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Miss Mr. Lonelyhearts

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Mary Worth, 10/27/05

If Mary and Jeff’s eternal platitude-laden ramble was free verse, then Mr. Weston’s poignant consideration of this letter this week has been as restrained and precise as a haiku. You have to admire the savvy visual sense that went into composition here: rather than illustrating the sad tale of marital woe that’s being detailed in this missive with representative scenes or episodes, the artists have forced us to stare at Wilbur’s bespectacled, combed-over melonhead all week. Presumably his furrowed brow is meant to convey both the compassion and the wisdom that he’ll soon be bringing to his response. His empathy for others is so boundless and magnetic that, like St. Francis, he draws the little birds close to him as goes about his ministry of meddling.

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Metapost: The tweaks, they continue

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Some more tweaks to the template a-comin’. Again, this post is the place to comment on the horrible things it does your personal Comics Curmudgeon reading experience.

Update: OK, I give up for the day. The site should be tweaked back to the way it was before I started with my meddlin’ this afternoon, so there should be no new problems, anyway. If anyone out there is a CSS wiz and can tell me why IE is pushing too-wide graphics past the bottom of the left-hand nav bar on screens with small resolutions, I’d be eternally grateful. Ugh.

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A glorious day

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Zippy the Pinhead, 10/26/05

Today, for the first day in, like, ever, I laughed at Zippy the Pinhead. The last line is funny, but I really like Zippy’s opener. I like it so much that I want to shout it, Zippy-style, over and over. “Inappropriate use of circus imagery! Inappropriate use of circus imagery! Inappropriate use of circus imagery!” There, that was fun. So here’s to you, Zippy the Pinhead of October 26, 2005! You justified the space you took up in today’s paper. Let you be a lesson for future generations of Zippy the Pinheads! But, sadly, you probably won’t.