Suburban ennui
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Hi and Lois, 4/7/25
Ah hell yeah, Hi and Lois is at it again, with “it” being a mostly punchline-free strip about the formless but omnipresent disquiet in the Flagston household. Hi isn’t sure what haunts him but he’s definitely haunted. Even while he sleeps! It never lets up!
Dustin, 4/7/25
Dustin’s dad is over at the opposite, more depressive end of the axis from Hi, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, frankly. Sure, he wants for nothing, but he’s got a dark hole at the heart of him that he can’t ever fill. That doesn’t mean he won’t try! If donuts can’t do it, maybe yelling at Dustin can!
Suburban Fairy Tales, 4/7/25
I don’t talk about this one much but I thought you’d be interested in knowing that the second little pig just got hit by a car and died. He fucking died. RIP second little pig, [comic doesn’t have Wikipedia article — try to figure out when it started publishing]-2025, you taught me that it was OK to be weird a bad idea to build a house out of straw.
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H&L: Last night I dreamt I showed up to class for an essay exam on a book I hadn’t read. It never ends.
I found today’s “Hi and Lois” relatable, so good for them…or bad for me…whatever.
yCurtis: “That’s okay, Dad. I didn’t ask him about his roofie allegations.”
RxMD: “Well, this doesn’t involve dogs biting stabby muggers, so we don’t have any Ring footage. This isn’t ‘Dick Tracy’, y’know. I’d like to give you advise on getting a lawyer, but all the readers are drowning me out about shutting the f*ck up and lawyering up.”
yS4th: It’s “Babylon 5”. Or “Deadwood” with the movie.
FLASH! AHHHHHHHH!!!!: The baby is going to eat the train-size serpent isn’t it?
RMMD:
“Honey, there’s an EMT in the street who bears a vague resemblance to Ted Lange’s ‘Isaac Washington,’ the bartender in The Love Boat, and he’s talking to a reporter. But I don’t think they’re talking about ‘open smiles’ on ‘friendly shores’ !”
H&L: “Ha ha, oh yes, how silly, you’re right. I certainly don’t have a one-way flight to some South American tropical paradise where I’ll never have to hear about spreadsheets or kids or fucking Sunbeam ever again. Let me just, uh, pack this suitcase for no reason. You just go back to sleep, and if you hear something that sounds like an Uber outside at 3 AM, ignore it.”
Dustin: Does Dustin’s dad actually have a great career? I mean, yeah, he’s a lawyer, but he only ever seems to lose cases and clients. The only difference between him and his son is that the father came of age in an era where you could still fail your way into a comfortable white collar job.
SUBURBAN FAIRY TALES: Also the reason you shouldn’t get your afternoon nosh from a garbage truck.
MW: Does Belle want Wilbur to screw her or adopt her? Either way, not the optimal choice.
RMMD: ” I told you to get a hobby, Mom. You know, quilting, scrapbooking. Trust you to muck it up.”
GT: Ow, my knees make those same noises if I do lunges.
Suburban Fairy Tales:
“He’s rushed off to day-trade some shareholding interests on account of the current economic dislocations that the tariffs are creating.”
“No. Don’t say it, No. 1.”
“Yep. This little piggie went to market!”
Dennis the Menace: I genuinely love the action in this. It’s like Dennis is atomic-powered. I can just imagine the sound effects as Dennis carroms around the room.
The Comics Kingdom website shows archived strips for Suburban Fairy Tales going back to 20 July 2020, so let’s just say that that date represents when it started being published. There, now that gives us one less thing to worry about.
Last week, Hi was dreaming about golf and the bedsheets were green. This week, Hi is having sad dreams, and the bedsheets are blue.
I’m starting to worry that Hi’s dreams are so bland and mundane that it’s weakened the boundaries that properly stratify the realms of fantasy and reality.
Dustin: Ed’s swinish co-worker might be passive-aggressing him by making sure “great” didn’t modify “wife and two kids,” but teasing Ed about his wife won’t work. Helen is way out of his league looks-wise, and her black heart full of evil is frankly a bonus, for him.
MW:
[Audience member] “Isn’t that song a duet?”
“Shut up! He’s ‘special'”
Dustin – Not only does Dustdad have a wife with boobs that hang to her knees and a son who will be a drain on him forever, he has been awarded a “World’s Greatest Lawyer” coffee mug, so, yeah, I can see why colleague Buck Tooth is jealous.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Actually, I think it says “World’s Okayest Lawyer.”
