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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
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Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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This is one of my favorite strips!
But thinking about it, how much of his head is flesh?
His face isn't much bigger than normal.
Unless his jawbone has a 1.5 foot chin, most of the head under his mouth is going to be skin and fat.
And if his skull is normal sized, his neck bones must be extremely distended, and his neck muscles must be extremely strong to support the weight of the entire head.
The strip is just better to contemplate as a fanciful idea and move on.
Shrunken heads are made just with the skin, so it doesn't really matter what's underneath. He'd still make a larger-than-average shrunken head, albeit with a tiny face comparatively.
Good knowledge, but these guys with skulls displayed on their spears don't look like shrunken-head type headhunters.
Maybe they keep their shrunken heads in humidity controlled, UV filtering display cabinets off camera ~~like I do~~.
Ah, good point, I hadn't seen this one in a long time and forgot about the skulls. Still, he looks like he probably has a larger-than average skull under there.
Why do you know that!?
On second thought, please ignore that question.
Do not attempt to bring logic to The Far Side. That way lies madness.
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