Ditto, are the only jobs you know about baseball-related
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Hi and Lois, 4/24/25
I love that Hi has absolute faith that Ditto, despite not having shown any great baseball prowess in this strip to date, will eventually become an elite athlete capable of competing at the highest level of his chosen sport, but he’s still deeply worried that he’ll be one of those big leaguers who drinks most of their salary and loses the rest of it in ill-advised investments promoted by their buddies and has to do the county fair autograph circuit well into their old age to survive.
Six Chix, 4/24/25
Big news, everyone: It’s the year 2025, and Six Chix finally did a comic about getting high! I mean, I guess a lot of Six Chix strips are subtextually about getting high. Like remember the series of strips about the gal who had sex with a giant sandwich, then got got cucked by the sandwich, then went to a pizza orgy? In retrospect, that sequence was almost certainly getting-high-adjacent, at the very least. But I feel like this is the first one where they come right out and say it.
Wizard of Id, 4/24/25
Hey, kids, are you familiar with the King in the Wizard of Id, whose main defining character design feature is that he has a comically large nose? Well, apparently his nose is (was?) big because he’s … old? Which makes your nose big? You learn something new every day, I guess.
Mary Worth, 4/24/25
“I guess if she doesn’t come around, it means you weren’t so terrific after all, ha ha! Anyway, let’s meet up this weekend for some absurdly large salads, if your dad’s girlfriend hasn’t killed you yet.”
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MW: “Eventually?” Batts is supposed to be on vacation, and that vacation should have drawn to a close already. Did we miss the part where she moved in permanently?
Hi and Lois:
“What are you going to do after your career is over?”
“Be a color commentator, and be so choreographed that even the laughs that I emit during broadcasts are written on cue cards!”
MW:
“She’ll come around to you eventually! With a Dirk! — not your ex-boyfriend, mind you, but a medieval dagger!”
RMMD: “Yeah, yeah, you’re welcome. Now go shelter in a back room while I stand at the door with my gun. Suicide by cop is way better than dealing with Rex Morgan’s bumbling attempts to prolong my life”
RMMD-“Come at me, pigs! I’ve got two hostages in here and nothing to lose!”
MW-Thank god Cathy is on the phone because there is no way she could be able to keep a straight face and say that about Dawn.
FC-RUN! Dolly’s got a hammer!
RMMD: A few days back, when I wrote “Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion where The Stalker Slayer…peacefully turns himself in” I was KIDDING! I guess I shouldn’t have been.
6C: When both of your Blips-boobs have migrated to the same side of your chest, it might be time to lay off the yoga. And the drugs.
Crankshaft : …they DON’T have a house all their own. Heck, for a pretty long time, both of tem were living with their parents (Crankshaft for Pam, Rose for Jeff)!
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Luann : … How is this buying too much food when they need to purchase groceries for an entire week, going from a COMPLETELY EMPTY fridge? Heck, if they have leftovers, isn’t that a good thing, since then they could share with Frank and Nancy when they return?
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Wizard of Id : Deaging the King from Wizard of Id didn’t make him younger, it turned him back into his initial character design when he first debuted. Sadly, the artstyle barely improved since then, so the only real difference is his nose being smaller, and if the reading public doesn’t notice that, they can’t tell what’s going on.
H&L: Hi’s change in body language between panels is telling. He goes from outright shunning in P1 to joyous acceptance in P2. Looks like you can buy love, kid.
H&L – Don’t forget the last stop – insufferable rich asshole….
6-C – Does getting drunk and falling down the basement stairs count as gymnastics….
WoI – This doesnt even rise to the level of phoned-in….
MW – Chatty Cathy must be batty….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
DAWN: You’re a good friend, Cathy. Thanks for that.
CATHY: I actually have a lot going on in my life too. Yesterday–
(dial tone)
MW: I guess if Dick Tracy is going to bring Little Orphan Annie back, Mary Worth can become the new home of Cathy. Ack, someone put Drano in my chocolates!
6C: Scientists dispute the side effects of cannabis – Does it cure glaucoma? Does it cause psychosis? – but I think they’d all agree that CBD gummies don’t cause you to grow a third breast.
