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.”
Comics I Don't Understand 
Clarice and Lecter
I could see plenty of comments for this. Do you have a paid subscription? That might be the difference. Anyhoo, the best the commenters could come up with is that Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) thought agent Clarice said “raw men” instead of ramen. meh. It certainly doesn’t look like noodles.
Clearly guero is right that it’s referencing Silence of the Lambs. I didn’t catch the “raw men” joke but I like it.
There’s a Halloween haunted house trick, where kids touch “brains” that are actually made from noodles.
Clarice is pulling the same trick on Hannibal, who really does eat brains.
What, no Chianti?
Normally, one doesn’t have to have a paid GoComics subscription to see comments. That being said, I opened it in a private window and indeed I did not see comments. Puzzling. I have heard of GC strips with comments shut off, but not paid-only. Possibly it is subscriber-only.
It appears that you need some sort of subscription to see comments, not necessarily paid.
I can see the comments and I’m not a paid subscriber.
I can see the comments and I’m not a paid subscriber.
The new system seems to only show comments to subscribers, free or paid.
I’m not a subscriber, paid or otherwise. I can see comments for this and other GoComics.
And now I do see comments when logged out. Not sure what that was.
I have only indirect knowledge (and scanty at that) of Clarice and Lecter, but I thought the related food was fava beans, not ramen.
Andrew Millar (3): It does make sense that he was going for “raw men.”
Guero (2): Yes, I do pay GoComics.
Brian in STL (6): That same day, I did see comments on other GoComics strips. And, FWIW, I just now went back to the May 22 Brevity and comments were there. Perhaps it was just some temporary glitch in their OpenWeb system. Over at ComicsKIngdom, I have often opened the same page twice and found no comments link on one of the two.
Oh, and whatever is in his bowl, how is he supposed to eat it with all the restraints?
Ed, I thought that the fact that he was in restraints was part of the point–but I hadn’t thought of the “raw men” pun. Now I’m not so sure.
Not a member either and I see the posts.
Go comics if it is passed something like 2 weeks – maybe 3 at the most one can no longer see the strip.