Thanks to chemgal who sent this in and says it “was a literal LOL for me”.
I guess it’s a Eww-LOL..
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Wait, is that a Mallard Fillmore?
@ Dana K – I’m shocked, too. According to Wikipedia, “[since] March 9, 2020, new comics of Mallard Fillmore have been produced under the signature of a different artist, [Loren] Fishman…“. There’s nothing there that indicates whether the strip’s politics have changed since then, although the apolitical nature of this example is perhaps a hopeful sign.
It may be geezeritis, but the Andertoon is a CIDU for me. I see the castle, I see the trebuchet (or is it a catapult?), but I don’t see the humour.
It took me a minute to spot, but there’s a basketball hoop on the castle.
Am I being a curmudgeon? Zits and Dustin are both irritating to me. Lazy kids and enabling, long-suffering parents. That saying ‘Home is where if you go there, they have to take you in’ doesn’t mean they have to keep you forever, does it?
I know, I know, there’d be no strip if the kids got jobs. Maybe that would be a good thing.
I don’t much like Robert Frost, but in ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. ‘ the cleverness is I think in the very canny ordering of the clauses.
The difference between “Zits” and “Dustin” is that the former is a high school student and the other is not. He’s a college graduate “boomerang”.
Ooten Aboot: That’s kind of like an onager. A trebuchet has a long arm powered by a heavy counterweight. Both are types of catapult.
Mark M: Thanks for pointing out the basket. I had missed it, too.
Dana K and Kilby: I don’t see a Mallard Fillmore here. Even if the strip has veered off of politics, doesn’t it always feature that dimwitted duck?
And that “boomerangs” phenomenon gave the title for another strip:
Here it’s Jane (the mom in this episode) who boomeranged back to her parental home, and she is a bit older than Dustin I think. (The girl is Syd and their family name is Tinker, with the result for her standard username that is the joke here.)
@Chak, okay, yes, Jeremy is being lazy, but I don’t see how the dad is enabling in this comic, since Jeremy ends up having to shovel the snow.
@ Boise Ed – The duck is still dimwitted, but thankfully he doesn’t appear in every strip(*). The syndicate is still running it under Tinsley’s name, but the artwork shows Fishman’s signature.
P.S. I considered estimating the percentage of strips that contained the duck, but I wasn’t able to read a statistically significant sample.
@ Boise Ed – You misunderstood the meaning of why I “wasn’t able”. Arcamax offers almost as many strips as Comics Kingdom (currently all the way back to January 23rd), but indigestion led me to quit after about ten strips. I just wasn’t able to stomach that duck.
There’s also a considerable difference in tone, particularly as it relates to young people.
That’s the advantage of the archive, even though it only has like 30 days. A quick scan indicates something like 19 of those recent ones have the Duck, either alone or talking to someone. I don’t know if that’s statistically meaningful.
The stinker one reminds me of how the Little Pup wound up without a middle name. Should have used her mother’s as a middle, but it was 5 am & nobody was brilliant.
It hasn’t held her back.
@ Brian in StL – Apologies for the misdirected attribution in my previous comment. I think the most significant statistical result is that you were able to survive three times as many strips as I was able to read.
Oh, I hadn’t noticed as I thought Boise Ed must have had something upthread similar. At any rate, I didn’t read any of the strips. The Seattle PI archive is all on one page,where you can just see a thumbnail of each one.
Well, there was a strip a long time ago where the kid got a job: Jerry On-The-Job.
Brian: Congratulations on stomaching it long enough to count the duck appearances.(Ah. Later, I see that you didn’t actually read them, but just performed image recognition.)
Kilby: I do understand that indigestion. MF (Mallard Fillmore; what did you think I meant?) was off the deep end long before the current batch of disciples.
Thanks Mark M. I could have stared at that for a week. I think even I could draw a better representation of a basketball goal. I wouldn’t use a straightedge!
Later, I see that you didn’t actually read them, but just performed image recognition
“Click all images with a Duck.”
For decades I tried to get Robert to learn how to do the laundry – “but you do that”.
(This is true of many things I tried to get him to know where we bank, he asked why he needed to know if I do – “If I got kidnapped you would need to know where to get money to get me back” Him – I would tell the kidnapper to put you on the phone and I would ask you.” One of the few advantages to him being with me all the time (I miss driving more than 2 days a month and not even that since Covid started – and I am the better driver) is that he now knows where we bank, where we food shop (and why) and so on. And he even carries the clean laundry upstairs for me sometimes.
