Marvin, 11/27/10 and a panel from the Lockhorns, 11/28/10
For instance, had I skipped the weekend I would have missed the moment when Marvin and the Lockhorns stopped pussyfooting around and just owned up to their respective central premises. Marvin threw in a half-assed (see what I did there? I know I’ll be punished for it) pun to try to keep within the conventions of the comic strip form; that Lockhorns, true to the comic’s uncompromising commitment to authenticity, went someplace much, much darker.
Panel from Dick Tracy, 11/28/10
Meanwhile, only two weeks into my Sunday Dick Tracy reading, I’m already quickly falling in love with the Crimestoppers Notebook. Look at this diminutive balding Cubs fan, brazenly proclaiming to all and sundry that he’s planning on being home alone! Even the mysterious trench-coated bad guy has been reduced to open-mouthed shock at his openness on this subject.
Apartment 3-G, 11/28/10
Over in Apartment 3-G, Paul Linski prepares to bust his move. You can tell he has less than honorable intentions towards our Lu Ann because he uses crass abbreviations like “’cuz”. Ha ha, I can’t wait to learn what depraved sex act he’ll think Lu Ann’s request to “move her piano” represents!
This entry was posted on Sunday, November 28, 2010 at 08:14 pm and is filed under Apartment 3-G, Dick Tracy, Lockhorns, Marvin. | 83 responses to “” Ellie
November 28th, 2010 at 8:17 pm [Reply]
Paul Linsky looks more like a woman than most of the ladies in that strip…
SamECircle
November 28th, 2010 at 8:19 pm [Reply]
National Inquirerer, A3G edition:
Aunt Iris is revealed as pro wrestler! When asked to comment, she replied that she had “A way [with] working out”
AND
Could Paul’s claim that LuAnn is his cousin be true?
Apeman
November 28th, 2010 at 8:25 pm [Reply]
Paul the effeminate male is probably only using LuAnn to get closer to her Uncle Rick Moranis Aunt Iris.
Francisco Arrowroot
November 28th, 2010 at 8:27 pm [Reply]
Is the focus on Iris in the second top panel supposed to draw attention to the supposed profundity of her vacuous cliché, or to foreshadow the revelation that none of this was as random as it seemed, and only too late will the girls realize that she was pulling the strings all along?
Patrick
November 28th, 2010 at 8:28 pm [Reply]
You can tell that Loretta isn’t taking the solemnity of church seriously because she’s chosen to wear kicky teal shoes with her black ensemble. Leroy decided to make up for this blasphemy by wearing leotard pants that fit over his shoes.
Bryan
November 28th, 2010 at 8:29 pm [Reply]
When I was a kid, I would cut out and save the CrimeStopper’s textbook entries into a scrapbook. I read Dick Tracy religiously from, like, 1978 until whenever that shitty movie came out. That soured me on Dick Tracy forever.
Rusty
November 28th, 2010 at 8:32 pm [Reply]
A3G: Luann is getting hit by the aging stick in most of these panels. Have they bothered to stick to the post make-over rendering? Because I haven’t bothered to check whether they looked significantly different than this.
Marvin: Potty training is usually attempted after the age of 2, when the child has some speaking ability. I don’t think Marvin the character has ever been shown speaking out loud. Not a funny observation, I know, but it’s Marvin so why should it have to be funny?
Marissa
November 28th, 2010 at 8:34 pm [Reply]
I specifically remember Bill Watterson discussing how, at some point in the early ’90s, comic strip artists suddenly got a whole new palette of thousands upon thousands of colors, freeing him to create the Southwestern landscapes and lush forests that permeated so many of Calvin’s fantasies.
So why, almost twenty years later, is A3G apparently stuck with utilizing as many colors as you’d get in a small box of Crayolas?? Do you have to pay extra for the expanded palette? I can’t think of any other reason why Piano Mover would have hair the color of a rubber duckie.
