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Bizarro is brought to you today by Inflatable Baby.

Finding someone to take your kids off your hands even for just a few hours is always difficult. Rick has found a simple and creative solution that rids him of the little tykes for good. And he's made some lovely lady very happy, to boot. The children are a little bewildered at the moment, but kids adjust and it is easy to imagine that life anywhere would be better than it had been with Rick.

Another cartoon with a happy ending for everyone. You're welcome.

*All of today's links came from awkwardfamilyphotos.com, one of the best sites in the world.

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Is there anything more awesome than a monkey fighting a robot?

Obviously James Kochalka's answer would be 'No,' as evidenced by his cover to Monkey vs. Robot (2000).

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Fear of Facsimile

Bizarro is brought to you today by More Cloning Horrors.

When this cartoon appeared in newspapers last week, the bottom caption title box dealy said "Downside of Cloning." But as I was reformatting it this morning for this post, I changed it to this one, which I like better.

A lot of objections have been raised about human cloning but none of the worst-case scenarios I've heard are as bad as being able to see myself the way others do. Terrifying. It's all I can do to escape suicide when I stay at a hotel with full-length mirrors in the bathroom, I can only imagine how depressing it would be to see and hear myself in widescreen, 3D, high definition. Forget about it.

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this morning. All the previous caveats apply.


1 (+1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2 (+2). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
3 (-). Diary of a Wimpy Kid
4 (+1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
5 (+1). Kick-Ass
6 (-5). Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
7 (+1). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat
8 (+8). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5 *
9 (+9). The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 (Vol. 13)
10 (-3). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
11 (+20). Batman and Robin, Vol. 1: Batman Reborn *
12 (+7). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour *
13 (+17). 50,000,000 Pearls Fans Can't Be Wrong: A Pearls Before Swine Collection *
14 (-1). The Boys Volume 6 SC
15 (+10). The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear The Hunters
16 (-5). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
17 (N). Yotsuba&!, Vol. 8 *
18 (+2). Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
19 (+20). The Losers: Book One (Vols. 1 & 2)
20 (+23). The Complete Persepolis
21 (-12). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
22 (-5). Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead
23 (+1). Warriors: Ravenpaw's Path #2: A Clan in Need
24 (-12). Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
25 (+1). Watchmen
26 (+3). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
27 (R). Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
28 (-14). Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe
29 (+20). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
30 (-20). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
31 (+1). Asterios Polyp
32 (-17). Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross
33 (+4). Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid
34 (N). Instructions *
35 (-2). Planetary Vol. 4: Spacetime Archaeology
36 (R). Irredeemable: Volume 1
37 (-9). Irredeemable Vol 2
38 (-16). Captain America: Reborn *
39 (+2). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
40 (-17). Hellboy Volume 9: The Wild Hunt
41 (R). Batman: The Killing Joke
42 (-7). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
43 (R). Batman: The Long Halloween
44 (N). The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel *
45 (R). Halo: Helljumper
46 (R). Wolves at the Gate (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 3)
47 (-9). V for Vendetta
48 (R). Astonishing X-Men Omnibus
49 (-1). Batman: Year One
50 (-). Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5)



Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.

N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks


Commentary:

* Twilight slips back this week, not only behind the Wimpy Kid volumes, but also Kick-Ass as well.

* Also losing some steam this week are the Scott Pilgrim volumes. Presumably the high from the trailer has worn off, but while they will drop for a while I suspect that a new trailer will perk them back up again, and that we'll see increasing interest as the film approaches in August.

* The highest debut belongs to a new volume of Yotsuba&!, which is also the only manga on the list this week.

* Peeking in down near the bottom of the list is a preorder for The Exile, a new graphic novel based on an apparently very popular series of historical time-travel fantasy romances by Diana Gabaldon. This one could be a sleeper hit...

A Happy Ending for Unicorn & Robot

A big thanks to all you who voted in the first Mythfits poll. According to the results, Mythfits is a comic about love (33 votes), poo (30 votes), imagination (25 votes), and lastly, gender (10 votes). The people have spoken!


Robot & Unicorn have been reunited. So love struck is our main couple as they walk into the sunset, they fail to notice something left behind...

Hanging Wif My Homey

And now this bit of odd: I was interviewed this week by a puppet.



To enjoy more from the amusing mind of my buddy, Matt Sky, go to Mattsky.com.

Sexy Beast

Bizarro is brought to you today by Second Amendment Mailboxes.

Here's an example of a cartoon I wasn't sure all of the editors of my client newspapers would tolerate, but I got no complaints so that is good. Not 15 years ago, the term "gay" was not allowed on most funny pages, so perhaps the country has evolved. That tends to happen as older editors are replaced by younger, hipper ones.

There is no deeper meaning or grand statement made here, I just thought that a gay Chewbacca was funny. I originally conceived of the joke as a gay Bigfoot, but couldn't find the right caption for it. Having him head out to a comics convention seemed a good vehicle, so I changed him.

I submitted this cartoon almost two months ago, but just last week I saw a hilarious sketch on "Important Things with Demetri Martin" about a gay Bigfoot. Hitting upon the same idea is something that happens frequently to cartoonists and humor writers of all kinds. One of my cartoons that ran in the paper this week was apparently very close to a very old "Far Side" cartoon and a couple of people wrote to me about it. I'll talk more about that when I post the cartoon next week.