Belated change belatedly acknowledged
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B.C., 8/27/25
A fun thing that happened in B.C. about halfway through the decade or so when I was ignoring it is that the Cute Chick and the Fat Broad got renamed “Grace” and “Jane,” respectively. So, congrats to both of them! I bring this up because the setup to this strip seems to be that Jane went out onto this boat with Curls and her cat, and she told him something about “catfishing” that he didn’t really understand, but he didn’t ask her any follow-up questions for whatever reason. Would he have been so deferential if she was still known only as “the Fat Broad?” Doubtful!
Gil Thorp, 8/27/25
Football season is underway in the Valley Conference! Glad to see in panel one that the refs don’t let a little light-to-medium face-masking interfere with everyone having a good time. Sure, a few necks will be broken, but the surviving players will be even tougher, and within a few generations we’ll have a whole community full of supernecked athletes! Let’s take the long view here.
Alice, 8/27/25
Panels like this are classics of the “A cartoonist experiences something incredibly mundane in their daily life and decides it would make a good comic for some reason” genre, but when Alice does that, it really makes me worry about the origins of the strips with the aliens.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/27/25
Oh, I’m sorry, did you not want to explore your newly discovered familial connection to Cody? Well get ready to be struck dead by an angry God, buddy!!!
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Dustin: [record scratch] Ed politely resisting scarfing sweets? Ed’s been replaced by Bizarro Ed. The only explanation. Maybe brain worms. OK, two explanations.
Beetle Bailey: I never noticed the heart on Buxley’s computer. When did Dell put the “Cathy” laptop on the GSA contract?
RMMD:
“Let me grab my axe from my car and do a little riff on McCartney and Lennon as you’re making the guttural grunts I’ll feature in the lyrics, while going through whatever episode you’re experiencing, Jonah! — ahem.
“One day you’ll look to see I’m spawn
For tomorrow may pain, so
I’ll follow the UNH
Some day, you’ll know
I was Spuds’ son
But tomorrow may pain, so
I’ll follow the UNH
“And now the time has come
And so, my bro, I must go
And though I choose to wend
In the end you will know
Oh, oh, oh
“One day you’ll find that I have gone
But tomorrow may pain, so
I’ll follow the UNH
[bridge]
“Yes, tomorrow may pain, so
I’ll follow the UNH
“And now the time has come
And so my bro, I must go
And though I choose to wend
In the end, you will know
Oh, oh, oh
“One day, you’ll find that I have gone
But tomorrow may pain, so
I’ll follow the UNH.”
Mary Worth:
“Let’s see — who does my pamphlet here say this imposing-looking fellow is?…ah, here we go. It’s the famed Roman gladiator Gluteus Maximus!”
FC: Daddy’s going to lock up the melonheads–but they’ll never escape–too many sharks in the bay (dum, de, dum, de, dum . . . apologies to John Williams!) Then Daddy goes to the Castro district where he makes out with the melonheads’ “Uncle Roy” while doing LSD. Hilarity ensues!!! Daddy’s on a trip in a trip!!!
Chix (sic): Konar draws on the great untapped reservoir of Victorian humor.
Gil Thorp:
“But wait! There’s a 15-yard penalty for face-masking which nullifies the touchdown! — Milford doesn’t win after all!”
From the size of the lettering on Lucas’ jersey, there’s no way “Milford” could fit on the front. I’m guessing the “D” is somewhere around his left shoulder blade.
Mary Worth:
I think that must be a svelte Wilbur Weston admiring the statue in the first panel, because he’s pictured next to one of his columns.
GT: Missing first panel dialogue:
“Hey, you lost your helmet!”
“Uh, oh”
“No worries. I’ll put it on you.”
FLASH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!: “Savior of the uni….” Oh, I see what you did there!
RxMD: Who saves his life with chest compressions? Olive or Luann?
BC: Bland. Now who is which?
RMMD: Called it.
