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LFTKBS

15th October 2003, 03:10 PM

I've neither understood nor laughed at "B.C." for as long as I can remember. Like Fred Basset, it seems to keep itself in existence though sheer inertia - what syndicate would pick up a comic as poorly drawn and as hideously unfunny as "B.C." today?

And re: the comic itself: is this guy a) going on a vision quest/Jesus in the desert for X days sort of thing, or is he b) lost and stranded and thirsty?

If a, then why would some graffiti count as a magical signal from the Lord?

If b, then what a slap in the face: "Jesus saves, sorry you're going to die of dehydration."

And how does Jesus exist in a cartoon universe called B.C.?

Charlie Monoxide

15th October 2003, 03:15 PM

And how does Jesus exist in a cartoon universe called B.C.? Good one!

The cartoon is lame and has been lame for as long as I can remember. Aren't these things suppose to be funny?

Charlie (scratching my funnybone) Monoxide

Nyarlathotep

15th October 2003, 04:40 PM

I'll third that B.C. is one of the most unfunny comics in the papers today. It never makes me laugh, roll my eyes maybe, but never laugh.

Note: These exact same comments can also be applied to "Family Circus". It even has the same naked evangalizing tone.

Wally

15th October 2003, 05:02 PM

Way back in the “Good ole days” (50s & 60s) “BC” was a very funny comic. If you can find some old paperback anthologies you’ll see they were close to “Peanut” quality. I’ll agree for the last few years it’s been beyond lame.

UnrepentantSinner

15th October 2003, 05:58 PM

Originally posted by UndeadCorpse
Way back in the “Good ole days” (50s & 60s) “BC” was a very funny comic. If you can find some old paperback anthologies you’ll see they were close to “Peanut” quality. I’ll agree for the last few years it’s been beyond lame.

It went to pot when the kid took over. Dad would never have printed the naked evangelism or pseudo-racist comics that the boy has.

MoeFaux

15th October 2003, 06:32 PM

Oh, I'll tell you the most annoying comic:
The Family Circle.
I hate that comic. HATE.
At least B.C. says something funny every once in a while. But FC is just annyoing as hell, with those irritating little kids spewing their jesus crap.
Ugh.

the_ignored

15th October 2003, 07:07 PM

:big:
Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!
:bricks:

The sad thing is, though. I seem to remember that the earliest issues of that comic weren't near so religious, and they were actually half-assed funny at one time.
:(

But now,
:s2:

the_ignored

15th October 2003, 07:17 PM

Keane wasn't always (http://www.familycircus.com/art/ww2/hist03.html) bad...:wink8:

Lord Kenneth

15th October 2003, 10:15 PM

I saw that B.C. comic and I groaned.

I can't believe B.C. manages to exist. It's horrible. Hell, even today's Hagar the Horrible was sort-of funny.

Family Circus and B.C. are both crap. Completely unfunny.

B.C.- "Look, I can make extremely crappy and pointless puns as well as the occasional evangelizing!"

Family Circus-"Look, an old man in heaven watching down on his Family! Golly gee wiz, never did THAT before! Oh, yes, and I sure love tracing the path, har har har, look, Billy jumped over a TRASHCAN! Ha ha ha!!!!!"

:rolleyes:

UnrepentantSinner

15th October 2003, 10:17 PM

Actually Keane is rather subtle in his references. He has the Grandfather come around as an angel and sometimes the kids say things (which if you're not a big "kid person" you probably won't be a big Family Circus fan to begin with) but he's not as bad as Johhny Hart is. Some of his Easter and Christmas stuff approaches Chickesque proportions.

Abdul Alhazred

16th October 2003, 02:39 AM

Originally posted by Charlie Monoxide
Good one!

The cartoon is lame and has been lame for as long as I can remember. Aren't these things suppose to be funny?

Charlie (scratching my funnybone) Monoxide

Aw c'mon. The bit about "water balls" was funny. But that was many years ago.

New York Magazine was originally the Sunday magazine of the now long defunct New York Herald Tribune. "BC" was in it and was really funny back then.

Zep

16th October 2003, 02:52 AM

BC was CLEVER before it began preaching. Now, it's just repetitive and lame.

Maladroits!

Clams got legs!

Hand Bent Spoon

16th October 2003, 05:47 AM

One word: Marmaduke

whitefork

16th October 2003, 06:11 AM

Off-topic rant.

"Garfield" sucks. It's sucked for years.

