No, it’s not an inexplicable synchronicity — this Wednesday was Periodic Table Day, as the Dave cartoon points out. Still, a pleasing convergence on the same choice of elements!
Category / Synchronicity
Cubist cats pairing
Thanks to Dan Sachs for spotting these at the same time, and sending them in!
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, January 28th, 2024
This sub-feature of the SFPC repertoire rarely does much for me. But this instance worked well — maybe because it isn’t really “for the epically/brutally challenged” as much as “for the nightly news evaluation challenged”.
This was a momentary CIDU — I was puzzling out which side of the deal was losing, and why — until the GoComics comments cleared it all up. If you still need a clue, look at those pages in his right hand.
Yes, we don’t publish synchronicities any more. But two comics on the obscure theme of squirrel pushing showing up not just on the same day, but right next to each other in my GoComics feed, was too much to resist.
A Nasal Asynchron-Ewwwcity
There’s nothing very mysterious about this Wallace the Brave strip (it does help to be familiar with Spud’s somewhat odd personality):
However, that strip reminded of a “Win, Lose, Drew” comic from mid-December:
I seriously doubt that Drew Litton was referring to a specific player, but most of his comics do refer to current sports events. Were there an unusual number of overly “picky” offsides penalties this year? Or was there some other football incident to which this comic is referring?
Manna, or MRE?
There’s no question about whether these two comics are (nearly) synchronous, the puzzle is why both of them showed up one day apart in November. There are no Jewish holidays anywhere in the vicinity.
No-Politics Zone Thanksgivings
Both from 11/26/2020, and submitted by Andréa. Post originally assembled by Winter Wallaby.
Kilby adds: The climate has been changing in recent years, as this Crabgrass strip shows:
And a 2023 addition that seems to hew to the original alignment. (Added by ==mitch)
From Jeff Stahler on Monday:
Rebranding a Lead Balloon
This Rhymes with Orange strip might have worked perfectly back in early summer, but now it just seems awkward. The new corporate name just isn’t easy to adapt into usable slang, and even if it were, the political deadweight surrounding the takeover and renaming ruins any possible remaining humor.
In a curious instance of personal asynchronicity, it wasn’t until a couple of hours after I had written the text above (including the headline) that I saw Sunday’s Doonesbury, which needs no further commentary:
Squeeze play
The scenario of the elevator call buttons is a familiar trope for Horace :
But other intrepid cartoonists may find their way there too:
Hamlet’s music lesson: “The Rest is Silence”
Thanks to Darren for sending these in. He says of the Loose Parts, “I’m wondering what made him give in. Has the mime just been standing in one spot for over a week or something?
Shared anatomy
This pair comes from Philip, who asks “But in the Strange Brew, why is the appendix in the middle of the book?”
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