But in what way exactly is the friend Henri-Lee suggesting the mockingbird is responsible?
Also sent in by Chak, who wonders if there might be some pop cultural reference she’s not getting.
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Perhaps the bird was imitating commands to the dog, leaving the kid tangled and the dog confused? That could be a good joke but I’m not sure it’s the intent (and would probably be better with a few panels).
Btw, the woman with the bike is, I believe, a boarder at Zack’s mom’s house. Hence in an extended-family type of relationship where concern is appropriate, yet not the disciplinary relation Zack’s mom would have if she came by. So a good choice for eliciting attempted explanations from the boys.
Mockingbirds will dive at you and even hit you to drive you away from their nest. Maybe that’s what happened.
Mocker has it. The dog is cowering under the bench with the girl trying to coax him out. The dog ran from the mockingbird getting the other kid tangled in the leash.
Aha, thanks! Those last few comments clear it up for me. I had been visualising the bird flying around with the leash and wrapping up Cagney and Zack in it — and then the puzzle was why and how.
But it makes much more sense that the bird just attacked them, in a normal aggressive bird way; and Cagney’s panicked attempts to get away from that included tangling Zack and himself in the leash.
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the joke might have been better-served with an angry goose, though, rather than a bird that’s best-known for imitating sounds.
I’m fond of the Zack Hill strip. The klid is more relatable than, say, Edison Lee. And the humor, if a bit old-fashioned by comparison, is not as strivingly “quirky” as in Crabgrass or Wallace the Brave. Also the adults in his orbit, particularly the single mom, are more thoughtfully portrayed as people rather than just foils.
Deety (7): Looks like it was written by a user named Lollipop with 7,000 edits under their belt. Their profile describes them as “the grandmaster demon of Uncyclopedia.”
I suspect they were just a kid who found an audience for edgy, random humor and went ham, rather than someone playing out a grudge.
There was a fierce mockingbird at Junction Park. It was one of the few places we could relax with our new dog until the bird took a dislike to him. I can see how it would look funny if it wasn’t your dog.
Thanks, all, I didn’t know that about mockingbirds.
I did once have a robin try to dive-bomb me, but that was because I knocked down his nest three times. (It was in a very bad place for a nest.)
As for the “Uncyclopedia”, if you confuse “may as well” and “may well”, you may well be considered unauthoritative.
Now I’m having (bad) memories of the online Encyclopedia Dramatica.
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Perhaps the bird was imitating commands to the dog, leaving the kid tangled and the dog confused? That could be a good joke but I’m not sure it’s the intent (and would probably be better with a few panels).
Btw, the woman with the bike is, I believe, a boarder at Zack’s mom’s house. Hence in an extended-family type of relationship where concern is appropriate, yet not the disciplinary relation Zack’s mom would have if she came by. So a good choice for eliciting attempted explanations from the boys.
Mockingbirds will dive at you and even hit you to drive you away from their nest. Maybe that’s what happened.
Mocker has it. The dog is cowering under the bench with the girl trying to coax him out. The dog ran from the mockingbird getting the other kid tangled in the leash.
Aha, thanks! Those last few comments clear it up for me. I had been visualising the bird flying around with the leash and wrapping up Cagney and Zack in it — and then the puzzle was why and how.
But it makes much more sense that the bird just attacked them, in a normal aggressive bird way; and Cagney’s panicked attempts to get away from that included tangling Zack and himself in the leash.
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the joke might have been better-served with an angry goose, though, rather than a bird that’s best-known for imitating sounds.
I’m fond of the Zack Hill strip. The klid is more relatable than, say, Edison Lee. And the humor, if a bit old-fashioned by comparison, is not as strivingly “quirky” as in Crabgrass or Wallace the Brave. Also the adults in his orbit, particularly the single mom, are more thoughtfully portrayed as people rather than just foils.
So when I went to look something up (the identities of the boarding-house residents), I was surprised to find an article calling it among the worst comic strips ever! I see now this was sort of a gag article itself, but still strikes me as showing an animus. https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/UnNews:Scientists_agree_that_%22Zack_Hill%22_may_be_the_worst_comic_of_all_time
What would provoke this sort of reaction?
Deety (7): Looks like it was written by a user named Lollipop with 7,000 edits under their belt. Their profile describes them as “the grandmaster demon of Uncyclopedia.”
I suspect they were just a kid who found an audience for edgy, random humor and went ham, rather than someone playing out a grudge.
There was a fierce mockingbird at Junction Park. It was one of the few places we could relax with our new dog until the bird took a dislike to him.
I can see how it would look funny if it wasn’t your dog.
Thanks, all, I didn’t know that about mockingbirds.
I did once have a robin try to dive-bomb me, but that was because I knocked down his nest three times. (It was in a very bad place for a nest.)
As for the “Uncyclopedia”, if you confuse “may as well” and “may well”, you may well be considered unauthoritative.
Now I’m having (bad) memories of the online Encyclopedia Dramatica.