The Daily Comics Flood of 8/6/08

The gates have burst and comment-worthy comics have spilled everywhere! This will be our longest post to date with oodles of daily comics of the good, bad and ugly varieties. Thanks for everyone who contributed yesterday, the concept seems to work and it will definitely rear its ugly head again in the future. We're always looking for more ideas, send us an email any time!


Crankshaft 8/6/08

The endlessly useless Crankshaft forgot to water Lillian's flowers, big surprise. "Maybe I can stomp these dried up plants back to life!" Who's looking forward to the next few weeks of elderly people saying mean things to each other? Hopefully the intensely beating sun will induce heat-stroke and finally take the old bastard out.


Curtis 8/6/08

Jokes about fucking your teacher never get old but I was under the impression that Curtis was still in elementary school, which is a little young if you ask me. King Features Syndicate needs to hire some new coloring staff who care enough about continuity to do some back research. Take a look at Miss Honeystump from today's comic strip compared to when she debuted in July in the comic just below. They can't even keep people's ethnicity right anymore.



Mandrake the Magician 8/6/08

At first read I was very apprehensive to post this Mandrake comic. Not many people follow the elaborate plot currently underway involving a villainous book reader, poorly working water pipes and blah blah blah... can you believe this is an actual storyline? It's easier to live with yourself if you just take this comic at face value - it's actually less boring that way.


Brenda Starr 8/6/08

This week has been a flashback in Brenda Starr to give us more information about why they're in Kazookistan and instead of redrawing past events, Cartoonist McLazystien is just reprinting strips from the 80's. I wasn't old enough to remember much from that decade but apparently Brenda Starr was being drawn by someone with an intense hatred for pens. So much so that they did their best every day to use as much ink as possible, filling in any blank space around.


Lio 8/6/08

A perfect example of doing more with less. These old comic strips could really learn something from the new guys - if they really cared about pushing the medium instead of playing it safe.


Off the Mark 8/6/08

Nothing about Off The Mark, which was great today, but I often contemplate how to lay out my daily post. Today was bad strips first, sometimes it's by size, does anybody care anyways?


Speed Bump 8/6/08

Here's hoping everything is going well for my Friends Brett and Jana and their new baby!


Overcompensating 8/6/08

"This wasn't the best choice of a comic to go right after toddler humor... maybe."