Monday Odds and Ends.....

Matt here. Nothing like a Monday morning at O'Hare Airport to make one appreciate.... ummm ..... not sure what one appreciates at O'Hare Airport. Anyways, on to the funnies:

Baby Blues

Darryl, c'mon. You can do better than that. Unless "Shoulder Massage" is a euphemism for something else in the Baby Blues household.

Curtis

Despite the pains that Ray Billingsley took to make this accurate, it still fails on the "Google it" challenge. Basically, the ice hotel itself is called the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel. There is no town called Sorrisniva, Norway. The hotel is in Alta, Norway. Anyways, I had more fun reading about Alta and the hotel than I did reading this comic strip.

Hi and Lois

I do like the coloring of daily comics, but for heaven's sake why is the floor black? Or does this mean that Hi and Lois are demons cast out of Hades and perform ceremonies while their kids are asleep? That would explain the passive/aggressive look on the baby's face.

Beetle Bailey

Sigh. Beetle Bailey has been really, really awful the past few months and this is no exception. First, jumping first has no bearing on opening a parachute first. One can jump first but still not open a parachute first. Second, I always disliked forced answers to questions. Sarge asked, are you ready to jump. He should have asked, who wants to jump first and it makes Beetle's answer better. Third, oh hell. There is no third other than I hate this strip.

Dennis the Menace

Before even reading the text of this comic, I knew that something was going on. I'd love to see what Alice's (is that the mom's name) expression is as it can't be good. And who is this person? Is she a babysitter? A friend? Someone they found on Craigslist for a three-way?

Funky Winkerbean

I hate lazy cartooning. Look at these three panels carefully. Let's use coach as the focal point and take his stance of facing forward. The reporter in panel 1 is to the left of coach and in front. In panel 2, he is to the left of coach and in front. In panel 3, he is to the right of coach and a bit behind him. What did he do? Some kind of quick jog around coach to get a different shot. ARRRGGGHHHH......make it stop! Oh, and the "joke" is horrible also.

Sally Forth

I work in HR and people don't just bring HR in and say "cut 40 people from our staff". That is a strategic decision and usually involves all lines of business and they debate and come up with an answer and THEN tell HR who they want to cut. But I guess that's too sophisticated for this new storyline.

That's all for now. Please comment if you enjoy any part of this. We feed off of any kind of discussion and always good to know if anyone is reading. Thanks!

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That Crook'd 'Sipp

It's Sunday again so let's get to it.

Curtis

I find it odd that Curtis' dad read "Metal Men" comics but I applaud Ray Billingsley using kind of obscure comic book characters.

Ink Pen

Oreos don't come in sleeves. Where do Oreos come in sleeves?

Between Friends

$5 for a candy bar that is thicker but not quite as big as a King Size bar I could get for $1 at my local grocery store. People asking for money has been cut down a lot since putting up two 'No Soliciting' signs.

Funky Winkerbean

Damn it, Batiuk.

Panels from Dick Tracy

Oh, Dick Tracy. Retail clerks don't read this strip.

Wee Pals

Damn it, Morrie.

Tiger

What?

Blondie

Sounds like the Heminhaws are made up. If the Woodleys didn't want to go camping with the Bumsteads (and who would?) then they should've just said so instead of creating a fictional family, purchasing a house under the fake family name and creating a backstory for the fake family.

Panels from Barney Google

So the people of Hootin' Holler apparently believe that the wind comes from the clouds. This is good to know when the United States of America invades the New States of America for their precious oil aquifers.

The Born Loser

You can't win it if you aren't in it. I'm shocked Gladys is OK with Brutus wasting his money on lottery tickets and even kind of encourages him to buy more.

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Naked Legs

So it appears the comic strip Zits is teaming with AAA to do a storyline about texting while driving. Zits hasn't been relevant in a long time. The last time I can remember a relevant storyline was when Jeremy decided to grow his hair long, which was the style at the time.

