11/12 comics

Oh, don't lie, Jeffy! Just tell Mom what you'll be able to say one day, that the way to a boy's heart is through his ass.


Judging by the Breton flag in panel one, the kids aren't in America anymore, they're in western France.

I don't really know what this fact does to explain the comment in panel three, other than maybe it's the result of a bad translation. Well, it's either that or it's just another one of Funky's "Gee, high school students sure are dumb!" jokes. In which case, carry on, Funky, carry on.


Ziggy isn't using a search engine; he's listening to Salt n' Pepa's Very Necessary album!

Last Thursday's comics

I know that you're all about a week ahead of me in the comics, but I'm going to guess that Niki falls into the cold water, Rex jumps in and saves him, Rex comforts him through his Katrina flashback, Rex suggests they take off their clothes to avoid hypothermia and since he's a doctor....

So, question: who does it reflect more poorly on that my mind is going there when I read this RMMD, me or whoever writes it?




I have to admit, I found this Family Circus funny. Probably because I'm already used to the humor in Zippy the Pinhead, since this little circle has a whole lot of absurdism in it.

Jeffy here obviously knows what he's doing - he's going to menace his family with some drum banging whether they like it or not. He throws in a little diva comment just for some extra flair, like one would toss a pink feather boa over his shoulder, to let them know that he knows how ridiculous he's being. And he just doesn't care because he's going to bang on that drum. The real-life Keanes' now regular inattention to detail has been broken by that equally ridiculous-looking snare drum. That's twice the size of a Keane kid's head! That's huge!

The best part is the parents exchanging glances - they know that now they can bang away all they want in their room and little Jeffy won't hear - and showing just how mundane Jeffy's diva-ness has become and how incredibly apathetic they are to his desperate attempt to get attention.

Jeffy will make the best drag queen when he grows up!




Haw haw, Ziggy's going to die a poor old man who has to collect cans to get money for his medications or food, his forced choice. Oh, this Ziggy's a killer!

Thursday's Ziggy

I really like the idea of a "computer dating service" that you have to go to in person to use. I also like the idea that this computer dating service would just be a woman at a desk, without any other chairs or furniture, like the customer service desk at a grocery store. But the part that I like the most about this is the implication that there's some unknown quality to Ziggy that just screams "Compatible with felons".

Wednesday's Ziggy

Haha! Ziggy has no friends and being put on hold is the closest thing he gets to human interaction! What a lame-o!

Oh, wait, that's actually just depressing.

Saturday's Ziggy

I'm guessing that one Mr. Tom Wilson doesn't actually know what all of that technology does. The reason that television "insults your intelligence" is because the content is provided for a large audience by people who you have no choice in. These other devices, though, are used to communicate with individual people that you choose to interact with. So either Wilson needs to get new friends who don't insult his intelligence, or he needs to keep up with the 80's better (seriously, he doesn't know that a cell phone is just like a regular phone in terms of the content it provides?).

Ziggy

This might make more sense if, you know, Of Mice and Men were actually about mice, instead of how people can feel insignificant in the face of adversity, circumstance, and death, as insignificant as mice. As it stands, it seems like the mice have decided that as a result of some unspeakable crime that Ziggy committed, something that he might not even understand, they're going to shoot him, and they want him to understand how it's not their fault.

Ziggy

Comics Shit Fetish Watch, 2007

1. Marvin
2. Ziggy's dog

Ziggy redraw, probable

I'm looking for a clean photo of a glory hole for Sunday.

Yes, the joke is obvious, cliche, and immature, but isn't that what Ziggy is all about?