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Family Circus, 4/5/06

PJ’s squalling. Jeffy’s furious. Barfy looks like he’s about to live up to his name. Yep, dad, this is why you became a workaholic. The less time you spend under that hideous drop ceiling, the better.

Herb and Jamaal, 4/5/06

For a while, I thought that the vertical line near our patient’s posterior was supposed to be his buttcrack, which we were seeing thanks to some cubist-style unrealistic perspective, but after some consideration I think it’s just the edge of his hospital gown, and we’re just seeing sidal cheek nudity — naughty, but not offensively icky. It’s a delicate balance when you want to do a rear end gag in a family comic strip. I imagine the artist and the syndicate going back and forth on this one until there was just enough tuckus showing to make the punchline clear, but not so much as to give the bluehairs a case of the vapors. They were ultimately successful, but, sadly, all that effort was still put out in the service of a joke about Jamaal’s ass.

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Herb and Jamaal and Kudzu, 2/27/06

hey guys just fyi

kids like 2 txt ech othr on their cels true

but txt msg refs dont = instnt laff riot

actual jokes stil needed even for gen y

+ lady in h&j: only luzers use 2 thums 2 txt

thes comix dont make me lol

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Herb and Jamaal, 2/9/06

I had hoped to take the high road and simply ignore the current Herb and Jamaal storyline, in which Herb hopes that by parading his dwarfish, half-naked, pot-bellied body around, he’d get Jamaal and Yolanda to admit that they love one another, if only to make him stop. That was before today, when we see that this feature has made the unfortunate decision to mine the supposedly rich vein of son-in-law-wearing-mother-in-law’s-drawers humor. So here’s my pronouncement on the matter: if Herb and Jamaal had an embassy, I’d burn it down.