Moovians

  Ok now, Oaf finally shows a tiny hint of what Oop used to be. Actually uses his caveman instincts to at least lead them out of the ant den. Of course with the door like that, it may just lead them back into the mouse lab. And they are still shrunk to the size of the aphids, smaller than the ant scientist. So I guess we will see what happens next. I suppose with this stupid reboot, that counts as at least a tiny bit of action. I guess we'll have to take what we get. 🙄 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/31

The nonsense continues unabated. First, Doc says they've got to find a way out of there and find a way to get back to their regular size. Huh? How, by c losing their eyes, tapping their heels together three times & thinking to themselves, there's no place like home? Then Oaf tries to ask an ant for directions, who immediately wants to eat them. Then finally Dimwit Doc says they forgot to bring their ant disguises? WTF!!! Frankly, I read this strip just to see how much dumber it can get. And it outdoes itself every day and never lets me down. 😩  https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/30

Well, another weak one. Not exactly sure what this is about but from what I remember about ants and aphids from back in High School days, I think the ants would stroke the backs of the aphids with their antennae which would stimulate them to exude honeydew from their anuses.  Given that, if one of these ants start stroking Doc or Oop's back and expect honeydew, then they are going to be in for a big surprise. 😱 Perhaps Doc is expecting something else as to what the ant will do to stimulate honeydew production?  OK Queen, time to step in and execute them by biting off their heads and spare us any scatological episodes. 🤢 Although potty humour is a real knee slapper to very young kids, which is the level that Joey seems to be writing this to for her 2 kids, it's not exactly something us viejos find particularly hilarious. 🙄 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/29  

  Well, today is just a joke phoned in after the Christmas weekend. Probably the weakest, dumbest joke yet. Not much to say about it. Hopefully this has reached the bottom and the quality, such that it is(which has never been any good) will start to climb up. It appears that even Joey is getting tired of writing this idiocy. Perhaps the end is near? Crossing my fingers. Hopefully the powers that be will either get a new writer or just close it down for good. At this point, closing it down would be the best option to keep from besmirching the memory of the once great Alley Oop strip any further. Even the Benders at their smarmiest beat this crap!! Hopefully the exterminators will arrive soon and fumigate the whole place, then burn it to the ground to prevent any more of this nonsense spreading and metastasizing to something even more execrable, and put us out of it's misery. 🤢 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/28

 Well, this Little Oaf is perhaps 1% better than any of the previous ones. Little Oaf is his usual ignorant self. When Penelope asks if he would rather have super strength or be able to fly, he tells her either choice would be cool, but with his limited intelligence, he says he's got to go alphabetize his rock collection, which is likely about the only thing he can do, but one wonders how he even knows what alphabetizing is and how he classifies them. He really hasn't figured out at this point that Penelope is like a genius inventor so blows her off. Then we see that she did indeed invent something that allows her and an elephant (where did that come from?) to fly. She even appears to be carrying the elephant. On a scale of 1 to 100, with most Little Oaf's being a 1 or 2, I give this one a 3. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/27

 There were no updates to the Archives this week. I guess someone needed a break from adding a strip each week.

  So now we do in fact mention, as I said yesterday, that it keeps the aphid for the honeydew. However there is another  aphid that is a scientist and to talk to it, they get shrunk down even further. 🙄 What's next, getting down to the atomic level? And still without an enlarging ray. Let's hope they shrink into nothingness and end this whole sad affair. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/26 And in reference to yesterday's Merry Christmas strip, this is the first one of those, made as Hamlin turned the strip over to Graue in late 1971.

