Author / EditorM

by EditorM

Not even published yet, and I already don’t understand it

This Six Chix panel, from the Wednesdays chick, Susan C K, is dated this coming Wednesday, 6 March, but was available by mistake last Wednesday, 28 February, when Comics Kingdom released their revamped website, and among several other issues was noticed to be displaying comics planned for up to a week in the future.

Whut? I suppose there could be a problem with the mechanism so that some dampers cannot stay lifted, making the notes from those strings always staccato. But that’s a stretch, and there isn’t a normal sense in which some strings have staccato as a property.

by EditorM

The checkered flag

Thanks to Chipper 42 for sending and commenting on this one.

“Thu, February 29, 2024 Hagar — I have no idea. Helga looks like she is enthusiastically prancing to do the dishes, and what is the checkered cloth about?”

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by EditorM

Fresh

GoComics is running some vintage “B.C” under the title “Back to B.C.”. This strip is from 1966 and seems to be in sequence with others from that time.

But a previous strip already used up the pun on “fresh” to mean mildly impolite, sassy. So, what is this one getting at? Is “floating upside down” still a sign of “fresh” behavior? Or just avoiding being purchased?

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by EditorM

How to handle mothers

Thanks to Chemgal for sending and discussing this SMBC:

Chemgal and your Editors in consultation fairly quickly pinned down what is going on here. But we didn’t want to put it all out there and deprive you readers from tossing it around yourselves.

Suggestion to early commenters, you might avoid spoiling it for others, and just state that you have it. But those working to piece it together, please go at it.

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For those who think the extra bits of cartoonist text are an integral part of an SMBC — well no, they aren’t really, but you can have them anyway:

Votey: Now do your mother-handling homework!!
Rollover: OK, if patreon is any indication, many of you are confused but four and a half of you are HOWLING.

by EditorM

Checking out at Oh For Two

Nope, I don’t really get either of these Library Comics 4-panel stories; which arrived together in the same email.

In the above “A”-Strip, I thought it would turn out the thing she was using and thought of as a game would turn out to be an IRL investments app (or “stock market gambling” app, if you prefer). But it turns into a Martin swerve.

And in the “B”-Strip, is this at all about the interaction of library staffers Jody(?) and Stephanie, or are both included just so there can be dialogue about but not including the somewhat problematic “patron”? And what is his story, come to think of it?

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