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Summary Gary Larson's Far Side loves to combine laugh-out-loud humor with surprisingly dark themes, making the mob the perfect subject matter. Larson's gangsters exist in a world of criminal clowns and sentient sandwiches, turning violent organized crime into an unlikely source of surreal humor.
Related 10 Funniest Far Side Comics That Just Turned 40 Check out the best Far Side comics originally published in July 1984, including Gary Larson's best desert island comic of all time. 8 Kneecaps from Hell Larson Loves Messing with the Human Body Two Mafia leg-breakers get way more than they were bargaining for after being sent to 'deliver a message' to a guy with gigantic, seemingly unbreakable kneecaps. It's an incredibly goofy gag, while also exemplifying how Larson was able to take subject matter way too dark for his contemporaries and turn it into belly-laugh humor. Of course, this wasn't the only time Far Side gave a character a single gigantic body part.
2 6 Living Room Far Side's Gangsters Aren't Exactly Terrifying In the same vein as the slapmen, Far Side's mobsters threaten their victim by adjusting the feng shui of their living space. This appears to be a play on the threat to 'rearrange your face' as a threat of violence. Larson increases the humor by including a six-strong team of mobsters to enact this incredibly low-stakes shakedown.
4 The Farmers' Mafia Larson's Movie References Are Still Genius Decades Later In this strip, Larson combines mobster aesthetic with his love of pop culture, referencing the iconic 'horse's head' scene from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. Of course, this being The Far Side, the dark scene gets a goofy twist, as the farmer's Mafia uses the head of a chicken to make their threats.
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