Does the dad’s complaint make any sense? Hasn’t Disney always had huge piles of merchandise associated with their movies?
I enjoyed the ending anyway, just not sure where the complaint in the first panel is coming from.
Disney Makes Everything
Category / CIDU
Cato Diet
A quick web search confirms that the character’s name is indeed Cato. But I still don’t get it.
From Stan.
The World’s Smallest Giant Or the World’s Fattest Thin Man
From Rob S.
Wrong Hands looks at Social Media
CIDU not as a mystery to be solved, but to invite your thoughts on the matchups.
Do you suppose they got genuine maple syrup?
Okay, what are they all grasping?
Is this the line for going into the mess tent? So the info on what is being served gets passed back — that makes sense. But why would the warning about the maple syrup get passed forward?
And finally, what exactly is that warning all about?
Hear the Thunder
From chemgal
Second Person Plural
Bonus Panel:
Is this a real, current, debate? I’m aware of debates about gender neutral pronouns, but not of any debates over second person plural in the last few hundred years.
“Requiem for a doorman”?
Systemic
Still looking familiar …
When elGeo saw yesterday’s “Why does this look familiar?” thread, and also saw the current Pardon My Planet, he wanted to create a “Department of Self-Plagiarism” to hold all these. Because the PmP was a clear repeat with minor variation of a 2015 PmP he remembered well, and had liked at the time.
The one elGeo remembered, and sent in:
And yesterday’s:
Assuming we’re all familiar, at least in its outlines, with the O. Henry short story “The Gift of the Magi”, this post is still a CIDU — for questions like “Why change it from a watchband to a belt?”, not to mention “Does a re-purposing come off better than a simple rerun?”.
But wait, there’s more! You say the change of format from squared-off to landscape necessitated a belt longer than the watchband had been, to fill the frame? Well, no: the belt is not shown stretched out horizontally, it just has a downward segment. Further, the comic did not undergo a change of format; it apparently coexists in both on a regular basis. For the GoComics archive delivers this landscape version of the older instance:
Comics I Don't Understand 