Beach Fun

Hello readers, time for some Wednesday comics review!

F Minus

Thank you purple-suited beach lady for saving your fellow sunbathers from the ghastly sight of your husband's man-parts. Though the beach does look pretty empty, I suppose you could have let the old man have some fun in his declining years.

The Lockhorns

Leroy is not one to talk. His balanced diet probably consists of a gallon of stout and a gallon of lager.

The Piranha Club

This comic illustrates the perils of colorizing an originally black and white strip. I think the woman's lips were supposed to be a deep red, but colorist can't color over black ink. Either that, or she's really a goateed man with a rather unfortunate glandular condition.

Zits

Jeremy's friend, Hector, is still sporting that awful makeover. I know it is probably an attempt by the cartoonists to make him look less like Jeremy's dad in a wig, but now he just resembles a fat Gene Simmons (not a good look).

The Duplex

Why has Fang made friends with a pumpkin? I know he's a dog, but isn't he usually portrayed as the brains of his side of the duplex? This seems out of character.

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Typographical Errors

Well, it's that time again when I take a break from my duties at the Meekrat Entertainment Group and blather on about comic strips. Let's get to it, shall we?

Compu-Toon

The first thing that struck me about this panel was that the joke is sort of clever. Of course a wireless network would work at a wire company, though that's not why this is posted here. For one, the caption seems clumsily written. If they just replaced the "if" with the "that", it would read better, though it may not be grammatically correct. Second, all the words in the panel are skewed. The type at the bottom should be slanted to match the sign, and the lettering on the door is a bit better, though not perfect. Also, "We sale all types of wires"? I'm going out on a limb and guessing this is another "Yenny" type incident, where the strip's grammatical and typographical mistakes stems from the strip being produced in a non-English language. If not, there's really no reason for a syndicated strip to be so lazy.

Gasoline Alley

On a semi-related note, this joke only makes sense if Slim hasn't been reliably portrayed as a well-meaning but slightly dim character every other time I've seen him in this strip. There's no way on Earth he'd be confused about the double meaning of fine.

Spider-Man

Meanwhile, it looks like the marriage I've been pushing for is going to be dashed by a rampaging monster, hopefully Fin Fang Foom but likely not him. Chances are, the Mole Man will either vanish, leading Aunt May to return to the surface a heart-broken mess, or Aunt May will realize the constant danger she might be in living underground and call off the wedding. In either case, I won't be happy.

Crock and Piranha Club


I leave you with two strips about rump roast. Bizarre? Yes.

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Another Sunday...This Time With Comics

Welcome to another Sunday which means you are stuck with me once again. Muahaha!! Slim pickens today but after you read this you can hop over to my website and read the various mutterings I have over there.

Baby Blues 7/11/10

It's probably for the best that car didn't stop. It may have been Terry Savage coming to yell at you until he realized that you are charging for your lemonade.

I was always told to stop and buy lemonade from enterprising young kids, and I love the giant red arrow Zoe and Hammie made.

My Cage 7/11/10

I've read a lot on the series finale of "Lost" (because I never watched that show) and from what I've read the ending was disappointing and no one liked it. I, however, thought "The Sopranos" ending was very good. You know what series finale I didn't like? "Night Court". Really? Bull gets abducted by aliens? What flaky B.S. is that?

What? The comic? Oh, well, anything with Snoopy in it is fine by me.

Piranha Club 7/11/10

Ew. Why would you continue touching the doorknob when the sound your hand makes touching it is "slup"? Also, why did it take four panels to finally explain to us what is on the doorknob, Bud Grace couldn't shove that box into the first panel?

Big Nate 7/11/10

What kind of gum comes with a fortune? Bazooka Joe comes with a comic and those had fortunes with them. But I can't think of a gum that just had fortunes.

And anymore, aren't all fortunes (from cookies or other things) just now a bunch of random sayings?

The Born Loser 7/11/10

Brutus, you bother because you have a house with a mortgage, a family with a growning son (and wife) and because you want nice stuff not only for you wife and son but also for yourself. That is why people bother getting up and going to work even though what you are really working for is always one step ahead of you.

Also, don't forget when you get home you said you would clean the gutters.

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Slutty Mantis

I could find about zero comics worth commenting on, so here's two that come close to being worth commenting on but fall rather short.

Boffo, 4/8/10

This one is from the Houston Chronicle's page. It's not in the multitude of emails the Daily Comics Review gets each and every single day. It's a stupid comic. I'm sure a lot of people who are fans of "Star Trek" also get fashion, but I'm even more sure that not a single one of them would admonish someone for spending so much on a hat, despite it not having warp drive. At least, I think they're talking about the hat. A Trekkie would know that a hat wouldn't have warp drive. Also, are there really hats that cost $1,400? That's sort of really messed up. Why would you spend that much for a hat? Unless it had precious gems and metals, in which case I could see someone doing that.

Piranha Club, 4/8/10

I just like the non-punchline at the end here. There's just something about how matter of fact the headless fly is talking about how the mantis ate his head. How is he talking? No idea. Also, considering how mantises only bite the heads off of their mates after mating (unless that's a myth), that mantis is a slut.

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Another Saturday in the Bag

Saturday already?! Damn, time flies when you're sitting on your ass, playing videogames. I've got a whole slew of stuff for you this week, so let's get started.

Slow Wave 3/9/09

This is the best, and most hilarious, evidence for evolution that I've heard to date. Now what can all the creationists say? We've proven that there are organisms that are sad about how everything else evolved, there's nothing more to say.



Piranha Club 3/10/09

It's a good thing that it was a man that got a fish stuffed down his pants; a woman wouldn't have been able to tell.

Damn, that was a good one.

Just kidding ladies, I know you don't all smell like rotten fish. The ones in Piranha Club do though.



Rudy Park 3/11/09

Did Jessica Simpson gain weight? I thought everyone hated her because they finally realized that she has no talent; wow, was I wrong.

And come on people, it's been a couple months, let the man do some work before calling him a failure. Bush failed on an epic scale for 8 years, the least we can do for Obama is give him 2 years to try his stuff.

Also, Republicans are stupid, for the most part.

Oh, and Democrats are stupid too, again for the most part.

See, it is possible to be bipartisan.



Frank & Earnest 3/9/09

This being a Frank & Earnest joke, shouldn't the box be upside-down? And who does putting-together-furniture-is-hard jokes anymore? I think everyone has gotten the message that Ikea makes crappy stuff that is difficult to put together. It's not much of a joke if everyone already knows the punchline.

Ah, that was refreshing, wasn't it? I must go now and prepare for something very exciting that you shall hear about very soon.

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They Will Know Me By The Trail of the Bruised Egos

Nothing like reading the Friday comics review and seeing a bunch of yesterdays comics. Sorry folks, they all sucked on a boring level and not worth commentary. Have a great weekend!

Dennis the Menace 2/5/09

"Then you said something about 'juevos' and how she has balls. I don't see any balls around here. And he doesn't look like she has been whipping him. He does look like a pussy though."


Slylock Fox 2/5/09

Oh look, Amber Bell can trace Pearls Before Swine. Aren't you an cute little copyright infringer!


The Piranha Club 2/5/09

All of the characters in The Piranha Club are really ugly. I mean really, really ugly. They are intricately drawn with much apparent effort. The question is, do people want to look at all your effort if it is for ugly characters? Discuss.

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