Andie
November 28th, 2010 at 8:34 pm [Reply]
“Hello Paul.. I’m gonna need you to Move. *wink* My Piano. *nudge*. Again.
And maybe again after that.
I hope you have the … *koff*… energy”
bourbon babe, unbuckled
November 28th, 2010 at 8:39 pm [Reply]
@Rusty (#7): re: A3G: Other than Tommie, none of them has changed at all—and even Tommie seems to be slowly creeping back into pre-makeover territory. That whole plotline was just about as fruitful as any night Mark Trail spends in the LoFo marital bed with Cherry.
@Marissa (#8): When my sisters and I were kids, we referred to the “Flesh”-colored crayons as “Flegh”—which perhaps captures perfectly the general human color scheme of this strip.
Rusty
November 28th, 2010 at 8:39 pm [Reply]
A3G: Move the piano? No wonder the g-spot is so difficult to find.
Zla'od
November 28th, 2010 at 8:46 pm [Reply]
Dick Tracy: Never tell the trench-coated man you are going to be home alone. Instead meet him at a coffee shop, then suck him off in a public restroom.
hypochrismutreefuzz
November 28th, 2010 at 8:48 pm [Reply]
I’m disturbed by the way the figures in A-3G shift, shuffle, twirl, rotate in and out of sync. I try to match up the backgrounds with the arrangement of people and it just doesn’t make sense. The interiors must be a tesseract.
pccmdoc
November 28th, 2010 at 8:57 pm [Reply]
Having a battle with your toddler over toilet training by having him sit bare-assed on your apparently carpeted bathroom floor while you’re trying to get him to poop is not what one would call wise.
Unless you’ve got some special deal with your carpet cleaner…
Jamus The Bartender
November 28th, 2010 at 9:17 pm [Reply]
@Bryan (#6): That is so cool. Did he teach you how to “question” suspects and not leave marks?
bunivasal
November 28th, 2010 at 9:18 pm [Reply]
Is Marvin’s bathroom a giant hexagon or something?
Vince M
November 28th, 2010 at 9:33 pm [Reply]
@Marissa (#8): When you say ’small box’, I guess you mean those boxes of 3 colors they give out to kids at restaurants – the ones with a high wax-to-pigment mix that color in sickish pale hues?
Krazy Kat
November 28th, 2010 at 9:33 pm [Reply]
I really feel for Marvin’s mom. That kid has been an unceasingly efficient poop machine for the past God-knows-how-many years, yet he is stubbornly determined to do so only in his pants. What an asshole. (See what I did there?)
Krazy Kat
November 28th, 2010 at 9:34 pm [Reply]
@bunivasal (#16): So too is the Lockhorns’ church, apparently.
Neon Leon
November 28th, 2010 at 9:37 pm [Reply]
DT: Does the “Crimestopper’s Textbook” kid not even care about hiding his hideous deformity? It’s not every day you see a right hand on the end of a left arm!
This Guy
November 28th, 2010 at 9:46 pm [Reply]
Are you sure that’s just a caption in Marvin and not the strip’s new title?
Austria
November 28th, 2010 at 9:53 pm [Reply]
Sunday snark…
Blondie: “You did it again!” I just got a serious TDIET flashback.
<–o The urge to smash it to the moon…!
FW: This unfounded glee is beginning to unnerve me. What do you have planned, Batuik…?
Luann: Only Luann could manage to make Black Friday shopping sound preachy.
MW: Oh, dude. Dude. Is that a cassette player?! Wow. Just wow.
Mr. Goboto
November 28th, 2010 at 9:58 pm [Reply]
A3G: Watch out, Lu Ann! Judging by his transformation from panels 6 to 8, Paul Linski is looks to be a Jekyll-and-Hyde type, or more accurately, Goofus and Gallant.
dyslexic dog
November 28th, 2010 at 10:02 pm [Reply]
“(gasp) God! Oh God! You have made the piano move!”
