Did anyone notice a particularly Pearls-Before-Swine-esque crocodile adorning the box of sugary cereal in Baby Blues yesterday? Looks like Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott aren't too busy enforcing reproductive heteronormativity to take a moment to give Stephen Pastis a taste of his own medicine. Before you know it the entire page will descend into such an orgy of self-referentialism that you'll be lost without the fearless bloggers here at RD&Cw/T.
BRIEFLY NOTED
Thursday:
Jeremy's got diarrhea, and I've got a serious case of the giggles!
"Elderberries will return," but for now we're getting "these classics." I'm sure you all remember when the Boondocks began reprinting old strips, only to fade off the page forever. Now, Elderberries is a pretty crap comic, but given its subject matter (old people) I can only assume that it's authored/illustrated by a pair of geriatrics, and I feel concerned that either Joe Troise or Phil Frank has broken a hip. In my brief attempt to research the matter further, I came upon a delightfully apt website for the cranky, technophobe residents of the Elderpark retirement home.
Friday:
Bliss implies that if we could see what was going on under the table, we would see an erection.
As if Guy and Rodd thought the lower left hand corner of the page shouldn't get TOO sexy, they depict the least scandalous stripper i've ever seen, dressed as if she's about to take a dip in the Pacific circa 1945.
I'm ready for a new week and some new storylines. While Get "The Mailman" Fuzzy was nothing short of its usual genius this week, and shall recieve some well-earned attention in the near future, comixdood has correctly observed that both Garfield and FBorFW are currently in Boring-ville, and I'm ready to take a stroll over to Excitementropolis. I'll see you there!
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Thanks to my friendly neighborhood newsboy, and his distressing propensity for late delivery, i haven't gotten to read the comics yet today, but after reading 'Mixgurl's post, I had to take a peak at Bliss. Dear G-D, there are children reading this paper! Perhaps today's Mic sheds a little light on the frankly mysterious panel of a few days ago in which some dudes and a dog are in the elevator. Perhaps, my friends, that was a subtle zoophilic-threesome-in-a-public-elevator joke, that just went over all our heads (prompting the eponymous Mr. Bliss to make a more direct throbbing erection joke). And the poor fellow, that's not all that's throbbing! He's still got that pesky headache!
Whoaaaaaa there comicsdood. maybe it is just the spiderman 3 high that has still not gone away 24 hours later, but i am really vibing on this jim-the-stroke-victim's-day week we've been treated to in fbfw (link bedamned, that is an easier breve to type imo). or maybe i am just turning into a really lame middle aged person, but in my late 20s. either way, can a more righteous dude, or admirable man be found than the one who can reminisce "i once ran for miles, carrying a rifle and a gunny sack on my back!" and then follow it up with the heart rending sucker punch "...This is harder." while trying to simply get the fuck up out of bed from a lying down posititon??!? and think about the stuff that good old fashioned canadian decency forbids lynn johnston from depicting: the old lady that lives with jim probably has to wipe his ass for him and all he can say is "yes" when he means thank you. (or, apparently now he will also be able to say "go" so at least that part of their day will make a little more sense) either way: it is a heartbreaking situation for him to be in. now i feel like i don't have too many memories of jim, if i am remembering things right he became more of a character in the past 10 years or so, when my readership has flagged a little. but it still is really sad to think that it's his time to go--and trust me when i theorize that him and farley are gonna be playing ping pong with john candy in canada heaven sooner rather than later.
maybe that "bliss" is taken from a "real world experience" that mr bliss himself had, where he took a viagra instead of an aleve!
also, the one with the elevator is a lot funnier if you imagine that the men are still respectively "inside" the other man and the dog.
To refresh an memories that may need it, Jim Patterson proved his worth as a Righteous Dude over the past few yers mostly through his unfailing support of April in her musical endeavors (at least, that's my feeling). And I appreciate your humanistic take on the 'Mix, Micah. I have to say, I realized today that writing this blog has made me more of a critic than I am comfortable. I mean, we started this shit out of love. So here's to the 'Mix. And here indeed is to Get "The Mailman" Fuzzy, which has certainly been delivering a lot more reliably than my paper-person. But while we're on the topic of our peaceful neighbors to the frozen north, when the hell has a Canadian had to carry a rifle?? They don't go to war. They go to hockey games. Perhaps during the early days of the Hudson Bay company, when conflict with the First Nations, and later the Metis people, caused those who would become Canadian to fight for their Capitalist/Imperialist sovereignty, but...
And Tilly, come one. You're missing Ted's whole point here!!
The honeyed bears?!?!?!? Ted, i definitely agree with you. Tilly is just trying to lower morale. the Berserk Amoks is the way to go.
i like to think that jim volunteered for WW2, he's just that kind of guy.
Lol... as the owner of www.elderberries.com, I had to laugh at your post. I assume my site was down at the time, with a little "nothing here, go away" note? Had nothing to do with the comic, but it makes me glad it made somebody laugh. :)
I contacted the owners of the strip at the time about possibly selling them the domain, but they weren't interested. So since I wasn't planning on using it for a while, I just let it sit. I'll be using it again soon though, and you just reminded me to put back up my "if you're looking for the comic strip you're in the wrong place" note...
Lol... as the owner of www.elderberries.com, I had to laugh at your post. I assume my site was down at the time, with a little "nothing here, go away" note? Had nothing to do with the comic, but it makes me glad it made somebody laugh. :)
I contacted the owners of the strip at the time about possibly selling them the domain, but they weren't interested. So since I wasn't planning on using it for a while, I just let it sit. I'll be using it again soon though, and you just reminded me to put back up my "if you're looking for the comic strip you're in the wrong place" note...
Lol... as the owner of www.elderberries.com, I had to laugh at your post. I assume my site was down at the time, with a little "nothing here, go away" note? Had nothing to do with the comic, but it makes me glad it made somebody laugh. :)
I contacted the owners of the strip at the time about possibly selling them the domain, but they weren't interested. So since I wasn't planning on using it for a while, I just let it sit. I'll be using it again soon though, and you just reminded me to put back up my "if you're looking for the comic strip you're in the wrong place" note...
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