Mary Worth, 4/23/11
Uh oh, it looks like Liza’s plan to seduce Dr. Drew, which was going so very well, has hit a snag. Dr. Drew is a sexy doctor, very much in demand for the ladies, and his attitude appears to be that he does not have to put up with people who pass off quotes from 15-year-old movies as their own woo-pitching. Either that or he suspects that Liza might actually be Tom Cruise, wearing a very clever disguise. Anyway, I hope the two of them work this out quickly, as they’re standing in the middle of the street and are liable to be hit by a car.
Hi and Lois, 4/23/11
Aww, it’s nice that Trixie is finally learning about full-throated marital hatred! Her parents are far too passive-aggressive in their attempts to emotionally destroy one another for someone her age to really get it.
This entry was posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 09:26 am and is filed under Hi and Lois, Mary Worth. | 293 responses to “” queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:31 am [Reply]
the squee will NOT be post-jumped!
The Hills are Alive. . . .
ikkle vizsla *faints*
but it’s not an opiate.
something for Dingo (semi-naughty, and could give Fashion Police nightmares.)
doublesquee for True Fable.
far kewtr than that dog-on-the-leg thing.
bellybellybelly!
a ’shop worth of bats :[.
hypochrismutreefuzzApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:33 am [Reply]
Night falls quickly in the Mary Worth universe.
They must have opened the bottle of really black ink.
April 23rd, 2011 at 9:33 am [Reply]
BB Terrific – another wonderful image to eat breakfast by
Luann Apparently she does not read her own strip. And oh God, she is actually going to WIN this thing?
Bill ThompsonApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:37 am [Reply]
Luann: Quoth Luann, “I’m pretty funny.” I’m glad to see this strip. It informs me that the English language continues to evolve. But I pine for the days when “funny” meant “amusing” and “laugh-provoking,” just as “bad” never meant “good.”
True FableApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:38 am [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#1): SQUEE SQUEE!!! GOAT squee!
Luannadana
Sure I’m whiny
My nose is huge
And I’m wearing too much rouge
My enemies hate me
My friends are worse
But I’m sure I can win a rigged beauty pageant simply by reciting oh-too-clever Greg Evans verse
booyah!
Col. HavocApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:52 am [Reply]
All Mark heard was, “…tell him blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah living in the mountains. OH LOOK! A DUCKY!”
pugfugglyApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:57 am [Reply]
MW: in this week’s episode of Dr Drew’s Copyright Police!, our hero goes under deep cover to flush out a local nurse using lines from movies in everyday conversation she may not own! Be sure to check in for our thrilling continuation tomorrow, where Dr. Drew asks if Liza meant the phrase ironically, making it a parody that would fall under fair use conditions…
MW:….and with that, we conclude Duck Week, here on Mark Trail.
A3G: Old friend…? Of a famous music producer??? Oooooooooo! Who could it be??? Elton John??!! Mick Jagger???!!! JAY-Z?????!!!….What’s that? It’s just some other hobo-lookin’ gentleman that is ostensibly a celebrity within the A3G universe? Oh….well, that’s cool too, I guess…
S-M: To make this strip more realistic, I think that every couple of weeks, they should just run that last panel (without words) in triplicate for a few days. Just to remind everyone of our hero’s priorities…
Maggie the CatApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:59 am [Reply]
MW- She’s crazy, not that we didn’t already suspect. What a line to throw out there on the first date, gah! That wouldn’t scare a guy off or anything. Next I’m expecting her to say, “Let’s get married tonight and conceive twins.”
IHateMowingApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:01 am [Reply]
MW: Forget about these knuckleheads. I see Darth Vader’s in town… let’s go see what he’s up to.
Scott BotApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:02 am [Reply]
BB – He’s not shocked, he’s just retreating into his fantasies of Beetle…
RMMD – ‘Great minds think alike.’ Yes, that’s true, Berna. How that applies to yours and Rex’s minds is another question.
MibbitmakerApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:05 am [Reply]
@True Fable (#5): Goodnight, my little Luann Luannadana.
H&L: Bizarre turn of events: Suddenly, baby Trixie is starring in an Our Town type play. She can’t possibly be jealous of Tommie Thompson and Mary Jane Parker….. can she?
MW: He actually heard it on The Office when Michael Scott quoted the movie line to Jan. It came off as awkwardly goofy there (in typical Office fashion), in a relationship we already knew wasn’t good. It just makes Melodramatic McMainsqueeze in MW look even more nauseating than she already is. That must be Mary’s idea of manditory luuuuuuuuuuuv!
AndieApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:15 am [Reply]
MW: Someone should have told her to go with the Jack Nicholson approach – “You make me wanna be a better person.. one who doesn’t steal movie dialogue and pass it off as my own words.”
Yusaku777April 23rd, 2011 at 10:24 am [Reply]
H&L: “It’s sweater weather, everyone! Let’s put the baby outside in a t-shirt. If she complains about the cold, her precious sunbeam can pick up the slack.” And with that, Chip goes back to his game of Halo 3.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:30 am [Reply]
RMMD: Berna’s got Dex’s licence number written on a piece of paper. Now, did she run to the window when he left and write it down before he drove away? Because if she didn’t — that is, if she already knows Dex’s licence number — why has she written it down on a piece of paper?
And why is everyone talking with their mouths closed?
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:41 am [Reply]
3G – “Monster Reubens”? No thanks! I prefer the corned-beef ones.
Baby – “Blah blah blah Zoe, blah blah Hammy.” [Oh, man, Col. Havoc and I are wearing the same dress...]
Crock – Don’t Hobart that ounce, Figowitz.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:42 am [Reply]
Dick – Turns out the device only kills flies, and Flyface only fainted. Joke’s on you, Tracy! You’ll have a great laugh about this back in the squad room.
Gasoline – “And look! A meteor has fallen through the roof! Whoa, talk about karma. Oh, and it landed on some guy.”
Luann – “I’m pretty funny.”
What a coincidence. I’m really young. And rich!
Mary – “Drew! … You complete me!”
“I’ve heard that line somewhere before, Liza!”
“…I’m pretty sure it was Junior Jumble.”
(Looks like the full moon completes Drew.)
CharlesApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:49 am [Reply]
MW: How much more amusing is it that my initial thought was of the Joker using that line in The Dark Knight?
“Forget it, Liza. It’s Charterstone.”
MibbitmakerApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:50 am [Reply]
9CL: Together, they make one Lynn Johnston (mutual-gender sexism).
BBlues: Now that one’s astute!
BBailey: EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW!…
Crank: It’s true. Nobody ever said of Ed Crankshaft, “He’s a keeper!” — including his late wife.
Curtis: Well, it was Ren Hoek, so that was understandable.
Luann: No, you’re not! Hey — STOP REACTING ENTERTAINEDLY (to coin a word) HAPPY TO THAT LYING DRIVEL, AUDIENCE!
GulielmaApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:54 am [Reply]
Edge City: the gefilte fish story has been amusing, but I checked a cookbook I have, copyright date 1949. A number of variations are listed, including one using a pressure cooker. Prep might be a bit fiddly, but would take only 10 minutes to actually cook.
TheDivaApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:57 am [Reply]
MW: “Um…what I meant to say was, you had me at hello! No, I mean, I’m ready for my close-up! Er…love means never having to say you’re sorry?”
C’shaft: Crankshaft’s repulsive personality drives off another species.
FW: “Of course this means I’ll have to run him out of town, the way I have every other food purveyor who’s tried to take on the Montoni’s monopoly.”
reFOOB: Wait, is that Elly enjoying her kids having good, messy fun and generally being kids rather than whining about how it will be SO MUCH WORK cleaning up after them? Did I fall into a parallel universe this morning?
Luann: …On the bright side, at least it’s not set to music.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:58 am [Reply]
something extra for True Fable.
Baka GaijinApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:00 am [Reply]
Sally Forth: Sal, when you get back to the office, take that enchanted charm off your necklace. You picked up Ted’s Talisman of Namby-Pamby this morning instead of your usual Amulet of Aloofness.
DiggerApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:00 am [Reply]
MW: It seems that “you complete me” is the trigger-phrase that causes Dr. Drew’s unibrow to start spreading all over his face.
H&L: Yes, Trixie, we all all have our parts to play. And your parents are playing the role of negligent assholes, as they leave their infant on the ground outside while they are nowhere in sight.
commodorejohnApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:00 am [Reply]
Agnes – Well now I’m really glad I’ve always shied from public attention.
A3G – Goddammit, can’t you even get the “I’ll have two beers, too” joke right?
BBlue – Educational software peaked with Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? and the second version of The Oregon Trail (not Orgeon Trail II) and immediately plummetted into vapid, boring shitness. Any “educational software” you can’t run on a 68k Mac or a 386 isn’t worth the media it’s distributed on.
BB – I can’t believe I don’t have a comment for this. [*]
C&B – I love this strip.
Curtis – Chutney can’t have betrayed you, Curtis! She’s the strip’s sickly-sweet Designated Good Love Interest! Nothing she does is ever wrong!
DT – Now that’s the Dick Tracy we know and fear!
FW – The Funkyverse: other people’s suffering may work in your favor, as long as you’re an acquaintance of Funky or Les! (You’ll still be cruelly struck down at the peak of your success, though.)
GT – The Milford fight song is in 4.75/8 time and the key of λ. It takes two tongues to sing it properly.
JP – Holy mammaries, Batman! You could put an eye out on those things!
Lola – I dunno, I personally treasure okra far more than Oprah. And I don’t even like okra.
Luann – No you’re not.
MT – Did I miss something? When did “son” become a code word for “lover” in this strip? Did Wilbur and Kurt visit or something?
MW – In that first panel I swear she’s about to pull his head clean off his neck.
NAOQV – Awww :(
OBH – How many more brave soldiers will be fed to this meat grinder? Have you no sense of decency, Joe?
PBS – Preach it, Pig.
Phantom – “I’ve sealed him away in a space dumpster on a passing asteroid. Golly, I hope nobody accidentally frees him!”
SM – “Mrs. Parker…look, your husband isn’t fooling anyone, you know that? He’s so inept that there isn’t a single person in the state who doesn’t know he’s Spider-Man.”
Ziggy – Ziggy finally figures out what its audience wants.
MibbitmakerApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:04 am [Reply]
MT: The characters are essentially saying “Stop that awful war” (with Iraq winding down, and Libya too new — hell, for this strip, the Korean War is too new! — they must mean Afghanistan), while the middle panel shows sitting ducks — us if we just forget about al-Qaeda.
Jack Elrod’s internal debate, ladies and gentlemen!
I still don’t see what’s so bad about a man having seen too much killing and dying, just wanting to live in nice, peaceful nature in his own way. Especially in a strip about NATURE!!!
I do sympathize with the elder Thrasher missing his son, though.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:05 am [Reply]
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#15): “’Monster Reubens’? No thanks! I prefer the corned-beef ones.”
Sonny, a reuben is the greatest thing in the world. Except for a nice MLT: a monster, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the monster is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They’re so perky, I love that.
(with abject apologies, but I just had to go there.)
OregonianApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:06 am [Reply]
@Maggie the Cat (#8):
“What a line to throw out there on the first date, gah!”
I’m fairly certain that this is supposed to be the second date. Either that, or Liza changed her clothes and earrings in the back seat of Drew’s car somewhere between the dinner and the movie.
(I can’t believe I’m sitting here analyzing Mary Worth. What’s happening to me??)
HankApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:08 am [Reply]
@Charles (#17): Yeah. I thought of the Joker too. Probably more appropriate, both because of Joe Giella’s work at DC comics AND the fact that this lady’s buckfut nuts
Effluvius ErratusApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:12 am [Reply]
DtM: Dennis wants advice on what kind of soil is best for growing cannabis. Menace Factor increases by one.
