Mark Trail, 6/11/11
We interrupt this 100 percent laughable police work (“Moccasins, eh? You know who wears moccasins? Weird mountain men! I seen it on the TV!”) to say a few words in memory of this noble mountain goat. He was innocently attempting to leap dramatically from crag to crag, as is the wont of his species, when he was brutally impaled by an errant word balloon and pinned to the sky like a bug in an entomologist’s collection. He deserved a better fate and will be missed.
Mary Worth, 6/11/11
Remember, everyone, Mary thinks that the best way to deal with these sorts of “delicate matters” is to bully the poor lovestruck delusional soul until he or she is driven to suicide, which explain why she’s stroking her chin like a sinister supervillain in panel two.
Family Circus, 6/11/11
Normally I don’t want to see any kind of bodily fluids dripping from any member of the noxious Keane clan, but I have to admit that I’m rather enjoying the sight of sweaty, exhausted Billy. It summons up a vision of him dressed in his fancy tennis clothes and hitting the ball again and again into the net, growing increasingly frustrated and saddened at his own incompetence, which I frankly find hilarious.
This entry was posted on Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 10:51 am and is filed under Family Circus, Mark Trail, Mary Worth. | 85 responses to “” UnclGhostJune 12th, 2011 at 10:56 am [Reply]
On the contrary! The goat has strapped himself to the word balloon and is attempting to fly around the world in eighty days, which in Mark Trail time, should give him about a year of dailies.
TheDivaJune 12th, 2011 at 11:01 am [Reply]
And the tragic thing is, the mountain goat might have been spared if the Jack Elrod ball hadn’t lured it to its doom. Shame on you, Mister Elrod! Have you no sense of decency?
RustyJune 12th, 2011 at 11:04 am [Reply]
Billy and the other melonheads are usually drawn as about 2 feet tall, so his difficulty with the tennis net is understandable.
FireflyJune 12th, 2011 at 11:05 am [Reply]
I like imagining the heroic goat saying those lines while leaping to duty, as if he was one of the main characters in some sort of Buddy Cop movie.
CalicoJune 12th, 2011 at 11:06 am [Reply]
Balloon Goat! Call the FAA and the local news channel!
[Old Man] MuffarooJune 12th, 2011 at 11:07 am [Reply]
3G – So has anybody ever seen Aunt Iris and Mrs. Bloom together?
Hägar – “A three-hour tour.” I considered smiling at that.
Mark – Don’t be a litterbug with a mustache, or Mark will actually say something cutting to you when he catches you at it.
Rx – “This could be Berna’s replacement. Her name is Mary, and she lives in Charterstone, and she says she loves helping people!”
[Old Man] MuffarooJune 12th, 2011 at 11:08 am [Reply]
Dick – “THE SCARLET STING” — Now shooting in Tracy’s city.
Wait, I thought he was in Chicago, and now you’re telling me the strip takes place in Toronto??
@Mibbitmaker (#y58): I believe the deep-voiced kid on KotH is named Dewey. I heard him called by name once and my mind sprang into action to preserve this truly important bit of information.
@Mr K Martin (#y91): “I Want My Baby Back” is a classic. Yeah, Les is the one I should picture from now on. “Hot dang! PAY DIRT!”
Spiff BereftJune 12th, 2011 at 11:09 am [Reply]
MW She’s clearly flashing back to her previous life. Pointy black hat, green skin, “These things must be handled delicately…” It’s all coming back to her.
JessyJune 12th, 2011 at 11:10 am [Reply]
MT: The placement and proportion of the bottom part of the pointer in the word balloon really bother me here. It’s not even drawn to suggest that it tapers off in a natural way, and it’s placed too far to the left of the bottom of the goat. It’s almost as if the artist took an old rendering of an airborne goat and just lazily stuck the word balloon . . . oh.
Bill ThompsonJune 12th, 2011 at 11:10 am [Reply]
Mark Trail: “Hey fiddle faddle, all hat and no cattle, the goat jumped into the moon.” What it looks like in the first two panels is that Sheriff Dad is conveniently walking all over the crime scene while smearing any fingerprints on the powder jar. Clousseau-like bumbling or sinister destruction of evidence? Before you leap to any hasty decisions and get balloon-speared, notice that Sheriff Dad has lost his moustache. Clearly he has mended his hirsute ways!
