Schroduck: I was going to make this exact joke and am proud someone beat me to it.
@Schroduck: ops missed that!
“Navigating dating is terrible! You would think that adding a leap day in February would be enough to keep the calendar aligned with the equinox, but then you get it wrong and everyone has a different calendar! And let’s not even talk about calculating Easter!”
“It ought to be fun! You’d think that Satan would make the process leading to pre-marital and extra-marital sex enjoyable to lure us into sin, but I guess we don’t need pleasure, we are just condemned to damn our soul!”
FC: A wig, eh? And here I thought that’s where all the whipped cream went.
FC – More conspiracy theories….
IL – Blue pill, please….
RMMD – The code-message – Imagine fun ought anything dating. YES! Anything dating ought to work, and offer imaginary fun. Now, pass the blue pills, please….
Curtis – And the problem with this strip is it’s too funny…that’s it….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Considering all that [checks date] 2025 has in store for us, I’d have to say death by Curtis meta-fiction wouldn’t be so bad. And then I remember all the weird shit this strip has about feet.
RMMD: Hey Summer, if you’re lonely living by yourself in that empty-nest house, you should buy a dog. Dogs are GOOD!!!
FC: What are these strangers doing in the Keane family household? Why is Ma Keane feeding them? Why are they looking at the cake like that? The only conclusion is that they’re from Child Protective Services and are very concerned about being poisoned.
RMMD: Oh boy, it looks like the artist forgot to draw the finger puppets again!
@Hibbleton: Whipped cream? You wish. That there is clam dip.
Intelligent Life: The other guy’s name is Skip. An easy way to remember is to ask yourself if you want to read Intelligent Life, then answer yourself by saying “No, I’ll Skip it.”
If someone says, “My problem is I’m too nice” while rolling up their sleeves, don’t believe them. Avoiding eye contact might also be advisable.
MW I still think it’s a red flag that Dirk had nothing better to do on Christmas and New Year’s Eve than insult some random that fell for his looks at the gym.
Come on Dawn, have a little backbone and self respect. What did your dad do to you when you were growing up that makes you so desperate for affection?
Okay, self absorbed, self centered, and a sociopath when it comes to others needs or concerns. I see a trend…
You want to date your daddy!
The Family Circus: Who are these nameless old folks squeezing Jeffy, PJ and Bil out of seats at the Keane family table? We will never know, they’re only there as props for this joke. In fact, I believe, I will never be dissuaded from the idea, that they line up and pay for the privilege to see the last carnival sideshow in town. It’s Thel’s side business, and how she funds her cocaine budget.
Rex Morgan, M.D.: The desert behind Michelle’s eyes in panel two is just exquisite. You can almost hear the monotone: Maybe-leave-dating-for-later-and-don’t-forget-your-copay-on-the-way-out.
@MKay: I think the bald-headed fellow is Daddy’s loverboy with benefits–perhaps the “Uncle Roy” from the Dysfunctional Family Circus. Remember Uncle Roy?
MW: Sheesh, talk about taking the wrong lesson from something. Dawn’s New Year’s Eve hookup turns out to be an insulting 2009-style pickup artist, who thinks his rude behavior is justified because his parents were divorced and had jobs. And her conclusion is “I need to switch to contacts”? This is stunningly idiotic.
By the way, the only comic strip about negging that ever needed to exist was XKCD 1027.
RMMD: Get out and do anything! Just don’t go psycho in the office.
Man, so many good wisecracks today. I’d love to sit here and read them all morning, but I have to go talk to a bunch of dying people instead.
@Banana Jr. 6000:
Nice!
FC: The evening started on a sour note when both Thel and Mrs Prissy Face Guest sported the same purple dress from the Mary Worth Collection.
H&L: Hi seems devastated that technology has made the carburetor obsolete. First it was the hand-crank ignition and now this. What’s next, car keys?
Marvin: “It was a good day…I got away with more than I didn’t” or, “It was a good day…I pooped more than I ate.”
I much prefer gross but funny over inoffensive but bland.
Family Circus – If this were Blondie, it would be Elmo congratulating Blondie on covering up Dagwood’s bite marks.
Intelligent Life – Every year since the mid 2010s there are a handful of articles about how people in Silicon Valley love to microdose because they think it makes them more creative (Mostly because they finally got around to reading Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steve Jobs, or at least the part on LSD).
