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Hi and Lois, 2/22/18

I’ve always understood the “mood” in “mood music” to be arousal, and that the point of “mood music” is to get one or more parties in the “mood” for sex. So I’m sad to report that Hi has so lost his sense of joie de vivre that he now needs musical assistance to follow through with one of his great joys in life: jerking off to Golf magazine and then falling asleep on the couch.

Mary Worth, 2/22/18

I guess we’re going to do this thing where Mary and Ted continue to talk as if they’re having a normal business conversation while Mary slowly but methodically shatters all the bones in his wrist, and I frankly am here for it!

Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/22/18

Literally this entire week of Rex Morgan, M.D., has been a bunch of teenagers talking about eating lunch, so you’d think by the time they finally got to the climactic panel where a teen bites into a sandwich, they’d be ready to make it look like a normal human would look biting into a fully edible sandwich made of normal sandwich materials. Turns out nope!

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Hey all! I’ve been tweaking my ad setup a bit and I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of ad slots that are available on the site. There’s a big 970 x 250 billboard that sits between the first two posts on the front page and above the title on an individual post page; and there’s a 300 x 600 skyscraper that sits in the left-hand nav bar. They’re both great formats for striking comics art, and both get you a text shout-out in the Comment of the Week metapost.

You might remember Brian Carroll’s Two Party Opera as one of our big advertisers from last year. After his run completed, he sent me this very nice note:

I just wanted to give you an update on the success of advertising Two Party Opera on your site. A couple months ago, I was approached by GoComics for digital syndication and the comic has been mirrored there for about a month now. The visibility and readership for the comic quintupled overnight and I suspect that none of that would have been possible without advertising on your site (as I’m sure GoComics keeps tabs on the comics you roast).

Anyway, while obviously past performance doesn’t guarantee future results, etc., it’s a sign of what can go right for you if you choose to showcase your comic on a site dedicated to comics. Or showcase anything else, if you want! I won’t turn down your money! To start the process, head over to my BuySellAds page.

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Spider-Man, 2/21/18

So J. Jonah Jameson showed up in this strip a couple days ago, and I assumed it was because he as a newspaperman was chasing the big story of Spider-Man fighting with a giant lizard on the roof of a hospital in broad daylight. But, no, I guess he’s at some unspecified “business conference” where some of his business buddies wanted to engage in some classic business conference R&R: taking a boat into a swamp! I’m heartened to see that even though JJJ is of course a loud-mouthed alpha male, he, like me, hates nature and wants to spend as little time in it as possible.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 2/21/18

Also a couple days ago, Snuffy Smith found his father, who he … hadn’t seen in years and, one has to think, assumed was dead? Except he was just sleeping against a tree stump, Rip Van Winkle-style, and couldn’t be woken up. I know modern medicine hasn’t made a huge impression on Hootin’ Holler, but you’d think “don’t move the sick or injured, and definitely don’t drag them roughly across uneven ground for miles” would just be common sense.