  Well, absolutely nothing happened today. Doc asks if they can be made big again, the ant asked why they want that, since "when you're small you've got it all".  When Foola asks "Like what?", it points to an apparently pet aphid. Of course in the real world, ants do keep aphids much like we do cows as they provide honeydew that the ants eat so in that sense it would be like a pet cow so there's that. Not that it's likely that Joey knows that however. So goes the Nu Alley Oop. Inanity piled upon idiocy. Not even a Merry Christmas as was the tradition for many of the previous writers. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/25

 The stupidity continues. So, the ant is an uber Thomas Edison ( 1,093 patents)  who has invented hundreds of other things since he did the shrink ray. He squirts a pheromone based one on Oaf, who immediately begins to dig like an ant. Of course it doesn't take much to make Oaf act like a total idiot so there's that.  Of course tomorrow that will all be forgotten and some other inanity will occur, maybe the ant sprays Doc and he really does become female? I can barely contain my excitement,  or not.🤔 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/24

  OK, so now there appears to be a bit of "action". The ant obviously knows nothing of humans. Asks them why they all look different, unlike ants who look identical, for the most part. Oaf of course makes another oafish statement. It then asks why they don't have wings. As far as I know, male ants with wings are only produced for a short period and their purpose is to mate with a queen and then die. So I guess that's a legit question since it is sending them to see the queen.  It says the queen will either put them to work or execute them. Oaf of course oafishly says "OK" and heads to the queen. Doc however starts claiming that they are females. Not too sure how he is going to prove it however, especially Oaf. On the edge of my seat as the suspense grows. 😪zzzzz https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/23

As usual, more inane silliness. The grouchy, pushy ant comes out of nowhere asking what Doc is working on. Huh? WTF is it talking about? Talk about non sequiturs. Looks like the 3 stooges are going to be tiny for a looooong time unless the ant already has an enlarging ray being developed. Doing one in real life (yeah, I know it's just a comic, an incredibly idiotic one at that) would take quite a while. I am however interested in seeing how Joey is going to write herself out of the story corner she has painted herself into. So far this story is just a bunch of hooooey, even more so than has been usual since NuOop was unfortunately created. Let's see, Ava gets abducted by some evil spirit, which the mouse observes and writes a note in code for Doc to solve so he can find her. He does and they come back to the lab, wondering who wrote the note. At that point, mini mouse announces that he wrote it. Why? Who knows? So he shrinks them down to make it easier to talk. Ava was out gett...

  It appears the ant is a humourless sort, not a good sign for him to invent an unshrinking ray. And of course Oaf forgets his foot wouldn't do much to the ant in the current situation, which is typical of the addle-brained dimwit. I see the ant even has a tiny hole labeled "Lab". Probably has all kinds of 1930's era science fiction equipment in there like the ever popular Jacob's Ladder. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hhaaSSCU5k) Ho hum, can hardly wait for the next riveting episode of this languorous tale.  Yawn, Zzzzzzzzzzz. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/21

  Ok, so, it appears this girl has eyes for Little Oaf. We see he doesn't know common terminology, is still fascinated by common modern things, like drinking fountains, and claims to be a good dancer, although today, just about any kind of body movement counts as some kind of dance, like the imbecilic floss dance. Then his buddy asks how his date was and he's so dense that he apparently stands there for the next several hours(what happened to his next class or classes after lunch?) until way past dark until he catches on. Didn't the lunchroom staff ask him why he's still there hours later when they went home? And didn't Penelope wonder why he wasn't home right after school, since it's after dark now? Wouldn't they go home together, either walk or have a parent pick them up? Joey just throws a bunch of panel "gags" together and calls it a Sunday strip. Gaaahh!! I suspect that even in the hands of a more accomplished writer this woebegotten cave ...

  1939: 118 of 312 (+0) – 2 complete months 1946: 199 of 313 (+0) – 3 complete months 1947: 123 of 313 (+0) – 0 complete months 1948: 30 of 314 (+0) – 1 complete month 1949: 286 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months 1954: 246 of 313 (+0) – 6 complete months 1956: 313 of 313 (+0) – 12 complete months 1963: 54 of 313 (+0) – 1 complete month 1968: 138 of 314 (+0) – 2 complete months 1969: 227 of 312 (+0) – 4 complete months 1970: 297 of 313 (+0) – 8 complete months 1971: 216 of 313: (+1) – 5 complete months 1972: 287 of 313 (+0) – 6 complete months Just one 1971 strip added this week but at least it completed a month. There are now 2,535 strips in the archive, spread over 13 years from Hamlin’s 40-year tenure on the strip. That pushes the Archive to 62.30% of the strips produced during those 13 years.

