CSotD: Thanks, Dave. Now I have to avoid bookstores. And drugstores. And airports.
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Saturday is often a throw-away day on the comics page. As the day with the lowest circulation, it's the day where, in a week in which you produced five good gags, you put the sixth strip. However, today there were several good laffs out there, though somehow they all came from a handful of strips that would be here every day if I didn't exercise some restraint. This makes the selection tougher, since I hate to keep drawing from the same half-dozen deep wells.
Speed Bump is in that select group. Dave Coverly cracks me up regularly, but today's strip did something I particularly like, which is to implant a stupid joke in my mind that will probably recur every time I walk through a bookstore. Or any place where fine literature is sold, like airport kiosks, drugstores and smelly-candle shops. It is the comedy equivalent of an earworm.
And a well-done one, too. Not only is it a funny gagline — "chicken" and "pants" are both known as good words to work into a joke — but the visual image is also memorably ridiculous.
But it's the comic earworm that makes this a winner. Thanks for nothing, Dave.
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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