Effluvius ErratusJune 12th, 2011 at 11:17 am [Reply]
@Firefly (#4): And he was only two days away from retirement!
Phred22June 12th, 2011 at 11:24 am [Reply]
MT: I’m wondering: Would a mocassin print look different from a stocking feet print? Is our small-town sheriff schooled in forensics enough to know the difference?
ratnerstarJune 12th, 2011 at 11:29 am [Reply]
I don’t see any reason to assume that the liquid falling from Billy’s face is sweat; it could just as easily be tears. With a little imagination, and a willingness to use a red Sharpie on your monitor, it could even be blood.
Phred22June 12th, 2011 at 11:32 am [Reply]
Another thought: How likely is it that a small town nestled in a mountain valley inhabited by wild goats would have the same sort of architecture as much larger cities, tall buildings with flat roofs and smokestacks? Seems a lot of these near-identical skylines pop up next to wilderness areas where Mark is visiting?
ArchieNemesisJune 12th, 2011 at 11:32 am [Reply]
@Bill Thompson (#10): Sheriff Dad might be smarter than we realize. He knows shit’s about to get real so he lost the mustache (aka “boxing bullseye”). He’s willing to sit back and watch Mark punch some sense into that school-skipping, moccasin-mincing, dining-hall-gossiping kid of his.
SequelManJune 12th, 2011 at 11:37 am [Reply]
9CL: Did I completely miss something, or are there references to some sort of pedophilia, or incest, then brutal mutilation and murder in today’s strip… which leads to a stupid punchline about ectoplasm… which doesn’t really have much to do with psychic ability, unless the information is fed to Amos by a bunch of GHOSTwriters. Where’s the Ghost Adventure guys when you need em? I am SO ready for a lockdown. On the bright side… not a toe shoe in sight. *Sigh of Relief*
Red GreenbackJune 12th, 2011 at 11:39 am [Reply]
Josh on MT: You say impaled, I say kebabbed.
Mardou FoxJune 12th, 2011 at 11:40 am [Reply]
Sixteen comments already and nobody has mentioned that the bottom of that word-balloon doubles as an enormous goat penis? Wake up, people! Drink some coffee!
commodorejohnJune 12th, 2011 at 12:03 pm [Reply]
6Chix – “What do you mean, ‘her?’ We’re hermaphrodites.”
A3G – Margo ponders how to capture Iris and forcibly extract her luck to use for her own ends. Maybe you can ring over to the Legion of Doom, Margo. They probably have something like that lying around.
Bizarro – How hard is it to draw William Shatner? Seriously?
Crock – Wait, for the last month or so Crock has been looking actually kind of semi-not horrible, and now…jeez, this is the worst art I’ve ever seen in this strip.
DT – You know, I’m still getting used to the fact that, when information in the new Dick Tracy is revealed piecemeal so that I’m left guessing and receive clarification, it’s probably actually intentional.
FG – So. Bondage queen in a buckle-up dress? They aren’t even making a pretense anymore, are they?
FW – If this strip were to feature nothing but Les making smarmy plans to score and then discovering his lovely targets making out with people we didn’t hate from now on, it would be several orders of magnitude more enjoyable.
JP – “You’re Danny Darling’s kid! I’d know those impossibly perky breasts anywhere!”
MT – “Litterbugs have many guises, making them unrecognizable until they act. Trust no one! Report all suspicious activities to the authorities!”
MW – What the hell is Mary looking at? It’s certainly not Drew. It’s like there’s something absolutely fascinating going on just-off panel that she can’t take her eyes off. Charley Smith doing his sexercises, maybe?
Phantom – Aww, poor Chatu…guess he’s not one of the cool terrorists anymore!
PV – Kicky outfit, Maeve. And I see the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come has brought his cousin?
SM – Wow. Today’s Spider-Man is so boring I can’t even think of anything to say about how boring it is.
bbofunJune 12th, 2011 at 12:22 pm [Reply]
@SequelMan (#16): Not to defend the strip (it’s pretty awful) but the Lucy-esque stand does say “Mr. Seance”, so the ectoplasm bit sorta works. Sorta. (Hey, my spellcheck doesn’t recognize “ectoplasm”! Does that mean it’s not a real thing?)