Hi and Lois: The Flagston’s are so destitute that they can’t even afford the costs for Ditto to play on the kids team. Ditto won’t ever escape the poverty that he was born into.
Wizard of Id: I guess his nose shrinking is a metaphor for his penis shrinking? Otherwise I have no idea what the joke is supposed to be here.
MW: To be fair, Cathy’s advice isn’t bad, considering what she’s been told. And to be fair, Dawn DOESN’T know that Belle is trying to kill her. Who’d think that? Look at me, being all fair today! Someone must be putting something in my food.
RMMD: Augie isn’t being sarcastic to break the tension. He’s dead ( no pun) serious.
DtM: The Menace isn’t currently destroying anything or causing public humiliation for his parents. What’s a little dog drool? Pick your battles, lady!
Wizard of Id: Is there a joke there at all? Am I too dense to see it?
Nicely drawn staircase, though.
CS: My “Pam and Jeff just murdered Crankshaft” theory looks more and more true every day. Yes, Jeff, you absolutely needed to downsize your home.
Family Circus: Billy is practicing to be a successful serial killer who dismembers his victims and the media give a cool nickname to. Dolly on the other hand is just going with the crude hammer technique, she’ll be caught immediately.
@BeckoningChasm:
The King is drawn in his original character design. It’s pretty meta.
The only way I can process today’s “Hi and Lois” is to assume that it, too, is subtextually about getting high.
WoI: The King’s other defining characteristic is that he’s short…like a kid. So I guess the “joke” is that he looked the same as a kid as he does as an adult, beard and all.
I think I need to go lie down now.
I may need to retire my Mari’lo’ton running gag, as Mary Lawton has just given away the real reason for her… Mary Lawton-ness.
The King of Id’s nose is a tumor that has been growing and consuming the rest of his body for the past few decades.
Hi and Lois:
So…John Kruk?
Baby Blues: It could be a lot worse, at least he’s actually making it to the bathroom instead of perpetually soiling himself like the baby in Marvin.
Zits: One of my least favorite running jokes in this comic is when they try to think of some edgy band names. Recently they had a comic where Jeremy was listening to “Canker Omelette” which doesn’t sound edgy as much as it is gross
MW If it was me, I would have google Belle Batsfrey by now to find out more about her high powered job at MegaCorp in Florida.
H&L: Hi figured out how to troll Ditto is by giving him false hope in life. Now no one can say that he isn’t being supportive.
Luann: People do eat more than one meal a day, Bernice. They can’t all sustain themselves on their smug self righteous attitude like you do. Especially since Luann could make a zombie starve.
MW: So after about two days of Dawn whining about how Wicked Bitch Belle is stealing her daddy’s attention away from her, Cathy (Ack!) managed to placate Dawn so that she’ll shut up and leave her alone. And she did it without taking up valuable time by talking about inane things that don’t make sense or sounding like a fortune cookie.
Too bad Dawn will still end up talking to Mary Worth…
@Banana Jr. 6000: Maybe they can pull a ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?’ and burn the house down with Crankshaft’s corpse inside it. It’ll be the perfect ending to Loathsome Lillian’s next book, ‘Murder at My Insufferable Neighbor’s House’!
Luann: … and also the fact that neither of you have two nickels to rub together because neither of you have a job or income? Mommy and Daddy weren’t stupid enough to leave you any money or credit cards to use while they were gone.
Six Chix: Does lying down and having a CBD gummy count as doing yoga? It does if you have cancer! Wait, that’s the joke, isn’t it, the lady has end-stage ovarian cancer and this is all she can do to manage the nausea caused by her medications?
H&L: Funny, I read Hi’s expression as a bit more condescending. “Yeah, pro baseball. Which team do you want to play for, the Houston Scrap Collectors of the San Francisco Transients?”
6Cx: Now, on the one hand, CBD doesn’t get you ‘high’ per se, that’s more the THC. On the other hand, this woman is talking to herself, or possibly the ceiling, so maybe there’s something more that she ingested…
WoI: First rule of potions: if the guy who’s selling you the potion looks like he could benefit from it but hasn’t, don’t take it.
MW: Uh oh Dawn: are you taking advice from someone who is not the titular character of this strip? I hope that’s a burner phone…
Just because you have a lousy job does not mean you should belittle Ditto’s ambitions. He’s guaranteed to be more successful than you will ever be, and it’ll just give you one more reason to cry yourself to sleep at night.
