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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Sunday Snap

Hey, have you heard the news of Nickelodeon producing a live-action Fairly Odd-Parents movie? It's going to star Drake Bell from Drake & Josh so while his cohort Josh Peck is doing decent movies like The Wackness, Mean Creek and Red Dawn, Drake Bell is playing a 23-year-old Timmy Turner, pink hat and all. I guess Drake does have a music career to fall back on...

Anyway, onto the Sunday comics.

Brevity 7/25/10

As someone who loves traffic signs and anything road related, I was quite happy to see the winding road sign as the bartender.

Crock 7/25/10

I want to know why they are singing the Star-Spangled Banner when "Crock" is set in the French Foreign Legion.

Mary Worth 7/25/10

The people who do Mary Worth do realize that people can grow up just fine without fathers. Right?

B.C. 7/25/10

Oh, snap, BP! You just got B.C.'d!!

Popeye 7/25/10

"Well, due to all the rough anal sex I engage in, I do have severe rectal trauma but I think I can manage."

The Pajama Diaries 7/25/10

Hey, you want to know a good way to have nobody read your comic strip? Put in a lot of words and turn the comic sideways.

Pearls Before Swine 7/25/10

Oh, snap, BP! You just got Pearls Before Swine'd!!

The Born Loser 7/25/10

Why do people in comic strips (and by "people" I mean Brutus) continue doing stuff they are not good at? I'm not good at algebra so I quit doing it, why can't Brutus do the same thing?

Frank & Ernest 7/25/10

Oh, snap, BP! You just got Frank & Ernest'd!!

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Comic Strip Commentary, Just for You!

Blah. Plug.

Strange Brew

But Mario! You ARE a doctor! Unless your doctor persona is some sort of schizophrenic break in your psyche. I know you bust those bricks with your fists, but you can't tell me all the rubble misses you.

Popeye

This sums up the current storyline very nicely. The king wants to marry a woman, Popeye dresses as said woman (for some reason, though if this is related to the other strip I posted a while back, it's because he doesn't want Olive Oyl marrying the king) and now the jig is up! What will Popeye do? Probably punch things. So many things.

Lockhorns

Hold on, the Lockhorns making a technology joke that actually sort of makes sense? Good thing it's Friday, because I need some time to wrap my head around this.

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Oops. It's Friday.

Hey, did you know it was Friday? Between sickness and all that, I sure didn't! Hence no reviews for yesterday. Here's some today, though! Aren't you glad? Also, be sure to check out the Meekrat Entertainment Group and whatnot!

Popeye, 5/7/10

I guess Popeye relinquished his leadership of Spinachovia. He should probably watch his back, then.

F Minus and Brevity, 5/7/10

I realize they're just a comic strips and I shouldn't really think about them too hard, but I found myself staring at these two for several minutes while trying to figure out how the electric slide worked, and how Beakwoman was an effective super-hero. Does she have other super-powers, or just the beak? In that case, I suppose the beak would help her in hand-to-hand combat and the like, somehow. As for the electric slide... I have no idea. It just can't be pleasant.

Luann, 5/7/10

Luann really wants him to think about her singing in the shower. At least show some subtlety, Luann. I'm sure that eventually you'll find a guy who fantasizes about you in the shower.

Grand Avenue, 5/7/10

It's from Latin, and I don't remember exactly what it means, but it has something to do with books. Obviously. Just like "history" is actually a gender-neutral word, but people just pay attention to the first syllable and assume things.

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When Bryce is Away...

Another Thursday, another day stuck with me. Bryce Baker is on vacation, so we can do whatever we want here on the ol' DCR! WOOO! Today, it's really just more of the same. Tomorrow, though... who knows?

Andy Capp, 4/22/10

I don't know what Andy Capp is complaining about. According to Wikipedia, a budgie is a parakeet, and I'd watch a show about sassy parakeets. It's also a slang term about a helicopter, but I can think of few instances when a helicopter can be sarcastic. (Exceptions include Airwolf and Nick from "Skin Horse")

Betty, 4/22/10

This game exists. It is called "The Sims".

Popeye, 4/22/10

What Olive Oyl and the Sea Hag both fail to remember is the fact that Popeye is the monarch of a small island country named Spinachovia, or something like that. So this could just mean that Olive could marry Popeye at one point or another. It's unlikely that anyone else remembers this, however, so chances are it'll just be some plot where Olive marries a king who's not all he seems to be.