At this point its a hacky trope in journalism, and this “nerd” comic strip has finally managed to stumble on an article about it, but since someone is still editing this strip, Comic Code era rules on promoting drug use are still banned, so we get this as the “joke” instead.
Rex Morgan, MD – “I couldn’t imagine having to go back out in the dating scene. I cannot imagine doing thorough research into the subject and building a plot around it for a daily comic strip to start the year 2025 and cover the first quarter. But my damn editor at the syndicate put me on a roots country moratorium, so I have to do the storylines.” Rex Morgan, MD cartoonist Terry Beatty.
Curtis – Most comics strip characters know they are part of a fictional construct. What keeps them inside their own worlds instead of breaching ours is that they are published in the newspaper, thus are aware of the terrible world out here. At least in their own strips they have a safe, predictable life. They would appreciate you all not using the newspaper to line a bird cage, however. (Also, never use the newspaper to line a chicken coop if your newspaper publishes Barney Google and Snuffy Smith)
IL: Which Doctor? Back to the Classics, or New Doctors?
Tomorrow’s MW: Dawn: “I can see perfectly now!” Dirk: “I’ll just use another imperfect physical attribute or personality quirk to give you a bullying name, and you have to accept it because I have a sob story!”
Phantom: “Actually, he meant ‘For the Wasabi!’, for I was stealing from a HIbachi Restaurant.”
You think you’ve earned a little fourth-wall break, Curtis? Huh? You think you’re fuckin’ Bushmiller-era Nancy? Is that it?
@Chance, Curtis: At least he didn’t get dumped by a cheerleader in high school. He could have had years of material there….
I find myself interested in the power dynamics at play where Billy was sitting at the head of the table but appears to have been willing to be momentarily pushed aside for cake. That dessert better be good or the bald man who is inexplicably overdressed will never shut up about this humiliation to get people to shut about his black suit.
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I can’t stop looking the shape of Mike’s arms. Are those actually wings?
GT graces us with a panel featuring the 9 members on the wrestling team in the same week as the complete boys’ basketball team.
That many faces is not really Merrill’s forte. Maybe the ninja teams are more to the artist’s strengths.
Looks like Luann finally found her calling. Does professional Den mother pay well?
FC: Those weren’t fingerprints. PJ stumbled upon American Pie.
Alan’s going to bang Luann, isn’t he?
FC: Jeffy is relieved that Dolly turned their attention *away* from him jamming his fingers up his nose.
IL: It’s probably just me, but that dude in panel 2 looks like he’s crapping his pants from excitement.
RMMD: I’ve got to imagine dating in this strip to be one of the dullest things in the world.
MW: I’m not looking forward to future strips where Dawn undergoes expensive surgeries to fix other “flaws” Dirk points out.
Dustin: Yeah, yeah, I know everyone in this strip is a hateful cretin, but when the target of their venom is Ed Kudlick, I’m OK with that.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Well, “bang” in the sense of getting a peck on the cheek, which is third base in this strip.
Luann: Nancy is really going to enjoy the mess she’ll have to clean up when she gets home.
CS: Crankshaft carries around a lot of cash, which seems like a dumb idea, but I don’t write this strip.
9CL: Brooke and Batiuk should team up to write a comic strip about the very real concerns of young people. Not because it will be any good, but it will be exceptionally funny.
@taig: Dirk could tell Dawn she needs to stop living with that loser dad of hers. That would be an entertaining development.
@Philip: I’d expect to find someone congratulating the wife on covering her husband’s bite marks in Arlo and Janis.
Curtis: “I gave my overworked and underpaid server the benefit of the doubt and left a decent tip, rather than stiffing them of an integral part of their wage and effectively making them pay for the privilege of waiting on me. I have decided this is a character flaw.”
RMMD: Frankly I can’t think of a more apt dilemma for a Rex Morgan character than “I want to do something interesting, but it’s just so haaaaaaard!”
FC: That cake looks suspiciously like something Marvin might have iced.
Curtis – Maybe Curtis’s dad has a point. Maybe I shouldn’t be charitable towards people who make only the most minimal effort to fulfill their obligations. I could start by not reading Curtis.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Enjoying our picnic, babe?”
“Very much, Don Abundio!”
