Apartment 3-G, 4/25/11
In a bold departure from the usual Apartment 3-G fare, the current male guest star, Dan Diller, is not a sandy-haired clean-cut young white man, but is rather a sandy-haired clean-cut young white man wearing an obviously fake beard and wig. Thank goodness non-wigged/bearded but still sandy-haired, clean-cut, and white Rick is here to keep us anchored to what we understand to be A3G reality! In addition to being a clean-cut young man in a suit, Rick is also apparently pretty relaxed about telling everyone about the mental health practitioners he’s seeing. Of course, this strip’s only known therapist is notorious quack Professor Ari P., and one assumes that he’s already blabbed to anyone who will listen about Rick’s depression/anorexia/borderline personality disorder, so there’s no point in keeping a lid on it.
B.C., 4/25/11
So the bird has covered the turtle with … sexy feathers? So a bird will have sex with the turtle? Or maybe another turtle, which will be aroused by the feathers? I’m kind of beginning to worry about B.C., to be perfectly honest.
Pluggers, 4/25/11
Even total strangers are pretty psyched about pluggers’ impending death!
This entry was posted on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 08:54 am and is filed under Apartment 3-G, B.C., Pluggers. | 222 responses to “” Carmichael The Polar BearApril 25th, 2011 at 8:58 am [Reply]
When I first saw the B.C. final panel, I didn’t notice the bird’s butt hanging out, so I was perplexed by what appeared to be spearheads decorating the turtle’s shell. Granted, B.C. is peculiar, but peculiar to the point of pioneering turtle snuff comics? Preserve us!
Chip WhittleApril 25th, 2011 at 8:59 am [Reply]
Apartment 3-G: “I was busy having my head examined. Turns out my lip has this weird curve to it, isn’t it distracting? Anyway, long story short, the HMO’s having Margo slap this silly look right off my face. It’s an outpatient thing.”
Arctic Circle: I for one endorse sending packs of wolves after the mobs of extremely slow-moving people who don’t understand escalators.
Crankshaft: I feel like this is somehow a slur on somebody’s sexuality, and I hope someone sends Crankshaft and Seth to talk to each other about it until they fall off a cliff.
Crock: Crock Numbers Station cartoonist Incomprehensible Scribble is telling his overlords about fitness centers. Apparently we’re going to be attacked by an Obesity Ray, sometime in 1974.
Curtis: “No! No, it wasn’t ME, Curtis! Honest!! It was…my INTERNET ADDICTION! To an adorable forest deer named LUCKY!”
Funky Winkerbean: I look forward to the advertisements: “Order your pizza now! Text FAIL to 38659!”
Chyron HRApril 25th, 2011 at 9:03 am [Reply]
Does the closing quotation mark in Pluggers mean that Brookins is finally finished quoting his readers’ brain droppings at us?
FafMorApril 25th, 2011 at 9:05 am [Reply]
I would think Pluggers would be more concerned about taxidermy than cremation.
nescioApril 25th, 2011 at 9:06 am [Reply]
B.C.: this is part of a disturbing trend where one B.C. character covers him/herself with stuff ripped off another character’s ass. Last year Fat Broad made a fur coat out of mammoth pubes.
Marvin: I’ve never seen It’s Alive, but Marvin is probably scarier, because he attacks with claws and fecal matter.
DoodApril 25th, 2011 at 9:07 am [Reply]
Sure, if you call a plugger chicken’s funeral barbecue pyre a cremation and the scattering of remains “good eatin’.”
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 25th, 2011 at 9:08 am [Reply]
the squee will not be post-jumped!
I .gif you cephalopod squee.
hoverpup. low altitute, high squee!
double your corgsqui.
Plinko CommieApril 25th, 2011 at 9:10 am [Reply]
You’re a Plugger when you live in Westview.
McManxApril 25th, 2011 at 9:14 am [Reply]
BC – I thought the turtle and this bird were already an item. They have been constantly together for years. However, for bird to yank out all his ass feathers to sex-up the turtle, I guess things weren’t going all that well.
Pluggers – No, your not a plugger when you start receiving colorful brochures about cremation; you’re a plugger when you start READING colorful brochures about cremation.
Slylock – For a brief second, I thought Slylock had been successful in introducing capital punishment to the forest.
Phantom – GWW turned Chatu over to the Wambesi?!?! What sort of goddam climax is this to a year-long story progression? At least he should have brought him home for the Bandar to eat.
McManxApril 25th, 2011 at 9:16 am [Reply]
@FafMor (#4): LOL! COTW nomination here!
Little GuyApril 25th, 2011 at 9:18 am [Reply]
CaturdayLio: Awww… good kitty!
Curtis: Either Chutney is crying crocodile tears, or we have a real mystery. It’s either the Golden Rodent or a pissed-off Diane.
McManxApril 25th, 2011 at 9:19 am [Reply]
For all our spellcheckers, I know that should be “you’re” in my #9 Plugger comment.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 25th, 2011 at 9:20 am [Reply]
Archie – Whoa! New artist? Definitely new lettering. (Or, as Colonial and Rocky Stoneaxe say, maybe a good old artist and lettering.)
Crock – “You figure it out.”
And we’ve found this strip’s new default additional last line for every strip. In our pants.
Dick – Showing the demise of the villains? I thought the accepted protocol was to talk about it for three or four weeks. Truly, we are in a new era.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 25th, 2011 at 9:21 am [Reply]
Family – “Jelly beans are good for you. They’re both a fruit and a vegetable.”
Jeffy’s thinking, Just like Dad!
ba-da-BOMP!
Judge – ROOF [UP arrow]
What a swell building. It comes with its own “THIS END UP” signs!
Mary – Sadly, the reason that this hospital loses so many cardiac patients is shown on the coffee cup. Not the fact that Liza’s screwing around instead of helping a patient, but the fact that the drawing of a heart shows what they look for and don’t find when they open up a patient.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 25th, 2011 at 9:22 am [Reply]
Spider-Man – Uh oh! Dr. Fiancee (clearly the REAL villain here) just slipped a big fuzzy caterpillar into MJ’s Pinot Blanc ‘93! Let’s see if she notices.
Zits – If guitar solo lasts over four hours, see your physician.
@oakley sunglasses (#y57): bleeding spam
@Little Guy (#11): Ehhh, it’s probably the goddamn Flyspeck Island Canary or something like that.
S. StoutApril 25th, 2011 at 9:23 am [Reply]
The bird is just dressing the turtle up so it can try to have sex with it. I think all the other birds died out, sadly.
Chip WhittleApril 25th, 2011 at 9:24 am [Reply]
Mandrake: “Hold it, Johnny! Don’t go in!! We forgot the laser sharks and the contact-mine pool toys!!!” “Thank you, Zippy the Secret Service agent!”
Mark Trail: I still think “Doctor Thrasher” is actually the name for an arena rock star. Or in Mark’s case, somebody who makes music using rocks, twigs, and a helpful backup chorus of singing raccoons.
Mary Worth: Sure, it looks like Dawn is being horrifically neglectful, but what you’re overlooking is the Myocardial Infarction Treatment app on newer Blackberries.
The Phantom: The giant candle, the gaslamp, the inkwell, the seashell, and the volumes of Black’s Law Dictionary really add some flavor to doing Scrooge’s accounting. Do you suppose the Ghost Who Walks gets Christmas off without having to visit himself three times that night?
Spider-Man: Oh, no! Morbius’s Fiancee is slipping a multi-vitamin into Mary Jane’s drink! How is she ever going to get a Vitamin K deficiency now?
Zippy the Pinhead turned into Food Mascot Snuff Porn so gradually that…actually, I think everybody kind of saw this coming.
Yusaku777April 25th, 2011 at 9:25 am [Reply]
Pluggers – To be fair, it’s only when they start to receive COLORFUL brochures about cremation that they become true Pluggers. The hastily scribbled notes letting them know you want them to die in a fire are black and white, after all.
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 25th, 2011 at 9:27 am [Reply]
Jeffy: “Interesting. Her pincer is capable of more delicate grasping operations than I would have suspected.”
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 25th, 2011 at 9:29 am [Reply]
Lu: “While they ponder, let me show you the kielbasa trick.”
Rocky StoneaxeApril 25th, 2011 at 9:30 am [Reply]
4-25 Weird Sound Effects:
Luann — POP
Fast Track — STAPLE
Oh, Brother! — SPISSH!
Buckles —
http://www.jsonline.com/comics/32402404.html?feature_id=Buckles
Piranha Club —
http://www.jsonline.com/comics/32402404.html?feature_id=Piranha
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 25th, 2011 at 9:36 am [Reply]
MW: “I ? to taunt viewers with L’Hospital’s Rule” is one of the clunkier coffe mug slogans I’ve ever seen.
AustriaApril 25th, 2011 at 9:40 am [Reply]
Arch: HOLY $#*^!!!! What’s going on?! New artist? Old artist? Archie’s shirt concerns me, so I’m thinking old artist.
Blondie: OH COME ON
FW: Because all young people understand technology, right? No, seriously, I’m 20 and I have no idea what’s going on here.
Luann: I love this woman. Mrs. Horner don’t take no PC!
MW: Ohhhhhhh snap. Don’t tell me — Liza’s going to be so distracted by Drew that a patient dies, and then he breaks up with her. Bring it on! *grabs popcorn*
SF: Check out the last panel. Look closely, now! I love little details like that.
Zits: Without the floppy bridge, it would just be a non-sequiter, but with the floppy bridge, it turns into an ED joke. Classy.
Chip WhittleApril 25th, 2011 at 9:41 am [Reply]
@Yusaku777 (#18):
To be fair, it’s only when they start to receive COLORFUL brochures about cremation that they become true Pluggers. The hastily scribbled notes letting them know you want them to die in a fire are black and white, after all.
Wait, since when are Pluggers species that can see colors?
Rocky StoneaxeApril 25th, 2011 at 9:44 am [Reply]
Die, Plugger, die!
http://www.petdirectory.com.au/listimg/6936_1.jpg
MattApril 25th, 2011 at 9:45 am [Reply]
3G: I’ve been struggling to suss out what the deal is with Dan Diller…why the beard, the music producing, the crazy eyes?