JP: ‘Sorry, I play for the other team and even if I didn’t I’d learn after discovering men like you exist.’
SF: Ted, you are not Joe Dante or even Martin Short. Please stop.
MW: Mary must have had a great teaching opportunity when they stopped to admire that statue. “Maybe don’t mention this to your parents.”
TIL: Ball carriers are allowed to stiff-arm but not straight-arm (non-forceful vs forceful) a prospective tackler
There MAY be a violation depicted, but maybe the ref accidentally swallowed his whistle
Mary Worth: “. . . And ignore penises.”
RMMD: In a MW/RMMD crossover moment, and in gratitude for Olive saving her from a dangerous undertow, Vicki pays it forward by giving Cody’s brother chest compressions after he collapses on the sidewalk, seconds before another air conditioner falls from a window high above them and takes both of them out for good.
RMMD: Cody is still sitting in his car because he’s also had a heart attack….and he’s dead. Jonah’s last words as he seeks his help, “You good for nothing little…” Cut to Rex doing an autopsy on the two boys which, all things considered, is not a bad way to wrap up this story arc. “It’s never too late to connect with loved ones, or not.” He smirks.
MW: Mary is piling on the crap big time. Olive’s “gift” must be transforming gibberish into profundity.
BC: Paleolithic catfishing: Jane pretends to be Grace in a really dark cave.
RMMD: Of course, the ” feel good” edict dictates that Cody is the savior and Jonah repents and loves him forever. But is anyone going to point out that Cody CAUSED the whole thing? Noooo.
Uh, Gil Thorp does know that in football, the winner is the team that scored more points?
@matt w: Forget that, does Gil Thorp know that you don’t kick an extra point after winning the game?
Congrats to whoever correctly predicted/read ahead at Comics Kingdom yesterday that we’d have a heart attack in Rex Morgan, M.D.
@The Quiet Man: RMMD: Called it.
In the old days, when stuff in the comments showed up in the strip a week later, we’d joke that the writers must be reading this blog. Nowadays of course, it’s because the AIs the writers are using for their plots have been reading it.
The best thing about this morning’s Gil Thorp (other than the facemasking) is that the comment section at GoComics hates the new creative team for being “woke” and not focusing enough on sports. So here we have a bit of focus on sports, which of course will not stop them from mocking the strip for its politics and art, unlike this comment section, which will mock the strip just because.
@matt w: @I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: US football scores are traditionally given with the home team second, and they do kick the extra point even if time has run out, so I can excuse the writer. The artist, on the other hand….
@Anonymous: Nerts, this was me. Stupid cookie expirations.
@Ken: Nerts again, I was thinking “you don’t get a bonus kick after winning,” but that is not at all what I said. As for the art, yes, I was trying to decide if that was Martin’s exposed skin, or if he was wearing an skin-toned underlayer.
MW: The generic platitudes are way over the top the last couple of days. A wildly unfortunate series of events for anyone hoping for bloody retribution from Olive
BC: Couldn’t the artist simply make a more coherent scenario by having Jane lure the horny male fish with a sexy fish marionette as bait?
MW: Wait, Mary Worth is implying that other people might be capable of just stuffing some learnin’ into Olive like pimentos of perception? Non-Mary people? Mere mortals? Capable of teaching the “kindred spirit” that no one but Mary can understand?
Are her Meddle Powers deactivated? Had Mary been replaced by a cyborg? This is not the Mary Worth I know!
B.C.: Humans had a surprisingly early understanding of the difference between “horrific death by saber-tooth tigers” and “horrific social death by deception”? I’m going to need some carbon-dating evidence on this one.
6 CHX: re last Thursday’s in Protein Shakes joke. Last night (Tues) I heard an article on NPR that super-high-protein diets are still a fad in some communities. So the joke was a good one!