@Anonymous: That would require Dawn to take initiative. Dawn does not take initiative.
9 Chickweed Lane: Well, Poll, I’ll tell you: you’ve just served as the object of an ephebophile’s wet dream. Again.
Dawn uses her father’s connections at the newspaper to contact the Orlando Sentinel and get the backstory on Belle.
“Wait!? The Orlando Liquidator is not a bankruptcy clearing house?”
Realizing that idiotic dreams, or really ANY dreams, must be nipped in the bud, Hi sends Ditto to hang with Thirsty.
Ditto promptly becomes the first drunk in whatever-grade, then, like, I dunno, a surf champion? Because Hi must always be wrong.
I wouldn’t call Dawn a “terrific person” since she’s probably the most boring main character in all of Mary Worth. She had to get on a vegan diet just to give herself some relevance since the only thing she has going for her is that she’s a college student with daddy issues to the point that she’s going to run out of male students and staff to sleep with before she gets that liberal arts degree and do nothing at all with it.
6C: As long as you give the move a clever name, like “Sideways-Facing Mammaries,” it counts as yoga.
WoI: I don’t know about the king, but the potion made the wall as smooth as a baby’s bottom.
MW: “Say… you don’t mind if I take a life insurance policy out on you?”
RMMD: “Schoolteacher? Wait a minute, I thought you looked familiar! You’re the jerk who flunked my Debra in eleventh-grade English! Caused her to miss out on that scholarship to a prestigious university. Ruined her life so she was an easy mark for a stalker! Why, I oughta— oh why not? In for a penny, in for a pound.”
“Sir, did you know that phrase dates from a late 17th century comic play by Edwa–” BAM!
Cathy, that’s not how you pronounce “terrible”.
@astroboy: Thank you. I haven’t followed the strip in a long time, so yeah that sailed right past me without slowing down.
The king’s about to kill the wizard, steal the potion, then make a fortune selling it in lieu of plastic surgery, isn’t he? What a fink.
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Yeah, Hi, you know that Ditto’s never even going to make manager at the Walmart that will become his career.
Luann: “Also… how are we going to pay for all this? Phil’s a doctor, right?”
CS: Hey, you two! Save some of this excitement for Rex Morgan, MD!
9CL: It looks like Alistair is having “the talk” with Dweezilweeb, or whatever his name is.
Chix (sic): Might be a road Lawton doesn’t want to go down. Yoga is supposed to bring about mental clarity.
“Hey! What am I doing? I can’t draw. Maybe I should take up carpentry.”
FC: Dolly knows a thing or two about wasting “good wood.”
Dustin: And then Dustin will have to get his dad out there to explain wax cylinders and semaphores. It’s going to be a mess.
GT: Ex-wife Emily can tell ex-husband Gil to go suck swamp water any time she wants, but Coach Emily Thorp must obey Coach Gil Thorp’s every diktat. That must really frost her flakes.
JP: “Oh, Sophie, you don’t understand. I’ve never thought of you and Neddy as my children. That’s Abbey, not me. I didn’t want any part of this.”
RMMD: The Glenwood police captain assembles his SWAT team. “Listen up, men, we got a call from someone purporting to be the Stalker Strangler. He said he wants to give up. This sounds like an ambush to me. Here’s the address. I want you to get over there and surround the house with maximum firepower while our helicopters soften up with place with a tear gas attack. Heh heh, this joker must think we’re stupid.”
@BeckoningChasm: I was going to say, the staircase has had a lot of effort put into it. More effort than Wizard of Id usually gets, or deserves.
9CL: It is a valid question, what exactly did they do?
GT: “Peanut. What did you do with your bed?”
“I sold it. Like my new futon?”
“You’re on the floor.”
“Yes Daddy, that’s how it works.”
“We need to talk about your age-reversing potion. It seems to have turned me into the King from a deck of Bicycle playing cards. Could be worse, at least it’s not the King of Hearts. Also, you need to return that skull. The Royal Players want to put on Hamlet, but can’t find Yorick.”
Wizard of Id: With the thing about the King reverting to an older design.
