The drops add unnecessary grossness to the second panel.
Today's comic theme: song lyric based gags.
Better Half kicks things off with a dash of Disney's Song of the South.
Free Range gets inspiration from Wilson Pickett.
Jump Start incorporates Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang.
Random weirdness from Zippy the Pinhead
Jupiter looks better in a brief rather than a boxer-brief.
The new guy may save B.C. from zombie-stripdom. This one will generate a few irate letters to the editor.
Does Harriet understand what the cat says or does it just sound like a lot of meowing to her? The cat will have no trouble obtaining a gun permit, it's obtaining the gun that the cat will have trouble with.
Olive Oyl does fit in very well here.
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I'm taking time off from work but not from reading the funnies. Today's comics are brought to you by the letter B.
I think that would feel pretty good on the thighs. Sort of a massage. What is a sugarplum anyway? Does it resemble the thing on Stan and Harriet's plates.
Chester expression says, "Please for the love of God let it be true! I can't take living in this constantly shifting condo any more!"
How we clean at the Causey house except we have more space to stuff things into and the bulkheads have not begun to buckle.
Ah! It's the thing with three heads! Or the knights that say, "Ni!"
The plumber has fixed our sink. Tomorrow, the roofer comes to check out a roof leak.
Two slide presentation themed comics. These appeared back to back on my Chron.com comics page.
Granny gets all Zen on Billy's ass.
What's more fun than watching a bunch of little kids stuttering off-key through the holiday classics? Wrist slashing, fingernail removal, water boarding, watching a PowerPoint presentation presented by someone who just reads the damn slides, bikini waxing, listening to Mannheim Steamroller's non-Christmas music,
reading Mary Worth comics, writing little critiques of Mary Worth comics on an obscure blog, reading other blogs that skewer Mary Worth, making YouTube videos of Mary Worth, watching live action productions of Mary Worth comics, trying to figure out the floor plan of spaces in Mary Worth comics, and this list could go on.
One of several Christmas annoyances: Sleigh only has one syllable. Remember that when singing, Jingle Bells. It is even more annoying when children sing sleigh as a two syllable word.
Back to Mary Worth - only one fish on the wall but bigger. Are the fish eating each other? Maybe the fish triggers a secret door in the wall. The couple from yesterday knew about it and now the waiter heads for the wall.
Beetle, beware of the wrath of a jealous Sarge!
I thought it was a dog but I think it's the weird ass cat alien thing in profile.
Sorry, couldn't resist rewriting dialogue for Family Circus. The original appears first. The original is rather menacing for Family Circus.
Vera and Drew ride horses and wrist wrestle at the same time. I smell oncoming train wreck in the second panel.
Stanley is holding his man teats.
Mary is preparing a knuckle sandwich in panel two. Nothing is worse than a biddy punch across the jaw. What will you tell the people in the emergency room?
Darn, the U.S. military's don't ask, don't tell. If gays could serve openly perhaps Sarge and Beetle can express their affection for each other in a healthy way and still keep their military career.
This is not a marriage - it is two crazy people sharing a house - an asylum for two. One is dangerously psychotic and the other just kind of loony.
They always are good stories but then people starting taking the stories seriously and then act on whatever lessons they think the stories are telling them. The whole thing becomes quite ugly.
Today, classes begin. Not so chaotic so far. At least I did not have an 8:00 am class in my classroom today. I had some time to do a few things.
I'm redesigning my website using CSS and clean and updated code. I'm moving away from FrontPage (I have FrontPage 2000. I will still use the auto-thumbnail feature unless someone can point me to something that can do that. Preferably something free. Check out any of my clip art pages to see how I use the thumbnail feature.) The site is rather large and some pages will be eliminated from the site altogether. Right now, I'm doing minimal updates on the cartoons and clip art and have put other projects on hold. I'm working on both sites at the simultaneously. I hope to have something somewhat complete enough to publish by the end of September. It will take longer to fully integrate the whole site. Talking over 1,500 cartoons and a lot of clip art here. New cartoons and clip art will go up on schedule. The Sears Catalog and Betty Crocker sections will be part of the new design.
Stanley sleeps at the office because he cannot sleep at home. Not with the crazy woman that lives in his house.