MANDRAKE: These braniacs just figure out if there actually is a plane, they’ll be free! (Of course they’ll then shoot Narda)
MF: (the strip that cant be discussed). Nonpartisan today. I had a classmate cut a semester so she could work on a sitting senator’s campaign. For free. Afterward she came back bitter for although she helped him win, she wasn’t offered either a job or a useful referral.
GT: Cut to the stands, where we see Heathcliff holding a pennant reading MILF.
@Bob Tice: Fine work though I did think “why is he singing about the University of New Hampshire?”
ALERT! ALERT! DO NOT PANIC! A MEDICAL EVENT HAS BEEN INTRODUCED INTO THE REX MORGAN, M.D. COMIC STRIP! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! PLEASE LEAVE YOUR DEVICE IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION AND PROCEED TO THE NEAREST MARY WORTH! ALERT! ALERT!
Don’t sports scores usually get referred to with the winning number first?
Something for everyone; every strip for no one
6CHX: can the Mudges who can’t relate toTuesday Chix’s strips find today’s more relatable? Or is it just a woman thing?
@Ken: When the score displays on a TV screen or something, they put the home team second, but usually when reporting the end of the game score they put the winner first, I think especially when only naming one team. I’m pedantic/epistemically insecure enough to have double checked, so here’s a weekly recap article with all the winners listed first.
G. *(&@##@$! Thorp – I understand Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, but can someone explain “Milford Wins 21-28”?
@Guts Dozier:
I feel like this is more of a MILF helmet moment.
@Wamba: also, in nearly every stiff-arm compilation you see on YouTube there’s many examples of a ballcarrier forcibly shoving a tackler instead of “just” redirecting them like the rules state. I think to draw a penalty with a stiff-arm you’d have to grasp by the facemask and bring the tackler down by the helmet.
RMMD: “What? You’re having a heart attack? Sorry I can’t help you, Jonah. I was willing to give you some bone marrow or even a kidney, but I’m afraid a heart transplant is out of the question.”
@Tabby Lavalamp: It’s OK, said medical event took place at a safe distance from Rex Morgan.
Curtis: Greg apparently has three credit cards. I assume they’re all nearly maxed out to feed his smoking habit.
Dustin: ALL THEY DID WAS TAKE THE LADY IN PANEL 2 AND MIRROR HER IMAGE FOR PANEL 3. And this is a strip that prides(?) itself talking about how terrible and lazy young people are.
B.C. – For the green fish, it was get a gig on B.C., or a regular job on Marvin as one of the pet fish, and being eaten by a prehistoric cat at least has dignity.
Gil Thorp – Milford and the local athletic conference play by modified rules of football, where “getting your nose” of your opponent is worth extra points. This is because sports is more valued than education, so a good percentage of players don’t have object permanence.
Alice – Alice left all her jokes behind that locked door.
Rex Morgan, MD – Rex Morgan is the anti-Mary Worth. No matter how little he cares about the affairs of other people, their drama eventually imposes itself on him, as Cody’s half-brother’s heart attack will do. He won’t even get unearned benefits from being socially connected to these people. All he has to look forward to is work and some skimpy Medicaid reimbursement.
Gil Thorp: It’s probably good that Fox News doesn’t cover Milford football. They’d definitely accuse him of making gang signs with those square-ass fingers.
That said, I like the “MILF” jersey he’s wearing in panel 3. The under-the-uniform body stocking that exactly matches his skin color? Not a good look.
Rex Morgan, MD: I legit thought Cody’s secret half-brother was Mud Mountain Murphy. They’re both basically Bluto, so I see how that happened.
RMMD-Ah the neatly timed heart attack which will cause the two of them to bond.
MW-“Now let’s find a quiet spot so I can teach you some more, Olive.”
FC-I hope they get told about Machine Gun Kelly.
“The moment my brother had his heart attack I felt a searing pain in my chest. I spilled my 7/11 coffee and damn it was hot. So I drove away to get a new shirt and some more coffee. Never saw him again.”
