They’re both pretty funny, though I don’t know how Iceman’s holding his drink.
LOL! Magneto as a fridge magnet! Loved it.
Was that the only way Iceman could chill the drinks? Really?
Powers–no, his ice-making powers were quite extensive. I assume the “had a hand in” bit was a priority for the cartoonist, though.
Can’t be too synchronous; the Magneto one’s a couple of years old.
Having no idea who this was, I thought it was someone called SaltMan, and was about to comment that salt goes around the rim of the glass, not IN the drink. Fortunately, I read the comments and realized they were fingers of ice, not fingers of salt (referencing another thread about shaker of salt, etc.). Makes more sense, EXCEPT how would ice make the drink taste either better or worse than plain ol’ cubes?
Andréa: Even if you don’t know who the characters are, you can see fingers in the ice. Also, the ice guy is missing his hands.
But yeah, the first one doesn’t work for me, because the ice is presumably just ice, and wouldn’t affect the flavor.
Andréa: Even if you don’t know who the characters are, you can see fingers in the ice. Also, the ice guy is missing his hands.
Yes, THAT I got; I just thought: Margaritas & salt. Aha, that must be SaltMan.
Sorry, what’s the supposed synchronicity here, besides that they both riff off of Marvel superhero characters? I read through the whole thread, and had moved on to the next one before it struck me that there was no actual synchronicity here… I was reconfronted with Bill’s title, “synchronixity”, I thought, yeah, it’s a pun on “mix”, like that stupid “mixology” — except, it’s not “mix”, it’s “nix”, and they’re not both about cocktail drinks anyway (though a fridge magnet is strangely strongly aligned in my mind with cocktail napkins and swizzle sticks and little umbrellas…) — “nix” because there is no actual synchronicity?
“Synchronixity” is “synchonicity” with an “X” in it, because both comics are based on X-Men. You’re correct that they are Marvel superhero characters, but they’re X-Men in particular.
Maybe the margaritas were warm whenever the X-Men had them in the past. Maybe they don’t have a freezer in the mansion.
Well, Magneto is not so much an X-Man as he is a Brother of Evil Mutants, and Galactus is really a Fantastic Four villain, but I take your point…
Andréa: You must put a lot of salt in your margaritas!
No; my next thought was: WHY SALT INSIDE THE DRINK? See previous comment way up there somewhere.
Oh, I take it ‘Bobby’ is an ice man? Why would that make a margarita delicious? When I first read it, I assumed he was made of salt. I’m not familiar with either bit of pop culture.
Perry Bible Fellowship is usually pretty funny, but the artist or the syndicate or somebody has a distressing habit of rerunning some gags frequently. If oldies are needed, why not go back to the start of the strip and go through them chronologically?
Andréa: Whoops, sorry, should have read your first comment more carefully.
MinorAnnoyance: PBF has pretty much stopped, with maybe just 5-6 new comics a year. So they’re pretty much all oldies.
Okay, I’m accused of being too analytical with jokes but seriously… If a guy’s super power is the ability to make ice out of thin air and …. he makes ice out of thin air to make magaritas there’s no humor in that.
But then I notice that he used his fingers and hands to make ice… so a guy who has a super power to make ice out of thin air chooses *not* to do that and instead chooses to chop off his hands and break off his fingers. For what purpose? Making margaritas.
Now, I have to worry if the fingers begin to thaw the will end up with fleshy bloody fingers in their drinks. And … he’s not made out of ice in the first place. He’s a human being. He just knows how to make ice out of thin air. But…. I can take a bit of license. We can pretend spider man likes to eat flies because he is a spider, or that the Ice Man is made of ice because he’s an ice man….
….. but who in the effity eff would *CHOP OFF THEIR OWN FINGERS* to make margaritas????
Or is he an Ice Lizard Man who can regenerate? Or… the X-men are criminally insane? or ….
I’m sorry, but I really don’t think I’m being overly analytically here.
“I’m sorry, but I really don’t think I’m being overly analytically here.”
He says in his 7th paragraph analyzing a one-panel comic. :)
BTW, IceMan can change his body so that he’s entirely made out of ice.
I HOPE Bobby’s not somehow affecting the taste.