Steve the Pocket
November 28th, 2010 at 10:27 pm [Reply]
@Marissa (#8): It’s worse than you think. Not long after Watterson wrote that, cartoonists got the ability to submit comics electronically, giving them access to the full 16,777,216-color palette that computers can handle along with any blending and shading techniques they feel like using. Hence, Funky Winkerbean and Frazz.
Some cartoonists continued to use the “color a copy by hand, mark areas with color codes” method (back in 2000 when I visited Chuck Ayers, he was still using this on Crankshaft) and possibly still do, but yeah, there was a more varied palette to work from back when Watterson started than Frank Bolle here is bothering with.
Pseudo3D
November 28th, 2010 at 10:33 pm [Reply]
My god, the Cubs kid looks exactly like the Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s star!
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/Carls_jr_star_logo.jpg
Uncanny!
ElkMeadow
November 28th, 2010 at 10:39 pm [Reply]
@pccmdoc (#14):
Carpet-covered bathroom floors are sooo gross. I’ve only seen them in old, cheap apartments.
NoahSnark
November 28th, 2010 at 10:44 pm [Reply]
Marvin will fight tooth and claw for his right to stew in a bag of his own feces.
Scott Bot
November 28th, 2010 at 10:47 pm [Reply]
A3G – ‘Cuz I’ve been thinking of you, too. Seriously, I mean it!’
DT – Ok, he’s human scum. We know that now, you’ve told us a dozen times. Get on with it!!!
Pluggers – ‘Ok, since I’m not a crow, and obviously can’t fly, would you stop using your stupid folksy sayings and tell me how I can get there using roads? And if you tell me “oh, you turn left where that cow got run over three years ago”, I will be forced to kill you, you fat idiot!’
ElkMeadow
November 28th, 2010 at 10:49 pm [Reply]
@pccmdoc (#14):
Something else I realized–bathrooms aren’t that big, except my grandmother back east had one that had been made out of a regular bedroom, as the plumbing was put in a decade or so after the house was built. But still, I’d expect to see a toilet or a clawfoot bathtub in all that space.
Rocky Stoneaxe
November 28th, 2010 at 11:20 pm [Reply]
A3G — I’ve heard of cornsilk hair, but this is ridiculous!
Lorne
November 28th, 2010 at 11:27 pm [Reply]
Any real difference between marriage and the fiery pits of hell?
Yeah. In the fiery pits of hell no one ever drags your ass into a church!
Rocky Stoneaxe
November 28th, 2010 at 11:30 pm [Reply]
Dick Tracy — I don’t think he’s a Cubs fan… the “C” stands for “Culkin” as in MACAULAY CULKIN!
Uncle Lumpy
November 28th, 2010 at 11:30 pm [Reply]
@Rusty (#11):
No wonder the g-spot is so difficult to find.
Yeah, guys keep banging on the A-flat spot by mistake. Explains a lot, really.
The Ridger
November 28th, 2010 at 11:36 pm [Reply]
FW: O damn. Damn. I HATE dunking, and I’m so glad only a tiny handful of women do it at the collegiate level. Women play hard and under the basket, the way it was meant to be played, and they don’t (yet) have the whole super-star-and-four-supporting-players thing going on. Leave it to a Winkerbean to bring showboating to high school girls’ bball.
Damn you Batiuk. Is nothing sacred to you?
TheDiva
November 28th, 2010 at 11:46 pm [Reply]
@Rusty (#7): It gets worse–Marvin is frequently shown demanding early morning bottles, yet if he’s potty training he’s not only well past the age for needing a late night bottle, he really should be weaned onto a cup by now. It’s things like this that make me think Marvin is not human, but an unnatural abomination designed for the sole purpose of tormenting all those within his sphere of influence.
Chip Whittle
November 28th, 2010 at 11:49 pm [Reply]
Funky Winkerbean: “You WHAT? You SUCCEEDED in something? YOU FOOL, YOU’VE DOOMED US ALL!”
Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop bypasses its usual twee today for a direct tactical assault on God.
Mark Trail seems to me to promise that if I die in the woods during winter my fingernails will be eaten by squirrels. I don’t know how I feel about knowing that.
Marvin’s annoying neighbors and pathetic dad take it in stride that after dying and turning those spectacular fall colors, leaves should return to life in defiance of the entropic development of the universe. That’s because hanging around Marvin so much they know demonic abominations against the natural order.
The Middletons: See, it looks like yet another iteration of the crazy-mall-shoppers story until the last panel reveals that it doesn’t make any sense at all.
Rex Morgan, M.D. “Hey, Mr. Mayor…we’re with you all the way! Just an hour ago I went to get my own prostate cancer installed!” Comic strip politics is weird, man, weird.
Nekrotzar
November 28th, 2010 at 11:51 pm [Reply]
I’ll move your piano if you play my skin flute. Then if you slide my bass trombone, I’ll string your viola da gamba, if you know what I mean … no, actually I don’t know either.
Sciencegiant
November 29th, 2010 at 12:10 am [Reply]
‘Cuz I’ve been thinking of you too — for the world’s most boring orgy ever!
Digger
November 29th, 2010 at 12:11 am [Reply]
DT: Oh, so I’m NOT supposed to tell the creep who lurks in the shadows that I’ll be home alone. When I was a kid, I used to go out of my way to tell those guys things like that. Actually, that could explain a few things…well, never mind about that.
A3G: “Things have a way of working out.” Golly gee, Aunt Iris, that’s a swell pearl of wisdom. What are you going to tell us next, that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?
Rocky Stoneaxe
November 29th, 2010 at 12:20 am [Reply]
Scary Gary — Draggin’ mace!
Soup to Nutz — Insert obligatory quarter horse joke here!
Ripley’s — Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is actually a Hobbit!
Frazz — Wasn’t this gag used on “How I Met Your Mother” last week?
Chip Whittle
November 29th, 2010 at 12:21 am [Reply]
2 Cows and a Chicken: I’d like to point out the current event, where two cows dressed as nuns riding a train believe–incorrectly–that a donkey is kidnapping a chicken when in fact he’s saving the chicken from turkey-hunters, started out with pretty much the same story as Disney’s correctly ignored “final” classically animated movie Home On The Range.
Compu-Toon again bravely strings together words in the hopes that they might hit something, somewhere, somehow.
Thatababy: This. This is why I shouldn’t be a father. I think along these lines.
Alison
November 29th, 2010 at 12:25 am [Reply]
Why is there no adult-sized toilet in that bathroom? Does everybody use Marvin’s baby potty? Oh yuck, I just grossed myself out even more than the strip did.
Chowder
November 29th, 2010 at 12:28 am [Reply]
Clearly Paul was behind the heretofore-unseen piano all along. With the increasing numbers of people who are switching to electronic keyboards they can move themselves, or even (gasp) not having pianos in the first place, he’s been secretly gifting pianos upon people stodgy and outdated enough to actually think piano movers are a thing to stay in business.
Chet McCord, doughty wildlife savior
November 29th, 2010 at 12:40 am [Reply]
Is it crass when it has the ‘postrophe in front? ‘Cuz we only get so many characters to use ‘fore we die.
Chip Whittle
November 29th, 2010 at 12:44 am [Reply]
Grand Avenue: “Isn’t Christmas supposed to make me feel like George Bailey from ‘It’s A Wonderful life’?” You know, the guy so depressed over how life keeps getting in the way of his dreams that he falls into suicidal depression cured only by supernatural intervention?
Marmaduke has…found some madman turning neighborhood dogs into tires? The heck?
Li’l Abner speaks up for smarts and a smack in the nose over guns. Dick Tracy just hears a vague noise droning on, “blah blah blah blah blah guns blah blah blah blah blah blah guns blah blah blah ginger blah blah blah blah guns blah blah”.
