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Goodness, is it comment of the week time already? Yes, yes it is.

“I have often wished I could produce an exclamation point in a balloon over my head. This is, in fact, Spider-man’s only actual superpower.” –Crankenstank

Also time for the runners up!

“I can’t wait to see Mary’s expression when he reveals his plan: a 5 foot tall cake crafted perfectly in her image, wearing nothing but a few well-placed fig leaves. ‘That’s the nature’ part, he’ll explain, his eyes intense but emotionless.” –pugfuggly

“You hope the ceiling is lead-lined? Trust me, it’s not. This is the Funkyverse! Think ‘asbestos.'” –sporknpork

“I think I know how this storyline of Mary Worth ends. Mary and John stand in the kitchen, pistols in hand, aiming at each other over a range of about six feet (Mary is, of course, holding her pistol gangster-style, like a proper lady). The kitchen is covered with dirty mixing bowls, frosting litters the walls. Their clothes are white with flour and powdered sugar. Their fingers twitch on the triggers. Mary narrows her eyes. A dove coos softly from the windowsill. And then the oven timer rings.” –Voshkod

“I think the last panel of Gil looking introspective and in deep thought would be awesome without the dialogue bubble; he’s got that ‘thinking man pose atop a throne of skulls in Hell’ look about him that would be awesome to airbrush onto the side of a van.” –Jon the Red

“If slumping on a couch drinking wine counts as ‘working,’ then I really need to rethink my understanding of this country’s unemployment crisis.” –Legend of the Arctic

“This is my ward, Rusty. We call him ‘Rusty’ because of the specific way he repeatedly injures himself, and ‘Tetanus Shot’ was too long.” –Sock Puppet

MW: “I have never before seen anyone pick up a cake by simply sticking one’s hand underneath it and lifting it up whole, and I have never before seen anyone pick up a freshly baked and steaming anything without a pot holder or an oven mitt. But then, I have never before seen a cake made out of meat, either. Ah, the beauty of nature!” –seismic-2

“How’s my favorite guide? Are you still leading gullible tourists from the city out into the middle of nowhere where you can kill and rob them?” –Liam

“I like it that they call dumping dissidents in a lake an ‘interment camp.'” –Comrade Denny

“What really gets me is that Sam is looking at crudely-sketched pictures of windows, intently trying to determine what they are. When he lays his eyes on a crudely-sketched picture of whatever Neddy bought, it will surely drive him into madness.” –Ben Ferber

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I post more or less the same things to all of these, which is to say: links to things I’ve written (including a link to the Comics Curmudgeon when it’s updated), announcements when I am appearing live at events (did you know that I am doing stand-up intermittently now? well, I am!), links to things I find funny/interesting, and random jokes and observations, somewhere between zero and several times a day. There’s no need to follow all of them, just whichever network you like best (though I do post the random jokes and observations somewhat more often on Twitter). There’s no need to follow any of them, obviously, but some people like doing so, so here’s the info if you didn’t know it.

Most of you are probably aware of all these, as I have links at the top of this page and also used to announce them like this once a month, but then I got lazy about it, so I thought I’d let the newbies know. Also: everyone should be made aware that I will be doing a live comedy thing at Baltimore’s famous 14Karat Cabaret, in a couple of weeks! Here is the Facebook event for that if you like keeping track of your schedule with Facebook events.

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Would you like this week’s top comment? I imagine you would!

“Sorry, folks, but when Mary Worth says ‘cocoa’ she doesn’t mean sex. She of course means a drab, tepid, beige beverage which tastes nothing like cocoa.” –Digger

And the runners up! Very funny!

“I hope the rest of the week consists of the Parker clan sitting around the table marveling at the size of the check. On Saturday, the Revolution starts and the Parkers are the first ones guillotined.” –Calvin’s Cardboard Box

“Even with a rifle pointed at him, Mark remained calm. The monkey was close, in the trees. He spread his consciousness out to the nearby animals. There was a salt-water crocodile nearby; Mark touched its primitive reptile brain and brought it closer, just in case the monkey failed. But that wouldn’t happen. He saw Juan through faceted eyes of a hundred mosquitos. Distraction, if he needed it. And he saw Juan out of the monkey’s eyes, smelled the fear on the man with the monkey’s nose. Nature, red in tooth and claw, took a deep breath. And pounced.” –Voshkod

“The rack zoom on Jeff’s dissociative episode in panel 2 really highlights the non-Euclidean geometry of the car. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s strip, in which Jeff slams on the brakes, garroting Mary with the seatbelt that’s apparently stretched over her jugular, and the Eschermobile tumbles out of the two-dimensional confines of the comic and into Marmaduke.” –Nate

“Mark Trail: There is nothing quite like wrapping up and recapping a bizarre and idiotic series of events, while making empty promises of ‘stories,’ over a great lunch of mustard straight from the jar.” –Marc

“Awww snap! This is the moment all of us Anne Eiffell/TJ ’shippers have been waiting for! No, it’s not, there’s no such thing.” –OMEGA SUPREME

“In fact, Evans, why don’t you stop drawing your female characters in cat-fights and dedicate you spare time to depictions of an unhappy TJ. You know, TJ dropping his ice-cream cone, TJ missing the bus in a rainstorm, TJ in the waiting room at the VD clinic. I WILL PAY YOU GOOD MONEY TO SEE THESE!” –pugfuggly

“I hope Sherry has good health insurance. She has probably acquired at least a dozen kinds of exotic Kraven-pelt parasites by now, apart from the lung damage caused by Kraven’s very special brand of B.O.” –Poteet

“Teacher says every time a bell rings, Margo houses down some more Goldschläger.” –Doctor Handsome

“Yep, Jeff’s black, orange and pink auto color scheme makes perfect sense.” –Doodle Bean

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