If you count, you’ll see that there are 21 pieces of ice…
” Magneto is not so much an X-Man as he is a Brother of Evil Mutants”
Magneto went through a phase where he was turned into a good guy, and spent a fairly substantial amount of time as headmaster of Xavier’s School for the Gifted, leader of the X-Men and the New Mutants. Of the original Brotherhood, all but Toad spent time as good guys, with two of them switching over more-or-less permanently to be Avengers.
Galactus is originally and primarily a Fantastic Four adversary..
“Oh, I take it ‘Bobby’ is an ice man?”
Bobby Drake is THE Iceman, one of the original 5 X-Men from 1962. He was pushed out of the X-Men in the 70’s, when the X-Men lineup was changed… Angel and Iceman just kind of disappeared, Beast became an Avenger, Marvel Girl became the Phoenix, and Cyclops was the only one who stayed on the team long-term. The “New X-Men” were assembled, and were much more successful than the old team.
Eventually, Angel and Iceman reappeared as Defenders, and then later still they decided to retcon the death of Jean Grey and reassemble the original X-Men as X-Factor. Some people liked the rebranding, and some absolutely hated it. I was in column B. (Marvel spent a lot of energy tinkering with X-Men around that time because they were very popular. The teams kept splitting up and recombining to try to convince people to buy all different books. It was extremely manipulative.) That’s about the point where I stopped reading comics.
Note what this cosmic-level villain is reading.
Then I wonder whether the soccer ball is a souvenir from the last time they watched the New York Cosmos play.
(Disclaimer: For all I know, the Cosmos soccer team has been disbanded for 20 years)
Apparently, Galactus has a kid. I wonder what he feeds him? Moons?
Let’s ask the International Astronomical Union…
ignatz, Galactus Junior can get his stars and moons here:
A good parent should make gourmet Lucky Charms for that special child.
In English, Lucky Charms are magically delicious, but in French, they’re deliciously magical, go figure…
@ Olivier – The distinction may be purely linguistic: as far as I know, in French most adjectives are placed after the noun, so the reversal may have been intentional, or just a translator’s opinion.
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They’re both pretty funny, though I don’t know how Iceman’s holding his drink.
LOL! Magneto as a fridge magnet! Loved it.
Was that the only way Iceman could chill the drinks? Really?
Powers–no, his ice-making powers were quite extensive. I assume the “had a hand in” bit was a priority for the cartoonist, though.
Can’t be too synchronous; the Magneto one’s a couple of years old.
Having no idea who this was, I thought it was someone called SaltMan, and was about to comment that salt goes around the rim of the glass, not IN the drink. Fortunately, I read the comments and realized they were fingers of ice, not fingers of salt (referencing another thread about shaker of salt, etc.). Makes more sense, EXCEPT how would ice make the drink taste either better or worse than plain ol’ cubes?
Andréa: Even if you don’t know who the characters are, you can see fingers in the ice. Also, the ice guy is missing his hands.
But yeah, the first one doesn’t work for me, because the ice is presumably just ice, and wouldn’t affect the flavor.
Andréa: Even if you don’t know who the characters are, you can see fingers in the ice. Also, the ice guy is missing his hands.
Yes, THAT I got; I just thought: Margaritas & salt. Aha, that must be SaltMan.
Sorry, what’s the supposed synchronicity here, besides that they both riff off of Marvel superhero characters? I read through the whole thread, and had moved on to the next one before it struck me that there was no actual synchronicity here… I was reconfronted with Bill’s title, “synchronixity”, I thought, yeah, it’s a pun on “mix”, like that stupid “mixology” — except, it’s not “mix”, it’s “nix”, and they’re not both about cocktail drinks anyway (though a fridge magnet is strangely strongly aligned in my mind with cocktail napkins and swizzle sticks and little umbrellas…) — “nix” because there is no actual synchronicity?
“Synchronixity” is “synchonicity” with an “X” in it, because both comics are based on X-Men. You’re correct that they are Marvel superhero characters, but they’re X-Men in particular.
Maybe the margaritas were warm whenever the X-Men had them in the past. Maybe they don’t have a freezer in the mansion.
