Funny that this gets published
right after we discussed this
Category / (Not a Cidu)
Beginnings
Today’s premiere of Heart of the City 2.0 prompted me to think about other “first strips” and how, for better or worse, they set the tone for everything that would follow.
Peter Zale hooked me with the very first Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet
Basically, Milholland was telling us on Day One that if you’re capable of being offended, you should leave now.
(And don’t worry: the “baby” is now in his late teens, a regular in the strip, and Davan’s surrogate son)
Perhaps somebody who has a Comics Kingdom membership can supply the very first Hagar the Horrible, which I also remember as setting the stage for the next half century.
Does anybody remember any other significant Day Ones?
Seriously, why not just start a new strip?
Speaking of…
Once again, Zits demonstrates that we really need a “No, adults are NOT that stupid category.” And as Hillel the Elder famously said, “And if not now, when?”
Of course, now Bob’s going to bring the Coronavirus back to his planet and wipe out his entire species. NICE GOING, BOB…
Too Close
B.A.: Except… anybody can read this sign from over ten feet away. Wouldn’t this have made more sense if he’d used much smaller letters?
Chestnuts
Personal synchronicity: less than half an hour before I saw this, somebody sent me (via Facebook, not by either e-mail or fax) a joke which, because of its political nature, can’t be repeated here.
But it doesn’t have to be, because the point of this post is that I told him I’d been hearing variations of that joke for decades, and my first was
An airplane was going down. On board were Henry Kissinger, a priest and a hippie. The pilot comes back to the passenger area and says “This plane is going down , there are three parachutes, and I’m taking one!” and jumps out of the door.
Henry Kissinger says “I am ze smartest man in ze world und I need to live,” grabs a parachute and jumps out.
The priest says to the hippie, “My son, I have lived a long life and am one with God, please take the last parachute that you may live.”
The hippie turns back to the priest and says “Don’t sweat it, pops, the smartest man in the world just jumped out of an airplane with my backpack.”
Does anybody know of a variation earlier than this one?
Okay, I understand that this is a repeat…
… but can’t the syndicate at least pretend to make an effort?
1957 called… No, just “1957 called”
