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Guys, your comment of the week in a moment, but first, I must remind you: I have not one but TWO editions of the Internet Read Aloud, LA’s best live comedy show about the Internet, to plug! The first is THIS VERY NIGHT, at our usual place (The Clubhouse in Los Feliz) but at a special late night time, 11 pm, so we’re calling it The Internet Read Aloud: AFTER DARK.

Will this show feature songs about the online anti-circumcision community? Not to give too much away, but: yes. Here’s the Facebook event, if you’re interested!

“But Josh,” you whine, “I’ve got plans tonight and/or 11 pm is too late.” Well, fine, how about ANOTHER show one week from today, at the same place but our usual time of 8 pm? That’s right, it’s The Internet Read Aloud: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER.

This one will feature even more agitation for class war than usual, so you don’t want to miss that. Come to both to prove how extremely cool you are! And yes, this one has a Facebook event too!

And now, with that out of the way, your comment … of the week:

“My favorite genre of Pluggers, and really the only genre of Pluggers: ‘smug about remembering things.’” –ephemeralforms, on Twitter

And your hilarious runners up!

“Oh, Hi (and Lois) there, Brian and Greg Walker, who inexplicably signed their comic strip as ‘Reeves’! Do you want to talk about art forms that have noticeably declined in quality? Do you really, really want to have this discussion?” –Chyron HR

“You know another good way to get hurt is: playing volleyball with a basketball.” –Zerowolf

“I hope from now on the Family Circus is just children getting screamed at and berated with no joke.” –Roto13

“Barry Bader’s face in panel one is pure gold. It’s as if he’s apologizing on television: ‘Hi, I’m Barry Bader. You may remember me as being kind of a dick, and for my dad running over an innocent girl with his car. Well, I’m here to say that I feel a little bad about all that. Not that it was MY fault, of course, and it’s all water under the bridge now… but I thought it’d be appropriate to express my regrets, and to say that, as long as nobody makes any comment that could be construed as a criticism I’ll do my best to hold my outsized ego in check. Go Mudlarks!’” –Here Come the Judge

“Ghost curveballs that pass right through a batter’s crotch?! I HOPE THIS SEASON NEVER ENDS.” –pastordan

“Loose bread and celery in a grocery bag? She didn’t just go shopping; that’s totally a prop, and she orchestrated this entire meet-cute. She even put on her best grey flats to better accentuate her impossibly tiny feet. ‘OH NO,’ indeed.” –The Mighty Untrained FOOZLE

“Maybe I’m overestimating her, but I don’t think anything in today’s Mary Worth is an accident. Mary lives off meddling and ‘helping’ the wandering, aimless souls that drift through the world. By now, after seeming centuries of seeking out those who are lost, Mary has developed senses outside those of ordinary humans. The private thoughts and worries that plague a person’s mind glow like delectable fruit, shining in the darkness that is every day living. Mary knows someone at Charterstone is suffering. She knows they need only her ‘help’ so that she may feed. And so a tableau as old as time is constructed, to lure the needy out of hiding. A helpless little old lady, struggling with groceries as a bag rips, scattering its contents across the ground. As cunning as a spider’s web, Mary lays her trap. For what polite person would not stop to help a seemingly harmless and helpless old woman, arms full, pick up her canned tomatoes? Little do they know that they have just given this demon in woman’s flesh the tiny foothold she needs to climb up into their brain. To make herself at home amidst the detritus and emotional baggage they have accumulated in their years of living. To poke and prod and suggest and steer and manipulate, all in the name of being a helpful friend! I would offer a prayer to the poor soul about to be ensured in Mary’s most cunning of plans but it is already too late for them. A moment of silence instead.” –Lionheart

“‘How’s everything?’ ‘It’s a long story. Let’s see, in the first picosecond, the four fundamental forces emerged…’” –Peanut Gallery

“When an old retired guy has to explain to a kid what a ‘selfie’ is, you know Dennis’ all-cookie diet isn’t doing his brain any favors.” –BigTed