Then I realized: He’s an unexpected, unnecessary Rick Rubin stand-in.
http://www.urblife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/RickRubin1.jpg
I can’t wait to hear him reveal he’s producing some of the last recordings by famed country-western singer, Ronny Rash.
pugfugglyApril 25th, 2011 at 9:48 am [Reply]
A3G: Hmmm…if Dan Diller is a stand-in for Rick Rubin, who’s the clean-cut white boy interested in seeing musical theater..? OMIGOD!! Tommie is going to get to meet the A3G-universe’s Josh Groban!!! Wait, is he crazy? Maybe it’s Lil’ John….
MW:To celebrate her recent date, sociopath Liza decides to poison a few random patients for kicks, then tweet the grisly details from an anonymous account, with the hashtag #killernurse
TheDivaApril 25th, 2011 at 9:54 am [Reply]
Pluggers: Isn’t cremation a bit too high-end for Pluggers? I thought they were more of the “wrapped in a garbage bag and buried by the oak tree on the back forty” method of burial.
9CL: I like Fernanda.
C’shaft: It’s funny because we all know he’s going to end up doing that anyway.
FW: Because setting up a online ordering never involved complicated tech speak or know-how. Then again, Montoni’s seems like exactly the sort of place that would have its homepage on Geocities.
Luann: Mrs. Horner is all in favor of humiliating someone. As long as its Tiffany, who deserves it because she is an EVIL HOR who turned down Greg Evans for the junior prom.
MW: The Liza/Drew romance proves to be just another extension of the “social media is evil” storyline. Eventually all Mary Worth plots will boil down to “Twitter ruined my relationship with my boyfriend/father/husband/cat!”
SM: “Pay no attention to the phosphorescent capsule I just dropped in your glass.”
Maggie the CatApril 25th, 2011 at 9:55 am [Reply]
Dex should look into buying one of either Kramer’s Bros or Frank’s Mansierres with his windfall.
word-doctorApril 25th, 2011 at 9:57 am [Reply]
BC-”Perverted” is using a feather. “Perverse” is using a reptile festooned with feathers.
FC-Jeffy’s face is particularly doughy this morning.
Phantom-Conservators take note: it’s possible to climate control a giant skull to keep archival records safe.
April 25th, 2011 at 10:00 am [Reply]
MT: Now even the Trailians are able to warp space and shift position en-mass from the living room to the dining room table, and not spill a drop of conjured up coffee(?).
Not Just Any DipstickApril 25th, 2011 at 10:01 am [Reply]
A3G: Oh, did I not mention I was having a colonoscopy at the time?
Esther BlodgettApril 25th, 2011 at 10:02 am [Reply]
FW: Technology gives us so many ways to ignore the quality of our food and service!
Archie: Jughead’s eyes are open, and he’s wearing a button-down shirt. Consider my mind blown.
DT: Even the charred dead hands are high quality!
UncleJeffApril 25th, 2011 at 10:08 am [Reply]
DT: I don’t have the technical ability to pull out any individual panels, but it seems to me that Lizz has had at least 3 different “looks” in the last few weeks.
The new artists seem to be trying a few different models but what a drop for Lizz from the Locher days when she was the chief of police in charge of cleaning up Dick’s gory messes and now she’s just a naked chick of need of the Big Guy’s trenchcoat cover-up.
April 25th, 2011 at 10:10 am [Reply]
Luann: If the judges declare a six-way tie, or decide to name each girl a “winner” in some nauseatingly inclusive categories they make up on the spot, this strip is dead to me. If, on the other hand, Mrs. Horner declares herself the winner because “in my day we didn’t let tramps or colored girls win” and starts doing a fan dance on the Weenieworld counter using her false teeth as castanets, I’ll give it another month.
Maggie the CatApril 25th, 2011 at 10:14 am [Reply]
I hope when we finally see John Fucking Thrasher that he’s dressed in a hoodie and aviator glasses. And pants, too, I guess.
Fester MorgensternApril 25th, 2011 at 10:17 am [Reply]
It’s the Grammar Nazi! In the Pluggers entry, that should be “deaths”, not “death”.
Pseudo3DApril 25th, 2011 at 10:20 am [Reply]
9CL – Check your thesaurus, McE: “detached” is not used in the correct form here. I checked.
DT – Liz has gone from hard-boiled police chief lady to Ms. Fanservice. What happened?
FW – Man, this guy is making the “nerd guy” from a few weeks ago make sense. Somebody slap this guy.
Pseudo3DApril 25th, 2011 at 10:25 am [Reply]
@Esther Blodgett (#35): Or if Toni takes off her wig and makeup to reveal that she’s really Brad in disguise, well, that would be worth something.
Victor VonApril 25th, 2011 at 10:27 am [Reply]
Given the leer on Rick’s face, I think there is an unspoken “if you know what I mean.” As in “I was having my head examined… if you know what I mean.”
Rick’s kind of a cock.
The RidgerApril 25th, 2011 at 10:30 am [Reply]
@Chip Whittle (#24): Well, birds can see colors. In fact, more colors than primates can see.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 25th, 2011 at 10:36 am [Reply]
Love Is. . . . hadaka aprons and sex in the kitchen.
Professor FateApril 25th, 2011 at 10:39 am [Reply]
FW: all this fuss so a crazy person and a comic book writer can order ahead? they are the only ones not Related to Funkly or Les that I’ve seen eating this swill.
MW: “well have to go.. those people in intensive care are just sooo needy. It’s not like they are going wait…well it’s not like they have such a great life anway…but really must dash…”
KatyApril 25th, 2011 at 10:43 am [Reply]
WE GET IT, KAREN MOY. TWITTER KILLS.
MibbitmakerApril 25th, 2011 at 10:53 am [Reply]
9CL: I‘d like to SLAM this storyline, myself!
Archie: So, the muscley guy eats too much, and the skinny guy eats too much. Is it Archie comic strip character hiring discrimination against stereotyped fat guys?
BBlues: He just beat his dad to it, is all.
BBailey: “Yes.”
Uncle LumpyApril 25th, 2011 at 11:05 am [Reply]
@Katy (#44):
Well, stalking kills, that’s for sure! And if I recall correctly, Mary Worth has addressed this issue at least once before, in some way.
Old School Allie CatApril 25th, 2011 at 11:09 am [Reply]
Luann – Give it to Rosa. She looks like my mother’s pug, Maggie – and I like Maggie. I actually prefer my father’s pug, The Dude, but Rosa looks more like Maggie. Actually, so does Mrs. Horner.
Gilthorp – Don’t listen to him, Al-Jo. I love me some Folk Music. Although, I heard a gospel rendition of Blowin’ In The Wind yesterday, and realized it is possible to hate that song. It blew, all right.
S4th – I’m liking the new hairdo, Sally. But can we get some more Ted and Nona up in this joint?
MW – Please, let’s not get preachy about Nurse Liza screwing up patient care because she is in luuuuurve. Three years ago today, exactly, my father had a quadruple bypass and spent six weeks in the hospital. The surgeons may have saved his life initially, but it was the tireless work of dozens of nurses who kept him alive, championed his cause and got him well enough to come home. My mother, age 67 is still a nurse – and passionate to a fault about patient care. I’m not interested in seeing Moy and/or Giella besmirch the profession because of one lame, fictional bad seed.
RwO – Kinda dark for a Monday, there, Hilary…Although, I can’t say I’ve never felt that way about, say… a co-worker. Not so much with Mr. Cat.
MibbitmakerApril 25th, 2011 at 11:11 am [Reply]
Curtis: C.,w.a.a-h!
FW: A wall of text which is the point is still a wall of text.
Luann: We already have a winner, hands down — The old lady! (wild applause) Congratulations, Mrs. Horner!
MT: “…and we want to take him away from his peaceful sollution.”
Rocky StoneaxeApril 25th, 2011 at 11:15 am [Reply]
@Victor Von (#40):
Rick’s kind of a cock.
More of an emu, actually.
http://www.freewebs.com/aszsa2/emu.jpg
The RidgerApril 25th, 2011 at 11:19 am [Reply]
@Old School Allie Cat (#47): My sister’s a nurse. The writers are only besmirching the profession if the behavior is passed off as normal. Seriously, every group has its fans. How do they write if they’re not allowed to have someone Mary can fix?
The RidgerApril 25th, 2011 at 11:22 am [Reply]
Luann: Wait just a doggoned minute here. Didn’t teacher lady think the pageant was a great idea when Tiffany suggested it? How did she think they were going to end it without “picking one” to win? Kee-ripes.
Baka GaijinApril 25th, 2011 at 11:31 am [Reply]
@nescio (#5): “Last year Fat Broad made a fur coat out of mammoth pubes.” Silk purse out of a sow’s ear, fur coat out of mammoth pubes, tomato-tomahto.
@Dood (#6): “Sure, if you call a plugger chicken’s funeral barbecue pyre a cremation and the scattering of remains ‘good eatin’’.” Yeah, what he said.
@Austria (#23): I hadn’t noticed the looky-loos. Thanks for the heads up.
@Maggie the Cat (#29): I didn’t think it was possible to have tits that aren’t anything but perky in this strip. I was wrong.
@Esther Blodgett (#35): I’m just trying to figure what kind of mind would think of something like this. What an image your description conjures up.
DoodApril 25th, 2011 at 11:32 am [Reply]
Apartment 3-G: It’s great to see Gandalf and Legolas reunited in the back of Elrond’s Bar & Grill, located in the trendy Rivendell neighborhood of New York City.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 25th, 2011 at 11:34 am [Reply]
Pluggers: There’s a fine distinction between crematorium brochures and hate mail from psychopathic arsonists. Plugger Dog may want to hand the mail over to Pluggertown’s finest, just to be on the safe side.
Luann: Balloon animals. Snake. Um, okay. Moving right along here.
MT: “Unlike your dad here, who’s slumped into a catatonic depression for no reason I can detect. Be sure to water him every couple of days.”
6C: “…as is the outsider artist. We have her chained to the wall and sedated.”
SSmith: Snuffy’s “loved ones” have decided it would be a hoot n’ a holler if they let him catch a fatal dose of pneumonia.