Spotts1701April 23rd, 2011 at 11:14 am [Reply]
Luann: It would have been a “better” poem if delivered while standing atop a table. At least then we would have a comparison against the baseline.
RMMD: “Why yes, I have his license plate. And his social security number, PIN for his debit card, shoe size, hat size, and the address of his favorite sandwich shop. Why do you ask?”
MibbitmakerApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:16 am [Reply]
NS: ….or a sort-of protection racket!
OBH: Early 1950s Snoopy isn’t stupid!
MW: She’s right about one thing — Dr. drew makes her completely nauseating.
CharlesApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:20 am [Reply]
Luann: This probably would’ve worked better (who am I kidding, of course it wouldn’t!) if Evans hadn’t glammed Luann up several years ago and had every attractive guy in the strip since then throw their attentions on her instead of her “perfect” rival Tiffany. Does he think a newcomer to this strip thinks that Luann’s intended to be a frumpy unattractive teen from the strip’s cues?
bourbon babe, unbuckledApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:23 am [Reply]
JP: But Barbie Constance, the Judge doesn’t actually engage in any adventures; no, he sits quietly in the shadows while someone who is not Judge Parker does exciting things that involve busty babes and secret passages, and then he sits down for a couple of days and writes about them and retreats into the shadows to rake in the money. Geez, get with the Parkerverse Program, Connie.
MT: Okay, so why doesn’t Papa Thrasher go with Mark and tell John all that himself? And why did he pick Mark for this task, anyway? Is there some kind of Directory of Writers Who Can Find Stuff in the Mountains? And why are there ducks all over the place? (Seriously. Yesterday afternoon, there were two ducks walking down my street. I live in a semi-urban area. Why are there ducks all over the place?)
MW: “I’ve heard that line somewhere before, Liza….((fuzzy flashback blurriness)). . . It was back in Peace Village. Oh, I remember her well—Phuk Mi, a bar girl at the local watering hole. ‘You complete me, Doctor Drew,’ she said. ‘Kiss me as if it were the last time. I love you just the way you are. Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Home is where the heart is. You are sixteen going on seventeen. Show me the money.’”
NoahSnarkApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:28 am [Reply]
I admire Liza’s sense of purpose and focus. If I dropped a pickup line from an old movie and the sky turned black the next words out of my mouth would be “But let’s just be friends.”
bourbon babe, unbuckledApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:28 am [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#1): That’s some high-quality Satursquee!
And congrats to the float-folk—and thanks for the ride! I’m throwing ear-free chocolate bunnies!
HankApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:28 am [Reply]
RE: Apt 3G. It just occurred to me: The more we see of the Leon Russell-like Dan, the more Tommie is drawn to look like Elton John.
RE:Crankshaft. It’s obviously hive colony collapse disorder. Even the bees die horribly in the Funkyverse.
RE: MT This isn’t “the Deer Hunter,” it’s “My Side of the Mountain.”
April 23rd, 2011 at 11:31 am [Reply]
I think Drew is about to mention the fava beans and a nice bottle of chianti.
Mark BApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:34 am [Reply]
Tommie is more Bernie Taupin than Elton John. We can see Bernie in this clip introducing Bill Shatner who is performing one of his most famous sonngs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQwXOCKNLY
Effluvius ErratusApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:40 am [Reply]
@Mark B (#37): Why is it Mary Worth men always look like Hannibal Lecter in these intimate closeups?
Mark BApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:46 am [Reply]
@Effluvius Erratus (#39): Having such poorly drawn facial features leads them toward eating the faces off of other characters. Grotesque, but understandable.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:46 am [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#26): There’s always an excuse for The Princess Bride. Also, A Knight’s Tale (“Tansy cakes!”).
cheech wizardApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:55 am [Reply]
JP – Aw, the li’l intern is growing up right before our eyes. At least, her boobs are a lot bigger than the last time we saw her.
Bill MurrayApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:56 am [Reply]
MW: It’s good to see Drew Bledsoe getting some work since he left the NFL, which means Liza must be played by Terry Glenn, at least according to Bill Parcells
Mark BApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:59 am [Reply]
Dick Tracy today is …. awesome!!! I can’t even snark on it any more. I can’t believe Stanton and Curtis are introducing and killing so many golden age characters in such short order, though.
SnowshoecatApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:00 pm [Reply]
Actually, having Drew and What’s-her-name (they’re so interchangeable) getting hit by a car is an excellent idea!
Ryu SerpentineApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:04 pm [Reply]
MW: Naw, them getting hit by a car would retire time to move in this strip. And that will never happen.
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:04 pm [Reply]
JP: A secret cleavage? I mean, stairboobs? I mean, case? Really?
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:10 pm [Reply]
Crankshaft: Looks like your apiary turned out to be more of an escapiary, Ed! HA! *SMIRK*
TaggedApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:11 pm [Reply]
NS: Looks like Wiley’s really climbed onto the “Mary Worth” bandwagon today..spend too much time on the Internet and you’ll become a bum!!!
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:11 pm [Reply]
FC: Thel’s look says, “Hey, kids, just ’cause it ended up back in the fridge doesn’t mean it went unused.”
Comcis FanApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:12 pm [Reply]
MW: For a second there, I thought Josh said Liza was poo-witching, not woo-pitching, and while I’m not sure what poo-witching is, I actually believe that’s what she’s doing and I’m afraid it won’t be very pretty.
FW: The Darin storyline, all a setup for an annoying, obscurely clever pun?
Pseudo3DApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:12 pm [Reply]
9CL – Another misuse of “irony”, I see
FW – Funky knows that a deli might just drive Montoni’s out of business. This will take a very good and possibly illegal move to “dispose” of him.
This is very odd…Beetle Bailey is gross, Marvin is mundane.
H&J – Look Jamaal, when you have the head the shape of a baby carrot and a Fu Manchu mustache, no amount of good clothing will make you look better.
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:14 pm [Reply]
MT, Next Week: “John? Your dad said you come straight home or I should punch you.”
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:18 pm [Reply]
You’re a Plugger if you bury your in-laws under a crude mound in the back yard and try to cover your tracks with a couple of cheap potted plants from Home Depot.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:22 pm [Reply]
Bizarro: I really, really, really want to hear someone say this in real life someday. Really, really.
D-NiceApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:25 pm [Reply]
MW: Where have I heard that line before? Maybe it was the parlor that did my face tatoo.
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:30 pm [Reply]
Luann: I’m not good with rhyme,
And I don’t have a car,
But you have to love me, ’cause I’m
The author’s avatar.”
April 23rd, 2011 at 12:33 pm [Reply]
Apartment 3-G: “By the way, your old friend is here.” Um…are we learning Dan’s an alcoholic, I mean other than because he figures Tommie could have a career in doing things?
Dick Tracy Of The Future: OK, look, I’ve put up now with over a month of things happening and being able to clearly make out who and what they are, but if Dick Tracy, Boy Detective, is going to start actually doing stuff and having a hand in the gruesome deaths of the villains then I just don’t recognize the strip anymore.
Family Circus: Aw, and the kids were so hoping that Daddy might take them up on Annual Eat Anything That Isn’t A Blasted Slab Of Grease, Please Please Please Day.
Funky Winkerbean: See, you’d think his deli would be a menace what with Khan knowing all Funky’s prefix codes, but remember that Khan’s the guy who ran Funky’s from an up-and-coming nationwide chain down to one holdout not-yet-given-up shop in northwestern Ohio.
Gasoline Alley: “Our apartment oor is open now! Slim! Somebody stole your meteorite collection! How are you going to harass teenagers now?!”
Seriously, can we please airlift Clovia into a strip where she gets something going right for her? She deserves better.
Mandrake: So do you suppose those ripples in the pool are caused by the lair’s Security Tyrannosaurus Rexes stomping around or because of the in-pool Laser Volcano that attacks invading spaceships? It’s clearly part of the Jason Fox Security Company’s motif.
daleApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:38 pm [Reply]
Does Sally Forth have any useful interpersonal skills …. dusting, laundry folding?
Chip WhittleApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:47 pm [Reply]
Mother Goose and Grimm: See, it’s funny because…Grimm prefers people be endangered and property destroyed to someone seeing him pee. Wait, when did Grimm swap brains with with Marvin?
The Phantom: I wonder if the villagers are comfortable doing that spastic dance three days straight or if they’re just keeping it up because they know whoever stops first is going to make everyone feel painfully awkward.
Sherman’s Lagoon: Hm…Battle Math…yes, I think we could work with that. I know I’ve seen some SU(3) groups I want Mark Trail to punch.
Slylock Fox: AAAAH! One of the differences is a thing not in the first panel being present in the second! This…this goes against ALL THE RULES of six differences! I’m scared! Make it didn’t do that anymore, Mark Trail!
Spider-Man: Peter Parker, a man too lazy to fall asleep in sweatpants and a T-shirt. Man, Pluggers tell him to put a little pride in his appearance. Or maybe Peter was just knocked unconscious by that pillow.
Laura BrownApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:50 pm [Reply]
“Mr Wavering”?
AnomalyApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:52 pm [Reply]
MT: “Bring back my crazy hippie son!”
gleebApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:53 pm [Reply]
‘bean: All Khan has to do is start selling any kind of pizza, and the last nail will be driven in.
AustriaApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:57 pm [Reply]
BB: You missed a spot.
H&L: And my role is AUGH I HATE YOU SO MUCH
Luann: And I’m a man!
(How, exactly, does one use tape to amplify one’s bust…?!)
MW: If I was in the middle of a romantic moment, and everything suddenly went black, and the guy I was with got a creepy leer on his face, I sure wouldn’t be smiling, let me tell you that.
PBS: …I like this.
SF: I’ll miss you!!
Zits: I’m surprised Pierce isn’t already covered in tattoos from head to foot.
AnonymousApril 23rd, 2011 at 12:58 pm [Reply]
@ Josh “I hope the two of them work this out quickly, as they’re standing in the middle of the street and are liable to be hit by a car.”
Dude, that would be AWESOME.
( I thought about saying EPIC, but MW plots are drawn out longer than Paradise Lost and all of Homer combined, so a quick end would be… not that. )
April 23rd, 2011 at 12:59 pm [Reply]
@Anonymous (#65): not anonymous – StrangeRover
Phred22April 23rd, 2011 at 1:06 pm [Reply]
@Mibbitmaker (#25): Didn’t you know, Mib, that the Korean War never ended? We and the Commies simply agreed to a cease-fire which has lasted for 58 years.
John C FremontApril 23rd, 2011 at 1:06 pm [Reply]
@One-Eyed Wolfdog (#53): You know, living up in the mountains and all, that John Thrasher probably has some Grizzly Adams-like facial hair by now just waiting to be punched.
@One-Eyed Wolfdog (#57): Burma Shave!
GregApril 23rd, 2011 at 1:07 pm [Reply]
Mary Worth: Is this just before the ground and buildings rise up and smash them just like in Inception? Only in dreams…
Phred22April 23rd, 2011 at 1:11 pm [Reply]
And why are there ducks all over the place? I think I know, Babe. Papa Thrasher isn’t just depending on Mark to find his son John. He’s recruited the ducks to search for him too. Some even thought he might be in your neighborhood.
OregonianApril 23rd, 2011 at 1:13 pm [Reply]
@Comcis Fan (#51):
I’m not sure what poo-witching is
It’s when you’re using every magical skill at your disposal to get a three-year-old to use the toilet. Been there.
April 23rd, 2011 at 1:16 pm [Reply]
@dale (#59):
she can give a hummer using any and all of the Star Trek opening themes. It’s what got her Ted, after all.