GT: I do like how the runner kicked the PAT, as many high school teams use regular players for the kicking unless the school has a soccer team player who can place kick. This preseason, the Buffalo Bills had RB Ray Davis kick a PAT (he made it) and there was just something so old-school cool about that. Davis can also kick FGs from 50+ yards. Makes you wonder how many NFL teams are wasting a roster spot on a kicker.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: THAT’S why I couldn’t figure out what I was looking at.
I was expecting a regular housecat, but all I saw was some weird human-sized fish-lipped thing, no matter how much I stared.
Expecting tusks, I can (sort of) see a cat now.
The actual “joke” in Alice? Not funny. “THAT IS SO ANNOYING” in the white void below the strip? Somehow funny. How? Why? Is my sense of humor broken?
Alice: Alice, that is not a purse. That is a teabag. Which makes me wonder if her real problem is that she boiled her purse and drank it. We can only imagine what potent cocktail of psychedelics and narcotics were in there.
Momma: I know Momma comics often forget the basic premise of the strip, but “Francis is a dedicated, task oriented hardworker with a job, whose boss wants him to chill out and relax” is so off base that I wonder if Mel Lazarus was kidnapped at some point and this was a coded cry for help.
MW: “I wish I was further along in what I know…”
Opportunity lost for Mary to quote Donald Rumsfeld:
“There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns…”
I don’t blame Jonah for his ulcer acting up again. Anyone who had to interact with Cody would have the same reaction.
@Ken: If the touchdown wins the game with no time left, the extra point attempt (or two-point attempt) is moot. Also known as a “walk-off”.
These comments show more accurate interpretation of sports than the strip.
@astroboy:
Went to a Giants game many years ago and was surprised to see linebacker Lawrence Taylor practicing kicking field goals. I didn’t realize he was a backup kicker.
Beetle Bailey: Not relevant to today’s comic, but I was thinking, that recently they redesigned Corporal Yo so he no longer has slanted eyes and yellow-ish skin.
SOMEONE must have complained to Walker-Browne Inc forcing them to change his design
(unless the creators changed him solely on their own initiative, implying that they may actually have a soul)
If the former, where are the people issuing complaints about (pretty much everything) involving Wilbur and 9 Chickweed Lane.
(I mean outside of our blog venting)
I would be a daily reader of a version of Rex Morgan, MD in which every week is spent on a rando yelling at a regular cast member about how much they hate them before being mercifully taken out by some medical condition, free from ever having to interact with them again. I mean, I’m already a daily reader of Rex Morgan, MD, but at least then my behavior would make sense to me.
Daddy Daze: Always a great idea to hold your infant over the grill when you light it.
Somewhere, Dr. Rex Morgan, MD, is getting the sinking feeling he may be called on to do something *ugh* medical related in the comic strip that bears his name
In the missing fourth panel of today’s Mutts, a tiger springs out from behind the sign and devours Mooch.
GT: Y’know, Rachel, the front of a football jersey is usually dominated by the player’s number. You could have easily spared yourself the awkwardness of having you character dancing around with a shirt saying “MILF” like a particularly horny Heathcliff.
RMMD: Please, if incandescent rage was enough to trigger a heart attack, social media would have taken out half the populace a long time ago. Hell, the Cracker Barrel incident alone would have wiped out Xwitter’s remaining users.
@The Mighty Finn: Also that Rex is the only Doctor in the city (planet?) so of course he’ll be the one to do the examination/surgery no matter how far away from Rex this incident takes place.
@The Mighty Finn:
Somewhere, Dr. Rex Morgan, MD, is getting the sinking feeling he may be called on to do something *ugh*
medical relatedin the comic strip that bears his nameFIFY.
@Little Guy: Ah, then applying our detective skills* to today’s Gil Thorp, we determine:
1. Before Martin’s run, the score was tied 21-21 (and the announcer’s later “saved the game” is hyperbole, since MILFord could have won in overtime);
2. Martin made the touchdown with a little time left on the clock, score 27-21 MILFord.
3. The extra point succeeded (28-21 MILFord), and the play used up the clock – or maybe the announcer was over-eager and called it, even though theoretically the opponents could use the few remaining seconds for one play that might tie the game again.
