Was this comic from today? I didn’t know they still published Far Side. Glad they are still being published!
Gary Larson is retired but there are reruns.
Copyright logo on the top right says '92.
Why in the world would the title say June 4th 2024? Is the OP trying to pass these off as current?
Take a look through all the old posts. They all just have the day’s date on them.
That’s insane. Why would someone post old comics with modern dates? Why not just post the original date, unless they were trying to be deceptive? We already know what today’s date is. Truly bizarre.
I think they’re posted on the website with today’s date as the title.
I’ve complained about the same thing, this is just the title of the page on the website that gets filled into Lemmy when posting.
OP is just republishing the comics of the day published on the official Far Side website.
If Gary Larson were no longer with us, he’d be spinning in his grave.
Instead, he’s spinning in his office chair
As others have said, these are taken from Gary Larson’s daily website posts of old comics.
He is still drawing. Although retired, he recently got a tablet and has been experimenting with it, so he puts out new comics on his website every so often when the mood strikes him.
I really don’t understand these
I’m not sure there’s anything to understand; it’s a pretty surrealist strip.
Red Cloud: famous Sioux tribal leader.
Sioux: tribe that hunted bison.
Gary Larsen seemed to take a recurring interest in the events surrounding or semi-related to what’s called Custer’s Last Stand.
I imagine his ultimate nightmare was closer to having his people’s land stolen and his tribe whiped of the face of the earth, with little more than a reference regarding their murderers as the sum total of their history.
I find it so weird that these posts are titled with today’s date rather than like, the date of the original comic lol
Yeah, the date is from the website, but there’s no good reason to date them like so
She can date anyone she wants!
Is this where Buffalo Bill came from?
It is set a little before Buffalo Bill and the attempt to eradicate the native Americans by eliminating their food supply: Buffalo. They nearly succeeded in driving the animal extinct. They had little luck eradicating the people
No, this is where we get the lesser-known “Bison Bob” - semi-famous from wild west stories such as “The Good, The Bad, and the Okay-looking,” and “Fistful of Sand Dollars”
Holy shit the dad’s thought bubble made me think this was an edit
That bubble made me laugh out loud. Gary Larson was unhinged.
Makes me think of rockos modern life, where heifer (a cow) was literally raised by wolves