The RidgerApril 23rd, 2011 at 1:16 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#33): Because it’s spring and the ducks are seeking their own isolated places, often ill-advisedly, in which to rear their ducklings.
Phred22April 23rd, 2011 at 1:18 pm [Reply]
JP: Constance, are you sure your boss got hit by a bus and died? I’m starting to think you are her and this is an elaborate hoax you set up to seduce the Judge. Think of the weeks of plot exposition we could be in for as you explain how you did it. I’m wondering: will it make me fall asleep or give me a heart attack? I can’t decide.
black butterflyApril 23rd, 2011 at 1:21 pm [Reply]
@The Ridger (#73): Do you think Mark Trail counts as an isolated place, given the number of the readers of the strip, or should they move on somewhere else?
But then if they did stay, it could be awesome, and Mark Trail would be like one of those bird-watching cams.
April 23rd, 2011 at 1:21 pm [Reply]
@The Ridger (#73): Dang, I forgot the actual link about ill-advised places…
bourbon babe, unbuckledApril 23rd, 2011 at 1:24 pm [Reply]
@The Ridger (#76): Yes, this is kind of an annual story for the WashPost, isn’t it?
At least my local ducks were heading to the vet’s office that’s on the corner of my street.
@Phred22 (#70): So the ducks are a harbinger of impending Mark Trail? Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
Scott BotApril 23rd, 2011 at 2:08 pm [Reply]
MT – ‘Ducks. Why’d it have to be ducks?’
ElkMeadowApril 23rd, 2011 at 2:18 pm [Reply]
New art by “Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson. It is to help fund-raise
From the article: The artwork is of the character Petey Otterloop from Richard Thompson’s comic strip “Cul de Sac.”
“The strip depicts all sorts of moments that ring true with regard to childhood,” the long-reclusive Watterson tells Comic Riffs, “but I’d say Petey is a truly original insight.”
The artwork — 6”-by-8” oil on board — is Watterson’s contribution to the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson’s research.
sullyApril 23rd, 2011 at 2:18 pm [Reply]
Meanwhile, has Adam @ Home mercifully wrapped up that ‘Let’s get a recycling program going in our town’ plot line? I was starting to think I’d fallen into a time warp and woken up in the late 80’s. Is there a town anywhere in north America that DOESN’T have recycling yet?
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 23rd, 2011 at 2:25 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#24): To the chorus of an old Salvation Army ditty:
Oh, G-R-O-S-S, I’m S-H-A-V-E-D!
So G-L-A-D to be H-A-I-R free!
S-I-C-K thought in the minds of M-E-N,
Jesus, Jesus, don’t you wish
You hadn’t asked? Amen!
April 23rd, 2011 at 2:26 pm [Reply]
Ziggy versus a lobster: Three Views.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 23rd, 2011 at 2:27 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#33): This should be the last word on today’s Mary Worth. Then again, this is the Comics Curmudgeon, where punch lines become straight lines faster than Marvin uses up Pampers. You helped inspire the next bit here…
@One-Eyed Wolfdog (#57): Luann’s song:
I am sixteen, going on forty-three
I know that I’m cliché,
Strangers in town might laugh at my gown,
But I’ll win out anyway.
I am sixteen, going on sixty-four
Tedious as the news,
I’m at the center, I never enter
Anything I might lose!
(bridge)
I have to be a superstar
No matter what I do
I am the author’s avatar, [*]
His teenage Mary Sue!
(finale)
When you’re wingin’
To the strip’s future
Something that you must face:
If they bring in
Someone too cute, you’re
Too easy
To-oo replace!
April 23rd, 2011 at 2:28 pm [Reply]
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#81): Dear God. I just had to ask, didn’t I…?
Scott BotApril 23rd, 2011 at 2:49 pm [Reply]
JP – The young lady in the background to the right appears to be somewhat downcast. Perhaps she’s disappointed that her breasts, although quite impressive, are not nearly as perky as Constance’s.
smokey stoverApril 23rd, 2011 at 2:59 pm [Reply]
“It was a different world at three in the morning. … . Couples arguing in the middle of the street, johns, pimps, prostitutes, lonely people looking to add excitement to their lives. The sadder and more twisted a story was, the more beautiful to me. ”
James Altucher
Not THAT Austin DernApril 23rd, 2011 at 3:23 pm [Reply]
Maybe there’s a “Dick Tracy”/”Mary Worth” crossover in the works…..Dr Drew is obviously Dick Villian Little Face http://www.flixster.com/photos/dick-tracy1990-little-face-11030849 after he lost a few pounds.
kkarenbApril 23rd, 2011 at 3:25 pm [Reply]
@Comcis Fan (#51):
Re: FW – Aren’t they all?
JP – This is too, too obvious, but what are the odds that Constance will try to push the Judge off the top of that secret staircase but will end up plunging off herself, with the final scene being her broken body sprawled on the stage as the curtain goes up?
Or maybe they’ll just talk about it and not show it.
April 23rd, 2011 at 3:26 pm [Reply]
@sully (#80):
That was a HORRIBLE story arc, even for Adam@home.
Who was that guy who didn’t want recycling? That was never, ever explained (at least not to my satisfaction). Why was Adam the ONLY ONE who wanted recycling? The whole thing was so “Mary Sue at War!”…I thought I’d fallen into a Luann story line.
mr12ozcanApril 23rd, 2011 at 3:37 pm [Reply]
maryworth-a movie is usually a bad date because you really cant talk . so my guess is liza is complete because dr drew agreed to watch a chik flick or he reached for something other then the popcorn during the previews or the jimmy fund ad
ElkMeadowApril 23rd, 2011 at 3:37 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#89):
Okay, went back and read it. Bad dude with perfect hair was some councilman who worked for waste management, claiming that recycling cost more than it was worth. Which might ring true for some little town in Eastern Oregon, population 2000, 90 miles from the “big city,” population 49,000, but Adam doesn’t live in a small, isolated town. Again, it’s a Luannish story line. Thankfully it’s not a 9CWL story line….yet.
Black DrazonApril 23rd, 2011 at 3:50 pm [Reply]
DT: Aww, Dick is pretending he knows how to use a warning shot. That’s adorable!
Mordock999April 23rd, 2011 at 3:50 pm [Reply]
Today’s Luann – 04/23/2011
Meanwhile at the Beauty Pagent……,
Luann – “There once was a man from Nantucket,”
“Whose Dic……,”
Nancy DeGroot – “NOOOOOO, Luann!!! The OTHER Poem!”
Luann – “OH! Sorry, Mom!
(A-Hem)
“I’m NOT Gorgeous.”
“NOT much shape….,”
_____________
DEATH to TJ!!!
April 23rd, 2011 at 3:51 pm [Reply]
MW: Silly Liza, bringing out the “you complete me” on the first date. You’re supposed to save that line for date number (looks at calculator)… Date never or date hell-freezes-over.
H&L: The educational opportunities afforded to neglected babies really are something.
MT: So Mark’s latest assignment is to track down John Fucking Thrasher and tell him that it’s better to communicate with your family rather than run off and try to avoid them? Yeah, let’s see how far into that lecture he can get without hysterical laughter.
A3G: “Why Pharaoh, you old so-and-so! I haven’t seen you since you let my people go! No hard feelings on that whole seven plagues business, right?”
Agnes: As a Rhode Islander, it tickles me that Trout knows her Lovecraft. Of course with that name…
Archie: Someone debug the science protocols on the AJGLU 3000. It seems to think you can silence an electric guitar by plugging earbuds into it.
BB: Continuing the week’s theme of genital trivia you didn’t ask for, we learn today that Sgt Louise Lugg shaves it bald. Of course Sarge is still in denial that vulvas exist, so who knows what he’s thinking?
RMMD: I think the idea of looking for a car by tracking its license number falls more under the purview of adequate minds.
Popeye: The rock-droppers at the top will now stop and say, “You’re going to make us play with your son? Uncle! Uncle!”
SFx: The building inspector drops by to make sure that the HQ of the Kilroy Was Here Club is up to code.
GT: It’s probably not a good sign for your gig when Ming the Merciless can’t be torn away from his iPad’s tic tac toe app.
FC: Thel smiles ruefully, shakes her head, and promises herself to do a better job hiding her novelty vibrators from now on.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:00 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#79): So nice to see new work from Watterson. I knew that he was a Cul de Sac fan. This makes me curious how he’d reinterpret, say, Alice or Dill.
Pseudo3DApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:06 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#24): Re: Baby Blues: Hear hear. I’m actually archiving a number of my old “educational” CDs (that ran on my Performa 550, RIP).
greghousesgfApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:24 pm [Reply]
leaving aside the shaving TMI in Beetle Bailey, how does anyone manage to misspell “Whoops” as “Wups”!?
Mark BApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:35 pm [Reply]
OK … LuAnn plot will be thrown a twist when Dirk returns and holds Toni hostage at gunpoint in front of the entire High School. He shouts “!$%# JUST GOT REAL!!” while waving the gun around. Eventually, the SWAT team arrives, and Dirk is subdued, but in the confusion, Gunther gets shot and dies in LuAnn’s arms. Later LuAnn gets cancer.
No, wait, that was if Batuik took over writing the comic. What’s really going to happen is that Tiffany won’t win the contest, and neither will LuAnn. Possibly the goth chick will win, or maybe token hispanic girl. Gunther will remain frustrated. That is all.
AviatrixApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:38 pm [Reply]
@Frank Lee Meidere (#14): Either she went to the filing cabinet and looked up the licence number from the insurance documents or she had already written it down to give to the hitman she hired.
KarMannApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:42 pm [Reply]
@TheDiva (#20) & @bourbon babe, unbuckled (#33) on MW: You both overlooked that classic, “Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo.”
@Mibbitmaker (#11), @Charles (#17), & @Hank (#28) also on MW: I guess my pop-culture references need recalibration. The only movie I knew that line from was whichever Austin Powers movie that was (the second one? whichever one introduced Mini-Me). Which made today’s installment of Mary Worth especially amusing when I first saw it.
Scott BotApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:44 pm [Reply]
Luann – Personally, I’m quite impressed at the sign on the podium about ‘The Student Beauty Paegant.’ When this school has pep rallies, do they have a big banner that says ‘The Pep Rally’? Or does the football scoreboard have a big sign in lights proclaiming the event ‘The Football Game?’
AviatrixApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:44 pm [Reply]
@Oregonian (#27): I wonder how many vicious killers are actually men who start dating women like Liza, and can’t figure out how to stop.
AviatrixApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:47 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#35): Oh, awesome. I’m allergic to ears.
Alan's AddictionApril 23rd, 2011 at 4:51 pm [Reply]
Why does Drew appear to be wearing war paint in the second panel? I can only assume that’s what’s wrong with his face, because it’s physically impossible for light to hit the face in such a way to create that shading. Also, I like the thought of war paint a lot more, because it holds the promise of him going absolutely insane and running amok in Santa Royale.
Also, expect a lawsuit between the folks at “The Lockhorns” and “Hi and Lois,” as “Hi and Lois” has just condensed the entirety of “The Lockhorns” into a single panel. The good news is that readers can read that “Hi and Lois” panel and never have to read “The Lockhorns,” which will add years to their lives.
April 23rd, 2011 at 4:58 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#96): My old favorite was 3-D Dinosaur Adventure, which was very nearly everything I could possibly have wanted out of a computer as a child. (I actually wrote to the developer wanting to know how they made the video clips, and got a personal response from one of the team responsible. Of course, AutoDesk 3D software was way out of my price range as an 8-year-old, but I thought it was just cool as hell that they wrote back!)
Mark BApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:02 pm [Reply]
@Alan’s Addiction (#104): I think Dr. Drew is holding a flashlight under his chin, possibly in an attempt to scare Liza. It doesn’t appear to be working.
AviatrixApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:08 pm [Reply]
@Austria (#64): How, exactly, does one use tape to amplify one’s bust…?!
Rest your boobs on your left arm and lift them up, while using your hand and curled arm to pull them together for the best cleavage for the dress you are wearing. With your right hand, run a strip of tape from just below your left armpit around below/against your breasts to the right armpit. Ensure the tape is not visible with the dress on. You can also use double-sided tape to secure the neckline, so as to show off more of the breasts without risking a wardrobe malfunction.
You asked.
@StrangeRover (#65): If only it could be a hit and run. Then Dr. Cory Sr. and Mary Worth will dedicate their lives to tracking down the killer.
@black butterfly (#75): Mark has John chained up in the basement.
@kkarenb (#88): And I thought I was only reading it that way because I watch too much TV. This is totally the opening scene of an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
@greghousesgf (#97): I noted it as an interesting datapoint on the “wine-whine” merger. That is, a considerable number of English-speakers pronounce wh and w identically and Walker’s pronunciation spelling indicates that he is one of them. “Whoops” being more of a noise than a word anyway, I don’t have a problem with a phonetic respelling.
AviatrixApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:10 pm [Reply]
A3G: Is this about drugs or sex? I can never tell when they talk in code like that.
S-M: Does the Spider-Man suit have an easy-access zipper, or did MJ put the suit back on post-BJ?
DT: Perfection! It’s the shoot-first Dick Tracy we know and love, complete with an astonishingly plausible rationale for his actions! And love the action of the gun, complete with the ejected shell casing.
Phantom: Even the Wambesi want to know what’s up with this plot.
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:11 pm [Reply]
MW: As the Sebaceous Cysts of Skepticism begin to blossom on Dr. Drew’s visage, Nurse Liza has a sudden premonitory twinge of doubt. Or maybe it was just the salmon squares.
commodorejohnApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:13 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#107): Fascinating instructions. I’d file them in my vast hoard of random stuff, but I think I’m unlikely to need them at any point in the future.
(Then again, it’s not like that’s ever stopped me from saving anything else…)
AviatrixApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:14 pm [Reply]
MT: Hold the phone[*]! Those ducks are normal. Well, normal except for their unnatural love for someone hiding in the mountains.
AviatrixApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:16 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#110): Since it’s Luann, she may be wadding the tape up into a ball and packing it into the bottom of her bra, but that’s not the standard technique.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:17 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#107): push’em up, strap them in, RenFest wenches FTW!
boojumApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:18 pm [Reply]
@greghousesgf (#97):
How does anyone manage to misspell “Whoops” as “Wups”!?
Once again, Dr. Johnson has the definitive answer. “Ignorance, madam. Sheer ignorance.”
boojumApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:23 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#107): You had me at “Rest your boobs on your left arm…..” Assuming you meant ‘forearm’.
Steve MartinApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:24 pm [Reply]
@Scott Bot (#78): Ducks, wonderful ducks!
Peanut GalleryApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:25 pm [Reply]
@Laura Brown (#61): He’s also the most indecisive. “Get a load of Mr. Wavering, here!”
boojumApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:26 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#110): And, uh… yeah. Good luck NOT filing that image away.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:29 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#33):
JP: But Barbie Constance, the Judge doesn’t actually engage in any adventures; no, he sits quietly in the shadows while someone who is not Judge Parker does exciting things that involve busty babes and secret passages, and then he sits down for a couple of days and writes about them and retreats into the shadows to rake in the money. Geez, get with the Parkerverse Program, Connie.
It’s stretching the truth to the breaking point to say that Sam Driver “does exciting things.” One would be safer saying that he’s in the vicinity when theoretically exciting things take place.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:33 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#107): Out of curiosity, what’s the best kind of tape to use? I imagine that scotch tape won’t hold.
commodorejohnApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:33 pm [Reply]
@boojum (#118): Would I want to not?
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:45 pm [Reply]
@boojum (#115):
I think it’s actually closer to the entire arm. The image I’m getting here is sort of like using your left arm to put a headlock on your tits. Hey Carmela, you squeeze those mangoes any harder and you bought ‘em.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 23rd, 2011 at 5:52 pm [Reply]
@Charles (#17): Liza’s father was a drunk, and a fiend…
nomuseApril 23rd, 2011 at 6:06 pm [Reply]
H&L: Nice save by the colorist.
Spotts1701April 23rd, 2011 at 6:22 pm [Reply]
@KarMann (#100):
There is some dialogue that is just too stilted and wooden, even for Mary Worth.
April 23rd, 2011 at 6:24 pm [Reply]
H&L: Thanks Trixie! You really nailed your audition here on “The NEXT LORETTA LOCKHORN!”
MustangApril 23rd, 2011 at 6:47 pm [Reply]
HandL – Who besides Bil Keane lies on KMart’s cheapest lawn furniture in the middle of Suburbia’s most desolate backyard with his wife ripping him a new one and grins like a blooming idjit? I guess if we had any doubt about how he got his name….
Rocky StoneaxeApril 23rd, 2011 at 7:05 pm [Reply]
4-23 Weird Sound Effects:
Snuffy Smith — CRACK!!
Pluggers — PUTT PUTT PUTT
Piranha Club —
http://www.jsonline.com/comics/32402404.html?feature_id=Piranha
The Pajama Diaries —
http://www.jsonline.com/comics/32402404.html?feature_id=Pajama
Mumblix GrumphApril 23rd, 2011 at 7:16 pm [Reply]
“Drew, you complete me.”
Where the hell is Dick Tracy to dish out some bloody ultra-violence when you really need him?
seismic-2April 23rd, 2011 at 7:20 pm [Reply]
MW: “I’ve heard that line somewhere before, Liza! Oh right – my best pal “Buffalo Bill” always said it to the girls he dated in Silence of the Lambs.”
MT: “For the love of God, Mark, bring my crazed killer commando son down from the mountains and turn him loose on all these goddamn ducks!!!!”
JoshuaApril 23rd, 2011 at 7:26 pm [Reply]
@Scott Bot (#101): “The Student Beauty Pageant” is actually the official name of the event. No, it’s not a particularly clever name, but that would justify the sign.
Makya McBeeApril 23rd, 2011 at 7:35 pm [Reply]
Mary Worth – “I’ve heard that line somewhere before, Liza…now tell me what you see in this Rorschach Test I’ve had tattooed onto my forehead, and we’ll truly see if we’re meant for each other.”
Hi and Lois – Apparently, in this particular suburb, they keep their very young and very old in a communal pen where, free-range, they can graze and socialize comfortably until they’re deemed ready for harvest.
CanuckDownSouthApril 23rd, 2011 at 7:36 pm [Reply]
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#120): Never done it, but supposedly it’s yet another use for duct tape.
MWDGApril 23rd, 2011 at 7:36 pm [Reply]
MW: God, I wish Liza would decapitate Drew… but, instead we going to be forced to watch Drew and Liza’s PDA at the monthly Chaterstone pool party. Dawn no doubt will be attired in cut-off Old Navy jeans complete w/ muffin top and hirsute treasure trail. Dawn will whistfully stare at her long lost love, Drew. Mary and foppish Jeff will drone on and on how Liza is pushing Drew too quickly into marriage.
Perhaps Charterstone’s resident internet security guru, Terry Bryson will counsel young Dawn on her blossoming womanhood and the montly curse that all women since Eve must endure.
April 23rd, 2011 at 7:58 pm [Reply]
Oh good grief, what have I started.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 23rd, 2011 at 8:00 pm [Reply]
@Austria (#64):
How, exactly, does one use tape to amplify one’s bust…?!
Not really my area of expertise, but there’s a special tape for that (NSFW):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-70IqXFI7g
Spotts1701April 23rd, 2011 at 8:07 pm [Reply]
@seismic-2 (#130): Or if you can’t do that, at least send them to Leadworth. They have a duck pond, but no ducks.
UncleJeffApril 23rd, 2011 at 8:34 pm [Reply]
Tomorrow’s Dick Tracy: Whoops! Sorry, Lizz. Well, at least 5th missed with the nerd’s ray gun.
ElkMeadowApril 23rd, 2011 at 8:55 pm [Reply]
@Chip Whittle (#58):
Seriously, can we please airlift Clovia into a strip where she gets something going right for her? She deserves better.
I remember when Clovia made her decision of Slim instead of a widower doctor who had a small child. As I remember, Slim was stalking them, and had a truck accident while doing so, and she ran back to him. So she ended up with his mom living with them, and his mom did stuff like eat the can of tuna fish for a snack that was supposed to be dinner for three, and distracted Clovia so that she didn’t get to see her daughter take her first steps. I was so sad about how everything was going, that I quit reading it until Rover came into the picture, and then once he got settled as their adopted son, I quit reading it again until this week. That Slim would fall hook-line-and $220 bill for the “cousin” bit is par for the course.
I’m just glad for Clovia that she hasn’t taken her frustrations out by eating everything in sight.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 23rd, 2011 at 8:56 pm [Reply]
better than ninja goats?
Black DrazonApril 23rd, 2011 at 8:59 pm [Reply]
MW: Kiss him Liza! Kiss him before he succumbs to the evil witch’s curse and his face shrinks off of his head! Just remember that she’s an incredibly well-meaning evil witch because she’ll be your mother-in-law one day.
Scott BotApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:00 pm [Reply]
@CanuckDownSouth (#133): Funny, I don’t seem to recall Red Green showing us this on Handyman’s Corner.
AnonymousApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:10 pm [Reply]
MT: Hey, Papa Thrasher, maybe John doesn’t want to change things. Maybe he just want to be left alone. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so in the MarkTrailiverse.
MW: If Drew thought that Liza was Tom Cruise in disguise, he would have a boner at least two panels long.
Beetle Bailey: On the other hand, Sarge’s date could very well be Ernest Borgnine in disguise.
ElkMeadowApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:11 pm [Reply]
@Austria (#64):
(How, exactly, does one use tape to amplify one’s bust…?!)
Google “duct tape to lift boobs” There’s even a youtube video with directions on how to perk ‘em up.
PBS: …I like this.
I do too. It’s a keeper.
SF: I’ll miss you!!
I’ll miss them too. Maybe the former marketing department can go visit Dexter and Berna and watch television there, teach them how to play Wii games. I would also like to see a competing company scoop them up and win awards with their out-of-the-box campaigns. I call, though, that the president of the company is ticked that her nephew, godson and former military commander were all fired, and Sally will have plenty of free time when she finds out.
Zits: I’m surprised Pierce isn’t already covered in tattoos from head to foot.
He is. Just every so often the tattoo artist does an over-all “blank” screen of skin color, and starts over. (Makes as much sense as anything else in this strip, including a tattoo artist that works on under age kids without parental permission.)
Sgt. StonedApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:15 pm [Reply]
@Anonymous (#143): I clicked “Post” before I signed off.
Scott BotApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:18 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#144): Google “duct tape to lift boobs.”
Ok, but I’m holding you personally responsible when Mrs. Bot yells at me about looking at stuff like that on the internet.
@Black Drazon (#141):
There’s a mother-in-law Pluggers strip in there somewhere.
ElkMeadowApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:26 pm [Reply]
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#136):
Sorry, Rocky. Didn’t see that you’d already made the link to the video when I posted.
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#140):
People turning into goats is quite the norm in Nigera, although I have yet to read any stories where they turn back into humans.
@Austria (#135):
Actually, I’m looking forward to the post-pageant time, when she rrrrrriiiiiipppppps the tape off, taking with it the top layer of skin and exposing all the nerve endings. However, with Evans, I’m sure we’ll just have to imagine it on our own while she prances around with her tiara and the harem of guys in her wake while Tiffany pouts and everyone else worships the ground she walks on.