“Halftrack’s golf swing is so insanely out of control, he has to yell ‘Fore!’ when he’s putting. I blame the alcohol.” –Peanut Gallery

“‘I AM AWARE‘ the parasite that has entered Mary’s body declares as it gains access to her brain. ‘YOU’RE AFRAID TO TELL HER AREN’T YOU’ it declares, mistaking Tommy’s discussion of his own problems as a way to avoid warning Mary about the alarming changes taking place as she becomes a host-body.” –Brad

“This plugger has not reverted to his animalistic self, because he appears to have had all his canine teeth replaced by incisors. The result is so disturbing the sandwich is nervously sweating.” –nescio

“Literally 62.5% of the words in that Pluggers caption are homoerotic innuendo. I’m not counting ‘contains’ but I am absolutely counting ‘plugger.’” –matt w

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Guys, your comment of the week in a moment, but first: I have not one but TWO editions of the Internet Read Aloud, LA’s best live comedy show about the Internet, to plug! The first is one week from today, at our usual place (The Clubhouse in Los Feliz) but at a special late night time, 11 pm, so we’re calling it The Internet Read Aloud: AFTER DARK.

Will this show feature songs about the online anti-circumcision community? Not to give too much away, but: yes. Here’s the Facebook event, if you’re interested!

“But Josh,” you whine, “A week isn’t enough time for me to make plans, plus 11 pm is too late.” Well, fine, how about ANOTHER show TWO weeks from today, at the same place but our usual time of 8 pm? That’s right, it’s The Internet Read Aloud: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER.

This one will feature even more agitation for class war than usual, so you don’t want to miss that. Come to both to prove how extremely cool you are! And yes, this one has a Facebook event too!

OK, enough of that [ominous music sting] … for now. Let’s enjoy this hilarious comment of the week!

“When Gasoline Alley launched, penicillin hadn’t been invented yet and phenobarbital had only been on the market for six years. We should be surprised the band even knows what they are.” –Edmund Schluessel

The runners up are, as ever, very funny!

“Robbie is getting the information off the paper and updating the Iron Fist Wikipedia page on his laptop.” –Kevin Keeney, on Facebook

“Rufus has written a song with a goddamned semicolon in the title? Jesus, I didn’t even think Sufjan Stevens was that pretentious.” –Joe Blevins

“Bitten by a radioactive newspaper, Peter Parker has gained that medium’s proportionate strength. He can offer news many hours after it has ceased to be topical; he can pursue centrism by presenting both sides of any argument as equally valid; he can host op-eds of any cranks who are old enough to sound legitimate; he has a sidekick, ‘Funny Pages Boy.’ Also, he is slowly dying.” –Ettorre

“Ben Franklin’s statue pose is seated, legs spread, providing the best view of his junk — making it the most accurate portrayal in the field of historic sculpture. The only change the original artist made was to put pants on him.” –Truckosaurus

“Damnit, Alice, it’s 2018: you really should be communicating with your lover via WhatsApp or a second gmail address.” –pugfuggly

“Hoping against hope that today’s Marvin strip is going to lead into some diaper-related rapping. ‘My name’s Jenny Miller and I’m here to say / I regret birthing Marvin every day.’” –Schroduck

“Barry’s Mom really has really perfected her martyred expression. And I mean literally — panel two looks like a central icon for the church of Our Lady of Sports Widows.” –TheDiva

“Doesn’t this Hagar presentation fit with the strip’s experimental, non-linear timeline? In the grand reconstruction of the saga of Hagar’s vikingr raids in England and France, ‘Lucky Eddie dates a mermaid’ is somewhere between ‘shipwrecked on a desert island’ and ‘Eddie and Hagar are burned at the stake for several pretty understandable reasons.’” –Navigator

“I assume the punchline is not that Dagwood can’t eat all that food, but that he’s going to murder a pizza-boy for carrying a pizza on its edge.” –Andy L