The Disney cartoon Quack Pack, did this joke proper, the way it was supposed to be done, and Quack Pack wasn’t even a good show.
Where Donald Duck accidentally bathes in a youth potion, and the next time that we see him, he reverted back to his design from when he premiered in “The Wise Little Hen” from 1934
MW: Not sure anyone in the history of Mary Worth has been gaslit harder than Dawn just was.
CS: “Which just goes to show that we’ve always been this banal and boring.”
Phantom/GT: Why didn’t Henry Barajas hire someone who can draw like this? GT’s locker-room scenes would be the hottest thing in the funnies.
GA: Gertie or whoever that is buys her jackets at the same place Henry Mitchell does.
Hi and Lois – Unlike most stage parents, who only see the immediate fame and money that stardom brings, Hi is more mature. He is sore for two days after the company softball match, so diamond dreams are long past him.
But he can talk sports with the best of them at the bar (and also with Thirsty, who is usually blotto), and with his baseball fantasy team he can imagine being an owner picking a World Series roster. Ditto gives him the hope that his son will only put on a suit and tie to call games or make big decisions, not to be an office drone like him.
Six Chix – Six Chix definitely has a wine mom demo, but gummies are more chic in middle-aged women demo.
Wizard of Id – Thursday Six Chix has been sharing her gummies with Wizard of Id’s creative team.
Mary Worth – Cathy has a plan: To become a true crime influencer. Now, the true crime genre has largely been oversaturated by the low cost of podcasting or vlogging, and it’s facing a contraction with the decline of cable TV. To make it you have to have an angle, and Cathy’s is to have her best friend murdered.
Cathy could tell Dawn was the sort of person bound to get killed. She assumed it would be a jealous boyfriend like Jared or Dirk, but her father’s jealous psycho girlfriend works just as well! All she has to do is feed Dawn bad advice in the trite matter of Mary. She didn’t pull the trigger, and she didn’t load the gun, but she is morally as much an accomplice as anyone else, no matter what the law says. But as a psychopath, her conscious will be clear, especially once Spotify advertising share checks start rolling in.
MW: BUZZ!
“Belle, it’s me, I just got off the phone with her. Why isn’t Dawn dead yet?”
“I’m trying but her idiot father keeps foiling my plans.”
“Look, if you want to get paid, do it soon. I can’t take much more.”
@Pozzo: Came to the comments to say exactly this. It looks like the “cartoonist” lopped off at least one panel of the strip.
@LTJpezcore1: It’s too easy to gaslight Dawn to the point where it’s not even fun. When she’s not portrayed as being looser than shingles in a windstorm, she’s about as aware as a first grader.
@pugfuggly: My reading is that Hi is choosing to indulge a fantasy that Ditto will grow out of, he just wants to make sure that Ditto is properly prioritizing money. Which is better parenting than the time Dot said she wanted to keep Dawg forever and Lois was like Dot, that dog is going to die.
WoID: They SHOULD make the King more like his original design. The current version looks too much like a beachball.
@Needless Exposition:
I’m always a bit confused about the way people use “liberal arts” to mean “useless degree.” I don’t know if they’re thinking like, Basketweaving 101 or whatever time-tested stereotype, but in reality it’s a degree that most people who are pre-med, pre-law, etc. will be pursuing in their undergraduate studies. Chemists, mathematicians, astronomers, almost all social work and psychology and psychiatry; these are people who generally have a liberal arts degree.
Bear in mind, I would never suggest that Dawn isn’t useless; that would be madness. Nor do I mean this in defense of my own studies. I was an English major, which in some ways is extremely professionally useful but on the other hand is kinda, as a fellow English major friend has quipped, “I majored in my native language. It was very challenging.” But I do feel compelled to speak out on behalf of my less-useless scholarly peers, and do not wish to see them denied their props.
@Hibbleton: “Wait!? The Orlando Liquidator is not a bankruptcy clearing house?”
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He’s a pro wrestler.
H&L — Pro baseball player, as in a cup of coffee in the Carolina League, then color commentating at the local high school games a la Marty Moon, and ponying up the shirts for the Flagston Bail Bonds little league team.
W of Id — The King is still a fink!