In Dick Tracy, the writers are apparently dizzy from the speed of the plot. On Friday, Lizz is told that “We don’t have a smaller costume”, but on Saturday, she’s complaining her costume is too small. The gangster’s moll (i love writing that) is fired because they need someone to do stunts, but then, today, Lizz is referred to as a “lighting double”, which would be. I guess, the stand-in, who’s job is to stand where the actress will in a scene while the crew sets up lighting (this can take 10-30 minutes, so the actors aren’t required to do it- the stand-in is generally around the same height and coloring as the actor). You wouldn’t use a stuntperson for that, as they get paid a lot more than stand-ins.
Oh, and I guess there are no unions in Dick Tracy’s town. Well, of course not- what was I thinking?
Mr K MartinJune 12th, 2011 at 12:32 pm [Reply]
On the next episode of “Funky Winkerbean”, Les Miserable shows further evidence of his failure to pick up “signs” by driving right past one that says “Stop” with a look of dazed indifference on his face causing him to crash headlong into a bus driven by Crankshaft, thereby reuniting Les with his beloved in an afterlife where they will smirk til the end of time and are soon joined by Crank and his singing vodka-obsessed bussmates.
BTW – I think that flying mountain goat is simply well hung.
DentuckJune 12th, 2011 at 12:36 pm [Reply]
Of course you’re hot and bothered, Billy. You’re wearing a frickin’ CARDIGAN SWEATER to play tennis in the summer heat.
bourbon babe, unbuckledJune 12th, 2011 at 12:39 pm [Reply]
@Phred22 (#14): Much in the same way that murders happened wherever Jessica Fletcher was visiting, urban development springs up wherever Mark Trail goes. It’s the only known instance of Elrodian Irony.
Baka GaijinJune 12th, 2011 at 12:41 pm [Reply]
@Mardou Fox (#18): We’re awake; check out yesterthread yesterthread.
ClintJune 12th, 2011 at 12:45 pm [Reply]
Um…whatever floats your goat?
Okay, I’m to lazy to look it up (I tried Wikipedia, and there was an awful lot of text, so forget it): was Mark Trail always about fists-o’-justice and crime fighting, or did that change at some point in the last 15 years or so?
When I was young, all I remember of this strip was these big doofy Sunday layouts with cruddy drawings of and facts about the Honey Badger or whatever. Did The Syndicate finally tell them, “Look, honey badgers aren’t cutting it anymore, see? You’re gonna have to start making Mark punch people, see? Or it’s curtains for the strip, see?”
mr12ozcanJune 12th, 2011 at 12:56 pm [Reply]
mark trail-if your gonna live up in the mountains the rest of your life you would need new moccasins every week . just shows how guys with facial hair are pretty dumb .which is why i never forget to shave.
mary worth- no onegets sick in santa royale or visits the sick?dr drew and mary have been there a long time with no one walking bye.hey mary lift your skirt and flash dr drew that will snap him out of it.
June 12th, 2011 at 1:05 pm [Reply]
Ziggy: So, not a a fan of the Abrams-verse I take it?
Marvin: Hey, any strip without that little poop factory is a definite improvement over the norm. Granted, that just makes it “slightly wretched” instead of “abysmally wretched”.
Born Loser: TELEVISION DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! [/Morbo]
seismic-2June 12th, 2011 at 1:07 pm [Reply]
SM: What is really making Peter feel inferior is not that MJ is swamped by autograph-seekers, it’s that she’s starring in a play called Picture Perfect. That sort of puts Petey in his place for those headline-grabbing “vampire” photos, doesn’t it?
HankJune 12th, 2011 at 1:07 pm [Reply]
@SequelMan (#16)< @SequelMan (#16): If he thinks it’ll PO the nuns from his childhood Brooke will no doubt heartily endorse both incest and pedophilia, most likely in a six month arc.
commodorejohnJune 12th, 2011 at 1:13 pm [Reply]
@Hank (#29): Hell, we already saw what felt like, oh, eighty years of The Gentlest Nazi.
