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The Far Side

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

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Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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“Now don’t you kids forget—stay away from old Mr. Weatherby’s place.”

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[–] rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read the disqus comments and still am not sure I get what is going on here. I thought maybe it had something to do with that nursery rhyme, but that doesn't seem to work. The one explanation in the comments seems to require more intimate knowledge of another comic, which I do not 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, it seems if these two could combine houses, they would each have a better overall quality of shoe!

[–] m_f@discuss.online 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think the joke here is just that she's warning her kids to stay away from the weird old man's house, which is kind of a trope on its own, and then merged with the nursery rhyme. The house she's warning the kids to stay away from is a squalid, rundown house as you might expect, but it's funny (presumably, ymmv) to think about what that would look like as a shoe.

I think the Archie references in the Disqus link are just amused by the coincidence that the random name Larson picked is close to the Archie principal, but that probably wasn't intentional.

[–] rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was way over thinking this haha.