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The Far Side

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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!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Still no gas. Should be a sailboat kit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Box says gas included. Gary thinks of everything

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Maybe the gas is in a sealed container and for good measure is located in the top part of the box.

Wait, are we arguing about a 35 year-old unfunny comic? Here we are

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I must be dumb because I look at every single one of these and I haven't seen one that is even slightly funny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s boomer humor, but without the hate

The entire joke is that the boxes should have washed up before the stranded person died

I remember these being pretty funny as a kid which explains the lead addled mental state of Gary’s audience at the time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Tf are you talking about? I'm 40 and grew up with these with younger kids doing the same well into our childhoods.