Thanks to reader Alan for suggesting this CIDU from Carpe Diem.
(The inaccessibility of comments from Comics Kingdom makes it a bit harder to check if everybody else is finding a comic puzzling. Or OTOH it maybe relieves the burden of feeling one should check.)
Comics I Don't Understand 
He has an aquarium that is multi-storied with part of it located in the dark basement. The fish living in the bottom part is a deep-sea fish. A lantern fish if I am correct. The top part has the normal aquarium fish.
At first glance I didn’t understand this at all, because I mistook the white gutters for panel divisions (in that regard, putting the copyright line in the horizontal gutter was either a big mistake, or an intentional red herring). Once I realized that there were not six, nor even two, but just one single panel, I could see that there is just one aquarium that extends through the floor, with goldfish above and a lanternfish living in the dark below.
P.S. Perhaps Mr. Eriksson should invest in a ruler.
P.P.S. Kudos to Kevin for typing faster and more concisely than I did.
I am not sure why comments at Comics Kingdom are described as inaccessible. I see two comments at https://comicskingdom.com/carpe-diem/2024-01-24, one of which gives essentially the same explanation as we have already seen.
@Usual John, then apparently I’m not clicking at the right places. (And I do have a subscription, if that matters.)
@Mitch, I’m surprised that you say it is hard to find how to view comments. Here is what I see. And the big blue Comments button is quite clear and prominent:
And BTW, clicking on that Comments button does not require loading a different page; it just scrolls down.
@UsualJohn, as you see, I join you in wondering why the post called CK comments inaccessible. However, I’m not sure I follow possible implications of your additional comment.
If the “Boots at the Boar” comment does give as much of a “what’s going on?” solution as our Kevin and Kilby comments here, is there an implication for editorial action? When I’ve submitted comics as CIDU, I’ve had the editors reply with an explanation, maybe aided by syndication site comments — and then either spike it or run with it anyway. Are you suggesting that if they had been handier at finding the CK comments, this would have / could have / should have been spiked? I hope not. Also, as “Boots at the Boar” points out, there is still something not understood: the humor.
Danny, thanks for sharing those captures. Yes, in your picture I certainly see that big blue (I might call it purple) COMMENTS button!
But y’know what? That’s not what I see in my own viewing on CK! Here is, first, a capture of how I see today’s Carpe Diem; and then the oddly highlighted way they show the strip in question when you use the side-arrow-buttons to scroll back in time. (These were from my iPad but it’s quite similar in Chrome on my Windows desktop machine. ) Nary a COMMENTS button.
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How do you get to Comics Kingdom? Some time ago, someone (I think it was here on CIDU) pointed out that there are two domains: comicskingdom.com and comicskingdom.net
They look about the same, but the .net address has no comments section. It also does not block non-subscribers every few days.
Thanks, jajizi. I’m reading from https://comicskingdom.com/favorites .
I have never before had a problem with seeing the comments on Comics Kingdom, but when I check today (to see if I was using .com, which I am), I am getting the same stuff Mitch4 is getting — no comments and those odd purple bands at the side. I’m a subscriber.
I haven’t seen the option for comments on CK since they ceased using Disqus, but given how terrible they usually are I’ve seen it as a feature.
That’s as a subscriber on Vivaldi.
As I don’t have a subscription, I usually have to read the strips on CK from the .net source. There are some limited free strips each month. I read the comments on the .com version. There are only a few strips from CK that I follow. When I select Carpe Diem from the A-Z list from that, I see the comments section (such that it is from this strip).
Okay, OY, I see what it is. It’s those of us who have CK.com subscriptions and have set up a favorites list — when you view a comic via the favorites list, it does not show the COMMENTS button. But if we use Find, or a direct URL, then it does appear, right next to the “Buy Prints” link, just as in Danny’s screenshot.
….which is not to say there is a lick of sense to WHY it would divide up that way….
“….which is not to say there is a lick of sense to WHY it would divide up that way….”
And it wasn’t that way before.
I don’t have direct knowledge of the IT departments at Comics Kingdom or Go Comics. They both seem less than fully competent. Perhaps, given the limited income cartoonists can get from newspapers these days, they hire cartoonists to work part-time in their IT departments.
I tried picking a strip from their front page (The Phantom, which I assume has comments), and there’s a Join the Conversation section but no comments. I see it as a feature.