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Family Circus: Billy weighs in on the war in Iraq
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:23 am
by Bennett Cerf
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:52 pm
by dudelsack
Is that real? Who even fucking reads Family Circle any more? Jeesus.
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:56 pm
by krabapple
Exactly. Jesus reads it.
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:58 pm
by Rspaight
Yeah, it's real. I saw it in the local paper last week.
"Insurgents" -- the new "Indians."
Ryan
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:26 pm
by RDK
Sad, but that's probably the most topical Family Circus in years.
Right up there with the time Sluggo knocked up Nancy, who then had to have an abortion.
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:37 pm
by Bennett Cerf
Plus there's this one from February 2003:
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:54 pm
by Rspaight
RDK wrote:Sad, but that's probably the most topical Family Circus in years.
Right up there with the time Sluggo knocked up Nancy, who then had to have an abortion.
Did we ever find out what happened to Odie's owner? I heard he died of AIDS.
Ryan
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:47 pm
by Patrick M
Cathy got married.
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:02 pm
by lukpac
She did?
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:45 pm
by Patrick M
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:53 pm
by lukpac
I don't remember the last time I read Cathy.
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:24 am
by Rob P
Rspaight wrote:Did we ever find out what happened to Odie's owner? I heard he died of AIDS.
Ryan
Are you talking about Lyman, Jon's roommate from the early 1980s? I think he moved out and moved on once he found out that Jon only had a thing for Liz. Once he departed, the strip was never the same.
I have no idea if you're right about Lyman, but he did have a great porn moustache.
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:44 am
by lukpac
Wow, that's before my time.
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:55 am
by Rspaight
Are you talking about Lyman, Jon's roommate from the early 1980s? I think he moved out and moved on once he found out that Jon only had a thing for Liz. Once he departed, the strip was never the same.
I have no idea if you're right about Lyman, but he did have a great porn moustache.
Lyman, that's it. Couldn't remember the name. One of the great mysteries of the comic pages. As you say, though, great porn moustache.
I could never forgive him for abandoning Odie like that, just to go indulge his own perverted desires in a bathhouse somewhere.
Though the grapevine sez he was hung like a frickin' *horse*.
Ryan
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:57 am
by Rob P
Garfield, for its first few years, was a deeply weird comic strip. The ambiguous relationship between Jon and Lyman was just one of its precious delights.