To the person, it was a bowl of water that would help them get through the day. To the fish, it was a kaiju coming to end their lives and consume their world.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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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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Idk I mean where are the fish getting their food?
Is that Dilbert?
It would explain the Nazi salute
I'm embarrassed that I liked that guy in the 90s.
Don't be. We've all enjoyed media that was made by problematic people or media that later became problematic. I didn't know shit about Scott Adams when I started reading the strip and I really enjoyed it. I didn't know the pointy haired boss was the hero of the story.
I loved Ender's Game as a misunderstood gifted kid. Once I grew up I enjoyed the others. Then I found out that he's a raging bigoted jackass. That doesn't change the message and enjoyment I got back when I needed it, it just means I won't financially support that jackass again.
See also: Ye, Cosby, a shit pile of rock music, and a ton of other art.
I mean, the creator unironically didn't think it was criticizing corporate culture in the ways it obviously criticized corporate culture.