Yeah, it doesn’t really clarify anything, but it is getting to be funny in that random and pointless kind of way.
On the plus side, the date for this strip is 04/04/06, so everyone can be happy, whether they use dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy.
Have to wait and see what the rest of the week brings, but it looks to me like Bucky is calling Satchel “Booger”. Prolly hopes to provoke him, since Bucky likes provoking people.
The suspense is over!
The cartoonist has indeed discovered the sublime humour of a non-sequitur interjection of “Booger!”
Where will he strike next?
It’s clear from the last two days that Conley is a member of the Illuminati. Bucky saying “booger” is obviously the code word to put their plan into action. By doing it several days in a row they’re maximizing the chance that all of their operatives will get the message.
Why “booger”? Because it sounds like it’s supposed to be funny. Look closely and you’ll notice it’s actually printed over fnord
I think Bucky is telling Satchel that he’s found a booger. Dogs being the indiscriminate eaters they are, it’s like ringing a dinnerbell.
A local weekly here publishes the whole week’s worth of “Get Fuzzy” on Thursday of the previous week, so I saw the whole week’s run last week. Yes, it builds to Saturday’s cartoon.
So for those of us who are still speculating, is Satchel chasing Bucky under the table, or is he hiding?
I presume chasing, but only because of the look he gave Bucky in yesterday’s strip.
OK, I get it now. Thanks.
I’ll just say that if you are puzzled by Monday and Tuesday’s strips, you will be equally puzzled by the next three days’ strips.
I read “Booger!” as: “Hey Satchel, Pinky flicked a booger under the table.” Satchel’s dive under there was obviously a “Yum!” reaction.
Maybe it’s like those old Parkay Margarine commercials where the tub of Parkay says “Butter” and everyone’s reaction is like “where did that voice just come from?”
Looks like Bucky is tricking him, sneaking around and saying “booger” and then watching Satchel’s reaction of “who said that?”
Satche has found another way to push Bucky’s buttons. You’ve never had older siblings?
Would you say the punch line is worth a week’s buildup?
Nope.
Yep. Conley had an idea an ran with it. It gave him a week off, sorta, without going to repeats.
If you imagine Bucky saying his line in a James Marsters (Spike) voice, it’s a lot funnier. 
definitely not.
I liked it. It was experimental. I mean, how often does a comic writer use physical time as a medium in his strip? It wasn’t art-experimental like Calvin and Hobbes’ attempt to reimplement Little Nemo, it was scripting-experimental like Krazy Kat.
I hope he continues in this vein. Honestly, it’s the first newspaper cartoon in a long while that has the potential for being art.
Yeah, I didn’t think so either.
I will give Darby Conley props for going where other cartoonists fear to tread. He has definitely been know to walk the ragged edge on what you can and can’t do in mass distribution comics. I would suggest that his comic is a very nice compromise between an internet cartoon and a mass distribution cartoon (he could swing way over to the internet side and it wouldn’t bother me a bit, but I realize that that probably isn’t where the money is).
I dunno. I look for art elsewhere. From my comics I usually want a giggle or a grin. This didn’t do either.