Aluminum hats, 50 years out of date, freaky-deaky, and Ziggy steals my thunder

No time to waste! Let's get the comic fun started: 

Pickles by Brian Crane:

This child is an idiot.  If you want people not to read your thoughts, your hat has to be made out of aluminum foil at minimum, and if it's a super telepathic mutant like Professor X, you need a sweet metal helmet like Magneto wears.  Jeez, that is some lazy writing.  Pick up an X-Men comic book (they publish about 20 of them a month, it seems these days) or watch one of the  movies already...Well, not X-Men 3,  The Last Stand. That was an un-watchable catastrophe of epic proportions.  In fact, I think its time to pretend that the movie never happened. Yup, wiped it from my memory right there.

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Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer / Created by Pat Brady

I don't have anything to say about this strip. I find it kinda boring and predicable, and hardly ever funny. I do find it fascinating (I read all the comics, even the ones I don't like, because....well, they're comics!) that in this strip, the husband, Jimbo, hates that his skinny wife is thin and fantasizes about her being fat like her mother.  FREAKY!  Rose, the wife, is a wall-flower who imagines that she's a motorcycle chick clad in leather and kicking ass all over town.  S&M and LEATHER, yee-hah! 

Today's strip? Who cares, no one is getting their freaky imagination on and there's no point in reading.

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Soup to Nutz by Rick Stromoski:

Give me a break! Kids watching the Lone Ranger? I am a male in the 25 to 49 year old range...I AM YOUR TARGET MARKET! APPEAL TO ME, I DEMAND YOU APPEAL TO ME!!!!  

The Lone Ranger? A show popular around World War II? Are these two really watching the Lone Ranger?  My kids are the age these two are drawn as, and they'd identify the Lone Ranger as....no one, nothing.  And I cram culture down their throats: I make them watch M*A*S*H and WKRP in Cincinnati. The Lone Ranger was old and out-of-date when I was young.  Heck, the Lone Ranger was classic TV when my mother was a child.  Are cartoonists reduced to stealing punchlines from the 1950s? What next, the strip going to recycle Daisy Mae going to try to marry L'il Abner? Cultural references 50 years out-of-date...so much fun.

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Nest Heads by John Allen:

Um, the woman in the picture is ripping off his shirt because they are gonna get super freaky-deaky!  Wait, you wouldn't say that to the kid?  Oh, and instead you;d go and give the kid a complex about human reproduction? That's what you want to teach them?  What is with the facial expression on goggles  lady in the third panel? She is pissed  off that there is sex going on somewhere.  Laundry.  Yeah, great response, you spinster Puritan.   Hope you get stuck with the kid's psychiatric bills when she's a teen.

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Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II:

You know, some days they take the words right out of your mouth...ain't that the truth, Ziggy. Ain't that the truth!

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The skid mark will haunt Lemont's dreams for months to come.

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It means you piss your pants, Nelson.  Old people have very poor bladder control.

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Hello Hello! This is Cara with my thoughts on today's unusually great comics!

Cow and Boy:

Hmm I hope this doesn't persist. Formication is a real disorder and I dont think it would be pleasant to deal with.

Heart of the City:

I really just love the cameo of Adventure Time's Finn the Human here.

Get Fuzzy:

Now this is comic showcases why I fell in love with Get Fuzzy years ago in the first place. Satchel just has this sincere charm to him and his dialogue in this comic(particularly the second panel) really shows it off.

Pickles:

This is just hilarious. Enough said.

Pearls Before Swine:

Now if only he'd do this for WTF and Kawaii.

Cul De Sac:

I just love how they are sneaking free cookies this way. It makes for a really funny gag.

Pooch Cafe:

I love this one because it could have stopped twice and had a decent gag but with each insight the joke gets funnier and funnier. The final panel is priceless.

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