Okay, I think I need this one explained to me. Neither the addition nor subtraction of Heathcliff make me understand this any more or less.
Is there a pun I’m missing, or is this a “cow tools” situation? I really hope it’s the latter, because I always get kind of a kick out of the absurdity, hahah
There are a number of genies that pop up in Heathcliff comics. Knowing anything about them does not help make any kind of consistent narrative or lore. Their near existence is “the joke”.
Wait, so 3 years apart, they did almost the exact same genie comic? Except it’s Heathcliff holding it instead of a mouse?
Edit: I just noticed the trash ones, and that there are actually two different milk ones. I almost didn’t see that those two were different at all. These comics make me legitimately angry.
Hmm, y’know I sometimes complain about Gallagher recycling absurdist gags, but this is one of the better ones IMO. Compare it to the bubblegum weirdly containing super-helium, the trash ape running through the streets, the helmets and items being labelled with a generic word, and this one gives me just enough variation to be amusing, as well as having a sort of unexpected, old Persian connection.
A small example of how cultural cross-fertilisation can make for some novel art & little breakthroughs. That’s just me, of course, but still in this post-Far Side age in which surreal comics & sideways-humor is common, the strip manages to stay quite unique IME.
@[email protected], thanks for splurging on all the examples. That was really cool. I only wish this was a Euro comic so I could do a little gallery and writeup over at EuroGraphicNovels+.
Okay, I think I need this one explained to me. Neither the addition nor subtraction of Heathcliff make me understand this any more or less.
Is there a pun I’m missing, or is this a “cow tools” situation? I really hope it’s the latter, because I always get kind of a kick out of the absurdity, hahah
There are a number of genies that pop up in Heathcliff comics. Knowing anything about them does not help make any kind of consistent narrative or lore. Their near existence is “the joke”.
This is my favorite
Wait, so 3 years apart, they did almost the exact same genie comic? Except it’s Heathcliff holding it instead of a mouse?
Edit: I just noticed the trash ones, and that there are actually two different milk ones. I almost didn’t see that those two were different at all. These comics make me legitimately angry.
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I don’t know if that article was serious or meta but it was a great read! TFS
Hmm, y’know I sometimes complain about Gallagher recycling absurdist gags, but this is one of the better ones IMO. Compare it to the bubblegum weirdly containing super-helium, the trash ape running through the streets, the helmets and items being labelled with a generic word, and this one gives me just enough variation to be amusing, as well as having a sort of unexpected, old Persian connection.
A small example of how cultural cross-fertilisation can make for some novel art & little breakthroughs. That’s just me, of course, but still in this post-Far Side age in which surreal comics & sideways-humor is common, the strip manages to stay quite unique IME.
@[email protected], thanks for splurging on all the examples. That was really cool. I only wish this was a Euro comic so I could do a little gallery and writeup over at EuroGraphicNovels+.