Indignant Saturday
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Blondie, 2/8/25
Man, what’s your least favorite part of this deeply unpleasant Dagwood dream sequence? A lot of people are going to say “the glasses on the sandwich” or “the pot of gumbo on a burner that’s just kind of floating in space” or “the way you can’t quite tell if Dagwood is driven to chase the anthropomorphic sandwich by hunger or something more darkly sexual” or maybe even “why did they bother mentioning the Super Bowl but not put any football stuff in the dream sequence”, but for me, it’s the little “Po Boy” label on the sandwich. Like, come on. Do you expect us to believe that Dagwood would need to have a sandwich label in his own dream? Absolutely not. I don’t care if the idiot readers at home need to have the fact that this is “the Big Easy”‘s signature sandwich spelled out for them, I refuse to accept the way it compromises the verisimilitude of the dream sequence.
Hi and Lois, 2/8/25
Feel like this strip is the result of coming up with “the big bag store” as a darndest thing a kid would call Costco, but that’s really undermined by the fact that there are no bags in the strip. Everything is in boxes! That’s actually one of Costco’s whole things! Plus “big box store” is already a thing people say so you could have it be a double meaning? C’mon, man!
Six Chix, 2/8/25
Sorry to get all indignant there for a minute, I’ll try to chill out. Hey, were you worried that, what with all the apps today and such, Cupid wasn’t getting laid anymore? Well, good news.
104 replies to “Indignant Saturday”
Is there a joke of any kind in that Hi and Lois strip? Because the third panel is just Hi carrying stuff in, how is that funny?
Six Chix: Is this a Holiday themed bar? (Easter Bunny on the right) or a magical creatures bar? (Unicorn)
Six Chix: To be fair… Dating app relationships seem to be mostly hit or miss and don’t guarantee a solid relationship. Meanwhile Cupid outright forces two people to successfully fall in love against their will.
Wait, what’s fair about this again?
Blondie: The sandwich wearing Mardi Gras beads implies it flashed its breasts at someone, which raises the question – what is the equivalent of boobs on a sandwich? I don’t actually want to know the answer to this question, but I imagine Dagwood has given it a lot of thought.
@Schroduck:I just noticed Dag is also wearing half a dozen bead chains. Presumably the horny frat boys of Mardi Gras go wild for a flash of wrinkly neck folds.
@Schroduck: Xunise knows…
Well, I put the “Rambling” back in my name, whether I ramble or not :3
I realized that the name is pretty much my brand at this point so might as well keep it the way it is.
FC-Mommy’s clients being the worms.
Blondie-They should have had Dagwood chasing a muffuletta. It would be the only muff we see him chasing.
Blondie doesn’t appear too happy with Dagwood yelling “Who Dat!?” and then answering “Jambalaya!” during insertion.
Look, we know the Six Chix are into some freaky stuff. That unicorn isn’t an accident, this is about a very specific poly gripe. This is a comic about a couple trying to pick up a single person, and then the man runs off on another date and leaves you two alone to make awkward small talk. Finally, a relatable comic for me!
@lark:
Six Chix : Weird to see the Easter Bunny before LENT even starts, though I guess his getting krunk makes sense; Mardi Gras is kinda HIS holiday too, what with Lent being the period leading up to Easter and all.
(Is the unicorn there to represent St Patrick’s day, or just as a generic “fantastic, near-mythological figures” thing?)
Ha ha, it’s funny because a rabbit is hanging out with a unicorn and Cupid, and the rabbit is wondering if it is also fictional!
@Schroduck: The pickle slices.
Blondie: I like that this strip seems to imply that the news about the Superbowl location came to Dagwood in a dream and not, like, the newspaper or something? Maybe he did read about that earlier but it didn’t enter his conscious mind until he was able to make the link with food.
H&L: ‘Ko$ko’ sounds like a fly-by-night discount store run by Russian mobsters in an abandoned warehouse. “Yes, ees genuine popped corn, no more dan 12% millet, guarantee!”
6Cx: Sure, it’s ‘funny’ that Cupid is using a dating app but like….he’s a child, right? Like ok, he’s an immortal ageless being with supernatural powers but he still has the body of a child. Who is swiping right on that…?
MW & RMMD: “Yeah?” “Yeah!” “Who’s gonna make me?” “You and what army?” “Step over this line!”
I’m feeling a little lightheaded from all these almost- explosions of testosterone.
MW: how many ways can Dirk the Dick call Dawn a worthless loser for a gutter ball? Having said that I am impressed with with his stamina. He’s been screaming for a week.
