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Sailor Cat
Aug 28, 2019

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

computer angel posted:

I recall reading that Larson recieved quite a lot of criticism about this one from parents when it ran in the paper. It owns though, the look on the witch's face is priceless.

My favorite part is that the parents are exasperated because the witch ate both kids, like one is understandable but eating both is just being greedy

edit:

amigolupus posted:

Yeah, because 6-year-olds tell their mom they have sexy legs to cheer them up. Brooke seems like he's able to hide his grossness in classic 9CL, but then you get poo poo like this to remind you it's always been there the whole time.

Not to defend Brooke, but Edda and Amos are about 13 years old, not 6

Sailor Cat fucked around with this message at 04:46 on May 29, 2020

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Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


In today's Corto Maltese: OK, was he a knight, or a wizard? Make up your mind!, or Corto bums a ride, or Oh Corto, what will you get up to next?!





So ends our tale of the Secret Rose! Join us next time, won't you? In the regrettably truncated The Early Years!

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

CommonShore posted:

I hate to be a nit picker, but the punch line on this is the italics on "both" - "you cooked and ate them both?"

I double checked, and it doesn't have italics on the site. A good reminder to make sure I get them in the future, though.

FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens


I've never seen a comic strip give up halfway through and tell the audience to google a joke.

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Kennel posted:

Mandrake

A snake, a snake, a horrid snake!
It's a Mandrake Mandrake Mandrake Mandrake Mandrake...

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



Goddamnit that was probably a nice billnäs axe head too.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




Professor Wayne posted:

I double checked, and it doesn't have italics on the site. A good reminder to make sure I get them in the future, though.

Checked my copy of Prehistory Of The Far Side, and the stress on both was absolutely in the original, and integral to the joke - Larson found it hilarious that the parents are implying that eating only one kid would be bad, but eating both was way too far.

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Is that Ariel, Nova's brother?

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Lodin posted:

Is that Ariel, Nova's brother?

No.

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Intelligent Life







Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Dark Side of the Horse


Fort Knox

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



FrumpleOrz posted:

Kevin & Kell

Why is the rabbit's child a human boy?

Wait, do I even want to know?

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



Der Shovel posted:

Why is the rabbit's child a human boy?

Wait, do I even want to know?
The original, animal-universe rabbit danielle sacrificed her life in a heroic effort to stop a terrorist group, composed of rabbits, whose complaint was that they were routinely killed and eaten if they couldn't escape, and used the horrible, villainous tool of "guns that fire wooden carrots" so you can tell they're very, very evil.

I forget why the human-universe counterpart danielle ended up in the animal universe, but going through the portal turned her into a rabbit, as it does. She eventually ended up falling in love with the person who'd fallen in love wit original danilelle, and they had a kid, which turned out to be human, because as safe havens shows, holbrook's lack of grasp on how genetics work is only rivaled by his grasp on how everything else ever works.

tl;dr: no, you probalby didn't

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



while investigating a tax issue at a garbage dump she fell through the time portal set up by the birds of the future into the parallel world that kevin and kell live in and had her dna rewritten to match that of kevin's dead sister, her counterpart in that world, and after some drama decided to stay and marry a fox. it turns out that when you mix all the chromosomes of a human and a rabbit and a fox together in the abomination world then it just comes out a regular human, even though none of the animals know what that is since they were pre-genocided a million years in the past.

you're welcome

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



the human child's Species has Characterstic is "tool use" by the way

why yes, Kevin there is using a laptop and a smartphone, why do you bring that up? i don't see what that has to do with anything

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Johnny Walker posted:

Out of nowhere after 3 months, a new Popeye's Cartoon Club

Are you sure this is actually Popeye's Cartoon Club? Because that's very clearly a joke, and no one is reminding us that Popeye eats spinach. :raise:

Evil Mastermind posted:

There were people upset at the idea of a comic called "Heavenly Nostrils", for gently caress's sake.
I think the name was changed because the syndicate were worried that people would complain, not because anyone actually did. Because the change happened at the same time it went from web-only to print.

Strontium posted:

Take It From the Tinkersons
Same. :smith:

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011


The grammar mistakes in these have been bugging me forever. Especially since they're the exact same mistakes I remember seeing in the Politoons thread when Zelda was posted there years ago. Who made these?

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

Live, laugh, kupo!

Zereth posted:

I forget why the human-universe counterpart danielle ended up in the animal universe, but going through the portal turned her into a rabbit, as it does. She eventually ended up falling in love with the person who'd fallen in love wit original danilelle, and they had a kid, which turned out to be human, because as safe havens shows, holbrook's lack of grasp on how genetics work is only rivaled by his grasp on how everything else ever works.

Of all the things to jump on the guy for, "interdimensional species-changing portals don't work that way" is, I think, one we can let slide.

Evrart Claire
Jan 11, 2008

Bruceski posted:

Of all the things to jump on the guy for, "interdimensional species-changing portals don't work that way" is, I think, one we can let slide.

Yeah, it's dumb, but there's the whole "literally every other part of that" that's even dumber.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black feat. Delta from classic Luann


Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Strontium posted:

Intelligent Life






Reddick's really showing how incapable an artist he is; it's impossible for him to his characters any father apart than "shoulder to shoulder, from the waist up."

