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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!

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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]

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16 April 2025 (discuss.online)
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In the animal self-help section

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Weird. They accidentally killed the joke in this comic by removing the titles from the books. Here's the alt text of the image, which still has the titles:

Hibernate the EASY WAY / Become one of the HERD! / How to AVOID Natural Selection / Do it by INSTINCT by / DARE to be NOCTURNAL / Predator-prey Relationships

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder how that happened

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

My guess is that they edited the original to be a blank template for adding localized text onto, and forgot to add back the English titles. No idea if that's actually the case, it's just the only reason I can think of for editing the titles at all. They have edited some of the comics before to update small details

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ohhhhhhhh. I was thinking the joke was that animals can’t read therefore the books were all blank.