“My idea of picnicking with anteaters is working out perfectly!”
[Sign: ANTEATERS]
“Except I can’t get the Pink Panther theme out of my head!”
“You covered up PJ’s fingerprints real good!” – Mildly menacing
“But you didn’t do anything about the DNA evidence he left!” – Extremely menacing and nauseating
@ValdVin: This week Inma and Rodney Barnes had the same face. I don’t think they are the same person, although who knows these days.
MW: Dawn’s genetic destiny is to be Combover Girl.
C’shaft: “Take THAT, socialized medicine!”
DT: So this guy is, what, in his sixties max? And he was palling around with high-ranking Third Reich officers enough for there to be photographic evidence of it. Yet there’s also computers with Internet access and flat-screen monitors. (Or maybe, I don’t know, he was working on a secret longevity project and escaped with the results rather than sharing them with Der Furher; hell, at this point in the story anything could be happening.)
Dustin: “Keep it up, the more we discourage healthy habits the sooner he’ll drop dead of a stroke.”
GT: “I am the litmus test” is not the badass boast you think it is.
Luann: Oh God, Alan’s crushing on Luann, isn’t he?
MT: Um, no it’s not. “Love bombing” involves excessive displays of affection and attention designed to overwhelm the victim. This is just name-dropping something Jules Rivera read about on social media for the sake of wordplay.
SH: I mean, otherwise they’d have to deal with the question of “if a snake and a mongoose are briefly turned human and during that time conceive a child, what form will the child take?” Under those circumstances I’d stick with the hamburger too.
Don Abundio, translated (take 2):
“Is there a message in this stunt, my dear?”
“Very much so, Don Abundio!”
“Every creature that eats is eaten in its turn!”
[Sign: ANTEATERS]
“And everyone who gawks at animals is also gawked at!”
“No, no, it’s cool, bro… I mean… we’re cartoons, so we could literally rip space-time open and have wacky shenanigans, but, uh… yeah, I’m sure cold Little Caesar’s and Dr. Who will be just as fun… dumbass.”
@Charterstoned: You noticed
I’m a sucker for a broken 4th wall in any media.
RMMD: Looks like this story might actually be about loneliness and isolation in modern society. In which case, kudos, because from personal experience I can tell you that dating in your thirties is a miserable experience for everyone.
The best summary I’ve heard is that modern dating is like trying to find fresh water, and men are stuck in a desert and women are stuck in a swamp.
Oh, come on, *my* characters are well aware that they’re in a comic strip and have been *explicitly* so since at least 2021, so if there would have been a containment breach we’d already have known it.
@nescio:
Because the so called people drawing this are actually suckerfish.
I’ll tell you what really bugs me about this Mary Worth storyline. When was the last time somebody mocked you, or anyone else, for wearing glasses? Were you older than 11 at the time? Probably not. When was the last time you heard someone called “nerd” as an insult? Was it later than 1990? Probably not.
Dirk’s behavior is so juvenile, outdated, and stupid that you can’t even get mad about it. And his tone makes it clear that he’s dead serious about this. Dawn should have walked out of this date. Instead, she’s devastated, to the point of changing her prescription to appease this jerk. Who will immediately find something else to insult her about.
Some of you have said that this story is an uncomfortably realistic depiction of bullying/abusive relationships, which is true. But there’s an even deeper problem. Dawn being upset about something this childish suggests she has severe problems with her self-worth and maturity. (Though I’m sure having Wilbur for a dad doesn’t help.)
And if *I* noticed this, Mary Worth damn well should. If Mary really was the all-knowing sage she claims to be, she’d tell Dawn to stop letting Dirk abuse her just because he’s a hot guy. It’s only going to get worse.
This story is way too casual and shallow for the nasty behavior it depicts. I shudder to think what the resolution is going to be.
FC: Okay, so I think what is happening here is Thel has invited everyone over for her latest attempt at fusion cuisine. No decorations, no frosting, just two layers of cake covered in yummy savory curry.
RexMo – Summer has to contort her neck mightily to avoid looking at Michelle’s ring. If she accidently sees it, it may damage her eyes, and this is no place for a medical emergency!
