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0·8 days agoIt’s one of the earlier comics, and is simple dark humor. Instead of continuing a presumed rivalry full of hijinks, traumatize the gopher. Kind of like if Elmer Fudd did that with Bugs Bunny or something.
2·9 days agoFixed, sorry about that
First panel should’ve been last, IMO
It’s a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms
Lucy does seem the type to hold a petty grudge for life.
Looks like GoComics has the wrong original comic for today. Here’s the right one:
Yeah sorry about that, will fix that and update the posts. It’s happening because I have an ImageMagick command that splits the comics up into panes and rearranges them into the 2x2 grid, but the poor quality on some of the older scans break it in weird ways.
The joke is that the user is asked for their mother’s maiden name, and they think it’s a website/application on the laptop. However, it’s actually the laptop itself that’s asking. The laptop then starts romancing the user’s mother, telling the user that their mother’s maiden name won’t remain that for long, presumably because the laptop plans on marrying the mother.
As @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works points out, that’s not actually how maiden names work though. Your maiden name stays the same before and after marriage, it’s your last name that changes.
I think the joke would’ve worked better if the user responded “She doesn’t have one” and the laptop replied “She will soon!!” or something like that.
Some background on this comic:
Transcript:
I got lucky on this one. The first version seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, and very little had to be changed in the final. (I know most of those people behind the glass.)
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Some background on this comic:
Transcript (sketch):
“Oooooo!.. Mr. Van Horn!.. The duck is back–staring at your back.”
Raymond could feel it…First a tingling at the base of his neck and then a cold sweat would quickly engulf his body–yes, the duck was staring at him again."
Transcript (commentary):
Another example of perhaps overworking a cartoon. In hindsight, I wish I had used the final drawing but with the second caption in the sketch above, which begins, “Raymond could feel it…” It just seems a little more interesting to me.
In coming up with the name for the phobia, I played around with words like “quackaphobia” and “duckalookaphobia” and so on. But then I got the bright idea to look up the scientific name for ducks, and discovered their family name is Anatidae. Ad so, I ended up coining a word that twelve ornithologists understood and everyone else probably went, “Say what?”
Some background on this comic:
Transcript:
THE WRONG NUMBER
Larry lived alone in his small inner-city apartment. He had no friends and most people ignored him at all costs.
Then one day, unexpectedly, the phone rang. And Larry was surprised to find himself talking to God.
“Is this 555-3178?” God asked.
“No, this is 555-7138.”
“Sorry.” And God hung up.
The chapter opened with:
Sometimes ideas have come out of short stories or ramblings I write just to shift gears once in a while. Cartoons are, after all, little stories themselves, frozen at an interesting point in time. What follows are several stories that either led to cartoons, could have led to cartoons, or were just ideas in and of themselves.
Interesting that this seems to have been published after its inclusion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side. Or maybe they just forgot to include the resulting comic. Some of the other short stories have the resulting comic included.
It’s a play on the term “La-Z-Boy”. The name comes from people being able to be lazy in it, but the joke is that the chair itself is no longer lazy.
There’s a quote I can’t find the source for, but is along the lines of “If you want to punish a cartoonist, give him daily syndication”
That’s a good song for jumping at a piano to play it
Some background on this comic:
Transcript:
For me, the caption (if there is one) and the drawing are a simultaneous concept. In this case, however, I knew these bears would be pretty excited about their “find” but it took some time to decide how best to express it.
Yeah, turns out a lot of companies don’t really think about security, here’s a DEF CON talk where they find stuff that chokes on it:
Just in case it’s confusing, this was posted with today’s date because there’s no good way to automatically know the original posting date
I think the comics were colorized later, or at least not by him.