and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
And targuman contributed this, noting
I admit, (A) I do select my seat on a flight and (B) didn’t get the joke until I read the comments.
This editor was still stumped after reading the comments!
Maggiethecartoonist sent this in.
Per Wikipedia, “Kombucha is a fermented, lightly effervescent, sweetened black tea drink commonly consumed for its purported health benefits. Sometimes the beverage is called kombucha tea to distinguish it from the culture of bacteria and yeast. Juice, spices, fruit or other flavorings are often added.”
Who’s on the other side of this war? Is this one of those Culture Wars that’s been in the news so much lately?
Jack Applin sends in this one. “I understand the initial gag about ‘coloring’ books. The rest stumps me. We thought he was on an isolated island, but, really, the island was quite close to shore. AND … ?”
I mean, I guess that’s God, but it could just as well be Santa…or one of the guys from ZZ Top?!
Here’s one kind of meta idea taken to a logical conclusion.
This one I wanted to make a daily standalone CIDU, but couldn’t really justify that.
OK, it’s a general picture of some sort of “bad boyfriend behavior”, but what exactly is he saying, to get rid of who or what? (Secondarily, since the absent partner here is a stand-in for the cartoonist, she might well be taking a share of blame for so often provoking exasperation.)
But then again, here they are together for some creative brainstorming!
Oh and BTW, for others who follow this strip, does this mean he is part of the spinoff “Side Gig” business that she and her pal from work are planning to quit their jobs to go launch? Or I guess he’s just being supportive about it…
A piquant FA
And didn’t we recently see a “CTRL-Z” comic?
Well we’re all familiar with that pun (sez Mitch), but not usually from this perspective, nor presented so starkly.
When I (zbicyclist) saw this on social media, I thought it was probably altered. I don’t think of Charles Schulz using a lot of groaner puns. But it’s legit: it appeared February 9, 1982, as I found out using the Peanuts search engine, https://peanuts-search.com/?q=bush%20pilot
How nice, when you can know just what’s coming, but the joke works fine anyhow!
Boise Ed sends this one in. Prescription?
Okay, I only read Rae sporadically, and could not list many characters for you. But this still leaves a whole lot that cannot be explained without spending a few years in immersion learning of anime. What the after-all is going on, anybody!
In case it you think it would help to consult other recent Sunday “Echidna-Lad!!” episodes, here are a couple:
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Downpuppy writes:
No idea what it’s about.
Why are the wells slightly different colors? What is the significance?? And look who what is where???
And then look what came along a couple of days later!
Suggested by a reader who noticed something immediately after pressing Send on our handy-dandy Suggest-A-Cidu form, and thereupon wanted to retract! But we didn’t think that spelling solves all the mystery in this panel! What is that pet, how did it happen, are there more like it ..?
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