Chak sends this in: “Why would having a saddle help with traffic? And which one was supposed to wear it?”
Saddle Up!
Category / CIDU
Going Through a Phase
From Chemgal:
She notes, “I know phase changes, and expect someone else will immediately understand the bouba and kiki part, but I do not.”
Not sure “immediately” is the operative term, but it did sound vaguely familiar; Google finds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect, now alles klar. Even more interesting is searching “kiki bouba english”, which reveals that it’s not just an English phenomenon, although it does vary somewhat.
Oh, and hovertext is:
Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.
Love Me?
Are they zombies? Is this a comic with a touching / sad backstory about a dying couple Harry Bliss knows? What’s your guess?
Boom Times
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.
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.
Comics I Don't Understand 