Okay, yes, I do understand the plot. Cindy couldn’t catch the ball; or it went nowhere near her, and right for one of the houses in the background. And now Moose is on the hook to repair it.
But are we expected to believe his batting sent it all the way over to those houses? Also, isn’t 9×16 kinda small for a window? Also, if they have modern modular windows, is it even possible to replace just the glass as a DIY project?
All right, done quibbling. Your turn.
Today’s Macanudo, twice:
“It was nice while it lasted.” Okay, I’ll buy the pairing. Both are sweetly regretful but have just a tiny bit of a sting, don’t you think?
But now, today’s Baldo, also twice:
Now at first this looks like something we’ve seen a few times with Baldo: A pun or language-dependent joke in the English version, and then a reduction to a univocal expression in the Spanish version with no attempt to preserve the polysemy needed for the pun.
But not this time!
The key is in hachacento, which does not register as a recognized or translatable Spanish word, at least by Google Translate. But looking at parts:
hatchet ==> hacha
accent ==> acento
So we do get both axe and accent! (But not sent ==> enviad{o/a}. But who cares at this point!)
P.S. Don’t forget to stop and smell the noises in panel 3.
Jack Applin asks, “Which wall is this? Berlin? Separation of Church & State? Pink Floyd’s? Shakespeare’s, with the chink? Garry Trudeau’s?”
Same words each time … Is it the same joke?
Some comics with socks appeal:
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From the “Wisdom from the Funny Papers” Department. Sometimes a “cry for help” must be responded to with help. Sometimes when “they’re just doing that for attention” the humane response includes paying attention.
BTW, Maritsa Patrinos of the Six Chix now has her own separate strip, called Working Cats and appearing at Comics Kingdom.
I thought this was going to be about sentence-adverbs; but it was better than that. (Hopefully, everybody remembers what the controversies and pseudo-rules about sentence-adverbs were.)
No, I don’t see a joke here. But also I can’t say there’s supposed to be one, so it’s not really a CIDU. So let’s just take a minute to admire the artistry here. Such draughtsmanship! That ice-cliff shows us both distance and height, even while a whole surface is devoid of detail.
Missed this first time around, but picked it up from Wayno’s blog weekly review.
How do these respective two-word titles work with their panels? What do they even mean?
I had better luck with the first one after recalling the artist’s first name — but then there is the question of whether I’m mispronouncing something, because the phonetic joke isn’t working for me as it stands.
Kilby writes: this is another old draft post that CIDU Bill set up, but never completed. Even though the strip was originally published in November (2018), I thought it would work better if summer vacation were at least on the horizon, if not actually started.
These are perhaps semi-CIDUs. So do two semi-CIDUs make one CIDU?
Usual John sends in this puzzler: who is he hiding from, and why? Hiding the purchase from his wife? Hiding so he can avoid tipping?
Dirk the Daring sent in this Foxtrot. May 5th is World Cartoonist Day, but even cartoonists seem to have ignored it, judging by my feed. I guess it’s hard to compete with tacos and margaritas.
This is actually a long-running plot thread in Safe Havens: The boy called here “Leo” is also, in his other time and place, going to be Leonardo da Vinci. His education in science and technology as a youth in the modern world will underlie his great talents in the 15th and 16th Centuries.
Does anyone else here look at that and think, “Oh yeah, I remember that speculation coming up in The Door Into Summer!“? That 1956/7 novel by R.A. Heinlein involved quite a bit of plot interactions in different time periods, mostly by means of cold sleep, but with a smidgen of actual time-machine travel. The narrator tracks down an eccentric inventor in his hermitage, and learns about his device. When loaded with equal masses on its two pans, it can send them into other times, one to the past and one to the future by equal time-intervals. He extracts this recollection from the inventor:
The narrator does manage to get sent back from 2001 to 1970 (both of which, I remind you, were part of the unclear future when the book was published). After some plot-heavy manipulations, towards the end of the story he reflects:
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