Kilby writes:
I understand (and agree with) the first three panels, but the punchline in the fourth panel is a mystery to me.

Kilby writes:
I understand (and agree with) the first three panels, but the punchline in the fourth panel is a mystery to me.
Beware the Ides of March! We all know that phrase, but it seems odd that it has crept into the language, since we know few other facts about Roman history. The meaning of “Ides” is a bit confusing to us in the modern world, as these comics show.
Interestingly, the Ides of March were notable in Rome as a deadline for settling debts.
Yes, all you well-rounded CIDU fans, it’s March 14, 3/14 in the Month-Day way of rendering dates, also known as Pi Day by all those wonderful people who love math (and who doesn’t?)
Perhaps Jason should be wearing a shirt like this:
Dale sends in this one.
There’s a poor color choice — cartoon blood is always red!
There’s the fact that mosquitoes don’t overeat and burst. (“In simpler terms, when the ventral nerve cord is severed, a mosquito has no sense of being full. It will continue to consume blood until it quadruples its body weight, whereupon it explodes. So unless you or a friend have the capabilities of performing neurosurgery, you won’t be seeing a mosquito “explode” anytime soon.”)
Even if we allow latitude for cartoon science and mentally color the blood red, what’s the joke here? Is the name Corelli a clue?
(in this case, CIDU stands for Coloring I Don’t Understand)
Kilby writes:
I have mentioned Macanudo’s gray scale problem at Arcamax several times:
It’s too early to be sure where this will go, but Liniers has started a story arc related to color loss:
So far, my favorite strip was on Tuesday, but Wednesday was good, too.
I am guarding my optimism, but nevertheless still hopeful that when their colors do return, the color will also return to the Sunday strips at Arcamax.
That first comic above in color, on ComicsKingdom:
I’m guessing GoComics accidentally posted a prelim version of this comic, and then because it was Sunday didn’t replace it. But if anyone wants to fill in some dialogue, feel free!
As I write this (2/20, 11:30am) it still hasn’t been fixed, although the author commented yesterday that GoComics had been contacted. Update: fixed as of 2/21, 5pm.
Oddly enough, it seems that they’ve also retroactively messed up the previous two Sundays (because there are no comments on that one indicating anything is missing, and I remember reading these previously).
So, what holiday is Nancy refusing to appear on, on February 22, 1950?
Some choices:
That’s your (over)dose of trivia for today.
An apple shaped vehicle. A bird with a worm in its mouth. A green hat. A bow tie. And …?
An analog / digital joke with the wrong terminology? The escalator is actually less acoustic in its broken state, since it’s making no noise.