Hey, Evans, reading this?
ElkMeadowApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:34 pm [Reply]
@Scott Bot (#146):
Ok, but I’m holding you personally responsible when Mrs. Bot yells at me about looking at stuff like that on the internet.
Hm, that can be a problem. You could suggest that you were doing research for her: summer’s on its way, and that she could wear the latest halter top without those annoying bra straps.
However, except for the video (Rocky did the direct link, not me), it’s all text. As one poster put it, she couldn’t draw diagrams and the dog couldn’t hold the camera for the video.
Fashion PoliceApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:49 pm [Reply]
We are heartbroken that our hopes for Chatu’s re-purposing as a New York fashion designer have been dashed. One can only conclude that he has been exiled to Westview.
Elsewhere, Miss Thompson would be well-advised not to trust her budding career to Mr. Diller. When music producers go monochromatic, it must be black. It’s in the by-laws. Mr. Diller is a phony.
OregonianApril 23rd, 2011 at 9:53 pm [Reply]
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#136):
there’s a special tape for that
That is truly… bizarre.
When I first watched the ad, I saw the words “Are your girls in need of a few extra perks?” and my first thought was “HOLY CRAP! Parents are buying this for their own daughters??? This is so, SO wrong!”
Then I.. uh… realized what “girls” they were talking about.
AviatrixApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:01 pm [Reply]
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#120): Duct tape is best, for its superior width and holding power.
@Écureuil Écumant (#122): A headlock on tits describes it well.
@ElkMeadow (#147): By the end of the day, sweat should have loosened it enough for it to come off without pain or damage. I suppose if you did that every day it could get raw.
CalicoApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:02 pm [Reply]
I’ve been away this past week on business but have a little something to share with all of you:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25708522@N06/5647673719/in/photostream
You’re welcome.
(I don’t know how to dup/copy the comic-specific text – maybe Dean or Bats could share a bit of their awesome PS knowledge!)
Happy Easter!
April 23rd, 2011 at 10:03 pm [Reply]
@Calico (#152): On the occasions I’ve mimicked a comic’s font, it’s been through copy-and-paste of existing letters. Tedious, but it looks pretty good.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#151): @CanuckDownSouth (#133): Thanks for the info. Like I said, it’s just curiosity on my part. I don’t have breasts as such, and if I ever find that I do have them, I’ll have a lot of other decisions to make.
bats :[April 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 pm [Reply]
@Calico (#152): let me say first and foremost, I do NOT have an issue with Comic Sans (maybe I’m lazy, maybe I’m a font snob, but I’ve done enough calligraphy over the years that I’m not going to commit a lot of time to doing specialty lettering work for a silly mashup of mine!).
What I usually do, even with a multi-panel strip that I’m only screwing with a single panel, is to re-type all the text in the strip so it looks cohesive. I can also vary the font size if I don’t necessarily see any value in keeping the original strip width (who really cares about ALL the blue people in A3G or the Eischer-designed condos in MW?).
That’s about it for my tips. :D
April 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 pm [Reply]
Oh, and I like your BB mashup, Calico. Ewwww!
Comcis FanApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:20 pm [Reply]
@Oregonian (#71):
I’ve done a fair amount of tinkle-witching, come to think of it.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:30 pm [Reply]
@Effluvius Erratus (#29):
DtM: Dennis wants advice on what kind of soil is best for growing cannabis. Menace Factor increases by one.
Recommended by two out of three Lords of the Jungle*:
http://images.lowes.com/product/088017/088017106205.jpg
*Tarzan, Ka-Zar and Bomba
Government CheeseApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:33 pm [Reply]
MW: So he completes her after only one date at the Waffle House? Jeez – women are e-a-s-y in Santa Royale. Men with blue hair apparently have a monopoly in that town.
Esther BlodgettApril 23rd, 2011 at 10:43 pm [Reply]
Really late to the party, I am.
1st, congrats to the floaters!
2nd, “Citizen Khan” is a stupid name for a deli. It should be “KHAAAAAAAAAAAN’s Deli.”
3rd, Happy Easter! I’m going to go eat a Cadbury Creme Egg now.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:05 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#99): I’ll buy that. I guess she’s got a photo, too, in that case.
CloudbusterApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:25 pm [Reply]
MW: I think I’ve got it. This is a huge meta-joke by Moy: it’s an attempt to do an entire plot-line where every piece of dialogue is a tired, banal cliche. Or does that describe all the Mary Worth plot lines?
Frank Lee MeidereApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:29 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#35): Been nibbling?
boojumApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:33 pm [Reply]
@Cloudbuster (#162): I believe your difficulty is in trying to merge the mental concepts “Karen Moy” and “attempt.” One of these things is not like the other.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:45 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix: I don’t know if I mentioned it, but I’m now posting the Avia comics on their own web comic site: Avia. (Seven so far.)
nescioApril 23rd, 2011 at 11:57 pm [Reply]
This is late but I have to carthartically get it out…
It gets dirtier when you remove commas and apostrophes:
1) Curtis: “You were wrong about that chiahuahua member”
2) DT: “Lizz, are you all right?” “Not for long dick!”
Dirty with no changes:
1) Popeye: “Throw one more rock an’ I’ll lay ya among the sweetpeas!”
Marvin: Marvin’s Dad keeps a stash of weed in the grill.
MW: I’ve heard that line before. But I love lines, that’s why I got these Maori facial tattoos.
April 24th, 2011 at 12:01 am [Reply]
@Esther Blodgett (#160):
“Citizen Khan” is a stupid name for a deli. It should be “KHAAAAAAAAAAAN’s Deli.”
Khan should stick to what he knows best:
http://www.ifublog.com/attach/100/1224563154.jpg
Frank Lee MeidereApril 24th, 2011 at 12:03 am [Reply]
@nescio (#166): That’s brilliant. I wish I could use those in class.
AviatrixApril 24th, 2011 at 12:08 am [Reply]
@Frank Lee Meidere (#165): You told me about the website, but there were three more there I hadn’t seen. Number 5 made me laugh the hardest, something about the sudden interposition of SOMEONE ELSE with a mother with spirit guides.
Edgar Cayce was indeed on the menu, and when I was younger there were a lot of pyramids and prehistoric alien visitors. That could be misparsed, but I think I’ll leave it as it stands. Also she washed, spun, dyed and wove or knitted her own lumpy wool for oddly-fitting garments, including a large collection of mittens. She never quite mastered knitting mittens of any particular size, so she just knitted lots, some left, some right, and you tried to find two that roughly matched your hands.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 12:08 am [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#151):
By the end of the day, sweat should have loosened it enough for it to come off without pain or damage.
Um, no. If one was using scotch tape, not a problem, but duct tape is another story. I understand that using mineral oil might help, but there’s not enough sweat to loosen it, and that’s from experience from just playing with duct tape on the hand or to make designs when suntanning. To put it simply, it’s an alternative to waxing.
Master SoftheartApril 24th, 2011 at 12:11 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#147): That was a Curtis Kwanzaa storyline, right?
AviatrixApril 24th, 2011 at 12:11 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#170): Your mileage may vary. I was feeling no pain.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 24th, 2011 at 12:15 am [Reply]
Happy Easter, folks!
http://www.hembeck.com/Images/FredSez/HappyEasterCaniff400.jpg
bats :[April 24th, 2011 at 12:18 am [Reply]
I know I’m a big ol’ sentimental goober, but that runnin’ bun in Panel 1 of Sunday’s Mark Trail is cuter than anything!
FC: and how freakin’ GROSS are those dreadful kids? Hey, Keanes, why don’t you just complete the tableau and have them all vomiting, too?
This GuyApril 24th, 2011 at 12:21 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#79): Great piece. I do wonder, though, about all the business about “first new art from Watterson in 16 years.” We know he’s been painting for a while, and (at least) one of his landscapes even appears in the Complete C&H collection. Maybe they just mean the first new piece of comic-strip-related art.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 12:36 am [Reply]
Happy Easter, all!
********************************************************************************************************************************
RMMD More inane discussion about Riley, Tony goes to the club, where he will be meeting Rex and Berna, Dexter listens in, same ol’, same ol’.
MW Hey, Jeff, are you bragging or complaining about Drew. He’s a bachelor, that’s what bachelors do until they find the one they want to stay with. So sorry that he didn’t agree to the marriage you arranged for him when he was, what, four? And Jeff, remember whom you’re talking to. Mary has turned down your wedding proposals time and time again.
Whoa, that last panel–is that David Bowie she’s kissing? Or silent screen star Rudolf Valentino? Or a Volturi vampire?
Prince Valiant Crap. I waited all week for this, and all I got was a beautiful window in the background of panel 1, a misplaced time portal in panel 2 (turn around and use it, whydoncha?!), and a well-drawn colorless landing in panel 3, and detailed colorless stairs in panel 4.
Oh, look–Valiant and Draco have matching gold necklaces. How sweet.
(And, by the way, re. Harry Potter lexicon The Draught of Living Death is a potion, with the ingredients of asphodel in an infusion of wormwood, valerian roots, and sopophorous bean.
(As a potion, I would guess that it needs to be drunken or applied to have any effect. Magical spells…Hal Foster is spinning in his grave.)
And this strip is what I’ve been waiting all week for? Walnuts. Good night.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 12:39 am [Reply]
@Master Softheart (#171):
If you’re referring to the goats, sorry, no. There’s a lot of problems in that country that are blamed on former-humans-but-now-goats.
@This Guy (#175):
According to the article, it’s the first piece that the syndicate has received from him in years.
Maggie the CatApril 24th, 2011 at 12:39 am [Reply]
Regarding the boob taping: Standard grey duct tape worked wonders for my twins. And if you remove the tape in a hot shower it’s all good ;-)
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 12:40 am [Reply]
@Maggie the Cat (#178):
Thanks–I’ll keep that in mind.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 24th, 2011 at 12:57 am [Reply]
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#83): Just brilliant. Perfect rhythm.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 24th, 2011 at 1:23 am [Reply]
April 24
Dick Tracy: Oh my God! So we’ve gone from a Dick Tracy with a page-turning cliffhanger once a decade, to a Dick Tracy with a page-turning cliffhanger in every panel. And the art is good! I’m happy to have witnessed the renaissance of this strip — even if I did have to sit through months of watching two vaguely-human shapes doing absolutely nothing in a granary during a storm.
Frank Lee MeidereApril 24th, 2011 at 1:24 am [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#169): Ah. That’s gold, that is.
KarMannApril 24th, 2011 at 1:50 am [Reply]
4/24 DT: OMG, those last two panels! I’m not sure which plotline we’re going to keep up with during the week (or both?), but this O.B. Plenty thing looks to be hilarious! (Just keep the hospital staff away from the exploding violence violins.)
Maggie the CatApril 24th, 2011 at 1:50 am [Reply]
Thank you, Mark Trail! Now I know that rabbits are the irresponsible sluts of the animal kingdom!
Frank Lee MeidereApril 24th, 2011 at 1:53 am [Reply]
April 24
FW: I strenuously object to anything to do with Heinlein appearing in a Funky Winkerbean strip!
KarMannApril 24th, 2011 at 1:54 am [Reply]
4/24 JP: Constance’s telling the Judge to “go ahead… slip in!” wasn’t in quite the context that I had expected. [*]
FOOBed againApril 24th, 2011 at 2:08 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#176):
MW Hey, Jeff, are you bragging or complaining about Drew. He’s a bachelor, that’s what bachelors do until they find the one they want to stay with. So sorry that he didn’t agree to the marriage you arranged for him when he was, what, four? And Jeff, remember whom you’re talking to. Mary has turned down your wedding proposals time and time again.
