Thanks for the concern, but I’m just posting old SMBC comics in order and this is what was up for posting.

I appreciate your comment though, and hopefully it’ll help anyone if the post hits too close to home. Along those lines, I’ve always found it helpful to remember This too shall pass.

Saw a reference to Odie originally being called Spot and read about there being a prequel comic to Garfield, which I thought was pretty interesting

Second this 😀

@jgrim@discuss.online has been doing an awesome job of running it, and also created Sublinks as a Lemmy alternative

First appearance of Odie (née Spot). Fun trivia:

Odie was going to be named Spot until Jim Davis found out this name was being used for another character. This was shown in the original Jon comics and referenced in the August 15th 1978 strip, when Lyman swats Odie for what he “did on the floor”. Garfield looks on in amusement and says “They should have named him Spot”.

I like that they bother to transcribe it lol:

Garfield: a oo a e o e i e e i a e

Jon: a e o ou, a ie?

Garfield: a o e o ou u i e

Wouldn’t be surprised if a future SRMG strip turns that into a Witch Doctor reference

For some reason, I imagine bear cancer to look weirdly cute, like tardigrades:

Now that’s retro!

Thought it’d be interesting to post some of the Square Root of Minus Garfield comics, which were inspired by garfield minus garfield, but more experimental. Not sure if I’ll keep posting these, but if you like them and think they’d be a good addition, let me know!

According to Garfield’s Scary Scavenger Hunt, this is what happened to him:

It was an official flash game, so take that as you will for canonicity.

From the other site, this is apparently the shooter ranting about people “not knowing what sex they are”:

https://xcancel.com/TropicalVertic1/status/1933959644373819818

There are some claims (of course) that this guy was a Democrat and this is all Walz’ fault, but that’s based on him being on some minor board under Walz or because there were “No Kings” signs in the car, which are nothingburgers, to borrow the term:

Apparently Walz appointing the guy 6 years ago in an effort to toe the line

Not even to “toe the line”. It’s a non partisan board that currently has almost 50 people on it and 11 open spots that anyone who fits that niche can sign up for. It’s pretty much a volunteer position that only requires meeting 4 times a year or so.

It’s not a full time job, it’s not anything that really requires proper vetting outside of ensuring that the person signing up for it has something to do with the workforce (since it’s a workforce commission). There are hundreds if not thousands of collective spots like this across various niche boards and commissions, it would be weird if Walz (and other state governors) did vet this guy (and others on these boards).

It would be like if the superintendent of a large school district individually vetted each school’s PTO participants; just a huge waste of time and they have far bigger, more important priorities.

Yeah, it’s a moth. I’m sure there’s some other small flying insect attracted to lamps that starts with “M”, but The Far Side was written with your average newspaper reader in mind so generally isn’t that obscure

Very similar approach but with modals instead of inline: https://gwern.net/

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (draft):

I work for this scientist… I dig up graves, fetch brains, mop the floor-general stuff… you wanna see the lab?

blah blah blah… and you?

Looks like they updated the comic at some point to make it more clear. Today’s post has a little strip of white that’s not there in the original.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

A few days after this cartoon was published, I started getting a considerable amount of reaction from people who enjoyed it. But I found it interesting that, without exception, they were enjoying it from a different standpoint from the one I had intended. If you look at the enlargement of the two little calves, you’ll see that one of them is doing the old hoof-behind-the-head trick to its sibling. Apparently, it was just too subtle in the original. (In fact, it sort of looks like the one calf is just wearing a ribbon.) I wish now I had developed this into a series of places the Holsteins had visited. (“The Holsteins visit Three Mile Island” would have been interesting.)

For anyone that’s unaware, Cyanide & Happiness does a lot of shorts in addition to their webcomics. For some period of time (maybe the whole month of June?), they’re doing daily shorts of Blue vs Green:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/let-games-begin-130464081

Our boys Blue and Green are gonna be duking it out in a new animation EVERY DAY. Whose side are you on?

The creators use this picture on a lot of other sites:

The link wasn’t working for me, it seems PieFed doesn’t like capitalization differences in the links? Lemmy ignores capitalization. This works, at any rate:

https://quokk.au/c/sighfi

I don’t see the new post on my instance at https://discuss.online/c/sighfi@quokk.au, you might want to check that it’s federating properly. I’ve heard that recreating communities like that can make things get into a weird state.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (comic draft):

“Look at that… Man, in our day, Bernie, we could skeletonize a cow in less than two minutes.”

Transcript (commentary):

Just about every time I’ve heard or read anything about piranhas (as you might imagine, I’m drawn to the subject), it’s always mentioned how quickly a school of them can skeletonize a cow. I’m not sure why a cow is always the standard unit of measurement for this sort of thing, but pondering it eventually led to this cartoon.

I found out that geese will eat cottonwood fluff, as pictured. At least that goose does, maybe it’s bullied by the other geese for being weird. It doesn’t seem like it would have any nutrients, but what do I know, I’m not a goose 🤷