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



Bruceski posted:

Of all the things to jump on the guy for, "interdimensional species-changing portals don't work that way" is, I think, one we can let slide.
if I remember correctly the hedgehog got swapped with her human-world counterpart as a baby and the one in the strip is originally both human and a british princess

and her child isn't human but is the horrible hedgehog/bat hybrid you'd, uh... "expect" is a strong word, but.

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä



Midsummer, Juhannus, is a holiday held on a Saturday June 20.-26., with the preceding Friday also a day off. Here we see two notable ways of celebrating, the excellent combination of getting shitfaced and lighting up huge bonfires. The time-honored way to die on Juhannus, however, is to drown by falling off a boat with high BAC and your fly open.

The original joke in the second panel is about how the driver can now take a ryyppy (a small drink of alcohol), to which a passenger quips that ryyppy (also a colloquial term for a choke valve) has been on for quite some time already.

Kymi, Häme and Vaasa are old province names. It is never stated where exactly Mämmilä is, but it is most certainly within those.

Song in the last panel is the Finnish version of Baccara's Yes Sir, I Can Boogie: Eini - Yes Sir, Alkaa Polttaa

Good Listener
Sep 2, 2006

Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool
See obviously this didn't happen with her baby cuz her DNA was used to weird hell world due to being there since she was a baby as opposed to arriving as an adult. Obviously.

(Yes I am pulling this out of my rear end but I bet if you asked him, I'd not be far off)

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!


Even better.

Johnny Aztec
Jan 29, 2005

by Hand Knit

Good Listener posted:

See obviously this didn't happen with her baby cuz her DNA was used to weird hell world due to being there since she was a baby as opposed to arriving as an adult. Obviously.

(Yes I am pulling this out of my rear end but I bet if you asked him, I'd not be far off)

So, the initial transition between worlds changes your outward appearance, but it takes longer for that reality to fully change you over?

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Zereth posted:

the human child's Species has Characterstic is "tool use" by the way

why yes, Kevin there is using a laptop and a smartphone, why do you bring that up? i don't see what that has to do with anything

Just wait till Holbrook reveals the human time travels to the past of Kevin and Kell's hellworld and... well you can hazard guesses.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Strontium posted:

Intelligent Life






The inconsistent mask use continues to really irritate me.




This is okay, as Luanns go, which admittedly is an extremely low bar.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (October 17, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (October 17, 1998)



Garfield Classic (October 17, 1988)

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

There's a couple things I like to add. First, the original Danielle was George the fox's girlfriend, but got killed with the carrot gun protecting him. When Human Danielle tripped into Hellworld, he was the only one who knew she wasn't the original Danielle because he and the original used to make literal electrical sparks when they touched (because Holbrook loves using terrible visual metaphor). Danielle and George decide that she should prank him so he would hate her and he could move on with his life, except it only caused them to develop a spark for each other, because of course it loving does. At no point does anyone wonder why George was suddenly acting cold towards his supposed girlfriend. Or have George wonder if dating the exact duplicate of his dead girlfriend wasn't a little bit messed up.

The second thing was that Holbrook used to have this stupid plotline where having humans in Hellworld upset the balance of the universe and caused animals lose their instincts to kill and cannibalize others. The human-turned-hedgehog being there was fine, but having Danielle as well was making the issue to spread faster, so the Birdlluminati had to intervene and opened up a portal to send the extra humans back to their world. There's some drama about who should go back, but Holbrook ruined all tension once again by having the Birdlluminati send over their leader and her child instead to keep the balance. Now why Hellworld isn't imploding by having Danielle's human child exist when she and the hedgehog already caused huge problems before, I don't know and I doubt Holbrook does either.

MariusLecter posted:

Just wait till Holbrook reveals the human time travels to the past of Kevin and Kell's hellworld and... well you can hazard guesses.

Time travel already happened in Hellworld, when the Birdlluminati traveled back in time to create a branching timeline where they genocided the humans and prevented them from becoming the dominant species of the planet. Holbrook also illustrated the branching timelines like a DNA strand, because of course he does.

amigolupus fucked around with this message at 16:38 on May 29, 2020

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Zip


Dick


Duck

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bad Machinery

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side

Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Jul 25, 2022

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange



Get Fuzzy 5/28/00



Brenda Starr 1/12/41





Brenda's eye in the next to last panel seems to be a printer's glitch, not another black eye.

Smokey Stover 8/18/35

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
Adam


BCN


BC on Disney+


Phoebe


Wallace


Curtis

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007





One of you understands what might happen if Mrs Olive calls the police...

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

This made me snort beer :mad:

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
October 2nd & 3rd, 1981

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Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



F Minus



Mark Trail



Mary Worth



The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G



Popeye's Cartoon Club


Tiggum posted:

Are you sure this is actually Popeye's Cartoon Club? Because that's very clearly a joke, and no one is reminding us that Popeye eats spinach. :raise:
I don't know what's going on with PCC. We haven't had a new one since February 9, and now there's two in a row, not on Sundays and without any drop panels but sized about the same as the Sunday ones, and they appear to be the same artist, but the two strips seem otherwise unconnected. It's strange.

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