Saturday Morning Ewww
Cidu Bill on Aug 14th 2010
Mitch: I thought it was going to be the standard but risqué joke that takes “cavities” sexually. The nostrils make it more of an ewww.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Dave Blazek, Ewww, Greg Evans, Loose Parts, Luann, comic strips, comics, humor | 19 responses so far
buzz Aug 14th 2010 at 12:07 am 1
I didn’t think Evans had the nerve to do it. Kudos to him!
Kamino Neko Aug 14th 2010 at 12:15 am 2
I love Crystal, and Knute.
minorannoyance Aug 14th 2010 at 02:21 am 3
Yes, it’s only a comic strip, but my heart went out to the unseen retail employee who must decide whether or not to let that $86 bikini be sold to some unsuspecting customer.
Pete Aug 14th 2010 at 02:26 am 4
Can someone tell me what is going on here, please. That IS a guy, right? Why is he trying on a bikini?
Freezer Aug 14th 2010 at 04:04 am 5
@Pete #4: Basically because Crystal (the goth girl) semi-dared him to.
jayjaybear Aug 14th 2010 at 08:46 am 6
I like Crystal. I just don’t understand why she’s friends with Tiffany. Crystal’s so much less self-centered than Tiff and a lot nicer.
Powers Aug 14th 2010 at 08:53 am 7
That’s why most stores make you keep your underwear on when trying on swim suits.
padraig Aug 14th 2010 at 09:35 am 8
Anybody else remember Jim Carrey’s “Vera de Milo” bit? Back when he was funny?
“Well, Bob, jealousy is such an UGLY emotion…”
mitch4 Aug 14th 2010 at 09:49 am 9
For a while I was following the comments area for Luann on the United Media (?? or comics.com) site. There was a surprisingly sensible contingent there to defend Tiff.
Kamino Neko Aug 14th 2010 at 10:37 am 10
Clydefrog was anything but sensible.
Rainey Aug 14th 2010 at 10:41 am 11
Pete, a large part of the character of Knute is that he’s clueless ( possibly intentionally ) about when he should be embarrassed about doing or saying certain things. Therefore, I could very easily picture him exposing himself to two girls by wearing a bikini that wouldn’t be large enough to cover his genitals.
mitch4 Aug 14th 2010 at 11:21 am 12
KN: You’re right about the Frog!
But I was a conventional reader accepting that our title character Luann, though she might need to learn some lessons, would always ultimately be in the right, and always superior to the main antagonist, Tiffany. So I was surprised and interested to find myself somewhat convinced by the postings (from a few different users) claiming that Tiffany had shown moments of generosity and taking care of others that go beyond what we would have been expecting of her. Thus, participating in the “dunking” both to raise money for Delta and the class trip (albeit using this for an ego trip of her own); and being surprisingly gentle about quashing the rumors pairing her with Gunther. [Or do I have some of that confused?] Not to say she is a “shadow heroine” or anything that far … but neither is she fully malevolent.
mitch4 Aug 14th 2010 at 11:21 am 13
“booth”
Mark in Boston Aug 14th 2010 at 11:45 am 14
“I always suspected you were crazy. Now I can clearly see you’re nuts!”
ty Aug 14th 2010 at 01:14 pm 15
Does this balance the “Aack! Cathy in a bathing suit” strip? Because only beautiful people, male or female, should wear bathing suits; everyone else is worthy of ridicule.
Elyrest Aug 14th 2010 at 01:52 pm 16
“Because only beautiful people, male or female, should wear bathing suits”
So who gets to be the judge on who’s beautiful? Not many people actually agree on this. There are people out there who are proclaimed to be beauties and they make me feel creeped out. No one is worthy of ridicule - even people who probably deserve it (for other reasons).
Elyrest Aug 14th 2010 at 01:53 pm 17
ty - Or was that sarcasm? I’ve been told recently that my sarcasm detector is out of whack.
Kamino Neko Aug 14th 2010 at 10:32 pm 18
By the time the Gunther thing was happening, I had given up on comics.com (my account somehow got screwed up, and no matter how many times the tech people tried to fix it, it never worked), so if someone else came in to defend Tiff around then, I never saw it…
ty Aug 16th 2010 at 01:36 am 19
Elyrest - yup. Don’t know why the elitism, as expressed in this and the Lio strips, bugs me so much, but it does.