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I like the impossible nature of this. There’s no way a pool that thin would form naturally, nor would there be clouds visible underneath the arch. Makes it feel like some exotic location that’s not your typical gravity-bound ball of rock.
You can probably get your instance admin to ban any bot accounts that aren’t being honest, which is also a step up for Reddit.
Moominpappa is the one that identifies the car, and I’m willing to believe that in his adventures as a youth he’s encountered cars before. Well, since they exist in this universe, he’s probably encountered them. It does kind of feel weird to have cars. Moomins are intentionally kind of out of time, but it feels like a pre-car era.
Yeah, it’ll hit its stride as a nerdier comic in not that long. I think Zach was going through a phase of chasing the Cyanide & Happiness style dark humor trend for a while here.
In case anyone hasn’t seen this bit:
6·2 days agoThere’s also some newer comics he’s drawn that aren’t shown in that gallery, like this one:
He seems to want to keep things locked down in general for some reason. There’s also no archive online of all the old strips, and the site only keeps the last few days of the daily strips.
Yeah, it was about mid 80’s that he reached the style you generally think of as The Far Side. 1980 was still pretty close stylistically to Nature’s Way, his previous strip that mutated into The Far Side. Here’s another one of those strips that’s similar to this one:
Fun fact, this comic is where the term “weeb” comes from: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/weeaboo
I don’t remember where I saw it, but“weeaboo” is an intentionally nonsense word here, and it was picked because the author’s sister described a dream she had to him where people were shouting it. I saw a store called “weeb” the other day, and thought it was kind of funny that the store’s name derived from someone’s weird dream 20 years ago.EDIT: Here’s the AMA where the author mentions the source: https://web.archive.org/web/20250413175535/https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2plhgn/iama_guy_who_does_the_perry_bible_fellowship_ama/cmxyxlz/
The correlation between the appropriation, the comic strip, and its true origin is sublimely meaningless. The word “Weeaboo” comes from a dream my sister had- in which a large room of Victorian-era people were shouting it at her, repeatedly.
This is the vet that he unsuccessfully tried to date for decades, until Jim Davis finally had them date a few years back.
The blue shirt guy thinks fast and comes to the conclusion that life isn’t worth living because of things like past due bills and intentionally gets hit in the head in order to die.
Funny you mention that, I’ve been posting them over in !peanuts@midwest.social starting from the very beginning
Really appreciate you adding context to these comics!
Recently saw that comment over in !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Introduced a couple of strips back, as one of the crap tributes that The Mistress got:
1·4 days agoAge of majority would be the English term for it.
I think he means what is also called “word problems”. The sort of math problem like “If Susie and Arnold are X miles apart and Susie is traveling towards Arnold at Y miles per hour…”
She just wants everyone to have a healthy immune system.
Think that’s pretty common for kids their age to copy adults like that though. IIRC, they’re about 4 at this point in the comics, though later they get aged up to 8 or so.
Yeah, @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works was noticing that with another comic the other day: https://discuss.online/post/18096034.
I guess it’s from Schulz not wanting to show adults in the strips, because I think kids would mostly have helped out with the adults cooking. Or maybe with kids roaming around the neighborhood more back in the day, mud pies were a more popular option. Or maybe it was a commentary on the quality of food Schulz was getting fed IRL at the time.