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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:

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

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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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

See, the Kerbol Civilization is so successful because they have the courage to launch it anyway.

If a control surface or something fails, well, that's what the pilot is there to compensate for.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The very face of bravery.

[–] snrkl@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 5 months ago

Someone made it and got it flying. Its available as a hobby rocket model kit:

https://www.fliskits.com/WPRESS/product/acme-spitfire/

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's the return of the return of Professor DeWitt!

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 months ago

Wow Garry really went that extra mile on the colouring of this one. It's so swish

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I work at a place that makes a lot of NASA rockets - you can't believe how many times I've seen this on office walls over the years.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

At least they made it pointy.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

They missed their calling as prop and set designers for medieval fantasy.