Fatties, Spock, and Gaylords

I told Bryce there was no way I could do the Daily Comics Review each day: Full time job; Kids; Attractive wife; No way I can do it more than a couple times a week. Yet here I am posting again for the third straight day.  Can't help it, I read the funnies, and I have the addictive need to shoot off my big mouth. Good thing I have an addictive personality. 

DRABBLE by Kevin Fagan:

It's funny because Drabble is fat. He's gonna suffer from heart disease, diabetes, and other maladies because he's obese.  Ha, that's high humor.  Maybe he'll damage his kidneys or spleen by wearing his belt so tight. Hah-hah.  It's funny because he's constricting himself. Funny stuff. 

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BEN by Daniel Shelton

Ho-ho. Fat and old! They know how to tickle the funny bone today: impending death. Whoo-hoo.   Too bad there wasn't a job about how the old guy's stomach fat leads to impotence.  Then we'd have some real humor.

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CHUCKLE BROS by Brian & Ron Boychuk:

OK, inner Star Trek geek rage time: Mr. Spock, from Vulcan, is buying a relationship book about human men and women.  In a semi-modern 20th century bookstore.  Since Vulcans mate every seven years during Pon-Farr, and it is entirely non-logical biological function, why would he buy the book?  Do the comic creators assume he is Martian. Thus, he is from Mars. Therefore, he is looking to get freaky with a Venusian female?  He is not from Mars.  This makes no sense.  I repeat: Not. From. Mars. 

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BROOM HILDA by Russell Myers:

I remember this comic as a kid....it wasn't funny then either.  The joke is pretty lame.  Is Broom Hilda made up of tomato sauce, cheese, and a bread crust? NO. So she's not a pizza-based life form. But the fuzzy monster called the bird, Gaylord.  Back when I was a kid, gaylord was THE recess insult. As in, "look at that gaylord showing off on the jungle gym".  I know its a proper name (Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry), but its much funnier to think the fuzzy monster  doesn't like the bird and insults him to his face.  Heck, that's the only way this is funny.

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FLO AND FRIENDS: by Jenny Campbell

Deleting cookies.  Fat guy eating this Aunt's Christmas cookies on February 1st, when the cookies are about 6 weeks old.  Is the 3rd panel expressions due to the extreme wit or simply the fact that this joke was made 20 years ago and it wasn't funny then.  Cookies on a computer, ha-ha.  More importantly, why is prototypical early 80's punk girrl deleting her Aunt's cookie file?    Just what kind of websites is Auntie hanging out on that requires a cookie delete? Hmmm. I'm going with German porn.  

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