Showing posts with label F Minus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label F Minus. Show all posts

Saturday, December 4, 2010

F Minus: Hopefully, someday in the future they will find a cure for getting stuck in the air ducts.

There's probably no strip around right now that's better at puncturing the little bubbles of ritual we build around ourselves than F Minus. Today's comic, in particular, is just brutal. All the well-wishes at funerals, all the hopes for cures, all the promises of heaven, all of it--it's the lady in this cartoon. Nothing cures death, people.

None of that sounds very funny, but a really good comic strip can point out that, actually, it kind of is.

Friday, April 30, 2010

F Minus and Close to Home: Okay, Rico. You skipped a duck. I'm very impressed.

Because they generally lack recurring characters, single-panel comics mostly have to rely on absurd situations to create humor. These situations are terrifically absurd. They are, therefore, quite humorous.

F Minus has been very good lately, by the way. In the event you don't read it already, you should probably make a point to start doing so.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

F Minus: Douglas! Those days are over!

The conflation of symbols here is brilliant. Far from being a simple "Doesn't marriage suck!" joke, this cartoon creates a real sense of what growing up and getting married entails. Something is lost here: your childhood and your dependence, your early adulthood and your independence. And sometimes you look back on that and wish you could have it back. But as it happens, minivans, queen-sized beds and interdependence are actually all pretty comfortable.

Friday, April 23, 2010

F Minus: Hey Heather, how far down do you think those sideburns go?

Sure, this cartoon turns a phrase around to make a clever commentary on gender relations,* but mostly I just think sideburns are inherently funny.

*It's basically the opposite of this cartoon.

Monday, March 15, 2010

F Minus: World's Most Public Toilet

It's the facial expressions that make this comic work so well. Without it, we'd just have the absurdity of the world's most public toilet. With it, we have the absurdity of the world's most public toilet getting in the way of an actual human relationship.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

F Minus: I suppose there might be an evolutionary advantage.

I can't decide whether this is funny, weird or horrifying.

It is, therefore, the best comic of the day.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

F Minus: Children! This is not part of the show! Please back away slowly!

In which F Minus taps into my childhood nightmares.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

F Minus: I'll catch up with you guys later. I have to go try to convince some good kids to smoke.

I really like comics that unpack our society's oversimplified myths. This is not how peer pressure actually works, but you wouldn't really know that by the way people talk about it.

Monday, January 4, 2010

F Minus: I wonder what cats think about.

This F Minus is basically the opposite of every comic strip or cartoon or book or movie about animals ever, which are always about how animals are Just Like Us. And that's why it's funny. It subverts our expectations.

It's also funny because it's true. Animals are not, in fact, Just Like Us.