Black DrazonJune 12th, 2011 at 1:30 pm [Reply]
“Time to confront Liza! First I shall wiggle off my worrying mouth and attach my BUSINESS MOUTH. No, wait, that’s not it, maybe it’s in my other pocket.”
WLPJune 12th, 2011 at 1:32 pm [Reply]
I have to admit, the very first thing I thought when I saw that last panel of Mary Worth was, “It must appear to have been an accident . . .”
Peanut GalleryJune 12th, 2011 at 1:37 pm [Reply]
Edge City – Damn it, don’t these kids today know anything about vodka shooters?
GregJune 12th, 2011 at 1:43 pm [Reply]
A good idea to get some “edge” into Family Circus: When Billy gets home from his tennis match, he finds Daddy Keane has blown his head to smithereens inside the microwave! Now *that’s* an inifinite jest!
NoahSnarkJune 12th, 2011 at 1:52 pm [Reply]
If Mary Worth is ever allowed to end, I imagine the last strip will reveal that everything has been the dream of a coma patient whose doctors were trying a controversial therapy regimen of day-time television and medical grade hallucinogens.
Alan's AddictionJune 12th, 2011 at 2:00 pm [Reply]
It’s taken a few years, but it’s finally dawned upon me; the artists of “Mark Trail” obviously prefer drawing wildlife and nature scenes over drawing humans, hence all the weird animal shots in which the plot is merely in the background. I say that we just let them do it full-time; draw animals as the focal point for every strip, and advance the plotline with disjointed dialog in the background; then show Mark punching something every few weeks. No one will know the difference, and we’ll get to see something more tastefully rendered than the horrific caricatures of humanity that the artists pass off as humans. Also, it looks like this strip is trying to implicate John as one of the thieves, which would pretty much make him the worst villain (and mountain man) of all time. He’s totally self-sufficient and wild… until he needs to sneak back into town in the dead of night and steal supplies. The solution: buy better locks/security measures; eventually he’ll either starve to death or turn himself in. On the other hand, lame though this “plot twist” may be; it might lead to Mark trying to help and improve someone by punching them. Or Mark’s head might explode at the thought that somewhat decent people can also occasionally commit petty crimes. Either ending is cool.
I want to know why Drew’s decided to confide in Mary about his problem with Eliza. I can only imagine it went something like this: “Eliza’s controlling, self-absorbed, meddling, obsessive, and somewhat manipulative. Oh, I know, Mary’s all those things, too! I’ll get her right on this problem!” I can only hope that the Mary-Eliza showdown lives up to its potential, but then Drew’s still stuck dealing withe victor. If it’s Eliza, he’ll have to marry her because he can’t say no; if it’s Mary, he’ll get a lifetime of meddling involvement in his love-life.
I’d love to think that Billy’s fellow tennis players have told him that tennis played by hunting and capturing the smallest, weakest member of the group (AKA Billy) with a gladiatorial net, then beating him with the rackets; hence his dislike of the net. Also, the thought of any of the Keane family involved in blood sports makes me quite happy.
June 12th, 2011 at 2:11 pm [Reply]
@bbofun (#20): You are absolutely right – I stand corrected. The ectoplasm thing does match. I think I’m so creeped out whenever Amos appears I didn’t ‘linger’ over the visual details. Oh, well, I prefer my ectoplasm in the form of good old Owen, the vampire’s ghostly friend in “Scary Gary” (along with Leopold, his gargoylish henchman, Travis the head-in-a-jar, and Frank and Steve the gay Frankenstein monster couple) a refreshingly quirky strip.
ATJune 12th, 2011 at 2:29 pm [Reply]
So, is Mary being pensive and contemplative in panel 2, or did Drew just punch her? Erase the conversation and, from the pictures alone, that’s what it looks like, right? Could this be the basis for the Mary Worth/Mark Trail slashfic crossover I’ve been hoping for?
KarMannJune 12th, 2011 at 2:37 pm [Reply]
9CL: Thoracic ecto-bukkake. Just what I wanted on with my Sunday breakfast cereal.
PoteetJune 12th, 2011 at 2:52 pm [Reply]
FC — No “seven-year-old” in the history of the world has ever actually looked, talked, or behaved like Billy. Thank God.