Meg! Reruns cry out for a return of Cleats. We hear you.
Reality Check: No, I don’t believe it. Elmo is clearly the killer of the bunch.
Sgt. Stoned
November 29th, 2010 at 12:48 am [Reply]
Crimestoppers Textbool: The “Cubs” fan is on the right track. The trenchcoated “bad guy” is thinking “This mofo’ is crazy. I better pick somebody else to kill this evening.”
tb4000
November 29th, 2010 at 12:56 am [Reply]
Lockhorns: Considering the weirdly proportioned bodies of all the hot women in the Lockhorn universe, I would assume they’re already in some kind of purgatory dimension as it is.
Stroker Ace
November 29th, 2010 at 1:50 am [Reply]
Marvin – In a just world this strip would be titled ‘Li’l Shit’.
Poteet
November 29th, 2010 at 2:00 am [Reply]
S-M — I would have been more touched by Aunt May’s loneliness and lack of love, as described in the Sunday strip, if she didn’t stay in her apartment 24/7. Given the actual lives lived by most seniors today, Aunt May’s lifestyle (and bun) are weirder than any supervillain this strip has created.
Poteet
November 29th, 2010 at 2:02 am [Reply]
And speaking of S-M, tonight I saw part of the SIXTY MINUTES story about the S-M musical, and it made me think about what kinds of songs might be appropriate for a musical about the version of Spider-Man we see in the daily strip. To begin with, I think there would have to be a deeply-felt love song sung by Peter to his TV remote.
Poteet
November 29th, 2010 at 2:12 am [Reply]
I’m having more trouble finding some comics online every week. If someone could please provide me with a link for seeing the Sunday Mark Trail, I’d greatly appreciate it.
ElkMeadow
November 29th, 2010 at 2:24 am [Reply]
It dawns on me that Mary Worth strip missed a great opportunity to milk the story line for what it’s worth. It would have maybe been worth it to have actually followed, in real time, the wedding planner guideline/schedule/checklist that’s in practically every wedding magazine. Figuring out the date, the budget the venue, the invitations, the showers, the stag party; bit by bit of putting together “the happiest day of their lives”, month by month; watching Adrian alienate her friends, bite Mary’s head off, you know, what brides do.
But hey, we get to see these strangers who owe Dr. Jeff some brownie points wander around with drinks in their hands and Jill try to pick up the bartender while Mary and Adrian eat salmon squares that have some sort of trippy effect on Adrian but not Mary. Scott and Dad are not in the picture, and brother did not return from Viet Nam for the wedding. And what’s with the purple? Which strip has a more limited color wheel, Mary Worth or Apt. 3G?
He Brought Queenie Baby Jesus
November 29th, 2010 at 2:36 am [Reply]
I was going to deride the architect responsible for the Marvin bathroom because octagons, no matter how absurdly large and empty, do not tesselate, but I see now that it is a hexagon.
KarMann
November 29th, 2010 at 2:53 am [Reply]
11/29 SFx: Slylock noticed that Koppy Kat inadvertently submitted strips that were actually funny and original. Koppy was rewarded by the syndicate with his own strip, which was canceled after two month because it wasn’t repetitive enough.
AndyL
November 29th, 2010 at 3:49 am [Reply]
Hey, That’s the Crimestopper’s Textbook!
The Crimstoppers notebook is where you should be taking notes about Tracy’s entirely legal and educational adventures.
Kibo
November 29th, 2010 at 4:05 am [Reply]
I always wonder if there is some hundred-year-old codger who has been cutting out the “Crimestoppers’ Textbook” pages every week and stringing them together. They’ll be walking down the street when a hoodlum jumps in front of them and yells “GIMME YER MONEY, GRAMPS, OR I’LL POP YA!” Then the old guy carefully takes out his two-inch-by-two-inch-by-eleven-feet book made of hundred-year-old newsprint and starts thumbing through the pages to find out what to do. Then the mugger dies of boredom while waiting, and the happy coot resumes traipsing merrily along to the store to buy a nickel bag of Sen-Sen.
