Have we had this one before? I recall some discussion of “To Serve Man”. But not this trope of “The old surprise ending is so familiar and boring, we have to put in a different twist.”
And no, it shouldn’t be the other way around!
Sent by Boise Ed as “Just flat-out funny, to me at least.” He also shares some info about the strip: “Andy Marlette is an editorial cartoonist in Florida who just started Shrimp and Grits this past Memorial Day. His uncle Doug was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and also wrote the Kudzu comic strip.”
LOL and only slightly Eww!
And what th’ heck, let’s indulge with another Liz Climo using the same idea of two species treating something according to their differing natural perspectives:
A LOL-Eww from Bob Ball, who adds: “At least she’s fully clothed in the comic.”
Uh-oh! Meta gone wild!
Getting some ZZZZs is an ongoing theme with Horace; but this seemed an amusing example!
It’s charming that the other guy also seems to be there to work on his poetry.
Sent by Powers and Andréa, as some mash of Arlo, Ewww, and LOL:
Thanks to Andréa for sending this in, and letting us repair the omission of a holiday-themed post.
Wait, is this supposed to be holiday themed? Yikes!
Let’s have some special-kind-of applause for skewering familiar messages.
At first look, I misread the caption as “So long!”. That would almost work too.
Andertoons won’t let up on these figures of speech!
A nice little twist on a familiar cat-behavior-pattern trope! Suggested by Andréa.
(From Scott Metzger’s paywalled Patreon gallery, used by kind permission. There is also loads of free material at his home page, https://www.metzgercartoons.com/ .)
