Not even published yet, and I already don’t understand it

This Six Chix panel, from the Wednesdays chick, Susan C K, is dated this coming Wednesday, 6 March, but was available by mistake last Wednesday, 28 February, when Comics Kingdom released their revamped website, and among several other issues was noticed to be displaying comics planned for up to a week in the future.

Whut? I suppose there could be a problem with the mechanism so that some dampers cannot stay lifted, making the notes from those strings always staccato. But that’s a stretch, and there isn’t a normal sense in which some strings have staccato as a property.

The checkered flag

Thanks to Chipper 42 for sending and commenting on this one.

“Thu, February 29, 2024 Hagar — I have no idea. Helga looks like she is enthusiastically prancing to do the dishes, and what is the checkered cloth about?”


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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, March 3rd, 2024


Thanks to Rob S. for this next Batch Rejection and the Tom Falco:




Comics Kingdom released its new site on Wednesday, and at first nothing was working there. But when we finally did get to see some comics, the first one was this very good Macanudo!


Usual John provides this one, which definitely earns an extra “Eww”

Saturday Morning OYs – March 2nd, 2024





And another Argyle Sweater, this one from Targuman.

If you enjoyed that one, you may already know about the “Peccavi” incident.


The movie on which this joke is based was released in 1977: 47 years ago. Ordinarily, that would qualify for a Geezer tag.


Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 25th, 2024

This Bizarro was about a 10-minute CIDU for your editors.

But a week later, this one could be seen as retroactively helpful:






There was a study of corporate annual reports some years ago. It found that when things were going well for a company, active voice was used, e.g. “We increased our sales over X% …”. When things were going poorly, passive voice was used, e.g. “Sales were negatively impacted by …”



I never order these in a restaurant. I assume they have a similar constitution to the McDonald’s McRib, which is just restructured shredded pork with fake grill marks. Am I wrong?