Just getting her husband’s feeble mind palace revved up then going back to her sudoku
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Blondie, 11/1/25
The thing about Dagwood is that he’s a dullard. He’s not stupid, though he’s also clearly not a genius, but mostly he just lacks any kind of imagination, which is driven home by the fact that we get to see his reveries and learn that they’re just the most on-the-nose stuff imaginable. “Wow, chefs racing through kitchens on zip lines? I think that would go … a little … like this!” [imagines a bunch of chefs racing through a kitchen on a zip line, adding zero additional information or details]
Gil Thorp, 11/1/25
The current Gil Thorp storyline is a flashback to the ’80s, when Milford dabbled in having a girls’ football team, with Emily “Mimi” Clover, the future Coach Mrs. Coach Thorp and subsequent Coach Ex-Mrs. Coach Thorp, being one of the students most excited about the prospect, and Coach Gil Thorp being the team’s … coach? A student coach, maybe? I hope??? Because he married Mimi later????? Anyway, we learned earlier that the whole scenario ended badly for unspecified reasons, which is why Mimi doesn’t like to talk about it, but I think after today’s panel three we’re going to learn that the school district shut the team down because it was getting “too sexy.”
128 replies to “Just getting her husband’s feeble mind palace revved up then going back to her sudoku”
Gil Thorp-If they are playing football then where is the equipment? Even when they are practicing regular football teams wear the equipment.
Gil Thorpe. I was all “Wow, the artist is starting to improve from her debut. Good for her.” But then, I saw it was a guest artist.
GT:
“Nice tackle, Roxanne.”
“This is no time to talk about fishing equipment, Emily.”
Blondie:
I think that the lysergic acid diethylamide is just starting to kick in for Dagwood here.
MW: “I believe love is the conduit for telepathy”
“That’s interesting, Mary, because I have a guide book on the art of living well, the nature of love, finding partners, maintaining s-x life, and other aspects pertaining to pleasure-oriented faculties.”
“Forget it, Jeff. I’m not reading the Kam@sutr@.”
Blondie:
“It says to ‘sue Doku‘ here, Dagwood, but I don’t even know who ‘Doku‘ is!”
MW:
“Because desperate times call for desperate measures!”
“And, as John Heywood aptly put it in 1546, when I was just little a girl, Jeff, ‘Muffin ventured, muffin gained’ !”
GT: An smooth transition for Gil from “Protect your balls!” to “Protect the ball!” when coaching the girls football team.
GT: BOOM! Right in the boob! And so begins Mimi’s lifelong and unsuccessful quest for identity.
BLONDIE: Does Dagwood identify as a chef? Sure, he can slap together a hell of a sandwich, but I’m pretty sure he’s never turned on the stove.
MW: Is this post-mortem even longer and stupider than usual, or am I just getting older?
The Blondie team blew their entire budget on drawing something at an angle, you can’t expect details.
RMMD:
Today’s purple-infused waiter applied for a position at the Thai Palace because he heard it was a “plum” job.
@MKay:
MW- Unfortunately all three are correct. But Moy seems to be more insufferable than usual.
MW: Last week, Sunday had no mention of Olive’s telepathy, while the dailies have been soaking in it. Someone speculated that they’d start diverging, Sunday remaining about a meddlesome old lady, while the dailies became a Sense8 ripoff. So I’m really looking forward to Sunday, to see if it’s going that way.
To be honest, I’m also hoping Sunday starts a new arc, putting an end to this interminable Olive story line. Though when Wilbur Weston’s face fills four of Sunday’s panels, I may regret saying that.
RMMD No, you fool – you’ve been talking about the most in-demand manuscript of this century openly in front of the waiter! Now he can go to the parking lot, steal the copy from the car, cross off your name and submit it to another publisher to gain the riches and cause chaos when two identical novels are published… wait that might actually require an interesting plotline, and we can’t have that
MW The first panel dialogue is so much like a mad scientist explaining themselves to the hero of a bad movie plot that I wouldn’t have been surprised if the second panel jumped scenes to show Olive hooked up to wires and machines
JP Is Neddy supposed to look jazzed that she gets the candy pile? Because the Halloween arc wrapping up with “I didn’t care about trick or treating, certainly not for the candy results which every other little kid is so excited to get, but it’s nice you thought to include me in a normal human activity, something my parents never managed to do” is either incredibly sad or a sign that this isn’t a human girl but rather the experimental android that replaced her and needs to learn how to act human.
