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  • Telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden, ~1890

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  • 2026-01-04

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  • Best guess is that they either fainted or are looking down judgmentally at the farmer. Agree that the drawing is ambiguous though

  • Which model of good and evil, if not somehow both, do you think is more accurate?

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  • Neither, "Good" and "Evil" can't exist absolutely and the universe doesn't care one whit about any of us. Our morality was shaped by what was evolutionarily adaptive, and we developed post-hoc reasoning for it with the nice big brains we evolved.

  • Batman kills babies

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  • Bonus panel:

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    Mister Miracle: Batman? No way. Remember… Batman kills babies.

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Batman kills babies

  • The Far Side @sh.itjust.works
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    2026-01-04

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  • Comments on this webcomic (SMBC) are only available on the first few days of every month

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  • I've noticed that. Shoutout to !smbc@discuss.online btw, where I post SMBC comics daily. I wonder if Zach would be amenable to integrating with the Fediverse somehow, seems like that would work nicely for comments.

  • The Far Side @sh.itjust.works
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    2026-01-03

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  • 2025-12-30

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  • I think he drew an eighth note just because that helps get the joke across easier than a whole note. It's more instantly recognizable as music, even if you've never learned how to read it.

  • How do you deal with grief?

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    What if Zohran Mamdani does a good job as mayor of New York City?

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  • Some people will never admit it and go to absurd lengths to hate on him, like the person that wrote this article, Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel:

    Why would the man about to be sworn in as mayor of America’s largest city elevate a woke, anti-Israel YouTube children’s entertainer to his inner circle, appointing her as a prime member of his inaugural committee?

    Simple: Because Mamdani himself is a child.

    I thought it was parody at first, but it seems to be real.

  • Do you prefer FOSS over proprietary software? How much do you use it?

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  • As much as possible, I don't use proprietary software. I bought a Pixel phone specifically so that I could run GrapheneOS (which has been great), and the only non-FOSS stuff I use is basically web tools for communication, like Slack/Discord/etc. As much as web-as-a-platform sucks (and it has many shortcomings), at least things tend to just work now on Linux, one way or another.

  • 2025-12-27

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  • Some background on this comic:

    Before I start work on any cartoon, I usually have a fairly good idea what the caption is going to say.

    In this instance, and in the last few moments of my deadline, I uncharacteristically made a sweeping change of the entire thing. Originally, the caption read, "Look, but don't touch―or the mother will throw it out."

    I still have no idea what came over me that made me suddenly see it another way, but when the cartoon was published it seemed to generate a favorable response from more than a few people. And I always found that to be sort of interesting. Does this mean we all have a latent desire to stuff worms into a baby―or is it just me?

  • 2025-12-26

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  • My read is that it's a low-effort "She's so ugly even the predators don't want to eat her". Maybe it was a reference to some current event?

  • 2025-12-24

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    After completing this cartoon in the "deer" version, it just didn't click with me, humorwise. I tried it again with bears, and I suppose, because of their ability to stand on their hind legs, they more closely approximate a group of guys standing around doing the same thing―and, to my eye, making it more effective.

  • 2025-12-24

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    The submitted version of this cartoon is seen here on the left. My editor, however, believed something more was needed to clarify why this guy coming out of the house is so mad―so he changed the caption to the version on the right. I acquiesced on this one, but always felt like it was redundant and too leading. I later restored my preferred version for inclusion in a book.

  • 2025-12-22

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  • 2025-12-20

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  • I read it as the spider having a fly call, not a rifle. It's trying to lure the flies into the web. Could be wrong though, hard to see exactly

  • 2025-12-17

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    Sometimes, when you stay up too late at night trying to think of something funny, these things happen. Except to say that it's obviously inspired by "Ghost Riders in the Sky," I haven't the slightest idea what "Ghost Riders in the Kitchen" means. I'll figure it out one day. (I should have followed up the next day with "Ghost Riders in the Living Room.")

    Also, mildly interesting to note that the original doesn't depict the ghosts as transparent, but somebody colored it in at some point and added that. Probably easier to do with colors vs B&W.

  • 2025-12-15

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    My editor balked at this cartoon initially, not because of the somewhat unsavory suggestion that Warren was choking on the cat, but because he feared not enough people would know what the Heimlich maneuver was.

  • 2025-12-12

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  • I think the joke here is just that she's warning her kids to stay away from the weird old man's house, which is kind of a trope on its own, and then merged with the nursery rhyme. The house she's warning the kids to stay away from is a squalid, rundown house as you might expect, but it's funny (presumably, ymmv) to think about what that would look like as a shoe.

    I think the Archie references in the Disqus link are just amused by the coincidence that the random name Larson picked is close to the Archie principal, but that probably wasn't intentional.

  • 2025-12-12

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  • Some background on this comic:

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    I don't think this ever really worked. The title on the dog's book is a well-known phrase, but I couldn't recall any expressions that would similarly reflect a cat's reading interests. In cases like this, I usually sit on the idea with the hope that someday I'll stumble across it in my sketchbook and immediately know how to handle it. This time, unfortunately, I think I forced it.