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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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Heh, can't shrink a pre-shrunken head. Do I get it?
I think since the other heads are all normal-sized, the point is that his head is too small for them to want it as a trophy
I think you just cracked it.
I figured the joke was that they're fattening him up.
I kind of want to settle on this read, and the thing that jumped out at me was also his weirdly small head. The trophy skulls everywhere look regular size, though. If this is a head-shrinking bit, that seems incongruous.
I don't have other ideas though, beyond "fat man on his way to get eaten"... which I guess is maybe enough. Sometimes they're that simple. His head looks so weird though, I want it to mean something.
Edit: I think Lux has it. He's shrunken his own head to make it an undesirable trophy.