MW: so…the next time Dawn meets up with Dirk she won’t be wearing her massive eyeglasses, and he will have another meltdown because she looks different (“She’s changed!!”) from the other time he saw her, and will resume calling her who-knows-what derogatory nicknames like “two-faced chameleon girl” or “glass eye girl” and she bonds with him even more deeply.
@Little Guy:Phantom: “Actually, he meant ‘For the Wasabi!’, for I was stealing from a HIbachi Restaurant.”
Really? It looked more like you were stealing from a tiki bar!
@ValdVin: When they bring on the burqini babes, you will forced to admit that maybe draped fabric is not Merrill’s forte.
There’s a terrible Bundt cake joke buried somewhere deep in the Family Circus writers room. Let’s keep it there.
The Familliar Mucus: P.J. was never near the cake. Dolly’s game is to disgust the guests enough so she can inhale the whole cake herself after they leave.
@taig: I’ve got to imagine dating in this strip to be one of the dullest things in the world.
Let’s not forget that “Sadie, Sadie, married lady” here has Jordan, like the almonds for a husband.
FC: Bil certainly loves mustachios on random characters. Both these unknown schlubs are sporting the dashing ornaments! Seriously, watch for the mustaches on side characters, neighbors, in crowd scenes.
RMMD: It is a well known fact that welded together in Holy Wedlock until death of one of ya’s do part, is the only way for a woman to go! Look at the RELIEF on the solidly wedded character: “thank GOD I’m married! I would just shrivel up and die if I weren’t! Marriage is a mad whirl of ecstasy, excitement, bangin’ sex, love and nose kisses and trudging through life side by side like a matched team of horses going up the plank to Noah’s Ark! Married, I am, ha-ha-ha, am I glad I’m not a big bored loser like you! “
@Nobody: that’s because I studied Emily Post.
@Nobody: I don’t recommend it in architecture.
GT: Ali Baba’s wily wrestling secret is rubbing Vaseline all over her flesh-concealing leg and arm sleeves — she just squirts out of her opponents’ grip. Gil hasn’t noticed, and she’s hoping the coaches at State are just as oblivious.
@Banana Jr. 6000: Note on timeline: Dawn’s eye infection presented between the first and second (why the hell was there a second?) date with Dirk, and today’s optometrist visit (because optometrists are the people qualified to make these calls in the Moyverse) is to find out that her infection has cleared up and she can safely wear contacts again, as is her preference.
tl;dr even if we keep the timeline straight, it’s not hard to make Dawn look like an idiot.
Six Chix And A Cat Named Formally Wounded Elk: Why are the Chix surprised that moose, deer and elk hinders exist and are found everywhere?
@TheDiva: DT: It’s worse than you say. This old guy is the FATHER of Nazi Junior (Heinrich Himmler’s right-hand man) meaning he was born in the late nineteenth century. Or is Junior Totten the grandson of Nazi Tottentanz, and just happens to be his genetic spitting image, down to the haircut?
”Here’s a photo of my dear old granddad. I want you to cut my hair just like his.”
”One Gestapo Number Four coming up, kid.”
MW: Wait…why COULDN’T Dawn wear contacts? Did she have pink eye or something? Allergies? Scratched cornea? What caused this???
I feel like we definitely missed out on some pink eye related hijinx if that was it…
Edited to say I went back and found it….itchy and irritated. Yup. DEFINITELY pink eye. Someone DEFINITELY farted on her pillow….
@Boomer: There’s a terrible Bundt cake joke buried somewhere deep in the Family Circus writers room. Let’s keep it there.
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They gave the joke to Marvin’s ‘writers’ ….Marvin thinks audibly, “I helped Mom fill the Bundt™ cake!”
Intelligent Life: That dark haired guy looks suspiciously close to the character “Freakazoid” which is owned by the notoriously litigious Warner Bros. They vehemently defend all of their copyrighted intellectual property and will 100% shut down this comic. So I guess the good news is that you won’t have to ever learn what these characters names are.
@LTJpezcore1: MW: Wait…why COULDN’T Dawn wear contacts?
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If you had the choice of waking up day after day interacting with ether a blurry vaguely Willburp Weston shaped blob or a sharp clear image of Willburp Weston, which would YOU choose?
@Ken: “Relevant Dinosaur Comic: https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=278
@LTJpezcore1: Someone DEFINITELY farted on her pillow….
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Her left one or her right one?