  Ok, so now they are going in the wrong direction. Rody has shrunk them to ant size so they can understand what it says. I guess that makes it even harder for them to get back to full size. And with the ant apparently being the inventor of the shrink ray, the chances of it coming up with a reverser ray are even more slim. As stated earlier, it's not apparent how they created and constructed the gun in the first place. At least Doc seems to grasp the situation. Oaf and Foola are dimwitted enough to just go with the flow. And of course Oaf comes up with some off the wall statement about wanting to claim the status of queen ant. His brain has obviously shrunk also. Not too sure what the idiot is thinking, I would imagine there is already a queen ant, that could easily kick his ass, since ants have an enormous amount of strength compared to their size. The tiny ant has already lifted the full size Oaf up off the ground. He could end up being ant food (we can only hope...Please let tha...

  Whooo boy! I could almost boilerplate these dailies. More nonsense with a PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper). So an even smaller character invented the shrink ray. Of course that brings up the question as to who actually assembled it and where the parts came from? And of course the obligatory Oaf dumbass statement as Atom Ant lifts him up. Isn't the exterminator due any minute now? So the standard over the top dumbness continues. Steady as she goes. Full speed ahead. Hamlin must be spinning in his grave. 🤮 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/18

  Well, apparently Rody works fast. Supposedly made some advance on the unshrink ray while Oaf was outside. But Foola and Doc were inside with him when Oaf went out to get the acorn cap. As usual, it makes zero sense. And then when he went to demonstrate the advance, he comes up with bafflegab, claiming that since it didn't get larger or smaller that it was some kind of advance. Hard to believe but no matter how idiotic and stupid this nonsense is, Joey always find a way to make it even more idiotic and stupid. If she has any talent at all, that at least is one of them. Not that that helps us out trying to follow this hodgepodge of literary crap. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/17

  Well, the exterminators haven't shown up, but this was the next best thing. Luckily for Oaf, this is just a comic because in real life, that dog would have chomped him in half and ate him, instead of leaving him to look he just got scratched up a cat that was the same scale of size of mini-Oaf.  From the perspective the dog could have actually almost swallowed him whole. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/16

The nonsense continues. Somehow Oaf knows if you shoot water at a cat, it will run away. However, that hose is so small the amount of water coming out would be like from a water pistol, not some giant gusher as portrayed here. And the hose suddenly has a larger attachment at the end. Also, where did the hose attach to inside to get the water? Rody tapped into the water line in the wall or what? And then we have the dimwitted answer when asked what he's doing. The grass seemed a little dry? Where? That little bit of water wouldn't have much an effect on a normal sized lawn. Oh well, it's just a stupid comic. 😯  https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/15

  Well, it just keeps getting dumber and sillier by the day. So, now Rody (apparently the mini mouse's name) says there's no need to go out and get the whisker cap since it's still in development? Wasn't Oaf just wearing one when he almost (unfortunately) got eaten by a cat? Or was that for the curler? None of this crap makes a bit of sense. So then Rody says he has a new invention, a hose that shoots water, unlike apparently any other hose. So then Oaf exclaims that the water hose is better than anything Doc has ever invented!!!  However that's par for the course for this brain addled Oaf. I think I lose a few IQ points myself for every episode I read. But I'm sure Joey is just so proud of her storytelling. She writes as if she's a lunatic in an insane asylum, writing for the other inmates. Who knows, maybe that's actually her real situation and Glynn thought he was doing some social good by giving her an outlet for her delusions of grandeur. This crap ...

