A week late, sure, but here it is! This strip is an adaptation of a joke I heard around 10-15 years ago, possibly from an old girlfriend, but I can’t remember. Since then I have told it over and over and OVER again, paring it down over the years to what I think of as its essential elements:
Turtle gets mugged by a gang of snails: gets beat up pretty bad.
Cops show up; they say, “Mr Turtle, Mr Turtle, can you tell us anything about your attackers?”
Turtle thinks. He says, “I don’t know, it all happened so fast!”
I added some stuff for the comic version, but I think it really fits naturally into a one-page strip format. I think I’d like to do some more jokes, but I don’t know many. I’m open to suggestions! Although they need to be super simple guys, SUPER SIMPLE. Some of the replies I got for my “Ask Professor Cuckoo” post were pretty existential, or at least not the sort of things I could make into effective comics.
Okay! The real reason this strip is a week late is because of a different strip I’ve been slowly sloooooowly coloring, but it’s 8 pages! So I’ll post that in the next few days, more or less returning me to schedule. Phew!
Nice! And I do like the color treatment–just enough to get the job done. I'd love to see more like this.
I was hoping you'd do a series of these "groaners". Here are some of my my faves.
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asked, "Why the long face?"
Two peanuts were walking down the street and one was a salted.
A string turns 21 and his friends take him out to a bar. The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here." and ponts to a sign that reads "No Strings Alowed!". The string and his friends try several bars, but it's the same everywhere they go; "No Strings Alowed". Before trying one last bar, the string twists himself up and pulls his head and feet apart. When he enters the bar, the bartender says, "Hey! Aren't you a string? We don't serve strings here." The string replies "No, I'm a frayed knot."
A pirate walks into a bar with his ship's steering wheel down the front of his pants. The bartender says, "That doesn't look very comfortable." The pirate replies, "Arg, it's drivin' me nuts."
What's brown and stick-y? A stick!
Wokka Wokka Wokka
I'd buy a book of these "groaners"… sounds like a good partnership to me!
That's my favorite joke too, although I like a shorter variant of it.
Girl spill it–what's the short version?
Also Neil: all those are terrible. TERRIBLE.
Aw, gimme a break. I only get to hear jokes from a 3rd grader or read them off of popsicle sticks.
Why didn't the two mellons get married? Because they cantaloupe!
Ba-dump pshhhh!