The Far Side for Friday April 26.
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I came into my room and there was a web directly across the inside of my doorway even though it had only been a couple of hours since I last walked in here. Of course I immediately thought of this old Far Side which is never too far from my mind
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I think that what's brilliant about The Far Side is how it can imply an entire narrative with only a single panel. It's sequential art without the sequence. Like this one
There's the obvious implication of what's going to happen in the future (there's going to be a hunt), but it also stretches into the past: what circumstances in the anthropology of this group of cavemen must have happened to establish a tradition of dancing with Woolly Mammoths? Why does it, in spite of it's obvious absurdity, feel kind of right that there should be a dance before the cavemen and the mammoths engage in mortal combat? The reluctant fearful expression on the caveman at the bottom; is this his first hunt? Are those his elders trying to reassure him? Does the one mammoth actually seem to fancy him? What about the one looking fearfully back at his friends? How does he feel that the others aren't there to reassure him? One of the mammoths in the upper right looks just as fearful as the cavemen; why? etc.
And all of this is purely evoked. There's only simple line-drawing and two sentences of text, but you see it and it reminds you of other sorts of narratives you've seen or experienced, and your brain constructs a whole temporal sequence; and any possible answer you could get to above the questions would never be as satisfying as what your brain fills in.
I could write an entire essay about this.
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Today's Card Is: The Magician
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"In hindsight, I might have gone a little dark on that last one."
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This particular Far Side comic always cracks me up
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gary larson this is one BANGER of a comic, thank you.
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Fun Fact: “Thagomizer” is a term used in the scientific community that originated from this comic in 1982
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The Far Side for Saturday.
They aren't having it any more.
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Special Agent Gumby falls into the frustrated hands of the enemy.
(another Far Side panel recreation in Blender!)
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post cow tools when they least expect it
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Magnus Archives Fear Entities by Farside Cartoon (Alternate Version)
The Beholding
The Corruption
The Buried
The Dark
The Vast
The Spiral
The Lonely
The Stranger
The Web
The Desolation
The Hunt
The Slaughter
The Flesh
The End
The Extinction
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