10 Hilarious Far Side Comics About Characters Lost in the Desert

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Far Side was full of recurring elements, including settings and scenarios that creator Gary Larson returned to time and again – including regular instances of cartoons in which characters wandered the desert, hopelessly lost. The strip's forlorn desert-stranded characters are, in retrospect, produced some its funniest installments, even if most of them were doomed.

3:02 Related 10 Hilarious Far Side Comics Starring Shady Characters Wearing Trench Coats From humans, to aliens, to elephants, The Far Side frequently featured shady characters, who often dressed in a ubiquitous mafia-style trench coat. What makes this joke particularly amusing though – elevating it beyond just a simple "What-the?" response – is Larson's characteristic absurdist streak. Why and how the sewer opening is there becomes a less urgent question than that of why the man did not divert from his path even slightly to avoid the hole.

What makes the footsteps in this Far Side panel stick out is how quickly they trace back to their starting point. Unlike most "lost in the desert" panels, the time traveler's journey to find fuel for his time machine – the joke being that he has landed long, long before the dinosaurs died and became fossil fuels – has only just begun.

"Uh oh...," the man holding the potato chip bag says. "I've got a feeling I shouldn't have been munching on these things for the last mile and a half." The way Larson draws his eyes widening in realization is particularly amusing, but it is the character's sudden burst of self-awareness that makes the joke land – crucially, because it has come so belatedly.

That is the case here, as Larson reimagines the stereotypical conception of a drug dealer as a "venom pusher," a snake trying to tempt a weary wanderer into drinking poison. "C'mon...aren't you thirsty?" the snake hisses. Without a doubt there is a potent metaphor that can be extracted from this joke, even if the artist would rather readers didn't.

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