Comments on: Zombie Woof: October 22-27, 2001

By: BlackWolfe Coyoten (blackwolfe_coyoten)

BlackWolfe Coyoten (blackwolfe_coyoten) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:11 +0000

Ed: You're missing a big one. The Shakespearean character who had to put up with the most in terms of unwanted advances is Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew! And it so fits, she's a wonderful Kate!

Kiss me, Kate!

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:10 +0000

So, like “this storyline indisputably proves that our author is a horrible, horrible person”?
…But I use those all the time as well!

By: Incog Neato (ghede)

Incog Neato (ghede) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:09 +0000

@Leon "Backhanded Insult" ... I do not think that means what you think that means. A Backhanded compliment can seem like a compliment, but can be construed as insulting. A backhanded insult... would that mean ill, but is actually complimentary?

Backhanded Compliment: "That dress makes you look beautiful." implies that the dress is responsible for the beauty, and that the wearer is normally plain or unattractive. This can be more obvious with vocal cues. Impossible cheerfulness from a normally hostile individual for one.

Backhanded Insult: "Ugh, that dress is awful. It makes you look hideous." The reverse of the previous backhanded compliment.

By: Aaron Shades (prof_tinker)

Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:08 +0000

Pippi Longstocking did it, too.

"Okay, mell, now we double-check the kareoke bar."

. . . . . Helen, you just want to do another solo.

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:07 +0000

I’m sure that’s a trope, but I can’t think of the name just now.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:06 +0000

Isn’t there something in Comedy Tropes where person A is looking for person B … person C gives a perfect description of person B and then finishes with “haven’t seen ’em”? Occasionally, persons B and C are the same person, and person A doesn’t recognize him / her / them / it. Bugs Bunny was an expert at this …

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:05 +0000

Saturday:

You're right - not even I can think of a backhanded insult befitting today's strip.

...And that's the end of "Zombie Woof". I find it hard to believe that we all made it the whole month without mentioning this or this. For once, maturity wins out!

Off-panel head pokes: 4.
Today's Wally Wood Panel: Big Head.

By: Adam Underfoot (unnatural20)

Adam Underfoot (unnatural20) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:04 +0000

Flyaway eyebrows: 0

By: Dave Van Domelen (dvandom)

Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:03 +0000

Nah, not speed lines. Wood paneling or something. If they were speed lines, they’d only be behind him, not in front of him (or they’d fill the entire panel).

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:20:02 +0000

I can just imagine Lost & Found Lady's next conversation with her mother: "Still working at that stupid dead-end job? How do you expect to ever get ahead??"

A scientist scrawny named Madblood
Found the head of a zombie who'd had blood,
Before Helen Narbon
Glued the body back on,
So between them will always be bad blood.