4. You are indeed correct to say “These comments show more accurate interpretation of sports than the strip.”
* Real detective skills, not Slylock Fox’s “Pin it on a convenient suspect” or Dick Tracy’s “Shoot a convenient suspect.”
MW: This is like watching John Kricfalusi on a date with one of his 15-year-old animators.
MW: Nice to know that Mary is continuing to be a groomer creep in lieu of Wilbur and Ian. Next she’ll be simultaneously prudish and inappropriate when Olive has questions about the statue.
“Don’t stare, Olive, dear. A good girl has no need to worry about a man like that.”
“But didn’t you and your husband…?”
“We didn’t have the need to do anything filthy like what your parents are doing now. This is why my late husband and I had twin beds to tamper those urges. Those dirty, dirty urges…”
“Can I go home now?”
@Philip: Your Gil Thorp comment is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read here.
B.C.: I found it interesting, in retrospect, that Johnny Hart got so super-Christ-y in his later years that he introduced a cross-wearing character called “Anno Domini,” but never felt the need to give the only two female characters in the strip actual names other than “Cute Chick” and “Fat Broad.” Credit for “Grace” and “Jane” goes to his grandson, who took over the strip after his death.
Crankshaft: “Hello, GrubHub? I’d like to order a bacon and tomato sandwich brought to my bedroom by a twenty-something prostitute.”
MW: ”For instance, the penis on that statue is terribly small. If you’re ever with a man who isn’t any larger than that, you should point and laugh.”
JP: “I’m sorry, Mr. Parker, I just can’t take anyone with that haircut seriously. What does your barber call that — the ‘Gil Thorp?’”
Phantom: “That’s why I always carry a bottle with me.”
FG: Mmmmmm. Empress Aura is hot when she sarcasms.
MW – “I wish we could spend more time together, Mary. There’s so much I want to learn!”
“Well, now you know what a penis looks like, thanks to that statue. But now that you’re hanging out with the cool kids, I guess you’ll be finding out on your own anyway.”
Remember that scene in Omen 2 where Damien telekinetically kills his adopted brother? I guess now we know who Cody’s true father is!
RMMD: One of us said yesterday “Jonah’s gonna have a heart attack,” and I laughed because it was such an outlandish prediction.
C’shaft: I’m pretty sure delivery drivers, especially if they are young women, will refuse any request to enter a house at all to drop off a purchase, much less the bedroom.
Dustin: Shenanigans! Dustdad would never prioritize his wife over stuffing his face with sugar, and is especially resentful of her constant reminders that maybe he should eat a vegetable once in a while. He’d snatch that plate out of Loretta’s hands and tip its entire contents into his mouth, then spend the rest of his work day making sure no crumbs betray him when he gets home.
JP: And if there’s one thing we know about global arms traffickers, it’s that they’re easygoing, forgiving types who would never visit the sins of the parents on the child. Jesus, Randy, we all kind of figured you coasted through law school on your father’s reputation, but do you have to be so obvious about it?
Luann: Oh goody, Greg Evans is making “gamer girl” jokes now. I was just thinking, “You know, the problem with Luann is it doesn’t have enough outlets for its thinly veiled contempt of femininity…”
MW: June Brigman cared enough to recreate a couple pieces from the Met’s Greek and Roman collection, but not enough to draw the ornate columned hall devoted to them. Then again Moy is stuck in “vague platitude” mode, so she’s already expended more effort than the script is worth.
MW – Shouldn’t Dawn be here to comment on how the sight of a stone penis makes her think of all the guys who have dumped her?
RMMD We see a man having a moment, and another man having his last moment.
Zits was good today. The effort with composition plus show, don’t tell pays off.
FC: The kids aren’t old enough for Scared Straight, but they’re just the right age for Scared Shitless. And we’re not only talking about PJ.
