I saw this in a newspaper the other day… and I have showed it to many people who have NO IDEA what the joke is. So, I’ve scanned it in and put it up on this site:
http://www.angelfire.com/me/gold1000
If you ‘get’ the joke, please tell me, coz I have no idea.
[Moderator’s note: link replaced at the request of the OP. I still can’t see the comic, which is seriously weird. Oh, well, one endeavors to persevere. -manhattan]
[Edited by manhattan on 08-06-2000 at 01:52 PM]
Umm,
I clicked on the link you provided, and all that came up was a small white square that said “hosted by Angelfire, www.angelfire.com”
If that was the comic you were asking about, then I’m just as stumped as you.
shruggingly,
–sublight.
No comic.
Ahhh… I just tested it and it works fine.
I am using Internet Explorer. Are you using AOL or netscape?
Just copy and paste it in.
Netscape.
Nope, copy-and-paste -ing still brings up the same “angelfire” message. Sorry.
–sublight.
BTW, cutting the “comic.jpg” from the address took me to a photo of 4 guys in tuxes with one of them labelled “me”. That you, Hatter?
Yeppa. That’s me.
Ok give me a few mins and I will put the comic picture just under the one of me in the tux.
Back in 2.
The comic can now be found at:
http://www.angelfire.com/me/gold1000
And Manhattan, if you read this, please edit the OP and put in this link.
Cheers.
ok, under the pic of the 4 guys (one of em you) is aa cartoon with two panels, right?
can’t tell from the scan what the object hanging from the tree is supposed to be. is this a local (like college) strip? perhaps it’s local joke, then?
Sorry, now it’s the pic of you in the tux, with the “Angelfire” graphic right below it.
Maybe I should just let someone else try viewing it.
–subight.
Wring
This is from the top newspaper in Melbourne, the “Herald Sun”. The newspaper is distributed nationally. No local joke.
So, MadHatter, what’s the object hanging from the tree. Suspect that if you correctly identify it, the joke should emerge…
But it looks to me like an upside down koala.
Anyone else have any idea what it is?
It seems to me he’s flying upside down. Look at the tree & koala shaped thing closely. I have no idea why that would be so funny. 
Very strange - with Netscape I get the ‘image hosted by Angelfire’ image - with IE, I get the comic. That’s totally messed up.
I’m guessing it’s some kind of image formatting weirdness that Netscape can’t handle.
Anyway, this just seems totally non-funny to me. I don’t get it.
Actually, now that I’ve loaded it in IE, Netscape shows it too.
I’m just going to go over here and gnaw through my straightjacket now.
maybe it is upside-down in the second frame.
maybe the joke is this… he is flying, and flew to australia. because it is the land down under, everything is upside down. the presence of a koala supports this.
ha.
hahahahaha.
haha.
I don’t get it, either.
It’s almost like one frame is missing. At least that’s my guess.
Apparently, (I’m guessing here) folks who used Netscape had loaded an angelfire graphic called comic.jpg before, and Netscape didn’t reload it. When I looked at it with IE, the graphic was updated.
Would someone who is using Netscape, and still can’t see the comic, try to view the .jpg file itself–it should still say Angelfire. Now, reload. Does it change?
Why don’t you scan it again and lay something heavy on your scanner cover to flatten it out and get rid of the shadows? I don’t think we’ve got a chance of understanding it until we can tell what the object on the tree is.
Looks obvious to me. He IS flying upside down. And just realized it. “Humour” comes from the fact that you, the reader, have no way of knowing from the first frame. Whereas the bird SHOULD have known.
At least, that’s my interpretation of it. Mildly funny.
P.S.: Have no idea what’s in the tree…