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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:

Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a damn good thing we took notice and fixed the issue.... oh wait.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

yeah people acting like the current initiatives are finally taking note... dude we knew 30+ years ago...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Of course the tree has glasses

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Well yeah, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. Seems the trees reciprocate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I mean, how else would we know where it's eyes are?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And not a representative from the human race to be found around Mother Nature showing any concerning whatsoever. Well done, Mister Larson.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What does it say that Mother Nature is shown as a human, tho?

[–] RudeOnTuesdays 5 points 8 months ago

Perhaps that only humans are able to perceive mother nature as a concept, and thus project humanity onto her.

[–] Gigan 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh god if she was on life support in 1990, how is she doing today?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Don't worry, we've copied her genetic material, we can probably reconstruct her later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Like the Emperor from warhammer but we using animals instead.

[–] Chemical 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

She’s even got an NG tube, must be pretty bad

[–] Nurse_Robot 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're concerned about the NG?? Look at that "rhythm" on the monitor 💀

[–] Chemical 3 points 8 months ago

Omg you’re right! Hyperkalemia of what 9 or 10?

[–] homesweethomeMrL 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is why I cant watch nature documentaries any more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

You too? I used to love them. Grew up on them. The worst part you'd see was when the lion got the gazelle, but you'd think 'well the lion has to eat too'.

Now all of them end with 'and numbers are on the decline... Their habitat is shrinking... The ice is breaking away... They're being hunted to extinction'.

I can't swallow the bitterness.

[–] ChicoSuave 4 points 8 months ago

That heart rate, it's all systolic and no diastolic. She's got bumps but no thumps!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This makes me sad.