Ed Dravecky
November 29th, 2010 at 4:51 am [Reply]
@Chip Whittle (#46): I see what you did there. Nice Larson ref.
Mr O'Malley
November 29th, 2010 at 5:42 am [Reply]
@Poteet (#Y240): I refer you to Winsor McCay’s immortal comic Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay animated some of the strips, and you can get the animations on DVD pretty cheaply. Some of the cartoons were copied pretty closely in making King Kong. If you’re into silent animation and comics history, it’s a must for your Christmas list.
@Steve the Pocket (#25): The electronic submission may have a 16,777,216-color palette, but how about the printing process used by the newspapers?
@Poteet (#50): Maybe we should set her up with Rob from GF.
@Poteet (#52): http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/
SlyFo: I think Bob Weber Jr. is giving us a tip o’ the deerstalker. His little comics page is rather cute.
Q: What did Slylock see?
A: A reference to something that happened in the 21st century.
Hi & Lois goes meta.
FW: In Funkytown, union contracts depend on the whim of management.
Phantom: That shot looked a little wide. One wall over from where it should be.
Margaret
November 29th, 2010 at 5:44 am [Reply]
Oh, you poor optimistic people. No one in A3G has ever used a metaphor or, god forbid, innuendo, nor has anyone expected or assumed someone else used metaphor. This resolute literalness is an important part of their “remain completely uninteresting forever” goal.
Mr O'Malley
November 29th, 2010 at 5:52 am [Reply]
Marvin: Our cats know how to use a litterbox, and their brains are smaller than your fist. Are there really people who say “Wow, another comic strip about shit!” and cut it out and put it on the refrigerator?
KarMann
November 29th, 2010 at 6:22 am [Reply]
@Mr O’Malley (#59) on SlyFo: Funny, the version I saw didn’t have Herb & Jamaal as one of the strips on the paper. Where do you read SlyFo?
John C Fremont
November 29th, 2010 at 7:15 am [Reply]
RMMD – Ah, lunch at the T&A Deli. I understand they sell pickles.
MW – Is that Jill back there coming on to the bartender?
Must have been a sale on lavender.
gleeb
November 29th, 2010 at 7:53 am [Reply]
’shaft: He hates humanity so much he even does this to himself.
Luann: “So, I’m just leaving. Want to help set up some bad puns to se me off?”
Crime-Solving Wildlfe: Koppy Kat is into esoteric crime.
Zaratustra
November 29th, 2010 at 7:55 am [Reply]
@TheDiva (#36): What if Marvin is actually developmentally challenged? Wouldn’t we all feel bad then. No we wouldn’t, we heard the boy and he deserves it.
Garrison
November 29th, 2010 at 8:04 am [Reply]
Are you sure Paul Linski didn’t mean ‘cuz’ as in Snuffy Smith lingo for cousin?
Rocky Stoneaxe
November 29th, 2010 at 8:10 am [Reply]
Agnes — Granny has a wicked sense of humor! (“Crisco Kid was a friend of mine”)
A3G — “Wow, that’s great, Lu Ann. Since I’m really comic actor Dave Foley, we could make it into a Kids in the Hall sketch!”
Nomstrosity
November 29th, 2010 at 8:21 am [Reply]
Thank goodness Luann let everyone else know she’d answer her own cell phone. Then again, maybe saying her next action out loud is the only way she can manage to process a thought over that weird, distracting, loud ringing.
Rocky Stoneaxe
November 29th, 2010 at 8:45 am [Reply]
Baby Blues/Wizard of Id — Hanging’s too good for them!
The Argyle Sweater — Ha ha… the Seven Dwarfs use a short bus to get around!