HnL: “I’m having a dream about my boring and mundane life. It fills me with ennui. Then I find out I’m awake.”
Dustin: Ed Kudlick regrets taking only three of the last four donuts.
SFT: You will believe that a pig can fly.
H&L: It’s funny because Hi’s dreams about fleeing his shitty family turn into nightmares where he misses his chance to get away from them, forever.
Dustin: There’s a lot that I don’t like about this strip, but I have to admit, the art is good. Today, for instance, they’ve managed to perfect capture the look of a guy who you absolutely hate in spite of the fact that he’s pleasant and nice, in a way that makes you realize that maybe the problem is with you. I mean, most people would realize that, not Dustin’s dad, obviously.
SFT: Poor stick-loving bastard. I guess in sptie of the glasses, he wasn’t the smart one.
It’s weird to me when Josh reads strips like Suburban Fairy Tales, Gearhead Gertie, or Alice that I wouldn’t touch with a pole of indeterminate length
MW: Belle’s insidious plan of driving a wedge between Dawn and Wilbur is working perfectly. Heh heh.
FC: “We don’t like cats who perform in drag!”
Dustin: A hole at the heart of him that he can’t fill, eh? Sounds like a doughnut is the perfect metaphor. The fact that he is denied even that satisfaction is the final, crushing irony.
If we’re going by when the creator first started making Suburban Fairy Tales, then 2005.
https://francisbonnet.com/archive/sft/suburbanfairytales/07042005/
RMMD:
“Are you okay, mom?”
“My boyfriend may or may not have murdered a man. No biggie.”
MW: Which Austin Powers movie is it with Dr. Evil and Mini-Me performing “Just the Two of Us” while Scott seethes? Did Moy watch that right before writing this plot?
Dustin:
There’s two paunchy men;
Each wanting the last donut.
Passes for humor.
Luann: Wrong! It’s glurgeku.
CS: Oh, no! Rocky was their ringer at the bus hog-tie!
9CL: Did Brooke have another stroke? Am I having a stroke?
MW: Everyone in this story makes me sick. Belle is a batshit-insane lunatic who fantasizes about murdering Dawn…over Wilbur! Wilbur, despite being a dotard, can’t possibly be missing all the enormous red flags, but he’s putting up with it and even actively encouraging it, all in hopes of getting some sexy-time. And Dawn, presumably the sympathetic victim in this story, is giving off all these weird-ass daughter-wife vibes.
I hate all of these people.
GT: “Compelling? How were they compelling?”
“Off the record, my kid’s health is problematic.”
“That never bothered you before.”
“Okay, lawyers were involved too. And guns. And money.”
“So the %#€£ has hit the fan?”
MW – Belle may be evil, but I don’t think Dawn has to worry unless Wilbur breaks out into “Country Death Song.”
SuburbanFairyTales: Wouldn’t #2 mean the lesson learned is don’t build a house out of sticks?
[overthink]Or maybe the real lesson is to build with whatever materials as long as you follow good engineering principles. After all, we regularly make wood-framed homes, and there is the niche method of haybale construction… [/overthink]
RMMD: I despise everything about this storyline. Stalker is stalking just for the sake of being a pain in the ass to Summer and Augie. He makes belligerent noises despite being too scrawny to back those noises up. He apparently apparently has no job because he’s free to stalk anywhere and anyplace. Now he’s apparently dead but we’re not told. Did EMS make any attempt at resuscitation? We don’t know. If Stalker is dead has there been any attempt at defending his dignity? Stupid
@astroboy: Yeah, I usually defend Dawn as a normalish girl of her age, but it’s a bit off to do a romantic duet with her dad and getting mad because his girlfriend horns in. The girlfriend made a pretty explicit death threat, she should get mad about that!
@seismic-2:
This is the oldest archive I can find on the artist’s Web site:
Yes, I am the kind of weirdo who will actually page through years of archives to find this sort of thing.
@Tim Kynerd:
PS I see now that someone with the same initials as me, but who isn’t me, reached the same conclusion here.
SFT: If you believe in fate, having the name ‘Number 2’ is a bad omen.
@BeckoningChasm: You are correct. Either way, of course, it’s a lie. Thanks.