*Cough*

Okay, onto Sunday comics.

Ink Pen

The more important question is who took the pictures.

The Dinette Set

So the point of this strip is old people suck and are liars. Sounds good to me.

9 Chickweed Lane

So is this strip now just a hodge-podge of naked legs, kissing and/or dancing scenes and odd, slanted drawings in the panels? Because that seems to be all it is to me.

Hi and Lois

I'm sure there is a joke here somewhere.

Funky Winkerbean

Look at how depressed everyone is. And I swear there has been a perpetual cloud over Westview for the last three years. How are the people getting their Vitamin D?

Popeye

I actually laughed at a contemporary Popeye strip. I can now cross that off my bucket list.

The Born Loser

There is a lot of talking today. Veeblefester is rambling on about how Jason Bateman is not as a good a salesman as he and blah, blah, blah. Then Brutus makes the claim that he has opinions too which we all know he doesn't and if he does, who cares?


Oratorical?

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Watch Out for Kite-Eating Trees

I know I've been pretty flaky with the Sunday posts but hopefully from this point on there will be a regular stream of Sunday comics.

Ronaldinho Gaucho

Unless eating your vegetables also turns you into a man, this is veering awful close to child pornography.  I guess not drawing the nipples make it okay.

That's Life

Wouldn't this work better with Batman considering the 1960s Batman TV show had all the "POW!" and "ZOW!" and "BORT!" graphics?  Also considering Superman would be impervious to being stabbed by an action bubble makes this comic not work.

Funky Winkerbean

"Yeah, that Class of '11 just isn't as good as the Class of '10.  I hope they all die."

"Well, considering this is 'Funky Winkerbean' that is a plausible storyline."

Blondie

I love how Dithers hit Dagwood so hard with a pillow that it knocked Dag's shoe off.  Now that's a wallop.

Mary Worth

Sweet Jesus.  First Wilbur takes his fake son fishing and then takes his real daughter kite flying?  Does Wilbur not know how to have a good time?

Zits

I love Bazooka Joe comics.  I kind of wish there a book that reprinted the thousands of strips that have been produced.  I also hope somewhere in those strips is the story of why Joe wears that eyepatch.  Some horrible marble accident I assume.

Gasoline Alley

Hmm, considering birds could give a flying fig about our timekeeping methods I don't think they really notice our time change because they still wake up at the crack of dawn.

Now you all need to go over to my site and follow me on Twitter.

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Looking On The Bright Side

Because of the overwhelming Monday-ness of this week's Tuesday, I almost forgot to post! Sorry about the brevity and all.

Crankshaft 2/22/2011

Where do I start with this plotline? It's tough to get any lower than an elderly women lying outside in the extreme cold spouting one-liners, but Batiuk never disappoints. Apparently someone cared enough to call an ambulance — but not enough to go outside and check on the poor women, let alone throw a blanket on her or something.

Ha! It's funny because Batiuk is so callous!

Funky Winkerbean 2/22/2011

Did they just notice each other?

Plugger 2/22/2011

I find this drawing here a little disturbing. Aren't some or most of the characters in Pluggers talking animals, including dogs? Why does one get clothes and not the other?

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The More Childish, the Better

If it's Tuesday, this must be the Daily Comics Review!

Do me a favor. If you have a dog, or know someone with a dog, check out Dog Spelled Forward or steer your friends there. I think it's a pretty decent blog, if I say so myself.

Comics!

Funky Winkerbean, August 24, 2010

Well, the prospect of capitalizing on Les' book sure pulled Funky out of his, er, funk.

But on to the funny bits.

Vintage Phantom, August 24, 2010

The last panel needs a thought balloon: "Damn! Was it the bare-handed deer hunting or the native campfire dances?"


Brewster Rockit, August 24, 2010

I really love this strip. Plays on "Uranus" are among the oldest jokes around, but they never fail, do they?

I've mentioned how much I enjoy Brenda Starr's utter refusal to take itself seriously before. The past few days are a great example.

