I don’t think that’s right, actually
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Herb and Jamaal, 11/9/26
Is it, Herb? Is it? Is that what watching for a single kernel of corn to pop is like? It’s like waiting for the next news cycle to occur? Is that right? Is it really?
Hagar the Horrible, 11/9/26
There were two small Norse settlements on the western and southwestern coasts of Greenland in the early middle ages, but they drop out of written historical records by the mid 1300s and archaeological evidence shows that they had ceased to exist by the mid 1400s, and there is a lively and vigorous debate as to what exactly happened. Did the lowered temperatures of the so-called Little Ice Age make it impossible for the Norse to maintain their agricultural way of life? Were they overrun or displaced by the Inuit, who were better adapted to the Arctic and who arrived from the north around the time the Norse settlement declined? Did Europeans find cheaper sources of ivory, which had been the Greenlanders’ main export, making it impossible to import wood and iron and leaving the colonies economically unsustainable? The answer is probably some combination of the three, and we have to imagine that the decline might have produced a scene very much like this, in which, in the absence of native firewood, the Greenlanders burned their own infrastructure, built from materials imported at great expense, to keep away the bitter cold for at least one more night.
Alice, 11/9/26
Hey, did one of you get an email from Alice and not reply to it? Uncool, man! She’s honestly kind of bummed about it.
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Judge Parker: I see the Judge Parker bought Ford’s newest Brobdingnagian monstrosity, the Ford Assdragger.
Pluggers: Plugger Dogman needs to realize he needs a man purse if plans to continue to be a mobile hoarder’s cache.
Herb has done something that made national news, and he’s desperately waiting for something worse to happen.
Alice:
Now, that installment is what I call a real knee-slapper.
Herb and Jamaal:
“And they say that Orville Redenbacher was the ‘Kernel Sanders’ of popcorn!”
Proud of Hagar for inventing earmuffs.
Hagar the Horrible:
“Arf! Arf!”
“What’s that you say, Snert? — Timo‘s in the well?”
Hagar the Horrible:
Hang on, why is there a second Hagar wearing a trapper hat? Why isn’t there a second Lucky Eddie to go along with him? Have the frigid conditions not only forced them to burn down infrastructure for warmth, but to resort to cannibalism for sustenance? I’m guessing Eddie’s wish was to be spared from the ravenous hunger of the two Hagars that had already killed his double, but I doubt it will help. The real question is, which Hagar will be the last one standing? There can only be one!
Rex Morgan, MILF Diver – Good for Beatty to make Mindy the twatwaffle in this one.
And, oh shit, this is going to be a day with many comments about Alice, which I try to not look at since it hurts my eyes.
Alice: This really is a SIGN OF THE TIMES: Alice is the last person left on the planet who still sends personal emails.
MW: It may seem like the key takeaway of today’s strip is that Mary doesn’t do laundry. But actually, the real lesson here is that Mary is so cold-blooded, she doesn’t have enough body heat to melt birthday candles left in her pocket for days.
Hagar the Horrible:
“Since we Norsemen don’t have indigenous coinage, we have to resort to throwing Nafkas, Nigerian Nairas, Nicaraguan Cordobas and Netherlands Antillean Guilders in this well!”
“Why is that, Hagar?”
“It’s ‘Four N‘ currency!”
Today in “The writers of Herb and Jamaal make linguistic choices that I wouldn’t”: Shouldn’t that be “Watching for the first kernel”?