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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:

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Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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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[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't get this one. I'm guessing there's some connection between that one wilted flower, and the shadow of the bird with a surprisingly long beak, but I can imagine what it would be.

Is it another of the ones where you need to know a lot of 1980's Chicago history?

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

i think the bird just finished going balls deep with the beak all the way down the stem, which is funny because flowers aren't straws inside.

[–] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I saw it as a horror movie for flowers. Big scary nectar sucking bird.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's a commentary predicting the death of Twitter.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Guys its the shadow of a hummingbird flying off after drinking all the juice out of that poor flower and deflating it

[–] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Why don't these have the caption.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pikafoop@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first guess is that we are seeing the shadow of an enormous hummingbird, and the wilted remains of a flower it has just (over-)fed on.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Oh it's a shadow! That little white line made me think it was supposed to be a hole in the ground

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Gary Larson getting political smh my head