Are they zombies? Is this a comic with a touching / sad backstory about a dying couple Harry Bliss knows? What’s your guess?
Love Me?
Boom Times
Boise Ed sends this in. “So a real bird, possibly an eagle, snags a bird-like spy-drone, and the kids take that to mean the bird was born in the 1940s or 1950s?”
Eriksson is Swedish, but that doesn’t seem to make things clearer.
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, January 5th, 2025
Speaking of green smoothies:
Saturday Morning OYs – January 4, 2025
Canine Casual
Maggie the Cartoonist submitted this Half Full panel from 2020 as a CIDU, commenting: “Huh?”
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At first glance it didn’t seem that complicated, but upon further consideration I have to agree with Maggie. No matter whether those ears are comb-overs, or wind-blown, I still don’t get it.
We’re gonna need a bigger website
Well, no, we aren’t going to need a bigger website. But today we’re paying comic homage to that ad-libbed line from Jaws, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”, which is #35 on the American Film Institute’s list of top movie quotes, right in between some other famous ones:
A definite call-out here, with the opposing team name being Sharks.
[E]n[o]u[gh/ff] said
Jack Applin sends in this New Year’s CIDU. “A tepid comic, not much more than “Huh”/“You know it”. Two things: Is 2024’s beard talking? Point that speech bubble toward his mouth!
Also, was I the only person to stumble over “ ’nough said”? I blame Stan Lee for making me so used to “ ’nuff said” so that I didn’t recognize the standard spelling. See https://cbr.com/marvel-comics-stan-lee-fantastic-four-nuff-said/ for a history of that.”
And a big Happy New Year wish for all of us. Here’s a classic Nancy.
How Did Those Resolutions Work Out?
According to this article in The Guardian, ” In the US, 44% of new year resolutions last two to three months; only 6% last a year..”
About 40% of Americans make resolutions, but this varies by age. Younger adults (59% of those ages 18 to 34 versus 19% of those older than 55), which I would ascribe to the optimism of youth versus the resignation of those whose past resolutions haven’t really improved their fitness or finances.
That’s good eatin’?
Jack Applin sends:
He asks, “Is the carrot implying that he eats only carrots, and that the donut eats only donuts? So Billy is a cannibal? Or, does Billy only eat other Billys? Why would either of those possibilities bother a talking carrot who is a cannibal himself?”
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, December 29th, 2024
Boise Ed suggested this venerable “For Better or for Worse” strip (from 1993), commenting: “This one really warmed the cockles of my heart (and I have no idea where that idiom came from).“
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P.S. Ed didn’t give it a category, he called it “just sweet“, so I’ve added an “Awww” tag.
The New York Times has a Flashback quiz, which asks you to place 8 historical events in chronological order. The New Yorker has now started Laugh Lines, in which you are asked to put some New Yorker cartoons in chronological order. Here’s one:
https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/laugh-lines/no-2
I haven’t tested to what extent these are available to non-subscribers. The cartoon version would seem impossible, but there’s usually a clue to some event (e.g. the word “Obama”).
This one popped up at the end when I finished:
And now a few more Christmas LOL’s / Awws:
Danny Boy send this cutie in: “The pets’ fondness for a “little pink sock” is a running trope. But then the pairing of sock/stocking is I guess “the joke””
And a few holiday entries:
Comics I Don't Understand 