Comics I Don’t Understand

Balloon 2

Cidu Bill on Sep 10th 2010

I’m familiar with The Red Balloon, and I was fine with this until the final sentence…

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Francesco Marciuliano, Medium Large, comic strips, comics, humor | 18 responses so far

18 Responses to “Balloon 2”

James Pollock Sep 10th 2010 at 12:05 am 1

But this is clearly a WHITE balloon.
Bruce Sep 10th 2010 at 12:14 am 2

I’m assuming an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. (I mean, when you imagine you’re seeing a talking balloon in a bar…)
Dave Van Domelen Sep 10th 2010 at 12:16 am 3

MLGuy was just bitching about some meeting at work, and got massively out-agony-aunted.
Frank the curmudgeon Sep 10th 2010 at 12:42 am 4

Ain’t it awful? You’re not OK.
Detcord Sep 10th 2010 at 02:45 am 5

This sounds more like a case of first meeting TMI (too much information). I thought this was a ‘guy’ thing, so the listener ought to be female, but I’ll be happy to be corrected on this aspect.
minorannoyance Sep 10th 2010 at 03:37 am 6

I’ll go with DVD, but an alternative is that the guy said something about a meeting in an attempt to gracefully get away before the talking balloon went TMI.
mitch4 Sep 10th 2010 at 04:00 am 7

Have we ever gotten Puff’s [the Magic Dragon] side of that story?
George P Sep 10th 2010 at 07:17 am 8

I’m with Dave Van Domelen. Two strangers at a bar (a common theme in this strip), one bitching about work, one telling his life’s story.
Farmer Sep 10th 2010 at 07:42 am 9

They “threw him an insane asylum”? Is that hip slang for a wild party? Or was the editor off getting therapy, too?
mister obvious Sep 10th 2010 at 08:17 am 10

This is a speech balloon. The guy at right was trying to say something to someone else in the bar but the speech balloon has a mind of its own.
Chyron HR Sep 10th 2010 at 08:29 am 11

There’s a bird inside the balloon, and he’s the one talking.
AMC Sep 10th 2010 at 08:47 am 12

That’s the kind of talk enema bags think is seductive.

From the look on the guy’s face - it’s not working.
Kit Sep 10th 2010 at 02:15 pm 13

LOL @ Chyron HR #11
jjmcgaffey Sep 11th 2010 at 05:27 am 14

7 - mitch4 - yes, actually, but I can’t find it. Swear I had it somewhere - it’s called “Signed, J.P.”.

Last night I saw a dragon sitting calmly in my yard…

“You used to come most all the time but it’s been thirty years…
“How could you just forget?”

I tried to tell my dragon friend that I was now a man
And men don’t have the time
To fool with dragon-kind
Besides, I’m sure the guys at work would never understand
‘I have a dragon friend’ - they’d think I’m round the bend

I’ve clearly forgotten most of it. But it ends with

I went into my office before dawn was in the sky
…and wrote a resignation note
‘I quit effective on this date, don’t ask the reason why
‘If mail should come for me, I’ve gone to Honalee’
Signed J. P.

So it’s got a happy ending.
mitch4 Sep 12th 2010 at 09:18 am 15

thanks, jjmcgaffey! Now i can feel better about the whole thing
James Pollock Sep 12th 2010 at 04:29 pm 16

OK, so “Puff” gets a happy ending. What happens to stuffed tigers when little boys no longer believe? Do they go live in the Hundred-Acre wood?
Kristin Oct 5th 2010 at 09:32 am 17

I’m not sure if anyone’s got this yet or not, but, there’s a short video about a little boy who finds a red balloon and befriends it. In the end, it floats away and he looses it– I can’t think of what it’s called though, and I didn’t know it was french. I watched it in elementary school when I was a kid. :3

Hope that helps, anyways. XD
Kristin Oct 5th 2010 at 07:45 pm 18

Dur-dur, I didn’t read the “I’m fine with ‘the red balloon’ comments at the end, there. I’m a doofus.