@pugfuggly: Maybe depending on the setting, the other users are Gods/magical beings themselves. There must be other beings that look young for their immortal age that he can hang out with. Maybe?
Pluggers – I’m guessing that Jerry Elsea of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was disappointed that Hank Ketchum wasn’t available to draw a picture of that tech person on the other end of the line.
Thanks to the standard low level of 6C art, it took me a few minutes to realize that that was Cupid’s quiver and not a chocolate covered carrot the unicorn gave the rabbit as a dating bribe on the table. Disappointed Josh didn’t vocalize his ponderings into equine/lapine sex practices, like he does with Hagar mermaid strips.
MW – My prediction is that in another week or so, after drawing out the drama of this exchange, Dirk will start pounding Jared Not the Subway Perv.
Jess, who took self-defense lessons after getting mugged, will then kick the shit out of Dirk.
I’d find that acceptable.
H&L: They’re laughing like morons because they’re porch pirates. Explains “The big ‘bag’ store” and why Lois is unhappy. She doesn’t approve but is hungry.
Statistically there’s gotta be one guy out there whose thing is drawing fanart of Dagwood and Blondie as Gambit and Rogue, and he is absolutely pumping his fist in the air, hooting and hollering with joy at the thought of Dagwood saying “who dat.” This one’s for him, and only him.
Six Chix is kinda in that Pardon My Planet zone of being almost offensively bad. Like, there are great artists who get no success ever, and then the people behind Six Chix are getting actual money to cobble together something that might be most kindly compared to that scene in a zombie movie where the zombies do something from their old lives, like shop for jeans or use a Walkman, except the zombie is trying to tell a joke.
Personally? My least favorite thing about Dagwood’s dream is that Mardi Gras is a month away from the Superbowl, but yet features more prominently than the event that supposedly inspired the dream.
@Twinkles the Elf: It’s not.
6C: I’m really curious as to what’s going in the unicorn’s life to make them guard their drink like that.
@The Otter: It’s an imaginary creatures bar.
@Twinkles the Elf: Is there a joke of any kind in that Hi and Lois strip?
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The late Roy Scheider telling Lois, “We’re gonna need a bigger cookie jar.”
MW: As Dirk swings and misses, health care worker Jared uses the opportunity to inject him with a double-max dose of Dutasteride. It eliminates his toxic masculinity and the resultant side effect of gynecomastia adds a bit of spice to his and Dawn’s sex life.
Dagwood is more of a muffaletta man, anyway.
Blondie: No place in today’s strip does it explicitly say the cloud cartoon is Dagwood’s dream. In fact, he looks like he’s been awake for days in some kind manic state. More’n likely this is what goes through Dagwood’s mind during intercourse in that state ….climaxing with him eating a sandwich wearing glasses?
(Dagwood as a binge-eating coke head explains a lot)
Pop Weaver? Ko$co? C’mon now.
@Nobody: Sorry…Ko$ko. Not any better.
Blondie:
Wavy Gravy tried to warn Dagwood about this particular strain of bad acid, but he paid Wavy no heed.
@The Rambling Otter: What’s the colon and 3 represent? I’m not up on stuff like that.
I don’t blame Blondie for looking a bit traumatized at what Dag was yelling out, er, during activities ….
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Yeah, it’s interesting that they are willing to dip their toes into “Pluggers are racists”, but aren’t prepared to totally commit just yet.
BG&SS should give up on its fitful attempts at anthropological accuracy. Today’s punchline only works if the readers imagine any of the adults having teeth.
Blondie gives me pause about two things: Would Dagwood ever dream of giving beads to his hot wife? and, Are there any black jazz musicians in New Orleans?
Marvin: I may not be good with colors but even I know chicken strips aren’t blood red. Did Jeff and Jenny hand the hell spawn a live chicken and let him rip it shreds? Could explain why Chick-Kill-A hasn’t caught on.
Six Chix-Unfortunately the date is Tuesday Chix.
Mary Worth: Jared points at Jess “Says her!”
Low and Highless: Shouldn’t Ditto be carrying the Pop Warner™ popcorn box? He’s the baseball nut.
H&L: It’s not cute. Flagstons only grow sclera when they’re extremely distressed.
@Twinkles the Elf:
Is there a joke of any kind in that Hi and Lois strip? Because the third panel is just Hi carrying stuff in, how is that funny?
Hi and Lois, along with Beetle Bailey, are in their post-joke era. Which would be more accurately described as filler. Anyway, it’s not going well.
Blondie: Sandwich + glasses = Wilbur Weston. Wilbur happens to be away from home “interviewing hurricane survivors”. If memory serves, there are some of those in New Orleans.
