Were jokes like this new when they appeared in the strip, or were they already old chestnuts?
Month / June 2019
CIMDB
Where’s the joke here? What Hector’s saying makes perfect sense, and I’ve said the same thing on many occasions.
Strange Spinach
Something to do with Popeye, probably. Maybe.
Anyway, here’s tonight’s replacement CIDU (or this morning’s, for our European friends, and this afternoon’s for our Asian friends)
Line-up
Yes, in fact, Peter Arno did know how to draw fully-clothed women…
Parking
Yeah, the joke’s ancient, but this made me smile anyway.
Maybe it was the head pat.
What’s it?
I can’t make any sense of the final panel.
(Anybody who doesn’t follow LuAnn, please disregard)
The Chicken and Barney Pillsbury
Strange Inspiration
Soufflé
My first interpretation was “Nobody’s going to get excited about it since we already did it 50 years ago.”
(Wait a second while I get my head around that… fifty years ago…)
But Arlo’s also mentioning a permanent base, which is a pretty new thing and still quite science fictiony and therefore something people probably would get excited about.
Oil
Comics I Don't Understand 