These guys just run out of ideas after a while. I have a lot of respect for Bill Watterson (http://www.reemst.com/calvin_and_hobbes/?page=author) and Berkeley Breathed (http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/) for getting out of the game early (although Outland (http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/outland.html) sucked a lot of the time).

Scott Adams is losing it too.

But Bill Griffith (http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=12-Oct-03&Category_Code=sun2003&Product_Count=38) is consistently excellent.

neutrino_cannon

16th October 2003, 09:27 AM

Soon the only good comic will be the boondocks. Scary isn't it?

Hey, at least Jack Chick doesn't run a daily strip.

Nyarlathotep

16th October 2003, 09:33 AM

Originally posted by Kullervo
Off-topic rant.

"Garfield" sucks. It's sucked for years.

These guys just run out of ideas after a while. I have a lot of respect for Bill Watterson (http://www.reemst.com/calvin_and_hobbes/?page=author) and Berkeley Breathed (http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/) for getting out of the game early (although Outland (http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/outland.html) sucked a lot of the time).

Scott Adams is losing it too.

But Bill Griffith (http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=12-Oct-03&Category_Code=sun2003&Product_Count=38) is consistently excellent.

I know what you mean. Though I still like Dilbert the only other comics that I find worth reading anymore are Red Meat (http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/) and This Modern World (http://www.thismodernworld.com/) neither of which are in regular daily papers (at least not in my neck of the woods)

Brown

16th October 2003, 09:55 AM

"The Family Circus" is a riot.

At least it is a riot when I get done with it.

Basically, I apply white-out to the caption, and let the white-out dry. Then I write a new caption. Behold! An unfunny cartoon suddenly becomes funny!

Example: Billy is watching an Olympic medal ceremony on television. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "F***ing Russians! F***ing G**d*** cheating Russians!"

Another example: Jeffy has been playing. He is very dirty, his clothes are in disarray and his hair is mussed. Dolly, with her hands on her hips, chides Jeffy. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "Daddy doesn't want you to drink his beer."

Another example: The characters "Ida Know" and "Not Me" have their names changed to... well, you can use your imagination.

Another example: Mommy gives baby PJ to Dolly. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "You're on 'poop patrol.'"

Yes, the kids become as foul-mouthed as the boys on "South Park" and are wise beyond their years. The parents say the kinds of things that parents really say. Bil Keane would probably throttle me if he saw what I've done to his cartoons.

I did similar treatments for "Peanuts" and "Blondie," among others.

MoeFaux

16th October 2003, 09:58 AM

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep

I know what you mean. Though I still like Dilbert the only other comics that I find worth reading anymore are Red Meat (http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/) and This Modern World (http://www.thismodernworld.com/) neither of which are in regular daily papers (at least not in my neck of the woods)

Red Meat is wonderful.
I like Ballard Street, but I haven't seen it in a few years since it's not carried in my local paper.

While not really a "funny" strip, Renne French has a strip that's really more....thoughtful/ odd. She's a great artist.
http://www.nypress.com/16/10/comics/French.cfm
http://www.reneefrench.com/taint4.htm
http://www.reneefrench.com/taint2.htm

And I might as well mention "Pathetic Geek Stories" since I had my geek story drawn up one week.

Those family circus kids need to be told there is no god. They're little brats. And I like kids. But those kids are awful.
LK said it best:

Family Circus-"Look, an old man in heaven watching down on his Family! Golly gee wiz, never did THAT before! Oh, yes, and I sure love tracing the path, har har har, look, Billy jumped over a TRASHCAN! Ha ha ha!!!!!"

Nyarlathotep

16th October 2003, 09:59 AM

Originally posted by Brown
"The Family Circus" is a riot.

At least it is a riot when I get done with it.

Basically, I apply white-out to the caption, and let the white-out dry. Then I write a new caption. Behold! An unfunny cartoon suddenly becomes funny!

Example: Billy is watching an Olympic medal ceremony on television. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "F***ing Russians! F***ing G**d*** cheating Russians!"

Another example: Jeffy has been playing. He is very dirty, his clothes are in disarray and his hair is mussed. Dolly, with her hands on her hips, chides Jeffy. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "Daddy doesn't want you to drink his beer."

Another example: The characters "Ida Know" and "Not Me" have their names changed to... well, you can use your imagination.

Another example: Mommy gives baby PJ to Dolly. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "You're on 'poop patrol.'"

Yes, the kids become as foul-mouthed as the boys on "South Park" and are wise beyond their years. The parents say the kinds of things that parents really say. Bil Keane would probably throttle me if he saw what I've done to his cartoons.

