This comic hearkens back to one a few days ago- remember?
Normally, I assume you guys remember every little thing in the strip. Heaven knows that experience bears that out.
So, in a few weeks, we need to watch the Gocomics.com people and their comments. I get it- I mean, they don’t just read Hubris, but seem to read dozens of comics every morning, I guess.
But in the 09-10 gocomics Hubris cartoon (the one where he’s sleeping in the store on the first night of the Fest) one commenter said, “Why is he sleeping in the store?” and of course I thought, “Because I just said in another strip that he would be…”
But the ‘another strip’ had been a while back and for someone who reads a lot of random gocomics every morning, she can’t be expected to recall everything Hubris offhandedly says.
Even if I want her to.
And it’s 9-11 today here in the States. The day when either the sort of thing you’d been vaguely dreading actually happened, or the kind of thing you never thought could ever happen here, did.
Poor Cassowary. Probably just wants good takeout and a morning muffin with coffee.
Ah yes, the microphone and TV camera. Even the casawary has complaints.
As for 9-11, it was something I never expected to have happen. When I waled in the room and saw that on TV my first thought was that they were advertising a new action movie. Then I realized it was the news.
Everyone has 9-11 stories.
The thing with GoComics readers is that the casual ones have no real interest in any given strip. They just want to be entertained without having to work at it (such as, going back and rereading the last few strips, or googling a name or word they don’t know). Then you get the occasional humor-impaired wonk that insists on explaining all the jokes, or disappearing into the ozone on tangential subjects that ends up killing the strip’s punchline. Fortunately, there are more than a few fans of any given strip there that enjoy reading it and are willing to do the homework. It’s just that the reasonable fans often don’t attract the same attention the outliers do.
Groonk.
I like the ones that go off on barely-related tangents. I call them the “We have a dog.” readers. The name comes from a Cul-de-Sac comic strip when Timmy Fretwork went to play his banjo for the pre-schoolers.
“Every time that woman tries to cram culture down our throats.”
It’s a funny strip, too. Amazingly, I found it on a websearch on the first try.
For anyone that wants to know what Greg is referring to.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3_P7eJQLZ54/SqfuTuRDbiI/AAAAAAAAB3s/UHvcG6jRAk0/s1600-h/tfretwork.jpg
“We have a dog.” – No one like that in THIS group…
Now this time I really did laugh out loud. That’s funny Curtis. It fits right in the narrative too Greg.
We have a Cassowary! Just kidding.
You made me laugh out loud.
Apparently the cassowary feels there’s a lot wrong, and it’s probably right. Too bad nobody understands it.