9CL: In the stuffy chamber music world of Chickweed, it’s kind of refreshing to see Onyx getting some love. “Slam! Doo doo doo. Doo doo doo. Let the boys be boys!” Indeed.
Archie: I haven’t been able to find any news on Archie getting a new artist, but it looks like there is one. Jughead looks markedly different anyway.
BSt: Corgsqui fail. (Paging queek.)
DT: In my imagination, Lizz is about to go to her boyfriend’s place wearing only the iconic Tracy trenchcoat and give the lucky bastard a little surprise.
GT: Is Kyle Rayner about to tell AJ that her folkie “authenticity” is just a pose, and a condescending one at that? Because he may have a point, but my head will still explode at reading this kind of hipster criticism in Gil Thorp of all places.
S-M: “Let me pour you some more wine. Yup, just plain old table wine with no roofies or mickeys added. So if you suddenly lose consciousness, you can’t blame me.”
SFx: No, Harry Ape has not been strapped into Old Sparky. But he apparently thinks he can defend himself from felony charges with grammar school brainteasers, so the chair could still be in his future.
MW: Scenes from Liza’s upcoming hospital board hearing.
“Granted, I may have let a patient or two die while I was texting. But keep in mind, I love Mountview Hospital, and I’m not afraid to let my coffee mug say so.”
April 25th, 2011 at 11:37 am [Reply]
Curtis: Mr. Occam would simply state that the teachers always catch you on your pranks because you are stupid ignoramus. Case in point: Walking through the school with a gallon pickle jar of frogs’ eggs and in your loudest voice singing “I’m dreaming of a ‘frogs’ eggs in coffee’ morning, woo, I’m dreaming of a ‘frogs’ eggs in coffee’ morning, woo…“
dodoman1April 25th, 2011 at 11:38 am [Reply]
BC Bird doesn’t know that lady turtles don’t think feathers are attractive, like lady birds do, so he pasted feathers all over BC Turtle, thinking that lady turtles would be attracted to them. It’s not funny, but it does make some sort of sense.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 25th, 2011 at 11:39 am [Reply]
@Old School Allie Cat (#47): Can we call your dad’s pug “El Duderino”, if we’re not into the whole brevity thing?
Fashion PoliceApril 25th, 2011 at 11:43 am [Reply]
Clearly, the purpose of Rick’s head examination was to select an Easter bonnet to go with his peach suit.
However, that is but a trivial detail. As is the observation that over the week-end we noted that Miss Colby’s date with Dr. Cory the Younger lasted through two changes of clothing. She probably thinks they’re going steady, at least.
We are truly impressed, for once, by Monsignor McEldowney’s use of symbolism. Between Miss Johns’ hair and her turtleneck she appears to be wearing a wimple. What are we to make of the implication that Mr. Appleby’s arrogance has driven her to cloister, other than how well this fits with the peurile Catholic fantasies that seem to drive the Burberverse?
Artist formerly known as BenApril 25th, 2011 at 11:46 am [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#38):
DT – Liz has gone from hard-boiled police chief lady to Ms. Fanservice. What happened?
You may have a point on the Ms. Fanservice part, but I’d question whether she’s been treated as “hard boiled” any time in the recent past. On Locher’s watch she seemed like a desk jockey who couldn’t really do anything.
Spotts1701April 25th, 2011 at 11:49 am [Reply]
@The Ridger (#51): Well, Evans just had to use the “school counselor” stereotype (everyone’s special, and we’re all winners) at some point.
I want one of them to stand up and declare themselves the winner for “being seen with you freaks”.
Baka GaijinApril 25th, 2011 at 11:52 am [Reply]
Slylock Fox: REEKY RAT DID IT! That’s what’ll be written on that lie detector trace.
Mary Worth: What the fuck is that on Liza’s plate? Someone horked up a tumor is my guess.
Effluvius ErratusApril 25th, 2011 at 12:03 pm [Reply]
FW: So now Montoni not only has to pay Darrin a salary, but not he has to honor online coupons, Groupons, gropeons, what have you, that Darrin is unilaterally offering to the public. “*SIGH* I miss the good old days when the goods and services I paid for added actual value, rather than siphoned it away.”
Still , I don’t quite understand what Montoni’s sighing about anyway. Presumably, as part owner of Montoni’s, he could say thanks-but-no-thanks to Darrin’s suggestions—or just fire him. It’s not like Funky and Les are thuggish racketeers who forced Montini to give Darrin a sinecure for tax purposes
… then again, that would explain how Les gets infinity personal days from his teaching gig and why he gets his ego fellated wherever he goes.
Revenge of ChesnutApril 25th, 2011 at 12:05 pm [Reply]
@Carmichael The Polar Bear (#1): I at first thought that the bird had pasted leaves all over the turtle in order to… camouflage him? I don’t know, maybe a lady turtle would accidently have sex with him, thinking he was just a rock or something.
Also, maybe somebody should talk to that bird about his compulsive feather-pulling. I’m pretty sure there’s an entry in the DSM for that.
Baka GaijinApril 25th, 2011 at 12:09 pm [Reply]
Beetle Bailey: Beetle must not have played with Sarge’s Easter “basket” yesterday. Clues: Giving him the most menial tasks in the office and having that “Why won’t he just leave” look of ennui on his face.
Blondie: QLUNQ! [Baka's brain splitting in two] Blondie with a current cultural reference. Dick Tracy interesting and exciting. Sally Forth with a new hairstyle. I’m checking flightglobal.com to see if Hartsfield-Atlanta is being overrun by airborne pork.
commodorejohnApril 25th, 2011 at 12:11 pm [Reply]
6Chix – With strips like Crock and Compu-Toon, it’s amazing that it took this long for someone to mention outsider art in the funnies.
A3G – “I was busy having my ‘head’ examined. Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more?”
Archie – Woah, reruns from back when the ALGJU3K was using electromechanical relays and doing its output on a plotter!
BB – Elaborate, symbolic foreplay: a first for the funny pages!
Crock – I feel like I’m getting less sane just by reading this.
Curtis – Oh goody, strap in for two weeks of everybody telling Curtis “CHUTNEY IS GOOD AND PURE AND SAINTLY AND WHY DON’T YOU JUST ADMIT YOU LOVE HER ALREADY BECAUSE SHE’S REALLY QUITE GOOD AND PURE AND SAINTLY, YOU AWFUL BASTARD?”
DT – “Ye gods!” says Sam, catching a glimpse of what that robe ain’t covering. Lucky bastard.
FW – “And I totally know how to do this, because I’m an MBA!” Of course, here’s what this would actually boil down to:
1. Paying for some third party’s pre-existing site design, which is designed for Internet Explorer 6 and looks like an unreadable assortment of overlapping rectangles on any browser made after 2001 and is loaded down with broken-ass Javascript for animated pull-down menus, because nobody can understand a website if it doesn’t look exactly like a Windows application.
2. Paying for some third party’s pre-existing barcode app, which most likely tracks the barcodes being scanned and sends them off to some data-mining agency.
3. Getting some hack graphic artist who works exclusively in Flash objects with embedded JPEGs to awkwardly insert Montoni’s branding into both, and then awkwardly kludging them together in the hopes that they’ll work, because you don’t actually know how to do any of this, and why would you ever bother trying to find someone who does when there’s these pre-existing items that you only had to pay exorbitant amounts of money for?
4. ???
5. Profit! Cancer!
GT – You know, I’ve seen it spelled “kent” or even “quaint,” but “cantina” is a new one.
JP – “Constance, this is the Bradbury building. Quick, let’s get out of here before Rutger Hauer shows up.”
Love Is… – would almost be not nauseating if it weren’t for the disturbingly poofy lips on Little Naked Boy.
Luann – Mrs. Horner, please don’t hesitate to go all 1946 on their asses. I’ll gladly lend you any thematically-appropriate blunt objects you require.
MT – If there were a Hong Kong pirate copy of First Blood that had been subtitled in Chinese and then had the subtitles translated back into English ala Backstroke of the West, I think it would pretty much be this Mark Trail storyline.
MW – “Oh, you stupid patients! Can’t you see I’m busy?” (…busy as a beaver!)
Phantom – Okay, when Zombie Lee Falk shows up next, could he kindly provide a map? I haven’t seen this many silly names attached to places whose spatial relation I don’t understand tossed around since the last time I cracked open a fantasy novel.
Pluggers – You’re a Plugger when you inexplicably put an end-quote on a sentence that wasn’t part of a quote at all, and whatever poor sap has the job of copy-editing your work has long since given up paying attention.
RMMD – “Ugh, he’s doing his own theme music?“
SM – Lady, with that vapid grin, I don’t think the roofie is even necessary. Peter must be rubbing off on her. Living with Peter must be impairing her.
Not Just Any DipstickApril 25th, 2011 at 12:13 pm [Reply]
Rick and Dan meet in a ‘back’ room. No, eeeww, no, eeeewwwww. Don’t think that!
(Too late)
Esther BlodgettApril 25th, 2011 at 12:13 pm [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#52): That comment was created by a committee of my multiple personalities while I was off using the restroom. You just can’t leave ‘em alone for a minute.
Baka GaijinApril 25th, 2011 at 12:16 pm [Reply]
@seismic-2 (#Y5): “God is like duct tape – you can’t see Him but He’s there, lending support to the boobs.”
@NoahSnark (#Y30): “Having successfully integrated the messages of his new corporate sponsors into a sermon, the preacher in Gasoline Alley proceeded on to phase 2 – replacing the sacrament with Diet Pepsi and Necco wafers.” Favored by Catholic schoolchildren playing Consecration at home for decades.
@Little Guy (#Y80): “yDT: Wait, Gertie is still in childbearing years? Wait, Gertie and B.O. HAD SEX?!?!?” You know, “Spittoon Quarterly” distracted me from that fact. oh mY GOD!!!!!
Not Just Any DipstickApril 25th, 2011 at 12:16 pm [Reply]
BC: If butt feathers attrack a mate, shouldn’t they be in the vicinity of the turtles back side? My cockatoo tells me it works tho.
