I felt sure CIDU had somewhere printed this Bizarro:
But apparently not. It must have felt familiar because I had seen it the previous week in several places already (email, CK, Wayno’s blog, Piraro’s blog, …). But apparently not right here on these pages.
Why was I looking for it? So that I might drop into a comment on whatever post or thread the Bizarro appeared in, this 1991 Far Side, featuring the same deadly weapon, appearing just recently on the current Far Side archive site.
I don’t mind an occasional re-run, but it gets a little more interesting when an artist decides to re-draw a strip.
Here’s the Non-Sequitur from Valentine’s Day:
It seemed awfully familiar, and I soon discovered that Wiley had already done a strip with exactly the same joke (2019-11-01):
(This time on All Saints’ Day, which doesn’t seem quite as appropriate.)
The really weird thing is that Wiley had already done exactly the same strip (but in monochrome) a full twenty years before (1999-01-26):
Either Wiley is completely forgetting his own archive, or he is being unusually careful about getting this joke “perfect”.
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