WoI/WoI Classic: Yes, the de-aging thing turned the fink into his older style. And boy, they should stick to it. The newer models for all the characters, excepting perhaps Rodney, are terrible.
9CL: The last several months of these strips have been random and illogical. Which leads me to a question: Is that on purpose, or does Brooke think there is an internal logic to them that eludes me?
RMMD – Do you have to download an app to make your phone go “klik!” when you end a call or is that a standard feature? Whichever it is, I want it.
6C: This has to be the least attractive depiction of getting high I’ve ever seen, and I grew up in the “Just Say No” era.
H&L: Hi knows that Ditto becoming a baseball player successful enough to earn a broadcast contract after retirement and retain enough of his earnings to seriously consider a controlling stake in a team is a more realistic retirement plan than hoping his 401K and Social Security will still be there when he needs them.
MW: “You’re a terrific person!” declares Dawn’s best/only friend, proving that she doesn’t know Dawn that well at all.
Hi and Lois-“I’m going to be the former player who drunkenly hangs out by the player’s entrance fondly recalling my glory days.”
@Violet: I’m not knocking on anything involving Liberal Arts since being able to even get a good job these days is hard enough as it is no matter what your major is. It’s more the fact that Dawn as a character has shown absolutely no ambition or interest in doing anything aside from being a perpetual college student.
@Weaselboy: That ‘Klik!’ wasn’t to hang up the phone. It was triggering the timer on the explosive device that he planted under the house. He might be ‘giving himself up’ but he’s going out in the method of his choosing and taking everyone out with him. His next call will be to Rex Morgan to see if he can be lured over here too.
“And bring your tow-headed kids and your wife with the weed-whacker haircut too! It’s a party!”
@TheDiva: I like to think that Cathy is saying that so that Dawn will shut up rather than actually believing in it.
Hi smiles as he imagines telling his wife and family he has to go to every game to support his son and disappears from April to October every year. Now if one of his kids could just find something to take him away from home from November to March, he might never have to see them.
CS: I’ve come to believe Crankshaft owns the house. There is no other way to explain him doing innumerable idiotic things to damage the house with zero pushback from Jeff and Pam.
GA:
“Dear Walt,
Natchez is beautiful and relaxing, but we’re getting an awful lot of raindrops from Heaven.
Love,
Gertie”
FC: Billy is about to cut through the box he’s using as a sawhorse. This classic gag will be ruined during the 911 call and ambulance ride to the ER>
@Needless Exposition: A Liberal Arts degree is like a stepping stone towards a multitude of career paths but it does require having to take the initiative to continue on with your education and in about three decades of Mary Worth, Dawn Weston has only been interested in her father, boys, dancing, her father, boys, boys, her father, and a vegan diet. Every job she has is less about making money or furthering any sort of goal and more about getting in some sort of relationship. Even if she had a different major or didn’t even go to college altogether, she would still be vapid and aimless.
Wizard of Id: OK, the de-aging potion reverted the King to his original character model. That’s actually a pretty decent joke for the five of us who read the strip in paperback reprints fifty years ago and remember what he looked like in those strips.
C’shaft: “Downsize” here is code for “finally pack your dad off to the retirement home where he belongs and never, ever speak of him again.”
DT: “Tittering trilobites”? I would have gone with “nattering Neanderthals” or “obtuse Ouraspharia giraldae.”
JP: Were Sophie and Neddy ever officially adopted? Or did Sam just assume taking in a couple homeless kids was like adopting a stray cat?
Luann: Ladies, if I were you I’d stick to canned soup. With a pull-top, as I don’t trust either of you with a can opener.
MT: And here Jules runs right into the problem with oversimplifying the AI discussion. Most of the criticisms about artificial intelligence (inaccurate info, theft of intellectual property, astonishingly high environmental impact) is in reference to generative AI, the chatbots and LLMs hyped up by Silicon Valley despite their glaring flaws. The lady in the second panel, at least, seems to be talking about an analytical AI program, which are mainly used in specialized fields like medicine and tend to have more utility and practicality.
Phantom: What makes you think Kit won’t go on a vengeful rampage if his mentor is killed while he’s out of town?
Pluggers are delusional.
RMMD: Augie’s reaction is more suitable for keying Goatee McStalker’s car rather than killing him.
