Author: ComicBookHarriet

Every Time You Fall…

Happy End To Harvest!

Yup, out here in hicksville, we’re juuuuuuuuust about done. We’ve got one field of corn that we’re running through the chopper to bag as cattle feed, but that endeavor has turned into Zeno’s earledge. Like a shriveled baby carrot left in the back of the crisper drawer for a year, the corn is way too dry and old. Meaning we’re not chopping and crushing yummy moist corncobs, but grinding kernels into flour. The wind has to be out of the right direction, at the right speed, or both the chopper and the tractor get lost in a huge white cloud of potentially explosive cornmeal.

Fall is winding to a close, we’re less than one week away from the Nationwide Food Coma that heralds the beginning of the holiday season.

Tom Batiuk loves fall. Of course. More than any other season. He’s had some winter wonderland strips, some spring has sprung strips, some summer heat strips. But the sheer number of fall strips outweigh all others. Year after year, he revels again and again in the liminal nature of it’s natural beauty.

Batiuk loves the season where everything is tragically dying. Shocker.

In 1975 we got the first of ‘Existential Leaves’ week. The first of MANY.

“And you, Livinia, will soon be discarded like decaying trash.”
“Talk to your landscaping about the warning signs of Liver Disease today.”
“Just ask Frank Olson!”
“Where the Centipede shall lie down with the Pill Bug.”
“How dare everyone else copy my fear of death!? I was scared first!”
You’re in Funky Winkerbean, it’s always Bad Joke Time.
Kind of what it feels like reading Crankshaft these days….

WHAT

WHY HAS WORDPRESS GONE ALL FUNKY ON ME?

(I seriously have no idea what happened or how to fix because I’m a technological luddite driving a borrowed blogging vehicle I barely understand.)

WHY ARE EMILY AND AMELIA SUDDENLY HIGH SCHOOLERS?

(I know that this Time Mop splash first spilled out in The Burnings arc, but I wanted to reiterate it. They were grade/middle schoolers in May, and then BAM.)

WHY IS EMILY’S LAST NAME NOW REYNOLDS?

(Emily and Amelia’s last name had been stated at least once as Mathews. Though it had hardly ever come up.)

And, as BWOEH said, WHY DOESN’T WESTVIEW HAVE A NEWSPAPER?

But. Most importantly.

WHY BLOG LOOK LIKE THIS?

And now…for your viewing pleasure. More entries in the “CBH DUSK HARVEST” collection.

ADDENDUM BY SPECIAL FAN FAN REQUEST

Pizza Monsters of the Villa Pepperoni

I had one last post I wanted out on this year’s Pizza Box Monster arc. One last thing to explore before we leave the joys of spooky season (and the horrors of non-stop political ads as hamfisted and braindead as a Snuggie infomercial trying to convince you that your duvet worships Satan,) and enter into the two month long season of frantic shopping and guilty gluttony we annually use to distract ourselves from noticing the world slowly, day by day, growing darker, colder, and more full awful pop music.

So take a break from your doom scrolling! And join me on an exploration of a more innocent time!

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A Spoooky Search.

Hello all! Hope you had a delightfully spooky week. I was forced to listen to the most tragic World Series games of all time, and dealt with my grief at a cruel world where either the Dodgers (BOO) or the Yankees (HISS) had to win. I ate my feelings in mini sized Halloween candy bar sizes and dreamed of a better place. A bright and beautiful utopia where both could lose it all.

To spare all your necks further strain, and for my own amusement, let’s play a little game with this week’s sideways comics covers.

My questions to you out there in Beady-Eyed Nitpickerville:

1.) Which of these covers is the most tolerable?

2.) Which of these covers is the biggest insult to comics, literature, and the human race as an intelligent species?

3.) Did Tom steal this idea from this blog, and our Time Mop covers of the early months of 2023?

4.) How many copy pasta references can you find?

For example: