Thanks to billr:
Is donut choir a pun for something?
No clue. Googling suggests “Combining a cannabis-infused edible with your favorite lyrics and beats can actually trigger a stronger emotional response to music”, also talks about it being a bad idea to combine weed with Lyrica (pregabalin, a drug for things like diabetic neuropathy).
None of those help here, though.
From Boise Ed:
What arrow-related thing happened/happens at the Met Gala?
Some Googling suggests it might be a reference to this:
https://www.etonline.com/demi-moore-makes-an-unforgettable-2024-met-gala-comeback-224861
but I’m not convinced. Anyone??
billr sends:
So this is Noah’s Ark, and so there’s a flood, and floodlights, and…?
Marrose sends:
She asks:
Why are there medieval peasants (circa 1300) talking about the French Revolution ( 1789-1802)? I get the comment was supposed to be wryly funny, but I can’t get past the characters.
I guess the cartoonist is fuzzy about how revolting French people would have dressed? Maybe AI involved, “Draw me some people from long ago”. Srsly, it’s an excellent question, and an unnecessary distraction from the point of the cartoon!
Tomlinson is from South Africa, but I don’t think that gets him a bye on this detail.
This was tilted in Tom Falco’s original, so I left it that way in case it’s part of the joke.
A couple with long setups.
A pun so bad, I had to include it.
A Geezer Alert? I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a scale like this one. If you have, do they still use pennies?
From Dan Sachs:
“Best said”?
Indeed. Surely “less said” was intended. Back in the day, there were these people called “editors”, who might have caught this and had it fixed (though perhaps not, since they would have to go back to the cartoonist, unlike local edits).
Samson’s homage to Muhammad Ali, who died ten years ago today.
The monument on Ali’s grave in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. Ali’s original quote is “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth”
Jack Applin wants to make us think, aided by these two comics that ran the same day: “I’m certainly inconsistent when I try to separate the artist from their art. I can no longer watch one actor for his stance in vaccination, and yet I enjoy the music of another performer despite his dubious actions concerning minors.”
Comics I Don't Understand 