Now, let's see if I still hate Girls and Sports:

Yep, I do. Why does that girl keep hanging around these jerks? Look at her wide-eyed excitement in the first panel. She just wants to go camping with her friends, but Bradley casually dismisses her, crushing her optimism. Then he goes on to sit on the couch with his friend with all the camping stuff scattered about them. The draft apparently takes a few days, but I doubt they do it overnight, and I really don't think there's any reason for these guys to have all that stuff gathered around them. Especially toilet paper, since it means they plan to just let their droppings fall where they may.

Oooh, unless it's the apocalypse! In which case, I hope most of the characters die! The poor girl can live, though.

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Not the Mighty One

Man, I don't know what happened. I don't know if I'm just not in the mood for comics or what but I hardly found any worth taking a look at. But here are a couple for your...whatever.

Popeye 1/25/10

Anybody remember that cartoon series (and toy line) "Mighty Max"? This strip reminded me a lot of when Max, Virgil and Norman had to go to Zero Island (a fictional island located at zero degrees latitude and longitude) to battle a two-headed dragon Skullmaster was controlling. One head was light and the other darkness and each thought their half was more powerful. I have the full series on bootleg DVD. I should watch some more episodes tomorrow.

Panel from The Grizzwells 1/25/10

Wow! Nothing more to say here. On that note, I bid you good day.

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Old People And Technology Is Not A Funny Joke Anymore

Saturday has come again. It is getting increasingly hard to think of something to write at the beginning of my posts. Maybe I'll have something better the next time. For now you should just read the comics and the commentary. Does anyone read this first paragraph anyway?

The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee 6/8/09

I think it's about time to retire the 'old people don't understand computers' joke. It was old ten years ago. And what does that old guy need a computer for anyway? It can't be for porn because he probably hasn't had an erection since the Carter administration.



Ben 6/9/09

Actually today is Saturday, but whatever.

I can't tell if Ben is right or wrong. In the context of the question, he is wrong. But in relationship to when the comic was printed, he is right. Maybe the answer was given in one of the other comics this week, but I don't feel like looking it up.



Trevor 6/11/09

You know why you can't contact him? There are two possible reasons: 1. He hates you and wants you to be assaulted by Marmaduke. 2. He is dead in his basement, rotting because he never went outside and no one has ever seen him in person.



Popeye 6/12/09

Yes Olive, the ocean is quite wet. In fact you could say that it's the wettest place that you could possibly be.

Also, the termites didn't like the spinach can because it isn't made of wood. Termites don't eat metal.

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T-Minus 2 Days and Counting

This Sunday we will be celebrating our one year anniversary! Look for a super special Sunday edition of The DCR! And don't forget to toss a little something something in our paypal tip jar to help us celebrate!

Marmaduke 4/23/09

They wouldn't buy him a dog for getting good grades. They wouldn't buy him a dog for his birthday. They wouldn't even let the Make-A-Wish people get him a dog after his diagnosis. So he traded his X-Box to Marmaduke's owners for their pet. Sounds like the script to the latest feel-good kids movie on Disney.


Baldo 4/24/09

You spend a week saying goodbye to one of the seminal characters from your strip and within a week you're making diarrhea jokes. I am missing Joey much earlier than I expected. While some elderly people might talk about their bowel movements with loved ones, teenagers don't talk about taking a dump with anybody except their guy friends, otherwise it is just WEIRD.


Popeye 4/24/09

First things first - no, you are not on acid. Are the double thought balloons for ? and ! really necessary? I'm sure there is a term for people with ghost sex fantasies but that is one area of the internet I have been lucky enough to avoid so far in my life. What do you do on a ghost date? They can't eat or interact with anything physically.

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I'm Not Growing Up, I'm Just Burning Out

XKCD 4/8/09

Happy 10th birthday Matrix! For a movie where you're in a computer and can do whatever you want with the power of your mind, there was a surprising (at least for me) lack of boning that ultimately led to disappointment with the series. Hopefully someone will go back and remake the second two so they're not so.... bad.


Shoe 4/8/09

It's a little known fact, but did you know the screamer was the artist's impression of a person's reaction to having read a random Shoe strip? Just awful in every aspect.


Bound and Gagged 4/8/09

Although often ignored by cartoonists, Lost is still in it's 5th season and is slated to continue on through the 6th and final season in another year. Therefor, there is no complete set of the show, you time traveling dunce.


Popeye 4/8/09

"Arrr, she knows about me plans for tha hookars and blow." Seriously, how else is Popeye going to spend millions, forearm reduction surgery?

