Carl Fink sends this in: “I’ve never read Notes from the Underground, but this SMBC is a complete mystery to me. Dad is underground? 18 hours of reading books aloud comforts a dying man? What is going on?”
Mouseover text: “Suddenly regretting that I didn’t just draw a word for word graphic novel of the entire book twice.”
Bonus panel:
Dan Sachs sends in this news item: “None of the existing categories; thought the news was of interest.”
A reminder that the life of a cartoonist is not just peaches and cream.
Your editor has always found this comic a bit hit or miss, but here’s a favorite:
From Jack Applin, who asks, “Is this anything more than ‘Kids/parents these days!’?”
Jack Applin calls out a detail: “Which way is Thor (brown hair, right) facing? His face & spear hand indicate that he’s facing away from Peter (blond). His feet disagree.”
Happy Easter! / Happy Passover!
We all have one relative like that … or maybe we are that one relative.
Not really an OY, but a wordplay. It reminds me of words that seem like they should have an opposite, but don’t.
You can be disgruntled, but not gruntled, for example.
Or convoluted, but not voluted;
disgusted but not gusted;
disturbed but not turbed;
preposterous but not postpreterous.
I don’t remember any books being read to me. I read to my daughters, beginning with Pat the Bunny, Goodnight Moon, Peter Rabbit, Where the Wild Things Are, and other classics.
How about you? What books do you remember being read to you?
Marrose sends this in: “The penguin throws me. WTH?”
A few very nerdy April Fools’ Day comics.
Mitch4 sends this in: “I don’t understand how the artist intends for this Low Rider character to stand in for the one-percent population. (If that’s even what this is about.)”
Comics I Don't Understand 