by zbicyclist

Two half-CIDUs

The essence of the joke here is good: that perhaps the pyramids had a second use in providing entertainment for Pharaoh. Not getting the extra graft part.

The joke here is also basically clear, with that nice added pun in the lefthand corner. But why a cat?

(a) To get in the way while he’s working, as cats tend to do?

(b) An allusion to the supposed origin story of Jim Davis developing Garfield? “Davis decided to peruse current comic strips to determine what species of animal characters might be more popular. He felt that dogs were doing well, but noticed no prominent cats. Davis figured he could create a cat star, having grown up on a farm with twenty-five cats.” (Wikipedia)

(c) An inside joke that cartoonists tend to be cat people?

(d) Other ________________

by phsiii

9CL is twice again baffling

Thanks to Mark H.:

These were separated by five days (12/26 and 1/1), but the intervening strips didn’t seem to help.

Mitch suggested “I think there is supposed to be a confusion-of-twins plot going on” but I’m still lost. And Mike mooted “I think newspaper editors have just decided to give 9CL a permanent pass”, which might well be true, but surely Brooke had something in mind!?