Wary Morth:
Oh now I see how this will go. Weelbur and Bats In The Bellefry have identical profiles, so it’ll turn out they’re really long lost siblings and can’t be a couple. Weelbur, broken hearted, departs Charterstone to roam the world, and is kidnapped by pirates in Nigeria. Dusk and Bats In The Bellefry bond over their mutual misery and become a couple. Mary congratulates herself despite never having shown her face throughout the story. The End.
Wrecks Moregone:
“What’s going on is I’ll become famous! Soon I’ll be appearing on the evening news! My murder trial will make me a celebrity!”
H&L “Last night I dreamed that I shot the course record at The Masters, but I forgot to bring a pencil and couldn’t write down my scores. And I was naked.”
GT: Welcome back to Henry Barajas’ Mystery Theater, where every few days, Henry offers readers a chance to guess what the hell’s going on. It’s usually disappointing when you eventually find out, but it’s the journey, not the destination.
JP: A college student needs coffee to stay awake? How quaint.
RMMD: “Kelly, the guy I let sleep over at our house last night might be charged with murder. Uh, gotta run. I’ll fill you in later. Please don’t worry.”
Luann:
A week of Inner Beauty
Sitting abed
Spouting “poetry”.
Bored,
You will be.
This guy is in the same office, wouldn’t he be a lawyer as well? The “You have a great career” doesn’t really hold up if so.
Unless, this guy is…
-Some sort of assistant
-A building security officer
-Someone who SOMEHOW manages to be a worse lawyer than Dustin’s father.
Oh, nothing. Just Lois crawling deeper under the blankets as she realized her husband is losing his grip on reality.
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I like Dustin’s dad’s mug, “Worlds Okayest Lawyer”. Even he knows he ain’t shit, and not even an okay dad.
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On the bright side, pig #3 gets a new shirt now.
@Hibbleton: one of them is suet.
MW: Maybe Wilbur isn’t oblivious, maybe he knows EXACTLY what’s going on.
I mean, I can see Wilbur liking the idea of two people battling over him, it makes him feel important.
Something unnerves me about how these two pigs are completely nonchalant that their brother at least got into a horrible accident. The older pig just looks more annoyed if anything. I guess in a reality where sapient-eat-sapient and its perfectly legal, they’re just glad that he died on their terms.
Dustin-Dustin’s Dad is going to cut someone.
Slylock Fox-Max is such a bad thrower that the sock fell well short of Slylock.
MW-All those boobs on stage and the place isn’t even a strip club.
MW-Get off the stage!
FC-That’s also why they are having pigeon for dinner.
CS: Batiuk is determined to make this “transfer portal” thing funny if he has to beat it to death himself.
SFx: And then Max said, “Nice try, Fox. Tell you what. YOU put a rock in one of YOUR socks and throw it over here, and then I’ll throw it and the map back.”
MW: After hearing Wilbie and the Wilbiettes just butcher this Bill Withers classic, the audience filed out slowly and silently.
Hi and Lois – Lois took psychology courses in college, hence she knows a little about dream interpretation. Hi’s fear of missing a flight is about missing an opportunity to leave his current life behind. Lois knows that he’s going nowhere, and she’s there to remind him about it.
Dustin – Ed doesn’t care that there are no more donuts, he’s upset that his coworker has a medically-significant receding jaw that makes him unable to chew with his mouth closed.
Suburban Fairy Tales – I, for one, support Suburban Fairy Tales pivoting toward a darker, more Brothers Grimm oriented take on their characters. The world is full of dangers, and the children in their pedestrian hostile suburbs need to learn the truth!
SUBURBAN FAIRY TALES: The pig wanted to “catch the garbage truck” so he could eat from the garbage truck??
It’s not like he’s holding a garbage bag. If his goal is gorging, how would that even work? Would he root around in some organic-debris part of the moving garbage truck until the garbage truck was at the landfill or wherever, and then get out and call an Uber to go home and then get charged extra to clean the stank out of the Uber?
@cheech wizard: You know your papa loves you, good children go to heaven…
@The Rambling Otter: Looking annoyed is kinda Number One Pig’s “thing.”
SFx: Slylock is going to keep Max’s sock as a “map holder,” and poor Max will end up with one blistered foot.