I must have missed the part about the arranged marriage. The only Drew romances I remember are Vera and Dawn, which was right when started reading this blog. What happened?
LeeApril 24th, 2011 at 2:12 am [Reply]
DT: Huh! I’ve been going through the Curmudgeon’s back posts as I have time, and I’m up to 2009 – and coincidentally I just read this one right before checking the Sunday Dick Tracy – a post which featured a scan of an old Dick Tracy with B.O. and Gertie’s first (?) child, Sparkle. Spooooky~ And, considering how everyone in that comic was going on about how pretty that kid was, now I am really wondering what the new team is going to do with this!
AviatrixApril 24th, 2011 at 2:25 am [Reply]
A couple of panels from Hootin’ Holler were accidentally appended to my copy of Dick Tracy. I don’t follow the former, but I’m surprised the hospital staff were not inured to the sort of birth defects to expect from that community’s newborns.
JP: Are you in yet?
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 2:27 am [Reply]
Mary Worth (Sunday): Let me correct that for you: “He just has to stand still and it’s like flies to a steaming pile of shit.” There. Much better.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 2:39 am [Reply]
Sally Forth: Whaaaa? No ear biting? That’s like finding out I’m dating Louby Lou. Next thing you’ll tell me Sally’s changed her hair style.
Marvin: Uh, Easter Bunny? Do you really want to give that toddler added dietary bulk fiber? Right. You hate his parents.
Slylock Fox Mysteries: Slylock was more successful because he looked in Reeky Rat’s pocket. He’s always the perp when Rachel Rabbit is involved. That weird role-playing “burglar and innocent housewife” fetish between the two of them, sometimes Reeky takes it too far.
KarMannApril 24th, 2011 at 2:45 am [Reply]
Well, today’s Ollie & Quentin [*] is obviously why the syndicates get the big bucks. (It’s not just the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel; should be pretty much anywhere that uses the Comics Kingdom servers.)
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 2:47 am [Reply]
Happy Easter!
Frohe Ostern!
Joyeuses Pâques!
Buon Pasqua!
Beannachtaí na Cásca!
??????? ???????!
April 24th, 2011 at 2:49 am [Reply]
Yeah, that last one was “Happy Easter” in Russian. I wanted to cover all the nearby local languages.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 3:30 am [Reply]
Get Fuzzy: Littervania! For the Win!
Luann: They’re eating at Wiener World. A sandwich, a burger, and a huge taquito is what they’re eating. Wiener World needs to focus on the basics.
Drabble: Ha ha! Ralph Drabble married the display manager for Hobby Lobby! Hobby Lobby is known for putting up its Christmas merchandise very early in the year, like June or July.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 3:36 am [Reply]
Pluggers: Ha ha! Pluggers won’t spend $2 on toll because it goes to that ebil gubmint but will pay more that $2 to bypass that toll on gas and the inevitable tow back home because all the parts held onto their rattletrap pickup trucks with bailing wire and Bazooka chewing gum fell off due to all the potholes in the fields running parallel to the toll road.
Mr. O'MalleyApril 24th, 2011 at 4:41 am [Reply]
MW: They’re standing next to a picture window that tops out around 5′6 and is apparently next to a church steeple, from which can be seen the skyscrapers of Santa Royale, a city that has only one seafood restaurant. Or maybe they’re just down the street from the Watts Towers. I’ve given up commenting about the constantly morphing furniture and character positions; it would be a never-ending task, like writing to the San Jose Mercury News every time you see a spelling mistake. Jeff appears to be rolling around Mary’s apartment on an office chair, judging by the contrast between panels 2 and 5.
But that last panel makes them look like they’re standing on the outside of a window ledge. Maybe they’re at the same building that Harold Lloyd filmed at, that would explain the church steeple. Are they going to outdo those students at USC? Or are they two cat-burglars who found love?
I have this nagging notion that somewhere in the works of H.P. Lovecraft there’s a phrase that sums up the geometry of MW perfectly, but I’ve never been able to find it again. It’s one of those stories about a city that emerges out of the sea, and then suddenly cuts to a gibbering man rescued in a lifeboat, who only survives long enough to tell his story to the skeptical seacaptain. I downloaded the Complete Works so I could do an electronic search, but I still haven’t found it. Maybe I need to read by the light of a gibbous moon in an eldritch sky.
The Murky News also provided a great example of a grammar point that was under discussion here lately. In a story about a local politician who is retiring, it said “she is looking forward to spending time with her husband, Bob and her family”. All I could think of was “does her husband know about Bob?”
Mr. O'MalleyApril 24th, 2011 at 4:57 am [Reply]
@KarMann (#192): I’m getting that on oregonlive too. Evidently they replaced one strip with another one that comes at the same place in the alphabet, and forgot to change the page boilerplate.
Mr. O'MalleyApril 24th, 2011 at 5:22 am [Reply]
Crankshaft: Huh?
The first panel looks like a Plugger getting ready to use the toilet. So is it true what they say about bears or not?
This is almost the archetypal Bliss.
Doctor HandsomeApril 24th, 2011 at 6:01 am [Reply]
@Charles (#17): I immediately thought of the Joker saying that in The Dark Knight too. Maybe because they seem to be standing in the same street where Batman flipped the Joker’s semi. Did you know that they actually did that? It wasn’t CGI. They actually flipped a semi on the streets of downtown Chicago. Yes, I’m going to keep talking about The Dark Knight instead of Mary Worth, because I have a semblance of sanity to maintain. Wasn’t The Dark Knight awesome?
KarMannApril 24th, 2011 at 6:04 am [Reply]
@Mr. O’Malley (#197): You’re almost certainly thinking of “The Call of Cthulhu” itself. Sample sections:
Without knowing what futurism is like, Johansen achieved something very close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing any definite structure or building, he dwells only on broad impressions of vast angles and stone surfaces – surfaces too great to belong to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs. I mention his talk about angles because it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams. He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours. Now an unlettered seaman felt the same thing whilst gazing at the terrible reality.
Johansen and his men landed at a sloping mud-bank on this monstrous Acropolis, and clambered slipperily up over titan oozy blocks which could have been no mortal staircase. The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity….
It was Rodriguez the Portuguese who climbed up the foot of the monolith and shouted of what he had found. The rest followed him, and looked curiously at the immense carved door with the now familiar squid-dragon bas-relief. It was, Johansen said, like a great barn-door; and they all felt that it was a door because of the ornate lintel, threshold, and jambs around it, though they could not decide whether it lay flat like a trap-door or slantwise like an outside cellar-door. As Wilcox would have said, the geometry of the place was all wrong. One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed phantasmally variable.
Sounds like Santa Royale to me! The only remaining question is, is Mary equivalent to Cthulhu Itself, or just Its high priestess?
KarMannApril 24th, 2011 at 6:52 am [Reply]
@KarMann (#201): Actually, I must admit, I was starting to have my doubts about my own theory when I realized that that passage seemed to much more accurately describe Brozman-era Dick Tracy than Santa Royale. But then I remembered that Mother Goose & Grimm recently revealed (pass the brain bleach, please) that they take place in the same location, inasmuch as such a non-Euclidean place can be said to have a location. So I guess the theory holds up, and even has predictive power, as a good theory should.
Bill ThompsonApril 24th, 2011 at 6:54 am [Reply]
S-M: Call of the Wildly Obvious: Morbius’ girlfriend wants to become a vampire. Of course this plan will collapse when Spiderman talks everyone to death. However she doesn’t want to become a vampire; her problem is that she was recently bitten by a radioactive spider, and eternity as a Human Vampire looks better than what she sees in Peter Parker.
FlummoxicatedApril 24th, 2011 at 7:35 am [Reply]
MW: Doesn’t Drew have some volunteer work to do in another country? Somewhere in Vietnam, Peace Village is missing its idiot.
wossnameApril 24th, 2011 at 7:55 am [Reply]
Crock – I tell ya what, there’s just about nothing funnier to start off your Easter morning than senile dementia and heartless kids abandoning their aging parents!
FC – “Do we HAFTA eat breakfast? Because we’re all about to start projectile vomiting.”
JP – Constance got her hair dyed and changed her dress since yesterday, the better to invite the judge to “slip in” to her “secret door.”
Sly – Buford Bear put the necklace in a condom and swallowed it, right? Rachel Rabbit has an unpleasant chore ahead of her.
DT – So much win! This has become the perfect comic strip since Staton and Curtis took over.
PV – Why’s he going after Draco? Everybody knows the real villain is Mudhen Malbutt Marlboro Madbud – you know what? Going after Draco was a good idea.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 8:00 am [Reply]
@Bill Thompson (#203): Don’t you mean Peter’s girlfriend?
Rocky StoneaxeApril 24th, 2011 at 8:10 am [Reply]
@Mr. O’Malley (#199):
The first panel looks like a Plugger getting ready to use the toilet. So is it true what they say about bears or not?
Um, that isn’t a roll of toilet paper he’s holding in the first panel. It’s an industrial-sized roll of Pick-Me-Up Breast Lift Tape — which Andy Bear uses to add a few extra perks to his “girls” (NSFW):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-70IqXFI7g
(Andy performs nightly at Tony Amato’s Place for Drag ‘n’ Dinner!)
Rocky StoneaxeApril 24th, 2011 at 8:48 am [Reply]
Weird Sound Effects (Easter Edition):
Hi & Lois — CRUNCH!
Pickles — SNIFF! SNUFF!
Garfield — SPLOP! GLOMP!
The Pajama Diaries — beep-beep!
Shoe —
http://www.jsonline.com/comics/32402404.html?feature_id=Shoe
The RidgerApril 24th, 2011 at 9:07 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#144): Why are you assuming it’s without parental permission? Surely if they objected they’d have put a stop to it long ago. I picture them as massively not caring what he looks like. Have we ever seen them? Perhaps he’s conforming to their lifestyle, even?
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 9:17 am [Reply]
@KarMann (#192):
Man, I always wanted to build a rocket, but lacked the boards and the sheet metal. I guess you have to live in a “developing subdivision” and rip them off of construction sites.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 9:18 am [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#194):
Throw in some Hmong and Vietnamese and I’d guess you were in Portland, Oregon.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 9:23 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#211): Heh heh. I wish I were sometimes. Portland’s a cool city.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 9:24 am [Reply]
@The Ridger (#209):
Good points.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 24th, 2011 at 9:25 am [Reply]
Funky Winkerbean — Thought you might enjoy comparing TomBat’s homage to the original Mort Meskin comic book cover:
http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/560/375601/7914301_1.jpg
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 9:26 am [Reply]
Frazz: “Ours is not to reason why, just invert and multiply!”
A&J: ahhh, Arlo, don’t ever change. If Ted Forth was functional, he’d be a lot like you.
Bizarro: META-WIN!!!! (with Mutts.)
MG&G: tries to get there as well, but not quite.
CdS: teasing Baka Gaijin again, but much gentler than the last time.
FT: not all comics parentals are stupid.
HotC: that’s not exactly what the Big NO! trope is about.
IP: brought to you by Warner Brothers.
Luann: KLANG!!!!!
NAoQV: probably as close to a Zombie Jesus joke as you can get away with.
NS: OK, that was better than expected.
PBS: heh.
Blondie: well played.
MT: no surprise there.
RwO: heeee!
PV: I am not liking the story, nor the character styles. If there is a new writer involved, they need to be slapped upside the head with some Hal Foster collections.
standard snarpologies.
Pseudo3DApril 24th, 2011 at 9:27 am [Reply]
In regards to yesterday’s Curtis, does anyone beside me think the strip is wrapping up loose ends to end fully? Kinda seems that way to me.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 9:30 am [Reply]
Archie: The AJGLU-3000 has been ripped us off. It finally figured out “Marvin” has been a noun and a verb around the Comics Curmudgeon for a long time, and not in a flattering way.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 9:32 am [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#215): I’m still not looking.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 9:32 am [Reply]
@FOOBed again (#187):
I made that up about the arranged marriage.
