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.
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