September 20, 2023September 19, 2023 by EditorM

It’s just the drawing that’s hard to parse

I can’t make out what the guy sees, or thinks he sees, in the sky. And thus, whether the racing challenge is directed to that celestial figure or to the child. Is it about reaching shelter before storm conditions catch up with them? Or less on-the-nose?

Maybe patience and the color version will help…

OK, we’ve heard of the Purple Mountains’ majesty…. But I guess the adult is addressing the child, and the joke is in either the non-specificity of the race goal, or in the implausible distance for them to cover?

August 23, 2023August 18, 2023 by zbicyclist

Is Reynolds Just a Foil Here?

There are many Reynolds movies I haven’t seen. Is this a reference to a scene in one of them?

August 13, 2023August 13, 2023 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 13th, 2023

Oh yes, I’ve seen ads for that phone, haven’t you?

Perhaps only a bit stranger than Janus, a star that has one side hydrogen, the other side helium https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/this-white-dwarf-star-has-two-faces/

A pretty nice Meta comic! I’ll look forward to seeing the color version, and checking what elements are red. Meanwhile, here is a red tee fitting for reference :

Well, here it is! Nope, nothing exciting to be learned …

(No language issues here, so we are not including the Spanish version.)

August 6, 2023October 24, 2024 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 6th, 2023

Here’s one kind of meta idea taken to a logical conclusion.

This one I wanted to make a daily standalone CIDU, but couldn’t really justify that.

OK, it’s a general picture of some sort of “bad boyfriend behavior”, but what exactly is he saying, to get rid of who or what? (Secondarily, since the absent partner here is a stand-in for the cartoonist, she might well be taking a share of blame for so often provoking exasperation.)

But then again, here they are together for some creative brainstorming!

Oh and BTW, for others who follow this strip, does this mean he is part of the spinoff “Side Gig” business that she and her pal from work are planning to quit their jobs to go launch? Or I guess he’s just being supportive about it…

A piquant FA

And didn’t we recently see a “CTRL-Z” comic?

June 23, 2023June 23, 2023 by EditorM

Some retro Bliss, just for fun

(Not a Cidu), LOL, Retro
Bliss cartoons, Harry Bliss, Steve Martin
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Dog people, please help : What breeds are the *Bliss* dogs?

This seems to be among the earliest color Bliss on GoComics:

Speech caption is “They grow up so fast.” [After-posting edit. See comments.]

Speech caption for the milking one is “They’re real.” [After-posting edit. See comments.]

April 23, 2023April 21, 2023 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 23rd, 2023

Maybe 2008, but still not an early adopter.

Last week — 4th wall needed for a watching-the-news story. (It’s just the date formatting that makes this look like a panel from the future.)

The joke is somewhat spoiled (or at least delayed) by the way the sightlines are drawn. But it emerges that what sound like rules for a tweenage girl being left home alone are being directed to Baby Bear (the dog); who isn’t agreeing to them.
(And yes, still downloads from WaPo as .AVIF and needs pre-converting.)

And this Wondermark is not really much of a LOL, but it does provide a chuckle, and prompts me to remember encountering another sense of “Bridge club” in some novels of British India (probably Paul Scott) — it was a party with several ethnic groups invited, and intended to bridge the cultural gaps.