Brenda Starr August 22, 2010

Brenda Starr August 23, 2010

Brenda Starr August 24, 2010

From "tv people are so melodramatic" to the barbs over reality show producers vs. reporters, the strip is a wonderful contrast from the other adventure/drama serials still in print. The fact that, on Sunday at least, Binky bares a slight resemblance to Danny DeVito is a little bonus.

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Birds

Hey everybody, it's me again, and I think I've gone insane. You know what else is insane? Cathy is going to end! About three decades since it would have been merciful, but at least the plug is being pulled. Anyway, here's today's comic commentary.

Brevity

I laughed at this for a solid minute and I have no idea why. I guess I just find the concept of winged turtles inherently funny.

Funky Winkerbean

I also laughed at this, but I have absolutely no idea why. It's just more of the typical Winkerbean hopelessness, what with the bird just undoing everything that had been done to clean it. Perhaps I just find comics about birds funny?

Girls and Sports

If that's the case, then "Girls and Sports" could stand to add a few birds. Like, a million birds. "Girls and Sports" also doesn't like married guys, for some reason, or something. I just hate this comic.

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Shoe steak, forgetful fish, ellipsis errors, stealing spears... oh my!

It is the triumphant return of Arkholt from his "vacation," going to his sister-in-law's wedding and having to deal with all of his in-laws.  Nah, it wasn't that bad.  No need to feel bad about it, especially when there's funny comics to be read.

Hagar the Horrible:

What Hagar doesn't know is that that's actually the sole of a shoe.  I don't see how, since the tread is quite visible to me.  I guess to vikings, "steak" just means "shoes." That's why Lucky Eddie doesn't really need to cook it for that long.

Ollie and Quentin:

One question here: If the fish only has a seven second memory, why does he say "Not the seven-second memory thing again?!"?  The fact that he is annoyed by people asking him that means that he must remember that someone has asked it before.  Therefore, either his short-term memory only lasts seven seconds but he has a good long-term memory, or this strip wasn't thought through completely.

It's still cute, though.

Funky Winkerbean:

If Rachel had been paying attention, she would have noticed the ellipsis at the end of the guy's first speech balloon.  Then, she would have known that he was lying in the last panel.  Unfortunately, she was doing something else at the time and probably didn't have time to look.  Lucky break for that guy, I guess.

Alley Oop:

Really, if you have to go and get the full army in order to deal with just one guy, you might as well just forget it.  Also, he seems to have not only knocked them out with his large stick, but stolen their spears.  Who's to say that he couldn't do that with the whole army?  I'd just give up and go home.  Well, first I'd make a new spear, then go hunting, and then go home.  That is, if I was a caveman I'd do that.  If I was just me, I'd just go home.

I think lots of people would have trouble reading it, since it's so small.  In a newspaper, it would be even smaller.  Therefore, I will share it with you: "Stephan Pastis played with Star Wars figurines until he was 16 years old." That's not bad, actually.  I know plenty of folks who play with them and are much older than that.

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Today Only! Lois Lane and Billy Mays

Got home late today therefore it will be pretty short today.  Happy and safe Memorial Day to everyone.

Funky Winkerbean 5/30/10

I was always more of a fan of Lana than Lois.  Lois seemed aggressive and kind of a bitch.  Also, what are the odds that the women would wear the exact same clothes as Lois and Lana on the exact same day?  That's one weird kind of coordination.

Bizarro 5/30/10

Nothing to say.  I thought this was funny.

Beetle Bailey 5/30/10

Yeah, you better get on your knees and thank God for those soldiers who are actually shipped out unlike the troops at Camp Swampy.

Family Circus 5/30/10

Does anyone else here think the Keane's Nintendo Wii is the old NES from the '80s?

$5 says Dolly is the first Keane child strangled by this babysitter.

Mother Goose and Grimm 5/30/10

Nothing to say about this one either, I just wanted to post this:

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