Mark H. sends this in. “An explanation of sorts for the timeline juggling that has been part of 9CL for the last few months. Lately, we seem to have skipped about 12 or 14 years, to where Polly and Lolly are now late teenagers.”
Floating in Time
Category / CIDU
Help?
I don’t see, even in theory, what kind of help that thing is supposed to offer. Or what its design is meant to do.
I’m stumped!
Thanks to Tim Harrod for sending this in, and for his comments (below).
“Another baffler from the Hart estate. What has the Wizard done that’s transgressive, that he wouldn’t want to be connected to or blamed for? Does he think lumberjacks will be pissed that he’s slightly undoing their labor? I’m pretty sure they just want the wood.”
My Dinner with Hagar
Boise Ed sent this one in. If Hagar and Eddie joined the onstage table, they must have thought they were at a dinner theater. But if it were a dinner theater, the audience wouldn’t be in rows of theater seats. It looks like they went to a stage play, got there late, saw the scene involving a meal, then sat there. Even those two aren’t that dumb.
thinks about stuff
It turns out the second and third artists, though unknown to me, were real and easily searchable. But I’m still unsure what their panes here are meant to say about their ideas or careers. And since they may not be commonplace names for many, this seems still a CIDU.
Stare Contest
I understand what the chicken is saying, I just don’t understand why it is supposed to be funny:
No entiendo lo que dice la gallina, y todavía no entiendo por qué se supone que es gracioso:
Sheep not counted
Thanks to Usual John for the suggestion, and for pointing out that the Daily Cartoonist called this out as a CIDU and linked us.
Your turn
Umm, what part are we looking at in the 2nd and 3rd panels? If exposed bone, then how can the patient be so wide-awake?
Also, if the parity of turns is correct, the current site is playing O, and has only losing moves. Can’t they concede, and not ship the guy off to let County, playing X, claim their victory?
Same as it Ever Was
And you may find yourself … wondering about this comic.
Cornish Game Clams
A lengthy CIDU in six laborious parts.
Last Friday’s discussion about “Cornish Lobster” prompted a comment from beckoningchasm about Kliban’s “Cornish Game Clams“. I never read the book “Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon” and had never heard of this sequence, but I soon discovered that it was hiding in plain sight at GoComics (starting on 11-Feb-2013).
Whether or not this was worth the effort is a question that CIDU readers will have to decide: I don’t understand what is going on in these comics at all (and it may just be random surrealism). Discussion is welcome (YMMV).
Comics I Don't Understand 