My least favorite part is the idea of Dagwood, who is so white he can’t even dream a black musician in his brass band/zydeco agglomeration, shouting “Who dat?”
@pugfuggly: but he still has the body of a child. Who is swiping right on that…?
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Judging from the buzzing Id say it was Buzby, the Honey Nut Cheerios™ bee.
MW: Uh-oh, you’ve done it now, Jared. You’ve made Dirk mad.
FC: Worms would kneel “up,” wouldn’t they?
GT: Apparently Rodney has fallen really far since the guy who shot the documentary apparently doesn’t recognize him anymore.
Six Chix is a surprisingly metaphorical take on how technology has broken down society and in particular has destroyed good old romantic, ordinary love. While Cupid bemoans the fact that his dates are few and far between, his two companions have no such gripes, for reasons that young people will understand, but which will fly right over the heads –literally!– of newspaper editors and the elderly who read print comics and have no idea what a “unicorn” or a “rabbit” have to do with a person’s sex life.
H&L: Hi has scored a 5-gallon jar of Hellmann’s. Even PriceCo doesn’t offer that.
6Chx: A fairy, a unicorn, and a rabbit walk into a bar . . .
Hågär thé Hørrïblê:
Is there a joke somewhere in this?
Since Hi & Lois isn’t doing jokes as such anymore, I have to assume the syndicate editors believe “big box store” is a trademark.
@MKay: Tomorrow they’re each going to take one of Summer’s arms and start pulling in different directions like she’s Olive Oyl in an old Popeye cartoon.
Luann: Welp, I guess that really is the end of that. Next week, ‘new adventure’!
JP: Uh, Sam? Why are you making bedroom eyes in panel one?
MW: All this week, Dirk’s expressions make me want to put a word bubble with ‘duuuuhhhh!’ above him.
FC: Dolly tried to show this to Jeffy with a real worm but he kept eating them.
6C: I don’t like this modern remake of Metamorphoses.
Blondie: For me, the two most upsetting things about this scenario are:
1.) The fact that Ash Wednesday is rather late this year, and we still have a solid month before Mardi Gras;
2.) The street band in the corner. Are they there to give the anthropomorphic po’boy a jazz funeral send-off? Is Dagwood going to eat them next?
RMMD: I like how the colorist messed up and it looks like Augie is pointing at himself.
GT vs. MT: A big difference between these two strips is that the writing is better in GT, while the art is… well, it isn’t so much “worse” than MT. It’s that Rachel Merrill barely TRIES. I’ve seen her other work and it’s really good, but in GT it’s like she has a hangover or can’t be bothered. Whereas Jules at MT is like Elon Musk destroying USAID for shits and giggles.
@Nobody: There really is a Pop Weaver popcorn brand.
Blondie – They should have tagged it poo boy – all that food looks like shit….
H&L – What’s with Hi – is there a gallon jug of Kirkland vodka in that box….
6-C – A cherub, unicorn and rabbit walk into a bar….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
MW: Dirk says; “Sez who!?” Jared answers; “Sez me!!” They stare at each other furiously and then embrace in one long kiss. Dawn and Jess look at each other. “If you can’t beat ’em …”
BF: I haven’t been to Toronto in years. I’m sorry that they’re down to such a pathetic handful of restaurants and coffee shops that you can’t visit one without meeting everyone you’ve ever known.
Blondie: Not a lot of northerners know this, but food is available in New Orleans at times of the year other than Mardi Gras.
DT: Not one of the cops has been able to lay a finger on the big Nazi for a week now, as he throws them around the clock tower like rag dolls. Somewhere, Captain America is weeping into his (American-style piss-water) beer.
Ripley: In a brilliant avant-garde touch, one member of Leonard Patton’s jazz quartet performs on the enema bag.
@Twinkles the Elf: There isn’t a third panel; Hi & Lois is a one-panel strip today.
@UncleJeff: Thanks. Wasn’t aware. Wonder why they named a real company.
“the way you can’t quite tell if Dagwood is driven to chase the anthropomorphic sandwich by hunger or something more darkly sexual”
Nah, Bianca has left us all jaded to that possibility. We know that if Dagwood catches it, he’s just going to eat it, and not try to “eat it out.”
@Joshua K.: I kind of wonder what he thinks a panel is.
C’shaft: In his usual hard-hitting, up-to-the-minute fashion, Batiuk has come for Zamfir.
Is it too much to hope that imagining himself in the prime of life and talking to God means this is Harry Dinkle’s dying dream?
