Funny story: This comic got Larson an indignant letter from the Jane Goodall Institute, who did that without Goodall's knowledge. She actually found the comic fairly amusing when she found out about it. Now you can buy t-shirts with the cartoon at the Smithsonian. All proceeds from the sales go to the Jane Goodall Institute.
The joke is just that there is a family taking the stock standard obligatory photo in front of the Grand canyon, and one kid is doing the devil horns over the others head. Also they're cows.
Most people read the hooves as a bow, but still find the comic funny, and I love that. I love that you can miss the intended joke and the inherent absurdity still carries the comic.
Edit: I'm guessing that most people who feel they don't 'get' the far side are looking for deeper jokes than are actually there.
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Do you think the "new online era" is just them making a cryptic announcement reminding everyone about The Far Side so they can scrape the internet for all the scans that everyone uploads over the next couple of weeks? That way they can just slap them all onto a website and save on the digitization costs.
His idea of God was, and honestly still is, the bedrock of my personal theology. At least on my more optimistic days. Just a dude messing around, seeing what works, not really sure where the experiment is going, but very excited to watch it all happen.
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I always found the aliens buzzing the city screaming "YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAA!" putting a stupid grin on my face.
Another favorite that speaks to my childish sense of humor: "In the one split second, when the choir's last note had ended, but before the audience could respond, Vinnie Conswego belches the phrase, "That's all folks."
...I'm pretty sure that's a different caption than what was originally printed.
It is indeed.
Is there a story behind the different captions? Because the readable one feels a lot more like a jokey Farside comic, but as Cow Tools illustrated, Larson would occasionally just go weird with it.
I'm wondering if there was an editor somewhere who just said "Nope, that's gonna get the evangelical types all over my nuts..." in regards to the slug god, and grabbed a handful of Scrabble tiles to rework it in the last 30 seconds before it went to print.
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"Do what you love and you never work a day in your life," I guess
Though I heard he only stencils Calvin at the Cross.
Wait, which ones does he farm out to third world sweatshops with child laborers?
I would imagine all given that those decals are all produced without his permission.
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Like yeah sure they're going to die but look at their face and I just laugh
Funny story: This comic got Larson an indignant letter from the Jane Goodall Institute, who did that without Goodall's knowledge. She actually found the comic fairly amusing when she found out about it. Now you can buy t-shirts with the cartoon at the Smithsonian. All proceeds from the sales go to the Jane Goodall Institute.
Most people read the hooves as a bow, but still find the comic funny, and I love that. I love that you can miss the intended joke and the inherent absurdity still carries the comic.
Edit: I'm guessing that most people who feel they don't 'get' the far side are looking for deeper jokes than are actually there.
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I like that this family has two dads.
His idea of God was, and honestly still is, the bedrock of my personal theology. At least on my more optimistic days. Just a dude messing around, seeing what works, not really sure where the experiment is going, but very excited to watch it all happen.
One images the cap falling off in the next moment
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
The Sprues Goose, I suppose
Another favorite that speaks to my childish sense of humor: "In the one split second, when the choir's last note had ended, but before the audience could respond, Vinnie Conswego belches the phrase, "That's all folks."
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I always thought that she was wearing a bow
I was looking for that one.
...I'm pretty sure that's a different caption than what was originally printed.
edit: and lets not forget that Far Side is responsible for the Thagomizer name for the stegosaurus tail.
It is indeed.
Every time I run into a thagomizer in a museum, I send my father a photo to commemorate it.
This has always been my fave.
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Is there a story behind the different captions? Because the readable one feels a lot more like a jokey Farside comic, but as Cow Tools illustrated, Larson would occasionally just go weird with it.
I'm wondering if there was an editor somewhere who just said "Nope, that's gonna get the evangelical types all over my nuts..." in regards to the slug god, and grabbed a handful of Scrabble tiles to rework it in the last 30 seconds before it went to print.
That's not a Far Side comic.
I use the "wings fall off switch" as my go-to example/general name for bad design or other stupid nonsense.
Yeah, I thought so when I posted it. But I just figured my old man memory was playing tricks on me.
Looks like it was changed in The Complete Far Side for some reason.