
Were jokes like this new when they appeared in the strip, or were they already old chestnuts?

Were jokes like this new when they appeared in the strip, or were they already old chestnuts?

Because a cartoon character who doesn’t speak would be more like this:

I read this just as the sky was lighting up for about the tenth time over the past thirty seconds. I’ve hardly ever seen this sort of wrath-of-God weather.
Followed a couple of minutes later by my phone lighting up with TORNADO WARNING! TAKE SHELTER NOW!
(We don’t get tornadoes in New Jersey)
Yesterday, Francesco Marciuliano posted that a Utah newspaper objected to the first comic (the color one), so he had to rewrite the middle panel just for them.
Maybe it’s just me, but… while I like both versions, I think the second one is funnier.
Your thoughts?




I assumed this storyline existed because an accident actually took out Ces’s patio — but surely he doesn’t live in a universe where a contractor will do work without payment up-front.


I guess it’s always been ambiguous whether Ma Goose can understand him.
