Friday, October 9, 1998: A fur gone conclusion

[NonsenseWords]

This one is also similar to the last C&H strip I posted on the yesterday's installment of the arc (it might have been more appropriate on this one, really.) Oh well.

I really do not like the shaven Ozy design. He looks like a mouse.

[Bocaj Claw]

Or a chi-ha-ha.

This is the panel I was itching to get to. It would go on to become the most popular recurring visual gag I've ever introduced. The annual tradition of de-hairing Ozy began here. Poor boy.

Two reactions:
1. Do you really have to phrase it that way in the first sentence?
2. How many recurring visual gags did Ozy & Millie have?

[Maggot Brain]

Was it really "popular" or was there just not much to compare it to? I mean, everybody here seems to hate it.

[Happy Rutabegas year]

everyone here is a bitter old dick who doesn't want to admit their former love for anything DCS could ever have possibly made.

[Bocaj Claw]

Except the ones who are bitter young dicks who don't want to admit their former love for anything DCS could ever have possibly made. Or the ones who are less bitter but generally go with the forum's flow for fear of some word that starts with F.

[Liz]

*frolics*

[Muninn]

everyone here is a bitter old dick who doesn't want to admit their former love for anything DCS could ever have possibly made.

I really liked Ozy and Millie when I first discovered it back in 2003. It was, to me, the best webcomic I'd seen until then. Reading these strips today I wonder if I'd ever be hooked now like I was then.

[Kumquat]

I still love Ozy and Millie. I have never really liked any of the "Ozy loses his hair" arcs, though, especially the later ones.

[Cactus Jack]

The trouble with the Ozy loses hair arcs is that they happened every year but were only funny like three times.

[Tom_Radigan]

In this case, Ozy loses his hair, but (contrary to my original assumption) Millie did it because of carelessness, and the kids realized there would be trouble afterward over that. But when Millie does it casually, and Ozy and everyone else simply accepts it, there isn't any joke to speak of.

[Muninn]

I can't remember every hair loss arc but like Lucy pulling the football away there was a different twist each time wasn't there? Here it's just children experimenting with haircuts, in another the curse angle is revealed, in one after that I remember Millie saying they should just get it over with and making the whole thing intentional, while in one of the arcs the curse rebounded on Millie.

[Happy Rutabegas year]

yeah, if there were only three good arcs, I really can't even remember more than three hair-loss arcs total, and that's slightly pushing it.

[Bocaj Claw]

The first Millie one, the barber one before the family reunion, the exposed electrical wire, the sneezing off his hair one, I think there was one where his fur was eaten by a swarm of killer bees, the one where it happened to Millie, and the one wherein his winter coat came in crazy and Millie shaved him to look like a Dr. Seuss poodle. Off the top of my head.

Also off the top of my head: I need to get a life.

[Happy Rutabegas year]

See, looking at the other half that I don't remember, they sound funny.