From Darren:
Help? Is the block the “fullback”, or are a lot of “sweepers” needed to pick up the snow that drops from the players? I’m just really confused.
Plus the block is on the sidelines, not playing, it seems.
Commenters seemed equally baffled, including “This would probably be funny if I knew anything about soccer” and “That’s pretty ancient football… That was football of the seventies, with a Libero like Franz Beckenbauer. Or sixties, with an Ausputzer.”
Those don’t help.
Even the sophisticated mitch4 is confused by this one: “So, what French/English translation oddity, or sound-alike, or pun, would make a plain American sympathy card look to a Frenchman like a thank-you card? I can’t figure it out. Or do I have that set.up wrong? “
Lio works in some of the best known cats in comics. Can you name them all?
Dedicated to all the times we read a comic and say “What’s the joke here?”
Kedamono sends this in: “Just a funny thought, though the title implies that the writer owned those Hobbits. Merry and Pippin would like a word with them behind the shed about that.”
Primary season coming up.
Kedamono sends in this OY / Ewww
Kedamono sends this in: “That backwards look in the second panel and the dark spot on the ground looks like a shadow looming over Horace… Maybe?”
Kedamono sends this in, giving us some background on what’s happening in the strip: “Queen Victoria is rebooting after the incident of the Infinite Vickies. (Go read the comic for more elucidation.) This is the second strip after they started the reboot. What perplexes me is the “0/0/0” in the bottom left corner of panel 1. Since there isn’t a “year zero” in the Gregorian Calendar, let alone zero day or month, is it a different date? Or something else?”
Also, is this date in mm/dd/yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, or yyyy/mm/dd format?
That was February 6. On February 7, here was a strip referencing Scott Adams death. Then nothing until Feb 12.
That one is in CIDU territory for your editor:
No comics since, up to February 15. Your editor is only an occasional reader of this strip. (I lost interest with all the endless strips about elephants.)
Is there a pun somewhere hidden — maybe under a rock?
The following day, Cash indicated these rocks stood for Nancy, Sluggo, and Aunt Fritzi, clarifying her intention a bit.
In honor of the Olympics (yes, I know track and field is in the summer Olympics)
Mitch4 sends this in: “Probably no longer an in-joke of lawyers, but it used to be said of a good prosecutor that they “could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich”.”
Dirk the Daring sends this in as a possible Arlo: “Perhaps the first panel deserves an Arlo award. It stopped me for a moment before I got to the second panel. I would have trouble believing this is accidental.”
Janice Rey sends this in:
Comics I Don't Understand 