Love Is Cob Marley 'Round the Mulberry Bush

by Hal Bent

OK, no time to dawdle...time for the comic strips!

Rubes by Leigh Rubin:

Now that is just perfect.  Everyone knows "Pop Goes the Weasel", a classic: Then, BAM! punchline, and it's a poop joke (you can't go wrong with the poop jokes!).  I'm loving the facial expressions on the monkey and weasel.  Just wrapping it all up in a funny comic that made me laugh out loud.


Bound and Gagged by Dana Summers:

I love the dog's facial expression on finding the cat food. Just lovely.  However, if that were my dog, he'd be doing cartwheels as all he eats is cat food.  He'll have treats and stuff, but he's a finicky, spoiled brat.  All the dog foods we bought him when we got him, he turned his nose up and went to the cat food bowl.  So now, he has steals people food and eats the cat food. So, yeah, one dog  would be happy.


Jen Sorensen by Jen Sorensen:

This is great!  I so want a Mountain Dewbie. Boo-yah. (No, I'm a diabetic, so I'd probably die. I do like the Cob Marley, though). 


Love Is... by Kim Casali, conceived by and drawn by Bill Asprey:

Normally, being grabbed by a naked woman after graduation is either a Porky's movie or the beginning of a porno, but Love Is somehow manages to ruin the whole thought. Thanks, Love is!  Ruin a vague memory of a Porky's movie or porno I watched and.or had a dream about a long time ago, or something. 

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Herding Cats

Arlo and Janis

Congratulations Arlo!  You've successfully herded a single cat straight to his food dish.

The Barn

Pork Bellies are down?  How can that be?  They're delicious!  I'm sure it's just a temporary blip in an otherwise upward trend.

Betty

And it's hard to feel ridiculous when you're doing what 9 out of 10 people on their lunch breaks do.  The man in the orange shirt isn't looking over at Betty because he is silently judging her; rather, he is jealous of her download speeds and wishes he was watching TV on his phone instead of being stuck a boring conversation with his hipster acquaintance.

The Flying McCoy's

He also gets to have his arms violently ripped from their sockets.

Frazz

I'm not sure why the teacher would be thanking Caulfield for being very rude in class.  Perhaps she is preemptively thanking him for setting up Frazz's witty punchline in panel three.

Herb and Jamaal

Apparently, Herb enjoys being a dick to complete strangers.  Run away Herb!  They may be lost, but I bet they can find their way back to that corner to kick your ass.

Rubes

This comic is funny because it depicts a doctor about to beat a poor apple vendor to death with a baseball bat.  Yes, the physician will be kept away—kept (locked) away for a long, long time.

Ziggy

"I'm the star of this comic strip! Got it?!  If anyone is going to be fat and lazy it's me!"

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A Pub With No Beer

Adam@Home

Wow.  Adam makes absolutely no effort to filter the madness inside his head.  Careful, Adam, or they'll send you to a place where you have to wear gowns all the time.

Andy Capp

Is Andy aware that he can probably order hard liquor at this pub? It'll still get him drunk, and isn't that the point?  Or am I missing something?  Perhaps Andy is a beer aficionado and his repeated public intoxication is merely an unfortunate side affect.


The Argyle Sweater

Yes, Ryan Seacrest is a tiny, tiny man.  Also, everyone at the Academy is a sarcastic dick. Hilarious!

Candorville

Why does Lamont continue to hang out with Clyde when he so clearly dislikes him and never wastes an opportunity to put him down? And why does Clyde put up with it?  I'm waiting for the day when Clyde finally snaps and punches Lamont in his 'smart' mouth—it will be well deserved.

F Minus

I like how Mark isn't concerned at all—he's actually smiling a little.  "Looks like I'm possessed by the Prince of Darkness.  Cool."

The Flying McCoys

I don't usually nitpick, but I think the joke would have been funnier if she said the book on time travel would be due five hundred years ago.  Just sayin'.

Rubes

Ha! Since Nietzsche is unavailable, may I suggest arresting Kelly Clarkson?