GT — Emily sure did an excellent job of protecting the ball, considering the tackler suddenly vanished from her left side and reappeared to lower the boom on her right.
GT — Oh, and I never understood why people called football erotic before. Thanks, guest artist!
DT: I remain confused about when this Minit Mystery is set. Costumes, speech, and stereotypes are right out of early Dorothy Sayers, suggesting the 1920s, but algebraic chess notation wasn’t used in Britain until much later — though it had been invented and was used on “the Continent,” which might be an obscure clue pointing toward a foreigner. Or maybe the writer thinks people in present-day Britain still dress and act that way?
Does anyone else check in on 9CL every few months just to see if Brooke has gotten help yet? Does anyone else feel the need to scour their web history after doing so?
@But What Do I Know?: shhhhh, don’t criticize the guest artist. Otherwise, we’ll be back to the weirdly angular heavy-chin version that we had.
Mary Worth Mashups: Some missing final panels. Which one of them do you wish were canon?
Blondie – …and today on Plugger Express – Our contestants sit on auto-flush toilets as conveyors of loaded burritos continuously deliver the goods….
GT – Splendor in the grass…no balls required….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@Baja Gaijin: I feel Jeff’s “desperate times call for desperate measures” cries out for a panel showing Mary being bundled into a straight jacket, ideally with Jeff telling someone “Yes, quite mad, kept babbling about telepathic dogs.”
@22 Ken: That’s a great idea. I, though, don’t have any straightjacket images. I do have a link to Los Straightjackets.
RMMD:
Gazing wistfully at the teapot, the waiter muses: “What a crock!”
Don Abundio, translated:
“Being alone together in nature will really let us get to know each other!”
“Look, I only agreed to come on this stupid trip…”
“because your servants needed a fourth for bridge!”
@Ken: The notation concludes with ‘le roi morte’ so a Frenchman, or a Brit putting on airs.
@Baja Gaijin: If the first one leads to Mary being whisked off to a hidden jungle village to meddle the Bandars and never bother us again, I’ll take it!
@CanuckDownSouth: But is the world ready for a version of H. Rider Haggard’s She with Mary Worth in the title role?
FC: Long before I reached elementary school age, I was able to consume candy without smearing it all over my face. Of course, I’m not a Keane kid.
RMMD:
[Waiter]: ‘I just fell into a vat of Thai plum sauce — Nam Jim Buay. Now what am I going to do?”
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[Augie]: “Why the purple haberdashery, ‘garcon’?”
[Waiter]: “I’m plum out of other clothing choices!”
@20 Baja Gaijin:
I don’t know but the third one should have an extra panel with a couple of dudes singing Fish Heads.
Blondie- ZIP guns would be more interesting.
Blondie I could absolutely imagine a show called ‘Zip Line Chefs’, as a kind of hybrid format between ‘cooking competition’ and ‘hospital emergency show’, with a dash of ‘courtroom drama’ at the end.
GT Oh man, you work six months on your Gil Thorp Erotica fanatic and they just…print this.
RMMD: Augie looks very creepy when he’s leering.
Blondie: Wait. . . so now the Food Network (TM) (violation) shows hour-long programs all night long?!? When did this start happening? No sign-off after the Star Spangled Banner? No reverse mortgage infomercials? Crazy!
Blondie: Now we know why her chair faces away from Dagwood and the television. The next panel would have shown him masturbating to a fantasy cooking program.
GT – “Also, good job avoiding the roadwork on the other side of those orange cones.”
GT: As the marching band strikes up the “boom-wacka-wacka” background music.
Blondie: 24 chefs cooking 24 meals in 24 hours? So… each chef gets a whole day to cook one meal? Wow, slow down with your crazy impossible food fantasies, Blondie.
Gil Thorp: It actually took me a moment for it to register that this is Gil Thorp because the art isn’t utterly terrible for once.
I’ll give this to Dagwood’s imagination – he’s not afraid to use real trademarks because no corporation is going to send a team of lawyers into that mind.