Dustin: Please, like a health insurance company would give you anything. They’d probably just raise Dustdad’s deductable, or deny all his claims on principle.
GT: It’s easier to read if you have the flying facing you, Rodney…
Luann: So Tiffany is entitled to Kip, and Ox is entitled to Tiffany. I’m not sure how the rest of this “Nice Guy/Girl” hierarchy goes, but I know Gunther is at the very top of it.
MT: Doesn’t the fact that they can be summoned mean they’re not feral?
MW: Meanwhile, Jess watches silently with a sad frown on her face. I’m not saying she deserved to be beaten half to death–or worse, end up with Jared–but Jeeeminy Christmas, this gal must think “initiative” is the thing that starts your car.
Pluggers feel justified in their casual racism.
@Nobody: A smile, notably a cat-like smile, because… cute?
The Po Boy only has glasses so we can see the fear in its eyes. Whatever Dagwood is going to do will be an unimaginably painful experience.
MW: Finally some other bowling patrons have noticed Dirk’s abusive rant. Only now does Jared make his move to “protect” Dawn. No need playing the hero unless there’s an audience.
@ValdVin: 1. No. That’s Arlo who would do that. 2. Not in the parts the Bumsteads would dare to tread.
@Ukranazi Stepan: The only Hagar joke I can detect today is “The woman is smart and Eddie is dumb.”
The old rummy at the bar in panel two threw me off, too, but I guess he’s just there for fanservice. I did enjoy the Gilbert Shelton reference on the beer sign.
@Cleveland Mocks:
“A fairy, a unicorn, and a rabbit walk into a bar . . .”
The fairy orders a Gin, the unicorn orders a rum and the rabbit orders a vodka
The bartender checks their I.Ds, lastly he checks the rabbit’s I.D “Sorry Sam Velvet, but it says here you’re underage.”
The underage patron moodily leaves the bar. It’s hard being a Velvet-Teen rabbit…
It’s going to be awkward when it turns out Cupid’s date is his ex, Psyche. She’ll just keep talking about how she went through Hell for him.
Six Chix – “OK, Cupid” is the new “OK, Boomer.”
Hi and Lois – Corporations have become so litigious that comic strip authors are now afraid to use even generic, un-trademarked phrases like “big box store.” In future strips they’ll have to refer guardedly to shopping at the “victualling establishment” for “edible substances.”
@Ukulele Ike: So many incidents at airports where people try to bring meat and generic foodstuffs like bread and milk across the borders into Canada or the U.S
Um… do these people not know that other countries have food?
@The Otter: My explanation: Sometimes you just wanna draw a unicorn and a bunny.
@GarrisonSkunk: The only thing that came to my mind was wondering if they put a condom on the unicorn’s horn.
Don Abundio, translated:
“I pride myself on being the perfect butler!”
“It’s a pleasure to serve the master of the household”
“Although, sometimes I also have to wait on Don Abundio”
They actually called it the Super Bowl instead of “the Big Game”? Dagwood’s dream is about to turn into a legal nightmare.
@Tabby Lavalamp:
Seriously, I’m getting something shipped from the US and tracking the parcel on USPS.com, it’s got this warning: “ALERT: WINTER STORMS IN THE MIDWEST THROUGH THE NORTHEAST U.S. AND THE PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN NEW ORLEANS MAY DELAY FINAL DELIVERY OF YOUR MAIL AND PACKAGES. READ MORE”
I can see why they avoid “the Super Bowl” in advertising, but this is ridiculous. Even international recipients know what the hell the Super Bowl is.
Six Chix: Cupid’s drinking buddies are the Easter Bunny and… a unicorn? What holidays do they celebrate in Chix Country? World Fantasy Day? Gary Gygax’s birthday?
The only unicorn mascot I can find is the New Braunfels Independent School District, so maybe they’re Texas high school football fans?
Blondie: It’s a mistake for Dagwood to wear pajamas with donuts on them to bed. He goes to sleep hungry, he’s gonna wake up naked.
DtM: Makes no sense unless you imagine Dennis has suddenly morphed into Leroy Lockhorn.
Blondie: The most disturbing thing is that the sandwich Dagwood is chasing with a lascivious grin is the one with the word “boy” in its name.
6Chix: Is the diaper that Cupid wears just a fashion thing or does he wear it for practical reasons?
DtM: Why is he raking leaves in February?
Marvin: This is the Marvin/Stephen King crossover that nobody wanted.
9CL: no one has pointed out yet that it would be virtually impossible for somebody to completely submerge themselves in a bathtub of that size with water that shallow out of sight?
Luann: Oh it’s on! It’s on like Donkey Kong!
