It would be more accurate to call it a “Blogroll Guest of Whatever Unit of Time Passes Until Corbett Remembers to Update,” but “Month” is snappier. (Please visit our previous winner when you have a chance: The Films of Mitchell Rose.)
In the meantime I’d like to add a permanent link, one surprisingly unrelated to bacon…
I’m addicted to The Comics Curmudgeon, a hilarious site where the C.C. himself, Josh Fruhlinger, dissects the daily comic strips. He bravely tries to make sense of newsprint dinosaurs like Mary Worth, as well as hip newfangled strips which started a mere thirty years ago.
Here’s a sampler of his commentary:
- Marvin, 3/14/08
Tough questions for today’s Marvin:
– Do people normally let their two-year-olds toddle around the house eating entire hamburgers, and presumably leaving a trail of ketchup and half-masticated bun in their wake?
– Isn’t Marvin’s interlocutor old enough that she should be talking for real, and thus be unable to conduct the thought-balloon-based telepathic conversations typical of Marvin’s infant society?
– For that matter, why does she need to open her mouth in panel one to thought-balloon at Marvin?
– Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
Crankshaft, 3/25/08
Crankshaft’s daughter and son-in-law are discussing the fact that their son — who is in his late teens or early 20s, and who I’m pretty sure is gainfully employed in some capacity — has decided to move into his own place. Naturally, their bleak, ashen faces in panel two make it look like he’s decided to sign up to be a suicide bomber — naturally, because this is the Funkiverse, where every little seemingly innocent decision has some kind of tragic downside, even if you can’t see it just yet.
Mary Worth, 3/18/08
“For the moment, the mutant super-breath power we shared was a secret between the two of us. But we knew that someday, it would be the instrument of our revenge against a world that had been cruel to us for too long.”
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I’m guessing that anyone who enjoys Rifftrax or MST3K will find some laughs there.
Now your nominations below, please….
38 responses so far ↓
1 Ariel "Digits" on Apr 2, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I would so enjoy this, but alas? My blog is private and must remain so. I have ex boyfriend problems. AND family problems.
I JUST HAVE ISSUES!
2 RemmieBarrow on Apr 2, 2008 at 1:39 pm
As long as we are riffing comic strips, why don’t we go after “Garfield”. That cat has to be over twenty by now. If he is not dead by now, he would at least be put on a special diet that does not have anything to do with fattening foods.
3 MikeP on Apr 2, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Now you’ve made us all curious!
My blog isn’t private, and yet I’m the only one who visits. I think it must smell, or maybe it has something stuck between its teeth.
4 Amanda on Apr 2, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Sweet, Bill! I’ve been a reader of CC for a year or so myself. He and his faithful readers are often hilarious and he introduces me to other great sites like this one: http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/page/1
Gil Thorp, Mary Worth and Mark Trail are now regulars on my daily comics read because of him while I rest assured that he will enlighten me if anything important happens in the worlds of Cathy, Family Circus or other unfunny funnies. I loved his recent take on Marmaduke’s world. I’m always going to imagine it as a post-War Hitler comic now!
5 Bill Corbett on Apr 2, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Garfield’s human companion has always creeped me out a bit. He has huge, bulbous eyes and a gigantic upper lip… but no nose!
Some comic abstractions work fine. This one disturbs. Looks like the poor devil had a serious accident.
6 Amanda on Apr 2, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Well, it’s the ‘disturbing factor’ that I really appreciate.
7 Bill Corbett on Apr 2, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Understood. As with many of the comics the CC writes about, it’s a car crash you can’t look away from.
Some of my favorites are the strips that seem lost in time, like Apartment 3-G, Gil Thorp, or Mark Trail… not to mention Mary Worth. None of them seem to have inched past, say, 1950.
8 Walter on Apr 2, 2008 at 2:49 pm
http://www.firstshowing.net and http://www.consumerist.com are the only blogs I check daily. But how about http://www.gloves-online.com/ ? You have hats, so get some gloves too.