9CL: Thorax! What have we done to deserve this?
“So, uh, we are omnivores, and I’m guessing he’s pretty tenderized now. You thinking what I’m thinking?”
“Sigh. I’ll get a frying pan, you get a spatula.”
CS: “Transfer portal” actually made me giggle. If the rodeo uses mailboxes in place of traffic cones Ed’s gonna bomb out.
FC: The kids, I’m sure, love The Lion King, but God forbid Kittycat take up The Circle of Life.
Dustin: In oligarchies, kleptocracies and other structurally corrupt polities, elites often find that there is not enough room at the top for all of them, then face difficult decisions about who to push out of preferred status. [Glances at financial headlines] I’m just going to leave this knife here and remind Ed and Tom that to the strong and the swift and those willing to grab destiny by the short hairs go the donut.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: (The loser gets stabbed. And Dustin.)
DtM: Jay North, who played Dennis on TV has died at age 73.
Dustin: In times like these, it’s important to count your blessings. For example you, dear reader, are not Dustdad. Furthermore, you are not the poor donut-eating soul who is envious of whatever he thinks Dustdad has.
H&L: You don’t have to tell Hi he isn’t going anywhere, Lois, he knows. Oh, how he knows. Just let him pretend he has something to look forward to that will interrupt his endless hellscape of suburban mediocrity, all right?
@TK: going for 20 years? Someone call Malcolm Gladwell… to have done something for two decades and still be this bad is some sort of achievement.
Dustbin – Dustin Dad has everything a guy could want. Except tact.
Don Abundio, translated:
“They’re showing my new film! I just want to catch the ending”
[Sign: TODAY JUAN S. PERFIL IN “THE DEBATE”]
“Did you see the ending?”
“I don’t understand it… So far, I’ve lost every time”
@Cleveland Mocks: Barajas will never admit it, but he’s soft rebooting GT to address some of the recent criticisms.
Questionable Discontent:
For some reason I am beginning to have a slight inkling that Anh might be bisexual. Do you think it’s because of subliminal hints in the comic somewhere?
@Everything is Better with Monkeys: Gladwell is very familiar with his own ability to do something for decades and still suck at it.
Hi and Lois I: “Oh, and Thirsty was naked.”
Hi and Lois II: Maybe every Hi and Lois should end with “Yes, but you’re not going anywhere.”
MW- OK, we know Belle is insane- I mean who wants to sleep with Wilbur? But acknowledging the Karaoke applause like you’re a headliner is some batshit cray cray.
GT: “Plus my girlfriend’s government job was cut and anti-DEI sentiment means its hard for either of us to find employment, so you know, beggars can’t be choosers.”
JP: And yet somehow an international move is on the table.
Luann: Dammit, Luann, haiku is more than just the line and syllable count. It centers around an observation or insight, often one drawn from the natural world. Like this:
Luann writes haiku
Her poetry nauseates
Like the skunk’s odor
MW: Face it, Dawn, this was a foregone conclusion. You’re just Wilbur’s only offspring, while Belle is a theoretically attractive woman willing to touch him. He’ll gladly hold you down so she can run her knife through you.
RMMD: “You’ve killed again, haven’t you Mom? God dammit, and I just got used to this new identity!”
I respect Dustin’s Dad’s mug.
He knows he’s not great. He knows he’ll never be great. He’s okay. Just okay. No arguing before the Supreme Court. No famous cases. But on the other hand, no billboards on city buses.
He is utterly mediocre. Just competent enough to burrow his way into a law firm and dwell there working on middling and boring cases until he dies at his desk and is discovered a few days later after people start complaining to HR about the smell in the office.
And he’s okay with that.
Now we know where Dustin got his lack of ambition from.
SFT: For those who came in late – Pig #2 is not chasing the garbage truck for food. He’s trying to retrieve the pieces of an ugly statue he accidentally broke. Pig #3 had bought it at a garage sale, and it turns out it was worth a million dollars. I guess you would have had to be there. And he’s probably OK.
I’ve started following this strip recently. It’s mildly funny, and Pig #3 is in a romantic relationship with Wolfette, an atypical wolf. It’s only three days a week, and I find it an amusing distraction from real life.
It’s worth noting the pigs in SFT frequently, frequently die. Life is neverending torment for their lot.
Hi and Lois: Secretly traveling to see your second family is more stressful than Hi ever thought!