“Put a cape on Lucas Martin because he’s the kind of deformed freak that Gaston Leroux wrote about and Andrew Lloyd Webber turned into a popular opera!”
Cody: “Well, I failed to connect with my half-brother, but at least I know we have a history of heart problems I should inform my doctor about. And, after all, isn’t this the whole point of knowing your family members?”
@Activist: Been there. Some years ago, for a social occasion, the wife decided to get a corset. Lacing that sumbitch was a real adventure, as there is a specific technique that requires a little practice, but the results were eye-catching to say the least. Fun fact : the saleswoman who helped my wife choose one also “acted” in adult films.
Marty Moon was about to say “Whip, put a crown of thorns and crucify Lucas Martin, because he just saved Milford!” but he managed to avoid this at the last minute and avoid being fired. Sobriety has its advantages!
@Needless Exposition:
? Like you I once was wild
Men shouted, “Oh you kid”
A life of shame I led
And dirty doings did
Until one night I saw the light
And heard salvation’s call
I’m so glad I didn’t hear it
Until I did it all ?
-H/T Comment and Green
@ValdVin: That’s Betty Comden and Adolph Green (autocorrect is my nemesis).
Gil Thorp: I’m pretty sure Lucas is supposed to be dancing in that past panel, but the art makes it look more like he’s abruptly had a seizure and is falling over.
Rex Morgan: Speaking of sudden maladies, there was a major missed opportunity here to have Cody die randomly of a heart attack or something in his car as a call-back to the stalker plot from a few months ago. But instead his brother gets it? The call-back is ruined!
Alice: Is it just me, or do many newspaper comic writers come off as people who are weirdly obsessed with having all their gripes validated and use their comics as a way to achieve that?
BC: Of course no Fish were harmed in today’s episode!! Just a fine acting job by two newcomers from our Piscine Tank o’ Talent, Bill and Phill. Dialogue delivery and timing were spot-on! I hope you folks appreciated the clever wordplay when Bill said “Sup?” and then Phill became SUPper for the Sabre Tooth Cat! heh heh h… you didn’t get it? I told ’em it was maybe too subtle… Anyway, I hope we’ll be seeing more of
these twoBill in future roles.Dustin: The way Loretta and Mirror-Loretta is lovingly gazing at that dish of cookies makes me think she has no intention of sharing with two jowly shysters.
GT: “This year’s Milford Mudlarks are wearing ads from their new sponsors, MILF, instead of numbers. Do you like older women? The moms of football players or coaches’ girl friends? School principals? Check out MILF, only for adults over 18.”
@Bob Tice: And his pal, Biggus Dickus.
Next week in Pluggers: Earl Houndstooth winding his 60 year old Timex with the caption “A Plugger’s smartwatch “.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Shouldn’t Dawn be here to comment on how the sight of a stone penis
For some reason I immediately imagined Dawn kneeling at the base of the statue and clinging to its leg, like some Frank Frazetta Conan cover. Though what it would look like after being filtered through Brigman is beyond my imagination.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Marty Moon is back on play by play.
Milford actually lost the game but they covered the point spread and Marty is picking up a couple hundred bucks at the sportsbook so THAT’S a win for him and he’s reporting it that way.
BTW I don’t think Lucas is kicking a PAT in Panel 3.
He’s just doing a badly drawn celebration dance.
Not a Griddy but a Groddy.
@Hibbleton: Doug Flutie once did an old fashioned drop kick for a PAT in a Patriots game.
@Rube: The art is then re-used with the caption: “Pluggers DO know whether to shit or wind their watch”.
The Keane Klan at Alcatraz is one Family Circlejerk storyline I can approve of.
Alice
Twilight Zone—remember?
“Eye of the Beholder.”
Beauty twisted, noses pig-shaped,
the crowd staring, pitying.
She was lovely to us—
ugly to them.
