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Hey everyone, I know what you’re thinking: “Early comments of the week? Does that mean that Josh is going to be going on another vacation?” Sure does! But for a lucky few, that means you’ll get to meet me in person in Tucson next Friday. I’m going to try to make this a regular part of my travels, so perhaps this will ease the pain of my vacations somewhat. In the mean time, you’ll be in the hands of the inestimable Uncle Lumpy ’till Monday 3/10.

Oh, and before the CsOTW, I do have something for your delectation from faithful reader Andrew Leal: a compilation of the greatest panels from retired Gil Thorp artist Frank McLaughlin:

Ahhhh, takes you back, doesn’t it?

Anyway, here’s this week’s COMMENT OF THE WEEK!

“Hey, look, Lu Ann! Wolves! Here, let me throw you to them.” –Darkefang

And the runners-up … also hilarious

“Tuesday’s FBoFW is dreadful, in the sense that it genuinely inspires dread.” –Trilobite

“Pray all you want, Frosty, summer’s still coming. AND WITH IT YOUR DOOM.” –Inspector Dim

“When Dee married into the Patterson clan, she became The Human Uterus. She exists solely to incubate, birth, and raise Michael’s spawn, so all her deprecated body functions (abstract thought, aesthetic pleasance) have been steadily degrading ever since.” –commodorejohn

“Shouldn’t [the snowman] be given some clothes to wear before he starts praying? At least Frosty had the decency to put on a hat!” –BigTed

“Yikes. You could stick a cello in Funky’s crotch, and I don’t mean that in a good way.” –gkl

“Maybe Snowman Larry would be happier if he had some GIANT FUCKING GLASSES. You know, like the most striking and easily drawable visual feature of the real Larry King. I understand you can’t draw the smell of Vick’s Vap-o-Rub and cheap hookers, but I think the Keanes could have tried a little bit harder on this caricature.” –The Other Commenter

“‘Belly Laffs’ is truly baffling. Where is this published? in Terrible Joke A Day Weekly? She’s typing, so it appears not to be a comic strip; one has to imagine the joke without the accompanying picture, which, to be fair, would make it easier to ignore.” –Evan

“Snowman Larry King looks kind of beat down. He probably just noticed that Josh has paired him with ‘Belly Laffs’ and realizes there’s something worse than melting.” –kingklash

“It’s the smug smile of satisfaction on Jenny’s face as she ‘writes’ this tripe that gets me. As if she’s sitting there convinced that she’s churning out Pulitzer winning material and is at that moment planning which hideous turtleneck she’ll wear when she accepts the award.” –ConcreteQueen

“A-Train doesn’t seem to mind the intrusions though. He’s too busy trying to impress her with his suave, ‘I know how to purchase a money order’ smile.” –# ar_d

See ya next Monday, everyone! Be nice to your favorite Uncle.

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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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