Did Dr. Whitepants really say, "Wink!"? Dr. Whitepants must be close retirement thus everyone tolerates his behavior because of his impending departure.
Drew's reaction makes a nice Live Journal icon.
Enjoy!
Watch out Harriet. One day Stanley will snap after hearing one too many belittling comments. Maybe the blunt object is off panel. It's always a blunt object because a gun shot is too quick. A blunt object will allow Stanley to kill Harriet bit by bit in the same way that Harriet's demeaning comments chipped away at Stanley's soul bit by bit.
A single Better Half leads to more dark thoughts than several weeks of Mark Trail.
What drugs is Popeye's writer and artist using and where can I get some for myself?
It's really funny if you imagine William Shatner reading the dialogue.
Your honor, that's when I shot her. I got tired of her misinterpreting my intentions. Combine this with yesterday's comic, I don't think a jury would convict Stanley.
Jeffy is a little too into this pirate game. Billy and Dolly's blank expression scares me.
A good question in the last panel. The answer, in most cases, is no.
Roger was helping rock the baby to sleep by reading Shirley Jackson's, "The Lottery" and adding some elements to make the story more interesting for the baby to hear.
Further down the rabbit hole of Ruthie's madness.
I've added Popeye to my comics list because of the Comics Curmudgeon. The storyline has become quite insane. I forgot to save today's Popeye with its inappropriate sound effect.
I expanded my selection of Chron.com comics. It also fixed the 9 Chickweed Lane glitch.
Harriet's attempt to put Stanley in the mood frightens him. It scares me and I'm in a 3D reality. Stanley would rather watch TV than attempt to play the game and I suspect the prizes are not all that great.
Several neurons screamed in agony while attempting to parse this Blondie strip
Why does this Heathcliff comic look like elements were pulled from a hat or generated by a computer? The surrealism seems a bit forced.
Witness Ruthie's descent into madness
This comic would have worked better with an anthropomorphic pig. Might as well draw what people who see this comic strip are thinking.
A list of known Plugger species: Dog, Bear, Rhino, Chicken, Kangaroo
Things at work have slowed down a bit. I've been filming and editing candidate videos. I will do more of that in the beginning of next week. I've enjoyed doing this over the infinite project. I did receive some helpful suggestions for the project, for example "need photo" in a space holder that I placed on the poster for the photos that I'm trying to get. I wonder if one of the wildlife researchers will let me use the tranquilizer dart gun? That will make some of these people stop so I can get a photo. I did receive some actual helpful suggestions on this project, very few of them providing the information I need but I'll take what I can get.
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Themes for today's comics: other characters appearing in single panel comics and dog drinking out of the toilet bowl gags (Buckles and Mother Goose and Grimm, which I did not post here).
B.C. explores the hilarity of domestic violence.
Sometimes, I suspend a bit of scientific knowledge for the sake of a gag. It looks like Glasbergen does the same thing. But I felt this panel pushed the suspension a bit far. I immediately thought of the baleen whales rather than the toothed whales when reading this gag. A panel caption does not provide enough space to make distinctions. I suppose "..why do sperm whales (or killer whales) weigh two tons?" could have worked. Maintain the integrity of the gag with some scientific accuracy.
Now, I have that song stuck in my head. Shining star for you to see... What your life can truly be... Damn it, now I have to go find that song so that I can hear the whole thing so I can make the parts that I know stop playing in a loop in my head.
Idea for a game show for cartoonists: Set up that bad punchline. Contestants receive a bad punchline and then proclaim how many panels it would take them to set it up. Then they would have to draw the comic. I can set up that crappy punchline in two panels. Ha, I can set it up in a single panel.
Face it Mary, no one wants to attend the Charterstone pool party. Sadly, I'm kind of looking forward to it. This could answer questions about Mary Worth time. Will the pool party strip appear tomorrow or will it wait until Sunday? If it appears tomorrow then Mary Worth time corresponds to our 24 hour day but if it does not appear until Sunday then 60 hours of our time equals 24 hours of Mary Worth time. We have the potential for a breakthrough in comic strip physics research.
Giella can still draw the withering stare of Mary Worth.
