Crikey!

This is an open comment to the people who still publish and distribute the comic panel Natural Selection:

I understand that this is a repeat from 2003 but you people over at Creator's Syndicate do realize that Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray in 2006, right? You would think that this would be a comic never to be shown again like the Peanuts where Charlie Brown befriends a Klan member*. It's time to remove this strip from rotation because I feel it's in bad taste and I've made fun of everything from pregnant women to cancer survivors.

*Not true.

Zits 2/9/10

Yeah, yeah, cell phones are small enough to hidden by a piece of bread. What disturbs me is that the bread makers have decided to put their logo right on the bread as it's pretty clear the bread is not in a bag.

Mary Worth 2/9/10

So as Dawn happily rubs her cleavage, I wonder why Mary hasn't meddled more during this storyline. Don't tell me Dawn does it all! If so then the next storyline will feature Mary Worth trying to dispose of Dawn's body because only Mary may meddle.

Hi & Lois 2/9/10

What's with Lois' eyes? She is either shocked to learn that her eldest boy has true adult feelings or the sight of Chip on his guitar is getting her all hot and she's wondering what the penalty for incest is in their state.

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Are You Ready for Some Football?

The United States Post Office are honoring several comic strips this year in their Sunday Funnies stamp line which comes out in July. The set commemorates Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield, Archie and . I still have a whole pane of the 100 Years of Comics stamps the post office released in 1995 so I will probably get these too.

And I know this is late but I had other stuff to do. But every strip here is either Super Bowl or football related so enjoy.

Arlo & Janis 2/7/10

I'm pretty sure there are more beer commercials than four in the first half. I counted more like six.

B.C. 2/7/10

Apparently in the post-apocalyptic future B.C. takes place in, the Earth's Moon has been settled by little green men.

Born Loser 2/7/10

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Betty 2/7/10

Not being a sports fan, I do not understand when people get so into the game that they scream at the TV. But then again, I interact with the characters on my favorite TV shows.

Drabble 2/7/10

Yeah, because God forbid you just go to the bathroom during the game. Really, Drabble? Pee jokes?

Heathcliff 2/7/10

Heathcliff's burps are so powerful that they cause him to change colors.

The Meaning of Lila 2/7/10

I don't need a meaningless football game to tell me when to snack.

Blondie 2/7/10

I don't know what the hell is going on in the fifth panel but how often do you think Dagwood makes Blondie wear that ref's outfit in the bedroom?

Cathy 2/7/10

How hypocritical of Cathy. She looks exactly like that when she eats chocolate so she is also repulsive. What else is repulsive? The foreplay in the last panel.

Cleats 2/7/10

I would love to play football in the rain and mud. The other problem is that the only thing I really know about football is what kind of ball to use.

Daddy's Home 2/7/10

I didn't catch The Who during Half Time. I kind of thing Roger Daltrey breaking a hip would be funny.

Hi & Lois 2/7/10

You can tell it's a dream by the rounded panels.

And that's not Hi's knee in the last panel, it's his erection.

In the Bleachers 2/7/10

This gets my vote for funniest football themed comic today.

The Middletons 2/7/10

They don't make Super Bowl commercials like they used to. Remember in the '90s we had commercials that were memorable. The Budweiser frogs, among others. Now it seems the commercials are shown just during the Super Bowl and never seen again.

The New Adventures of Queen Victoria 2/7/10

The Tebow ad wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be but I agree, mind your own business.

Tank McNamara 2/7/10

Hey, look. It's Tank McNamara. (I got nothing here.)

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Anger

Here's your commentary. It's still the fifth, so it's still technically on time.

Momma, 02/05/10

That is not how coupons work, Mel Lazarus. You're in Mensa, you should know that.

Wizard of Id, 02/05/10

People call the King a fink all the time in this strip. Why is this guy whose name I can't remember the only one who's stuck int he dungeons for it, and for so long?Usually, they just get chained to a wall and by the next day they're back up and about. I'm willing to bet this guy did something much worse than just call the King a fink, but it's a crime so terrible that it has to covered up.

Hi and Lois, 02/05/10

Screw you, "Hi and Lois". Girls with glasses can be just attractive as girls without, and if Chip is such a jerk that he's put off by a pair of glasses, then he can rot in Hell. I will admit that letting her hair out of those little pig-tails things was a good move, though.

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Pretty Sure

Are you reading Carafe yet? Both XY and myself have comics up there, so you should really be reading it. Now then, on with today's late commentary:

Momma, 02/04/10

I'm pretty sure Momma just walked in on her son and a prostitute. I'm also pretty sure that the son expects Momma to be put out by this, for some reason. What I don't get is how someone like Momma's son, who is portrayed as perpetually unemployed and lazy, can afford an apartment, let alone a prostitute. Does he just mooch all his money from his mother?

Also, if she's not a prostitute, then that just brings up a whole different set of questions based on the previous characterization of the son as a charisma-less loser.

Ollie and Quentin, 02/04/10

Humans attack sharks for sport and whatnot, sometimes, and humans are technically animals. I'm not saying we should be proud of that fact, I'm just saying it happens.

Dennis the Menace, 02/04/10

The concept of Mister Wilson crafting a terrible revenge plot against the spawn of Dennis unnerves me, but also intrigues me. What sort of revenge would Mister Wilson enact? Maybe black-mailing them into taking care of him in his advanced age, so that he could bother them as Dennis has bothered him.

Brevity, 02/04/10

I'm pretty sure the joke here is that the MIT guys are enraged by the fact that the Dave Parker Five has six guys in it. If that's the joke, then I think it's actually a pretty good one. If it's not, then what the heck is going on in this panel?

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