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The Far Side

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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

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Another one that just goes over my head. Is the joke just meta, that the bear was made to look like the hunter "fought it" instead of taking a cheap shot from a safe distance?

[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 52 points 1 week ago

Yes I think that's the correct interpretation

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 24 points 1 week ago

Yes. Its one of my favorites.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

You got it right. Poor thing was just getting a drink and the hunter staged it as a monster.

Im saying the bear just pretended to die, then pretended to get gutted and skinned and when the time came it killed the hunter after the 4th frame.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

New rule. Hand to hand combat, take what you can carry out. No clothing or weapons beyond what you get genetically.

I suspect the rhino, elephant and lion populations will benefit.

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I was born with hunting gear fused to my body and knives for fingers, am I prepared for rhino fighting?