Out of Context Comics

I really love the concept of this place, according to the specific vision laid out in the sidebar. It's a damn fertile premise, with loads of fun to be had, methinks. :D

Now, sometime back, I noted that it had been falling in to obscurity, and figured that I'd make an effort to help get it going again, according to FlyingSquid's et al original vision. Cool. So in the past two months I've been working to build up my 'out of context' folder of panels and figure out what the hell to title them as... something which can be surprisingly tricky to pull off! Cool. Across that time I've also posted just under two-dozen funnies here. All good?

Unfortunately, and I really don't know WTF is going on with all that... people are now posting shizzle here that directly breaks multiple rules of the community, and others are upvoting such shizzle to the max, and TBH-- I guess that's cool and all, but I'm just not interested in such low-effort crap. Me, I'm here for the original spirit of the community, but I guess many are not? Fine.

Now, if you REALLY must know upon an egregious example?

"Hofmaimaier@feddit.org," fake name used by @nichehervielleicht@feddit.org:
https://piefed.social/c/outofcontextcomics/p/1953797/bill-is-right

Obviously breaks RULE #1, and to a lesser extent, RULES #2 and #3.

And YET people here upvote that low-effort crap? Okay, got it. Fine. Big part of why I'm going to need a long vacation from this project.

Now do I sound bitchy and uncool upon all that? Absolutely, fluffing-yes. But damn it, I thought I'd tried.

I think this narrowly flits past rule three. IIRC, the original comic was going for more of an ironic / macabre thing, not so much for humor.

As I understand it, the late*, great Flying Squid founded this sub and posted many fine gems like this, captioned skillfully. You can see a lot of these if you go to the community page and sort by "old." Indeed, that's how I found this one. These 'golden-age' and 'silver-age' comics panels almost write themselves, being from such a different age and having such different sensibilities.

Also, these panels generally do a great job of reinforcing the importance of rule #3, i.e. "comics should be unintentionally funny." I kind of wish today's posters would be a little more heedful of that guideline, as Flying Squid went out of their way to make it a priority. Unfortunately, the listed mods have all been asleep for awhile.

Anyway, I have loads more of these, and am willing to keep posting for a while if this community remains viable. Thank you for everything, FS.

* Haha, just in terms of him suddenly disappearing from the Fediverse. I certainly hope he (or they) are okay in Real Life.

The Amazing Spider-Man, Annual (1982)

Charlton Bullseye (1981)

A robot wearing a toupee?

Not sure if this is an old Flash Gordon comic, but the look seems similar.

I tried some browser-level upscaling, but failed hard on five different services. Next time I might have to break out GIMP first, if it really matters.

Btw, the quote goes back to The Big Lebowski (1998).

"And you? Where's your little mark?"

Not sure if this should be tagged NSFW

FUN FACT: Mutual gender-attraction is utterly common across nature:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

#FACTSANDREALITYFORNAKEDAPES

From Treasure of the Sierra Madre I think it was, featuring Bogie:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iP_LTDggATU

Haha, Blazing Saddles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lyNt5km8U

The title is based on two different sources: 1) An SNL skit called "Delicious Dish," featuring Alec Baldwin as Pete Schweddy, offering tasty culinary items; 2) A Southpark song sung by Isaac Hayes as "Chef."

They're both probably on Youtube or DailyMotion.

Title Strange Fantasy #1

Date Published Aug 1952

From the story Death Claws (Detective/Mystery)

Man looking at film strip claiming, "There! Every one is clear as a bell!" his friend asks, "How'd that one of me milking a cow, turn out?"

This comic is only a mediocre fit here, but I thought it worth posting just for some cultural fun. It's originally a Danish comic called "Rasmus Klump."