These comics have nothing to do with each other, except that they're sharing Best Comic of the Day honors today. Pearls is really good at playing with the way comics are constructed and using space other cartoons never use. xkcd, meanwhile, is really good at observing the things people say and then making them feel stupid for saying them.*
This cartoon is hilarious because Thel's life is miserable even when she's on vacation.
I finally bowed to the Internet gods and signed up for a Facebook account just other day. It's good to know that this puts me on approximately the same pop cultural level as one Ralph fucking Drabble.
Baldo's Internet porn addiction appears to be getting out of hand.
And so I've been away from the comics section for approximately three weeks, and yet this interminable 9 Chickweed Lane story continues unabated. Bill is apparently getting out of the hospital now, so we should be on the back end of this thing, though I imagine McEldowney will find some way to drag it out for at least another few months.
Here we see Dolly once again pushing back against the crushing male hegemony of her world by symbolically casting the Prince Charming archetype into a volcano.
This comic is hilarious because the children are abusing the old lady's new cat.
And so, at the distressingly young age of six, Hammie has discovered the joys of anal stimulation.
Having relocated, Jeffy is unsure how to poop. This has made him sad.
Here we see Billy--good, decent, humane Billy--lashing out at an unfair and arbitrary system. As Ghandi once said (maybe), "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
