







“I never meta confusion I didn’t like.”








(This was actually part of a linked series, but seeing the preceding strips wouldn’t make much difference, apart from explaining what might otherwise be a mysterious detail — she was hit in the head by a flying baseball, and is holding an ice bag to it for pain relief.)



And a second shot for Pardon My Planet. This one is a LOL-CIDU. It did take a couple minutes before we got it – but not hard enough to justify making it a separate CIDU post. Also (I confess) it shows the perils of holding on to a negative attitude about some comic strip — one reason I didn’t get it at first was dismissing some meaningful details as merely haphazard artwork.













And a last minute Sunday Bizarro LOL.




Getting some ZZZZs is an ongoing theme with Horace; but this seemed an amusing example!













It’s charming that the other guy also seems to be there to work on his poetry.



More on the Sad-LOL bandwagon!










Trying for diversity in the writers room.


And from the The Cartoonist knows more than the Character Department:


And circling back to where we began, another Mannequin:

Sent in by Andréa, BillR, and Dan Sachs; this is somewhat of a CIDU-OY. You may need to brush up on your triggernometry!












We did not know this, but it turns out smetana as a common noun means cream!







It’s a pun-joke we’ve heard before, but nicely executed, don’t you agree? Though not perfect — there’s no plotted reason for the appearance of the van.





Is there consistency from one panel to another about the apparent kind of malfunction?




From Andréa.