Well, it now appears that at least the school administration has figured out that Little Oaf has about the same education level as a one year old puppy, but instead of kicking him back down to Kindergarten level, they assigned him to carry the Math Club's box of calculators. He even has a title, Calculator Boy.   So he is more like a mascot to the club. The school likely has to offer education to all young kids so they had to figure out some way to accommodate his uneducated ass.  Still not sure why they let him come to school and events half naked with likely very smelly fur shorts. One can assume that that is the only pair he has. You would think the school would contact Penelope's parents about him, since he likely shows up with her every day. But then I have  to keep  reminding myself this isn't a  cinéma-vérité story   that we are viewing but a dumb comic strip. O h well. 🙄 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/13

  Archives Update 1939: 118 of 312 (+0) – 2 complete months 1946: 199 of 313 (+0) – 3 complete months 1947: 123 of 313 (+0) – 0 complete months 1948: 30 of 314 (+0) – 1 complete month 1949: 286 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months 1954: 246 of 313 (+0) – 6 complete months 1956: 313 of 313 (+0) – 12 complete months 1963: 54 of 313 (+0) – 1 complete month 1968: 138 of 314 (+0) – 2 complete months 1969: 227 of 312 (+0) – 4 complete months 1970: 297 of 313 (+4) – 8 complete months 1971: 216 of 313: (+0) – 4 complete months 1972: 287 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months Four strips added this week for December, 1970. There are now 2,534 strips in the archive, spread over 13 years from Hamlin’s 40-year tenure on the strip. That pushes the Archive to 62.28% of the strips produced during those 13 years.

This is looking good, this means they are trapped in the mousehole for ever. I figured that they would be a tasty snack for the Cosmic Cat, or whatever his goofy name was. I guess we will see just how this develops, since the Mini Mouse says there is no reverser ray. It's too bad Oaf only got a mean scratch down his chest.   So how does the mouse go out into the lab without getting eaten? How was he able to write and leave that cryptic note to Doc? Oh yeah, it's just a comic, it's not real life. 😏 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/12

  Well, I guess Doc figures out he might as well make his tiny self useful. Obviously has no hopes of ever being his normal size again. So much for his sex doll girlfriend. Meanwhile Oaf has found what looks like some old headphones, as best I can make out, that apparently have whiskers on them, which seems to get the mini mouse all aroused. He'll soon be doing the quickie humping of Oaf as mice are so famous for. Oaf won't know what hit him and is likely to enjoy it, dumping Foola and hooking up with mini mouse. This could turn out to be a Tijuana Bible version of Oaf. That would certainly spice things in this moribund tale. 😁 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/11

  Well, there's a new wrinkle. So Doc, et al, will be permanently shrunk? I suppose, if we had a good writer, that that would be the starting point of all kinds of interesting angles for future stories. But with what we have, well, we'll just have to wait with fingers crossed. With the mouse being the brains, I guess at some point he will invent a reverser ray. If not, well I guess the mouse will have some house guests in his mouse hole.  Oaf, as usual, comes up with some cockamamie scheme to shrink the entire world. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/10

  Ok, now it gets weird. 🙄 The mouse has been keeping an eye on Doc and has busted him about the robot in the closet. But then Doc doesn't have enough money for a wife, or even a girlfriend so he cobbled together an anatomically correct robot from parts out of his scrap pile, I guess. The mouse must be a fast learner if he learned everything about science from watching Doc. And he came up with a shrink ray, something Doc hasn't done yet. As I said before, the mouse has a higher IQ than the total IQ's of Oaf, Doc, and Foola combined. By far the smartest one in the room. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/09

OK, well, for something different. Being shrunk down is a new story angle here (yes I know it's been done hundreds of times already). I suppose it could turn out to be a different angle for the NuOaf. In the hands of professional that is, which is not what we have here. But I'll hope for the best.   https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/08

 OK, well now we know a bit more about the mini mouse. One could wonder how Doc and Ava somehow didn't notice the entry to the mouse lab, which appears pretty obvious. But on the other hand, I think I know the reason. 🙄 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/07