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
November 29th, 2010 at 8:49 am [Reply]
today’s Slylock Fox is made of awesome and WIN!!!!
well done, Mr. Weber Jr! *applaz*
Rocky Stoneaxe
November 29th, 2010 at 8:50 am [Reply]
@John C Fremont (#63): Jill is “arsenic”… Mary is “old lace”… but Jeff is no Cary Grant!
CanuckDownSouth
November 29th, 2010 at 9:00 am [Reply]
@Margaret (#60): I’m not sure – looks like Paul hasn’t got the memo. Boy is he going to be disappointed when he realizes that LuAnn’s call had no subtext. Not even the PG-rated ‘I want an excuse to take you out for coffee’ type.
So… Adrian is excited to be Mrs. Scott Hewlett. (1) Does anybody who grew up in the 21st century think of themselves as Mrs (the guy’s name)? Of course, if anybody would, it’d be Adrian and (2) ONE Kate & William wedding-planning New Adventures of Queen Victoria strip and it’s already far more entertaining than the whole Adrian-and-Jill show.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
November 29th, 2010 at 9:17 am [Reply]
Luann: cue the bow-chikka-bow-wow music. love the kicky boots, Teej.
MG&G: “my name Peggy. . . . ”
PMP: thankfully wearing a different sized smock than the last character that we saw in the Dr’s office.
Ghost-who-Forward-Observes: Fire for effect!!!!
Pluggers: is this supposed to be a medical maryjuwana joke?
RwO: /facepalm, but in a good way.
6Cx: everything is better with trebuchets! (yes, I know, that’s a catapult, not a treb. work with me, here!)
Frazz: I lol’d.
Lio: heee! Love the face on the partially detangled monster in panel 3.
OtH: thankfully, no snow balls.
standard oversnark disclaimer.
Pozzo
November 29th, 2010 at 10:20 am [Reply]
If “moving her piano” is anything like “cleaning her garage,” Lu Ann’s dreams have just come true!
Dennis Jimenez
November 29th, 2010 at 12:01 pm [Reply]
A3G – Move my piano = Either Kitten on the Keyboard or Leroy Anderson’s Typewriter Song….
Johnny Q
November 29th, 2010 at 12:42 pm [Reply]
Dick Tracy: The Crimestoppers Textbook kid has a multicolored aura like an early Christian saint. Presumably the pagans are going to enter his house and sacrifice him to their gods.
Dennis Jimenez
November 29th, 2010 at 2:50 pm [Reply]
I thought Adrian looked like she was arrayed in some saintly raiments in panel two of of MW today….
giraffe-o
November 29th, 2010 at 3:14 pm [Reply]
I am ecstatic to see the words “We need to find a piano mover” as a plot setup, for the first time since mid-era Three Stooges.
Dennis Jimenez
November 29th, 2010 at 3:25 pm [Reply]
And they had to steal it from Laurel and Hardy….
Austin
November 29th, 2010 at 6:08 pm [Reply]
I have a theory that, unless they have facial hair, every character in Apartment 3G is a woman.
Stumps
November 29th, 2010 at 10:18 pm [Reply]
Phantom – It looks like there will be a few charred and empty cells in the prison tonight – unfortunately, the prisoners will be unable to flee the missiles and end up dead. How many more must die before Diana regains her freedom?
Beetle Bumstead
November 29th, 2010 at 11:30 pm [Reply]
gf @Rocky Stoneaxe (#33): You know, you could be on to a horrible new reality TV show premise: “Cruisin’ with Culkin.” Off-screen, you know there’s another shadowy figure by the trench-coated bad-guy’s side. I can hear the quiver in the voice of the rough trade he picks up on the street as they approach his ‘home’—”Be a good little fella now, and open the door.”
Eats Shoots And Leaves
November 30th, 2010 at 2:00 am [Reply]
When Marvin grows up, he will be institutionalized for repeatedly setting fire to paper bags of his own poop and stomping them out on his own front porch. “Dances with Crap,” they’ll call him.
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