Comments on: Independence Day LOL

By: Lihtox

Lihtox — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:02:51 +0000

@3: The Scarlet Letter cartoon turns the novel into a juvenile name-calling contest, which is amusing. “Yeah, well, you get a L for loser! How do you like that?”

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:16:01 +0000

The Venus de Silo cartoon would have worked better for me if the missiles didn’t have side fins.

mitch4 (#2), I believe the “Castle of the Otter” mistake for Citadel of the Autarch appeared initially as a report in Locus, in their “Forthcoming Books” section.

By: George

George — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:18:03 +0000

Unarmed could mean one of several things:

1) The missiles have no warheads
2) The missiles are not prepared for launch
3) Any installed warheads are not prepared for detonation

None of these conditions are easily shown pictorially. Maybe the cartoonist meant to show partial canards (the fins near the nose) like partial arms on the Venus statue. Canards aren’t always seen on missiles, but they all have them here, so he must have intended to do something with them. Anyway, how do you draw a partial canard? It’s kind of like digging half a hole.

By: MellowCake

MellowCake — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:48:15 +0000

I know the “Pardon My Planet” comic is just a play on a phrase but… How do you have an unarmed missile base? And the missile base drawn is hardly unarmed. So, I’m probably trying to hard, but is the joke just the phrase??

By: Rainey

Rainey — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:01:44 +0000

George, the punchline behind the scarlet letter strip is that very few observers would know what the letters actually stand for. Besides that, with only 26 letters in the alphabet, insulting labels outnumber letters. You’ll run out of letters very quickly.

By: Sili

Sili — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:49:57 +0000

I hadn’t caught the pun in Partially Clips …

By: George

George — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:53:53 +0000

Re: Scarlet Letter

I don’t get it.

It’s been along time since High School Lit, but I can’t see what makes this funny, let alone a LOL.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:44:22 +0000

SF and visionary author Gene Wolfe had a book of essays and occasional pieces that he called “Castle of the Otter”. The title was retained from a fan’s mishearing or misunderstanding of Wolfe’s announced but at that time still forthcoming “Citadel of the Autarch”.

By: Marshal

Marshal — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:36:47 +0000

The Evil Inc. strip is part of a story arc that starts here:
http://www.evil-comic.com/archive/20100628.html

It is part of another arc started on June 7, and has Miss Match,
Lightning Lady and Desdemona teaming with Psy-Chick on a
capper to steal a weapon from Don ‘Luke “The Trekkie” Piccardo’.
And yes the puns do fly freely.