Usual John sends this in: “I get that Venus tried to say something off-color, presumably a play on “dangling participle,” but what was it? Based on the statement by El Jefe (the figure in armor, I believe a personification of the cartoonist), I take it that the remark may have been not safe for work.”
Usual John sends this in:
travelgirl sends this in:
Is there another way to interpret this other than the male cop is going rogue?
Ttosc ghmit eb no tivaacon, insec isht si rcopghiytde 1920 — tub paperade Gau. 92th.
Nda own rfo a clamuis delnitreu:
With a bonus OY:
Dirk the Daring sends this in for our consideration: “I dunno, at first it was just “huh?”. But I think I get it now. Maybe.”
Getting access to the comments on the GoComics website is confusing. This is a CIDU, not so much a Comic I Don’t Understand as Commenting I Don’t Understand.
I see this at the bottom of all the comics I follow: an icon with zero comments indicated:
When I click on that icon, I get junk:
This occurs for me on all comics, and I am a GoComics subscriber. I just figured that the “new, improved” GoComics website has somehow messed up commenting.
BUT:
Dirk the Daring sent me a couple of links from GoComics, one of which is below. In both of these cases, I’m seeing lots of comments (and I’m still signed in to my account; you can see the “Follow” indicator and my alias below the comic).
and, yet, when I pull up the Wizard of Id page via my favorites, I once again get zero comments.
DIFFERENCE IN LINKS:
It’s important for this discussion that I mention I am writing this 2025/08/23, although you are reading this a few days later.
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2025/08/23 is Dirk the Daring’s link, which gives comments.
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid is the link that connects via my favorites, which does not give comments. But if I hit the “previous” button, I get the previous day’s comic, with a link of https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2025/08/22, which again has no comments.
But if I change that “22” at the end to “23”, then I do get comments on the 8/23 comic, and if I now hit the “previous” button to get the previous day’s comic, the comic comes with comments, even though the URL of https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2025/08/22 is the same!
NET:
All of this is partly a rant, and partly information that might, or might not, be helpful to those looking for comments on the GoComics website.
But this is a CIDU site, this Wizard of Id provides a few confusing aspects. He’s dreaming of laptops? He’s tapping into the Sydnew Sweeney jeans “controversy” (hard to take seriously a “controversy” that, IMO, mainly exists in order to provide more publicity to the manufacturer).
There are cultural references here I’m not getting. GoComics is no help, since I can’t get their comments to work.
??? Is there a joke either in the two panel version or the one panel version? Why does the comic only fill up the middle of the space? Why is there a dotted background, which doesn’t occur in this strip generally? What’s Jaimes trying to say here?