Well, Magneto is not so much an X-Man as he is a Brother of Evil Mutants, and Galactus is really a Fantastic Four villain, but I take your point…
Andréa: You must put a lot of salt in your margaritas!
No; my next thought was: WHY SALT INSIDE THE DRINK? See previous comment way up there somewhere.
Oh, I take it ‘Bobby’ is an ice man? Why would that make a margarita delicious? When I first read it, I assumed he was made of salt. I’m not familiar with either bit of pop culture.
Perry Bible Fellowship is usually pretty funny, but the artist or the syndicate or somebody has a distressing habit of rerunning some gags frequently. If oldies are needed, why not go back to the start of the strip and go through them chronologically?
Andréa: Whoops, sorry, should have read your first comment more carefully.
MinorAnnoyance: PBF has pretty much stopped, with maybe just 5-6 new comics a year. So they’re pretty much all oldies.
Okay, I’m accused of being too analytical with jokes but seriously… If a guy’s super power is the ability to make ice out of thin air and …. he makes ice out of thin air to make magaritas there’s no humor in that.
But then I notice that he used his fingers and hands to make ice… so a guy who has a super power to make ice out of thin air chooses *not* to do that and instead chooses to chop off his hands and break off his fingers. For what purpose? Making margaritas.
Now, I have to worry if the fingers begin to thaw the will end up with fleshy bloody fingers in their drinks. And … he’s not made out of ice in the first place. He’s a human being. He just knows how to make ice out of thin air. But…. I can take a bit of license. We can pretend spider man likes to eat flies because he is a spider, or that the Ice Man is made of ice because he’s an ice man….
….. but who in the effity eff would *CHOP OFF THEIR OWN FINGERS* to make margaritas????
Or is he an Ice Lizard Man who can regenerate? Or… the X-men are criminally insane? or ….
I’m sorry, but I really don’t think I’m being overly analytically here.
“I’m sorry, but I really don’t think I’m being overly analytically here.”
He says in his 7th paragraph analyzing a one-panel comic. :)
BTW, IceMan can change his body so that he’s entirely made out of ice.
I HOPE Bobby’s not somehow affecting the taste.
If you count, you’ll see that there are 21 pieces of ice…
” Magneto is not so much an X-Man as he is a Brother of Evil Mutants”
Magneto went through a phase where he was turned into a good guy, and spent a fairly substantial amount of time as headmaster of Xavier’s School for the Gifted, leader of the X-Men and the New Mutants. Of the original Brotherhood, all but Toad spent time as good guys, with two of them switching over more-or-less permanently to be Avengers.
Galactus is originally and primarily a Fantastic Four adversary..
“Oh, I take it ‘Bobby’ is an ice man?”
Bobby Drake is THE Iceman, one of the original 5 X-Men from 1962. He was pushed out of the X-Men in the 70’s, when the X-Men lineup was changed… Angel and Iceman just kind of disappeared, Beast became an Avenger, Marvel Girl became the Phoenix, and Cyclops was the only one who stayed on the team long-term. The “New X-Men” were assembled, and were much more successful than the old team.
Eventually, Angel and Iceman reappeared as Defenders, and then later still they decided to retcon the death of Jean Grey and reassemble the original X-Men as X-Factor. Some people liked the rebranding, and some absolutely hated it. I was in column B. (Marvel spent a lot of energy tinkering with X-Men around that time because they were very popular. The teams kept splitting up and recombining to try to convince people to buy all different books. It was extremely manipulative.) That’s about the point where I stopped reading comics.
Note what this cosmic-level villain is reading.
Then I wonder whether the soccer ball is a souvenir from the last time they watched the New York Cosmos play.
(Disclaimer: For all I know, the Cosmos soccer team has been disbanded for 20 years)
Apparently, Galactus has a kid. I wonder what he feeds him? Moons?
Let’s ask the International Astronomical Union…
ignatz, Galactus Junior can get his stars and moons here:
A good parent should make gourmet Lucky Charms for that special child.
In English, Lucky Charms are magically delicious, but in French, they’re deliciously magical, go figure…
@ Olivier – The distinction may be purely linguistic: as far as I know, in French most adjectives are placed after the noun, so the reversal may have been intentional, or just a translator’s opinion.