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Hi and Lois and Pearls Before Swine

Waddaya think?

Coordinated effort.	3 votes
Really strange coincidence.	5 votes
One of them got wind of the other and pulled a fast one.	2 votes

AG/DC Sep 09 2008 07:40 AM

Benjamin Grimm Sep 09 2008 07:47 AM

Coincidence, I say. It happens more often that you think, two comic strips on the same day doing a joke about a similar subject that's not usual comic strip fodder (like golf.) If it was Pearls and Get Fuzzy I'd think it was more likely to have been coordinated, as those two strips have worked together in the past, and with Fox Trot as well.

AG/DC Sep 09 2008 07:52 AM

How can you pick the absolute wrong day and subject with which to call out Hi and Lois? It's no longer surprising when cutting edge meta-strips and old-skool family strips have relationships. Bill Keane of Family Circus has been a proponent of Zippy the Pinhead from its very beginning.

Centerfield Sep 09 2008 08:23 AM

Either a coordinated effort or someone got wind. No way that can be a coincidence.

seawolf17 Sep 09 2008 08:39 AM

All these cartoonists must know each other. There's a secret Cartoonist Pool Forum out there that they all post on.

metsguyinmichigan Sep 09 2008 11:09 AM

Pearls is always ripping on other comics, one of the reasons I think it's really funny. This might be a wild coincidence!

Benjamin Grimm Sep 09 2008 02:47 PM

Comics Curmudgeon says: ]I got about a jillion e-mails about this today basically asking me OH MY GOD DO YOU THINK THIS IS A COINCIDENCE?, which I have to say that I pretty much do, as the jokes don’t work together quite well enough for it to be a coordinated effort. I think Pastis just picked the wrong day to make fun of Hi and Lois (though when the Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC hired goons burn down his house, he’ll find that any day is the wrong day to make fun of Hi and Lois.) It might at first be hard to imagine that Hi and Lois would be taking on any kind of international politics, but keep in mind that this strip was one of the first to tackle the subprime meltdown, so it’s smarter than it looks. I’m intrigued by Ditto’s shirt. It looks like when the time comes for him to take absolute power from his sister’s ailing hands, he’ll have a spiffy logo for his paramilitary organization all ready to go.