I find Jeff’s obsessiveness disturbing. It reminds me of stories about my grandmother, who had planned for my dad to marry a certain local girl, but he didn’t, and she never got over her disappointment and stayed bitter until she died a quarter of a century later.
The RidgerApril 24th, 2011 at 9:36 am [Reply]
Memo to Jeff: Drew has problems because, once he’s standing still, any woman attracted to him discovers that he thinks of them as “flies” to his “honey” and realizes there’s a reason he’s still single. Any sane woman, that is. Hope you enjoy your crazy daughter-in-law.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 24th, 2011 at 9:55 am [Reply]
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#208):
More Weird Sound Effects (Easter Edition):
Marvin — BUMP!
Todd the Dinosaur — CHOMP! CHEW CHEW
Wizard of Id — ZIP… BOING BOING BOING
Heathcliff —
http://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff
Rocky StoneaxeApril 24th, 2011 at 10:00 am [Reply]
@The Ridger (#220): Just… don’t… call… him… FLYFACE!
FOOBed againApril 24th, 2011 at 10:00 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#219): It’s sad when someone wants to control someone’s life so much that they ruin that person’s life, or they feel their own life is ruined the the person they want to control doesn’t go along with it. Sorry to hear that your grandmother felt like that.
Jeff is weird. Drew is a grown man– he’s been a doctor for awhile so he must be in his early 30’s. Jeff shouldn’t be getting so involved in his relationship problems unless Drew asks for help. And so what if he doesn’t get married until he’s older–that’s the trend now, but Jeff won’t be happy until Drew is married off, and it was the same way with Adrian.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 10:34 am [Reply]
otter pops!
hovercorgi.
Facebark.
floofy lap pup.
zerowolfApril 24th, 2011 at 10:41 am [Reply]
MT: If rabbits have litters 4-5 times a year, it wasn’t the eggs that were getting laid in the grass.
zerowolfApril 24th, 2011 at 10:44 am [Reply]
RMMD: Do payphones still exist?
John C FremontApril 24th, 2011 at 10:48 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#176): I was kind of going with Valentino when I first saw it, but what I really want to know is what is he doing to her in that last panel? I mean, I’ve seen people kissing other people, and I’ve seen people sucking the life force out of other people, but this is just creepy and weird.
@Baka Gaijin (#191): I should not have clicked that link! Louby Lou will be in my nightmares for weeks to come!
RMMD – Lose the glasses, and fifth panel Dex could be Brando in that scene where Martin Sheen first meets Kurtz. As drawn by Daniel Clowes.
Or maybe he’s more like a lump of yellow Play Doh molded into an Easter Island head by a third grader.
JP – Ooh, I would so go up the secret stairs with Constance. But I would not go up to the Secret Square, for there lies madness and Paul Lynde.
GA – When he says that God is like Scotch Tape, all I can think of is the earlier discussion about taping breasts. Pretty sure that’s not what he means, but then again…
DT – B.O. does not just look at Spittoon Quarterly for the pictures. He reads it for the articles. And the “letters” section.
Uncle LumpyApril 24th, 2011 at 10:57 am [Reply]
Dick Tracy — Dear Spitoon Quarterly: I never thought something like this would happen to me, but … ptui!.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 10:59 am [Reply]
@FOOBed again (#223):
But Jeff is currently single. Yeah, he’s with Mary, but after being told three or four times “to wait”, and being almost ditched a few more times, one would think that he’d be wanting to find someone willing to make a rest-of-his-life commitment since he keeps ramming it down his kids’ throats.
CanuckDownSouthApril 24th, 2011 at 11:13 am [Reply]
JP – Only in Sam & da Judge’s smug world of unearned showers of accolades would an “I offer you all the kingdoms of the world” homage be the appropriate observance for an Easter strip.
Bill ThompsonApril 24th, 2011 at 11:15 am [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#206): I’m sure that both MJ and Morbius’ girlfriend see vampirism as the right decision. Given the brides-of-Dracula tradition, they could become the best of friends. In fact ditching Peter Parker and joining the ranks of the undead could improve MJ’s social life no end. Morbius will certainly take her out a lot more often.
Oh, yeah:
9 Chickweed Lane: The cat doesn’t appear today, but I still have something good to say about this strip. As a child one of the Burber women traumatized a teaching nun. That redeems everything bad about the strip. If you don’t get it, you can’t call yourself a parochial school survivor. I promise to never again speak ill of 9CL, even if this means never mentioning it again.
zerowolfApril 24th, 2011 at 11:17 am [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#216): Nah, I think Curtis is about to discover the concept of security cameras.
Joe BlevinsApril 24th, 2011 at 11:29 am [Reply]
Today’s Ziggy so easily becomes a haunting meditation on absence and abandonment.
CalicoApril 24th, 2011 at 11:34 am [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#153): @bats :[ (#155):
Thank you both for your PS advice!
I did try to copy and paste each letter, but it would not allow me to do so. Maybe it has something to do with layers-I’m a real noob with graphics programs.
April 24th, 2011 at 11:35 am [Reply]
@zerowolf (#226): Indeed they do. Not only doesn’t everyone have a cell phone, there are places where you can’t use them (for various reasons). And there are plenty around just because they are – the gas station next to my apartment building has one, for instance. (And I do see people using it every now and then.)
CalicoApril 24th, 2011 at 11:39 am [Reply]
@bats :[ (#174):
Aw, I know-nice rendition! Rabbit, Run! : )
And then, in true Westview form, the following text states that cute little Rabbits are “Hunted by just about every meat eater.”
Except me-I see dead rabbits in every food store in QC, and I’m really not interested in trying it.
Curtis – Happy Easter from DEVO!
CanuckDownSouthApril 24th, 2011 at 11:41 am [Reply]
#235-Ridger – Heck, this has come up before and I’ve pointed out that I’ve even seen a teen using one at the mall recently. I use them when roaming charges (N of the 49th) are exorbitant, etc. Look for them at gas stations, fastfood joints, and malls
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 11:49 am [Reply]
@zerowolf (#225): Ah ha ha ha! Good one, Wolf!
@Uncle Lumpy (#228): Ha ha ha! Good one, Lump!
TheDivaApril 24th, 2011 at 11:56 am [Reply]
Happy Easter to everyone who would welcome the greeting! (The rest of you, have a very nice general Sunday.)
9CL: Waaaait, that’s just the big fat guy (Thorax?) in convent drag, isn’t it?
C’shaft: Admit it, you’re not even trying to be funny with these anymore, are you?
MW: We’re on what, hour ten of their first date now?
Pluggers would rather go out of their way and spend an extra fifteen dollars on gas than pay a two dollar toll.
SM: Where have you been, woman? Lots of people take vampires seriously these days. Most of them are on Madison Avenue.
April 24th, 2011 at 12:31 pm [Reply]
A3G – “Let’s just stop in at the Prancing Pony, then I need to get on over to Hobbiton across the river.”
A.D. – Nice.
Blondie – Best. Easter. Ever.
DT – So obviously the highlight here is hardened medical personnel fleeing in horror from the sight of Gravel Gertie’s nethers and their output, but I just have to give some love to the “GUN MELTING” caption box. It’s good to know some things haven’t changed.
FC – The Keane parents’ plan to induce crippling diabetes in their children is proceeding apace, I see.
FW – Well, at least he actually put a name in the fine print this time, instead of “uh, yeah, there were some other guys who actually drew this, whatever.” Now if he could only put some effort into making his alterations in any way match up with the art he’s hijacking…
JP – That is some fine craggy detail in the last panel, that is.
Luann – Obnoxious “social consciousness” faux-caring plus crass consumerism! It’s something for everyone to hate!
MT – “Rabbits are among the most common and well-known animals in the world, and are hunted by just about every meat-eater! Go get ‘im, Rusty!”
MW – The cheek blush might’ve worked by itself, Drew, but if you have fuller eyelashes than your girlfriend, you’re probably overdoing the makeup.
OB – Resourceful kid.
Phantom – “Yeah, about that…I was more thinking I’d get a new nemesis who doesn’t wear purple spandex and a domino mask. It’d look just a little silly to be fighting him while looking as rakishly classy as I do.”
PV – Uh, yeah, that may not have been the best possible course of action, Val. Especially considering that you already know it’s Draco’s wife and not Draco himself who’s doing that hoodoo that she do so well.
SF – Oh, don’t worry about it too much, Ted. It was in her blood, that’s all.
SM –
Edison Lee – 1200 people died for a shitty diet joke, ladies and gentlemen.
seismic-2April 24th, 2011 at 12:44 pm [Reply]
DT: Are we to believe that it is Gravel Gertie, not daughter Sparkle, who is having a baby? Isn’t Gertie about 60 years old? Perhaps hillbillies don’t become menopausal until they’re well into their 80s. It must be something in the spittoons.
MT: “1-8 young are produced 4-5 times a year by a single rabbit.” Ah, so that’s why rabbits are associated with Easter. It’s the virgin birth that does it.
AviatrixApril 24th, 2011 at 12:47 pm [Reply]
@Flummoxicated (#204): That’s it, Drew is just back from Vietnam for a visit. Liza is is vacation fling. In two weeks he’ll be all, “have a nice life.”
gleebApril 24th, 2011 at 12:51 pm [Reply]
Phantom: “Kill the ghost-who-walks? But I’ve been coasting on my looks.” Honestly, we’ve been told Eric Sahara is a deadly guy but all we’ve seen him do is win at a casino and talk to a waiter.
The Hardy Boys in The Secret of the Seedy Theater!: I like the forced smile on the purple guy in panel four. Sure, he could be at home watching the Mets on teevee, but here he is at a play based on a nursery rhyme. Oh, and I severely doubt anyone is watching ex-Judge Parker when Constance is standing next to him jutting like that.
‘bean: I tilted my head for this?
Dick: Action! And Spittoon Quarterly!
AviatrixApril 24th, 2011 at 12:52 pm [Reply]
BC: It’s an Easter miracle! A topical, religious-themed B.C. strip that made me laugh.
Blondie: I’m not sure which idea is more ludicrous: hunting for prepared egg-based meals, or the children being delighted to find them, but I think I may suddenly ‘get’ what Zippy the Pinhead was meant to do.
mollificentApril 24th, 2011 at 1:15 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#224): Here’s a little something extra for you: http://youtu.be/LvrcdQWzH-8
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 1:22 pm [Reply]
@mollificent (#245): that is freakin’ sweet! (pun not intended.)
thanks!
HankApril 24th, 2011 at 1:38 pm [Reply]
RE: Mary Worth. I’ll cut Jeff a little slack because, as I recall, one of Drew’s last romantic partners was that teenaged girl who’s addicted to Facebook. So Jeff’s probably right to be worried…if his worry is that his son is an internet predator.
HankApril 24th, 2011 at 1:39 pm [Reply]
Wait. With today’s strip, shouldn’t BC be called “AD”?
Marion DelgadoApril 24th, 2011 at 1:42 pm [Reply]
By the way, I may not be up to speed with the conventions at this theater: is it okay to call the Luann character “Gunthony” now? I know you boo the criminologist.
Week 1: Gunthony gets a porn ’stache
Week 2: Gunthony cuts out the middle-teen and lobbies Mrs. DeGroot directly for Luann’s “favors.”
Week 3: Luann finds out Quill is cheating on her – like all boys not from her hometown would.
Week 4: Profit! Wedding bells!
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 1:46 pm [Reply]
3 of 4 on FrameGames (with a headslap for the one that I missed) but got all 4 on the Bonus set, including a fiendishly difficult one.
go me!