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Wait, is that a Mallard Fillmore?
@ Dana K – I’m shocked, too. According to Wikipedia, “[since] March 9, 2020, new comics of Mallard Fillmore have been produced under the signature of a different artist, [Loren] Fishman…“. There’s nothing there that indicates whether the strip’s politics have changed since then, although the apolitical nature of this example is perhaps a hopeful sign.
It may be geezeritis, but the Andertoon is a CIDU for me. I see the castle, I see the trebuchet (or is it a catapult?), but I don’t see the humour.
It took me a minute to spot, but there’s a basketball hoop on the castle.
Am I being a curmudgeon? Zits and Dustin are both irritating to me. Lazy kids and enabling, long-suffering parents. That saying ‘Home is where if you go there, they have to take you in’ doesn’t mean they have to keep you forever, does it?
I know, I know, there’d be no strip if the kids got jobs. Maybe that would be a good thing.
I don’t much like Robert Frost, but in ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. ‘ the cleverness is I think in the very canny ordering of the clauses.
The difference between “Zits” and “Dustin” is that the former is a high school student and the other is not. He’s a college graduate “boomerang”.
Ooten Aboot: That’s kind of like an onager. A trebuchet has a long arm powered by a heavy counterweight. Both are types of catapult.
Mark M: Thanks for pointing out the basket. I had missed it, too.
Dana K and Kilby: I don’t see a Mallard Fillmore here. Even if the strip has veered off of politics, doesn’t it always feature that dimwitted duck?
And that “boomerangs” phenomenon gave the title for another strip:
Here it’s Jane (the mom in this episode) who boomeranged back to her parental home, and she is a bit older than Dustin I think. (The girl is Syd and their family name is Tinker, with the result for her standard username that is the joke here.)
@Chak, okay, yes, Jeremy is being lazy, but I don’t see how the dad is enabling in this comic, since Jeremy ends up having to shovel the snow.
@ Boise Ed – The duck is still dimwitted, but thankfully he doesn’t appear in every strip(*). The syndicate is still running it under Tinsley’s name, but the artwork shows Fishman’s signature.
P.S. I considered estimating the percentage of strips that contained the duck, but I wasn’t able to read a statistically significant sample.
You can see an archive of recent strips here:
https://v7.comicskingdom.net/comics/mallard-fillmore/archive/
@ Boise Ed – You misunderstood the meaning of why I “wasn’t able”. Arcamax offers almost as many strips as Comics Kingdom (currently all the way back to January 23rd), but indigestion led me to quit after about ten strips. I just wasn’t able to stomach that duck.
There’s also a considerable difference in tone, particularly as it relates to young people.
That’s the advantage of the archive, even though it only has like 30 days. A quick scan indicates something like 19 of those recent ones have the Duck, either alone or talking to someone. I don’t know if that’s statistically meaningful.
The stinker one reminds me of how the Little Pup wound up without a middle name. Should have used her mother’s as a middle, but it was 5 am & nobody was brilliant.
It hasn’t held her back.
@ Brian in StL – Apologies for the misdirected attribution in my previous comment. I think the most significant statistical result is that you were able to survive three times as many strips as I was able to read.
Oh, I hadn’t noticed as I thought Boise Ed must have had something upthread similar. At any rate, I didn’t read any of the strips. The Seattle PI archive is all on one page,where you can just see a thumbnail of each one.
Well, there was a strip a long time ago where the kid got a job: Jerry On-The-Job.
Brian: Congratulations on stomaching it long enough to count the duck appearances.(Ah. Later, I see that you didn’t actually read them, but just performed image recognition.)
Kilby: I do understand that indigestion. MF (Mallard Fillmore; what did you think I meant?) was off the deep end long before the current batch of disciples.
Thanks Mark M. I could have stared at that for a week. I think even I could draw a better representation of a basketball goal. I wouldn’t use a straightedge!
Later, I see that you didn’t actually read them, but just performed image recognition
“Click all images with a Duck.”
For decades I tried to get Robert to learn how to do the laundry – “but you do that”.
(This is true of many things I tried to get him to know where we bank, he asked why he needed to know if I do – “If I got kidnapped you would need to know where to get money to get me back” Him – I would tell the kidnapper to put you on the phone and I would ask you.” One of the few advantages to him being with me all the time (I miss driving more than 2 days a month and not even that since Covid started – and I am the better driver) is that he now knows where we bank, where we food shop (and why) and so on. And he even carries the clean laundry upstairs for me sometimes.