The Daily Comics Review: Nest Heads Throw Down

by Hal Bent

Oh my gosh, where I have I been? Busy with life I guess. Glad to be back here after a few days away from the pages of the Daily Comics Review. You know what, I'm feeling frisky and ready to throw down. Some comic must be trying to step up and challenge.  Let's get on with it already!

Nest Heads by John Allen:

Oh, it's gonna be like that, is it Nest Heads?  Saying stupid things and being proven wrong? Reality Shows? Bottled Water. That's just weak. Let's see you top these (yes, I actually said these things):
"New Coke tastes even better than old Coca-Cola";
"Dad, wake up, the Red Sox are about to beat the Mets here and win the World Series in six games";
"What in the world did you do to your hair?";
"It's possible to make a decent living with a Liberal Arts degree";
"Star Trek: Voyager is going to be the best of all the Star Trek series!";
"This Kobe Bryant kid is gonna flame out of basketball in two years";
"No one is going to want to watch a bunch of washed up celebrities dancing on television"; 
"Glam Metal and Hair Bands are never going to go out of style"
"I can drink the whole bottle without it affecting me"
Yeah, go hang your head in shame, Nest Heads, you just got beat down.

Speed Bump by Dave Coverly:

This was the story of my life in high school.  "Look at that gaggle of Geeks."  Actually, no one would use gaggle, we were the only geeks who knew the definition of "gaggle". 

Broom Hilda by Russell Myers:

Where is panel three?  I want to see the carnage.  I need to see that hideous Broom Hilda devoured. Oh what a treat the comics would be. 

Brevity by Dan Thompson:

I don't have many rules in my life, but one of them I firmly believe in is that no toilet paper with a sword is allowed anywhere near me.  Not many rule, but that is definitely one of them!

B.C. by Hart:

You mean the pretentious, know-it-all, overspending douche-bag?  Yeah, the country is full of them. Too bad the blonde lady is already glassy-eyed and ready to throw herself at him, as always happens with these walking, talking turds. Just saying...

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Bad Also Starts with "B"

Ben by Daniel Shelton:

I call bull-hockey...this guy is over 60 years-old, and everyone knows that old people hoard batteries.  Not only that, they stuff their refrigerator full of the batteries so....well, I guess they think it makes them last longer. But the point is, the older guy is going to go to the fridge and replace the batteries. He probably has 400 double-A's left-over from the last snowstorm or hurricane.



Baldo by Hector D. Cantu and Carlos Castellanos:

This lady is in for some serious gastric surgery. Edible hairnets?  Her stomach is going to be opened up and feet of her intestines are going to be removed as those hairnets wrap themselves around her innards.  Or maybe the minimum-wage, on-call substitute cafeteria worker pay barely covers her expenses as she struggles to make ends meet with her 401k lost in the financial bubble, all 99 weeks of unemployment long gone, and reduced to eating anything she can get her hands on in the cafeteria.  Or I can be crude and come up with another reason why the hairnets smell like fish sticks...



B.C. by Hart:

This comic strip isn't really all that funny, but the post-apocalypse cave woman with the cheese, is in real bad shape there.  Look at that face.  Such quiet desperation. She has lost all and is clutching the one think that does not judge her--that doesn't look down on her. NO ONE is taking that cheese away from her.

Broom Hilda by Russell Myers:

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MISSING PANEL FOUR:..>but I'm pretty sure I got laid!

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Fencing Tryouts

Adam@Home

Adam, 30 minutes is more than enough alone time with your wife.

B.C.

Since when do fence builders need agents?  Also, those other three are ready to go; no blunted tips for them!

Bottomliners

Aww... true story.

Fort Knox

Because being your Grandpa really isn't doing it for me, kid.

Overboard

There is an important life lesson here, and it is to never help anyone.

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Earth Technology

Hey there. Meekrat here. Sorry about the short hiatus. First, I was moving, and then I was so sick I couldn't stand up. Here's your comic:

And hey, if you enjoy Subject M and his little adventures, then do I have news for you! First of all, there's a guest comic up at The Underfold. Second, I've started a new comic series featuring Subject M, sans commentary, over at my very own website. So go check it out!

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02/17/1938?

Love Is...

How is this love? Here's hoping Naked Girl gets a new boyfriend from now on because Naked Boy was clearly an awful person.