I did similar treatments for "Peanuts" and "Blondie," among others.

I don't know the legality of it, but if it IS legal (under fair use, I would presume) you ought to put them up on a website, sometime.

MoeFaux

16th October 2003, 10:00 AM

Originally posted by Brown
"The Family Circus" is a riot.

At least it is a riot when I get done with it.

Basically, I apply white-out to the caption, and let the white-out dry. Then I write a new caption. Behold! An unfunny cartoon suddenly becomes funny!

Example: Billy is watching an Olympic medal ceremony on television. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "F***ing Russians! F***ing G**d*** cheating Russians!"

Another example: Jeffy has been playing. He is very dirty, his clothes are in disarray and his hair is mussed. Dolly, with her hands on her hips, chides Jeffy. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "Daddy doesn't want you to drink his beer."

Another example: The characters "Ida Know" and "Not Me" have their names changed to... well, you can use your imagination.

Another example: Mommy gives baby PJ to Dolly. I do not remember the original caption, but the new caption is: "You're on 'poop patrol.'"

Yes, the kids become as foul-mouthed as the boys on "South Park" and are wise beyond their years. The parents say the kinds of things that parents really say. Bil Keane would probably throttle me if he saw what I've done to his cartoons.

You're a genius. Why the hell didn't I think of that? I guess I just get too mad to think funny. And you're a genius.

Sandy M

16th October 2003, 10:06 AM

I do enjoy Wiley's "Non Sequitur". most of the time. Especially "Obvious Man."

Brown

16th October 2003, 10:07 AM

Originally posted by MoeFaux
You're a genius. Why the hell didn't I think of that? I guess I just get too mad to think funny. And you're a genius. Thanks very much. The idea starts simple enough: you read a comic and say, "Shoot, I could write a funnier caption than that!"

Occasional Chemist

16th October 2003, 10:18 AM

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep
I don't know the legality of it, but if it IS legal (under fair use, I would presume) you ought to put them up on a website, sometime.

Do a google search for "Dysfunctional Family Circus".

Sadly, it seems that the best of these was the victim of a cease & desist letter. (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,21853,00.html)

tamiO

16th October 2003, 10:38 AM

Originally posted by Occasional Chemist

Do a google search for "Dysfunctional Family Circus".

Sadly, it seems that the best of these was the victim of a cease & desist letter. (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,21853,00.html)

http://freewebhosting.hostdepartment.com/y/yoursexypenguin/textindex.html

:D

That isn't the one I was looking for, though. I found a few with search words : family circus parody (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=family+circus+parody&btnG=Google+Search)

Brown,
Please do share your parody comics with us. I would love to see them. If you need hosting, hollah! :)

Brown

16th October 2003, 10:52 AM

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep
I don't know the legality of it, but if it IS legal (under fair use, I would presume) you ought to put them up on a website, sometime. I keep the cartoons in a notebook at home. I have shown them to some friends but have no intention of publishing them.

Many of them are not "family friendly," and to be blunt about it, some of them are in bad taste. In "Peanuts," a recurring theme was Charlie Brown's interest in dial-a-porn (with Peppermint Patty and Marcie providing the erotic part of the conversation). In "Blondie," a recurring theme was the size and activity of Dagwood's member.

Here's an example of a "Blondie" cartoon in exceptionally poor taste. (This one was written by my brother, so send your hate mail to him.) What makes it funny is that the pictures match the dialog so well.

FIRST PANEL
(Dagwood and Blondie run into a friend named Andy on the street.)
Dagwood: How's your porno career, Andy?
Andy: It's "coming" along fine.
SECOND PANEL
Andy (holding up five fingers): I had anal sex five times last week!
THIRD PANEL
Dagwood: Aren't you worried about getting AIDS?
Andy (pointing to himself) Not this fudge-packer!
FOURTH PANEL
Andy: I've had AIDS since 1986!

MoeFaux

16th October 2003, 11:14 AM

Originally posted by Brown

Here's an example of a "Blondie" cartoon in exceptionally poor taste. (This one was written by my brother, so send your hate mail to him.) What makes it funny is that the pictures match the dialog so well.

FIRST PANEL
(Dagwood and Blondie run into a friend named Andy on the street.)
Dagwood: How's your porno career, Andy?
Andy: It's "coming" along fine.
SECOND PANEL
Andy (holding up five fingers): I had anal sex five times last week!
THIRD PANEL
Dagwood: Aren't you worried about getting AIDS?
Andy (pointing to himself) Not this fudge-packer!
FOURTH PANEL
Andy: I've had AIDS since 1986!

