Why two police lines? What’s the significance of the stump? Is it significant that the bodies are at the same orientation?
Stumped
Ghostly
A friend pointed me at this, saying “Straight to CIDU — it’s ghost of sea creature? Very weak if so”.
I have to agree. I’ve enlarged it to the point of serious pixelization and still don’t get it at all.
Simon and Garfunkel’s version had better lyrics
It’s a CIDU if you don’t understand a somewhat obscure reference.
Not the Midas touch
This striking but very puzzling Six Chix cartoon by the Friday chick, Maritsa Patrinos, was suggested by CIDU readers travelgirl, bobanero, and Jack Applin; and understanding remains elusive also for CIDU editors and for Comics Kingdom commenters.
(P.S., thanks for letting us know about https://www.usatoday.com/comics as another outlet for viewing King Features / Comics Kingdom cartoons.)
P.S.
Little did we suspect, when writing a title for this post based on the Six Chix comic, that we would almost immediately run across an actual Midas-themed cartoon!
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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, March 24th, 2024
A nice Thurber shout-out here. And do you agree the Bliss dogs bear a resemblance to Thurber dogs?
And for fun let’s compare the color version:
I’d say the color is nicer as a mild-humor comic, but the Thurber book identity is obscured.
But no, I can’t figure out what the pairings and lines are doing. It’s certainly not the standard March Madness sort of bracketting. Maybe if I had reread the book at some point in the last 50 years I would do better. … OK, here’s a help page. Wait, how can it fail to mention Dorothea’s nickname, “Dodo”?
Oh, oh, oh! I think I know!
A LOL-Ewww of questionable taste, from Lug Nuts
Saturday Morning OYs – March 23rd, 2024
Have you heard about the notorious guy who had secret families in multiple places on his travel schedule? By the time he was found out, he had fathered enough kids to be called in the tabloids The 21-Son Galoot.
And from that same Wayno plus his senior partner, Dan Piraro in Bizarro:
Not a piggy
Thanks to Dirk the Daring for sending this in, and commenting “I don’t get it and the commenters don’t get it. A real CIDU.”
Endless Dads
What on Earth does he mean?
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Please share your specific suggestions of panels or strips, in CIDU, LOL, and OY categories, either by direct email to
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OMG! He’s been harvesting the youngsters!
These critters cannot be newly placed around the tree trunks, as shown, but must have had a newly planted small tree grow up within the loop. But Ed got hold of some by just lifting them off a still-immature tree, or perhaps felling a small tree. Monster!
Or do you have some kind of better explanation for this scene?
In His Dreams
Sheep sends in this one: “I think the bearded guy feels like a champion. But why does the marathon guy appear in his dream?”
Comics I Don't Understand 