If Curtis starts talking about blogs, it's over
Curtis, 10/7/24
While we all like to see a syndicated newspaper comic keep up with times, I'm afraid the occasional bit in Curtis where Curtis faithfully tunes in to his favorite online comic, Dear Ol' Dad, feels a little out of date, like it's grounded in the big webcomics boom of the late '00s and early '10s. Not that there aren't still plenty of good online comics, but unless you really go out of your way to follow them ("Dad, can I have $5 a month for the Dear Ol' Dad Patreon?" "I'm broke, Curtis"), you mostly encounter them appearing at random on your Facebook or Instagram feed. If you're lucky, they're cloying panels where blue aliens describe ordinary situations in cutesy circumlocutions; more likely, you get either Off The Mark panels from 2014 that have had the dialogue changed to be racist, or horrifying AI slop where a crying soldier is eating dog food out of a can while dozens of children with too many fingers point and laugh at him, and the caption is "Best Comic Funny [three cry-laughing emojis]." I'm assuming what Curtis is enjoying is the latter.
Slylock Fox, 10/7/24
I think it's funny that the text makes clear that this is an enlarged photo of Slick Smitty. The strip wants you to know that the new animal society is fully capable of producing normal-sized photos, OK? They just chose not to in this case, for some reason.
Alice, 10/7/24
Reading this panel left-to-right was fun because at first I thought, "Ha ha, it's funny because Alice is in desperate financial straits," but then I got to the ATM and was like "AHH AHHH IT HAS LIPS AND A TONGUE WHY ARE THEY THAT COLOR WHY IS THE TONGUE FLAPPING AROUND LIKE THAT AHHHHH"