Baka GaijinApril 25th, 2011 at 12:17 pm [Reply]
@Esther Blodgett (#67): You have a talented dissociative personality disorder.
seismic-2April 25th, 2011 at 12:21 pm [Reply]
Jughead looks like Reggie with a sort-of-crown hat. Moose looks like a whole new character. Archie’s shirt looks like – I don’t want to figure out what, since I don’t want to look at it for longer than 3 milliseconds, lest my visual cortex short-circuit. I shall spend the next 24 hours in dread, awaiting Betty and Veronica v2.0. I fear it will be clip-art Lu Ann Powers and Margo Magee.
MibbitmakerApril 25th, 2011 at 12:36 pm [Reply]
Mary Worth wants to be old school Gil Thorp in the narrative department.
ZtP: Why doesn’t Griffy just change the name of the strip to “The Pinheads” and be done with it?
Zits: EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! (symbolically graphic, isn’t it?) EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW! EW!……….
MibbitmakerApril 25th, 2011 at 12:38 pm [Reply]
Zits: Jeremy’s sheet music is an issue of Penthouse! ….EW! EW! EW!…..
Alan's AddictionApril 25th, 2011 at 12:38 pm [Reply]
I’m hoping that Rick’s statement “I was busy having my head examined” is a euphemism for “trepanning.” Gruesome, outdated medical procedures can only improve “Apartment 3G,” especially after Margo learns how to use them to further bend Tommie to her will. Failing that, I hope that “I was busy having my head examined” is a euphemism for “seeing a phrenologist.” Because 19th century pseudoscience is vastly preferable to seeing Rick go on for weeks about his numerous insecurities. Also, because I’m interested in any sort of explanation for all of his weird extra facial clefts seen in the second panel.
Are all those weird little extra dots/squiggles around the bird’s posterior supposed to mean that he (the bird) plucked all those feathers off of his own butt? I’d like to think so, because then this isn’t a weird joke about a friend gluing unattractive things to another friend; it’s a really weird joke that’s akin to a man making a wig out of chest hair for his bald friend. Or, since this is a bird, it’s more a toenail necklace. I guess what I’m saying is, there’s a frightening and morbid sense of fashion in today’s “BC,” and I almost approve.
You’re a Plugger when your own family finds you so repellent that they refuse to have anything to do with your own imminent interment, forcing you to rely upon strangers for the care of your earthy remains.
April 25th, 2011 at 12:50 pm [Reply]
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#59): If anything, Liz has gone from “hard boiled” to “over easy”.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 25th, 2011 at 1:05 pm [Reply]
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#21):
4-25 More Weird Sound Effects:
Jane’s World — TUG!
Red & Rover — WINK
Dogs of C-Kennel — ZIP… SPLASH
Broom Hilda —
http://www.gocomics.com/broomhilda
Zits —
http://www.jsonline.com/comics/32402404.html?feature_id=Zits
commodorejohnApril 25th, 2011 at 1:09 pm [Reply]
@Mibbitmaker (#73): He sings the body electric!
EW.
AviatrixApril 25th, 2011 at 1:20 pm [Reply]
@bourbon babe, unbuckled (Y87): I was thinking along similar lines. The apostrophe in the English possessive is the result of a faulty reanalysis of the remnant of the original genitive case. The requirement for that ‘apostrophe before final s’ has clearly been extended in many people’s minds to include regular plurals and, horrific as it may be to contemplate, it would be oddly fascinating if the apostrophe sliced through the language like the propeller on a runaway airplane and severed our one remaining verb ending, too.
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 25th, 2011 at 1:26 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#78): It’s a Manichaean choice with which we’re faced: The Scylla of LoFo off our port bow and the Charybdis of Common Usage off to starboard. It piss’s me off.
Zombie Lee FalkApril 25th, 2011 at 1:32 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#65):
For those who came in late: your map, sir.
ElkMeadowApril 25th, 2011 at 1:35 pm [Reply]
@Little Guy (#11):
Curtis: Either Chutney is crying crocodile tears, or we have a real mystery. It’s either the Golden Rodent or a pissed-off Diane.
Every strip last week showed a teacher in the background, watching Curtis. The hope is that the Curtis strip is either going into retirement, or there’s going to be a major change in the strip. But we’ve been fooled with hope before.
The Spectacular Spider-BrickApril 25th, 2011 at 1:37 pm [Reply]
I took a few days off reading the comics, and when I come back, I’ve actually missed several plot points in DICK TRACY?!? What has this world COME to?
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 25th, 2011 at 1:38 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#81): Yeah, howdya like that hope-y change-y thing now, huh Curtis?
Rana the Pedantic Wet BlanketApril 25th, 2011 at 1:42 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#65): Ask, and ye shall receive – several maps of Bengalla and its surrounds.
commodorejohnApril 25th, 2011 at 1:42 pm [Reply]
@Zombie Lee Falk (#80): Fascinating. Now if it only showed where “Wambesi Land” is, I’d be set.
(Next to Disney Land, perhaps? Lord, let’s hope not.)
UncleJeffApril 25th, 2011 at 1:47 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#85): Goodness. You can find ANYTHING YOU WANT on the Internets.
I’m thinking Wambesi is one of those “rendition” places the CIA began usng for prisoners they didn’t want at Guantanamo.
Either that, or a luxury resort on the Nile founded by Hosni Mubarak and sublet by the Phantom for his new understanding/relationship with Chutu the Python.
April 25th, 2011 at 1:49 pm [Reply]
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#57): You sure can. I prefer His Dudeness. I should point out that my father is 70, which makes the fact that he loves The Big Lebowski that much cooler.
[Old Man] MuffarooApril 25th, 2011 at 1:53 pm [Reply]
@The Ridger (#41): Dogs and cats see color too, but not in the same way we do. They appear more faded (the colors), especially at a distance. Yes, this does put a damper on the “Oh, darn, I’m color blind” category of animal jokes, but life’s not always conveniently black and white.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 25th, 2011 at 1:54 pm [Reply]
@Anonymous (y91): I’m pleased to be of assistance, and I’m sure the Temps are too.
commodorejohnApril 25th, 2011 at 1:59 pm [Reply]
@UncleJeff (#86): Well, IIRC the Wambesi are the tribe Chatu hails from (there was a bit in one of the previous Python storylines about what a promising youngster he was before going to the dark side and all that.) They seemed like a decent bunch, but I’m not sure where they’re located in relation to anywhere else. (Or why they would be most qualified to hold a dangerous terrorist with a highly dedicated group of followers, other than the fact that the other option is Boomsby, which you can apparently just walk into, knock out a few guards, and then make off with a maximum-security prisoner without anybody making too much of a fuss about it.)
Chip WhittleApril 25th, 2011 at 2:00 pm [Reply]
9 Chickweed Lane: Seth would like to speak as “one adult to another”, overlooking that apart from the deployment of their genitals on each other no character except the cat has been vaguely adult since the blasted unicorn came through town.
Betty: I can’t imagine something more thrilling than a week spent exploring bubble tea, unless it’s Edge City doing a week on bubble tea.
Chuckle Brothers: Finally, someone has the courage to mock modern art! Remember, kids, comic strips are too a vital and relevant medium!
Family Tree: “I got into THE college EVERYONE wants to go to! Herb and Jamaal U, here I come!”
Rose is Rose: OK, anyone want to set her up with Seth? On the other hand, think of the children.
Unstrange Phenomenon: I liked today’s strip and wanted to make sure people noticed it and read the fine print.
CanuckDownSouthApril 25th, 2011 at 2:06 pm [Reply]
Luann – Can’t they all lose?
I just can’t get over “they’re *all* deserving”. Um, no. Two didn’t bother to dress up with any pageantry, one went for a clown suit that would be embarrassing even on Project Runway, Tiffany’s interview was vapid, Crystal’s was ridiculous. We didn’t hear all of Rosa’s, so although I’m not sure that communicating with her dad from the stage shows pageant poise, that omission makes her the clear front-runner.
Pseudo3DApril 25th, 2011 at 2:11 pm [Reply]
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#59): Well, I couldn’t think of a good TVTropes name to fit her.
@ElkMeadow (#81): Ah, like the time the teacher got a big bonus for some kid’s book she wrote just as she was dating some sleazy lady’s man? Curtis tried to help her, she did, and then went back to being the mean old grouch she always has been.
But there have been a number of bizarre storylines running very rapid-pace: and continuity shows that Curtis has an iPod instead of blasting music that causes his father to yell at him.
The unfortunate thing is that in the event Curtis does end, there’s no decent comic strips to replace it. If the Chron, for instance, replaces it with say, Reply All, there is no hope for this world.
PlagApril 25th, 2011 at 2:16 pm [Reply]
Josh, you’re only now beginning to worry about B.C.? This enduring strip, with it’s English-speaking Christian cavemen and cavewomen living side-by-side with creatures that predated Homo sapiens by at least 70 million years, has been an embarrassment to the scientific community for years.
Fashion PoliceApril 25th, 2011 at 2:19 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#78):
We are struck by the parallel between the increase of over-zealous apostrophication and the decline of respectable clothing. We are not prepared to draw any conclusions about the imminent fall of civilization as we know it, except to note that the times are, indeed, a-changin’.
April 25th, 2011 at 2:20 pm [Reply]
@TheDiva (#28): re Pluggers: “Send me to glory in a Glad Bag…”
Frank Lee MeidereApril 25th, 2011 at 2:34 pm [Reply]
FW: If Funky Winkerbean is going to take down a social marketing moron, this will be the first time I’ve ever enjoyed the comic. If, on the other hand, the social marketing moron turns out to be right and the business suddenly takes off, I will know that Batiuk is an ignorant dick.
Of course, I already know that, but I mean an even bigger ignorant dick.
This GuyApril 25th, 2011 at 2:49 pm [Reply]
Baldo: Dammit, you’re doing it wrong. That’s not even a pun. Start line, don sunglasses, finish with pun, cue Daltrey. It’s not rocket science.
Curtis: DeVoe? Is she related to Bell Biv DeVoe? Toppin’ the charts… gonna need a whole lotta milk-a.
GT: “Nobody’s a folk singer?” What the hell is that even supposed to mean? Did Odysseus come in and do a set of Lead Belly songs while we weren’t looking?
