Month / May 2025

by zbicyclist

Saturday Morning OYs – May 31, 2025

Boise Ed sends this in.

Flagging the third one as a comic fan’s OY, but need to do two earlier ones in the series as a setup:

Mitch4 sends this in:

And while we’re on the subject of Freud, Mitch4 also sends this:

Freud’s unconscious cravings had more to do with sex, if I recall correctly, but there are other unconscious cravings.

JMcAndrew sends this in: “Why does he have the giant poster of a fly to begin with? Is he going to start eating anything vaguely associated with fruit? This isn’t a comic I normally read.”

by phsiii

I get it, I get it not

Nancy is often a head-scratcher for me, and this one is no exception:

There’s some fourth-wall thing going on there, but not sure why/what: the flower isn’t changing; “three” and “four” are missing…and is there a joke in here somewhere? Wikipedia describes the strip as “surreal humor”, but there’s gotta be SOME humor for that to work…

by zbicyclist

Canoodling?

Boise Ed sends this in: “I’m guessing that this — FBI collared shirt, straitjacket, ramen noodles. –pertains to some slasher movie.

“GoComics has apparently removed commenting from this strip. I also note that since their remodeling, one cannot get a dated URL by going to yesterday’s and then back to today’s; one has to go to yesterday’s, copy that URL, and then manually change the date. Humpf.”

by zbicyclist

Floating Gravestones

Lopes has an idea here, a link to either Native American burial grounds or elephant graveyards. But somehow I’m bothered by the elements. Stone tombstones floating? Who puts up the tombstones? Why would a ship pass through this unsafe area? Are whales Christian?

Elephant graveyards are said to be a myth, although when I visited Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania the guide showed us one. It was suspiciously close to a road, so I suspect this may have been where they would haul dead elephants, or maybe the result of poaching for ivory. Guides are, of course, always looking for a good story to tell the tourists.

Dead whales usually sink to the bottom, where they can become whale falls, an ecosystem supported by the dead whales. Since they are whale falls, does this mean whales tend to die in autumn?

But while we’re on the topic of graveyards, this non-CIDU was farther down in my comics feed: