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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 [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

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

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] kambusha 11 points 3 months ago

How can he slap!?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's not literal. The rhino was probably playing a sick bass line, and the safari guy couldn't get into the pocket groove without losing the beat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Slappin da bass, mon!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Tail, tongue, or tackle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I love this because it reminds me of something my mother explained to me when I was young… Watching the Dustin Hoffman movie, Little Big Man… Natives would tag soldiers to show them that they could’ve killed them but didn’t, to prove they were the greater warrior. The implication was that the soldiers should back off but we all know how that worked out…

Well, how are the rhinos doing now?

This is peak Farside humor