H&J: They talk faster than the speed of sound–unless they’re texting, in which case they type colder than room temperature.
Effluvius ErratusApril 25th, 2011 at 2:53 pm [Reply]
@Chip Whittle (#91):
Family Tree: “I got into THE college EVERYONE wants to go to! Herb and Jamaal U, here I come!”
All, good old HJU, where “Persons who engage in studies can choose from many dozens of subject matter-related educational program fields and participate in numerous outside-of-classroom activities to prepare them to be successful in likely career situations.”*
*Mission statement from their brochure
Chip WhittleApril 25th, 2011 at 2:59 pm [Reply]
2 Cows and a Chicken: The way some of those squirrels are posed I’m thinking this is the first Mark Trail After Dark.
Cul de Sac: This is why I never understood cheerleading. That and I look terrible in a skirt.
My Cage: Hey, turns out Norm went and got himself one of those Jim’s Journals. This’ll bide the time until someone invents blogs.
Reply All: So, an EGA graphics representation of a spatula is visited by an unemployed black smudge and wants fat. Have I understood the strip right?
KatyApril 25th, 2011 at 2:59 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#78): Seeing that I’m gutlevel snakebrain not-OK with flying and all, I really, really, really, really, really, really, really wish I hadn’t clicked that link. And given that I did, I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY wish I hadn’t looked at the other pages.
Signed,
Ka(“my bad, totally, but I’m still under my desk with my arms around my knees”)ty
April 25th, 2011 at 3:02 pm [Reply]
@Katy (#101): On the other hand, my being not-ok with flying means I probably will never try astral travelling. So I won’t end up *quite* like your/my/our mother.
bats :[April 25th, 2011 at 3:08 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#42): why why why do you keep making me look at the abomination that is Love is…?
UncleJeffApril 25th, 2011 at 3:09 pm [Reply]
@Effluvius Erratus (#99): HJU: School slogan: Ambapo kuwa vague ni fadhila
(“Where being vague is a virtue” – Swahili…the closed I could find to “in the Bandar tongue”)
April 25th, 2011 at 3:10 pm [Reply]
@Effluvius Erratus (#99): Actually, that mission statement sounded pretty much like a real mission statements. Hey, do you think the guy who does Herb & Jamaal moonlights as a writer of mission statements?
ElkMeadowApril 25th, 2011 at 3:10 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#93):
There have been glimmers of light, like when he met the Birdman musician, and when he put forth the extra effort on his homework about jazz (the bullies threw the backpack at the garbage truck, but the panel showed that it didn’t go in), and occasionally he’ll meet Someone Who Was There for a historical moment (the one of Barry being in the White House, having lunch with the Obama girls does NOT count). There have been so many misses, and yet the cartoonist keeps going back to the same lame plot lines over and over again. The best part of the whole strip? The barber.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 25th, 2011 at 3:20 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#93):
The unfortunate thing is that in the event Curtis does end, there’s no decent comic strips to replace it.
A strip starring ‘J.J.’ would be the perfect replacement for Curtis:
http://www.laughdome.com/jimmywalker.gif
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 25th, 2011 at 3:22 pm [Reply]
@bats :[ (#103): *hearts*
that is wonderful, in such a sick and rong way. :-D
Artist formerly known as BenApril 25th, 2011 at 3:26 pm [Reply]
@Artist formerly known as Ben (#57): What I know of your dad I definitely like.
JoshApril 25th, 2011 at 3:31 pm [Reply]
@Plag (#94): Oh, it’s always been troubling, but troubling in a way that I thought I understood. As with my cat, my focus is drawn when long-standing bizarre behavior is replaced by new and unexpected bizarre behavior.
Josh
But What Do I Know?April 25th, 2011 at 3:40 pm [Reply]
@Dood (#53): Reubens? They should be ordering the lembas!
Little GuyApril 25th, 2011 at 3:44 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#38): DT: More like “back to”. However, if they wanted to push the Fanservice up to Eleven, there should have been a pointing box on Sunday to “Robe Shredding”.
@ElkMeadow (#81): Good pickup, but it’s a different teacher each time, unless the school has concealed cameras and recordersas part of a Early Warning Curtis Activation System.
…which may be it. How Curtis’ school can afford such a system is another issue.
Artist formerly known as BenApril 25th, 2011 at 3:45 pm [Reply]
@Old School Allie Cat (#87): Correction to @Artist formerly known as Ben (#109): It’s Old School Allie Cat’s dad that I like. I mean, mine is pretty cool too, but that was a typo.
commodorejohnApril 25th, 2011 at 3:48 pm [Reply]
@Effluvius Erratus (#99), @Frank Lee Meidere (#105): Yeah, that’s pretty much indistinguishable from the babble in the promotional materials for a number of different colleges I looked at. (But not, incidentally, the one where I actually ever learned anything useful.)
@bats :[ (#103): *projectile vomiting*
ElkMeadowApril 25th, 2011 at 4:11 pm [Reply]
@Little Guy (#112):
Good pickup, but it’s a different teacher each time, unless the school has concealed cameras and recorders as part of a Early Warning Curtis Activation System.
…which may be it. How Curtis’ school can afford such a system is another issue.
Two words: Teacher’s lounge. And maybe two more: Teachers text.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 25th, 2011 at 4:15 pm [Reply]
@But What Do I Know? (#111):
@Dood (#53): Reubens? They should be ordering the lembas!
On the whole, I’d rather have a Reuben:
Dick Tracy —
http://arflovers.com/images/content/05_30_06_ruben3.jpg
Kerry Drake —
http://arflovers.com/images/content/05_30_06_ruben4.jpg
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 25th, 2011 at 4:19 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#114): look at the bright side, commodorejohn, the last time we saw two people in the comics in that pose, getting frisky on the counter, it was Herb and Jamaal.
DoodApril 25th, 2011 at 4:21 pm [Reply]
@But What Do I Know? (#111): Best lembas in the city. And the miruvor is first-rate.
This GuyApril 25th, 2011 at 4:24 pm [Reply]
Reply All: You know, I couldn’t articulate why, but today’s installment of MS Paint Shitstain reminds me more than usual of a Powered by The Cheat cartoon. Maybe that’s the secret to enjoying this strip: imagine The Cheat doing all the voices.
@Chip Whittle (#100): Come on, Alice’s cheers are totally apt for a soccer game. She’s a surprisingly perceptive kid.
@UncleJeff (#104): I don’t know. I rather think HJU’s motto would be either a) a giant slate of quotes from Langston Hughes or b) something the chancellor swiped from an embroidered pillow.
commodorejohnApril 25th, 2011 at 4:24 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#117): Yeah, but at least we didn’t see them with their clothes off…
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 25th, 2011 at 4:28 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#120): could be worse. bats :[ could have used this style of face on the little naked girl.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 25th, 2011 at 4:28 pm [Reply]
bother. this face.
Little GuyApril 25th, 2011 at 4:30 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#115):
Good pickup, but it’s a different teacher each time, unless the school has concealed cameras and recorders as part of a Early Warning Curtis Activation System.
…which may be it. How Curtis’ school can afford such a system is another issue.
Two words: Teacher’s lounge. And maybe two more: Teachers text.
By George, Occam, you’re a genius!
Little GuyApril 25th, 2011 at 4:31 pm [Reply]
@Little Guy (#123): … and that fits into the earlier observed pattern that Diane would be pissed. To wit:
“How dare those teachers spy on my Curtis! Don’t they have anything else to do? I’ll just go down and give them the Glower of Doom!”
yaoi huntress earthApril 25th, 2011 at 4:38 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#106): That and the church hats. Billingsly has good potential, but he wastes it at every opportunity.
greghousesgfApril 25th, 2011 at 4:39 pm [Reply]
My vote goes for Archie having a new artist. Except for Jug’s hat, all the guys are actually wearing clothes teenaged boys have worn in this century.
Baka GaijinApril 25th, 2011 at 4:43 pm [Reply]
@Little Guy (#123): Hey hey hey! What about the other Occam up there? That Curtis is too stupid to know how to do stealth? The idea even has the Mary Worth Imprimatur, involving none of that new-fangled evil texting or anything.
Scott BotApril 25th, 2011 at 4:44 pm [Reply]
You’re a plugger when you start getting colorful brocures offering to cremate and scatter your remains. You’re up a creek without a paddle when you realize that your wife has been ordering them without your knowledge.
NekrotzarApril 25th, 2011 at 4:58 pm [Reply]
@Old School Allie Cat (#87):
Say what you will about the Chartterstone Association Agreement, at least it’s an ethos! [*]
April 25th, 2011 at 5:01 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#122): D=
SideshowJonApril 25th, 2011 at 5:23 pm [Reply]
The residents of Hootin’ Hollar are more than happy to leave Snuffy Smiff for dead, forgetting to even take a pulse or check his breathing.
SideshowJonApril 25th, 2011 at 5:26 pm [Reply]
Beetle is not taking the break-up well.
VioletApril 25th, 2011 at 5:34 pm [Reply]
Wait a minute! It has been amply demonstrated that Liza does not love Mountview Hospital. Are we to understand that she is a mug thief along with everything else?
cheech wizardApril 25th, 2011 at 5:35 pm [Reply]
Phantom – Chatu is now a prisoner of the Wambesi, who will force him to choose between death and bunga-bunga. Or will he just be subjected to Keela-Wee?
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 25th, 2011 at 5:39 pm [Reply]
@cheech wizard (#134): snoo-snoo?
Effluvius ErratusApril 25th, 2011 at 5:49 pm [Reply]
@SideshowJon (#132): Damn! Reading it through that particular lens gives that last line so much bitter sarcasm Edward Albee could have written it!
Joe BlevinsApril 25th, 2011 at 6:12 pm [Reply]
Zomby comes again in glory to be the living and the dead.
gnome de blogApril 25th, 2011 at 6:19 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#85):
The Wambesi live in Westview, Ohio. There is no escape. Chatu will be washing dishes at Montoni’s until his cancer diagnosis.
April 25th, 2011 at 6:29 pm [Reply]
@bats :[ (#103):
“Sugoi!” … I dunno … looks more like “Itai!”