That's beautiful. Perfect.
I really like when someone takes a stock image, or as you did, another comic, and adds nutty captions to it. It's one of the reasons I like Red Meat so much.

tamiO

16th October 2003, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by MoeFaux

That's beautiful. Perfect.
I really like when someone takes a stock image, or as you did, another comic, and adds nutty captions to it. It one of the reasons I like Red Meat so much.

There used to be some comics based on characters in this very forum. I think they were in Flame Wars.

Can someone help me remember who did them? I think MoeFaux would love seeing them. :)

tamiO

16th October 2003, 11:19 AM

Originally posted by Brown
I keep the cartoons in a notebook at home. I have shown them to some friends but have no intention of publishing them.

Oh well. :)
If you ever change your mind, my offer still stands.

whitefork

16th October 2003, 11:44 AM

Originally posted by tamiO

There used to be some comics based on characters in this very forum. I think they were in Flame Wars.

Can someone help me remember who did them? I think MoeFaux would love seeing them. :) The Wanko Saga (http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12592)

Brown

16th October 2003, 11:57 AM

Originally posted by tamiO
Oh well. :)
If you ever change your mind, my offer still stands. Thanks, but you and I would get some pretty big companies mad at us if we published these cartoons. Among my brother's and my targets were the "Gummi Bears" (we renamed them as the "Dummi Bears") which were put out by Disney, I think. A lot of the cartoons were distributed by the Universal Press Syndicate, and arousing an organization with the word "Syndicate" in its name is probably not too wise.

Here's another "Blondie" cartoon that got a lot of laughs.
FIRST PANEL
(Dagwood is sleeping on his couch, his face turned away from the reader. Elmo walks up to him.)
SECOND PANEL
Elmo: Can I drive your car?
Dagwood (not turning around): Hmm? Sure.
THIRD PANEL
(Dagwood awakes with a start and turns around. Elmo isn't there.)
FOURTH PANEL
Dagwood (talking directly to the reader): I sure hope that was a dream!

This is how the cartoon appeared originally. I changed it by changing only two words. I whited out the words "drive" and "car" and replaced them with the words "pork" and "wife."

Skeptic

16th October 2003, 01:46 PM

"The Family Circus" books are the target of, how shall we put it, "interesting" reviews in amazon.com... check these out for example:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449133788/qid=1066333023/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2554195-4487310?v=glance&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449126803/ref=pd_sbs_b_1/102-2554195-4487310?v=glance&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449124266/ref=pd_sbs_b_3/102-2554195-4487310?v=glance&s=books

As for the "B.C." strip, the guy is a total nut. In an interview I've read somewhere, he claimed that, as his mother was not a fundamentalist, she is probably burning in hell right now... but that's OK, because when HE gets to heaven, god will make him FORGET WHO SHE IS.

Bluegill

16th October 2003, 02:33 PM

One real simple game to play with the lame single-frame comics (Family Circus, Marmaduke, and Dennis the Menace are the ones in my paper) is just to mentally switch the captions as you read them. Look at Marmamduke and read the Family Circus caption, etc. No cutting and pasting or writing required. They usually are NOT very funny, but sometimes they end up very bizarre and are almost always improvements upon the original.

If I recall correctly, there was one incident where the folks at some paper accidentally (on assumes) switched the captions to The Far Side and Dennis the Menace. Hilarity ensued.

Also, read all the soap-opera comics like Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, and Apartment 3-G. Ever notice how every sentence ends in an exclamation point? This means ALL THE DIALOGUE IS BEING SCREAMED! TRY READING THE COMIC ALOUD THAT WAY! Also, try reading them with the thought in your head that they actually are a very funny joke. Read it out loud to a friend, and when the last line of the comic is said, deliver it in a rising voice and burst out in mock laughter.

MoeFaux

16th October 2003, 03:07 PM

Lord Kenneth

16th October 2003, 03:14 PM

Originally posted by Kullervo

Scott Adams is losing it too.

Certainly not. Dilbert is one of my favorites.

Lord Kenneth

16th October 2003, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by Sandy M
I do enjoy Wiley's "Non Sequitur". most of the time. Especially "Obvious Man."

Yes, one of the far better comics out there, especially one that is politically-oriented.

whitefork

16th October 2003, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by Lord Kenneth

Certainly not. Dilbert is one of my favorites. Chart the progression from the first days to now. I believe it used to be far fresher and more pointed (and as one who works in the business) deadly accurate. He hasn't lost it, but he's running out of original materials. Sadly, Dilbert has become an industry.

At its best, it is still very good.

Did you check the Griffith link? I thought that one might appeal to you.

Segnosaur

16th October 2003, 04:41 PM

The web comic Something Positive (probably one of the best out there) had a strip that really went after B.C.

See: http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp06222003.html

As for Dilbert... Scott Adams must have the easiest job of any cartoonist... he doesn't need to create material, just let his fans send in real life stories.

zakur

16th October 2003, 07:32 PM

Originally posted by Skeptic
As for the "B.C." strip, the guy is a total nut. In an interview I've read somewhere, he claimed that, as his mother was not a fundamentalist, she is probably burning in hell right now... but that's OK, because when HE gets to heaven, god will make him FORGET WHO SHE IS. Johnny Hart interview (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=19990426065859.09929.00001780%40ng144. aol.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain) from Washington Post, April 4, 1999:Johnny Hart has been talking amiably for six hours. His voice is gentle,
almost timid.

He says:

Jews and Muslims who don't accept Jesus will burn in Hell.

Homosexuality is the handiwork of Satan.

America was founded as a Christian nation, and should remain one. The country's moral decline began the day that prayer in the public schools was outlawed.

Angels travel at the speed of thought. Some are the lackeys and stooges of the Devil, and they whisper temptations in our ears.

God probably engineered the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin as punishment for trying to give away holy land in violation of biblical commands.

The end of the world is approaching, maybe by the year 2010.

And:

Johnny Hart is going straight to Heaven.

...

He has concluded that God took his mother early not because death can be random but because his own prayers were defective. He was not yet a knowledgeable Christian, he says, and he did not know how to pray correctly. He made at least one technical error: "I didn't ask in the name of Jesus."

Still, something bothers him: His mother was a good person, he says, but he suspects that she was not a devout enough Christian. He worries that when he arrives in Heaven, she will not be there.

Hart pauses. Starts to say something, then stops. Ten seconds pass.

It probably won't matter, he decides. If she's not there, he says, God will probably erase all memory of her from his mind. "Heaven," he says, "is a blissful, pain-free eternity. How much happiness can you have if you know that people you loved on Earth are not there?""Total nut" is an understatement.

UnrepentantSinner

16th October 2003, 08:15 PM

Sherman's Lagoon, Foxtrot and One Big Happy are consistently funny enough that look forward to reading them.

Funky Winkerbean and Luann have just the right amount of humor and social commentary that make them much better than most serial comics. While both have addressed social issues in the past, Batuik and Ayers and Evans have hit a perfect stride over the last few years.

A new favorite of mine is Heart of the City (http://www.ucomics.com/heartofthecity/2003/10/14/) which I don't care for because the main characters are kids, but I love the way artist Mark Tatulli draws adult women. Tall, thin with small perky breasts and tiny noses. They're very reminiscent of the way ancient Egyptian women were represented. The woman in linked panel is the proprietor of a Majick Shop and the woo woo content bothered me a bit, but I still love the way she's drawn.

(Ladies, please save your complaints about men's "cartoonish" visions of what women should look like for the Anime fans.)

JenseitsDavon

8th March 2011, 12:42 PM

zooterkin

8th March 2011, 01:18 PM

Your link is broken - this one works.

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp06222003.shtml

To be fair, his link probably worked 7 years ago.

(Holy Necromancy, Batman!)

catsmate1

8th March 2011, 04:07 PM

To be fair, his link probably worked 7 years ago.

(Holy Necromancy, Batman!)
SSI.

FramerDave

8th March 2011, 09:55 PM

(Family Circus, If I recall correctly, there was one incident where the folks at some paper accidentally (on assumes) switched the captions to The Far Side and Dennis the Menace. Hilarity ensued.

Yes, I remember reading that in one of the Far Side books. The Dennis the Menace panel was of the family sitting around the breakfast table, with Dennis saying something. With the new caption he said "I see your skull, labeled and sitting on a shelf somewhere."

The Far Side was a Neanderthal or dinosaur fortune teller, but I don't recall the caption. If not for the hour and the Jack Daniels I'd go upstairs and find it.

Larson wrote that he was a little bit embarassed at how much better both of them were with the switched captions.

