Boise Ed sends the above, noting, “It’s not that IDU what’s happening, but why is it funny that the guy has stiffed the Girl Scout?”
I’d also add that there seems to be a video camera in the background, AND the woman in pink is driving something that looks more like a courtroom typewriter than a laptop–is this a recycled strip? Yet neither Tineye nor Google Images finds it, so maybe not. Perhaps Hoest and Reiner are stuck in the past?
This is maybe a bit of a CIDU now?
Also a bit unclear?
Editor’s recent photo
Gorilla with kitten
It doesn’t seem like that axe would fit in that crate, does it? The stump and basket, maybe–though after UPS rolls it around the back of the truck several times, I doubt the basket would be in that good condition.
ObAnecdote: I have nothing against UPS, but I worked with a woman who hated them with a passion, and with justification: they lost her bridesmaids’ dresses. All of them. Forever. Never reappeared. I’d hear her in the next cubicle calling a company and trying to find some OTHER way of shipping their item, and cancelling the order if they had no choices except UPS. Still makes me laugh.
P.S. Yes, this post is late. Y’all are all entitled to a full refund of your CIDU membership fees.
When that’s the punch line, the setup of course has to be “What does Mrs. Attila call out from the back when she hears noise at the tent entrance?”
But in this Hagar the Horrible, sent in by Boise Ed, Helga and Hagar are at home, not in a Hunnish encampment. The Huns are outside — for now.
In case you think the outdoor shouting might prove legible, here is a blowup; but we think at least parts of it must just be Chinese Grawlix!
Setting and shouting aside, what’s the joke here? Some of the point must be Hagar’s equanimity in the face of attack, to the point that he is much more attentive to the culinary choice before him. But that’s pretty much his established character just being reinforced, so is that meant to be a joke?
… she won’t acknowledge her sadism. Or, she genuinely feels it is a favor. Or, she is exhausted and on autopilot. Or,…
… for ratio of painstaking art work over contribution to resulting joke value?
Is this some homage to XKCD? Or to some other cultural reference? Why would stick figures be affected by a hot tub? What’s the problem with putting their heads in? Are those towels?
It’s more interesting without checking the Carolyn Hax column it may have been drawn to illustrate.
There are actually several of these I don’t readily get.
This appeared last Sunday, and while neither Mitch nor I got it at first glance, maybe I do after staring at it a bit more. But it’s still opaque enough to make me want to hear what others think of it.
Tatulli also gets points IMHO for doing a decent job of copying Jim Borgman’s style! It’s always fun when you see one cartoonist do that with another’s characters.
Comics I Don't Understand 