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.

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Thursday? Whoops!

So apparently it's Thursday. I didn't realize this until I got on the computer an hour or so ago and it told me. Boy, is my face red. Anyway, here's your moderately late but still technically-on-time comic reviews.

Heathcliff, 3/4/10

If you don't want mice in your store, then why would you have a section dedicated to mousewear? Furthermore, why would you have an exterminator to kill your customers? That's a businesss model doomed to failure, if I ever saw one.

Cow and Boy, 3/4/10

I remember seeing "The Core" in theaters, and I'm glad that someone other than me remembers it. It was like a b-movie from the seventies with the production values of a bad movie from the nineties!

Ronaldinho Gaucho, 3/4/10

Note how the fact that the eggs would no doubt be spoiled by now is overlooked. Unless the girl wants a bunch of bad eggs for nefarious purposes, in which case... well, why?

One Big Happy, 3/4/10

I have no idea why that guy is there, but I'm sort of hoping he's just some random guy who sneaks into classrooms while the teacher is away to upset the children. He's met his match with Ruthie, however: she'll not sit silently while such injustices occur.

Girls and Sports, 3/4/10

I hate this comic. For one, why can't he bring any girls over? I can understand if it's because he feels weird about taking girls to his parents' house, but if it's some rule his parents set... why follow it? Two, he's not without a home. He has a home, and while it's not exactly the home he particularly wants at current, he still has a home. There's people out there who'd probably love it if they could just move in with their parents again. Three, trying to use what happened in New Orleans but ignoring the fact that there were thousands of people who really were homeless, and instead focusing on the supposed plight of a sports team who couldn't play in their stadium because, you know, they had offered it up to those same homeless people.

Guy's a stupid jerk, is what I'm saying.

Family Circus, 3/4/10

Finally, here's a comic from 1960. It's "Family Circus", so of course it's not really all that great, but compared to what we've been dealing with for the past few decades, it's not that bad. After all, "Mack the Knife" is a song about a murderous gangster. I doubt the current Dolly even knows what a knife is, let alone any songs about murderers.

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