I was going through the For Better or For Worse comic strips on the strip’s website when I came across this strip.
Just watch it for a few seconds - particularly the second frame.
I’m not sure why that freaked me out – it’s really just a simple, innocent, thing. Maybe it’s because I wasn’t expecting it.
Zev Steinhardt
Freaked me out, too, and I had been warned. Comic strips should stay still. If they start doing this in the actual newspaper, I will have to stop subscribing.
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Freaked me out, too, and I had been warned. Comic strips should stay still. If they start doing this in the actual newspaper, I will have to stop subscribing.
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…or start prescribing.
I was sort of amused. But then being warned I was open to expecting something. If I hadn’t been expecting it I might have noticed the slight movement and started in on a “WTF” hunt for whatever it was that I swear I thought I saw move.
WOAH!
That’s weird. Why would they do that? I’m freaked out.
Yeah, they started with the blinking a few months ago. It still bothers me, and I only read FBOFW to snark at it.
Eek! Why did they do that? Does anyone actually feel that the random blinking adds anything (besides a big dose of creepy) to the strip?
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Does anyone actually feel that the random blinking adds anything (besides a big dose of creepy) to the strip?
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It adds a human element, in the same way this touching and poignant comic affects our lives.
Really though, WTF is this? I thought comics were supposed to be funny.
It’s almost like they wanted people to talk about the strip with their friends on public message boards or something…
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Freaked me out, too, and I had been warned. Comic strips should stay still. If they start doing this in the actual newspaper, I will have to stop subscribing.
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Or consider substance abuse counseling. 
I see no blinking.
The first time I saw the blinking, I was running some odd ad blocker – so I saw the blinking eyes, and nothing else. That was freaky!
Yeah, it’s been happening for a few months, and I guess it works because I’ve showed it to several people, “Look at this creepy-ass thing!”
Have you seen what’s going on with Mary Worth? Between that and blinking eyes on FBOFW, I just don’t know about the comics page anymore.
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It adds a human element, in the same way this touching and poignant comic affects our lives.
Really though, WTF is this? I thought comics were supposed to be funny.
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Me too, and thanks for the laugh.
I used to like this strip, but not any more.
Also, funnies are supposed to be either mildly humorous or say something about the human condition. Most do neither. Dondi should be strangled or shredded, for just one example…
I don’t know if I can handle comics looking back at me–but I will say that I wish Calvin and Hobbes would come back quasi-animated!
As I posted about this phenomenon before, I certainly hope it isn’t picked up by other strips.
Can you imagine a visibly wagging Dogbert? Or Drusilla doing hip-thrusts? Or Dagwood finally chomping down on that sandwich?
Ick-ick-ick. Make it stop.
I just had a Classmates.com ad with similar blinking/shifty eye animations.
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I only read FBOFW to snark at it.
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Suuure ya do. 
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Yeah, it’s been happening for a few months, and I guess it works because I’ve showed it to several people, “Look at this creepy-ass thing!”
Have you seen what’s going on with Mary Worth? Between that and blinking eyes on FBOFW, I just don’t know about the comics page anymore.
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You mean the creepy prophetic dreams about Dr. Wonderful drowning in Vietnam? Funny, I thought the Brand New Biddy, Ella, was the psychic…
Check the archives on the FBOFW site, and you’ll also see animations such as a background character gliding through a checkout line, a pin wiggling in Elly’s mouth, Liz counting on her fingers, Liz’s cat playing with a fuzzy toy, and a basketball leaving April’s hands to swish through a hoop.
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You mean the creepy prophetic dreams about Dr. Wonderful drowning in Vietnam? Funny, I thought the Brand New Biddy, Ella, was the psychic…
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Well, I don’t read it myself, but this guy at work keeps me posted on how Mary Worth has evidently been given over to giggling stoners to write. I mean, first the stalker, then the ambiguous stalker-over-the-cliff, and now she’s going back to 'Nam? We think she’s going to find her half-Vietnamese love child there.
[QUOTE=Zsofia]
Well, I don’t read it myself, but this guy at work keeps me posted on how Mary Worth has evidently been given over to giggling stoners to write. I mean, first the stalker, then the ambiguous stalker-over-the-cliff, and now she’s going back to 'Nam? We think she’s going to find her half-Vietnamese love child there.
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Oh, yeah…Aldo. Poor Aldo. Aldo fall go BOOM!
Who thought that such a cabal of yuppies and biddies could plan a murder?