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!

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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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28 September 2023 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works [M] to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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[–] shasta@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I feel like with most of these far side comics, including this one, I must be missing some reference or subtlety that makes it funny. Can anyone explain this one to me?

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[–] generic@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 2 years ago*

It's a joke about the (fictional) city of Atlantis that sunk into the ocean.

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[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

There's not anything to get, mostly. They're a little funny because they have people doing somewhat relatable things in insane circumstances, and then they're funny on a meta level where they're kinda dumb, so you feel dumb for finding it funny.

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[–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I really don't get how popular they are here. A small and active community?

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