today in #9chickweedlane i learned i'm gonna be trying to figure out what's going on in panel 3 until the day i die
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I’ve been studying this for an hour now, and I think I’ve finally been able to make sense of it. And the answer is: BM is a skeevy old perv who gets off on drawing his #1 wank object as an adolescent in a Catholic schoolgirl uniform. Just look at those gams, amirite fellas?
aug 3, 2025, 6:21 am • 8 0 • view
Welcome, you must be new.
aug 3, 2025, 9:52 am • 2 0 • view
Instead of Soggies, the last page of Dumbing of Age will be a full 12 panels of this shit
aug 3, 2025, 1:12 pm • 4 0 • view
this one is genuinely incoherent
aug 3, 2025, 5:02 am • 2 0 • view
Some kind of Jojo's reference if I had to hazard an incorrect guess.
aug 3, 2025, 5:05 am • 7 0 • view
"Oh, you're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming closer?" "I can't sloppily make out with you without getting closer."
aug 3, 2025, 5:13 am • 5 0 • view
Is this Loss Of Higher Brain Function? 🤔
aug 3, 2025, 8:49 am • 9 0 • view
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Also, looking at the rest of the strip and the way the seesaw spans the penultimate and final panels, are there supposed to be two nuns there or just the one?
aug 4, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
Just the one.
aug 9, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Finally, SOMEone in the Void is being punished for breaking the laws of physics.
aug 3, 2025, 8:11 am • 1 0 • view
I mean - from context - they're on a see saw (which we all know is a simple plank balanced on a perfect platonic triangle), Amos is backing away as if terrified, Edda is advancing towards him, until the see saw see saws? Presumably this is from the period when she bullied him with her sexiness
aug 3, 2025, 9:56 am • 2 0 • view
What… what did they do that warrants detention?
aug 3, 2025, 6:04 am • 0 0 • view
Boner
aug 3, 2025, 9:19 am • 2 0 • view
He got detention for an involuntary bodily function?
aug 3, 2025, 9:36 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, but he intentionally got one by maybe trying to look up her skirt or something? I think that’s what’s happening?
aug 3, 2025, 10:21 am • 1 0 • view
Looks more like he’s trying NOT to see anything, the way he’s scooting away from her?
aug 3, 2025, 10:33 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah but then the joke doesn’t work and when has Brooke McEldowney ever botched telling a joke. Oh the ENTIRE archive?
aug 3, 2025, 11:04 am • 3 0 • view
Perhaps even the joke is meant to imply "I was never sexual, never erotic, it was always this enchanting floozy THROWING herself at me, but I was the one who got punished? I Am God's Perfect Martyr, weep for me"
aug 3, 2025, 11:28 am • 3 0 • view
Now THAT is some McEldowney self-insert characterization!
aug 3, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
What are they getting detention for? Is it implied that he looked up her skirt or something??? 🤔
aug 3, 2025, 4:46 am • 6 0 • view
Edda and Amos got detention for being horny
aug 3, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
You've just provided more logic than this thing did
aug 3, 2025, 5:21 am • 4 0 • view
Failing upwards by putting more effort in than the 9CL guy
aug 3, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, I think the idea is supposed to be that when he backs away enough that the seesaw tilts so he's lower than her, he sees up her skirt.
aug 3, 2025, 11:29 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't understand a single thing about what's going on in this comic, including and especially the basic spatial physics.
aug 3, 2025, 5:28 am • 4 0 • view
Why is she addressing just Amos when they BOTH got detention for ... seesawing irresponsibly?
aug 3, 2025, 5:02 am • 2 0 • view
"He's thrilled when you think he's--" "DID I ASK YOU?!"
aug 3, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
So... We're establishing that Amos gets off on an elderly nun thinking he might have had sexual thoughts. We're going to need a team of 19th century psychoanalysts to handle this mess.
aug 3, 2025, 4:53 am • 9 0 • view
Yet again this odd assertion that doing a scarecrow pose will render a woman (or, here, a pre-teen) an object of pure eroticism. Also: Maritza was right, WHY is this Catholic school letting girls and boys mingle around one another?
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