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Not being a leading expert on onomatopoeias, should the sound of a tackle be “BOOM” or did something go terribly awry? One or both of these girls need to be taken to the hospital, stat! But give them some time first, they’re having a moment and I’d hate for one of them to have to settle for that boring coach.
@Schroduck: Even each chef needing to make 24 dishes – with a once-per-hour judging and removal of the worst dish’s chef – doesn’t sound very intense. A whole hour to make a dish instead of 20-30 minutes? or needing to showcase 5+ courses in an hour? Have they seen even one episode of Chopped, Iron Chef, Masterchef…? The only thing mildly strenuous is the round-the-clock aspect and with the leisurely timeline, a chef could get ahead early on the finicky steps of any dishes planned for the wee hours!
Blondie – If a chef and a half takes a day and a half to cook a meal and a half…
@Bono Vix:
Yeah, my first thought was, “Hey, when the art on Gil Thorp get GOOD?”
@CanuckDownSouth:
Maybe the appeal is that each chef does a different recipe, and no chef can copy a recipe a chef already used for a previous hour, meaning over 12 000 different recipes? Maybe it’s the VOLUME that appeals to Dagwood?
(Though that’d still be kinda crazy, because why would you bar chefs from making the same dish as another chef in a COOKING COMPETITION? The entire point is finding out who is better at cooking, being able to directly compare how different chefs make the same dish is one of the best ways to do that!)
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Crankshaft : “… huh. Hey, has that animatronic bear mascot always been ther-*SUDDEN JUMP SCARE SCREECH*”
GT in the comments there seems to be a lot of confusion whether Gil is an actual coach or a student coaching but I think in the not-clear-at-all way the comic now works that it was implied he’s a student helping out because he knows football and no one else will? There was some throw away comment about pranking him that made it seem he was a student too… Since they went through the trouble of saying this is 1982 specifically, it does make Gil and Mimi canonically quite a bit older than I assumed….
GT: Why are these girls playing tackle football without any protective gear? The answer, of course, is simple: because it would get in the way of Emilmimi’s sapphic awakening.
@Ken: Ten bucks says it’s just another one of Costello’s knuckleheaded moves. Algebraic notation wasn’t formally adopted by chess stenographers until 1970, and the British were notoriously conservative about sticking to the old style. Unless the dead guy was a secret German or Spaniard, he would have used Descriptive. You’d think a writer with Costello’s impressive beard would get these little details correct.
But hey! Maybe it’s an important clue! Murdered because of Spanishosity!
MW: “…I’m GLAD you and Oliver were saved. Because desperate times call for DESPERATE MEASURES!”
And DISPARATE DIALOGUE. WTF are these two people TALKING ABOUT????
@Bob Tice: Emily just discovered that Roxanne really does have “tackle”.
It’s pressing against her hip and Emily is not uncomfortable with it.
It’s GT trying to show their readers that gender fluidity existed before the 2024 elections.
C’shaft: So in order to even set up this stupid fake-out, it must be assumed that a) the Pizza Monster, despite wishing to keep their identity secret for reasons unknown, would unmask to eat pizza in a public place instead of just taking the damn pizza home, b) the other characters can’t for some reason just sneak out of the office and catch them unawares, c) nobody else is capable of seeing the Pizza Monster, despite anyone being able to walk in or even past the large glass windows, and d) Pete and Mindy care enough to have a security camera but not enough to make sure it has an unobstructed view.
DT: I know I’ve ragged on the Minit Mysteries for not providing enough evidence, but this is swinging too far the other direction. I can assure you that I don’t care enough about either chess or this two-week filler story to figure out what this means.
JP: If KitKat is hoping for a Reese’s Pieces-style boost from this, I have bad news for them.
MW: (Professor Frink voice) The conduit for telepathy is…love? Who’s been screwing with this thing?
Phantom: Maybe Jungle Patrol should have chosen a logo that looks a little less like a swastika…
Pluggers will never let go of cruel nicknames for you.
@TheDiva: They are wearing shoulder pads — just not the hip pads or thigh pads or jerseys usually worn at football practices. I’m just surprised they are wearing tucked-in t-shirts.