Carl Barks FanApril 25th, 2011 at 6:29 pm [Reply]
ARCHIE: I agree, now that it has been suggested by several people: this is a different artist. Jughead, particularly, looks like he is conscious.
J.D. RhoadesApril 25th, 2011 at 6:32 pm [Reply]
Phantom – Chatu is now a prisoner of the Wambesi, who will force him to choose between death and bunga-bunga. Or will he just be subjected to Keela-Wee?
Keela-Wee’s where the bunga bunga happens.
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 25th, 2011 at 6:35 pm [Reply]
@Violet (#133): You know, I realize Liza’s mug is supposed to spell out the name of the Santa Royale hospital. But even when I blow it up, it looks like “Nineveh Hospital”. It’s not really the greatest idea to pilfer those guys’ mugs unless you want Moloch all up your ass.
littlestevieApril 25th, 2011 at 6:48 pm [Reply]
Not being a long time Phantom reader, I have a question. Is the Sunday strip tied in to the daily strip? It seems that in the daily strip the Python has been taken care of, while on Sunday, the Python is back up to no good. It seems like two conflicting storylines.
True FableApril 25th, 2011 at 6:52 pm [Reply]
Has anyone speculated yet that Judge Parker’s Constance is actually Dixie Julep’s sister, out for revenge against Sam for Dixie’s demise and against the Judge for making a buck off the story? If not, then consider this speckle.
Écureuil ÉcumantApril 25th, 2011 at 6:56 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#90) said:
Well, IIRC the Wambesi are the tribe Chatu hails from (there was a bit in one of the previous Python storylines about what a promising youngster he was before going to the dark side and all that.) They seemed like a decent bunch, but I’m not sure where they’re located in relation to anywhere else.
The Wambezi hail from the fourth rail stop this side of the big river. Each tribe has its own first letter and specialty. Working riverward:
Wambezi — Supplies drummers for the entire region’s coconut wireless, men renowned for their trapezoidal physique.
Xambezi — Invested their resettlement money wisely in an Internet uplink and are providing support desk services for 80% of all corporations whose names begin with “X”.
Yambezi — The regional marketplace. Not a good stop for tourists, unless you’re a raving manioc.
Zambezi — Purveyor of only the flyest crocs and skimpy leather apparel.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoApril 25th, 2011 at 7:06 pm [Reply]
@littlestevie (#143): The Sunday strip has separate continuity from the daily strip. That way, a paper can have one or the other without causing confusion in the readership.
Jake MorgendorfferApril 25th, 2011 at 7:19 pm [Reply]
Those seem to resemble spikes to me. Sexy feathers would actually be much less disturbing.
GregApril 25th, 2011 at 7:21 pm [Reply]
B.C.: I like how jaunty the signature is. As if Mason were saying, “Ah yes, another peerless masterpiece of utter bullshit. Check, please!”
gnome de blogApril 25th, 2011 at 7:23 pm [Reply]
@True Fable (#144):
It occurred to me that Constance is Up To No Good, luring the Judge up her secret staircase, but I forgot to mention it. The current book isn’t about Dixie though – that’s the next one. Besides, it wasn’t the Judge who got Dixie done under, it was Sam.
Sam and the Judge haven’t actually been in touch with anyone at Dewey, Cheatham except Angel, who picked them up at the airport claiming to be The Terminator’s driver can’t remember her name – senior moment), and Constance. In fact, Sam and the Judge only have their word for it that whatshername’s really dead. This whole deal isn’t helping Sam’s reputation as a sharp operator. He’s looking more and more like a fish from out of town. He shoulda stuck to the shoe business.
UnclGhostApril 25th, 2011 at 7:24 pm [Reply]
Oh thank God, scrolling down the page I thought there was going to be a Pluggers/Shoe crossover.
gnome de blogApril 25th, 2011 at 7:24 pm [Reply]
@True Fable (#144), @gnome de blog (#149):
You broke the story though, since I didn’t speak up.
April 25th, 2011 at 7:30 pm [Reply]
GA: Clovia must’ve missed the reverend’s cathartic Easter sermon, but she could benefit from one of his platbeatitudes: “Relief is just a swallow away”. Y’know, and swallow her anger.
VioletApril 25th, 2011 at 7:30 pm [Reply]
@Écureuil Écumant (#142):
I feel a belated sense of consternation that I didn’t even have to decipher what it said on Liza’s mug because the name of the Santa Royale hospital was so readily at my fingertips. Who was Dr. Mike Roberts’ father Lonnie’s murdered cousin? Duh, Richie. Which drunken lady broke Mary’s swans? Rita, of course. What? As with all things, I blame Josh. Before I started reading this blog my only frame of reference for Mary Worth was a couple of then-bewildering mentions on The Simpsons.
NosytApril 25th, 2011 at 7:34 pm [Reply]
S-M: Awww, Peter is still all pouty since MJ rejected his “my spider-sense isn’t the only thing that’s tingling!” line and went bed with only the comfort of his spider-man pajamas.
JessyApril 25th, 2011 at 7:35 pm [Reply]
@Little Guy (#11): Curtis: I did not understand the tears at all–the copious tears, I might add. Chutney is not the type to throw Curtis under the bus, and if she didn’t, a more natural reaction would be something along the lines of shocked/angry.
bats :[April 25th, 2011 at 7:56 pm [Reply]
@True Fable (#144): whoa….
UncleJeffApril 25th, 2011 at 7:59 pm [Reply]
GA (from Sunday): that “gag” has been done in Lutheran sermons/church bulletins for years.
UncleJeffApril 25th, 2011 at 8:02 pm [Reply]
I think it comes from the gospel “Jokes for the John (for Pastors)”
bourbon babe, unbuckledApril 25th, 2011 at 8:26 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#93):
If the Chron, for instance, replaces it with say, Reply All, there is no hope for this world.
Gah. So from now on, every canceled comic will be replaced by Reply All? Bring on the mid-May Rapture.
As consolation, here’s a little something that will suck your time and attention, using the pure power of squee: http://www.ustream.tv/sfshiba
Ohmygoodness–they’re awake! Gotta go!
Geek ReduxApril 25th, 2011 at 8:33 pm [Reply]
MW“There’s reason for concern inside a patient’s room.” Well, no shit, Sherlock. It’s a $%&-ing hospital. Nobody’s there for the free rainbows and ponies.
Pseudo3DApril 25th, 2011 at 8:33 pm [Reply]
@Little Guy (#112): I like Artist formerly known as Ben (#54)’s suggestion about DT. Nothing explicit would be shown, but the other guy’s eyes going as wide as dinner plates would get the message across nicely.
True FableApril 25th, 2011 at 8:43 pm [Reply]
@gnome de blog (#149): But just because the book they are currently promoting isn’t about Dixie, doesn’t mean my alleged Constance Julep hasn’t been plotting against Sam who smugged by and watched Dixie die. My theory that she has it in for the Judge because he’s making money off Dixie’s death is off, but it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t see using the book tour as an entry point to Sam’s vicinity, especially since the book is about Sam and his non-seduction of a beautiful but deadly woman (“just like my sister! *sob*”). Since the book was published by Cheatam, she could easily have known who the Judge based the book on and decided to go all Dixie II on them.
She was awfully eager to help promote the book and didn’t seem bothered that Seduction Bitch died, possibly because she arranged it all.
Of course if Woody didn’t go that route, then maybe he should have.
Spotts1701April 25th, 2011 at 8:47 pm [Reply]
@True Fable (#162): What’s the point? Even if it were something exciting, Sam Driver won’t actually do anything or be remotely involved in it.
Other than look smug over the fresh corpse, I mean. That he can do with aplomb…
Silhouette CrusaderApril 25th, 2011 at 9:03 pm [Reply]
I’m going to be honest, I genuinely laughed at BC. I can sympathize with a young introvert who’s unlucky in love, decked out in “fly threads” by well-meaning guys who don’t realize that I don’t share their taste in skinny, flighty women.
Esther BlodgettApril 25th, 2011 at 9:09 pm [Reply]
@Pseudo3D (#161): Forgive the clumsy mashing-up, but I liked this idea. (I kept the original thought balloon because, well, it was funny.)
AviatrixApril 25th, 2011 at 9:18 pm [Reply]
@Katy (#101): Aw Katy, I never thought of that one as a flying accident, because the whole thing took place entirely on the ground. It’s just a crazy nobody-got-hurt shredded thing. But I guess an airplane that got damaged triggers airplane fears even if it was damaged by a passing elephant. I’m afraid I didn’t vet the page for other content, just linked the first site that had the pictures I wanted without a bogus explanation. I’m lucky I didn’t accidentally pick a white supremacist or porn site.
@Nekrotzar (#129): For those who came in late, could you please elaborate on the source of your slogan?
@True Fable (#144) & @gnome de blog (#149): That’s inspired! Keep going …
True FableApril 25th, 2011 at 9:32 pm [Reply]
Oh, Sam could never be accused of doing anything but look smug these days, but he is the male hero of the strip and therefore has to at least stand around and strike his occasional GQ poses.
In the past, Sam actually took part in adventures, like wandering around Aztec ruins with a priest while being hunted by bad guys and somehow getting his secretary out of a Mexican jail or some damn thing. He also went through the adventure in Judge Parker’s book where the crazy lady Teresa Delgado I think her name was, was all into smug lawyers who wore God-awful checkered jackets.
I’ve always liked Sam Driver and sure I sometimes take cheap shots at his non-action, but don’t think for a minute that Woody Wilson doesn’t listen to his readers because he does. He genuinely cares about the strip and his characters and will take suggestions and work them in if he can. Bringing the Judge back into storylines, bringing back April and Neddy, letting Sophie act her age in high school and showing a courtroom scene are just some of the suggestions he’s acted on. Since some comic writers ( coughMcEldowneycough) seem to get offended if you dare suggest something for his strip that he didn’t think of instead, Woody should be praised for responding to fans in such a positive and considerate manner. So far he hasn’t brought Cedric the Butler back but that could still happen.
