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Who’s Zippy the Pinhead?
Surrealist/dadaist comic strip character.
There was also a real person styled as “Zip the Pinhead,” a microcephalic freak show star in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_the_Pinhead
Danny’s new girlfriend who’s thankfully off Joe’s radar?
Someone that Joyce never gets.
“Understanding Zippy the Pinhead is a sign of adult onset schizophrenia.” – Cat and Girl.
Banjo and Chinchilla?
Oh please, I read it in middle school during times I had to kill in the library…
But where did you hide the bodies?
In the Dewey Death-imal System’s card catalog.
I don’t care how long ago you wrote this, but that’s a win.
Jesus wept!
Some silly cartoon character. One of those ones from the MAD Magazine school of art. I only just learned about him myself.
That’s right, Danny. Stop while you’re ahead.
The only winning move is not to play.
But what if it’s a foreplay?
Nuclear war, intercourse, same concept. They both end in large, ruinous explosions.
Also, Taco Bell
A pinhead, to be precise?
Who you calling pinhead?
Which one-a you’s the REAL Dirty Dan?
Hey……. punk.
Amazi-Girl has radar-absorbing flesh.
That sounds HORRIFYING.
Better than flesh-absorbing radar! (The new super weapon for the robot rebellion that will destroy all organic life on the planet!)
Beep,beep, beep. Oh, sir, there USED to be something there.
But is Raidah also under his radar?
It’s Joe, remember? The guy is like Ryo Saeba except for not being a sweeper and an erection that could dent metal.
Ah Ryo Saeba. His Erection-Fu is quite legendary.
Yeah, granted it still hurts like hell but damn, talk about a hard-on.
Under his Raidar.
His Raidah? When did this stealth-ship appear?
Joe is the launcher of ships.
Raidah O’Raileh!
M*A*S*Hing of Age
Oh good. I was worried for a moment that no one would get the joke.
I got the joke, I just didn’t have anything to reply with.
Me neither! I tried desperately for half an hour to find M*A*S*H characters that could possibly be punned on Dumbing of Age ones and turned up completely empty.
Trapper Joe McIntyre? Joyce Mulcahy?
Mikeye Pierce?
He pierced your mom. For a nickel.
And why does the first Joe think of is an Elvis impersonator?
Because he has doubts about Danny’s sexuality, of course.
Joe, Don’t Be Cruel… to a heart that is true.
Better love him tender, or he’ll be all shook up.
He helped him make it through the night…by fighting criminals.
“And another Frosh cries,
In the Roomie …”
Probably because Elvis Presley based his stage appearance of the superhero Captain Marvel Jr. Yeah, I read that Cracked article too Willis!
As did I!
*Trying not to think about Danny dry-humping an Elvis impersonator… and failing.*
Damn you, Willis (for putting that image in my head)!
He has a suspicious mind…
Cause that is what Joe dry humps.
It’s just as well, Danny. If you had brought her to his attention, he would have to fight you to the death for the right to date her, and we all know how that would end.
Nah. Joe doesn’t date the girls. He just joes them.
And is occasionally Roz’ed.
It’s weird to see him called Dan.
Joe clearly once read the papers. Or at least the comics, like me.
I read newspapers for the letter column and the news on human stupidity.
Funny, that’s exactly why I don’t read newspapers.
I prefer the news in small doses. That’s why I read Fark. I don’t comment there though. Too much assholes in the political tab there.
That’s why I stay away from politics. That and politics could trigger my repressed megalomaniac.
Well, Zippy the Pinhead is the title of the comic. He might’ve known just from seeing that.
Damnit Joe, He’s dryhumping Garfield. I hate that we had to spell it out for ya.
Hey, at least he’s not dryhumping Charlie Brown.
I realized you meant Garfield from the funny papers, but for a split second, I thought you might have meant President Garfield (I blame looking at the link to Hail to the Slash that Willis has)
President Garfield in a CAPE.
I am not searching for that and ending up with Rule 34…. >.>
You’re lucky I can’t draw President Andrew Garfield or I’d make it so.
What about Garfield the cat? Can you work with him?
Also in a CAPE
I haven’t read newspapers in years, its all on line. Which has worrisome moments, in that newspaper writers took more time researching what they wrote years ago, and now they don’t seem to. I don’t recall stories being recalled, edited etc. to the extent that they have been in the past 10 years. On-line news spreads so fast, right or wrong factually. You have to stop and think before you accept half of it, and research the other half on more than one site. As to Joe, yes like me, he probably liked the comics. As to Elvis, all I can think of is the last Elvis outfit that sticks in my mind? The white rhinestone covered one, complete with a cape? Why Joe would think of this is beyond anyone but Joe, and Willis
Do you actually think that printed newspapers are 100% factually correct? I got bad news for ya….
Uh, newspapers retracted or printed corrections for stories back then, too. It’s just that it was buried on page 33 two days later, rather than appended to the bottom of the online copy like. And getting multiple versions was time consuming and mildly costly, vs. being able to websearch for other articles or blogs trivially, so you were more inclined to trust Your Newspaper.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/03/pew_s_state_of_the_media_ignore_the_doomsaying_american_journalism_has_never.html
While dry-humping an Elvis impersonator, Danny’s hand sustained a massive injury that can be seen in the last panel.
I’ve noticed a few times that Willis’ art has become so stylized that there can be some jarring moments if you stop and look at slightly weird things. ‘Course, this happens for all long-running stylized works. Artistic shorthand is developed. (No pun intended.)
(Also, is Danny taller in panel three than panel one? Did he stand on his tippy-toes to look severe while making a point?)
I see that now. I think it’s just Willis went into automatic mode in drawing his comic. That’s alright though. The storytelling need to be cooked all the time though.
Cooked to the point of well-done. And gently marinated in evolution.
After marinating sprinkle with flu shot, then mix with a tablespoon of cognitive dissonance. Serve to Joyce and watch her head explode.
“Could you stop saying the word dry-humping for like two minutes?!”
I prefer “Dry-Grinding”
Video killed the radio stars. Now it’s youth killed the newspaper stars….
What kills porn stars then?
The Internet
The internet gives defibrillator shocks to porn stars. It does kill mainstream celebrities though.
HD.
AIDS, usually.
Old age?
Often the best thing is horse seamen.
That’ll stop the em bothering ya lettuce.
Heard sprinkling large amounts of white stuff down works too.
I’m half expecting Joe to take one look at Amazi-Girl and say, “You realize this is just that Amber chick, right?”
I guess there probably aren’t any good pics of AG in the paper, though.
Lies
There are good pics…but for whatever reason the editor only shows closeups of her chest.
Ignore the artifacting around the chest window.
Joe, you master actor, you. Who says Amazi-Girl’s powers are only cleverness and redirected rage?
Wow, Joe looks so concerned for Danny in that last panel.
I like to imagine his tiny one track mind trying to process Danny’s love life.
Without speech bubbles, this looks like the morning after for Danny and Joe.
That’s because it is the morning after for Danny and Joe. Danny simply doesn’t know it. Willis is a genius, no?
Ooh, cool banner up top! I haven’t seen the long-distance shot of Amber and Danny walking across the bridge before. It looks very college-y!
D.W., somehow you and Dan Shive manage to get certain phrases stuck in my head and my day-to-day speech. Dan Shive has “I stand by my rediculous statement,” and now you have “You’re dry-humping Zippy the Pinhead?”
You know, I don’t get “Zippy” – Joyce Brown, Roomies