Well, no, we aren’t going to need a bigger website. But today we’re paying comic homage to that ad-libbed line from Jaws, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”, which is #35 on the American Film Institute’s list of top movie quotes, right in between some other famous ones:
A definite call-out here, with the opposing team name being Sharks.
Grawlix has shared as a CIHS (Comic I Haven’t Seen) this instance, called “What’s New?”, from the strip Poorly Drawn Lines by Reza Farazmand. Grawlix sees them from time to time on Facebook, but the strip also has a website; and warns that “It does contain NSFW language from time to time, unfortunately.” Oh, and we have been unable to establish connections with musician Badly Drawn Boy.
But, another county heard from…
Not quite a CIHS, but truth to tell I’ve been looking at it rather inattentively for a while. This one made me stop, and wonder about the apparent mésalliance. Well, a little rewinding, and checking the “About” blurb, informs us that Little Pig #3’s Girlfriend is Wolfette, and is sister to the actual Big Bad Wolf — who in this retelling is still pretty bad.
Useful among the online comments — “Relationship Status: It’s Complicated”
Okay, so exposing and satirizing clickbait and spam is not entirely an original idea. But what excellent execution there is in the deflating domain names!
Possibly inspired by the number of people who refer to a pickleball racquet, rather than paddle. Oar maybe not.
Typically when we’ve dealt with a long-form Cat and Girl, the cartoon has seemed to need some explaining, and we shoehorn it into a CIDU option of some kind. So what a pleasure it is to see them straightforwardly taking on some “complaint observational humor” (well, with exaggeration, but that’s to be expected).
Keeping hydrated??
Here’s a LOL/semi-CIDU courtesy of Dale Eltoft – and thanks for the intro to Ryan Mason / At Random Comics.
I had trouble with the premises of the original Topper TV series because I didn’t understand the distinction between when the ghosts would “dematerialize” and when they were simply invisible.
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?
Nice variation on a standard cat-behavior joke. (Do you’all remember Business Cat #1?)
I’d call this Andertoons just about perfect!
Hmm, would it be better if the two ideas in the last panel were reversed? First “wonder why” then “and how”?
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Comics Kingdom is heavily promoting Goomer:
How do these respective two-word titles work with their panels? What do they even mean?
I had better luck with the first one after recalling the artist’s first name — but then there is the question of whether I’m mispronouncing something, because the phonetic joke isn’t working for me as it stands.
For Mothers Day, a bit of both-parental sentiment from Bliss:
Probably obvious, but for the record, it is Susan (the character shown) herself who is trying to give up caffeine.
The Hax advice column this accompanies is here.
TBH, I don’t entirely understand this. I mean, I understand the heartwarming message about group loyalty and generosity — but not whether there was actually supposed to be anything funny.
Wait, could this be heading for an idiom-origins story about “bought the farm”? No? Nah!
Charming vision for the remembering the song.
But forgive the intrusion of an I-don’t-understand element — is there something that makes Harry B recall and want to memorialize Harry C’s song, on this particular date and in this way? Or at any rate, is there meant to be something funny here? (Besides, of course, the normal cartoon non-realities of high-communication musical animals.)
And in case anyone needs a reminder of this song, here is a clip with some family memories followed by a live performance.
Why is this not a CIDU? Because it clears up when you realize that named artist is real, and learn even the first thing about them. Here’s Wikipedia: ” Lucio Fontana was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He’s known as the founder of Spatialism and exponent of abstract painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases – which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art.”
Diamond Lil departs from their pun-a-day usual practice, and gives us a nicely planned meta.
A well-executed entry in the own-petard category.
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Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1965
Lucio Fontana
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