Can’t I just use facial recognition?
Meanwhile, over in Gasoline Alley, Walt (who must be somewhere north of 115 years old) is having a dream and discovers you can’t even get into hell without proper credentials.
Mitch4 sends this in:
Marrose sends this in: “Once again, The Perfesser for the win,”
Boise Ed sends this in: “There have been a lot of fourth-wall strips in recent times, but Parisi has a bit of a different take here.”
Not technically 4th wall, but including this anyway.
Mine are on a 5.25 inch floppy disk, formatted for the Kaypro, using the Select word processor. I’m good.
Timmy never learns.
Boise Ed sends this in: “Background: Parents are off on a vacation, Dad’s young assistant is staying with the kid while her home is fumigated or something. Kid catches assistant canoodling with boyfriend and uses a fire extinguisher on them. (That part ran March 9-13.)”
Mitch4 sends this in: “I didn’t even notice the pun until re-reading the strip on a ‘wait, what was the joke?’ basis.”
Kedamono sends in this OY/Eww
(With apologies to Bob Marley)
Y’all will have noticed that there was no post today. That’s because the well is dry at the moment! Keep ’em comin’, gang…this only works if we have material to share.
Maybe not so much an LOL as a scene from a documentary about parenting.
This one appeared in my feed recently, but the copyright is 2020. Is Argyle Sweater now in reruns?
billr sends this in: “Is ARLO still a category?”
Excellent question for discussion! Societal norms have changed a bit; I note the increased presence of gratuitous @#$% and $%^& ) in casual speech (with the words, not the @##$ euphemism, in a way that would have had the nuns kick me out of school until I brought my parents and begged for reinstatement. Similarly, as comic strips have depended less on newspapers and more on other outlets, implied or implicit Arlo material seems to have become much more common.
Sometime back, we awarded 9 Chickweed Lane a permanent ARLO award, which it richly deserves. But then, is Brooke McEldowney really sneaking over anything on anybody? Or has his syndicate just decided it’s a popular strip that’s making us money, so let’s let him do soft porn?
So, the ARLO category hasn’t been abolished, but I (editor zbicyclist) haven’t been tagging things as ARLO much.
In this case, Pam and Fred could have been inebriated co-workers discussing other co-workers in disparaging terms — and including the big bosses in their disparagement. But probably not.
Here’s another example from Sally Forth, a strip with began in the simpler (for comics) times of 1982.
I’d be interested on what others think.
Comics I Don't Understand 