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 2:15 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#240): So many have been talking about it. Your comment pushed me over the edge. The edge of actually looking at Dick Tracy today. Damn that some good art, good dialog, and “Spittoon Quarterly!” I may have to put it on my daily routine.
@gleeb (#243): Damn, “jutting” is the right word. And so is “Spittoon Quarterly.”
@Marion Delgado (#249): Booooo! Boo the criminologist! Booooo! Spittoon Quarterly.
bourbon babe, unbuckledApril 24th, 2011 at 2:17 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#242): Or: Liza will be converted from her so-unwomanly lack of interest in tending to the needs of others—changing their bedpans, sponging their flaccid bodies, spooning their pablum into their quivering lips—through her love for Drew, and she will renounce all of that silly me-first-itude to follow him to Peace Village, where they will glow with the mutual satisfaction of their (marital, of course) love for each other and the nobility of their sacrifice.
HankApril 24th, 2011 at 2:17 pm [Reply]
@Marion Delgado (#249): Your theory would be valid but Luann’s mother is more mercenary than Ma Fooberson. Instead of waiting for the boy next door, Mrs. DeGroot is shamelessly urging her daughter to give it up for a rich midget Elvis.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 2:23 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#252): Babe, I fear your tea leaves have provided you with the proper future of Liza and the younger Dr. Corey. All I can say is, “Pass the bucket, I’m gonna spew!”
seismic-2April 24th, 2011 at 2:33 pm [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#254): Use this spittoon.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 3:07 pm [Reply]
*inserts dated “NOOO! That’s MAH bukkit!” reference here.*
alleycatApril 24th, 2011 at 3:31 pm [Reply]
Today’s Easter themed Blondie is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen. Tell me Dagwood isn’t masturbating in panels 2-5 as he watches the neighborhood children eat the egg dishes he’s prepared.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 3:58 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#256): What?
@alleycat (#257): Oh yeah. It doesn’t take a Sigmund Freud to tell Daggy’s getting off on this freaky scene. No doubts whatsoever. After he’s finished watching the kids, he’s going upstairs and banging Blondie like a gong, then maybe Tootsie and Herb too. The mailman tomorrow morning better watch out in case the effects of all that food orgy don’t wear off in 4 hours and Dagwood doesn’t go to a doctor about it.
bourbon babe, unbuckledApril 24th, 2011 at 4:29 pm [Reply]
@alleycat (#257): Masturbating AND salivating: It’s a magically erotic combination. (And don’t ask how he thickened the Bearnaise sauce.)
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 4:49 pm [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#258): This is what started the whole bukkit saga.
Baka GaijinApril 24th, 2011 at 4:56 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#260): Awww, poor um, seal or whatever that thing is. All it has in its little life is a blue bucket and now it doesn’t. That makes me sad. But maybe that seal-thing will eat a clown. Now I’m happy.
mollificentApril 24th, 2011 at 4:59 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#259): EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
FOOBed againApril 24th, 2011 at 5:20 pm [Reply]
@Hank (#247): Well, yeah, but I don’t think Dawn is really supposed to be a teenager. I think she’s supposed to be in college and at least 20. But since she’s at Charterstone in Santa Royale, she’s required by law to live with her parents until marriage, like Dr. Adrian Corey did, and go to Santa Royale College. Drew was an exception because he was working in another country doing good–also there may be an exemption for men over 30, or however old he is.
Liza is probably from another state, which is why she gets to have her own apartment.
Carl Barks FanApril 24th, 2011 at 5:37 pm [Reply]
GA: didn’t we all know this would happen?
Rocky StoneaxeApril 24th, 2011 at 5:40 pm [Reply]
Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop — Dag’s lazy pastor decides to waste church funds (which could have been used to help the less fortunate) on a skywriter. Worse, the pastor’s message is writ large over a Hooverville consisting of several large cardboard boxes with holes cut in them…
http://www.jsonline.com/comics/32402404.html?feature_id=Heavens
Amen, indeed!
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 5:40 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#215):
PV: I am not liking the story, nor the character styles. If there is a new writer involved, they need to be slapped upside the head with some Hal Foster collections.
Well put. It’s like this artist is saying, “Hey, look everyone! I can draw buildings and furniture!” Which is an improvement over every other “serious strip,” but the characters are still wooden.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 5:41 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#216):
That would explain a lot. There hasn’t been any retirement announcement, has there?
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 5:42 pm [Reply]
@Bill Thompson (#231):
I promise to never again speak ill of 9CL, even if this means never mentioning it again.
I won’t hold you to it.
ElkMeadowApril 24th, 2011 at 5:45 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#240):
MW – The cheek blush might’ve worked by itself, Drew, but if you have fuller eyelashes than your girlfriend, you’re probably overdoing the makeup.
Rats. Every guy I dated had fuller eyelashes than I did.
Bill ThompsonApril 24th, 2011 at 5:54 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#268): Thanks. One skill the nuns could never develop in me was the power to resist temptation. It’s like keeping Peter Parker away from a couch; you can only do it by showing him a bigger and softer bed.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 24th, 2011 at 6:05 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#216):
In regards to yesterday’s Curtis, does anyone beside me think the strip is wrapping up loose ends to end fully? Kinda seems that way to me.
@ElkMeadow (#267):
That would explain a lot. There hasn’t been any retirement announcement, has there?
I’m still hopeful the final Curtis strip will show someone busting a cap in the little punk’s ass:
http://www.unn13.com/images/ghettorat.gif
dreadedcandiru2April 24th, 2011 at 7:01 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#216): Let’s hope so; I don’t think I could endure another mind-screw Kwanzaa story.
dreadedcandiru2April 24th, 2011 at 7:03 pm [Reply]
Monday Spoiler:
Tomorrow in Dick Tracy it’s “Dick shoots bad guys, bad guys die.” No fuss, no muss, no insanity, no stupidity, just Dick obliging two shmucks who want to commit suicide-by-cop.
The RidgerApril 24th, 2011 at 7:44 pm [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#261): It’s a walrus (or lolrus) so it’s definitely big enough to eat clowns.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 24th, 2011 at 7:52 pm [Reply]
4/24
JP: It’s starting to look like Constance wants to push Judge Parker Emeritus off the roof in order to… Become a best-selling author? Sell Alan Parker relics? No really, it would make no sense at all. But since when has that stopped anyone?
BC: The title character is presumably thinking, “Really? God would be cool with that? I’m not so sure.”
OBH: Ruthie’s got the artistic temperament down, minus some drunken sobbing and self-harm.
FW: I actually turned my head sideways to read this, which is the very definition of “wasted effort.”
SFx: Upon finding out that Buford Bear has secreted the necklace in his anus, Rachel Rabbit will say, “Ah, keep it. Just give me a percentage on whatever you sell it for.” Am I close?
Artist formerly known as BenApril 24th, 2011 at 7:55 pm [Reply]
Blondie: Elmo saying, “Cool! Eggs benedict!” is all the hint we need that all the action takes place in Dagwood’s addled brain. Presumably Blondie is standing by her comatose husband’s bed while receiving a grim prognosis from the doctors.
This GuyApril 24th, 2011 at 7:57 pm [Reply]
Sunday’s B.C.: “Maybe that Joseph guy from Arimathea will want his tomb back now that it’s freed up? Nah.”
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 24th, 2011 at 8:08 pm [Reply]
Dick – Spittoon Quarterly? Well, okay. I guess B.O. Plenty wouldn’t the only person who ever subscribed to a journal about his headgear.
AD – Hm. I’m going to guess that Clumsy Carp rose from the dead. Okay, it’s not much of a joke, but there are two other tombs there, and maybe ten cavemen in the world. I have to salute the ‘take no prisoners’ attitude of a strip that will kill off 20% of its cast for an Easter joke.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 24th, 2011 at 8:09 pm [Reply]
@Esther Blodgett (#160): “Citizen Khan” is a stupid name for a deli. It should be “KHAAAAAAAAAAAN’s Deli.”
Nice, but I prefer “The Khan Mutiny.”
@This Guy (#175): I took it to mean “First piece of art delivered to his old syndicate in sixteen years.”
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#208): These sound effect bring it all back. Seventh grade, and I wrote a story for English class about caveman names. There was a couple, and their names were “Grunt-Whish-Poo” (which meant, syllable by syllable, “Big-Fat-Stupid”) and his wife, “Sniff-Glop-Burp” (“Smelly-Bad Cook-Father Ate Too Much Before Naming Baby”). I was reminded of it years later when I ran into someone else from that class who remembered it. Wow! He REMEMBERED!
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 24th, 2011 at 8:09 pm [Reply]
@zerowolf (#226): Yes.
@Hank (#248): Wait. With today’s strip, shouldn’t BC be called “AD”?
Good point! I’ll start four years ago.
April 24th, 2011 at 8:23 pm [Reply]
Drew looks pretty intimidating in panel two. “I’ve heard that line somewhere before, Liza!… Do you know what I do to plagerists? Well… it isn’t pretty.”
prefab sproutApril 24th, 2011 at 8:32 pm [Reply]
Those aren’t Trixie’s parents. That’s her alcoholic neighbor “Thirsty” and his nagging wife. They’re in the next yard, on the other side of the fence.
Her own parents are inside, having passionate sex while she sits unattended in the backyard.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 8:34 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#259): ahegao and ewwww, respectively.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 8:38 pm [Reply]
there are baby bunnies outside my bedroom window.
SQWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
seismic-2April 24th, 2011 at 8:57 pm [Reply]
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#275): Since there are probably two dozen people in the world who might want to purchase a copy of ex-Judge Parker’s thrilling opus My Forty-Five Years of Probate Filings, Constance figures she had better boost sales by sending her prize author up that hidden staircase to that room that no one knows about with the Cask of Amontillado. Once she has shown her publicist skills by making Alan Parker the most famous missing jurist since Judge Crater, and she will then plant conspiracy theories on the Internet blaming his disappearance on people named in the book, such as the resentful daughter who insisted she was supposed to inherit the good set of Tupperware instead of the set with the missing lids. Then it’s time for the book tour, with the ever-so-dramatic empty chair set next to Constance at every stop. After all, this book tour has to be worth a Mickey-Yogi Topps card, so now it will need to sell more copies than all the legal thrillers of John Grisham combined . So long, Allan, it’s been swell to know you.
This GuyApril 24th, 2011 at 9:44 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#177): I suppose so. I guess that’s not so surprising, given Watterson’s general attitude toward the syndicate. Sometimes I wonder if he’ll become the Terence Malick of comic strips and create a new series, but I’m not holding my breath.
bats :[April 24th, 2011 at 9:45 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#284): eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
(What? No photos?)
April 24th, 2011 at 9:48 pm [Reply]
That’s Marylahotep, Meddler of Outer Gods, the Prying Chaos, Eater of Souls(and salmon squares).
The Not So Great Old OneApril 24th, 2011 at 9:49 pm [Reply]
Meddler of the Older Gods…
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 9:51 pm [Reply]
@bats :[ (#287): the QG wouldn’t let me run out and snap any. Mama Bunny was hanging around the nest, so probably a good thing. The QG did shoo a cat out of the yard that was showing all too much interest in the situation. I’ll take a look out there in the a.m and see if I can get a snap of them if they are still there.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 24th, 2011 at 9:51 pm [Reply]
@The Not So Great Old One (#288): *snurk*
Rana the Pedantic Wet BlanketApril 24th, 2011 at 9:53 pm [Reply]
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#120): Boob tape. Seriously. They sell tape especially for lifting up breasts.
Mr. O'MalleyApril 24th, 2011 at 10:12 pm [Reply]
@KarMann (#201): “abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours”. Yes, that’s the ticket.
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