Now—what if, lean in—
what if Alice runs the same tune?
Characters staring back,
seeing us—
our smooth faces,
our ordinary skin—
and whispering:
“Poor things.
So ugly.”
@astroboy: The Bills’ running back is named Ray Davis? Do fans yell out “Do ‘Waterloo Sunset!!!’” when he takes the field?
GT:”Milford TD! Oh, there is a flag. Hands to the face? No, it is personal foul: face mask, and that takes the score off the board. Time runs out, and we are heading into OT. Oh, there is a scuffle on the field, the coaches are running out…”
DT: Just a reminder that even if Tess LaKoyle zap zaps the venture capitalist, unless it is some sort of weird death-end-rights clause, the VC heirs and /or firm will still have rights to the project. So killing him won’t really help!
FG: Good, Flash is actually thinking!
JP: Sure, Randy, yell and vent, and continue to forget to tell the person about the phone call – you know the one person who may be able to tap into a vast network of cell phone surveillance and actually help locate April if she is not actually dead and at the bottom of some fjord.
MW: How is that statue kept up? Hidden wires or is that single line supporting the whole thing?
Phantom: Note: glow in the dark striped panties is probably not a good idea.
RMMD: Oh no, acid reflux gas pain! Remember folks, contrary to popular media if someone goes down CPR can help but don’t expect it to save them.
One key makes you chuckle, one key makes you smirk small, and the other key doesn’t make you laugh at all/Go ask Alice when she’s hanging on Picasso’s wall.
Gil Thorp-Hey! He’s flashing gang signs.
@Bob Tice: 2- While Cody’s guitar gently weeps.
RMMD – Dude, if Cody weren’t still hanging around, you might end up having to drive yourself to the hospital, and Doc Morgan really hates that!
Don Abundio, translated:
“Don Abundio, I’m trying to get something through your thick skull”
“Ha! Ha! Ha! Yes, darling”
“Ho! Ho! What’s your point? Ha! Ha!”
“It’s a parody! Of your antiquated top hat”
“Can’t you see that yours is every bit as ridiculous?”
@Ken:
The extra point succeeded (28-21 MILFord), and the play used up the clock – or maybe the announcer was over-eager and called it, even though theoretically the opponents could use the few remaining seconds for one play that might tie the game again.
Play clock doesn’t rung for extra point attempts, so the Mudlarks could have squibbed the kickoff, and Rachel didn’t want to waste any more storytelling in the opponent trying a Music City Musical that would fail (because, “Yea, MILFs!”). Overeager Marty Moon does make sense, though.
FLASH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!: “And if you see a tech with an arm healing and a great smile, send someone to kiss her. For me. She should have showered and brushed her teeth by now.”
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: The Keane Klan at Alcatraz is one Family Circlejerk storyline I can approve of.
____________
“The Amazing Keane And The Keane Klan” (Hanna-Barbera, 1972)
@TheDiva: I’m pretty sure delivery drivers will go nowhere near Ed Crankshaft’s house after everything he’s done over the years.
@UncleJeff: NFL teams probably have somebody whose job it is to be the emergency kicker. I’m surprised to learn that person was Lawrence Taylor, though.
@Arabella: 40- “By the way….I was gonna swing by Macdonalds. Want me to bring back anything? My treat.”
RMMD – OK its a heart attack not the renal failure that I predicted, but Jonah may still need a kidney someday if he lives through his coronary.
MW – “Do you know the difference between HARD ROCK and ROCK HARD Olive?
GT: Panel 3 is my new favorite GT panel ever, solely because that jersey clearly says “MILF”.
Alice: “By the way, how do you like this tiny purse? I mugged it off of a gnome!”
RMMD: I’ve reached a new height in soap opera strips blending together in my mind; I genuinely thought that the half-brother here was Marty Moon.
@Philip:
On GT: BONUS extra points if your opponent’s nose makes a ‘TOUCHDOWN’ noise like a sports-themed clown. Did you notice the white face paint?