Dustin: On “The Simpsons” last night, Homer was the only one in Springfield who didn’t get thin on Ozempic, because he likes food too much. I don’t know why this strip about two rotund men fighting over a donut made me think of that, but it did.
Suburban Fairy Tales: On the brighter side… mmm, pork chops!
DUSTIN: I like to think Mr Doughnut Eater is Ed’s guardian angel here to passive-aggressively (for that is Dustin’s native tongue) tell his charge to stop being such a fuckin’ mopey whiner all the time.
SFT: These three pigs remind me of Ross Bagdasarian’s Chipmunks, except the short fat one wears the glasses and the tall skinny one doesn’t and the Alvin one is stupid.
For all its faults, at least “Dustin” doesn’t fat-shame. It shows us that fat people come in all formats, both jolly fat people (Dustin’s dad’s colleague) and fat bastards (Dustin’s dad)
@Schroduck: No, no see. Dustin is a lazy slacker! He’s not hard-worker like his father who spends the entire time on-the-clock eating doughnuts and gripping about his son.
I love Dustin’s Dad’s Coworker. Look at that smile in the last panel. He knows exactly what he did. “And what are you gonna do about it, boomer?”
H&L – Poor Hi, lugging all that emotional baggage….
Dustin – Oh dear – yer hemorrhoids gotta be killin’ ya….
SFT – Pressed ham! Yum….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@BigTed: Which is kind of funny, since we seem to be getting the beginning of the “I would sell my soul and everything I have for a doughnut” arc here.
@Arabella: Ah, thank you! Your explanation is appreciated.
And probably the surviving pigs can tell themselves that the statue, having been broken, would now be worth only about $150,000, which should be comforting to them.
SFT: So #3 Pig knows to look both ways before crossing the street, but not why. One wonders if he knows what to do if he saw a garbage truck bearing down on him. Perhaps that was #2 Pig’s problem. He looked both ways, and ran in front of the truck anyway, figuring he could stop it.
Suburban Fairy Tales-Well don’t just stand there go get the body before the garbage men claim it.
@The Rambling Otter: I was going to concur and say “That totally tracks with Wilbur” until I realized that you said “important” and not “impotent“
LUANN: Go ahead, Luann, write a sonnet that scans and rhymes appropriately and also makes sense. Do it. I double-dog dare you.
Hi and Lois-“The plane crashed and sadly I wasn’t on it.”
@Schroduck: I like the cut of your jib most days
@Bob Tice: Nice pig story mash-up
@BeckoningChasm: It does indeed. An obvious rush to judgement
SFT: On the plus side, #2 learned how pigs can fly, and showed #3 how.
@gleeb: Why is it weird?
Dustin: Look at Tom’s smile in the last panel. He totally ate that last donut just to spite Dustin’s Dad and make his misery just that much more pronounced. What a king.
I realised recently that while Luann has degenerated into a trite and boring hate read, hardly worth the name, Questionable Content is now my single top hate read. The hate I have for what Jeph Jacques did to his own characters burns in me as incandescent as a trillion suns. Take the current “story arc” and what he did to Bubbles and Faye, and what he’s about to do to Hannelore. Unforgivable.
@Tim Kynerd: Now that’s what I call weird
Dustin —
When Dustin’s dad went to the breakroom
We people at the tables looked at him
He was a slob from sole to crown
Jowly, and nowhere near to thin.
And he was always lawyerly arrayed
And he was always dickish when he talked.
And he stirred revulsion when he spoke
And he waddled when he walked.
And he was lucky, yes lucky as a king
But never bore it with much grace.
In short, we thought that he had everything
But wouldn’t want to take his place.
So on we worked and waited for the light
And went without doughnut or the hole
And Dustin’s dad one calm spring night
Went home and was a total assh^le
–With apologies to Edwin Arlington Robinson
@The Rambling Otter: Just your average donut pincher from the company next door
@But What Do I Know?:
I wish he had done what the original poem’s protagonist had done.
The Daily Telegraph has cancelled Alex after its run of 38+ years, and Crankshaft still exists. In case anybody still wonders whether we live in a just universe.
@The Rambling Otter: Yeah, comics can be so unrealistic sometimes
@Ukranazi Stepan: Oh, cut it out, it’s fine. Odds are 100 to one that Hannelore holds on to her virginity.