I suppose we’ll get to the bared tummies later.
(Insert sound of softly wailing saxophone)
@TheDiva: They are wearing shoulder pads — just not the hip pads or thigh pads or jerseys usually worn at football practices. I’m just surprised they are wearing tucked-in t-shirts.
I suppose we’ll get to the bared tummies later.
(Insert sound of softly wailing saxophone)
Gasoline Alley – Oh, no – the newlyweds are fighting already. It’s the repulsive hayseed version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Mary Worth – Desperate measures? Telepathically contacting a pair of dogs is more of a what the fuck.
Last Sunday I was sure that MW would be introducing a new story on Monday. However, this dreck has continued all week and has reached the point of beating a dead horse into the ground. MAKE. IT. STOP.
Pluggers – His hair appears to be blond, and that’s actually more likely for a former redhead. The red color fades, leaving the hair a faded blond instead of turning gray.
9CL – He never leaves home without his thesaurus? I thought he had it memorized.
@UncleJeff: … and of course it would be ridiculous to put on helmets, why they might muss up their luscious locks!
How do you practice properly without a helmet, which affects your view and head balance? Or did they try to play without proper gear?? I know this is leading to “sexism killed Mimi’s fab football team”, but what if it was just concerned parents shutting it down due to justifiable safety concerns?
Gil Thorp: If you “BOOM!” like a thunder machine when someone tackles you in football, talk to your doctor to see if “the emergency room” is right for you!
Rex Morgan, MILF Diver – I’d love for Augie Doggie Style to go to his car and find that it was broken into with everything stolen. And that it was his only manuscript.
G. &&#$@#! Thorp – Regarding questions about lack of pads in practice, I’ll point out that St. John’s great coach, John Gagliardi, had padless practices. Of course, there was no tackling at practices. Yet his teams tackled great and won multiple national division 3 championships.
Blondie: Three white, middle-aged men wearing hard-soled leather shoes and fantasy chef outfits, complete with ridiculous hats? Oh, I’d say Dagwood’s got the details, all right.
@Everything Is Better With Monkeys: I watch the train wreck every day. I worry about the people who favorite each episode. A lot.
MW- Dr. Jeff: “Mary I also believe that love is a conduit for telepathy. That’s why I think of you every night when I’m beating off!”
CS: The hell with who the Pizza Box Monster is. Your blocked security camera also failed to spot the guy who made off with the cash drawer while you all left the dining area unattended.
@31 Sequitur: I “did a Brigman” and simply copied missing final panels from the past, with minor modifications. No fish head songs in past mashups.
@45 Anonymous: “Maybe the appeal is that each chef does a different recipe, and no chef can copy a recipe a chef already used for a previous hour,…” It’ll be two weeks, tops, before they start doing the Late Thread Cuisine recipes.
RMMD- I wonder wonder wonder wonder who. Who wrote the book of love? Was it Auggie? Maybe as a coffee table companion for “Telepathy Explained ” by Mary Worth?
@TheDiva: re: DT: YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED OUT THE GAME ON YOUR OWN CHESS SET YET?
Slacker Mudge.
GT: Kiss her!
Blondie: Congratulations, your imagination just conjured up the world’s slowest zip line.
Gil Thorp: Bow chik a wow wow.
LUANN: And once again Luann gets patted on the head and told that her lack of ambition, passion and even a definable personality is actually a good thing and she confidently struts forward, character growth averted once more. 3 weeks of story and she ends up right back where she started. Expect a reappearance of her BS T-shirt soon.
GT: I’m no expert on football technique, but does applying a stiff-arm to the defender help or hurt when trying to “protect the ball”?
Tomorrow in Mary Worth.
Moy’s weekly quote is correct but she attributes it to the wrong brother!
Research, Moy. Simple, easy research! Do it!
GT: Ah, so the current Barajas retcon is that it was always obvious his ex-wife and mother of his children played for the other team and he just didn’t want to see it. He’s the Ross Geller of high school sports.
The Far Side: Dagwood’s ancestors.
@Sequitur: So did she confuse Harpo with Groucho? Billy Carter with Jimmy?
