You’ll find no joy here today. Only pain and confusion. For joy, perhaps look at Carafe? The current installment has been known to cause mirth. Also, don’t forget I usually post Thursdays and Fridays at the Daily Comics Review. With that, your joyless comic commentary:

It’ll probably fare just as well as the time you went to California for a few months. At this point, that was about two or three years ago. My god.

This part of Klegg’s plan is actually quite clever, if not particularly doable. Why do men with guns continually try to assault people for whom guns pose no threat? It’s absurdly bizarre.

I’m really confused at this point. Savarna knows that Kit Walker is also known as the Ghost-Who-Walks, but doesn’t know the Phantom? I realize he’s supposed to be a jungle legend, but you’d think she’d at least hear of him. I don’t know. Gah.

Carafe! CARAFE! CARAFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Also, one of my comics is up there today. Go look. GO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK.

I don’t really have any problems with this strip. Yeah, Peter’s dialog in panel one is sort of silly, but panel two shows that he’s at least trying to be strategic and panel three is sort of funny, in an incredibly bland sort of way. The blanket looks like a bunch of webbing, though. It would be funny if they just used Spider-Man’s webbing as a blanket.

Hey, do you think Klegg wants to substitute Mandrake for Derek? I mean, they haven’t mentioned it, but I’m sure they’re thinking it! Yes sir, I bet by the end of this week, we’ll find out Klegg’s sinister master plan!

Yes, you did, and you look very evil in that panel. You look like the Joker. And the Phantom has tiny arms in panel two.

Man, she looks like the Joker. So much like the Joker. So much.

I’m not an expert on plays and whatnot, but would an off-Broadway production really spend all that money to transport their talent from New York to Miami? I’m sure for some of the more well-known shows they would, but I doubt Mary Jane is something all that big. Of course, I could be wrong, and there’s off-Broadway troupes travelling all across America as we speak. I’m more sure that they wouldn’t pay to have Peter come along, though, which could be why Mary Jane is so shocked in panel three.

This week: Klegg intends to turn in Mandrake!

Next week: Mandrake actually does something about it!
It’d be sort of funny if she still came to the conclusion that he was a pirate, especially considering how he paid her in gold and jewels before.

I’m fighting off sickness today, folks. Yet here I am, writing down commentary. Hopefully this makes up for skipping last Thursday.

I’m pretty sure most comic strip blogs commented on this one today, because of the wholly gratuitous un-shirting in panel two. What’s all this about Miami, though? What’s in Miami? Is Mary Jane going to shoot a movie or something down there? Will Spider-Man accompany her, having random adventures? What about Sabretooth? I’m sure we’ll get the answers soon enough.

This would be a good idea on Klegg’s part, if Mandrake wasn’t able to gesture hypnotically and get out of all this.

Telling someone you’re not there to harm them, but grabbing their gun and shoving them, is really the worst way to earn someone’s trust. I mean, yeah, the Phantom doesn’t want to get himself shot or anything, but there was probably a better way of making sure Savarna didn’t shoot him.