@richardf8: Thank you for the explanation. But it makes the whole story even dumber to learn that Dawn’s glasses were a temporary condition.
I could describe Greg in a lot of ways, I don’t think one of them would be “Too nice.” For one thing he feels like he overtipped a server earlier today and he’s still stewing about it.
@Charterstoned: and no napkins whatsoever?
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The Keanes advertise that their parties feature One Hour Dollyizing™….Dolly licks each guest’s face clean! No napkins needed!
@BananaSam: and he’s still stewing about it.
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Greg’s still upset Curtis’ Kwanzaa tale about his butt searching for his missing magic chair got interrupted, so cut him a break.
@Banana Jr. 6000: It would. Dawn’s head would explode when faced with the dilemma of cutting ties with Wilbur.
@richardf8: True. I should amend my statement with “but it’s not as dull as marriage.”
Baby Blues: Kind of disappointed they gave up on the running gag showing his bare ass the past few days. Sure it was crude but at least they were trying something.
Mother Goose: This is absolutely disgusting and I love the expression on this legally not the trademarked Mr Peanut’s face. This comic is the kind of humor that shows Mike Peters deserves that Pulitzer Prize.
@Little Guy: Phantom: “Actually, he meant ‘For the Wasabi!’, for I was stealing from a HIbachi Restaurant.”
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” Cousin Larry, shouldn’t we light the grill?” “Hibachi!” “Uh…hi, Cousin Larry, shouldn’t we light the grill?” – Standard “Perfect Strangers” joke.
@GarrisonSkunk: I concede this point and doff my cap in your direction. I’d probably still choose choice C and never see him, but, you know, Dawn got ISSUES.
@GarrisonSkunk: #100 BOTH. I also 100% believe it was Dirk that did it lol
Don’t worry, we’re safe for now. Greg Wilkins may have become self-aware, but he hasn’t yet become aware of how to make a punchline that makes any sense.
FC – I can totally see Tilda Swinton as holier than thou Grandma. It’s too bad that Agnes Moorehead is no longer with us, because she would be even better. She would nail that look of smug superiority that Grandma has.
Thel must have been sloshed when she frosted that cake. That’s some piss-poor cake decorating.
JP – I love Abe Lincoln’s side eye. He can’t believe this shit either.
Mary Worth – Hooray! Problem solved! Dirk will never be an abusive jerk again now that Dawn can wear her contacts.
Mark Trail Mix: “I HATE POACHERS! Scrambles and omletters are ok, but don’t get me started on Soufflers!”
RIP Dame Joan Plowright. She was 95.
@The Silent Penultimate Panel: Don’t worry, we’re safe for now. Greg Wilkins may have become self-aware, but he hasn’t yet become aware of how to make a punchline that makes any sense.
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Don’t tell anyone, but Sid’s in contact negotiations for me to play the magical skunk who grants Greg’s wish to become the Seventh Chick in next year’s Kwanzaa story.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: LUANN: but that would require Luann to bang someone, and Rule #1 in this strip is that Luann must remain chaste at all times. Heck, I’d bet money that Luann’s still a virgin by the time Shannon is attending her senior prom.
CS: Quit whining, you stingy old bastard. Medicare covered all of it.
Pluggers: Pluggers are old #6935.
Pluggers are medically decrepit
meatsacks # 5487.
Curtis – The first four words are, “My problem is I’m.” Reread them all you want, they’ll never make sense.
The Phancypants: I just realized. Graham Vincent is just Pavel the Russian Mafia oligarch with white hair.
@taig: That’s where I thought this “vegan” story was going. We’ve seen Dawn have nightmares about turning into her father, and this would be a logical response to that. If Dawn wants to redefine herself as “not like her father”, eating healthy would certainly achieve that. But apparently this contrivance was just to give her a principle she could throw away to appease a different abusive prick.
Curtis: What was Greg doing in a restaurant with waiters in the first place? He can’t afford that! Have Diane fix you a fried bologna sandwich and put it in a brown bag.
COVID-19 killed off most of the coffee shops in Manhattan where you could have a waitress bring you bacon and eggs or a bowl of soup anyway — everything now’s a counter place where you take your hamburger outside and, I guess, sit on the sidewalk to eat it. Restauranteurs can’t afford the expense of waitstaff any more. Maybe things are different in Baltimore of Philadelphia or wherever Curtistown is supposed to be. These days, if I order takeout, I go pick it up myself to save the delivery tip.