@Uncle Lumpy: 38 years and one joke. It was an impressive run.
“So much for my Blondie cosplay nightie,” Lois thinks, changing back into sweats.
@gleeb:
Go down to the bottom of the page in the lower banner:
“This blog was once known as I Read The Comics So You Don’t Have To.”
Josh still does the work of reading all the comics so we don’t have to, but brings forth daily summaries of his findings.
Lois Flagston LEAVE THIS MAN
So thoughtful of Josh! He’s featuring three cartoons no one cares about just do we have ability to snark or enlighten on any other strip we actually like. Thanks, man.
@taig: “9CL: Did Brooke have another stroke? Am I having a stroke?”
We spent months setting up this wedding storyline. Then, at the last minute, Brooke got distracted by the $10,000,000 fiddle, and the whole wedding ended up taking place off panel. Or not taking place at all, who knows!? Did the twins both get married? Or just the one playing the fiddle? Which husband did the jealous one settle for? Will Brooke now drop the whole storyline and go back to retconning the Amos and Edda couple?
Seriously, if you write a comic strip, and two main characters get married, you have to SHOW THE WEDDING ON PANEL. Comic strips exist for life events such as this. WTF?
@Ukranazi Stepan: ” Luann has degenerated into a trite and boring hate read, hardly worth the name”
It’s been stuck in place for years now. Characters show up, hint that something might happen, then disappear before it can happen. It’s not a good hate read in that the plots are too simple and repetitive to be worth making fun of anymore. Even the appearace of Gunther doesn’t stir up the hate the way it used to. He’s pathetic and pointless, but just like all the other characters he is always on the brink of having something interesting happen, but it never materializes.
@Ukranazi Stepan: Oh, do NOT get me started on Questionable Content. It’s now devolved into arc after arc of “dysfunctional neurodivergent woman (ALWAYS a woman) latches onto existing character, ignoring all their protests as well as their boundaries, and basically demands they adopt her.” Even Jeph himself admits how awful all these new characters are, yet for some reason he thinks we like them because of their awfulness.
And that’s not even going into his overuse of the Closed-Eyes Smugface…..
GT: So, Mimi’s golf career is in the toilet?
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: Even the appearance of Gunther doesn’t stir up the hate the way it used to.
When’s the last time Gunther even showed up? Outside of Sunday strips (which don’t count since they’re one-offs instead of part of an overarching story) I feel like his character disappeared altogether since Bets came back. Has he shown up at all since Halloween 2023?
@Auntie Velvet: She’s not wearing it right! There’s supposed to be one strap off the shoulder. Come on, Lois, Hi needs all the help he can get.
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: That reminds me of when I was working summer vacation relief at a radio station in Wisconsin.
The newsguy was finishing the weather forecast and, just to fill airtime, I asked “So, Graydon. What did you do this weekend?”
He replied: “Got married”.
I looked out the studio window to see the boss and several staff members looking at us with stunned faces.
“To Carol?”
“Yup”.
Between Friends – You’re with Benoit right now! Just imagine something exactly like right now, except, you know, in France.
Shoot, if it would get me into France, I might be willing to be with Benoit.
@Bryan: Re: Luann
I struggle to remember to read the strip anymore, it’s not good enough to be interesting, but not bad enough to be a real hate read. We run up to and then back off from the same half-dozen potential storylines over and over and over again.
Gunther visiting with his girlfriend in his storage shed in his mom’s back yard, and just lying on top of the covers staring at the ceiling with his arms facing straight down by his side just doesn’t inspire the hate anymore. Paths of Gunther lead but to the grave…yard of aborted “LUANN” plots.
@ValdVin: You have to admit that the Lion King “Circle of Life” scene is pretty creepy. All those prey animals hailing the birth of an apex predator. Presumably the ones that hail the loudest are eaten last.
Snuffy – It’s an okay gag, but there’s hardly a Barney Google and Snuffy Smith reader on the face of the earth who would buy the premise that Snuffy knows that much about astrology, let alone that Lukey was reading anything about mercury in fish.
H&L — Lois’s nightgown does something for me :)
@Peanut Gallery: re BF: Whatever happened with the unwatched pot boiling over on the stove last Wednesday? Since they’ve had dinner and “dessert” already, I suppose it didn’t end in a kitchen fire. Disappointing.
