Happiness and sadness
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Hagar the Horrible, 8/23/26
I honestly don’t know if we’re supposed to understand “Lucky Eddie is an animal lover” and “Lucky Eddie’s girlfriend is a half-human, half-fish” and “Lucky Eddie is getting off on doing undercover furry stuff with hot human ladies” in combination as showing that he’s slowly and methodically trying to figure some extremely specific kink out or if he’s got a set of polymorphous perversities across this whole general conceptual space. As long as everyone involved is having a good time, that’s all I care about!
Dustin, 8/23/26
God, Dustin’s eager facial expression in the third panel here is heartbreaking. “Were you embarrassed? In front of all your friends? Was this a situation where you were humiliated, instead of me? Tell me more. Tell me everything.” This is why Dustin’s dad never takes his son to work.
23 replies to “Happiness and sadness”
Dustin:
“Were you embarrassed?”
“No, but a little insect with a top hat came out and started singing ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ !”
Hagar: The fact the girls know it’s a “big guy” makes me wonder exactly where Lucky Eddie’s genitalia are placed.
HtH:
“I’d give my canine teeth for a dog like you!”
Dustin: I was well into my teens before I figured out that “Jiminy Cricket” was a euphemism. I was fully an adult before I realized the same about “For crying out loud!”
Slylock Fox-“Wanna see my pearl,” Cassandra Cat says uncrossing her legs.
MW-Oh I’m sure Dawn lifted Tommy up a few times.
MW-“My dear friend you’ve talked me off the ledge too many times to count.” Unfortunately it was off the other side of the ledge instead of the one we want.
HtH:
“What would you like your ‘dog’ name to be, Lucky Eddie?”
” ‘Sammy,‘ Hagar!”
FC: Can a house vomit a bad meal? Just asking.
DtM: Will you put that book down and stroke my ego, already!
Speaking of stroking egos…
MW: Without a witness, it’s just words, Wilbur.
MW:
“Tommy thanked Dawn for making him feel like he matters…truth be told, though, he doesn’t!”
HtH:
“Oh, look! — Ann Akranizzam and her friends are at the park!”
Dustin: Meanwhile the customers of the Sexy Wet T-Shirt Car Wash are furiously demanding their money back.
S4th: Okay, credit where it’s due, this is actually a pretty solid premise with a good payoff. I liked it.
DT: ‘Gee Widescreen, you’re a swell guy, letting me out of our criminal enterprise with no questions asked! Right after I insulted you too! I can’t wait to pick up the big sack of money you’ll have waiting for me in an hour!’
Sheesh, for the ‘smart’ one Shaggy here might be the stupidest one in the bunch…
CS: This damp squib of strip tells me we have at least another week of ‘Whaaaa? Montoni’s has a picture of mah fadder?!?!?’ glurge before we cut back to the never-ending Batton Thomas interview.
Hey, an avid interest in Ed Kudlick’s humiliation is the first normal healthy impulse Dustin’s ever had.
@Pozzo: [as an adult, pronounces “For crying out loud” in his head]
Gee whillikers!
@matt w: Ah wait, “crying” works like “cricket” here, it’s not a euphemism for what you would get if you say “For crying out loud” in an accent that drops the “r.” As our friends to the north would say, tabarnak.
HtH: I call B.S. REAL Vikings skin their own animals for disguises.
RMMD: I predict that we’re in for a whole week of Stupid But Stubborn Times Two.
MW: Given that he’s not the brightest bulb in the marquee, when Dawn comes home crying, Wilbur is guaranteed to make things worse by being all Team Tommy.
C’shaft: Again, I highly doubt that Ed Kudlick–a man who time and again has show he believes the entire world should revolve around his own interests and preferences–has even bothered to modify his behavior at any time for any reason.
HtH: I would have thought 9 Chickweed Lane would be the first strip to get into pet play. Or maybe Six Chix.
Beetle Bailey is playing to its history-loving fanbase today, reminding us about the fifty dozen French taxis commandeered to bring troops to the First Battle of the Marne in 1918.
Or just cheaply jumping on something they saw finally make it into a dead tree newspaper.
I can’t tell.
DtM: Alice pays Margaret $100 a week to keep Dennis out of the house for ten hours, with a $20 bonus for any musical instrument he carries out the door. It’s not enough.
FC: House is relieved. That poop and urine ain’t gonna spread itself on the bathroom floor. Or in the hallway, kitchen, and bedroom.
Zits: I really can’t figure out which character in this comic goes with the “wears aluminum foil on their head to keep the Agency from reading their thoughts” chestnut. Why can’t this have popped up in Mary Worth?
Blondie: “Honey, that’s not worth an Uh-Oh! Oops! until you’ve got water coming out of the light fixture. Again.”
H&L: Hi should know better than to compete in a sport against Thirsty without a case of cold ones.
Hagar the Horrible:
Look, I’m a furry, and I want to assure you that this is not a common furry activity, okay? Fursuits are virtually always worn standing up on two legs, and they’re mostly used for cavorting and frolicking, not getting close to women under false pretenses. For that matter, it’s not a “secret spy disguise”, either. Excuse me, these are Vikings, and stereotypical cartoon Vikings at that. They don’t spy, they raid defenseless coastal villages. Sometimes they get spied on, such as in the legend of Alfred the Great disguising himself as a minstrel to infiltrate the Viking camp before the Battle of Edington in 878. So it’s not a furry thing and it’s not espionage training, it’s something far more perverted and sinister. Of course, you already knew this strip was unwholesome just from reading it, but I wanted to clear up any misconceptions you might have developed as you recoiled in horror.
MW: And there it is. The obligatory Mary Worth basks in getting heaps of slavish praise for helping somebody Sunday strip. And onto the next story arc starting Monday
9CL: JFC, it’s the same thing every damn day
Dustin:
Unsurprisingly, Dustin’s dad considers any sort of display of whimsy to be shameful and humiliating.
C’shaft: No, he was called that because of the tendency of his bandmates to punch him in the mouth.
DT: No, Wallhack, didn’t you see the ominous shadowing? It’s a trap!
HotC: Wow, this is better written character and dramatic dialogue than any of the soap strips has produced in years.
JP: Can Uber drivers give ratings to their passengers? Cause I think this one would welcome the opportunity.
Luann: Sounds like Tiffany forgot to cull Bernice and Luann from the mailing list.
MW: Much as I hate how much this strip lauds Mary (especially since she doesn’t really do anything anymore other than offer tired axioms in commentary to other people’s lives), I am grateful that it clarified she is the role model the Sunday quote is referring to, not Wilbur. I mean, I suppose being a cautionary tale is kind of a way of being an example to others, but still….
Phantom: “….So clearly what I need to do is dedicate my entire life to a vendetta against everyone I deem immoral, forcing my descendants and all the nearby indigenous communities to go along with me.”
RMMD: The twins will deadname Rene to his face then act all indignant when Grandpa Lyle refers to him as “your Uncle Jimmy,” which I guess is consistent with their one character trait of being petty and evil all the time for no particular reason.
HtH: Y’all are looking at this wrong. This was all HAGAR’S idea. Honestly, when a big gay bear-man asks if you can “walk on four legs like a dog” — well, he’s not thinking espionage, let’s leave it at that.
@Anonymous: Well of course. Whimsy is unmasculine, like empathy and eating vegetables.