The Fabio/goose one is a total CIDU for me; AFAIK, Fabio was an Olympic skier and ladies’ man, several decades ago. The Will Smith one, I assume, has to do with that Oscars incident a while back. The other three I can guess at.
The New Yorker has a feature called Laugh Lines. The challenge there is to place several cartoons in chronological order. We’re going to play a version of this with pairs of cartoons that appear in the CIDU archives. Each pair will be from the same comic, so style will be a clue. The link with the letter points to the original posting here at CIDU. The years aren’t that far apart, because they only go back to when Bill had to restart the site. I’ve added a couple at the end that aren’t from the CIDU archives and are farther apart.
Prem sends this in: “I get that Medusa just entered behind the guy. What’s the connection with fajitas? Are the snakes hissing as though the fajitas are sizzling?”
Once again, Scott Hilburn shows his mettle as a punster.
Backstory: Nate has decided that since he has a math test coming up and a book report due, he’ll take a shortcut and combine math study with the book report.