Gil Thorp-Foxy Football
Crank: If only there was some way of physically moving from the back room of Montoni’s to the front of Montoni’s! I’ve often pondered how Crankshaft characters might die, but I admit I’d never considered “starved to death while surrounded by pizza because they forgot how doors work.”
DT: So, my usual compulsion to research things kicked in, and it turns out that the first few moves (my eyes started glazing over after that because reading chess notation is boring even for a nerd like me) are a standard opening called the Giuoco Piano or “quiet game”. Given the fact King’s incredible cryptography skills are being interpreted through Eric Costello, I would suggest immediately heading to the club’s music room and seeing if there’s a clue hidden in the piano.
Assuming the code is a little more complicated than that, it occurs to me that our suspects are a bishop, a knight, and … a count?? I checked whether “Poniatowski” had a relevant etymology, and nope. I suppose all the letters of “pawn” are in there somewhere.
GT: While it’s entirely possible Bajaras has changed his mind about this, I’m pretty sure he has previously rejected the usual “comic book time” gloss in favour of “Yes, Gil Thorp has been the coach at Milford since 1958. He is ageless and eternal.” (Maybe the Count Thorpula bit is more canon than it seems?) And while this is kind of weird in itself, it’s even weirder to then be like “But obviously, Mimi didn’t become the girls’ coach in the 70s, and Mrs Coach Thorp in 1985! That would make her ridiculously old!”
MW: “So, Mary, what am I thinking right now?”
“Sorry, Jeff, did you think I said tolerating someone’s company was a conduit for telepathy?”
SH: Okay, so on Thursday, I commented that Puff getting his tongue knotted with another frog was clearly part of Holbrook’s obsession with all characters, human or otherwise, being in relationships. Yesterday, Puff explained that he and the other frog had been going for the same fly, and I thought “Oops, looks like I’m the one who was reading too much into this.” Well, nope, turns out I wasn’t!
@72 Ukulele Ike:
You’ll have to tune in tomorrow. I’m sure you’ll get it immediately.
C-Shaft: Bad luck for you guys that the bigass Halloween spider is right in front of the security camera. Wonder who decided to put it there.
Dustin: A heaping mixing bowl of Tic Tacs is a pretty big initial investment for a kid, is it not?
GA: Hey Howie Doone Sounds Just Like Boone But With A D, there are times when you should keep what pass for thoughts inside your head. Looking at the ol’ clock on the wall, it’s one of those times, which in your case is to say ALL THE TIME.
JP: Charlotte has her Kit Kat Bar, her well-worn book on Skinnerian operant conditioning methods, and her 5’7 guinea pig. Life is good.
Luann: The kid’s seven, the lesson isn’t that profound, and learning stuff isn’t exactly Luann’s jam, so 0 for 3.
MW: I’m not sure sending telepathic messages to a couple of dogs counts as a desperate measure. Killing and eating Stanley the Balloonivator would have been a desperate measure.
Phantom: The Unknown Commander tasks Patrolman Smythe with asking Colonel Worubu whether he has Prince Albert in a can.
RMMD: The waiter walks by with dead eyes. Augie is the fifth “author with a bidding war at two different publishers” he’s seen this week.
Lockhorns: Leroy is to be complimented for creating what those in the food service biz call a tap water incident.
H&L: Grocery shopping without the kids is Hi & Lois’ idea of couple’s time? Either they’ve put Chip in charge (bad idea) or hired a sitter (every one in town refuses them).
I guess it’s Free Range Afternoon.
No, I’m not putting “Thirsty and Irma watch them” on the list.
@Liam:
Gil Thorp has just married fellow coach Emily. Slylock rolls his eyes and says they’re not going to last. How does Slylock know this?
RMMD: what’s going to happen when Summer gives Augie’s book zero stars on Goodreads?
Trying to decide if the decision to use the trademarked Food Network logo was sponcon, or the kind of decision you make when you know nobody cares what you do. Honestly could go either way.
@Horace Broon:
On Crankshaft, and actually leaving the security room instead of mindlessly looking at the camera feed : Hey, this is a pizzeria, so it’s in the rules that you can’t leave the office, and instead have to wait for the killer animatronics to jump scare you. Sadly, Cranky and pals are safe, because Montoni’s only animatronics are a bunch of old Mego action figures with cheap homemade tuxedos over their superhero costumes.
