Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for September 12, 2021

Great throwaway punchline, Wiz!

Legal wizardry is still wizardry

The Wizard of Id: A New Hope: Quite a long time ago in a kingdom far away: Like a Jedi knight with a Lightsaber, the Wizard with his Wand defeated the invading force (the dark side) – (or) he followed a voice inside himself which told him to …

“‘Use the Force’ (of the law), Wiz, ‘Use the Force’ (of your words).”

Serious question. As the wiz points out Sunday Comics have two panels extra, most often not related to the rest of the strip. Some papers carry it and some don’t. Does anybody know why?

Improved in the telling….

The slings and arrows of outrageous lies.

Huns and lawsuits don’t mix well.

Um… Does the Wizard do much fishing? Except that the subject is different. It sounds like a stretched out fishing story. As in how he caught the “big” one, but it got away, type story.

The Wizard of porkies……

Just like GC got rid of the Cartoon SPECTICKLES ! It’s the funniest most ingenious toon and I searched for it and read it daily! That’s how good it is!

The Huns:I’ll take it up with my attorney.

Wizard:And I will take it up with mine – Lawyer J. Noble Daggett. And he will make money and I will make money and your lawyer will make money… and you, Mr. Hun, you will foot the bill.

Hun: You are a powerful Wizard, we go home now.

As they said in Over the Hedge today – because they can.

So glad GoComics shows the extra panels

If you’re going to tell a lie, make it an interesting story. The consequences will be pretty much the same.

For the record, Wiz, I’m pretty sure my local paper does use the first 2 panels. So there.

And did they leave all their weapons and military hardware behind?

That doesn’t mean you don’t have to at least TRY, Wiz. Come on!

If Garfield is presented vertically we don’t see the first panel in the Sunday papers. : (

" Most cartoonists fill the first two panels of their strips with a “throwaway gag,” knowing that the public may not see them, and making them integral to the plot would likely be wasteful. Exceptions to this rule include Steve Canyon and, until its last few years, On Stage, which are complete only in the third format. An alternative is to have a separate strip, a “topper” (though it may appear at the bottom), so with the topper it comprises a three-tier half-page, and without it comprises a two-tier third-page.

Half-page Sunday strips have at least two different styles. The King Features, the Creators’ and the Chicago Tribune syndicates use nine panels (with only one used for the title), while United Features and Universal Press’ half-page Sunday strips (most of them use a third-page format instead) use two panels for the title (except for Jim Davis’ U.S. Acres—which used the nine-panel format- during the 1980s, when most UFS strips -particularly Davis’ more successful Garfield—would have a throwaway gag)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_comics

Sounds like Baron Munchausen…

Didn’t know he had a Law Degree…..

Awesome sound effects ZAP, ZOLT, ROLL ROLL ROLL, ZOT, ZAP!

Which is one reason to make the first objective of any invasion to “kill all the lawyers”.

I hope someone can answer my question above re why gocomics does not include the throwaways on all comics. They won’t talk to me, or just send me a cut-and-paste that doesn’t answer the question. Wallace the Brave really needs that panel.

True about half the papers.