# Punny comic strip names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [April 21, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466 "2021-04-21T17:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/41 "2021-04-23T12:02:59Z")
Ruben Bolling has been doing the political comic _Tom the Dancing Bug_ for a long time, and one of the recurring “features” is “Lucky Duck”, a piece who style and artwork is clearly inspired by the comics Carl Barks did for Dell comics in the 1940s-1970s, especially his Scrooge McDuck comics. These works focus on economic inequities. Today’s strip (April 23 2021) is a sorta meta-pun: > **[Cartoon: Lucky Ducky and the commie CEOs](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/22/2026971/-Cartoon-Lucky-Ducky-and-the-commie-CEOs)** > > MEMBERSHIPS are now open for Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE. Join the team that makes Tom the Dancing Bug possible, and get exclusive access to comics before they are published anywhere, sneak ... The author of the "Lucky Duck’ comic is revealed to be Karl Barx, with a Karl Marxian beard. it’s appropriate, because he’s doing a strip based on economic struggle. “Karl Barx” = “Karl Marx” with a dog-related pun, as are other names in the strip (“Warren Basset” for Warren Buffet, etc.) But it’s especially relevant because “Karl Barx” sounds exactly the same as “Carl Barks”, the cartoonist that inspired the feature. Gotta admit, I never noticed the similarity between “Karl Marx” and “Carl Barks” before. And Barks looked nothing like Marx. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/42 "2021-04-23T12:40:58Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Of course, in **Alley Oop** you also had Professor Wunmug. “Ola”, oo la la. The author said “Alley Oop” was a sound French gymnasts made, but the only thing I can find is “Allez France”. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/43 "2021-04-23T14:11:24Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > And Barks looked nothing like Marx. Note that “Karl Barx” has a Carl Barks-esque white mustache (in lieu of a Karl Marx-esque dark mustache) to go with his Karl Marx-esque white mane. Another clever touch: the last panel is clearly modeled after the end of the Chuck Jones cartoon “Duck Amuck” (“Ain’t I a stinker?”) - so it’s referencing a Disney artist by way of Warner Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/44 "2021-04-23T17:51:11Z")
Actually, it’s “Ooola”. Moo has its own way of spelling. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/45 "2021-04-23T18:41:55Z")
Thanks. She carried a .45 in her time travels in the good old days. She had already captured the Evil Black Knight when Alley went back to rescue her. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/46 "2021-04-23T23:21:27Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I’ve been reading a great run of old Alley Oops on a FB group and one character is named G. Oscar Boom. If that’s a pun I can’t quite suss it. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > G. O. Boom (“go boom”)? A slight refinement: “Goes Kaboom.” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zamboniracer2/32/3169_2.png) [@zamboniracer2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer2)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/47 "2021-04-23T23:39:13Z")
Not a comic strip but the 1990s cartoon show “Freakazoid” had a bad guy named [Arms Akimbo](https://freakapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Arms_Akimbo) . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466.md?page=2)