IL: Everyone’s beaten me to the Doctor Who nerd pedantry.
JP: You know, this would have been as good a time as any to have Randy say something like “I supported Ann as much as anyone, but when she came back here and convinced you to break the law by harbouring her, that was the last straw.” I’m not sure how plausible it would have been, but it would have been an aknoweledgement. But no, Ces has decided that Randy has given up on Ann, therefore Randy has always given up on Ann!
MW: I’m still hoping there’s more to this than “Dirk had a sob-story and Dawn fixed the thing he was making fun of, so everything’s fine!” But since this is the strip that gave us “If a guy declares your love is the only thing that’s keeping him from sliding into addiction, doesn’t that make it your job to stay with him?” twice since I’ve been reading (although one of them got out of it eventually) I’m not confident.
And even if there is, it still makes Dawn an even bigger idiot than we thought because, as I and others keep saying, Dirkhead was just so obviously awful from the start.
Phantom: Neville, dude, you could maybe dial that back to “To find out you’ll have to watch the show!” or something rather than sounding like you’re holding this fact (that Graham Motorbike only asked about because he’s still got five minutes to fill) hostage until humanity bows to your demands. I guess you can take the publican out of supervillainy…
LUANN:. Say what we will about Piro, Bern, and Luann, these kids must have one unstable life to be so glad at a little silliness and kindness.
FBoFW:. Yesterday Ellie was dismayed because daughter said she looked like the 90’s. That’s nothing, I look like the ’70s–. Like the song Old Hippie says, “I like it better the old way.”. And having no snarky daughter, no one has complained. Yet. (I’ve seen women my age dressed age-appropriate, and their choice is fine…for them)
BETWEEN FRIENDS:. So there’s an idea for an article, create a “Writers Dictionary”. I’ll start:
– Web surfing:. Writer’s Research
– Barriers:. Writer’s next topic.
JP: Alan’s expression in Panel Two just begs to be captioned in other contexts. It could be used today as a response to Dawn actually believing that her contacts will solve what is wrong with Dirk.
RMMD: I have tried and failed to sympathize with Summer’s problem of being bored and having too much time on her hands. But if she really undertakes dating, all will be forgiven. *hums a few bars of “Schadenfreude”*
6 CHX:. My impression exactly the first time I saw “skeleton” of narwhal a couple years ago. Couldn’t believe such a creature ever existed. Horn/tooth is flexible like rubber.
GA:. Little known fact, real lawyers spend more time investigating than filling out paperwork. A background in investigative techniques is helpful.
@taig: If it weren’t for the whole glasses thing, I would have said you just stumbled onto how Dawn’s nightmare about literally transforming into Wilbur was going to come true; ‘You’ll do what I say, now eat the mayo!!!’
@Tom: Good grief, I hope not. I don’t want the answer to my lonlieness and isolation to be frickin’ roots country and sub-Abbott & Costello comedy. (P.S. That is a heartbreakingly good synopsis of the dating world today. Mind if I use that?)
DT: Why is Tracy hassling Alfred Pennyworth? You don’t mess with the Bat-Family!
@Hibbleton:
#10. FC:. Ugh! Your offering is so distasteful it should be next week’s COTW! Congrats.
MW: “Hallelujah! No more ‘nerdgirl,’ by cracky!”
Mary Worth: “That’s right, Doc, I dumped that jerk several days ago. No more nerdgirl!”
@82 Daisy:
I don’t know if you know about it but you were quoted a couple of nights ago.
@yy 183Bob Tice:
Dennis the Menace Spanish to English.
@Ken: Curtis: I was thinking how comic strips often break the fourth wall, then that they’re two-dimensional so do they even have a second wall much less a fourth, and man have you ever really looked at the lines in your hand? I mean it’s so trippy.
Also, dog spelled backwards is God. It makes you think, bro.
@133 The Breathtaking Bonehead Brothers:
Yo, dude, if you spell “TIME” backward it spells “EMIT” ya know. Whoa.
@Sequitur: Yo, dude, if you spell “TIME” backward it spells “EMIT”. Whoa.
The fat cop spoke in a strange tongue: “Eugnot egnarts a ni ekops poc taf eht.”