Boise Ed sends this in. “So a real bird, possibly an eagle, snags a bird-like spy-drone, and the kids take that to mean the bird was born in the 1940s or 1950s?”
Eriksson is Swedish, but that doesn’t seem to make things clearer.
Boom Times
Category / CIDU
Canine Casual
Maggie the Cartoonist submitted this Half Full panel from 2020 as a CIDU, commenting: “Huh?”
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At first glance it didn’t seem that complicated, but upon further consideration I have to agree with Maggie. No matter whether those ears are comb-overs, or wind-blown, I still don’t get it.
[E]n[o]u[gh/ff] said
Jack Applin sends in this New Year’s CIDU. “A tepid comic, not much more than “Huh”/“You know it”. Two things: Is 2024’s beard talking? Point that speech bubble toward his mouth!
Also, was I the only person to stumble over “ ’nough said”? I blame Stan Lee for making me so used to “ ’nuff said” so that I didn’t recognize the standard spelling. See https://cbr.com/marvel-comics-stan-lee-fantastic-four-nuff-said/ for a history of that.”
And a big Happy New Year wish for all of us. Here’s a classic Nancy.
That’s good eatin’?
Jack Applin sends:
He asks, “Is the carrot implying that he eats only carrots, and that the donut eats only donuts? So Billy is a cannibal? Or, does Billy only eat other Billys? Why would either of those possibilities bother a talking carrot who is a cannibal himself?”
A Cat of a Different Color?
What’s that magenta thing? If the coloring was orange, I’d think it was a cat snuggled in the box, as cats are wont to do. But there are no magenta cats.
Herbert Hoover’s Recipe?
This is a Sunday comic, so it comes with added identification. I see steps. I see a chef. I see a chicken. I don’t see a joke I understand.
Choosy?
Boise Ed notes: “Maeve can’t give it to Emma because Emma would love it? That makes no sense at all to me, possibly because I’m male.”
This one’s not a CIDU, but a Christmas Eve Geezer Alert sent in by Dan Sachs.
Take a Liking to a Viking
RR sends this in, saying they are genuinely stumped.
The problem with an explanation that they are afraid of spiders is that spiders would naturally be all over ships of this era, along with various other vermin. So is there another joke we’re missing here?
What’s the Password?
Mark H. sends this one in: “It’s clear that this protects passwords from others, since she neither writes them down nor remembers them. But it would seem like they are also protected from her, hence useless. Maybe she has to use the “forgot password” routine each time, and so the password is never the same?”
According to NordPass, the most common passwords are still the most useless ones:
The same day Mark H. sent that in, there were two other password comics in my feed. These aren’t really synchronicities, because the jokes are all different, but why not pretend it’s National Password Day? (That’s actually the first Thursday in May.)
I worked at a company where every few weeks, a new 7 letter password would be automatically randomly generated for you. Well, maybe randomly. A colleague had gotten into a tiff with the head of IT, and his next password ended with 3 letters of his first name. The first 4 letters were an expression not allowed on vanity license plates. He was convinced there was nothing “random” about it. And, knowing the head of IT as I did, I’d bet he was right.
Prime Primes
Brian in StL submitted this B.C. strip a long while ago, commenting: “When I read this initially, I had no idea. There are some suggestions in comments that might be right. The “Transformers” one in particular. I still don’t know.“
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Even after reading some of those comments, I’m just not sure whether this gag works at all: it seems rather contrived.
Comics I Don't Understand 