Comics I Don’t Understand

Mister Sandman

Cidu Bill on Jul 29th 2009

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, F-Minus, Tony Carrillo, comic strips, comics, humor | 16 responses so far

16 Responses to “Mister Sandman”

DevilDan Jul 29th 2009 at 12:05 pm 1

No joke. Just man contemplating his own mortality.
Janice Jul 29th 2009 at 12:11 pm 2

He’s using a metal detector to find “treasure” washed up on shore. Instead, he finds another metal detector and the remains of its owner, which would make one question whether this is really a good idea after all. There was a similar joke in “the other coast” a few months back, but without the (morbid) skeleton.
Elyrest Jul 29th 2009 at 12:34 pm 3

Yep, Janice has it. Guy with metal detector finds the remains of another guy who likes to use a metal detector.
Nicole Jul 29th 2009 at 01:23 pm 4

This comic drips with irony

While on the beach a large wave came in and the undertow dragged the man out to sea. Tide and time had their way and he was swept away to the Amazon river where piranah’s stripped his bones of his flesh. The tide turns and brings his skeleton, still grasping the metal detector back to the original beach, where it is washed up on shore and subsequently burried by the wind blown sand. The man looking at the skeleton has unknowingly slipped through a time warp and while scouring the shoreline for treasure, his metal detector is set off by the metal detector that is now burried. He digs furiously, thinking that he has found his fortune, only to find that he is looking his future in the eyes.
Tam Jul 29th 2009 at 02:09 pm 5

I’m with Janice on this one. (But I like Nicole’s explanation better.)
Nicole Jul 29th 2009 at 02:11 pm 6

I am actually with Janice as well — I just HAD to write something
Ray Jul 29th 2009 at 03:07 pm 7

Nicole has officially blown my mind…
debi Jul 29th 2009 at 04:52 pm 8

Nicole scares me. She reminds me of myself and everyone thinks I’m crazy.
LOL Quite an imagination!
Nicole Jul 29th 2009 at 05:26 pm 9

My job here is done (I ride off into the sunset on My Little Pony)
Pete Jul 29th 2009 at 05:34 pm 10

The skeleton dug a hole and got trapped by the incoming tide.
Rasheed Jul 29th 2009 at 09:49 pm 11

Metal detector detector
Rainey Jul 30th 2009 at 12:04 am 12

Nobody seems to be thinking like me on this strip. I took it that the man with the metal detector was looking for treasure but when he dug it up, he only found the remains of somebody else who was doing the exact same thing. This would indicate that this person didn’t find treasure either. He/she apparently spent a lot of time trying to find treaure because he/she died before he/she was successfull. This should be taken as a sign that this treasure hunter should search elsewhere.
P.S. This reminds me of an old Far Side strip where 2 people are crawling through the desert searching for water and they come across a camel who is also crawling through the desert dying of thirst.
P.P.S. Either the person who died was a nudist or there were looters present who for some reason were not interested in meatal detectors.
Singapore Bill Jul 30th 2009 at 02:03 am 13

Nicloe, you’re crazy. Sexy crazy, that is.

Though I do think seawater does a pretty good job at breaking down bones and a skeleton wouldn’t remain in one piece if the tissues were dissolved and it were washed around by water flows.

What I don’t understand is why everyone is overlooking the major score this guy has made. Normally you’d expect the guy to find a few coins and a bunch of old cans. Here he’s found a metal detector. Those things aren’t cheap. If there are any gold fillings in the skeleton, so much the better. If the skeleton is a gansta rapper, he’ll get enough gold out of the teeth to buy himself a nice car.
Keera Jul 30th 2009 at 05:39 am 14

Rainey, I’m thinking like you, which is why this wasn’t a CIDU. The thing is, underneath the skeleton with a metal detector, is another skeleton with a metal detector. It’s skeletons with metal detectors all the way down! (I seem to like typing “skeleton with metal detector”.)
Todd Aug 1st 2009 at 01:56 pm 15

I’m too literal to find this funny. Why is the skeleton holding it’s metal detector upside down? How did the skeleton die? Did he get hit by a car? (I first took the ocean to be a road.) Why is the beach so empty?
Robin Aug 10th 2009 at 09:21 am 16

Would you believe, with the kid this weekend, the expression “to find yourself” just came up? I’m figuring somehow the skelleton was trying to “find himself” with a metal detector. What happened afterward, I have no idea.