Hillbilly Hell-Hole

It's Thursday again, and that means you're stuck with me for another two days. Before we get started, there's something I'd like to share. Now, if you read the MEG, you already know this, but I'm sharing it anyway. I do this comic book-based thing called Friday Night Fights, and one of my entries made it to the final round! So if you could go and vote for my entry (voting ends tomorrow night) it would be much appreciated. It's #6 (Aquaman kicking Superboy). Thanks in advance.

Ziggy, 12/10/09

Today's Ziggy is about fish masturbation. Would someone get Tom Wilson back on his meds, please?

Gasoline Alley, 12/10/2009

I know he's just some uneducated yokel, but saying something has any kind of kleptomaniac would mean they have an actual person (or other creature capable of theft.) He should at least realize that, and I wouldn't be so bothered if they just said the cat had South Pawsey Kleptomania. It still wouldn't make any sense, but it'd be better. I'd also like to point out that the last panel of this is pure gold. That is one concerned doctor cat.

Heart of the City, 12/10/09

A lame pun? I expect better of both Dean and Mark Tatulli. For shame, you two. For shame!

Ginger Meggs, 12/10/09

It's not a real career option, but according to various sources, Jediism is a quickly growing religion in Australia, where this strip takes place. So while Ginger can't get paid for getting kicked out of grocery stores for wearing Jedi robes, he can certainly do so freelance and know others may be doing the same.

Todd the Dinosaur, 12/10/09

At first, I was heavily disturbed by this strip because, while I was sure monkey blood wasn't actually monkey blood, I couldn't be certain. What sort of people would put blood on a cut, especially blood from a monkey? Especially with AIDS and everything. Then I did some research (sum total of my research) and my fear about it being actual primate blood was put to rest. However, I did find out that it hasn't been available in the United States for over ten years due to mercury content. That's pretty crazy, if not as crazy as slathering primate blood on open cuts. I find the last panel particularly disturbing.

Curtis, 12/10/09

Why do they always put "Onion" in quotation marks? This bothers me. Or are the quotation marks part of his name, because he's some sort of would-be hip-hop artist? Do they do that? I have no idea.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 12/10/09

If God were to bring down a second Great Deluge (therefore breaking his promise to never do such a thing again) then it's pretty reasonable that he'd take out Snuffy Smith's hillbilly hell-hole first. Sadly, it would seem that none of the residents died or even suffered. This is unfair.

The Doozies, 12/10/09

Putting Mell Lazarus in a "Learn to Draw" video is about the worst thing someone could do, probably. Unless it's an example of how not to do it, that is.