The Heap
Month / April 2021
Back in my day. . .
Digital cartoons don’t exist? Or are less self-aware? And why are newer comic characters in black-and-white?
From Irv.
Done! Over!
We think there’s a modern use of “I’m done [with that]”, probably more common among people considerably younger than Dag, amounting to “I’m never going to be involved with that at all, ever again”. Do you know that sense? Is Dagwood meaning it that way – in both places? Since Blondie is taking it the standard way, is anybody doing the Bumsteads’ taxes this year?
That “I’m done” — or at least the second one? — is pretty much equivalent to Cookie’s “I’m really over [it]” here:
Yeah, we’re happy to treat our officers’ home addresses as public info
And incidentally, even for an established ditz like Eve, isn’t the invocation of “Who’s on first?” in panel 1 a bit of an unsupported swerve? (For those not familiar with the strip, Eve is the blonde younger sister, and the titular Juliet is the brunette older sister looking in from the doorway.)
En attendant le chien
Almost synchronous.
Do you agree that both do a good job of mapping the dog characters here to the two hobos of the play?
Bonus musical name puns Horace
We did not know this, but it turns out smetana as a common noun means cream!
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 25th, 2021
Saturday Morning Oys – April 24th, 2021
It’s a pun-joke we’ve heard before, but nicely executed, don’t you agree? Though not perfect — there’s no plotted reason for the appearance of the van.
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From BillR:
Just some jargon
Also disturbing is that apparently they say ‘phi’ as a rhyme for ‘be’.
Comics I Don't Understand 