Thanks to reader Alan for suggesting this CIDU from Carpe Diem.
(The inaccessibility of comments from Comics Kingdom makes it a bit harder to check if everybody else is finding a comic puzzling. Or OTOH it maybe relieves the burden of feeling one should check.)
Sure, I guess I’d complain about this too. From Rob Stephens.
The holidays are done, but the cartoons are not all done with Xmas and NYear LOLs!
LOL-Ewww did you say?
Does Eric Scott’s drawing style sometimes seem to have a Thurber feel?
This Santino is an almost-CIDU: commenters on his page talk about getting it only after pausing and looking at it another way, or filling in their literary knowledge.
Once upon a time (it was December, actually) Sandra sent this in, and noted it could be a LOL-semi-CIDU as it’s not first-glance obvious what’s going on.
Actually, the editors’ feeling of confidence in one explanation faded upon discussion. Is this cat-behavior being actively performed by an animated cat-statue? Or is it a static statue of characteristic cat-behavior?
Either way, it’s the sort of thing cat people regard with loving exasperation. The great filmmaker Agnès Varda felt like putting her cat on a monument, and did so in her short Le Lion Volatil (actuality on left, modification on right):
And as Aaron notes when sending this next one in, Falco really wants to say something about this gap-week.
From Boise Ed:
He quite reasonably wonders, “What does Napoleon have to do with bisecting a soccer ball?”
Boise Ed notes: “Seriously CIDU. We have a man on the shore, watching a diving whale and what looks like a giant, flying Covid virus. Some commenters thought the latter was a mine, slapped by the whale who somehow avoided being blown up.”
Or a small Death Star? High-tech whale watching (or hunting)?
Brilliant!
The lion is the king of beasts, And husband of the lioness. Gazelles and things on which he feasts Address him as your highoness.
–Ogden Nash Poems to Carnival of the Animals
Y’know how sometimes when Cornered has a Sunday duplex strip (or higher multiple!), and just one of them hits the funny bone just right? And then CIDU is stuck trying to clip or trim to get that one panel? But this time it’s a case of “Why not both?” Two LOLs for the price of one!
And if we’re still in the Weekend of Remembering nineties/oughties Songs, here is one suggested by that comic:
Thanks to Boise Ed and Dale Eltoft for this puzzling Carpe Diem.
Thanks to Boise Ed! Are salads and tights the current faves on the insta?
Not the most sophisticated of jokes, but near irresistible when accompanied by the drawing.
Definitely a geezer if this was your textbook!
Meta text is “Researchers claim to have identified 6 additional elements in the second row, tentatively named pentium through unnilium.”
We most often see PBS in the OYs, but this seems a straight-ahead LOL:
No, not the character from Rocky Horror!
Thanks to Boise Ed for sending this in! He says We have a dry desert and a guy and his dog, looking over the ridge at another guy who apparently reeks and is holding a magenta rectangle. I can see the reeking guy attracting the dog, but what’s with the magenta rectangle?
To slightly disagree, I don’t think the guy is supposed to be reeking. Those wavy lines are probably heat or visual distortion — appropriate if he’s in a mirage.
“Submarines” makes it particularly eerie, since part of deterrent nuclear strategy is that even if all your land-based rockets are lost to an enemy first strike, the subs at sea will make the retaliatory attack.
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