Showing posts with label Marmaduke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marmaduke. Show all posts

Friday, July 18, 2008

Death Hits the Comics

The spectre of death haunted the comics today, and not just in Funky Winkerbean:

Crankshaft 7/18/08

After a night of marital bliss (and by bliss I mean a night without Crankshaft's horrible puns), Crankshaft's daughter and son-in-law have come back to the son-in-law's mother's house to find emergency medical teams just outside the door! While readers have been held in suspense regarding the fate of the son-in-law's horrible, er, sassy and loved mother for the last twenty-four hours, a much more likely answer was waiting for them today. Obviously, she has taken her last night alone as an oppotunity to kill her much-hated caregiver. All of this begs the question: how is this funny?

Marmaduke 7/18/08

"Unlike Marmaduke's yard, which is filled with the shallow graves of his enemies."