Of course Randy Parker has yet to come out of the closet, and just between you and me I doubt that will ever happen. But MAN OH MAN wouldn’t it make for interesting storylines? I thought the classic (“I’ll deny you Missie!”) whisper campaign against Randy was a great plot point and would have developed into a really compelling sub-plot, but that’s up to Woody. He’s already given us so many wonderful punchlines (work it like a claw!) that Randy can stay single forever and we’ll just pretend it’s because the CIA keeps him and April apart. Sure.
KarMannApril 25th, 2011 at 9:35 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#166): On behalf of Nekrotzar, from The Big Lebowski:
“Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, but at least it’s an ethos.”
April 25th, 2011 at 9:38 pm [Reply]
@Plag (#94): BC would be less embarrassing if it had Raquel Welch and Martine Beswick. It would be much less embarrasing if the female characters had names, but I guess Johnny Hart’s version of creation didn’t include that detail. Or maybe he thought women evolved names during the Iron Age.
Sgt. StonedApril 25th, 2011 at 9:44 pm [Reply]
@Esther Blodgett (#33): Jughead is flummoxed because he was supposed to be the star of today’s strip.
True FableApril 25th, 2011 at 9:46 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#166): I’d like to see Constance take the Judge to the rooftop and contact Sam, playing some sort of wicked I’ve-got-something-of-yours game with him with the Judge on the edge of the roof. Notice where she was pissed off because the book company was going to cancel the tour? It would have meant the judge and Sam were going home, and she wouldn’t be able to get even with the man who Didn’t Keep Her Sister Alive, Crazy Though She Was. Can’t have that, so she had to push for the tour to continue and maybe, just maybe in her true Crazy Southern Girl fashion, she decided she’d better go ahead with punishing Sam in case her over-the-top promotion plans get scrapped.
As for Angel – well, Sam always did work better with a guest partner to talk to and run the exposition flag high with. Just to drag out the storyline, I wonder if maybe we’ll have scenes of the Judge sweating it out on the edge of the roof and then cut away to Sam talking his way onto the jazz club stage where he Michael Pattersons a handy saxophone to the zenith of thunderous applause. This sets the stage later for a good “I got to live my dream after all” speech to Sophie after all the threats and rooftop drama and another Julep going down in a blaze of gunfire and astonishingly overdone firepower.
Whew. Don’t get me started on Judge Parker, it’s my all-time favorite comic strip.
KarMannApril 25th, 2011 at 9:51 pm [Reply]
@True Fable (#171): Now, see, in these discussions of what Constance and possibly Angel are really up to, I was assuming that part of the point was that they weren’t actually associated with Dewey & Cheatham at all. That would be why the Judge & Sam haven’t actually met (or even talked to on the phone?) a single person that they already knew before they were picked up at the airport. So, pissing off the book company would hardly be an objection, in that case.
KarMannApril 25th, 2011 at 9:53 pm [Reply]
@KarMann (#172): I should say, they haven’t talked to a single person from D&C that they knew before the airport. Sam did talk to Abbey & the girls (not Sophie & Neddy) on the phone, but she wouldn’t know if Constance & Angel are really with D&C.
commodorejohnApril 25th, 2011 at 10:00 pm [Reply]
@True Fable (#171): No kidding – haven’t seen a rant like that from you in a while!
And I do like the theory of Constance being a relative of Dixie’s, whether or not that’s actually how it plays out ;) Although I’m almost as enamoured of the “Constance was really ‘the Terminator’ all along” notion…
Francisco ArrowrootApril 25th, 2011 at 10:02 pm [Reply]
Y’know, before I read today’s A3-G, I’m going to back through the archives and see how the creators managed to fit in a story about God’s first face-to-face meeting with a young Paul Harvey.
AviatrixApril 25th, 2011 at 10:08 pm [Reply]
@KarMann (#168): The bit I am missing is what “ethos” has to do with the iPad. Is the operating system named ÐOS?
KarMannApril 25th, 2011 at 10:12 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#176): Ethernet Operating System?
But you only asked about the source, not how it got attached to an iPad. Regarding that, I haven’t got a clue.
April 25th, 2011 at 10:15 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#176): I think the joke was more about the reluctant settling for something you know you ought to hate. (‘Cause, you know, it’s not like it’s covertly logging your movements or anything.)
NekrotzarApril 25th, 2011 at 10:36 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#178):
That’s a pretty good guess at an explanation, but the reality was simpler (and less meaningful). Apple offered free engraving with every iPad, so you could put ‘Happy Birthday’ or something on it. So I figured I should put something on mine, since you know, the engraving is free. So I put a Lebowski quote on there, just because. Nekrotzar abides.
April 25th, 2011 at 10:36 pm [Reply]
Everyone’s getting down on Nurse Blackberry in here, but any techno-addiction she might have can easily be treated through incestuous kite-flying; and any stalking she might be guilty of will be taken care of by the Dark Gods of Vengeance.
True FableApril 25th, 2011 at 10:37 pm [Reply]
@KarMann (#173): So you’re saying that Angel and Constance are in cahoots and not even associated with Dewey Cheatham? Niiice, I like that notion too! They even have the “oh, we’ve known each other/ worked at DC&H for a long time” thing to give them credibility. Hmmm…
@commodorejohn (#174): …and I like the Constance Terminator idea too. They didn’t see the body, after all. She could have pretended to take the place of the Terminator when she was the one all along. But wasn’t it on the news? If so then somebody had to die. Hey, I say the higher the body count in Judge Parker, the better. At least Sam’s not the only one lying still and emotionless. :P
NekrotzarApril 25th, 2011 at 10:38 pm [Reply]
@Nekrotzar (#179): I also, considered, but rejected (also from TBL), ‘I can’t believe he f-ing peed on my iPad.’
True FableApril 25th, 2011 at 10:40 pm [Reply]
Gotta go to work, where they cold-bloodedly took away our Internet access and I can’t hang out here for the rest of the night and I can’t even see tomorrow’s funnies. Dammit!
At least they let me put pictures of goats on the bulletin board and keep a ninja goat at my work station. They had to give me some sort of concession :D
NekrotzarApril 25th, 2011 at 10:41 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#176): Awesome use of the Eth character, BTW.
commodorejohnApril 25th, 2011 at 10:41 pm [Reply]
@Nekrotzar (#179): Okay, I can dig that too.
@True Fable (#181): IIRC, though, hasn’t everything about the Terminator’s death been relayed to Sam and the Judge by either Angel or Constance? I could have missed something, but I think that’s the case.
doug rogersApril 25th, 2011 at 10:44 pm [Reply]
3G: Something’s up. Rick doesn’t look like all the other men in the strip.
JD RhoadesApril 25th, 2011 at 11:04 pm [Reply]
Phantom: “So that’s why you went to Wambesi land from Keela Wee…”
Uh, yeah, hon. You didn’t really buy that whole line about how he was going there to get you some clothes, did you? I mean, I’m sure the Wambesi have some lovely qualities, but their idea of high fashion is a bed sheet draped negligently around the naughty bits. Where are Clinton and Stacey from What Not to Wear when you really need them?
AviatrixApril 25th, 2011 at 11:07 pm [Reply]
@Nekrotzar (#184): Oh good, I was so proud of that joke that I had to know that at least one person got it. My favourite suggestion is, “No thanks, I don’t want anything engraved on my iPad.”
KarMannApril 25th, 2011 at 11:18 pm [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#188): Those Old English characters were always a thorn in my side, anyway.
Black DrazonApril 25th, 2011 at 11:49 pm [Reply]
BC: You all see feathers, I see a turtle festooned with daggers. I’ll admit, I didn’t really know what was going through the bird’s head, but as I was reading BC, nothing was in mine.
Rocky StoneaxeApril 25th, 2011 at 11:55 pm [Reply]
The first appearance of Pluggers’ Andy Bear?
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufjHO-BGRgQxr5SrioCL0L7ZjXLL49Mgs8i1phrTDAiYrIVryhWetf6-zVkwO9XNr2nn7j1ZNUA9VqsJGMyAdaWIy2o_dLpXYrCL4oJd88A1oY14cK7khuT6XEyfRclB0Dx3QyHlsVo8/s400/Bear+Hug.bmp
bats :[April 26th, 2011 at 12:17 am [Reply]
@Esther Blodgett (#165): this is great…the expression IS priceless. :D
@KarMann (#189): *snert!*
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#191): Churchill: “Herr Hitler, you rebuffed a friend of mine’s pet bear!”
NekrotzarApril 26th, 2011 at 12:18 am [Reply]
@KarMann (#189): Nice!
I recently learned that the Y in ‘Ye Olde Shoppe’ is derived from the thorn character, and therefore should be pronounced ‘th’
Victor VonApril 26th, 2011 at 12:30 am [Reply]
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#49): Rocky, them there bird teeth are terrifyin’.
AviatrixApril 26th, 2011 at 12:44 am [Reply]
@Nekrotzar (#193): I þink it’s cool ðat our language used to have different letters, and I’m þankful ðat Iceland is looking after ðem, now ðat we have forgotten how to use ðem.
mdblancheApril 26th, 2011 at 12:56 am [Reply]
Today’s BC, in keeping with the strip’s right-wing Christian agenda, is an attempt to show the principal of intelligent design in action. Here we see that the Holy Ghost, in the form of what the artist thinks is a dove, has created an ornately plumed turtle without any need to resort to Darwin’s godless concept of sexual selection. The strip also doubles as an explanation of why the Father and the Son don’t let the Holy Ghost out much.
AviatrixApril 26th, 2011 at 1:00 am [Reply]
Also, a wiki walk brought me to this this hilarious page of Shakespearian scholarship and passive-aggressive arguments. A sample:
I love Shakespeare’s work. He was an awsome wrighter but in Richard III he was totaly biest and one-sided.
As far as I can tell it isn’t a “best of stupid comments” page, but just a day in the life of Wikipedia editing.
KarMannApril 26th, 2011 at 1:08 am [Reply]
4/25 GT: Woo-hoo! Lini got the “ease up” memo!
Frank Lee MeidereApril 26th, 2011 at 1:19 am [Reply]
April 26
Marvin: A good idea. Give Marvin a vasectomy now and stop this genetic line in it’s tracks.
