That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 03, 2017

“Ok, there are still some bugs in the chest protector. Just give me another chance to fix it.”

The primitive concept of the Taser, before electricity was discovered.

Ooh, ooh! I got a great idea for a new game…we’ll call it Lawn Darts.

William Tell: " Sheeeeesh – missed"

Blaming the victim has always been an option.

They later determined it was better to have the apple on his head than on his sternum.

Oops, just a bit inside!!!

Apparently today’s EFC is for sissy’s.

2 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baldr_dead_by_Eckersberg.jpg

has an annotated image as well as a description, info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate pages if necessary). So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/03/31?comments=visible

has the prior strip.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1678 (April 2, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

Höd demonstrating why the new armour is crap !

He kept hinting that he wanted a spear for Christmas. His mother, his teacher, and Santa Claus all said, “You’ll put your eye out.”

And the Olympic Committee found it necessary to reconsider Javelin Catching as an official event.

The ruling would go on to prevent senseless knee injuries like this one.

Our dead one is Baldr, one of the old Norse gods, son of Odin, the felow on the throne with a spear in his hand, and Frigga, who I suspect is the very upset lady in black to Odin’s right (our left.) Frigga went to enormous lengths to cut deals with every kind of creature in the world not to harm her son Baldr. Unfortunately, she didn’t talk to the mistletoe. The guy on the left, with his arm still in the position of completing the throw, is Höðr, Baldur’s twin brother, who is blind. Yes, even a blind one can sometimes hit the mark. The spear is no common one; it is made of mistletoe. Giving a blind god a spear made of mistletoe and convincing him to throw it at Baldr—apparently everybody was chucking stuff at Baldr for the fun of watching it all bounce off him harmlessly—was Loki’s idea. He’s the snark at the far left (our left) of the painting smirking at the death he cleverly arranged. I’m not sure who the other gods are except for Thor, seated at Odin’s left (our right) with Mjölnir, his famous hammer, in his hand. The expression on his face suggests that Loki would be well advised to head to the Riveria for a while. In the versions of the story I’ve had a chance to scan, I don’t see Odin taking it out on Loki, which seems tame of him.

The death of Baldr is the first event in the chain of events that leads to the fall of the gods—Ragnarok and all that. Eventually Loki is reborn with a really bad combover and a New York accent.

This painting is the one that satisfied the admission requirements into the Royal Danish Academy of Art. He became a professor there and rose to become its director. He eventually had to give up painting due to failing eyesight. In 1853 he died of cholera.

That’s gonna leave a mark.