@Artist formerly known as Ben:
On Crankshaft : it would have been so clever if, at the start of the week, we had seen the spider being put there, and by whom specifically, and if it had turned out to be the Pizza Monster itself, as part of a scheme to prank Mopey and Mindy for their nosiness (Mindy unwittingly sabotaging herself would have been nice, too).
But no. The week started with all the decorations already put up.
Luann: Did the most terminally unhip comic in the pages just sneak in a “6-7” reference?
HAPPY DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
To those who celebrate. Not sure if even Slylock mentioned it, but here’s my response:
COURAGE: With our communities in full ICE mode, my morning run stopped when a parade began passing. Yes, despite fear in both citizens and noncitizens a parade featuring mariachi music, Latino bands, dancing children proudly entertained us. Grand Marshall was said to be a Latino news anchor and a city police car with balloons and Latino officers glided by. Yes, this defines courage.
@75 Sequitur: They attributed what Moe said to Manny, right? Or was it Jack who got maligned?
@76 Artist formerly known as Ben: on Dustin: The little weird kid with the big head never said they’re fresh Tic Tacs.
@83 Activist: Agreed. Totally courageous, unlike Apple considering removing headphone jacks from phones to be “courageous”.
@84 Baja Gaijin:
Maybe it had to do with the Stooges.
But no, it wasn’t them.
But concerning Manny, Moe and Jack. You don’t want to know how Jack got his name.
@Ken: No, that itself is a clue, UK, US and some of the Spanish language nations still used descriptive notation for a while, but algebraic didn’t reach take hold until post WW2.
I guess the clue is that the writer of the game is not British. Also the score of the game isn’t a standard score but has annotations (the ! for good move, ? for questionable move) suggesting someone added them on or replayed the game with the annotations being added. The final line “the king is dead” in French again is meant for us to look for someone continental – which would fit because Britain had and still has fits of bashing Johnny Foreigner. But does the game actually end in mate. On the 22 move, it is suggested that knight to f6 double check leads to checkmate, but only if Black plays 22… Kf8 allowing 23. Qg8#. If Black plays 22…Kh8, there is no mate, and Black should win being up a rook.
GT: Great improvement in the art and plot / pace. Just one small quibble. The tackler is approaching from the runner’s left side but the second panel has the tackle occurring from the runner’s right side. Did one the panels get flipped? Like Panel 1?
MW: Doctor Jeff is wondering if a physical conduit between two bodies could also aid in telepathy and love? Dream on doc.
@Activist:
#83. Ddlm cont.: Only Frazz mentioned it was a holiday, albeit a Catholic one. Even Baldo didn’t mention holiday this year.
FG: Check out panel two. Somebody just took advantage of the close quarters to cop a fish-butt feel.
@Baja Gaijin: Hmm. Wonder how long he spent collecting them, if not.
@90 Artist formerly known as Ben: Not long–he swept the movie theater’s floors for a few days.
@Dr. Larry Erhardt:
#82. LUANN: If so, “6 7” became uncool the minute you and I heard of it. And certifiably dead the second it became a word of the year. Boomer approval is lethal to hipness
If “girl’s football” played out like this really, the sport would’ve been a titan of pay-per-view. And magazines a young Grave Mind bought. For, you know, learning about plays. And stuff.
@92 Activist:
I’m not sure what you said but I approve.
The show Blondie is seemingly referencing actually seems pretty brutal, as performance reality stuff goes. Given the sheer lameness of ziplining, Dagwood’s vision is also brutal, so at least there’s an adherence to a concept.
Marge Simpson: Gil Thorp turned into a hardcore Lesbian sex comic so gradually, I barely even noticed.
@A Grave Mind: There was a film called “Evolution” about scientists fighting mutants. One of the protagonists doesn’t like sports at all, unless its women’s sports. Because.
Dumbing of Age: Today’s strip makes it official. Everybody enrolled at Indiana University is gay.
And, finally, Augie, you tell her it’s back at your place. Like, you can’t just enjoy dinners at lame restaurants with a now-kinda-weird-looking gal with a terrible smile THAT much, can you, guy? Talk to me, Goose.