WoI: “Hmm. Readership of “Wizard of Id” is down. What can we do to broaden it? …Eureka! We’ll do a joke for the people who have an active memory of what our strip looked like in the 1970s! There have got to be tens of those people! And the percentage of them still reading the comics is easily in the double digits!”
Four and Twenty Chix – For many, many years, I believed that very few people smoked marijuana because nobody ever talked about it. I have always been pro-herb, but I only tried it for the first time in my late 30s (and it’s great, I love it – but I love being employed more).
Now, I can’t get out of my car in the Kroger parking lot without getting a big whiff of ditchweed because some fool has been hot-boxing before entering the store. I object on the level that I think if you’re going to indulge, be discreet. But given that I have a decent chunk of stock in Kroger, I should probably promote pre-shopping doobies.
Six Chix: Words said before a cop performing a wellness check discovers your rotting, overdosed corpse several days after you took a shitload of drugs for the bit.
Mary Worth: Cathy’s track record of giving Dawn advice is even worse than Mary’s considering the last time we saw her was the Dirk Saga. By this point, Dawn would be better off doing the exact opposite of whatever Cathy tells her.
@Yesyouar ghbc ch: Sick burn dude!
@ectojazzmage: Cathy was only present at the beginning of the Dirk Saga because Moy wanted to bring back the simp and his blowup doll. The only time that she actually gave Dawn advice before that was when she said that Dawn was being a skank taking advantage of Jared by sneaking out behind his back to grind on other guys…advice that Dawn promptly ignored.
Cathy, you are a blatant liar
Not that Wizard of Id has ever been funny, but I don’t get today’s gag. It can’t be that the king is short, he’s always been short. Someone explain it to me like I’m Tom Batiuk.
@matt w: yeesh, that is brutal.
@astroboy: Maybe she’s half-flounder. Ever think about that?
MW: Suddenly, a car comes crashing through Dawn’s window, with Belle behind the wheel, pure madness in her eyes. “I told you I’d come around to you eventually! I told you!”
Crankshite: They’re already downsizing — went from a 4-door yesterday to a two-door today, all while driving. That’s a neat trick. (Is it called “continuity” the same way it’s called “writing,” Tommy?)
If the King of Id is reverting to his original design, can we also revert to his original running gags, like torturing prisoners, starving the peasants and murdering enemies? These jokes had soul, unlike the King!
@Pozzo: #20
“I think I need to go lie down now.”
Don’t forget your CBD gummy! :-)
@Anonymous:
It’s the King’s original design from when the strip started
Six Chix: By law, CBD isn’t psychoactive, and must be tested to make sure it contains less than 0.3 percent THC. It’s basically hemp extract. If it has any “relaxing” qualities, they’re basically the same as you’d get from other over-the-counter nutritional supplements, like ginseng or chamomile. (Along with a healthy dose of the placebo effect.) So go ahead, lady, lie down on your mat and have all the gummies you want… you’ll avoid all those nasty yoga side effects, like increased flexibility and mental well-being.
@mvg: They changed cars after fleeing the murder scene :) it would have worked better if both cars weren’t robin’s egg blue.
“You’re a good friend, Cathy.” Dawn believes that the role of a friend, at least her friend, is to lie to you in order to give empty reassurance. It’s not sad that Dawn was conditioned to believe that, it’s sad that she has come to be aware of that
@Ettorre: I dunno. I like the current team’s focus on the Wizard himself, indulging in dark magicks and letting his pet dragon Henry wreak havoc on Id. (And how’d you get the T-word past the censorbot?)
@Needless Exposition: Like in Bang The Drum Slowly, where DeNiro’s character was “too dumb to play a joke on.”
“Go for it! We already established that we are too poor to pay for college for all four of you, so “I tried and failed to become a sports pro” is a choice that will shifts blame from me to you!”
So the bit here is that The King got de-aged into how Brant Parker used to draw him as the original artist for Wizard of Id, which is driving me crazy because Brant Parker used to draw the strip good, it had style. you’re telling me this whole time we’ve been getting “kind of off model Wizard of Id” that was on purpose? you could have been drawing them good this whole time?
