Kind of returning to their roots here, being attacked by a snake in a swamp while floating on a flower

Shadow is taking the role of Sniff here (wonder if Sniff was meant to be a Shadow-type character originally, and then morphed later?), and Snorkmaiden instead of Moominmamma. We’ll have to see if they get out of danger the same way or not.

https://www.moomin.com/en/blog/the-moomins-and-the-great-flood/

It’s the flip side of the common trope of inventing a time machine, and going back to see cavemen. These primitive cavemen invented a time machine and went forward to see us. The humor of the log is just that, of course their “machine” is something primitive, just like them. The floating is just because time machines are often depicted as being able to fly, often surprising primitive people that are visited by time machine inventors.

Reminds me of Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

I think they mean that the navigation is weird when you’re clicking Previous on the site. Here’s the overall archive:

https://www.oglaf.com/archive/

They mostly do 1 pagers nowadays, but if you go here https://www.oglaf.com/signs/ and then click “Previous”, it will take you to the first page of https://www.oglaf.com/goat/, with no indication that there’s a second panel that you can get to by clicking “Next” from that page.

Very polite of the crocodiles to stay in the water and not come up on land

Nice find! Seems likely that this comic is referencing that song specifically. The Disqus comments also reference Talking Heads several times, too.

My guess is that he thought it would be hard to tell that it was made out of ham. Still works if you don’t catch that though. Dog heaven = truck chasing works as a joke on its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn

The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer’s Last Stand and known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

Wee little guys that look good under a microscope:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium

Good question, I’m not sure. This is just what was posted to the site. Not sure how much Gary Larson is involved with this vs just some random people 🤷

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Transcript:

A few years ago, the Citizen-Journal in Columbus, Ohio, made a slight mistake regarding which Far Side caption went with which cartoon.

The caption for the “slug” cartoon, depicting a mass of slugs worshiping their “god” and chanting some nonsensical intonation, was repeated the following day with the “tree house” cartoon. Instead of the version shown in the upper left corner, what Columbus readers saw was the cartoon at left.

And how many letters did I have forwarded to me asking for an explanation? Don’t ask.

He’s passed several difficult tests to be accepted by their tribe or prove his worth, or something like that. The joke is that the tongue twister is considered harder than all of that.

He’s commented on a few of his strips about struggling between caption or not, so he’d probably even agree

Moominmamma will have them helping out in the kitchen in no time

Seems that waller is derived from wallow or wallower, but is a real term:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waller#Etymology_2

From wallow or wallower.

The place where animals make their bed.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

On the left is the first version of this cartoon, which, after completing, I felt contained a fundamental error in showing the action. The second version implies what is about to happen, thereby heightening both the tension and (hopefully) the humor.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

Thematically similar, I’m afraid both these cartoons ended up generating confusion among some readers. I was trying to contrast a dog’s perspective on the world with that of our own.

The first cartoon deals with what I believe is a universal behavior in all dogs: their fascination for one another. When a dog riding in a car sees another dog on the street, there’s not much that’s going to distract the first animal from checking the second one out. Our own world (which is coming to an end) is not necessarily the dog’s.

In the second cartoon, I was just trying to suggest that it doesn’t really matter what you do for a living or how big of a jerk you are, your dog still likes to see you come home.

Both drawings imply that, no matter what the circumstances, dogs are, after all, still dogs.

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My first caption to this read: “Hey buddy.…You wanna buy an ungulate?” Of course, almost everyone knows that “ungulate” is the collective term for hoofed mammal, but then why risk confusion among a handful of illiterates?

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I opened the newspaper one day, and The Far Side on the left is what I saw. The version I submitted, however, is on the right. As you can see, there’s a subtle difference

Normally, when a syndicate editor feels compelled to alter a caption, he or she contacts the cartoonist and the changes are discussed. No one contacted me about this one, however, and I cringed when I read the new, wimpy caption. In cases like this, I prefer cartoons be rejected altogether rather than “softened” in their impact

My editor only did this a few times, and, when the cartoon came up for inclusion in a book, I had the original caption reinstated

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Transcript (sketch):

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Another little “slice of life” scene. The rough sketch evoked something in me (more successfully than the final, I think) and I just ended up drawing it.