Omelets Sound Good

Oh, so that's a laser. I'm gonna start using that panel whenever I can. Something about it is just hysterical.


"And explaining she could take no more, Zoe MacPherson left baby Wren in the car, released the parking brake and let the car roll into the lake."


Huh?

So Gladys keeps forgetting to add cheese and meat? I don't get it.

Strip Contains Adult Matter

Our greatest fear has come to fruition.  There are now two--count them two Cathys.  May God have mercy on our souls.

And of course it's during the oncoming apocalypse that you realize that you've wasted your life working in a crappy local pizza store or blogging about comic strips.

Ok, Gasoline Alley it's time to leave the "cute" wordplay to the kids over at The Family Circus.

Why are we still talking about Halloween?  This strip looks like it should've been printed either October 29th or October 30th.

Is the reason Cleaver is "the whitest name" you've ever heard because of it's association with the Cleavers from TV's "Leave It to Beaver"?  What about former Kansas City, Missouri mayor and current Missouri Representative Emanual Cleaver?

Black Dilton Doiley needs to do his research.

This is as close to nudity as I ever want to come in a Born Loser strip.  Curse you, Chip.  CURSE YOU!!

Adventures of Superman #614-616

Every so often, a Superman story comes around that makes you believe without the shadow of a doubt that Superman is the greatest hero of all time.  The three-part "Heroville" saga is not one of those stories.

The federal government, run by Lex Luthor, discovers a town that was part of a experiment back in the 1950s.  All the citizens in town are superheroes.  Genetically manufactured superheroes.  Meanwhile, someone in the real world is paralyzing and sucking the color out of all the superheroes. 

 You know, classic heroes such as Major Victory, Elongated Man and The Ray.

Superman travels to Heroville to find the research team Luthor sent and finds Dr. Camel, who is the local physician and was once the lead geneticist on the project.  Camel hid the town and destroyed all the files during the Communist witch hunts of the 1950s so the town would not be considered unAmerican.  Superman realizes the town needs to exist so leaves it alone but unfortunately The Hollow Men arrive to suck the hope and color from the town.  Now, The Hollow Men are the fictional creation of an author named Benjamin

 Conrad who wrote a book about government created men who were created to maintain the black-and-white pastiche of Eisenhower's administration.  The novel did not sell very well.

Soon the heroes of Heroville are taken out by the Hollow Men and so Superman sends, and I am not making this up, Kid Scout back into the real world to get Benjamin Conrad to stop his story from attacking.  Conrad decides to write a new ending to his novel as the Hollow Men finally attack Superman and drain him of hope and color.  What is not really explained is how the Hollow Men are 

defeated.  Superman, somehow, is able to resist the Men's attacks but that happens at roughly the same time Conrad finishes his novel so the actual person who stopped the Hollow Men is unclear.  But, like just about every other Superman story, this is all wrapped up nicely--albeit, very confusingly.

There was this section of 2003 that had weird and unimportant stories like this in every title.  That all started to change with the Godfall storyline but then my subscription ran out and I decided not to renew it because I believed my time of reading Superman comics was over.  I had a good run (1992-2000, 2002-2003) and I don't regret my decision.  Plus, there were a lot of horrible stories told and that also turned me off.

Golden Comics Digest #19

I can't remember when or how I acquired these Golden digests.  I'm thinking at a library sale but I don't know.  I have several of them, mainly featuring Marge's Little Lulu but I also have ones that feature Bugs Bunny and Disney characters.  I find the Little Lulu ones to be the best because some of the stories are just wrong.  For some reason there's a lot of images of Tubby and Iggy walking around nude and lots of chauvinism from Tubby despite knowing that Lulu is the only girl who will ever pay him any attention.All the stories are very innocent though even though Lulu likes to tell stories about witches cooking and eating little children.  The first story in this digest shows Lulu and Tubby going to the carnival and Lulu only has enough money for three tickets while Tubby has a

 whole bunch.  Lulu wants to ride the tunnel of love three times.  Tubby soon has his tickets eaten by a nearby camel and then

starts freaking out, running around bawling and annoying the adults (which is very easy in these Little Lulu tales).  Tubby goes through death-defying feats while trying to escape the carnival and ironically ends up with Lulu at the Tunnel of Love.  The next stories is pretty self-explanatory as Lulu and Annie put on their blackface to insult an entire race at a party Wilbur is throwing.  One of my favorite stories in the book is where Tubby doesn't want to practice the violin and fakes getting a rash by painting red spots on his face.  His mother doesn't believe him of course so Tubby paints more spots on him but accidentally paints spots on his hat which makes his mother mad who sends him to the bath.  Which Tubby hates more.