@Dr. Larry Erhardt: the pet dragon is fine, but original Wizard of Id was vicious! Wiz and his wife plotted to kill each other, the jester was really drunk, the king was a monster! WoI had one of the best joke of all time!
First Messenger: “Sire, sire, the people are thirsty!”
Second Messenger: “Sire, sire, the monsters of the moat are hungry!”
King: “I see a solution”
Our productivity obsession led us to believe that even getting stoned should contribute towards certain wellness checklists we must perform. It’s true that the point of drugs is that you hate your life, but marijuana is about being lazy about it! If you wanted productivity, there’s cocaine!
Trying to be a sports pro means putting tons of time and effort into a very remote possibility of success. Have you considered gambling? It’s sport-related, the chances are remote but higher and you don’t need to get tired doing it!
WoI: No joke aside, but that’s probably the best drawn panel that strip has had in decades. Could Parker-Hart Inc. be pulling a Jeff Keane and repurposing old strips with new punchlines?
MW: I know a lot of Mudges have been asking why Dawn can’t just do an online search of this Mega Corporation and Belle Batsfrey. Remember this is the same strip that had us yelling paternity test! paternity test! at Keith Hillend for months before it finally sank into his thickly muscled head. Then he finally did it in the most surreptitious, unethical and possibly illegal manner possible.
Luann-I don’t get this. There’s only two of them for two weeks. How much food are they planning on buying?
Six Chix-How Tuesday Chix comes up with ideas.
This gritty, dark, realistic, back to basics reboot of “The Wizard of Id” is going to end up on netflix directed by Bong Joon Ho starring Peter Dinklage as the King, Hugh Laurie as the Wizard, Andy Samberg as Sir Rodney, Tom Hardy as The Spook, and be almost immediately cancelled. The old kind of cancelled, not the new kind.
@The Quiet Man, Luann: “Mommy and Daddy weren’t stupid enough to leave you any money or credit cards to use while they were gone.”
Difficulty: This is “Luann”, after all….
@Anonymous: Exactly – I had to look, look again, and think back to recall a difference in the appearance of the king in Wizard of Id.
JP: Randy: “But Ann was going to prison for a crime she never committed! My sister! You know, part of my real family!”
FLASH! AHHHHHHH!!: I’ve been enjoying the current storyline with Flash/Dale body switcheroo in a fire fight, and trying to figure out what their bodies can and cannot do physically.
In lesser hands, they would have stopped what they were doing and started to touch themselves endlessly while giggling, like in an 80s sex comedy.
Don Abundio, translated:
“I keep my valuables in these safes”
“In that one, my money… in that one, my jewels…”
“What’s in that one?”
“The evidence about how I got all that other stuff!”
@Brendan Skwire:
The joke, which our dear Josh and a lot of commenters seem to have missed, is the king is drawn in his original character design from the early days of the strip. It’s an unusually clever strip by Wizard of Id standards.
DT: Okay, so we see Uncle Piltdown getting ready to flee. Auntie Angry again made the mistake of thinking Dumb and Dumber can be trusted to do anything right. Does she know she can rent a car on line today? Like no one actually has to see you?
Maybe it is setting up for ending like The Asphalt Junction where the mastermind “Doc” gets sidetracked by a pretty girl at a diner and misses his chance to escape. Worth a look – released in 1950, directed by John Huston, with Sterling Hayden as Dix, Sam Jaffe as Doc, and a new starlet, Marilyn Monroe as the mistress of the crooked lawyer fixer.
MW: More scenes to show the passage of time – a day or so more? So Bats has been there now 3-4 days? What is going to be her move? Poisoned desert?
RMMD: OK – so the comic book code is satisfied, that the crook will turn himself in. Missing Rene Belluso.
@treetown: The Asphalt JUNGLE – arrggh autocorrect…
WoI: Years ago during one of their “Treehouse of Horror” skits the newer Simpsons met the earlier, more crudely drawn Simpsons.
One Fantastic Four story had Reed Richards giving this long, scientific explanation to the Thing why his appearance changed from a more reptilian look to the current rock-like look. I always thought it was just because Jack Kirby got better at drawing him.
@Ettorre:
And of course the one where the King complains about how much it cost him to have his father bumped off. Chilling to read as a kid. (But the art was fantastic!)