Gary Larson at the top of his game.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Far Side often depicted humorous situations involving businesses, and regularly through the strip's run, creator Gary Larson used "Acme" as his go-to company name, using it to signify a number of different products over the years, from "the end is nigh" signs to flea collars for werewolves, and everything in between.
10 A Monster Duck Menaces The "Acme Bread Box Co." First Published: April 19, 1993 Of the calamities visited upon Acme and its employees throughout Far Side's run, this was perhaps the silliest. Out front of the "Acme Bread Box Co." building, a group of shaken employees gather out front of their building, as a police officer takes their statements about a large creature that allegedly menaced them.
Gary Larson loved to play with language in The Far Side, and that included an unrepentant use of puns. One of Larson's comedic strengths was the ability to taken an English-language idiom, or folk saying, and illustrate it in the funniest way possible.
One of Gary Larson's idiosyncratic comedic obsessions, which found repeated outlet in Far Side panels, was depicted people stranded on desert islands, often as further misfortune was visited upon them. This is a prime example of that recurring bit. A ragged survivor raises his fists in triumph, shouting with excitement and popping the lid off a crate that has drifted ashore, finding it full of fruit.
Some Far Side panels are loud-out-loud funny; others were evidently designed to make the reader raise their eyebrow in confusion, tugging their lips upward in a bemused smile at the same time. This panel exemplifies Gary Larson's sly humor, as the wearer of a horse costume drags themselves into "Acme Costume Rental," unable to extract themselves from the suit.
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