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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!
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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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I'm just guessing, but it almost seems like he was going for a geographically and ethnically non-descript generic soldiers and castle look.
Should have used grass and trees for the background so it doesn’t look like a desert.
Should have drawn Roman soldiers, not mail armor from 500 years later.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think historical accuracy was ever a goal of these comics.
But historical recognisability is important to a visual medium. I didn't get the joke until I came to the comments and saw this discussion. And I don't imagine there were comment sections back when this was published. If people can't tell what the punchline of a joke is supposed to be, it's a bad delivery.
I'm sure one of the most celebrated newspaper comics of all time is really torn up you don't like his one 35 year old comic.
Sure, but unfiltered reposts like this shows they weren’t all gems.
Are you whining that you don't like the comic?
Are you saying you got the joke at first glance?
It's not a complicated pun. You didn't get it. Move on.