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Dude, it's a bear!

It's Wednesday again, which means it's time for some more comics review brought to you by Peter.

Get Fuzzy

How is Satchel familiar with a Goya painting? I thought he is supposed to be dumb as rocks. Rob is often seen smacking his head is disbelief at having to explain another common expression to his linguistically challenged pets. Now one of them is putting together artsy-fartsy costumes. The inconsistency of the characters knowledge base is one of my few gripes about this strip.

The Argyle Sweater

Question: Why is there a shotgun blast in the tent? Was this man supposed to be firing through the fabric? I don't think that gun could even fit in there.

Break of Day

Insomnia and a paralyzing self-awareness? Check. The mental capacity to count sheep? Not so much. Yeah, this kid's development is coming along just nicely.

The Grizzwells

How does this strip manage to mangle such an easy pun? The final panel implies that his bear cousin is bisexual (referencing a classic Seinfeld episode in the process). If bipolar disorder is too sensitive a subject to make light of in a comic strip why bother with the stupid pun in the first place?

Rubes

The depressed/irritated look on Scarecrow's face suggests that he is not "clearing his head" or meditating, but rather his floppy, straw-filled limbs have become twisted and stuck, and instead of helping him out of his predicament, his "friends" are using the opportunity to poke fun of his mental deficiencies yet again. It won't be long before he snaps and kills them all.

Dude and Dude

Kind of funny. But I hate the cut-and-paste artwork. Dude, spend some time drawing your strip! There are cartoonists out there that fully illustrate multiple strips a day. If you don't have the time, have one of them do it.

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The Good.....and the sad.....now on Thursday!

Matt here. My day switched as Sundays were just too crazy with travel and home life. Just couldn't make it work so, thankfully, Thursday opened up and here I am. So, on with today's installment:

The Good

Rubes

Two decent sight gags in one comic. I like the kangaroo stuck in the ceiling but, even better, is the kangaroo talking. Something about his earnestness in the question he is asking made me chuckle out loud. Oh, and I also love the hats.

Off the Mark

Love the combo of the sight gag and the pun. Not much else to say but this strip really works today.

The Sad

Animal Crackers

I know. Expecting Animal Crackers to be even remotely funny is a fools' errand. However, it would be nice to have something better than this. "Hey-pass the salt". Wow. Just, wow. I mean, I get that they are vultures and munching on carrion but (a) haven't seen this joke before in other strips and (b) haven't we seen it done better? Moving on.....

Daddy's Home

This, to me, is a classic way to ruin a perfectly good joke. I actually love the second panel. Brilliantly delivered. But why does he have to turn to us in the third panel and talk right to us? And "Ain't I a stinker" isn't clever or funny. There was no need to do that, IMHO, and it completely ruins the strip.

Edited to add: Anonymous was correct that I should have gotten the Bugs Bunny reference. However, it just doesn't work in this context and really throws off the strip. At least, that's what I think.

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Happy (Porcupine) Hump Day!

Big Nate

Ah, it's funny because Mrs. Godfrey is DIS-couraging Nate's passion for having Gina shut the fuck up.

Candorville

Let me get this straight... Lemont is saying that, unlike Jobs with Apple, these other companies' founders are useless deadweight, and if their the shareholders could get away with offing them somehow they'd probably go through with it? Um... okay...

Agnes

Agnes finds the whole human race repulsive and a blight on the Earth. Guess who is brewing the next super virus in her basement?

The Grizzwells

Big rock... Charlie Sheen... Did the Grizzwells just make a cocaine reference? Either that or Pierpoint likes to hump an actual rock. And this comes just after last week's strip, where we learned that the rabbit gets turned on by tortoise-hare action. Kids, don't go hiking anywhere near this forest.

In the Sticks

That bear thing doesn't need a costume, he's already dressed a little like Han Solo.

Rubes

I'll end with another example of anthropomorphic animals acting sick and depraved. Ah comics... you make the animal kingdom a truly disturbing place.

