What was that making? Source?
A pair of wedding rings, on Parks and Recreation.
I thought the third was going to be a returning spacecraft bound to land in Europe, but then realized the joke wouldn’t work in English (In Italian, Spanish and Portuguese for example, the name for the continent and the moon is the same: Europa)
“I can’t believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.”
Whenever I see one of his multi-panel multi-column drawings I never know whether to read across or down. Sometimes that matters more than others. I suppose we could make a game of deciding which. Or perhaps roll a die. 
Huh, i always read across. Fwiw, they have always made sense that way.
The direction doesn’t really matter for this one, but i laughed out loud at a few of those panels.
I guess Diplomacy is an “Abstract” masquerading as a “Hyperspecific Theme.”
Comic book order is “left to right takes precedence over top to bottom” … so:
1)Top Left … … … 2)Top Right
3)Middle Left … 4)Middle Right
5)Bottom Left .. 6)Bottom Right
Unless the artist is being needlessly creative. In which case, they need to clearly signal the viewing order (I have some '70s comics that actually used large arrows).
Manga:
A comic book being a joke? Not if it’s manga…
Sorry for my chauvanism! Let me amend my comment with a disclaimer:
Comic Book Order… and by that I mean the Marvel and DC comic books of the '70s that I grew up with in my white-bread suburb where the only Asian reading material was a take-out menu and so my ninja-wannabe friends ended up with tattoos that actually spelled out “Moo Shu Pork Comes With Plum Sauce”.
“Thanks to differences in logging regulations, the messages actually turned out to be visible from the air.”
Poking fun at gerrymandering no doubt.
That’s a very topical xkcd comic, with Virginians voting two days ago to temporarily redistrict.
Yes, it’s one of his more political adjacent strips. And very funny.
Well, parts of it are political-adjacent, but parts of it are actually in politics. It’s complicated.
It can be more complicated even: logging regulations? This was planted on purpose:
And this is the story in German about how those trees were felled:
“Borat came out twenty years ago this year–closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today–but it honestly feels like it’s been even longer, somehow.”
So what is the most salient cultural reference for the phrase “my wife”?
And if this makes no sense to you, it’s a reference to Borat as noted in the alt-text. There’s a scene from the movie where Borat say “this is my wife” that briefly became a funny way for everyone to say it, then quickly became an extremely cringey example of bad humor.
Cueball (like many others) can’t say “my wife” without hearing it in Borat’s voice and the voice of all the bad imitations that followed.