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
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https://www.thefarside.com/2026/08/10/1
Caption:
At the international meeting of the Didn’t Like Dances with Wolves Society
Alt text:
DLDWWS / Furthermore, the way they portrayed the cavalry as being insensitive just made me sick! / And the buffaloes... Those buffaloes weren't really killed... That was all faked!
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Dolores is bloodthirsty. Coincidentally her favorite movie is Milo & Otis.
I didn't like it, I just thought it was boring as fuck except for the buffalo.
You could be the 4th member!
They should definitely make more all-buffalo movies. I don't know what the hell is wrong with Hollywood.
Not going to lie, a two-hour movie about the life of a buffalo, told from the buffalo's perspective, and entirely without dialogue, would be pretty sick.
And they could do similar stuff in a variety of ways! One might be along the lines of funny, domestic buffalo, like Dinosaurs ('91-94), or as a soap opera-style narrated documentary, like Meerkat Manor, or like you say, wordless from their POV, a bit like Microcosmos perhaps.
Would also be pretty cool IMO to make it from a Native American POV, with buffalo as spirit animals and such. Maybe with some dreamy cartoon mythology depicted.
Now how did I go from a shit comment to all that? XD
You're not gonna get that kind of movie in Hollywood. Maybe try upstate New York?
Pretty sure everyone came around eventually. Hard to believe it was so embraced at the time. Sort of the opposite of a cult following.