"Doonesbury" This guy, he's Doonesbury, I guess, and he's talking to another guy about the war in Iraq. (Or maybe the other guy's Doonesbury... I don't think it matters.) Anyway, he starts talking about some soldier being sent to Walter Reed – I guess that happened in an earlier comic, I didn't read that one. But it was hard for the guy at Walter Reed, real hard. Because he had lost both legs over in Iraq. And that's it.
I guess that's funny if you don't have legs either.
"Cathy" Let's see… this chick, she looks kinda heavy, this heavy chick is trying on swimsuits, and of course she looks terrible in them. I mean, it's hard to tell, because she's, like, a drawing, you know? But anyway, she looks fat, and she's talking about how expensive this swimsuit is, and then in the last box, after she looks herself over in the mirror she says, "Why is it the more expensive the swimsuit, the less it hides?"
That totally reminds me of my ex-girlfriend Jen. She was heavy in high school like this cartoon and was such a head case about it she became anorexic in college. It was okay, though, 'cause she got thin by the time we dated – she looked good, seriously, she had a great body – but she'd always freak about gaining weight and was always asking me if she was fat. Like, a couple times a week, every week.
Women are fucked up.
"Dilbert" Some guy in an office asks this woman for a new pen. I think she's a secretary or something, but then why would he be asking her for a pen? And next she says "You'll need a pen to fill out the pen request form."
This kind of reminds me of that movie Office Space. That was hilarious. It lasted, like, a week in the theaters, but it's funny, because it's always showing on TV. So people must like it, right? I mean, they should – it's totally great. But it was like the same thing in this comic strip. "Yeah… I'm gonna have to ask you to come in on… Saturday." "Did you get the memo?" SO many good lines. I could quote that movie all day.
There are two more boxes, but I think it's the same kind of thing.
"Garfield" I'm not going to be able to read this without thinking of Bill Murray. He was the voice of Garfield in the movie. I don't know why he'd agree to do that… it doesn't seem like his kind of thing. I guess he really wanted the money. Why would Bill Murray need the money? He's, like, one of the most successful comedians ever. He's probably still living off the money from Stripes. Which was also awesome. But not as awesome as Office Space.
Anyway, lemme get to the comic strip.
(Before I forget, I should make it totally clear that I didn't go see the Garfield movie because I wanted to – my mom made me take my nephew. He's nine. Even he thought it sucked… and he's nine. Yeah, it was that bad.)
"9 Chickweed Lane" Okay, there's a woman, I guess she's a dancer or a ballerina or something… and she's stretching. Stretching? That's it? She doesn't even say anything?
I think I missed something here – nope.
Yeah, women are fucked up.
"Family Circus" So these kids are coming down a hill on a sled, and one of them says to the other "What a neat sleddin' hill! And we were the first ones to find it!"
What's weird is there are all these invisible people also sledding down the hill with them. That sounds stupid – how do you see anything invisible? Well, you can tell they're invisible because you can only see their outlines, they aren't colored in. But I guess it's also what makes the comic strip work, because it means these kids are wrong – they weren't really the first kids to find the hill, the invisible people probably beat them to it. Only they'll never know that, because those guys are invisible.
