FoxTrot by Bill Amend for February 04, 2024

Heh, nice lampshading Comic Strip Time.

Peter isnt smart enough to become self aware, Jason on the other hand…

Uh oh Jason knows, run!

Peter, buddy, you’ve been sixteen since the eighties. I still remember your Springsteen fetish.

Come on, Peter stop lying about your age you are 52 years old.

Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.Com/foxtrot/2003/02/02

Comic strip time is … weird.

See ya, fourth wall!

The Fourth Wall does not approve of the hammer you are abou—CRASH-crumble

I hate it when reality gets in the way. This is before I travel in the TARDIS to meet with the gang from Lower Decks while wearing my Legion flight ring. All funded by Richie Rich.

Pfft! You can live to be 1700 years old for all Andy cares! As long as you live in this universe, there is absolutely NO way she will ever, EVER let you with 200 feet of Grand Theft Auto VI!

Vuja de, I ain’t never seen nothing like this

Groundhog Year.

Anybody know which comic from ~10 years ago this is referencing?

Let’s do the Time Warp again.

When Amend finally has Peter graduate from high school and go to college, a whole new set of adventures will begin.

Oh no! I’m thinking about it!

It’s not physics, but temporal mechanics.

Maybe Mom would let him play “Grand Borrowing Auto”?

Even at 17, he shouldn’t be playing those games.

The time paradox of comic strip characters..

Very meta…

Now if this strip was more like ‘For Better or For Worse’ . . .

Jason said they had that conversation the last time GTA came out 10 years ago. I don’t think Jason would have even been born.

Not often a comic strip breaks it’s own walls.

A little fourth wall breaking.

Cute! Some comic strip kids never age (Baldo and Gracie, the Family Circus kids, Calvin, Jeremy from Zits). Some age very slowly (Hilary from Sally Forth turning 14 instead of 12, Phoebe from Phoebe and her Unicorn turning 10, the JumpStart kids getting twin siblings and aging very slowly). For Better or For Worse is the only one I know of that aged the kids in real time (If the strip was still running, April would be 33 this year!)

the sliding timescale of long form cartoons, where characters are perpetually young but also make pop-culture commentary. For example, Bart Simpson started out as a young gen-Xer who was into that grunge music and watched Ren and Stimpy, now HOMER has been retconned into being part of that music scene in his 20’s when Marge was going to college, and Bart has barely HEARD of the 90’s and barely remembers early Spongebob.

Love a good meta comic. Also “happy squealing” lol

Well shoot, he’s breaking the 4th wall again.

Love a good “4th Wall” comic!

Peter has found the secret to eternal youth. Must be all that pizza

I think there is a Twilight Zone episode about this.

Most people would kill for the fountain of youth. Peter just wants to commit Grand Theft.

Welcome to Comic strip ageing.

It’s just a little problem with time and space

Sorry. I don’t get this one, other than it probably didn’t turn out well for them.

More like Cartoon Physics in this case, Peter.

I remember when “Luann” used to be younger than Peter. Now she’s in College.

Not the first time Bill used that joke. Friendly reminder to the new readers, though. Shame, because I still hope for Jason to grow up a LITTLE. At least to Marcus level maturity.

And you’ll be 16 again next year.

The power of comic strips continuity is strong

Not to mention metaphysics…

Hum, self aware characters, this might end badly.

Why hasn’t this been updated since the 4th????

why isn’t a daily one anymore?

Bill is either leaning on the 4th wall or hanging a lampshade…

No one is going to see this but, Bill Amend or Lincoln Pierce?