9 Chickweed Lane

Chickweed baffles me 40% of the time, angers me 15% of the time and saddens me 35% of the time. This is the rare 10% that actually makes me chuckle.

Dick Tracy

Has Dick Tracy lost weight? And it's funny because another Dick Tracy villain is going to die.

The Buckets

Who else thinks he just kept that bottle of aspirin in there because he thought of this joke eight years ago when he first bought the aspirin and was just waiting for the right moment?

B.C.

I'm assuming the Fat Broad has the bleached bones of Clooney, Roberts and Pacino in her cave that she dug up after the nuclear fallout cleared that created this post-apocalyptic future.

Free Range

This one is for my wife.

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Hairy Legs Comics Review

It's Friday again and what a Friday it has been. Lost my job, had a rock thrown at one car which shattered the rear window and was rear-ended in a different car. Also, there were hardly any comics to comment about which is clearly the worst thing to happen today. Here are the two comics I found slightly decent.

B.C.

Clearly the decomposing and decaying reanimated body of Johnny Hart does not watch over Mason as he creates the strip because there is no way in hell that Johnny Hart would allow rap music jokes into his strip.

The Born Loser

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There's just so much in this strip that I don't want to talk about and each panel is just swimming with questions begging to be answered. But one thing I do know is that what Wilberforce shouts in the second panel is correct: GROSS!

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Fashionably Late

It's Meekrat, and I actually remembered today was Monday! I remembered much earlier, but only had time to finish half the post before I had to go to work. Well, here's some review:

Rubes

I know the rhyme they're trying to evoke, but the joke doesn't work because all three children are different. Yes, one is a piece of silverware as opposed to a dish, but they're all different things when the parents are two spoons. If one parent had been a fork, it may have been different, but it's not. Also, wouldn't a fork/spoon pairing bring forth a spork, anyway?

Garfield

It's always nice to see Garfield not take place in one of its usual locations. It reminds me of the old cartoon, and when the strip was much better so many years ago.

F-Minus

You'd have to be tough, as every other animal would torment you endlessly. I also have no idea if that's a cat or dog.

Cow and Boy

Today, we have technology so advanced that we can use it for the most useless of tasks, like Twitter. Really, if you went back to even the seventies and told people there'd one day be the Internet and we'd use it for such foolishness, they'd be amazed and frightened. You'd likely end up in jail, or an asylum, as well.

B. C.

If you told them this strip was still running, though, they'd wonder why they should care. This is the first strip I can remember that didn't utilize one of its regular characters or tropes, featuring the raptors that have become so prevalent since the new guy took over.

For Heaven's Sake

For one, Jesus advocated that they shouldn't do eye for an eye and all that anymore. I looked it up! Second, the upside down dialog in the second panel is just dumb. No one is going to take that much effort to read such a lame punchline. I hate this strip.

Lio

On the flip side of God-ness, we have Lio staying true to character and not caring about any old thing. Good for you, Lio!

Well, that's it for today. Tune in tomorrow when there'll be more stuff!

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Camp Stories

Hi there! My name is Cara and I'm here for your Thursdays. I don't have a webcomic or anything, just a simple Twitter account. I'm an animation and webcomic buff, mostly due to my love for newspaper comics as a child.
I'm only going to talk about a couple of comics today as I'm new and all. So lets get this party started:


I'm gonna nickpick here. If the fish is getting pierced by the hooks wouldnt he actually get pierced by the hook part? Maybe the artist thought the joke wouldn't work if the fish was pierced right but it bothers me.


This joke is kind of clever but as a whole it falls flat do to the delivery. The speech bubble is fine but the thought bubble ruins the whole thing. I don't understand what is gained from having the Eskimo complain about tech support guys.



I liked both of these because they reminded me of my own camp experiences as a child.
The first one has me puzzled though. I remember the top bunk being the bad one because of its lack of guard rails and closeness to the spider-filled ceiling. So I swindled my way into getting the bottom bunk in a similar fashion., by making up excuses for why it would be bad for me on the top.

In the second one the little girl acts exactly how I used to back then. I was too much of a know-it-all to scare with stories. It makes me wonder though how the story will play out because even know-it-alls can get scared from ghost stories given the proper circumstances. I hope they don't end up scaring her though as it will be a nice subversion of the trope.


Did they just sneak a joke about hash brownies in there? That's pretty gutsy. I love how many jokes they can fit into this strip though and still make it funny.

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