I half expected Hörse to get money for nothing at some point.
And maybe some of the cow students are moova-moova movie stars ?
I’m confused. Is that Dark Side of the Horse drawn (and written) in the style of Pearls Before Swine? Or is that Pearls Before Swine using a Dark Side of the Horse character?
Well, since “Pastis” is a close relative – albeit a weaker form of – absinthe, I would say the latter.
“Pastis production is similar to that of absinthe with a few differences in ingredients. Whereas absinthe is made with green anise and wormwood, pastis gets its flavor from star anise, fennel and licorice. … Then, they add sugar, making pastis a liqueur rather than a spirit.”
@Powers, it’s Dark Side of the Horse. I read both strips daily and when I saw this strip I had to double-check that I was on Dark Horse. Twice. Samson’s “retro” strips blew my mind, too. The guy is up in the Gary Larson/Bill Watterson creativity range in my opinion.
Yep, my bad. I just did a search and saw another strip where Pastis is in the Horse’s comic.
If comic strip A imitates comic strip B for a pastiche, it is to make a joke of the type that B would make. This is the characters of Horse looking like and doing a joke of the type Pearls before Swine makes. So it makes sense that is Horse doing an homage of Pearls. The other way around makes no sense as other than *being* Horace nothing in the strip is very Horse-like and has an unnecessary Pearl-like joke which is irrelevant and distracting as an homage to Horse.
I already stood corrected, but thanks.
So the comic a Pastis pastiche?
🙂
Horse is on my daily feed, too, but I don’t remember this one. Anyone know what date it was?
I went back as far as 12/15/19, and it didn’t show up, but I’m thinking early December/late November. I saw it in my daily rss list.
The lack of a copyright statement and issue date should let you know it wasn’t a syndicated strip like PBS.
The Dörk Side of the Hörse?
Andréa, thank you. And woozy, thank you, too, for trying to help me.
I was pointing out that if you had only gone back *one* more day……
I thought the repeated “moooves” gags were a little tiresome, but the caption made up for that. It could have been worse, Hilburn might he tried “Fifty Shades ofGraze”.
Isn’t it the wormwood that makes absinthe intoxicating? (and also kinda bad to do too much of)
I don’t know why anyone would compare pastis to absinthe. It’s much more closely related to arak, raki, ouzo and sambuca.
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I half expected Hörse to get money for nothing at some point.
And maybe some of the cow students are moova-moova movie stars ?
I’m confused. Is that Dark Side of the Horse drawn (and written) in the style of Pearls Before Swine? Or is that Pearls Before Swine using a Dark Side of the Horse character?
Well, since “Pastis” is a close relative – albeit a weaker form of – absinthe, I would say the latter.
“Pastis production is similar to that of absinthe with a few differences in ingredients. Whereas absinthe is made with green anise and wormwood, pastis gets its flavor from star anise, fennel and licorice. … Then, they add sugar, making pastis a liqueur rather than a spirit.”
@Powers, it’s Dark Side of the Horse. I read both strips daily and when I saw this strip I had to double-check that I was on Dark Horse. Twice. Samson’s “retro” strips blew my mind, too. The guy is up in the Gary Larson/Bill Watterson creativity range in my opinion.
Yep, my bad. I just did a search and saw another strip where Pastis is in the Horse’s comic.
If comic strip A imitates comic strip B for a pastiche, it is to make a joke of the type that B would make. This is the characters of Horse looking like and doing a joke of the type Pearls before Swine makes. So it makes sense that is Horse doing an homage of Pearls. The other way around makes no sense as other than *being* Horace nothing in the strip is very Horse-like and has an unnecessary Pearl-like joke which is irrelevant and distracting as an homage to Horse.
I already stood corrected, but thanks.
So the comic a Pastis pastiche?
🙂
Horse is on my daily feed, too, but I don’t remember this one. Anyone know what date it was?
I went back as far as 12/15/19, and it didn’t show up, but I’m thinking early December/late November. I saw it in my daily rss list.
https://www.gocomics.com/darksideofthehorse/2019/12/14
>I went back as far as 12/15/19, and it didn’t show up,
>https://www.gocomics.com/darksideofthehorse/2019/12/14
Isn’t that always the way?
The lack of a copyright statement and issue date should let you know it wasn’t a syndicated strip like PBS.
The Dörk Side of the Hörse?
Andréa, thank you. And woozy, thank you, too, for trying to help me.
I was pointing out that if you had only gone back *one* more day……
I thought the repeated “moooves” gags were a little tiresome, but the caption made up for that. It could have been worse, Hilburn might he tried “Fifty Shades of Graze”.
Isn’t it the wormwood that makes absinthe intoxicating? (and also kinda bad to do too much of)
I don’t know why anyone would compare pastis to absinthe. It’s much more closely related to arak, raki, ouzo and sambuca.