Comics I Don’t Understand

I can’t believe Tatulli had the balls to get away with this

Cidu Bill on Jul 12th 2011

The problem is, since there isn’t any “innocent” interpretation of this last comment, there’s no way 7-year-old Dean would be saying it.

Filed in Arlo Award, Bill Bickel, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, humor | 12 responses so far

Litter

Cidu Bill on Apr 6th 2011

Unless Dean’s cat will only do its business if the comic section is under its litter box, I’m stumped.
In my limited experience, in fact, it’s the bag the newspaper came in that’s the vital piece of this exercise.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, cats, comic strips, comics, humor | 28 responses so far

Snooki

Cidu Bill on Feb 25th 2011

Okay, granted I don’t know a whole lot about that Snooki person — but I was under the impression that “miniaturized” was not the first word that comes to mind when describing her.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, humor | 12 responses so far

A 7-Year-Old Letch?

Cidu Bill on Feb 25th 2011

I’m just finding this one a bit creepy…

Filed in Bill Bickel, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, humor | 11 responses so far

Because he’d be talking with a squeaky voice??

Cidu Bill on Feb 8th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far

The Curse of the Three-Week Lead-Time

Cidu Bill on Dec 4th 2010

In the period between the time Mr. Tatulli wrote this and the syndicate distributed it, the Green Lantern trailer was indeed released. “Sucks” is too kind a word for it. So stick to your principles, Dean!

Filed in Bill Bickel, Green Lantern, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, humor, movies | 36 responses so far

Rithmatic

Cidu Bill on Aug 25th 2009

If this is what they’re teaching in middle school

then I can understand how Herb can be so abyssmally stupid

Of course, this doesn’t explain why Heart was learning differential calculus of whatever it was in second grade a few months back…

Pinny points out, by the way, that “the flash card reads ‘9×5′ in all three panels. Why is she asking for ‘5×8′ and even ‘5×9′?”

Filed in Bill Bickel, Heart of the City, Herb and Jamaal, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup, comic strips, comics, humor, math | 38 responses so far

Perfume

Cidu Bill on Jul 10th 2009

Dare I wonder how this was made? And why Heart thinks Dean would want to buy it?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, humor | 6 responses so far

The What is WHAT Now???

Cidu Bill on Jan 22nd 2009

I aced high school geometry, and I can’t make sense of this.

Filed in Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, geometry, humor, math | 43 responses so far

His Better Half

Cidu Bill on Oct 31st 2008

Not a CIDU, per se, but I was just wondering… Why exactly is Heart’s mother surprised in the fourth panel? What did she think Dean was going to say?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Halloween, Heart of the City, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far

Heart of the School

Cidu Bill on Sep 17th 2008

Three people sent me this one before lunchtime, so I figured I might as well put it online:

Mr. Barnes switched from being the music teacher to being the football coach as a way of increasing his job security, since schools are going to drop their music programs way before they drop their football programs.

Of course the joke would have worked better if Heart and Dean weren’t second-graders, since I’ve yet to come across an elementary school with its own football team (though I wouldn’t be surprised to be told that Texas elementary schools have them). Cartoonists should have a Gag Exchange Program, where if Mark Tatulli has an idea that’s better suited to a high school strip, Archie can use it, and if the Archie writers come up with a storyline too relentlessly grim for Riverdale High, they can pass it along to Westview High.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Heart of the City, Mark Tatulli, comic strips, comics, football, humor, schools | 12 responses so far

My Own Comics List

Cidu Bill on Aug 14th 2008

since i was asked…

Comics I Like So Much, I Would Actually Buy a Newspaper If I Had To

Arlo and Janis (along with Arlo and Janis Redux on Jimmy Johnson’s blog)
Frazz
Heart of the City
Kevin and Kell
Joyce and Walky (requires a $2/month payment; you receive a special URL once you pay)
*Least I Could Do
Out There
Punch an’ Pie (I’d still love to know what the strip’s name means)
Questionable Content
Shortpacked
Something Positive
Zits

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