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Half-assed Friday Comics Review

Don't forget to vote in our poll for the worst comic of February! It ends today at midnight. Have a great weekend everyone!

Gil Thorpe 3/6/09

Devotee - a slang term for an "Acrotomophile". This is a paraphillia, or sexual fetish, in which sexuerotic arousal and facilitation, OR attainment of orgasm, is dependent upon their partner being an amputee or unable to use all of their limbs. Also can mean a follower of the DCR. Notice the male character in this strip, who also bears my name, is a big fan of this gimpy girl? Where am I going with all this? We want you to become a DCR devotee by clicking the link at the bottom of the page, all the way down there!


Alley Oop 3/5/09

I am going to ask you to all to do one more thing today and that will be it. Email the Benders @ contact_alleyoop@sbcglobal.net and tell them to stop posting all these rediculous fan drawings and get back to drawing more than a signle panel every day. Ask them to please get the story moving again. The lack of effort has made me so sick I am actually asking you readers to write these people and maybe they will listen. GET BACK TO WORK!


Mark Trail 3/6/09

I don't know how he did it but Ken managed to be wearing a t-shirt with today's date on it even though he's been in the hospital for the last few days. Does he have some sort of time traveling ability?


Popeye 3/5/09

Gorsh Dam Popeye is the worst ferking comic strip don't cha knows? Anyone who spent years ta git an engrish degree in college must wanna spoon they're own eyes's out when they reads it.

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And now this late breaking news...

Hello there again. This is the newest feature on the DCR, at least until you see the other new thing. Can you guess what it is? Wrong! Good try though. It's the news! No, not the nightly news with Katie Couric, it's comic strip news. That's right comic strips have their own news site. Mostly it's not that interesting, but I'm here to let you know what is, so let's get started.

This from 1/7/09:
Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters is being sued by the The Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers for his 1/2/09 cartoon about there being crime, as well as coffee, in Colombia. Wow. Really? And it's not for a hill of coffee beans either, they want $20 million for damage to their intellectual heritage. I can't say that it shouldn't offend them a little bit, but I think they might be overreacting. I guess the part that offends them is the whole grinding people in with the coffee thing. Peters says that it was inspired by the Pringles inventor that apparently had his ashes buried in a Pringles can. I can't image that this will hold up in court, and we'll bring you the rest of the story as it becomes known to everyone else first.

This from 1/7/09:
Popeye, the beloved(I think beloved, maybe not)sailor is now public domain in Europe. Apparently their copyright laws only give 70 years after the creators death and not 95 like the U.S. does. It doesn't really matter thought since the image is still owned by some giant corporation. If you live in Europe feel free to write that Popeye novel that you've been writing, now you can publish it without anyone getting in your face for breaking international copyright law. If you live in the U.S. however, you'll need to hold on for another 25 years.

These stories appear from the Daily Cartoonist.

Well, that's the most interesting news from this past week that I could scour up for you. With any luck there'll be at least one interesting thing a week to tell you about, if not I guess I'll tell you about some boring crap. With that I say "Good night and remember to tip your barista's."

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Bones, Lesbians, Mind Control and More Comics 8/8/08

Marmaduke 8/8/08

"Although it feels kind of nice having a bone in bed again." Oh snap impotent guy!


Overboard 8/8/08

Every time I see a haiku in the comics, I always think they got the idea from my Thursday Haiku Reviews. I'm not self-centered at all, I promise. If we ever see a haiku comic actually on a Thursday I can't be held liable if I crap myself.


Shoe 8/8/08

There are few things creepier than a bird with teeth. Along with frogs with teeth and spiders with wings, they are the things of my nightmares. What mutant creatures of science keep you up at night? We'd love your comments.


Popeye 8/8/08

This whole ridiculous new storyline with Popeye's kid being able to control things with his mind only works if the one with the power is a little baby. Give that ability to any guy over 12 and there isn't a paper in the country that would print that comic strip.


Wee Pals 8/8/08

Wee pals is known for being a daily comic that pushes racial stereotypes and works to bring together people from all different ethnic backgrounds. That being said, they still obviously haven't gotten over the whole fat hating thing, bigots!


Jane's World 8/8/08

I've only been reading Jane's World the last couple months since starting this blog but this comic strip has nowhere to go but up! The more exposure it gets, the faster the climb will be. I mean for all the guys that read daily comics, you'd think a strip about a bunch of lesbians hooking up constantly and big boobs everywhere would be in everyone's local newspaper.

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