Jack Applin sends this in: “The caveman is pleased with the mammoth he drew. Is the mammoth jumping, afraid of a primitive mouse? Is it flying, with its Mercury-like ears, as an ancestor of the modern flying corgi (https://i.imgflip.com/66d5ta.jpg)?”
This first one is more of an Ewww than an OY:
P.S. The weather this summer has been exceptional for snails and slugs; every few days I can go into the back yard and collect a dozen (or even a score) of the gross things.
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This is only the third time that the Keane’s “Family Circus” has appeared at CIDU (not counting a few mashups and tangential references).
A Comic I didn’t understand the first three times I saw it. I wasn’t puzzled, just mistaken.
I thought the point was just in the dog choosing to ignore the request (command) and pursue different interests.
This atrocious B.C. pun appeared just in time for the opening ceremonies:
Tolkien wrote that the Elves made three rings, the Dwarves were given seven rings, and Sauron made nine rings to entrap the Nazgul, but where do the five rings fit into the story?
Phew, a lot of work to get there!
Indeed, they are said to have a high turnover.
But Day by Dave wasn’t done with punning for the week yet.
Mary Ellen sent this one in. Why backpacking alpacas? Why does everyone look so miserable? And why are the men in what looks like monks’ robes while the alpacas are using folding maps and modern looking backpacks?
It’s somewhere between an OY (wordplay on alpacah and backpackah) and a CIDU.
A lengthy CIDU in six laborious parts.
Last Friday’s discussion about “Cornish Lobster” prompted a comment from beckoningchasm about Kliban’s “Cornish Game Clams“. I never read the book “Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon” and had never heard of this sequence, but I soon discovered that it was hiding in plain sight at GoComics (starting on 11-Feb-2013).
Whether or not this was worth the effort is a question that CIDU readers will have to decide: I don’t understand what is going on in these comics at all (and it may just be random surrealism). Discussion is welcome (YMMV).
Thanks to Dan Sachs for spotting these at the same time, and sending them in!
The holidays are done, but the cartoons are not all done with Xmas and NYear LOLs!
LOL-Ewww did you say?
Does Eric Scott’s drawing style sometimes seem to have a Thurber feel?
This Santino is an almost-CIDU: commenters on his page talk about getting it only after pausing and looking at it another way, or filling in their literary knowledge.
Once upon a time (it was December, actually) Sandra sent this in, and noted it could be a LOL-semi-CIDU as it’s not first-glance obvious what’s going on.
Actually, the editors’ feeling of confidence in one explanation faded upon discussion. Is this cat-behavior being actively performed by an animated cat-statue? Or is it a static statue of characteristic cat-behavior?
Either way, it’s the sort of thing cat people regard with loving exasperation. The great filmmaker Agnès Varda felt like putting her cat on a monument, and did so in her short Le Lion Volatil (actuality on left, modification on right):
And as Aaron notes when sending this next one in, Falco really wants to say something about this gap-week.
Cleaning out old file storage services
An old favorite!
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Another old favorite
As so often with “Viivi and Wagner”, the thesis seems to be that men are pigs…
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And the joke is that…. well, objects on very different scales, named by nouns, can be modified by the very same possessive… Halley can by name take ownership or identification of objects as different as a worldwide visible comet and an ordinary domestic breakfast… Are we getting warm?
Comics I Don't Understand 
