This is perhaps the most memorable example of the latter.

Far Side character sticking tongue out as he writes (foreground) with medieval knights jousting in background

Far Side, wide-eyed man (foreground) with cows in the background.

Far Side grinning man (left) and a man walking into a pole as he takes the stage at a conference (right.)

Far Side grinning man (foreground, left) and miners digging underground (right, background.)

Far Side, November 29, 1980, a mollusk peers around a sharp corner to look at a clam’s insides

Far Side wide-eyed man (left) and devils laughing at hell’s suggestion box (right)

Far Side, May 16, 1981, a mail carrier is devoured by a mailbox

Far Side, July 21, 1981, convincts tunneling out of prison don’t realize they’re under the sea

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Far Side, July 23, 1981, a woman yells at her husband to come out of the hole he has dug

Far Side, September 25, 1981, coal miners underground like worms as a giant bird looms above on the surface

Far Side, Al’s glass bottom boat upside down sunk at the bottom of the sea

Far Side, March 21, 1983, a snake brings a human woman back to its lair

A mole trying to use the elevator to escape a flooded tunnel in The Far Side.

Far Side, December 16, 1986, a couple are trapped in their bomb shelter with canned food but no can opener

Far Side, January 29, 1988, ‘hibernating eskimos’ piled in an underground cavern-1

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