MW: I don’t know but wouldn’t hate be a conduit for telepathy as well? And why can’t Mary feel Jeff’s horniness?
Congrats to guest artist Kit Mills for making a Gil Thorp that isn’t hideously ugly.
Have Funky and Pizza Monster ever been seen together? If so, Funky being the Pizza Monster DESPITE being seen together is literally the ONLY way this is cool. And by “cool,” I mean “Batiuk Cool,” which is so totally Not Cool.
@JeffMcm:
Who knew it was possible? Besides everyone?
@102 A Grave Mind:
Pizza Monster is the ghost of John Darling.
@Everything Is Better With Monkeys: Agreed–and it wasn’t intended as criticism!
Late Thread Cuisine: Would you believe “swordfish with pineapple chunks”?
@Horace Broon: I checked whether “Poniatowski” had a relevant etymology, and nope. I suppose all the letters of “pawn” are in there somewhere.
Poniatowski anagrams to Iowa Inkpots. I trust you can connect the dots from there.
@Sequitur: Moy’s weekly quote is correct but she attributes it to the wrong brother!
Our bons mots are frequently misattributed. Nobody can tell us apart.
@Baja Gaijin:
Oh, I believe it. Eat it is another story.
@A Grave Mind: I think in RMMD we might see Summer reading Augie’s book and hating it, then wondering whether or if she should tell him. A relationship built on a lie is still a relationship, right?
@The Breathtaking Bonehead Brothers: Jones is the name. I’m one of the Jones boys.
@106 Baja Gaijin:
Those swordfish should have lunged instead of parried and maybe they wouldn’t have been caught.
@Ukulele Ike: #89: And she obviously doesn’t like it.
Happy All Saints Day everybody, where all good pluggers dress up and go buy their marked down Halloween candy. Nom-nom!
@Ukulele Ike: (sigh) I get wanting to show solidarity in These Unprecedented Times, but at a certain point the sheer demographic improbableness ends up breaking the willing suspension of disbelief. Imagine writing a comic set at a public university where all the characters were homeschoolers, and that is the level of probability you’re looking at here.
You must admit that Dagwood does sometimes have good taste. The old Food Network logo is better than the one they’ve been using the last twelve years.
@Guillermo el Chiclero:
#114. See Frazz?
@Baja Gaijin:
Swordfish duels lobster for the title of Best Thing To Come From The Ocean. Pineapple, when cooked, rules. This one’s a win.
Sex Organ V.D.: “Wednesdays and Fridays at McDonald’s it’s a date!”
@Activist: See Frazz?
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See Frazz carp talk all about Mrs Olsen behind her back! Carp talk! Frazz! Carp talk!”
MT: Why are these three characters called the “Hog Hunting Heroines”? Feral hogs can be dangerous, but hundreds of thousands of them are killed in Texas every year by hunters, male and female. Do these MT women do something really special like somersaulting right over the hogs while ululating, Princess-Xena- style? I’m going to be sorry I asked, aren’t I. Meanwhile, the feral-hog population in Texas keeps on growing. The real heroines will be the female researchers who figure out better ways to reduce the hog numbers.
The Familliar Mucus: “That’s our Daddy taking a dump behind your tree!”
Frazzhole: “The only one that matters is Madonna del Ghisallo.”
@Baja Gaijin: Late Thread Cuisine: Would you believe “swordfish with pineapple chunks”?
__________________I find that very hard to believe,Mr. Smart!
@Poteet: I hear Texans like barbecue. Can’t they eat their way out of the problem?
@Guillermo el Chiclero: Yeah, Velle is pissed because Flash told Zarkov she tried to put the moves on him, and now the old bastard thinks she’s “easy,” like a common Frigian atmospheric meteorologist.
@122 GarrisonSkunk:
What? He’s taking a dump? Well, he better put it right back where he found it! It doesn’t belong to him!
@Ukulele Ike: You’d think so, wouldn’t you. But there are a lot of problems with trying to eat them all, including the highly-variable meat quality and the need to inspect it for pathogens and parasites, which feral hogs carry a lot.
Whoops, it’s late already. But, an extra hour tonight. Yay!
Say…. I never cared 1 bit about Gil Thorp. UNTIL NOW