“OK, that one thing is pretty much a sword. But that other one is the longest turkey baster I have ever laid eyes on. I dare say Thanksgiving prep is serious business to these ladies.” –Paula Gehringer, on Facebook

“With a single candle and a simple sacrifice of eggplant and meatloaf, the Lockhorns summon the primal darkness from before the Big Bang (known in Haiti as ‘L’Ombre Vieux’ or ‘Baba Ojiji’) to devour this forsaken and loveless universe once and for all, because the complete annihilation of everything, and everything beneath everything, is the only way they can be freed of one another’s company.” –Applemask

“Do you get the feeling Gil is annoyed that one of his jocks put math class to good use? ‘Damn these newfangled statistics!’” –Old School Allie Cat

“Given the run-down state of the Smith home, I’m guessing that the salesman is just staring at all this going on through a large hole in the wall, shaking his head and sighing.” –JJ48

“‘I hear there’s a lot of [death by natural causes] going around,’ says the literal old buzzard hiding among the tree-diner’s foliage waiting to hear which funeral home and whether it’s an open casket, hoping for some of that sweet, sweet carrion.” –Bobby Sneakers

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Hey all! I was away from Comment Compiling duties for much of this past week, but I still got a few days’ worth of COTW for ya! Let’s start with this great top one:

“Just what every teenage girl enjoys, to have her pores displayed on a 65-inch screen in ultra-HD! This is exactly the kind of insecurity-boosting situation that’s turned underage makeup mogul Kylie Jenner into a billionaire.” –BigTed

Followed by these hilarious runners up!

“You better learn what it is, because we’re one of five nominees, and when we lose, I want you to feel appropriately dejected and hurt! …But please don’t turn your pain into another installment of the series.” –Hogenmogen

“‘Oh geez,’ thinks Tommy, as he notices that his ginger ale has turned red. All those years of skipped dental visits while zonked on vicodin have not done great things for his gums. (Today’s strip is sponsored by the American Periodontal Association. Remember to brush and floss daily so you don’t end up like Tommy!)” –GeoGreg

“I’m trying to decide if Gil means ‘Kevin Pelwecki will always be relevant’ or ‘Kevin Pelwecki will live forever in despair at his lack of relevance.’ Gil’s a huge asshole, so probably the latter. ‘What about Kevin Pelwecki?’ ‘What about him?’” –jroggs

“I love how the art and the text don’t seem to match up at all here. Clearly they’re supposed to be saying something like ‘Thanks for dinner!’ ‘Have a good night!’ but the writer is like ‘NO I STILL HAVE FACTS ABOUT OBSCURE COMICS AND MORE TERRIBLE INACCURATE WEATHER JOKES!’” –pugfuggly

“Some archeologists are just too damn obsessive — but not famed archeologist Howard Carter! Of course, the real story is that his Carnarvon funding ran dry a long time ago and he’s been coasting on his reputation ever since — otherwise why would the earl have had to rent the house to the Downton Abbey producers? — but his eager postdoc assistant Becky got herself a MacArthur grant. Follow the bitter academic rivalry as it unfolds, in the breathless reporting of Woods and Wildlife Magazine!” –fausto

“Ah, I see Becky found another of these hideous masks at the dig. Suddenly, I know what to call this culture. Please say hello to the Rusty Civilization.” –Voshkod

“One of the most recognizable landmarks in mid-Michigan is a Dixie Baptist Church billboard next to I-75 between Clarkston and Holly. It depicts Jesus with the legend, ‘Are you on the right road?’ I thought of that billboard as soon as I saw panel two of this comic, in which the sad-eyed auto mechanic faces the reader and asks that eternal question, ‘Will a midsized SUV get you where you’re going?’” –Joe Blevins

“Pluggers keep food long after its expiration date because they’re dogs. It doesn’t even get most of its flavor until after it’s spoiled and been scraped off the sidewalk.” –seismic-2

“It looks like somebody was trying to kill mom with poisoned juice but accidentally murdered their own children in a terrible ironic twist. #justpluggerthings” –Escape Zeppelin

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