Close to Home by John McPherson for June 30, 2021

So I guess we’re in a stretch of comics from 2011. The copyright has looked like “20V” the last few days.

“Please be seated – oh, never mind.”

Standing at attention should be relatively easy for these folks. At Ease could be a little tougher. Fall Out is courting disaster.

I’m glad there’s a group to combat the disorder. Hemorroids are a pain in the butt! ;D

Thank you, thank you. You may be seated,

Who forgot to bring the doughnuts?

Standing room only…….

Stand up speech…

Where’s the Preparation H spokesperson?

author, well done!

Alright. Let’s get started. Everyone pick your seat.

Butt, who can give up that red meat diet?

What a pain in the ass !

No sitting and everything very full bodied and soft? I’m thinking it appears a bit late for prevention. I know a pain in the az when I see one.

John did not need a punchline. The image said it all.

2011? and I thought these were new ones……….

I saw a few mentions of the sound effect used in yesterday’s 2011 rerun, so after way too much Red Bull, I did a search for the year-to-date.

Minus the words he used that are already in the dictionary, the others would be onomano… onomatopo… umm, words that sound like the names given.

clonk, fzzzt , brap, pleh, wa-ooo, tink, wump, sproing, vrrrt, boing, foosh, bwaaaaah, uurrp, vrrrrrrrrreee, skish, and of course… yesterday’s… slorp.

I intend to see how many of these I can slip into conversations today at work!

Usually these conventions are a pain in the ass. This bloody-well better be worth my time.

So anytime they clap, it is always a standing ovation?

Remember to NOT vote for them at the next election.

Oh Look! A standing ovation!!!!

“Please join me in our Anthem: I sat down on a burning ring of fire…….”

I thought this might be a repeat from 10 years ago, but I looked at the comic for June 30, 2011, and it’s different. Odd choice of year for this comic.

I’d like to be part of a standing committee on just about anything.

2011. So this strip is in reruns, too. With the purge over the last few months at GoComics (e.g. Anderson’s “Wrong Hands”, and Cravens “Hubris”, for example) and the retirement of several cartoonists (e.g. “Stone Soup”) — it would be interesting to know what percentage of GoComics strips (and even more interesting to know what percentage of GoComics page views) come from recycled material.

I don’t mind the recycled humor; Calvin and Hobbes is still wonderful to read, even though after the first panel I can basically quote the rest of the dialogue because I read it to my kids so often. But the effect is to make it (even) harder for younger artists.

It’s like classical music. I love a good performance of a Beethoven symphony, but just presenting the classics dries up support for new material.

That’s a sore subject.

Switch to a whole food vegan diet. You will never strain again.

If prevention is their game, it appears they haven’t been too successful since none of them can sit down. Also, standing for too long is one of the ways you can get hemorrhoids.

Sponsored by Preparation H

A gathering of Alter Non-Køckers.

Attention members of the BIg Classics Book Club. This evening we will meet in Conference Room H to discuss The Grapes Of Wrath in a time of technology.

What’s the seating arrangements?Veeerrryyy softStanding ovation guaranteed