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The Monster at the End of This Post

It's Saturday and I actually had some time today to go through some of today's comics and make a post. Also, join me on Twitter and take a look at my site that I actually seem to update everyday. Onto the comics and there's an announcement at the bottom that you may or may not like.

I'm going to start today's post with something I never thought would happen...

Dinette Set

Today's Dinette Set actually made me laugh.

Ziggy

Ziggy is going to take a page from the Jim Davis book of cartooning and introduce a little chick for Ziggy to hang around with a la Orson and Booker from U.S. Acres.

Pearls Before Swine

To be honest, I don't think Alice would be a fan of the Keane children.

Frazz

Did Mallett accidentally leave out the word tails or does Jef feel like he's important enough to change the rules of how to layout a comic strip. Bill Watterson was able to do it because he was Bill @%!!ing Watterson. Jef Mallett is not Bill Watterson.

Marmaduke

Eva Braun is willing to have Marmaduke rip her arm off just so she can have a cell phone glued to her ear. First world problems.

Rubes

Did she kill Al or did he die naturally (of an anger induced heart attack judging by the look permanently on his face?)

The Born Loser

Sweetest Day is a made-up celebration mainly observed in the Great Lakes Region of the Midwest. It was created by confectioners in Cleveland on 1922 because there apparently was a need for more pointless days to give trinkets, candy and flowers to a loved one. Also, Brutus does not know his own wife of Xty-five years.

And the announcement:  This will be my last DCR post. I've been a part of the DCR for a long time and I have enjoyed showcasing both good and bad comic strips to the readers here and hanging out with the other posters in cyberspace. I will still be active on my own site so please feel free to go over there every day and see what's going on. And with that...my last comic.

Scary Gary

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Monday Remembered

Meekrat here again, with more comic stuff. Rubes

I think this joke may have worked better without the word balloons.

For Heaven's Sake

Credit where it's due, this isn't a bad joke so much as it is a really poorly-executed one. The composition is terrible and is the priest on the lacrosse field? Is Hal playing lacrosse in the church? Why does the priest look like fat drunken Dilbert? We shall never know these answers.

The Wizard of Id

I know this strip has a history of anachronism, but this is just carrying it to an absurd degree. So I'm just going to imagine this as a guy getting sent back to the time of Id and winding up on a golf course.

Weird Synchronicity: Ballard Street and Cul de Sac

Who'd have thought sink-holes would provide so much fodder?

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Hopefully everyone survived Friday the 13th.  If not, it would be quite unfortunate for me, because then I'd be writing this post for no reason.  Assuming there are some people reading this since they did survive, and they don't utterly hate me or my posts, I will continue to today's comic blurbs.

Family Circus:

Great.  Mommy of course had no idea that Daddy had made this deal with the kids, and had not anticipated this expenditure or the detour to the ice cream shop which will take up much more time than she had planned on.  Thanks, Daddy.  The kids are happy, though, which is really all that matters, right?

The Sunshine Club:

Here we have a strip that is in desperate need of a third panel.  That or some type of punchline.  Maybe someone could throw a brick at the TV or something.  Anything will do.  Just something to assure us that the cartoonist didn't just fall over dead in the middle of drawing this strip.

Todd the Dinosaur:

 
Of course, Todd neglects the fact that those are the only two drinks that actually have "ade" at the end of them, and that orange juice, apple juice, and grapefruit juice, among others, are all from fruits "you can pick." I'm not here to nitpick, though.

The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee:

 
Now, I find that most plastic wrappers sound exactly the same.  I guess those with a finely trained ear can hear the difference between a twinkie wrapper and others.  That's quite impressive.  Not only are grandpa's ears doing quite well for his age, he's also quite speedy.

Rubes:

Thus, roll-on deodorant on a stick was invented to solve the problem of tyrannosaurs having tiny arms.  Unfortunately, after the extinction of the dinosaurs the invention also disappeared due to the encroaching mammals not using deodorant.

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