**ringside bell** ding! ding! ding!
@Ukulele Ike: #72: Drink Tree Frog Beer and you’ll feel good and have plenty of girlfriends!
@Belak: Mardi Gras season in New Orleans starts on Epiphany, January 6th, so it’s in full swing. Still no excuse for not having any football in the dream.
Family Circus: Even Jeffy knows that the letter “S” is a snake, maybe Dolly has a brainworm.
Pluggers: The only time Pluggers would ever talk to someone that speaks another language is when they are forced to because their computer isn’t working and they can’t look at their porn sites.
Blondie: My least favorite part about Dagwood’s dream is that there are apparently no Black people in New Orleans.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV:
All the Black cartoon characters in New Orleans are owned by Disney.
Dick Tracy: I am surprisingly good on the Metropolitan Crime Unit getting their asses handed to them by the Nazi-wannabee.
@Anonymous: Hahaha…oh, wait. True.
MW: Look at Dawn and Jess. Both of them aren’t looking like that because of Dirk’s obnoxious behavior but because they both know that Jared can barely clean a bedpan let alone try and clean Dirk’s clock.
Also, Jared, weren’t you trying to not get involved because you didn’t want Dawn to get the wrong idea? You’re putting more effort into the nonexistent relationship with Dawn than you are in the current one you have with Jess. I guess that case of VD must have stuck with you…then again, I don’t think you even got to second base let alone make it to the free clinic.
Hi & Lois: At first glance, I thought Hi was in a second panel and tried to figure out the visual punch line!
@Needless Exposition: Monday: Jared challenges Dirk to a round of Star Wars trivia and humiliates him in front of the women and the entire bowling alley.
Blondie: Of course Dagwood dreams of going to Mardi Gras just so some female-ish sandwich would show him her tomatoes… I’m only glad we didn’t see the one where he’s trying to get a peek at some classic New Orleans muffuletta.
Hi and Lois: From the vaguely Scandinavian spelling of “Kosko” (with a line through the “s”), I’m guessing Hi and the kids got lost in an Ikea. He bought whatever giant generic snack foods were available near the checkout area, then wrote that on the box himself. Now Ditto calls it a big bäg (pronounced “beg”) store, because Hi admitted he’ll have to beg Lois not to kick him out of the house when a truck pulls up loaded with cheap furniture he’ll never get around to assembling.
Six Chix: So Cupid is going directly from “someone swiped right” to “I’ve got a date tonight”? Good luck, fella! When he sees what modern app-based dating is really like, I imagine he’ll go back to forcing love matches in arranged marriages between second cousins.
@Ukulele Ike: When he’s in traction, he’s going to need the good dreams to forget about his humiliation in reality.
FITE NITE!!!:
Mary Worth, RMMD, but unfortunately not Luann. Oh, if Ox is so dense, why did he suddenly say something so wise?
Luann: Remember that we are supposed to think Stef is just irrationally jealous for thinking that Tiffany wants to steal her boyfriend.
Blondie: This is a prime example of how hopelessly out-of-touch with not just modern times but human civilization as a whole that newspaper comic writers tend to be. The writer apparently heard someone saying that the Super Bowl is going to be in New Orleans, and tried to write a comic about New Orleans to seem topical, but clearly knows nothing about the city outside of random words loosely associated with the location. So they threw all those words haphazardly onto the page without any understanding of how they relate to New Orleans and probably only the vaguest notion of what the words even mean to begin with. My proof for this?
The artist drew Dagwood with a shitload of Mardi Gras beads, seemingly not realizing that implies Dagwood was flashing his tits at everyone for said beads.
Hi And Lois: Hi And Lois is genuinely impressive in how it’s managed to become the single most boring and uneventful newspaper comic out there. Like, shit, at least stuff like Mary Worth and Rex Morgan tries to PRETEND that something noteworthy is happening and have some kind of conflict, compared to how this comic is increasingly spending day after day on mild observations of ultra-mundane events.
Six Chix: Hilarious that Six Chix seems to be taking the exact opposite stance on dating apps to Rex Morgan.
I initially assumed that the white vertical line in Hi and Lois was a panel divider, so it looked like all the dialog was just the setup, and the punchline was Hi grinning silently at a box of bran cereal and a huge container of Metamucil.
@Ukulele Ike: Not a lot of northerners know this, but food is available in New Orleans at times of the year other than Mardi Gras. Basic rule #6 of Hack American Entertainment : if your characters are in New Orleans, Mardi Gras is happening.
6 ChX:. Is that huge carrot a munchy for bar patrons or is it an errotic symbol?