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I thank everyone for your e-mails! You always keep me up-to-date on the latest comics-themed insanity from the dark recesses of the Web. But today there’s been such a flood on two items that I feel I should share them with the rest of you:

• We all had a good laugh at Garfield without his thoughts; but are you ready for Garfield minus Garfield? When will the nonstop abuse of poor Arbuckle end?
• Fark.com frequently has Photoshop contests, and today they launched one based on Mary Worth. Probably not safe for work, but utterly hilarious.

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Greetings, readers! You may be waiting for this week’s comments of the week. Well, here’s #1!

“A plugger knows they’re pregnant when a baby falls out of their hoo-hoo.” –Perky Bird

And the runners up! Very amusing!

“Look at Drew’s face! The last time I saw an expression like that was in the mirror the night before my colonoscopy.” –Poteet

“Frankly, I love Dad’s expression in Marvin. It says, ‘I’d respond, but it’s all I can do to hold up this coffee cup. I’d kill myself, but that sounds like work.'” –Bunnë, Official Comic Execrator

“It was only a matter of time before the bestiality started [in Momma]. I only hope this means they’ve run out of incest jokes.” –Gold-Digging Nanny

“The new [Gil Thorp] artist knows even less about sports than the old one, evidently. The girls are playing with what looks like a medicine ball, both teams are in home uniforms, and the jerseys have no numbers whatsoever. Must make calling fouls a real crapshoot. ‘You, gobsmacked-looking blond girl. Intentional awkwardness!'” –GotFuzzy

“I also like the way Steve’s mom in Judge Parker just cuts to the chase and asks if it could be a bomb. I guess when you’re old and dying of cancer, you have no time to wait through a typically glacial JP plot development.” –Harold, Christian Single of the Jungle Patrol

“Today’s Gil Thorp is much like a bizzare, drunken first date in that I have no idea what happened or why, and it finished in the bedroom.” –Hasty Penguin

“The great thing about having ‘Laffs’ in your book’s title is that you are legally exempt from having to provide any actual laughs.” –Tabby Lavalamp

“‘Lost dog’ is just plugger code for runaway sex slave. Everyone knows that.” –alamo

“A team of spelunkers went in in an attempt to diagram Mary’s sentence — never to return.” –Pozzo

“I, too, am happy that Funky the character will now be shown as being an evil industrialist. We need to get some enjoyment out of this strip, and at this stage I’m willing to settle for rooting for the cancer.” –Mac

“After Alan does drugs with his friend ‘Jones,’ he’s going drinking with his buddies ‘Miller’ and ‘Busch.’ Then he’s going to meet up with a prostitute named ‘Gonorrhea Hooker.'” –Allie Cat

“Damn, now Foob owns even more of my brain cells. Luckily, I can kill them by drinking.” –Les

“I love how the guys in the plane automatically assume that Mark isn’t just assaulting these two people. Obviously Brice is the one with facial hair, so he must deserve whatever ass-kicking he’s getting from Mark Trail.” –Lindsey ^_^

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So many items of interest to you, the faithful reader, have built up over the past few days that I have bundled them together into a maga-metapost! Perhaps most important: I remind everyone who lives in, or who will be near to, the Tucson, AZ, area on March 7 that you will have an opportunity to meet me! And the lovely and talented Mrs. C.! And Bob Weber, Jr.! We’ll be meeting up at the Kon Tiki lounge at 6 pm (an hour earlier than my initial announcement). (UPDATE: Mrs. C. wanted me to make it clear that we’ll be having dinner.) Here’s the thing: I’m going to be making reservations, so if you plan on meeting up with us, it is imperative that you let me know so that I can make the reservation for the correct number of people! I’m going to make the reservations on Monday, so please e-mail me at bio@jfruh.com before then! Please? Pretty please?

Now, on to the other random bits o’ info!

• Most of you are familiar with the outrageously awesome Reynard Noir, which reimagines Slylock Fox as an ongoing old-school noir film. The site’s creator, Rob MacArthur, was recently interviewed by Kittysneezes.com. A fascinating look behind the scenes! The second part of the interview is where he starts really talking about his site.
• Speaking of Slylock Fox, Bob Weber, Jr., now has his own store at CafePress! I don’t get a cut of any of this stuff, but you should check it out anyway!
• I’ve been hearing rumblings for some time about the coming Luann-based musical, but it all seems to be coming to fruition; apparently there’s going to be a staged reading at San Diego’s New Village Arts Theatre this coming Monday. (Does a “reading” of a musical actually involve singing?) Any faithful readers in the area are desperately begged to attend and report!
• Finally, I’ve been meaning to share this picture and note for a while. Faithful reader Barry encountered Mark Trail himself in the comic strip section of Universal’s Islands of Adventure!

  

  

  “It felt blasphemous to turn Mark Trail’s mighty fist of justice against him,” Barry reports, “but the only way to pose the shot in its rightful Mark-Trail-beatdown-handing-out context would be to have him punching me in the crotch, and Mark keeps his punches above the belt. As any good naturalist should.” Barry also notes that “just up the street was the Spider-Man ride. I tried to stage something there, but couldn’t find any bricks or TV sets handy.”