9 Josh on Apr 2, 2008 at 2:49 pm
OH MY GOSH BILL CORBETT AKA CROW T. ROBOT/THE OBSERVER SAYS HE’S “ADDICTED” TO MY WEB SITE! *swoon*
I can die happy now.
I mean, I’m not planning to die or anything. I’m just saying that I can.
Seriously, thanks for the link, sir! This pretty much made my whole week.
Josh
10 Meredith on Apr 2, 2008 at 2:55 pm
http://www.paleofuture.com/ is good for fans of sci-fi. It’s a blog that collects articles, pictures and such of what people in the past (anything from the mid-90’s to the 19th century), thought the future would be like. As it turns out, they were (almost always) wrong. But entertainingly so.
11 Oddball Turkeypanties on Apr 2, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Readers who have issues with Garfield might enjoy the Garfield Minus Garfield blog.
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/
Long live the Comics Curmudgeon!
12 Conor Lastowka on Apr 2, 2008 at 3:32 pm
My favorite addition to my RSS reader these days has definitely been “Passive Aggressive Notes.”
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
It’s comprised of the passive aggressive notes roomates leave each other for eating the last slice of pizza or using their shampoo without permission, or signs informing customers of proper behavior. Updated once a day or so, it’s really easy to waste a lot of time perusing the archives. A must for anyone who has ever lived with other people.
13 Robert on Apr 2, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I simply must share with you all the glory of Marmaduke Explained: http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/
Just go. Go.
14 Courtney on Apr 2, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Robert, I was just coming on to nominate Marmaduke Explained! That’s where my vote lies.
Ummm look, I wouldn’t be mad if I was on the blogroll, that’s all I’m saying. I even talk about Rifftrax and MST3k in my column that’s up now. *cough*justloveme*cough*
http://www.hobotrashcan.com/outsideoftheincrowd
15 Dallas on Apr 2, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I happen to have discovered The Comics Crumudgeon via a comment on this blog a couple of months ago, and I think I have now read almost the entire archives (somewhat haphazardly, due to my habit of following the random link on the front page and working my way forward from there), and I would like to join in the praise of its excellence. So, thanks commenter whose name I don’t recall!
I’d suggest my own blog, but that might seem kind of conceited and besides, I don’t think there are that many people who are going to be interested in my mission to determine who makes the best tempura in San Mateo, CA. So instead I’ll nominate this one I just learned about today:
Postcards From Yo Mama
16 nate on Apr 2, 2008 at 7:36 pm
This is my current addiction, though I don’t think it has much to do with rifftrax, or comedy in general.
http://mytheum.blogspot.com/
17 Virginia Corbett on Apr 2, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I think I just spent an hour there. Damn, that’s funny. Thanks, Conor!
18 Matt on Apr 2, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Not to blatantly pimp my YouTube page, but for several years me and a few of my then co-workers would regularly alter the most notably unfunny comic strips to try to make them funny (Family Circus was always an easy target). I’ve scanned and posted a handful of them just for the hell of it.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=281899470
19 Bill Corbett on Apr 3, 2008 at 2:10 am
“I can die happy now.”
Don’t you die on us, mister!! Who else can we depend on to decipher the hidden codes in “Rex Morgan, M.D.”?!
Thanks for visiting, Josh.
20 Samuel on Apr 3, 2008 at 4:35 am
I think this guy does some pretty cool stuff, and it’s all original content. http://horatioalgiers.blogspot.com. I don’t know him or anything. This is totally unbiased.
21 Ranika on Apr 3, 2008 at 5:57 am
I once read every Garfield strip I could online on a bet once; my friend was certain it’d break my brain, considering the comic is condensed to maybe three or four jokes with any that break the monotony few and far between.
