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5·4 days agoComic is too big to really fit as a picture here, you’ll have to go here to see the whole thing:
1·5 days agoSure, updated
That’s Lyman, a character from the early strips. I don’t know why exactly, but the “gag panel” was replaced with a stock panel. Normally the panel with Lyman would be a pre-joke, arranged so that some papers could cut it off and only show the bottom two rows.
Yeah, I haven’t really heard the expression myself used for people like that, but it’s a play on “old man is buzzing about” -> “flies buzz about” -> “old man caught on flypaper like a fly”
Some context on this comic:
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In my first year or so of drawing The Far Side, I was scared to death of making mistakes in the artwork. Incredibly, I had never heard of a product called “White Out” (for covering up mistakes) and the smallest screw-up meant starting over. So, as I’ve indicated under each of these cartoons, I sometimes left things out.
I hate drawing this type of rug because I can never seem to make the concentric circles come out right. I’d get halfway, as shown, and quit.
SMBC does that sometimes, but generally adds in a “Earlier” narration box to help clarify. This is one of the earlier comics, so maybe he just hadn’t started doing that yet.
Here’s my best attempt:
Crap template:
It’s riffing on Westerns. You might see dialogue like that, talking about one cowboy riding another’s horse, leading some characters to surmise that something’s wrong. In Far Side fashion though, instead of a cowboy, it’s a chicken.
Sadly not a real link, missed opportunity for @exocomics@mastodon.world
I know I’m overthinking it and the comics sort of live in their own universe anyways, but it’s kind of weird to think of jewelry shops in Moominvalley. They don’t really show money being used very much, other than Aunt Jane coming in from out of town, or when they traveled to the Riviera. They also don’t really show stores. Is there a “downtown” Moominvalley, or is this someone’s house?
Moomin probably shouldn’t trust Stinky for a variety of reasons, but in particular here because he happens to have burglary tools on-hand.
Here’s discussion about the comic:
No clear consensus over there either, but probably just “doing something that feels busy, but is actually ineffective”.
Sorry, I think this falls under R3. I don’t see the humor arising from removing context, particularly since it’s also not a single panel. The middle panel on its own probably works better.
Love quines! Here’s the most impressive one I’ve seen, looping through 128 programming languages:
https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
An earlier version of this strip, published in his pre-The Far Side comic Nature’s Way:
The bird took the S from the speech bubble and fed it to its chicks. The bully intended on saying “I’m going to beat your ass!” It’s a 4th wall break of an S commonly looking like a worm.
The art might also be something of a callback to this comic: https://discuss.online/post/38690279
Updated the sidebar with a new rule:
Please don’t comment about comics having ads for the author’s other works. Blame capitalism.
There’s been a few comments about the ads, but there’s only so many ways to make a living off of webcomics. The author has chosen this way and I don’t see anything unethical about it, so it is what it is
Hard to say, etymonline doesn’t even show any results for jizz, and Wiktionary just notes that it’s a clipping of jism.
Google Ngrams shows a more interesting plot, but it doesn’t show the change happening decades ago, it’s much more recent:
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