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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:

Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

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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“Blast! The controls are jammed! ... We’re headed straight for Mr. Sun!”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Houston do we have a situation?

All green down here.

We appear to be on a collision course with the sun.

All according to mission parameters.

Sir? Could you explain?

Rodger that, since the dawn of our earliest ancestors we've worship the Sun god Huitzilopochtli, but he demands regular Human sacrifices to maintain cosmic order, but our kind has grown arrogant and stopped his blood sacrifices, we seek to appease this Harsh cravings by sending the sacrifice directly to the Sun.

Copy that Houston, can I call him Hulu?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Larson predicting Starliner back in 1983 lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this one was badly cropped. From memory the next line is “ and might I add, those are my sunglasses you are wearing”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You're actually thinking of a different but similar comic:

Kind of feels like the same joke TBH