PoteetJune 12th, 2011 at 2:58 pm [Reply]
MW — I wasn’t planning to admit this, but I actually saw Liza on TV a few days ago. I was tuned into one of my six channels while washing dishes, watching a court show, and there she was, I swear. She was obsessed with the guy she was suing, she thought it was quite normal that she had refused to break up with him when he wanted to break up, and she was extremely annoyed when her twenty obsessive texts to him in fifteen minutes were taken as a sign of problems and that her own parents agreed that some mental health care might do her some good. It apparently didn’t, and she was still telling the judge that the guy just didn’t realize what a wonderful couple they made. So, and I say this for the first time ever unironically, good luck, Mary and Drew. Me, I might change my name and leave the country for awhile.
PoteetJune 12th, 2011 at 3:01 pm [Reply]
@Alan’s Addiction (#36): There’s also the little problem that in the MT universe, the crime of retail theft is horrible but the crime of poaching is peachy-keen. I won’t be sorry if Mark takes a couple of punches himself before this is over.
GalFridayJune 12th, 2011 at 3:06 pm [Reply]
MT: I think that’s just an escaped Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon in the last panel there. You know, the one of Lovecraft’s Shub-Niggurath . . .
Mardou FoxJune 12th, 2011 at 3:08 pm [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#24): Thanks for restoring my faith in this community!
Mark BJune 12th, 2011 at 3:12 pm [Reply]
@Poteet (#41): Yeah, to the extent that Mary Worth is actually depicting a real problem with can be difficult to deal with, it could be an after school special. But, since the resolution is probably going to be Liza dying in a fiery car crash, it’s probably not good youth fiction material. In real life, Drew would have contacted HR at the hospital some time ago about the stalking issue … but then both of them might get fired for dating on the job … and then Liza would be free to devote 24 hours a day to stalking Drew.
WisconsiniteJune 12th, 2011 at 3:15 pm [Reply]
First and foremost, shame on this site for seducing me into reading Mary Worth and Funky Winkerbean on-line every day.
That being said, Les saying “It’s nice to have friends you can count on when you need them.” Really? *YOU* just treated two nice women pretty poorly, and *YOU’RE* the one that needs support? Support for what, exactly? Convincing yourself you’re not an ass?
Oh, that’s right – it’s all about you Les, it’s always about you.
Here’s my COMMENT OF THE YEAR: Hey Les? Fuck you. Seriously. Fuck you.
Little Blue BicycleJune 12th, 2011 at 3:30 pm [Reply]
Clearly the goat is the gang’s “ears.” The peculiar updraft of the ravine allows it to hear everything said in the city below. He’s bounding off to tell them to ditch their moccasins, as soon as he’s done playing with his Jack Elrod soccer ball.
TaggedJune 12th, 2011 at 3:31 pm [Reply]
Dustin: This is wrong on so many levels..
NS: If a person makes an observation about a study in a diner or a bar, does anyone really care? Now, there’s a survey someone should be doing.
Fester MorgensternJune 12th, 2011 at 3:36 pm [Reply]
Hi, Josh. In the Mark Trail entry, that should be “like a bug in an entomologist’s collection.
DaggerJune 12th, 2011 at 3:47 pm [Reply]
No doubt another treacherous act of crazed supervillain Jack Elrod, who recently lasered his name into the Moon.
fillmoreeastJune 12th, 2011 at 3:49 pm [Reply]
“Normally I don’t want to see any kind of bodily fluids dripping from any member of the noxious Keane clan”
Josh, Josh, Josh. You forget: blood is a bodily fluid!
seismic-2June 12th, 2011 at 3:59 pm [Reply]
MT: I used to own a pair of moccasins. They were meant for outdoors wear (as I assume Myson’s are), and they had rubber soles. I don’t see how their prints would be any different from those of a number of other types of casual footwear. Furthermore, some had treads, some were smooth, and there were lots of different tread patterns. What are the odds that the ones that were purchased by the clean-cut mustachioed 35-year-old teenager were identical in size and pattern to those worn by Myson? About the same as the odds of a guy’s living undiscovered for a year in a cave in the High Country that he knows about because he used to play there with all the other kids when he was growing up, but that now has vanished from everyone’s collective memory, I suppose. Never mind.
gleebJune 12th, 2011 at 4:15 pm [Reply]
I still say that goat was innocently hovering when the tragic impalement occurred.
