Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for July 14, 2017

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    Futabakun Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Coraline? Neil Gaiman? Ringing a bell now?

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    Futabakun Premium Member over 7 years ago

    A certain percentage of jokes in this particular strip (higher than average, Iā€™m sure) require a nerd-pedigree. In the past, several went over my headā€¦ I got lucky this time out.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 7 years ago

    OK, I googled ā€œCoralineā€ ā€¦ from Futabakenā€™s tipā€¦

    cos Iā€™d never heard of it either.

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    And as Alien says, she gets into a parallel worldā€¦.

    If you donā€™t want too much explanationā€¦..

    skip the rest of my commentā€¦..

    Or if you want helpā€¦ or it might just be my take, read on!

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    Actually she goes through a door, and finds an apartment occupied by people who more or less resemble the ones she knows in her familiar world.

    At first better things seem to happen thereā€¦

    but to stay, you need to accept shiny buttons being sewn over your eyesā€¦.. eeekā€¦.

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    So my takeaway is that Jay is only getting a promotion and a raise cos he walked through such a door.

    Heaven knows that the Rita in our world wouldnā€™t give him those things.

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    johnzakour Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Okay this one even freaks me out!

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    Thomas Scott Roberts creator over 7 years ago

    This was because Neil Gaiman said hi to our message board. But people should check out Coraline.

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    cdward  over 7 years ago

    Iā€™ve seen Coraline ā€“ but I like Neil Gaimanā€™s ā€œThe Graveyard Bookā€ much better. By the way, Gaiman is teaching at a little college just up the road from our home in New York state.

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    Rotary12 Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Ghost in the Shell cyber eyes?

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    redback  over 7 years ago

    the movie is great and the other movies from ā€˜Laikaā€™ are also great (Paranorman is one of my favorites). And if you like that style, you may also like ā€˜Dragon huntersā€™

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    MeGoNow Premium Member over 7 years ago

    I donā€™t know. I think Jayā€™s a red pill sort of guy.

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    corpcasselbury  over 7 years ago

    Wow! Talk about straight out of ā€œThe Twilight Zoneā€!

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    Font Lady Premium Member over 7 years ago

    He collaborated with Sir Terry Pratchett on one of my favorite books, Good Omens: the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

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    b2plusa2  over 7 years ago

    Going over this cartoon, thinking about it, I thought of that little girl in ā€™Mariaā€™s Dayā€™ who has such big blue eyes that I wonder if she has cataracts.

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