# Comics dot Com
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 7, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138 "2009-09-07T03:35:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/1 "2009-09-07T03:35:17Z")
What’s wrong? They’ve been down for three days.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/2 "2009-09-07T03:37:50Z")
Ok, so it isn’t just me then.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/3 "2009-09-07T03:42:46Z")
[down for everyone or just me](http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/comics.com) says that they’re up.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/4 "2009-09-07T03:45:52Z")
Maybe someone in Cafe Society will know.
twickster, MPSIMS moderator
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/5 "2009-09-07T03:51:08Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> Maybe someone in Cafe Society will know.
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> twickster, MPSIMS moderator
It’s the Scrabble ™ Incident, isn’t it? How many times must I apologize?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/6 "2009-09-07T03:52:45Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> [down for everyone or just me](http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/comics.com) says that they’re up.
Can you go there? I can’t from three PCs and two ISPs.
That’s goofy.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/7 "2009-09-07T04:16:31Z")
Not working for me.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/8 "2009-09-07T04:28:45Z")
Me neither.
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### Author:  [@satogata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satogata)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/9 "2009-09-07T04:34:17Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> [down for everyone or just me](http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/comics.com) says that they’re up.
I just forced a refresh on downforeveryoneorjustme and it says that [comics.com](http://comics.com) is down. I haven’t been able to get to it for days either. If it weren’t for my daily calendar I’d be going through Pearls Before Swine withdrawal.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/10 "2009-09-07T04:39:30Z")
> [@satogata](#):
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> If it weren’t for my daily calendar I’d be going through Pearls Before Swine withdrawal.
WHAT, WHAT, YOU’VE GOT PEARLS?!?!
Pony up! How!
🙂
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### Author:  [@satogata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satogata)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/11 "2009-09-07T04:46:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> WHAT, WHAT, YOU’VE GOT PEARLS?!?!
> Pony up! How!
> 🙂
Uh. Let me rephrase that – if it weren’t for my physical peel-off-one-day-at-a-time Pearls Before Swine 2009 calendar (with comics from 2006-7!) that I carried home from my office just in case [comics.com/unitedmedia.com](http://comics.com/unitedmedia.com) was down all weekend. :rolleyes: I almost broke down and resubscribed to my newspaper!
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### Author:  [@satogata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satogata)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/12 "2009-09-07T04:55:46Z")
Here are a couple of sources for recent Pearls from our friends at Google: [http://community.livejournal.com/pearlswine](http://community.livejournal.com/pearlswine) has up to Saturday (scanned from a newspaper; no need to subscribe!) and [http://news.yahoo.com/comics/pearls-before-swine](http://news.yahoo.com/comics/pearls-before-swine) has up to Friday. Lots of others seem to be complaining about the [comics.com](http://comics.com) downtime too, so it’s definitely Not Just Us.
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### Author:  [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/13 "2009-09-07T06:32:18Z")
The folks on the comic strip newsgroup on Usenet (remember Usenet?) say that [comics.com](http://comics.com)’s name servers are down, so traffic can’t get to the site.
Some subscriber sites, like [the Houston Chronicle,](http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl) are still getting their strips. They have quite a few, including Pearls Before Swine, but not Frazz or Arlo and Janis, dangit.
(Comics fans take note: the Chron allows you to build your own comics page and then bookmark it, so you can check back for daily updates. Offer not valid on Sundays.)
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/14 "2009-09-07T09:31:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> What’s wrong? They’ve been down for three days.
Wow, I’ve been blaming the shitty internet connection I have.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/15 "2009-09-07T14:42:41Z")
> [@flodnak](#):
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> The folks on the comic strip newsgroup on Usenet (remember Usenet?) say that [comics.com](http://comics.com)’s name servers are down,
Their IP address is 64.58.142.26
Thanks, flodnak!
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/16 "2009-09-07T14:57:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Their IP address is 64.58.142.26
> Thanks, flodnak!
Except that I can’t do anything but login, since their name servers are down…:smack:
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/17 "2009-09-07T15:43:39Z")
> [@flodnak](#):
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> Some subscriber sites, like [the Houston Chronicle,](http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl) are still getting their strips. They have quite a few, including Pearls Before Swine, but not Frazz or Arlo and Janis, dangit.
Yahoo’s Comics aren’t all working either-Frazz has been down since Friday’s strip, and several others are still stuck on Friday’s (do they get a feed from [Comics.com](http://Comics.com) I wonder, or is that just a coincidence).
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/18 "2009-09-07T16:00:16Z")
I read my funnies on Yahoo! comics. Since my last fix on Friday September 4, I’ve been missing _9 Chickweed Lane_, _Frazz_, _Get Fuzzy_, and _Pearls before Swine_. I have been getting regular updates on _Brewster Rockit, Space Guy!_, _Candorville_, _Doonesbury_, _La Cucaracha_, and _Non Sequitur_.
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### Author:  [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/19 "2009-09-07T17:40:11Z")
> [@Khadaji](#):
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> Wow, I’ve been blaming the shitty internet connection I have.
Me too. Glad it’s a global problem, although … three days is a long time without your comics!
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-dot-com/509138/20 "2009-09-07T18:02:00Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#):
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> Me too. Glad it’s a global problem, although … three days is a long time without your comics!
I rarely start my day without them.
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