The most disturbing story is one where Lulu comes home from yet another racially charged afternoon and her mother orders her to take a bath--while she goes out!!  Yes, leave your little girl alone in the house while she's taking a bath.  Great idea.  Anyway, while Lulu is naked and alone in the bath the phone rings and soon Lulu is on an expedition to find her mother.  All while wrapped in a towel.  Soon a little dog runs away with Lulu's towel so she covers herself with a scarecrow's rags, making herself dirty again.  When 

she finds her mother, her mother is shocked to see her daughter like that but Lulu thinks her mother didn't recognize her so what does she do?  Get herself put in the dog pound of course.

For Against

Does anyone ever read my Random Wikipedia Articles? I figure the few people who do read them enjoy learning something or at least the attempt of trying to learn something. Anyway, here are some more.

Pautaines-Augeville
Nenana River
Trinidad Head Light
American University School of Communication
Walter Aronson
Kinome
Delcroft School
Yamaha R15
Christopher Jamison

For Against are a United States post-punk/proto-shoegaze rock band from Lincoln, Nebraska. Despite numerous lineup shuffles and some periods of dormancy, the band has produced material steadily from its 1984 inception to the present.

Peanuts 11/3/08-11/09/08

That's correct.  How dare The Walt Disney Company change the cemented looks of mice, ducks and funny looking dogs in order to make a bug.  I honestly don't think Tapioca would be as marketable as Mickey Mouse or Goofy.  Maybe Donald Duck.

I was never a fan of Tapioca Pudding, the fictional Peanuts character but I do like the actual pudding.  I don't know why Linus falls for these weird girls.  Linus is a nice guy but he sucks at choosing women.
Peppermint Patty has never been good at taking tests which makes me think she has some form of dyslexia.  She seems smart enough but sucks at taking tests.  Patty also has insomnia and possibly ADD so she just has a host of problems.
So Mr. Van Pelt is bad at golf.  I've often wondered what Mr. Van Pelt does for a living.  I always figured he was a doctor which would explain why Lucy is a brat and Linus is smart.
Who really thinks winking is sexy?  It's not.  People need to stop winking.  It disturbs me beyond comprehension.
Okay, well, maybe Patty is just stupid.

I think the polka dot bow tie is kind of a turn-off.  Along with the dog breath.

Yummy Sunday Born Loser

That's why I don't like those flat screen monitors either.  When the computer acts up you can't hit a flat screen.  Luckily, I never hit a computer hard enough for it to burst into flames.

That's what happens when you go to the bathroom.

All that work for a terrible, terrible joke.

And is Gladys' chicken salad really 'yummy'?

Learn Ebonics the Wilberforce Way

What Wilberforce said actually makes sense if you listen to him.  I'm assuming Brutus didn't hear him because the TV was too loud and they are sitting only 12 inches from it.  Why doesn't Gladys ever get to sit down?  Do the Thornapples have only one chair and the men just dominate it?

The Evil Inclinations of Ms. Grub

I am not a huge fan of 9 Chickweed Lane.  It seems like nothing ever happens and when something does, it takes forever for it to come to fruition.  Plus, there are days when there is literally nothing happening in the strip or you have to infer what's happening.  Like today.

Although I have to admit the last two images of the hands is kind of sexy.  I still think it's a waste of space though and tomorrow we'll probably just get an image of them laying in bed, smiling.

Are those Beetle's parents?  They look like a nice couple.  How did they ever sire a lazy layabout like Beetle.  Also, why did they name him Beetle?

I know that the last panel is used as kind of a joke (get it?) but a lot of times you do need permission to put stuff in a cemetery like plants and benches.  I'll be interested to see how this confrontation winds up.

What's up with the black apple?  I mean, what moronic colorist would color an apple any other color than red or maybe green?    Also the black and purple ensemble Ms. Grub is wearing along with the apple make her look evil.

Brutus Has An Aneurysm

Like I said, Ted has no shame.  Unfortunately I'd probably aim in the same direction but I think I'm smart enough to cover it up.

Maybe we'll finally get to see some hard core robot fighting action.  Hopefully it's not as lame as Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots were.

Also, who says "M'Gosh" to mean "My gosh"?

Is it me or is Chip kind of doing a bit more with the characters?  I mean, that's a facial expression we've never seen here plus adding color (which may have been the syndicate's idea) and since my hiatus ended it seems like the strips have been working harder.  Kudos, Chip.  Kudos.