Caption:
A big day for Jimmy
Alt text:
AAA DELIVERY / SNAKE WORLD / SNAKE WORLD / SNAKE WORLD / SNAKE WORLD
AAA Delivery is accurate in this case!
This one really shows Larson's willingness to put the work in to convey a silly joke with only the art details.
I remember this one from when I was a kid, a true classic! The humor really is in all the details. I love even the attention to stupid little things like the monogrammed "Bob" on the delivery person's uniform. There's something just a little bit funnier, a little more narrative maybe, about "Bob, the snake delivery man."
Why don't deliver snakes in spools? Wouldn't it be more convenient?
They usually come in containers a lot like the ones you get 250g of potato salad in from a supermarket deli counter.
It's a cartoon. The idea was making it obvious that the boy was getting delivered a snake.
An AAA one at that.
Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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