@Philip:
On GT: BONUS extra points if your opponent’s nose makes a ‘TOUCHDOWN’ noise like a sports-themed clown. Did you notice the white face paint?
That B.C. press release is by far the funniest thing they have published in decades.
“We work hard to keep the strip fresh and relevant for all fans and audiences,” says Perri Hart, the strip’s letterer and colorist. “And it just seems like the right time for ‘the girls’ to have names.”
Nothing says relevancy like giving girls names in 2019.
@Anonymous 104: “Hey,thanks, bro UNH I’d like one more Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese GASP with large fries before I… UNH!”
See, this is where Rex Morgan, M.D. really shows its special talent. Any comic can communicate heart trouble by someone clutching their chest, but it takes one that truly knows both cartooning and medicine to make us feel his heart skip a beat with the brilliant idea of leaving extra space between “out of”. I guess you could also write it off as bad kerning, but when has that ever happened before?
SPECIAL FOR BAJA GAIJIN.
Don’t forget that tomorrow’s Six Chix has a shout out to Baja‘s Late Thread Cuisine.
Here is a small sample of tomorrow’s strip.
Remember that the subject is salmon in case you want to do them one better (and I know you can).
@BTCinFlash: If egalitarianism was the goal, they could have left the women’s names alone, and changed Peter and Curly’s names to “Dumb Shit” and “Poor Schmuck.”
RMMD – And his dying utterance was his insurer’s stock symbol.
MW: Almost too good to be true– news feed from this morning says a 72-year old surfer dude in Florida rescued a father and son from undertow . Now that is what a hero is, Mary!
BC, meta: I love that press release. “We work hard to keep the strip fresh and relevant for all fans and audiences – which is why, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Nineteen, we suddenly noticed that there was a new trend in which women had names, just as if they were people! Our family has always wanted to give them names, we just … didn’t, for some reason!”
Crank: Not for the first time, I find myself wondering what rule Batty uses for what brand names get thinly disguised and what ones get used straight. After all, the alternative is thinking about the actual “joke”.
FC: Okay, we’ve done the Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, cable cars, Fisherman’s Wharf, that street that’s all zigzags, and now Alkatraz. So I guess Haight-Ashbury is next (Dolly: “The people who lived here were all fishermen who worked on the reefs. The exhaust from their boats was called reefer smoke.”) and then the Castro?
FG: “We need to save every one of them, Aura. Every woman, every child, every man…”
“Wait, there are children on the factory station?”
“I dunno, maybe? It just seemed to be the natural phrase to follow for some reason.”
JP: “My wife would never lie to me because she’d been blackmailed into brokering deals with international arms traders! Not a fifth time!”
Pluggers: You hear that, Diet Smith? Not only is the two-way wrist radio now a reality for many people, even Pluggers have them! Up your game!
RMMD: I know I joke a lot that editorial oversight on the comics page is asleep at the wheel and has been for decades, but let’s give them their due; at least once a year, sometimes even more, they send Terry Beatty an e-mail saying “So, um, isn’t this supposed to be about medical stuff?” and he goes “Ugh, fine,” and gives a random character a heart attack or something. (They used to send Ces an e-mail saying “So, um, isn’t this supposed to be about legal stuff?” but stopped after that led to the Judge Duncan story, which was even more incoherent than what he normally does.)
I’ll be adding comics snark in a little bit, but right now I just want to warn the good people that there’s a site at radioabingdon.com that has a simulacrum of the GoComics index, albeit months out of date, and seems to be some kind of downloader. If you get to GC through a search engine, make sure you stay away from it.
@Ettorre: Then “The Jester stole his thorny crown.”
Although a Jester being present would suggest that something funny happens. Right?
Even in non-humour strips like Gil Thorp?
@Paul1963: I find it interesting that once he fell into heavy religion, he never bothered to change their names.
I mean, I doubt a heavy Christian would continue to own a character named “Fat Broad”