Please WHAT?
70 Years Ago in the New Yorker
Author / zbicyclist
This Comic Doth Confuse Too Much
Teacher I Do Not Understand
Is there more to this than just typical Amelia behavior, responding to an order to stop by throwing another carrot?
It’s not part of a longer sequence. The days before after this one have different topics.
Not So Jolly
Rose Wiffs
I don’t get it, either.
80 Years Ago in the New Yorker
CIDU from March, 1943
Story Time
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!
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.
Pi Day
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:
Anthropomorphic Mosquitoes
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?
Comics I Don't Understand 