One-liner Thursday

". . . Is the person who let you ducks in and filled up the tub inside the house? Am I in danger?"


I think these people have been told in advance to taunt our flippered friend and send him away. "Sorry! All of the planet's women have rejected you! We'll let you know if one of them suffers head trauma or something and changes her mind!"


"Uh-oh! If Ziggy's refreshed then he might realize how ridiculous it is to keep me around!"


Withholdings: One (1) torso


Is this "standards week" on Ziggy or something? I'm noticing a theme here. I think Ziggy asked that flying starfish to relinquish its spot as the "Carl's Jr." mascot and live with him on this hairy mountain.

Ziggy wanders into El Beth-el, which has changed

Interpretation #1: Passing through an empty field one day, Ziggy is confronted by the god who has filled his life with so much surrealism and pain, who has torn the "For Sale" sign off of his lawn just to taunt him and now shows it to him before casting it into the sea, knowing that nobody will ever believe him, and he never talks to anybody else anyway.)

Interpretation #2: God is selling the entirety of the Heavens and the Earth. Presumably he's going to buy a nice cottage somewhere in omnidimensional space with the earnings and take a nice break from running the entirety of everything.

Supplementary Comment: If neither of these interpretations hold I want some of whatever Ziggy's on. It sounds nice.

A behatted friend

The discovery of this image obliterated any commentary that I might have had in mind:



It's nice to see that somebody else finds Ziggy worthy of incomprehensible derivation.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

No kidding. Possession of a huge, toothless walrus overbite hasn't kept this guy out of medicine.

"Now turn your head and SCREAM!"

Vāyu, on refulgent car come to the drinking of the juice

Two contemplative travelers meet in the night. Torchlight leaves epic shadow.


Selections from Bodanga, an apocryphal Vedic writing

1. GURU, the bearded one, is led forward in a search for glory.
A sandaled one pursuing a God rejected.
2. Resplendent, his beard represents a funny geographical
formation, a scion bedecked in false robes, yet sincere.
3. Oh Rebus, give us riches, feed us with wisdom and with
the unbearable presence of the King.
4. And ask him if he will perform "Blue Suede Shoes" for us.




My apologies to ethnic Indians, orthodox Hindus, and anybody else who respects ancient scripture sufficiently not to parody it for a lark.

Everything comes to a head

NOTE: The following analysis does not reflect Ziggy canon:


This looks like one of the climactic scenes from an Imaginary Character movie (Drop Dead Fred, Donnie Darko, etc.). The "psychologist" represents Ziggy's repression, his desire for sanity and stability, but the trail of bodies in his gruesome wake* show that an attempt at murder-free living is merely a temporary state, a brief pause before the continuing slide to moral and psychological oblivion.

Ziggy has finally stopped yelling "Shut up shut up SHUT UP!" in public while debating this mental construct, and has finally decided to take his frightening advice. "But if I take responsibility for my actions. . ." he thinks aloud, finally realizing that an attempt at requital, however impossible for such great crimes, would leave his illusory bearded, flamboyantly disco Willy Wonka of a doctor no further function to fulfill. By becoming "whole" he will lose his greatest and only friend, will look at his hands and, for the first time, see the blood thereupon.

Will weep but feel free.


* But far be it from me to suggest that Ziggy is a killer:

"I wanna stwangle wu!"

The time-limiting nature of single-panel features aside, those birds never speak. Does Ziggy even see the orange bird, or is the parrot itself mad? There's an odd chain of madness going on here. I think Ziggy's house is more like Stephen King's apartment 1408, driving lesser beings to hallucinations, encroaching madness and eventual suicide. Ziggy, of course, is right at home.