Comments on Big Al's Comic Blog: Family Circus Isn't Funny

Have any of you seen the recent Sunday (October 22...

2006-10-26T21:01:00.000-04:00

Have any of you seen the recent Sunday (October 22) panel of The Family Circus where the backyard was a pet sematary (with apologies to Stephen King)? Perhaps this comic panel was prophetic . . .

I didn't get it on Sunday, and despite all your th...

2006-09-15T14:01:00.000-04:00

I didn't get it on Sunday, and despite all your theories, I don't get it now. I thought Daddy Circus was singing an AC/DC song and the reveal was of a now-hearing-impaired dog running for his life.
Stupid.

I understood that he was talking to the dog, but I...

2006-09-12T09:54:00.000-04:00

I understood that he was talking to the dog, but I couldn't figure out all the hand gesturing.

Family Circus can be viewed online at the Houston Chronicle comics page.

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060910&name=Family_Circus

I know this one! I know this one! The banned Garfi...

2006-09-11T21:29:00.000-04:00

I know this one! I know this one! The banned Garfield book was "Garfield: His Nine Lives." It's a comic book treatment of Garfield by nine different artists and a couple of the segments are rather violent. And I think it's the best Garfield book ever made, because it actually shows some creativity.

uglinessman is absolutely right. didn't miss a po...

2006-09-11T18:09:00.000-04:00

uglinessman is absolutely right. didn't miss a point. i wish i had read the comments before i burned up the little gray cells trying to formulate such an articulate explanation.

Here's how I interpreted the Family Circus strip.....

2006-09-11T07:15:00.000-04:00

Here's how I interpreted the Family Circus strip...

In all the panels except the last, it's apparant that he's speaking and/or singing louder than he normally would if there were another person in the car with him. Then when he's letting the dog out in the last panel, the dog has this "get me the fuck out of here" look on his face, and dad seems to be saying "why's he in such a hurry". So I think that he knew that the dog was in there, and basically decided that since it wasn't a person, he could let loose (we can pretend he was cursing like a sailor if it maybe makes it funny), but the dog obviously didn't like it so much. The reason we don't see the dog until the last panel is not only so that the "reveal" provides the weak punchline, but also so we don't realize that the poor thing is probably cowering in the back seat with its paws over its ears.

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO READ PARADE!Maril...

2006-09-10T23:08:00.000-04:00

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO READ PARADE!

Marilyn Vos Savant is the redneck/smartass savior. I hate the questions where people are like

"Can you find the connection between the following letters: l m a o y o u a r e s o s t u p i d?"

"Okay reader's sharpen your pencils! The answer is at the end of this column!"

PS: Howard Huge and assorted other "comics" are drawn by the Lockhorn people, but these are funnier than the Lockhorns will ever be.

PPS: And I want to believe FC Daddy is just being a schitz.

And Isadore Rosenfeld's intellegence report has been lacking lately.

The real question is, is DK talking to his dog any...

2006-09-10T20:41:00.000-04:00

The real question is, is DK talking to his dog any less weird than him talking to himself? I say NO. He should have let Billy or Dolly, or hell, even PJ out of the car for this strip to make any sense at alll.

-- Austin