Madalch

8th March 2011, 10:56 PM

Yes, I remember reading that in one of the Far Side books. The Dennis the Menace panel was of the family sitting around the breakfast table, with Dennis saying something. With the new caption he said "I see your skull, labeled and sitting on a shelf somewhere."

The Far Side was a Neanderthal or dinosaur fortune teller, but I don't recall the caption. If not for the hour and the Jack Daniels I'd go upstairs and find it.

Larson wrote that he was a little bit embarassed at how much better both of them were with the switched captions.
No, the one that was switched had Dennis the Menace saying, "Aw, man! Hamsters again?" at the dinner table, while a family of snakes heard their youngest saying "If I hadn't learned to make peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, I would have starved by now."

zooterkin

9th March 2011, 01:06 AM

SSI.

SSI?

Gawdzilla

9th March 2011, 06:07 AM

They say atheists are "aggressive", then they play the religion card every chance they get. Tedious.

sphenisc

9th March 2011, 08:20 AM

They say atheists are "aggressive", then they play the religion card every chance they get. Tedious.

As a metaphor "playing cards" doesn't really convey a sense of aggression. Just saying. :)

skullerello

9th March 2011, 08:34 AM

Thanks, but you and I would get some pretty big companies mad at us if we published these cartoons. Among my brother's and my targets were the "Gummi Bears" (we renamed them as the "Dummi Bears") which were put out by Disney, I think. A lot of the cartoons were distributed by the Universal Press Syndicate, and arousing an organization with the word "Syndicate" in its name is probably not too wise.

Here's another "Blondie" cartoon that got a lot of laughs.
FIRST PANEL
(Dagwood is sleeping on his couch, his face turned away from the reader. Elmo walks up to him.)
SECOND PANEL
Elmo: Can I drive your car?
Dagwood (not turning around): Hmm? Sure.
THIRD PANEL
(Dagwood awakes with a start and turns around. Elmo isn't there.)
FOURTH PANEL
Dagwood (talking directly to the reader): I sure hope that was a dream!

This is how the cartoon appeared originally. I changed it by changing only two words. I whited out the words "drive" and "car" and replaced them with the words "pork" and "wife."
Now that's funny!!!!

IMST

9th March 2011, 09:08 AM

Get Fuzzy is probably my favorite overall because the anthropomorphized cat has retained its catdom.

catsmate1

9th March 2011, 09:37 AM

SSI?
Server Side Includes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes). A basic server-side script engine to deliver html pages while simplifying the maintenance of large number of such pages. Obsolescent and very limited but still used.

ParrotPirate

9th March 2011, 09:49 AM

I know what you mean. Though I still like Dilbert the only other comics that I find worth reading anymore are Red Meat (http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/) and This Modern World (http://www.thismodernworld.com/) neither of which are in regular daily papers (at least not in my neck of the woods)

Red meat is available on The Onion.com in the AV Club section. I think it's updated weekly. The also have one there called Wondermark, which is really odd.

zooterkin

9th March 2011, 09:59 AM

Server Side Includes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes). A basic server-side script engine to deliver html pages while simplifying the maintenance of large number of such pages. Obsolescent and very limited but still used.

Ok. And the relevance? As far as I can tell, the change in the URL was from a .html to .shtml extension. Is that related to SSI? The main point is that this is a 7+ year-old thread that has been woken from the dead. :)

catsmate1

9th March 2011, 11:04 AM

Ok. And the relevance? As far as I can tell, the change in the URL was from a .html to .shtml extension. Is that related to SSI? The main point is that this is a 7+ year-old thread that has been woken from the dead. :)
Yes .shtml is the usual extension for pages generated by SSI. The reason for my comment, other than geekery:), was the probable reason for the change in the page's URL was a switch from static html pages to SSI generated pages.

blutoski

9th March 2011, 01:48 PM

The first time I ever returned something I'd bought was back in the 1970s. I purchased an Archie comic that turned out to be evangelism. The salesclerk let me exchange it for a 'real' Archie comic, no questions asked.

Turns out, I'm not the only one who was confused: [A History of Christian Archie Comics (http://generationexploitation.blogspot.com/2006/06/history-of-christian-archi_114951302719460209.html)]

ETA: OMG! This is exactly the issue here: [Archie Gets A Job (http://bp3.blogger.com/_qFgmPelbHLU/SFDAGh8LmBI/AAAAAAAABFA/aUUDOLAEJCs/s1600-h/christian+archie+archie+gets+a+job.jpg)] (I remember the lighthouse)