Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, the caption “Goldilocks and the Three Musketeers” is explicitly given. But not printed out for us, left for us to figure out, is that their hair fits her established pattern of “Too much, too little, just right”.”
The Trolley Problem continues to give humor:
“Luckily, the A.I. trolley will decide who to kill all on its own.”
Boise Ed notes: “Okay, so the deer isn’t going to be doing the driving, but it still made me laugh.”
Mitch4 sends this in:
Usual John sends these in:
Usual John sends this in:
Boise Ed sends this one in: “I once worked in a place like that.”
This is actually a long-running plot thread in Safe Havens: The boy called here “Leo” is also, in his other time and place, going to be Leonardo da Vinci. His education in science and technology as a youth in the modern world will underlie his great talents in the 15th and 16th Centuries.
Does anyone else here look at that and think, “Oh yeah, I remember that speculation coming up in The Door Into Summer!“? That 1956/7 novel by R.A. Heinlein involved quite a bit of plot interactions in different time periods, mostly by means of cold sleep, but with a smidgen of actual time-machine travel. The narrator tracks down an eccentric inventor in his hermitage, and learns about his device. When loaded with equal masses on its two pans, it can send them into other times, one to the past and one to the future by equal time-intervals. He extracts this recollection from the inventor:
The narrator does manage to get sent back from 2001 to 1970 (both of which, I remind you, were part of the unclear future when the book was published). After some plot-heavy manipulations, towards the end of the story he reflects:
Kilby writes: This Sunday Kevin & Kell strip‡ was drafted by CIDU Bill in 2019, but never posted. I’m not sure why Holbrook published this strip in February.† I would have thought that late fall or early winter would have been more appropriate, but perhaps the idea was to make the stash revelation completely unexpected.
P.S. (†) – Both the strip one week before and two weeks later are covered in snow; this one and the following Sunday strip look more like springtime.
P.P.S. (‡) – According to the remaining comments on the author’s website, there was originally a misspelling in the first panel, which was later corrected. Nice to see such artistic dedication!
Dirk the Daring notes “Even though I follow this strip, I can’t figure this one out. She’s preggers, he hold her up while he flies, but all those pillows? Some kind of protection? I don’t get it.”
Kenneth Berkun sends this one in. Seems to be missing something, but missing things is what CIDU is all about.
(Posting postscript: see comment on https://cidu.info/2022/04/20/yeah-cmon-what-happened-then/)
There must be a “The Ring” besides Wagner…
A CIDU from Snickers, who says the storyline here doesn’t line up at all well with the original tale. Also sent by zbicyclist, who expands on the issue of fit with the story thus: “Why is there another laptop appearing in panel 6? Dorian Gray doesn’t age; only his portrait does. So if the laptop named Dorian Gray disintegrates, isn’t that the opposite?”
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