Is Steve still available? Benoit is a smug, sneaky SOB.
@Arabella:
I guess it must have been cinematic symbolism. Like a train going into a tunnel and waves crashing on a beach.
Pluggers: Pluggers are fat # 31,673.
Dustin: Ed Kudlick is a fat pig # 8,397.
Bizarro – This applies to podcasts, but it actually was implemented after Sam Driver bought all the store inventory when he made his conspiracy board.*
It looks like Rex Morgan better stock up for his investigation of stalker guy’s death, which is either first degree murder or natural causes; who the hell knows.
FC – Jef must have been running late for his tee time, because he didn’t bother to update that 1984 minivan. Or the full size newspaper.
Frazz – If anyone knows about hubris and not doing research, it’s the insufferable little genius.
JP – Oh, please. Surely back in the Woody Wilson days all of the Parker-Spencer-Drivers somehow fell into free coffee for life.
Mary Worth – Dawn and Wilbie are seriously creeping me out.
Rex Morgan – The TV news crews have tons of footage of random people milling around while the dead body sits in the car. Police usually put up some kind of a screen or cover to protect the deceased person’s privacy.
The TV news crews should try to film Inspector Clouseau and Frank Drebin fighting over who is in charge of this investigation.
*That might have been Randy Parker with the conspiracy board. I don’t remember if it involved Sophie’s kidnapping or April’s disappearance.
It’s sad that a pig got run over to the total indifference of the others, but since this house appears to be made out of wood, it was only a matter of time before a wolf blew it down and ate him anyway.
@astroboy: Re MW – My feelings about this are similar, especially about Dawn. She’s really creeping me out. I do enjoy Belle’s crazy eyes, although her behavior is so over the top that it’s starting to wear thin. It’s time for Mary and her platitudes, although the only one I can think of for this one is “Never stick your dick in crazy.”
@The Rambling Otter: I can see Wilbur liking that two women are battling over him, but it’s really creepy that one of them is his college age daughter.
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: We didn’t get to see the couples pausing the wedding so they could boink on tombstones in the church graveyard. Good thing the brides went commando so they didn’t have to keep track of their underpants.
Calvin’s Cardboard Box: “Seriously, if you write a comic strip, and two main characters get married, you have to SHOW THE WEDDING ON PANEL.”
Yep. I remember the big wedding in Luann, when Toni was cosplaying Poison Ivy. Not sure why the Evansii didn’t put Brad in a B@tman suit, or a Harley Quinn.
Slylick Fox And Comix For Kinx: Unfortunately, Max changes his socks less often then he changes his shirt, and the resulting amount of mouse foot funk ate a hole in the map. Slylick spun in, there were no survivors.
@Peanut Gallery: Benoit goes out to the boulangerie for fresh croissants in the morning, instead of Tim Horton. And the coffee is better.
@Tim Kynerd: If you’d been just a tiny bit lazier, you could have gotten nearly as much info by looking at the creator’s biography, which notes that the strip ran 2005-2006, then paused for a re-design, and the second incarnation has run since 2008. Or is that more info?
@I speak Jive: #118: re-JP: I can remember whenever a Spencer-Driver indicated an desire for coffee Marie would magically manifest herself, pot of freshly-brewed coffee in hand.
@Ukulele Ike: Because Batty did it first with Les and Lisa.
@Ukulele Ike: I predict they’ll break up and Benoit will go back to France, because of the requirements of comic strip stasis. But I hope that when they’re saying goodbye at the airport, one of them will say “We’ll always have Mississauga.”
Mary’s Worst: Belle mind sends to Dawn…”YOU are the Ewe, don’t ever forget that!”
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: It was this very site that informed me that Amos and Edda themselves had gotten married off-panel and that I had somehow missed it. That was when I realized 9CL no longer packed enough heat for even a hate-read, and could therefore be tossed off my reading list.
@Peanut Gallery: It’s true — Slut Friend is going to DIE ALONE.
Shoe: Cosmo’s not fat, he’s just big feathered.
@Dr. Larry Erhardt: To be fair, Amos and Edda were too busy screwing in a graveyard to attend their own wedding.
@pachoo: Was that the pig that was having an affair with Big Bad’s sister(?) ? Seems he had more problems than just not crossing at the green, not in between.