Comments on: Who

By: Kevin Andresen

Kevin Andresen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:33:50 +0000

The leather strap looks more like a rein to me than a leash (no release at the loop) so I like the “lawn jockey” explanation; it’s also makes me laugh. (Not that that’s a usual criteria for Lovely but it sure makes me think that that is the joke.)
It is true, however, that I can’t remember ever seeing a bow on a horse. (and boy, Googling just horse and bow does *not* get what we want here. )

By: Hunt

Hunt — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:21:35 +0000

I think this is definitely a jockey, and the joke is somehow based on the word “turf,” which is often used to describe horse-racing.

By: Bah humbug

Bah humbug — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:58:48 +0000

If a decent potential explanation falls in the forest and nobody listens, does it really exist?

By: RenardMuldrake

RenardMuldrake — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:00:56 +0000

Maybe that’s his lucky piece of turf, and he takes it with him so he can hit all his golf balls off of it… or he just loves it because he hit a good one off of it.. still pretty stupid. Or maybe this is supposed to be what Golfer’s keep as pets. Even stupider. Er, I don’t really know.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:59:33 +0000

I don’t know. I just had a flick through Lovely’s recent comics, and he seems to have a realist style of drawing faces - ie his generic faces are individual and detailed enough to look like they should be recognizable.
Consider the comic from July 24, for example - http://www.comics.com/comics/thunder/archive/thunder-20080724.html

By: Lola

Lola — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:52:29 +0000

Kelly, here’s the link I use.

http://www.comics.com/comics/thunder/

By: Lord-z

Lord-z — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:36:10 +0000

Lovely is not really bad. He just has a tendency to, occasionally, not explain what his intended punchline is. Like we are getting half the joke, or like some in-joke with a few select friends. I can only assume that the joke is more than “Hey, look, he dressed a piece of turf up as a pet! Isn’t he just crazy?”, since the man seems to be drawn in a way that I am supposed to recognise him.

The man looks vaguely like a skinny Norm McDonald, but that probably makes slightly less sense than the golf-pro.

By: Pinny

Pinny — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:33:26 +0000

…and the new URL just started appearing 2 days ago! The timing is impeccable.

By: Bulthistle

Bulthistle — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:32:33 +0000

Boy, I was off. I thought someone had scalped Nancy.

By: Pinny

Pinny — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:32:10 +0000

Re: #6 (Kelly)

You may not be far off. Several weeks ago someone here pointed out that the URL at the bottom of the DoT comics (robertlovely.com) did not exist. Now the comic shows a working address (rlovely.com). Coincidence?