CanuckDownSouthApril 26th, 2011 at 1:30 am [Reply]
Ack! Nurse Liza, don’t you know never to chew Wonderland cake without swallowing? Those incomplete shrink/grow results of huge paws and teeny eyes will make completing the next Angry Birds level awfully difficult.
KarMannApril 26th, 2011 at 1:31 am [Reply]
Tonight, I was overly delighted by one of those wonderful coincidences that sometimes happen in one’s particular regular comics reading. Yes, Leroy is trying to peek up Constance’s dress, the dirty so-and-so!
Charlie the Bursted CarbunkleApril 26th, 2011 at 1:45 am [Reply]
Dick Tracy: Now that the first story by the new team is winding down, Dick and Jim critique it for us!
The story DID have some holes in it (did I miss a couple of strips where Lizz somehow got her Wrist Gee-Nee into her robe?) and some things were flashed over to keep the pacing up, or for concerns over violence (we are left to assume Tracy’s shot shattered the aforementioned-at-the-last-second ceramic insular casing of Thor’s Hammer, causing both The Fifth and his new buddy Weird Al Yankovic to be roasted alive), but yes, it IS a better story than Jim can cook up—or, say, some horsehockey about a giant Dick Tracy-bot fistfighting a psycho Chinese knock-off android, or that nonsense where Dick was talked into playing himself on stage in what turned out to be a death-trap so silly the Riddler wouldn’t have touched it.
I expect things will be even better next round. In the meantime, I have to start reading Spider-Man regularly now, to get my “godawful” strip fix. (At least, one I can discuss here. Woooo….)
AviatrixApril 26th, 2011 at 1:48 am [Reply]
Hey, does Ed Power live in Australia? I assumed he was in the US, but where is there an English-speaking population that would pass through the Netherlands, Suriname, Indonesia or South Africa on the way to Canada? Or should I just look at the fact that they are doing it by car and not think too hard?
AviatrixApril 26th, 2011 at 1:50 am [Reply]
@Charlie the Bursted Carbunkle (#202): I don’t think it’s just the whiplash effect of the transition from the old style that leads me to feel that the pacing is too quick. We didn’t have enough time to savour the situation and see what was going on before it was all over. There could have been ONE strip of no new information, just “I’m going to kill you.”
AviatrixApril 26th, 2011 at 2:04 am [Reply]
So after a week of “shoot me or don’t shoot me” and a week and a half of punching, the Phantom took Chatu home to his mom and dad?
Mr. O'MalleyApril 26th, 2011 at 3:19 am [Reply]
@True Fable (#162): She is looking more like a killer on the loose every day.
@Aviatrix (#195): Oh, yogh!
MW: Yep, all that foreshadowing looks like it’s coming around (it doesn’t always). Is Drew going to be manly enough to “fly the kite”?
Bill ThompsonApril 26th, 2011 at 3:23 am [Reply]
S-M: Oh, no! Tinkerbelle drank the poison! Quick, clap your hands if you believe in idiots!
I’m looking forward to the scene where Martine persuades Morbius that he’s dreaming, so it’s all right for him to drink MJ’s blood. Then Spiderman appears and tries to persuade Morbius that he’s awake and about to bite a real person. At which point Martine will scoff: “Awake? What would you know about being awake, you strangely-wrapped couch potato?”
Charlie the Bursted CarbunkleApril 26th, 2011 at 3:28 am [Reply]
@Aviatrix (#204): This is true. I think they just wanted to show that the new guys weren’t going to spend three months spinning their wheels, and so a lot got lost in the rush: whatever Lizz did to alert Tracy to her situation; any build-up to the showdown between Fifth and Flyface—who had, after all, been partners for years; no sympathy for Flyface (regardless of intent, Flyface saved Lizz’s life by refusing to help kill her and buying Tracy and Ketchum a couple of minutes).
I know it’s useless to compare to the Good Ol’ Days, but when Tracy went after Flattop, it was a long-term, epic hunt that interacted with a slew of characters and their own stories, before Tracy finally caught up with the bastard. The Locher tales were usually boiled down to a bare minimum: the bad guys cooked up a plot; Tracy stumbled into the middle of it; fight; Tracy delivers a stupid joke. The Fifth/Flyface Fiasco is that same pattern, accelerated; once again, Tracy does no real investigation but rather is tipped off because one of the bad guys does something monumentally stupid.
Again, I expect things will improve vastly next story. MAN I HOPE SO. I’ve been waiting years for Locher to let it go, and my hopes are cruisin’ the stratosphere. That’s a long way down.
KarMannApril 26th, 2011 at 5:20 am [Reply]
4/26 Groovy Blinkerlegume: Wait… is that supposed to be Darin? It didn’t even register for me at first, he looks so different from less than two weeks ago, already. Must be the aging side-effects of the Westview time-jump vortex.
Also, it looks like he’s wearing a janitor’s coveralls, or something like that, especially with that black shirt underneath it. Maybe Frazz is moonlighting? The hair isn’t too far off. . . .
April 26th, 2011 at 5:55 am [Reply]
MT: How about “Just don’t get shot in the head”?
9CL: Am I getting this story straight? This girl, Fernanda, comes on to a hot guy she knows is gay, and then she gets offended when he turns her down? Man, if I were a hot, gay guy reading this strip I think I would be offended.
B.C: Am I getting this story straight? The old turtle is sexually attracted to an underaged turtle, and only stays away from her out of fear of getting arrested? Hey, I think I’m offended, and I’m not even a turtle.
S-M: I’d never think that Mary-Jane would stoop to napping around – if Peter ever finds out he’ll be devestated. On the other hand he might be interested in a Ménage à trois with the hot blonde, or maybe even a kinky four-way with Morbius himself. Tune in same time tomorrow for your daily dose of hot hot sleeping action!
Momma: …and goodbye sex life.
KarMannApril 26th, 2011 at 6:05 am [Reply]
@Push Trot (#210) on 9CL: Oh, it’s much, much worse than that. Let me just re-arrange your mostly accurate phrasing a bit:
“This girl, Fernanda, comes on to a hot guy she knows is gay, they hook up and hands are seen, and then she gets offended when he kicks her to the curb the next day.”
April 26th, 2011 at 6:41 am [Reply]
@True Fable (#144): I speculated that Constance was luring ex-Judge Parker to his death, working to separate him and Sam, but that was mostly through a desire to escape the tedium of the story.
‘bean: I, for one, am not impressed by simply having another character smirk as a signal that, had there been a gag, this is where it would have occurred.
Gil: Lini’s been spending too much time reading the minutes of the budget subcommittee.
Up on the Roof: But now, I think I may have been inadvertently right. Alan Parker’s going to be a hit on Broadway!
One Big Advertisement: Yeah, but does it have depictions of hand-sex with Nazis? I thought not.
Little GuyApril 26th, 2011 at 7:21 am [Reply]
Lio delves into Oedipal kinkiness.
JP: “Yes, just lean riiiiiiiiight over the edge and look at all the people below? They look like ants, don’t they? Let me help you look….”
Luann: Sure ain’t the readers.
9CL: Can we stir up some cockpit trouble and tell certain people that McE has gone Jonny Hart for the past week or so?
KarMannApril 26th, 2011 at 7:31 am [Reply]
@Little Guy (#213) on JP: If Constance wants to do the leaning over herself, I’m OK with that.
ArchieNemesisApril 26th, 2011 at 7:42 am [Reply]
Mark today on your calendars as the day when not a single comic strip managed to pull off a simple joke.
KarMannApril 26th, 2011 at 7:51 am [Reply]
@ArchieNemesis (#215): Actually, I thought Cow & Boy today was pretty good. Possibly even better than the similar Spaceballs bit, allowing for squeezing it into four panels.
gleebApril 26th, 2011 at 7:58 am [Reply]
@gleeb (#212): Re:’bean, when I say “another character”, I mean other than Creepy Les Moore.
ArchieNemesisApril 26th, 2011 at 8:04 am [Reply]
@KarMann (#216): Thanks for Cow & Boy, that was actually funny. Maybe I should just give up on the oldtime strips because they’re not even trying anymore.
AhClemApril 26th, 2011 at 8:19 am [Reply]
If Marvin’s dad is about to perform surgery using a pair of blunt kindergarten scissors and a copy of “Circumcision For Dummies,” I will take back everything bad I ever said about this strip.
One-Eyed WolfdogApril 26th, 2011 at 8:25 am [Reply]
FC: “Actually they’re redirected to this Gopher server I set up, where they can see our menu! HA! IT IS A TEXT MENU! FOR A RESTAURANT! SMIRKDANCE! DA NA NA NA!
John B.April 26th, 2011 at 1:01 pm [Reply]
You had your “head” examined?? But that’s my job, big boy!
EmilyApril 26th, 2011 at 2:36 pm [Reply]
You know… I’m actually sort of excited to see a female character who isn’t focused on her career ENOUGH…
Please read the posting and discussion policies before posting. You are not required to supply an e-mail address to comment; however, doing so decreases the likelihood of your comment being flagged as spam. E-mail addresses will never be made public or seen by anyone but the site writers, who may use them to communicate with commentors. Leave a Reply« Name
« Website
Line and paragraph breaks are automatic. If you are HTML-savvy, you can use the following tags:
« Church-based menacing Plug into sadness » 
Like the site? Say it with cash! Your generous contributions keep this site strong and independent. Thanks! You too can advertise on blogs All the cool kids… 
…buy Comics Curmudgeon merchandise!
Randomly Selected Post O’ Mystery Brittania rules the disease-ridden waves Posting and discussion policies Privacy policy Email Josh Mobile / Lo-Fi Version All post content © 2004–2011 Joshua Fruhlinger. Comics reproduced here for purposes of review only, and all rights remain with their creators; please don't sue me. All comments remain the property and responsibility of those who posted them. Blog powered by WordPress, which is way cool. Hosting provided by ServInt Internet Services, who are lovely people. Site designed by the charming and talented Adam Norwood; logo designed by the talented and charming Francesco Marciuliano. This blog was once known as I Read The Comics So You Don't Have To. It is in no way affiliated with Funny Paper, which used to read the comics so you don't have to, and may do so again. Are you still reading this? Why are you still reading this? A.L.
0 comments:
Post a Comment