A Month Of Sundays

Great song by a local band, but true today as the Sunday Funnies yielded serious gold!

"For Better Or For Worse" delivered another one of those "silent" movie strips, this one based on, of all things, fake boobs and hungry dogs. Man, what they can get away with in the papers these days.

In "Blondie", what husband or significant other hasn't been through that whole routine of "are you sure you don't need anything at the store?" The question that springs to mind at this point is, Blondie has gotten up to speed with the times, she owns a laptop that helps her with her catering business. Dagwood is a businessman, doesn't he own a cel phone? That always helps with those last minute "honey-do's", don't they?

Ever notice how Pancho from "Pooch Cafe" looks a little like Batman when he frowns? Just a thought.

I've come up with a name for the style of drawing that "The Boondocks" employs. I call it "Africanime." Like it?

As an owner of cats (as an ownee of cats), I have seen that crazy wild look in their eyes, and Mooch's perkiness in today's "Mutts" should be familiar to all cat-lovers. The funny thing about this strip is, Mooch doesn't even seem to realize it, which seems pretty much the case with real cats too!

"Opus", absolutely brilliant! From the drawing (the first panel is pure art, the beautiful businesswoman and Opus, face to beak over a coffee condiment counter with the foreground bookended by an arriving male foot and a departing female foot. Maybe I'm seeing too much here, but still - art, art, ART I tell you again, ART! The punchline is even better - Berke has his finger firmly on the pulsepoint of America with this one. I'd buy the whole damn book, just for this one!

So by now, I've nearly coughed up my bagel twice and have completely forgotten about my coffee, because page three is on a roll.

I'll say it again, the "cwockydiles" need their own spin-off from "Pearls Before Swine" - they're hysterical, especially as stand-up comics "ba dum bum KSSSH!"

And right smack dab in the middle of all the funny-ha-ha's, "Doonesbury" drops the reality bomb with six panels of the names of soldiers who have been killed in Iraq since 4/28/04. B.D. looks on in the final panel, which promises to be "continued next week." On this Memorial Day, Trudeau really manages to stop you in your tracks and keep you alert.

And with that - I'm on vacation, Key West ho!