“Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until next week”. — Procrastinator’s motto
Mitch4 sends this in: “I’ve been rather unamused by the plethora of robot and AI gags in this and some other strips lately. But this one works for me!”
Also from billr (and travelgirl):
Is it because his ears are covered by his costume? He can’t hear anything on his phone?
Indeed. My other question is where he puts that phone when he’s out webslingin’! Not really sure I want to know…
billr sends this in.
So, this is what became of Madge!
A LOL, with some Eww elements and maybe a bit of a CIDU:
billr sends this in, a bit late in the season for snowman comics: “I got nothing.”
Some hints here.
But while we’re on the topic of CIDU snowmen, there’s this momentary CIDU from 1966.
The essence of the joke here is good: that perhaps the pyramids had a second use in providing entertainment for Pharaoh. Not getting the extra graft part.
The joke here is also basically clear, with that nice added pun in the lefthand corner. But why a cat?
(a) To get in the way while he’s working, as cats tend to do?
(b) An allusion to the supposed origin story of Jim Davis developing Garfield? “Davis decided to peruse current comic strips to determine what species of animal characters might be more popular. He felt that dogs were doing well, but noticed no prominent cats. Davis figured he could create a cat star, having grown up on a farm with twenty-five cats.” (Wikipedia)
(c) An inside joke that cartoonists tend to be cat people?
(d) Other ________________
What’s with their head?
Harry sent this Carpe Diem. Zooming in on the mirror, it seems to show two people walking on the shoulder, which seems neither odd nor funny?!
Boise Ed sends this in. “So a real bird, possibly an eagle, snags a bird-like spy-drone, and the kids take that to mean the bird was born in the 1940s or 1950s?”
Eriksson is Swedish, but that doesn’t seem to make things clearer.
Boise Ed submitted this Carpe Diem as a CIDU, commenting: “There’s a stereotypical guy stranded on a tiny island and a ship passes by. We’re supposed to laugh at this? The boat is labelled ‘United Bananas’, so that apparently has something to do with the apparently intended humor.“
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P.S. At first I was completely puzzled and in total agreement with Ed, but only after I created this post (and examined the comic about a dozen times) did I finally discover the critical detail. Now I feel pretty silly (and I understand why this didn’t get posted before), but I’m still not going to reveal the answer.
