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Sure it was fun when I was a kid, but unfortunately the intellectual level of the humor failed to grow with my own development and every time I open up to the comics page I get the nagging feeling I’m reading something written for 5-year-olds. Of course the Sunday comics page has never been the place to turn to for exciting new work; even the most mildly interesting strips often get ghet toized to the classifieds page and are never heard from again. So if you are looking for interesting strips that push a few boundaries, don’t insult your in telligence and are actually (gasp) fun ny, you’ve got to turn to the Internet. One of the first stops for any fan of twisted humor ought to be www.red rneat.com. Written by Max Cannon, “Red Meat” is a borderline surrealist loony bin of absurdity. The a rotating cast of characters includes a psychot ic milkman, a bug-eyed freak and a 1950s style dad with some severe personality issues. Each strip has such senseless titles as “The Melliflu ous Milk of Monotony” and “Asphalt Bellyflop” and often contains little bits of wisdom such as “No man is an island... but if you tie a bunch of dead guys together they make a pret ty good raft. ” The site itself contains all the usual merchandise and is pretty easy to nav igate. Though finding a specific strip can be a chore, you can search through the strips featuring your favorite char acters. Brilliant stuff every week. Next up is www.toothpaste fordinner.com, featuring the one-pan eled, minimalist comic. “Toothpaste for Dinner” is a truly brilliant strip. Done in simple line drawings, chubby stick figure characters make strange observations about everyday life at home, out and about and at the office, the strip offers a sense of humor that makes you both shake your head and laugh in recognition. Recently the artist, “Drew,” has taken to writing one strip a day for a whole year. While this often leads to some hit-or-miss mo ments, it does mean there is an exten sive archive of wonderful material waiting for the casual browser to waste happy hours on. Observations include such gems as “If I had a dollar for every time I had sixty cents, I would be Canada” and “Bad Poetry! Oh Noetry! ” The strips are organized chrono logically, which makes finding specif ic strips difficult, though the titles are at least mildly descriptive. The best joy comes from just scrolling ran domly though strips and finding the hidden treasures. Finally we have www.mnftiu.ee, the home of four comics by David Reese, including “My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable,” on karate and absurd humor, “My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable,” on office life, “Get Your War On,” on modern politics, and nature-oriented “Adven tures of Confessions of §aint Augus tine Bear.” Reese’s clip-art-and-pro fanity-based humor is as strange as it is funny and insightful. The highlight is “Get Your War On,” which has been offering some of the funniest commentary on modern politics available. The main problem with the strips is that they are updated infre quently and sporadically, which means when you finish what is there you have to wait up to two months for something else to show up. Or dered chronologically, the strips are fairly easy to search through, and once again the fun comes from just starting at a random spot and scroll ing through them. ryannyburg@ dailyemerald, com Everything Under the Sun for Tropical Fish 410 E. 11th Ave., corner of 11th & Mill 541.344.FISH homemade ice cream and mediterranean cocktails! 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