  1939: 118 of 312 (+0) – 2 complete months 1946: 199 of 313 (+0) – 3 complete months 1947: 123 of 313 (+0) – 0 complete months 1948: 30 of 314 (+0) – 1 complete month 1949: 286 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months 1954: 246 of 313 (+0) – 6 complete months 1956: 313 of 313 (+0) – 12 complete months 1963: 54 of 313 (+0) – 1 complete month 1968: 138 of 314 (+0) – 2 complete months 1969: 227 of 312 (+1) – 4 complete months 1970: 293 of 313 (+1) – 8 complete months 1971: 216 of 313: (+1) – 4 complete months 1972: 287 of 313 (+0) – 7 complete months Big week with three strips added . There are now 2,530 strips in the archive, spread over 13 years from Hamlin’s 40-year tenue on the strip. That pushes the Archive to 62.18% of the strips produced during those 13 years. I haven't mentioned this, and maybe everybody already knows this, but there are no Sundays at all in the Hamlin archive. After finding the site mentioned earlier in the week, I have added Sundays to th...

OK so Little Oaf seems to be in the middle of a nightmare. Either that or he's just play acting. Doesn't seem to be any redeeming value to today's attempt. Not a lot of action either, much like always. Oh well, there's always tomorrow. 🙄 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/06

 Well, there's the real equalizer. Looks like Mighty Mouse got the drop on them. So to that end, it now outranks Doc et al, although everyone  outranks Oaf in this woeful universe. I suppose the shrink ray may end up being useful in further stories, perhaps Mighty Mouse will be added to the cast of characters even. Then Ava, who definitely needs that chair since her neck seems to have disjointed, likely pretty painfully, and maybe an after effect of the demon possession, got the chair she wanted. Perhaps she's auditioning for a female version remake of the Hunchback Of Notre Dame (or Hunchback of the Time Lab). Of course mini-Doc gets upset and tells her loudly (well, at his new size probably sounds more like a loud squeak) to send it back. It's funny how he's so pissed and forcefully yelling at her, when she could just squash him like a bug. Well, we'll see how this develops, not expecting much however.

  Well OK, so the tiny scientists somehow knew the demons were going to go back in time and prevent life from evolving? Since it obviously didn't I'm not sure what the purpose was. Never (at least yet) explained where the demon came from (I doubt we'll ever know) but at least we got a gag about cheese, which Oaf  conveniently just happened to be holding in his hand. And so it goes. 🙄 https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/04

  Well, as we can see, the smartest one in the room is a mouse. Oaf acts just like a 4 year old child, likely that is what his actual mental level is. I'm not sure what the hell Foola is doing, maybe trying to jam her finger down her throat to throw up? It truly is barf worthy. The look of astonishment in the eyes of Oaf and Foola in panel 1 and Doc in panel 2 is a nice touch, the only one, to be honest. They just gotta be on the lookout for the Cosmic Cat or Oracle or whatever it is in case it shows up and eats the mouse. Of course that would be the most action in this strip since it began. 😀 Please let it happen, please, in the name of all that is good and holy!!! 

  Hmmm, the plot thickens. 😁  So now along with the Cosmic Cat or whatever that other thing was, we now have Mighty Mouse or one of his relatives. I guess we'll see how this plays out, but I don't expect much. And of course Oaf acts like he has it all figured out (who knows, maybe he does. It may take a dimwit like him to understand this whole mess). I'm on the edge of my seat, eagerly looking forward to what adventure is to come (or maybe I'm about half asleep and looking at this like a bad dream). https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/02

 OK, so we're back at the Time Lab and ready to hear what happened. Foola asks her what had happened and Ava said she had this great opportunity to make money, then realizes that Foola is talking about the whole Demon deal, so there's the "gag" of the day. Perhaps tomorrow or some time in the future we will possibly get the explanation of that whole time travel trip. It likely won't make any sense so is likely to be anticlimactic. As far as Ava's appearance goes, my guess is that Joey came across that classic book "Black Like Me" and is trying to work that into the story somehow. I guess we'll see. (I read that book back in the early 1960's and it is a real eye opener) It's hard to explain why Ava looks as she does now. https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2020/12/01