Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 21, 2017

I’m utterly speechless…

DOH!!!

A word balloon that says nothing is like a breath of fresh air.

When it comes to several comics (some on gocomics), I’d like to see more word balloons taking the day off.

How does Lio take the day off?

Threesomes, a speech balloon wearing glasses (that is actually a hidden camera), noses practically canoodling, a voyeuristic blue balloon. No words are necessary for what is going on.

You don’t say.

The inability to read the replies under the Featured Comment is beyond annoying. I think someone proposed a way around the problem, but why should it be necessary to whip out a featured-comment repair kit just to read some lame replies?

Although Everybody Balloons will pull their weight in gold.

Is our planet’s rotation more like a Merry Go Round or a Ferris Wheel?

I just realized that once a comic is archived, the FC and its replies are frozen in time. By frozen I mean the replies. They remain unretrievable and therefore unreadable.

:-O …

I happened to spy an escaping mylar balloon on Friday.

It was too far away for me to read it.

It probably said, “Never going back there!”

Ferd’nand by Mik is considered by some to be the longest pantomime strip ever run. With a few extremely rare exceptions, a word balloon was never used.

The conditions of my existence were something of a mystery to me. I knew who I supposedly was, where I generally lived and how I had immediately come to be there. But the actual cause and direction of my life were entirely unknown to me. None of the people with whom I interacted seemed to have any idea either, and little curiosity in the matter. Neither my true nature and purpose, nor their own, held any interest for them as a matter for inquiry. It was a topic whose word balloons had long ago risen off and drifted away. I often longed to be lounging in a lawn chair tied to them as they followed the breeze to somewhere more interesting.

Right now I can’t speak too good, don’t send me more word balloons no.

Not unless you mail them from Froglandia.

The word balloons seem to quite enjoy their emptiness today. I enjoy emptiness on many occasions.

That’s easy for you to say.

Conserve oxygen, conserve helium, say don’t spray it. Spare everyone of hot air of which that one shall often expel..

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Nightingale, hovering high

Harmonize the wind

Darkness, your symphony

I can hear you sing

Of voices in the sky

-Voices In The Sky; The Moody Blues; In Search of the Lost Chord; 1968

I listened to it twice, just to be sure. MP3 recorded from vinyl.

When he’s talking the word balloon with glasses has to remove them.

Popped word balloons today, or just pooped.

Does the ism go…To pooped to pop?

This bears repeating!

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BETTER than a “Featured Comment” would be something like a red asterisk to indicate a new comment within the hour.

Replacing venerable Word Balloons with a loosely-shuffled deck of Confrontational Squares (wasn’t that a long-running TV epic?) is the way to shake up Sunday! How wise is our lame leader, Sister Teresa!

How old is a fart? I remember Ferd’nand and Henry, and I enjoy Lio daily! Yes, lame-to-claim though it be, I am transgenerational! (That’s fashionable, isn’t it?)

Egads, this joint is poppin’.