Personally, I want to know why Lyman abandoned his dumb ass dog. And why Garfield hasn’t died of some horrendous bowel obstruction causing his intestines or bowels to rupture causing sepsis, from all the cheese in that lasagna. Though that sends the whole comic some dark, terrible place, though it’d at least be some form of entertainment.
I mean, darker than an insanely lonely man so devolved into his madness that he converses with his pets as if they were people.
22 MikeP on Apr 3, 2008 at 6:04 am
http://www.joeypants.com/
Turn your speakers up!
23 Amanda on Apr 3, 2008 at 6:23 am
If that happened to Garfield it would be because he was someone’s pet from Funky Winkerbean or possibly Crankshaft. Though Crankshaft would have no use for something as stupid and angering as a pet to begin with. Whereas Funkiverse folks would take in a kitten, love it, see it through several severe illnesses and litters of kittens and once things were finally safe and good, Garfield would be found hanging from a beam in the garage.
24 Tv Miller on Apr 3, 2008 at 7:48 am
http://www.clearification.com/
Demetri Martin is the next-gen Steven Wright and I approve.
25 Tv Miller on Apr 3, 2008 at 7:52 am
And Mr. Corbett, being that strips were mentioned, I just caught this that might hail some blogroll value or at least a purple haze.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kXYvJJIefIg
26 The Cutter on Apr 3, 2008 at 8:11 am
Firstly, I nominate my horror video review blog (or vlog I guess it would be). It even features The Killer Shrews, in which i mention MST3K. How grand is that?
http://thecutup.blogspot.com
Secondly, I love the Consumerist. Such great stories from all of the big companies we love most!
http://consumerist.com/
27 Tv Miller on Apr 3, 2008 at 8:41 am
Great merchandise…
http://www.despair.com/
28 SaucyRossy on Apr 3, 2008 at 11:54 am
http://myscientology.blogspot.com/
“leith asked the question what have aliens got to do with scientology?
Hey leith, thanks for your question.
The answer is zip, nothing, nada. In Scientology we believe that man is a spiritual being ”
This blog is full of fun(ny) facts.
29 SaucyRossy on Apr 3, 2008 at 11:56 am
Another hilarious Q&A from that blog.
“Burkhard asked where the money paid for donations goes.
My answer:
– It goes to paying for the Church you are at to be there – mortgage, utilities, etc.
– It goes to paying the people who work at your local Church.
– It goes to disseminating Scientology.
– It goes to printing and publishing Scientology books.
– It goes to managing Scientology Churches world wide.
– It goes to expanding Scientology.
I think that about covers it.”
Notice that he never says
– It goes to helping the homeless, the needy and the poor.
– it goes to children to help them get educated
– it goes to building a better community
30 mgroves on Apr 3, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Dinosaur Comics: http://www.qwantz.com
31 Ranika on Apr 3, 2008 at 12:52 pm
That sounds marginally more amusing than Garfield, so I’d take that in a heartbeat.
32 Josh on Apr 3, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I promise not to die! And in return, you have to promise to make me a guest riffer on comics-themed movies like “Brenda Starr” or “Garfield: A Tale Of Two Kitties”.
What? Am I pushing to hard? Fine, I’ll stay alive anyway. Out of spite, now.
33 Lord-z on Apr 3, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Blogs are supposed to have readers? If I had known that, I might have tried harder with mine, instead of usually writing things that only entertain myself.
34 AmandaGal on Apr 3, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I guess they are not allowing comments on the other post, so I will post here (not work safe – PG rating):
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4263/baconbranf0.jpg
via http://www.slashfood.com
35 Rob T Firefly on Apr 3, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Feed The Head.
Go on, feed it.
36 John H. on Apr 5, 2008 at 7:57 pm
It’s GOT to be Fafblog, finally updating again after nearly two years. It’s damn near the funniest thing on the internet:
http://fafblog.blogspot.com/
37 John H. on Apr 5, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Gah, too late.
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