A bit o’ Arlo-OY here:
Very simple OY, classic in its elegance!
You’d need to be a big fan of the Oys to enjoy the preceding run of Diamond Lil, where each order she places at the bar is filled in a way involving a visual pun. So starting here you can picture a frosty mug, a tallboy, a brewski (IDU that one), a draft, a schooner, and a growler.
Perhaps if I was more up on current diet fads I’d get this.
Dirk the Daring shared this Mannequin on the Moon, commenting, “Maybe someone who watches more TV or movies than I do will know what this means”.
Mitch has a theory he may share, but even if he’s right (and I suspect he is), it’s still peculiar at best IMHO.
Thanks to Brian in STL for this Lío. He mentions “The strip is in reruns, so this is originally from 2006.”
This CIDU is easier to figure out if you’re a cat owner. It provides an excuse to note that Comics Kingdom started Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me the Funny (Animal Edition), which may be of interest. Since stepping down as cartoon editor at the New Yorker, he’s been running CartoonStock, which is a business that licenses cartoons.
This comic is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to websites living or dead is purely coincidental.
Thanks to DollarBill, who sends this in as a “chuckle on a variation.”
Thanks to Targuman for this homonym-based OY. And for anyone who might not catch the almost-quotation, he offers these tips: See Mark 6:36 // Matt. 16:26.
The squirrel gives one popular musical association to this city. But some of us would go for “Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again!”.
Hmmm …
Panel four is definitely an OY (and the raccoon agrees).
Panel three is misinformation:
cross-species transmission is widespread.
See, for instance, here:
Panel two is borderline Op-Ed.
Panel one is just plain INSANE!
Why did the piano run away? (If that’s what happened.)
Thanks to Brian in STL for also sending this in, and also providing this other pianistic scene:
Brian’s remarks on this one were “I’m not entirely sure what’s going on here, and there are no comments on the strip to help. Amos often serves as her page-turner, but seems to have flung the music book across the room. Did he have some sort of convulsion or horrible miscalculation?”
Hey, maybe the piano remembers this or similar scenes, and has fled once he sees who the approaching performer is…
Thursday’s strip looks like it might be intended as something of a follow-up.
Now that she’s caught up with it, she prepares to attack … and plays a single note, as quietly as possible — marked 5p and with the visual correlative of the miniaturized staff.
Thanks for this Macanudo to Kilby, who says ‘The moon doesn’t look “happy” to see friends drop by, the eyebrows and wrinkles make it look distinctly “worried”.’
Also he gives a reference example of a smiling full Luna — though not the classic comics one he wanted to locate.
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