Baka GaijinJune 12th, 2011 at 4:18 pm [Reply]
@gleeb (#53): Hover goats. We are truly in the Twenty First Century.
kkarenbJune 12th, 2011 at 4:24 pm [Reply]
MT – In his previous job, the sheriff was part of the crack forensic team that identified Wally Winkerbean’s remains.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoJune 12th, 2011 at 4:25 pm [Reply]
@Baka Gaijin (#54): hovering, not just for corgis anymore!
PoteetJune 12th, 2011 at 4:27 pm [Reply]
@Phred22 (#14): Thanks for clearing that up. I thought we’d been suddenly transported to another planet and were looking at an alien city. I was trying to see if the Tardis might be visible somewhere.
carbunicleJune 12th, 2011 at 4:31 pm [Reply]
@Mardou Fox (#18): I see it too! God help me, I see it too!
Mark BJune 12th, 2011 at 4:38 pm [Reply]
Just some friendly advice for Drew: nothing is more effective as a signal that a relationship is completely, irrevocably over than a restraining order.
PoteetJune 12th, 2011 at 4:39 pm [Reply]
@Mark B (#45): Thanks for reminding me about HR. At that hospital, I’ll bet it’s an interesting place.
PoteetJune 12th, 2011 at 4:44 pm [Reply]
@Mark B (#59): Plus then we’d get to see Liza’s face when she got the word. Yeah, Drew, go for it!
MWDGJune 12th, 2011 at 4:47 pm [Reply]
Boy, Mary sure looks haggy this weekend. I wonder if Karen Moy is finally make the readers’ dream come true and sentence Mary to a grisly death?
In this week’s strips Mary appears to have a dowager’s hump and hair covering her neck and back. Perhaps Mary’s increasingly masculine appearance will give Jeff an erection? It might be sweet to have Jeff and Mary became late-in-life parents…and then have the baby be something like Rosemary’s baby.
Where is Toby? Ian? Terry Bryson? Please let’s have a pool party!
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoJune 12th, 2011 at 4:49 pm [Reply]
meanwhile, in Canada.
I know you’re thinking the Mortal Kombat theme as you view this.
Korgbi was here.
I haz a baff, and iz not happy ’bout it.
OCD has a multitude of squeetastic corgipups today, go there and look, I’m not linking so many more that deserve it. SKWEEE!
Mark BJune 12th, 2011 at 4:52 pm [Reply]
@Poteet (#60): Yeah, I can see one of the HR department meetings at the hospital. “We can’t lose our certification because of unprofessional behavior by the doctors and nurses again! There’s got to be some way we can settle this without kicking off legal paperwork … I know, let’s send in the meddler! With any luck, she can fix this all without leaving a paper trail.”
Cheap Hover GoatsJune 12th, 2011 at 4:56 pm [Reply]
I appreciate your comment and looking forward to same of more. Hover goats come in variety of styles. No fakes and none have been impaled by word balloons.
PoteetJune 12th, 2011 at 5:02 pm [Reply]
DT — I have a feeling this flick won’t do very well on ROTTEN TOMATOES.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoJune 12th, 2011 at 5:05 pm [Reply]
kewt hover goat
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoJune 12th, 2011 at 5:05 pm [Reply]
kewt, ninja’d by Cheap. drat!
AnachrosaurusJune 12th, 2011 at 5:25 pm [Reply]
@WLP (#32): “I have to admit, the very first thing I thought when I saw that last panel of Mary Worth was, ‘It must appear to have been an accident . . .’”
“Well, my little pretty, I can cause accidents, too!… But that’s not what’s worrying me. It’s how to do it. These things must be done de-li-cate-ly, or you hurt the spell!”
Some GuyJune 12th, 2011 at 5:45 pm [Reply]
A3G: What’s duller than an A3G Sunday strip that rehashes everything that happened during the week? An A3G Sunday strip that rehashes the fact nothing happened during the week.
S-M: Peter’s huffy that MJ is famous, even though – given his track record in selling photos – that’s how they eat? We’re doing that again? Really?
