Okay, this doesn’t happen often. In fact, I’ve gone for years without getting a laugh out of Beetle Bailey (yet habit keeps me spending a few seconds each day reading it – waiting, hoping…)
But here it is – the strip for Friday, February 20. Not only funny, but with a bit of an edge. Enjoy.
Ah, King Features:
…where comic strips go to die.
But I have to admit, this one did make me laugh.
Wow. Unbelievable.
I thought you were full of it there until I opened up the link. It made me chuckle out loud.
OK, that was good. And that was Beetle Bailey. Haven’t read 'em in years.
And this can only mean one thing …
The Apocalypse is surely nigh upon us now!!!
Then why do they seem to have eternal life?
DIE ALREADY!
Are you sure you linked to the funny one?
That seems like the same joke they recycle every 5th strip. Does that mean 20% of BB is funny?
I think the link takes you to today’s strip. Use the menu to take you to the 2/20 strip. Yeah, I’d say that’s not a recycled joke, and somewhat topical, too. Hee.
OK, I agree that is vaguely amusing. I am pretty sure I’ve seen the joke before though.
I couldn’t get to the strip in question, but I was recently going to make an almost identical post about *Heathcliff[/i.] I generally can’t stand the comic, don’t know why I look at it, etc., but a couple of weeks ago they had one where Heathcliff was trying to get attention from his owner while she cooked dinner, and there was a panel where Heathcliff was clinging to his owner’s lap with her in a standing position, so he was projecting out perpendicular to her body and parallel to the floor. Kind of funny, unlike every other strip, in which Heathcliff walks on two legs and acts like an adolescent in a third-rate sitcom.
I found it anti-semitic, unnecessarily gory and historically inaccurate.
Holy crap. Beetle Bailey can be funny?!
I snickered in spite of myself.
Daniel
The Jews killed Beetle Bailey?
I have to admit, I laughed at that one too. Then I thought, “I just laughed at Beetle Bailey. What’s wrong with me?”
Well, of course. That’s not his real name, you know. It’s the Anglicized name he took at immigration. He used to be called Shtetl Baileyman.
Somewhere, Johnny Hart is scribbling furiously, am i rite?
I had a pile of old Beetle Bailey books when I was little. I still read the strip today (just because I read everything on the comics page), and I am amazed at the number of strips which are practically word-for-word rehashes of the same strip I read years ago. And they aren’t reprints.
I didn’t realize until recently that Beetle Bailey is the brother of Lois from Hi & Lois (also a Walker creation, though I believe the creator’s sons now draw it). I don’t know which is the original.
When I was ten years old, I was an unpopular, sickly child. I drew a lot, though I was a horrible artist. I put a bunch of my homemade comic strips in an envelope and sent them to Mort Walker, since I was a big Beetle Bailey fan at the time.
He was kind enough to write back with some suggestions, and sent me an autographed Beetle Bailey strip. We corresponded over about three letters.
Beetle Bailey is not the strip it once was. But I will not speak ill of Mort Walker, myself. He was very nice to me back then.