DaveyKJune 12th, 2011 at 5:53 pm [Reply]
Mary appears to be able to elongate her face by tugging on it. Which, frankly, I find surprising as I assumed she simply unhinged her jaws when needing to swallow her victims.
fahrenheit451June 12th, 2011 at 5:54 pm [Reply]
MW-I’m figuring on Meddling Mary confronting Liza while yet another patient dies, sending Drew back to the jungles of ‘Nam, which is the only place on the planet where he can find peace.
“…the horror…the horror…”
jamocheJune 12th, 2011 at 6:07 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#63):
Corgsquee with ducklings.
Doctor HandsomeJune 12th, 2011 at 6:10 pm [Reply]
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#7): Close, but the kid’s name was Dooley. I always loved his blunt statements of fact, like, “Your wife divorced you,” or, “Your dad lost his job.”
BraniffJune 12th, 2011 at 6:11 pm [Reply]
Forthcoming FC cartoon panel: I work with two male strippers–Chip ‘n Dale. (That would obviously be an obvious reference to brother Glen Keane’s work for Disney–amongst whose characters are two chipmunks with those names.)
bitterlawstudentJune 12th, 2011 at 6:21 pm [Reply]
Jack Elrod brand Mountain Goat Balls: the perfect gift for the ruminant in your life.
Doctor HandsomeJune 12th, 2011 at 6:21 pm [Reply]
“Hmm, the thief was wearing moccasins. That means that he must spend a lot of time hanging around moccasin stores, discussing moccasins with his fellow moccasin enthusiasts. You check out Moccasin World and Bert’s Moccasins, I’ll try Waldo’s Moccasin Emporium and Moccasins Moccasins Moccasins. If no leads turn up there, we’ll make our way down to the Moccasin District.”
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoJune 12th, 2011 at 7:07 pm [Reply]
@jamoche (#73): I linked to another pic of that story a few threads back, but nice to see the full story. thanks!
LP2004June 12th, 2011 at 7:22 pm [Reply]
MT – Please note in the third panel, shown in public for the first time, the rejected first cover design for Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ album (“I’m sorry, Roger, but ‘Goats On The Wing’ just doesn’t cut it”)
MustangJune 12th, 2011 at 7:23 pm [Reply]
@MWDG (#62): Mary is pissed. I mean seriously royally off the wall pissed. The wrath of Mary coming back on a situation she feels she has already meddled into a scarred empty wasteland and seeing that it is coming back to life… oh shit I do not want to be here to see it. Apocolypse? Oh that’s just a bump in the road compared to what we are to witness. IF WE DARE.
demoncatJune 12th, 2011 at 7:31 pm [Reply]
mary is thinking of what way will work best to make sure lisa now that drew has come to mary for help what method to convince Lisa to use to end things. billy frustration over playing tenis means he has figured out he has no talent for something that will make him successful to be the first of his family to be unleashed on the world.
seismic-2June 12th, 2011 at 8:25 pm [Reply]
Liza: “I’ve texted you 40 times in the last hour and a half, I left 28 messages on your answering machine last night, I had flowers delivered to your house 3 times yesterday, I threw a surprise party for you when you arrived this morning and then again at noon, I’ve sent you airline tickets and hotel confirmations for the weekend together that I planned, I stuck 3 dozen nude photos of myself in your desk drawer, and you must have seen the new car I bought for you that was parked in your driveway, and probably you saw me sleeping in the tree outside your bedroom, too. So why you return my love???”
Les: “Well, I’ve never been too good at reading the signs…”
June 12th, 2011 at 8:38 pm [Reply]
MW: Delicate? At this point abandoning Liza in the middle of the Sonoran desert is the only option for fixing this problem.
Joe BtfsplkJune 12th, 2011 at 9:22 pm [Reply]
@ratnerstar (#13): I know it’s supposed to be sweat, but I too am choosing to see it as tears. I do what I must to get a laugh out of this strip.
Just some guyJune 12th, 2011 at 10:34 pm [Reply]
What’s with that last panel in Mary Worth?
It appears that just off “screen”, the entire world of Mary Worth ends and is nothing but blue sky, just beyond the park bench.
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