In case that doesn’t render for anyone else, here’s a handy site:

https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html

U+1327B : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH O029 {A wooden column, written horizontally}
U+130B8 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH D052 {A phallus with a scrotum}
U+130D8 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH E007 {A donkey/ass, standing}
U+0020 : SPACE [SP]
U+13207 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N023 {An irrigation canal}
U+133CF : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH X001 {A half round loaf of bread}
U+13209 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N025 {The hill country over the edge of the cultivated areas}
U+0020 : SPACE [SP]
U+132F4 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH S029 {A folded piece of cloth}
U+1313F : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH G001 {An Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)}
U+130E5 : EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH E017 {A jackal, standing, tail down}

From another comment, it’s probably a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_man_formation

I was worried for a second there when I confused which post you were responding to and thought you were talking about mass orgies here:

I literally post the alt text as it’s defined in the HTML, which for this site is just a transcript of all of the words in the drawn portion of the comic. They generate those transcripts somehow, I assume interns or nowadays AI. It’s distinct from the practice of alt text in webcomics as commonly providing an extra joke (which is in fact most often the title text; alt text is only displayed when an image won’t load)

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

I was nervous about this cartoon when its “debut” approached. At the time, a cartoon depicting a human head in a jar was, shall we say, uncommon on the comic pages. Strangely enough, I never received or heard a single complaint about this cartoon―and I believe the main reason was the drawing itself (of course, The Far Side was only in four newspapers at the time). The point of the humor, I felt, was the innocent fascination children have for things they find almost anywhere―the beach, the woods, etc.―and the fact that this “innocence” was about to come crashing down on top of this pleasant-looking schoolteacher. I was careful, however, to make the head in the jar look sort of silly and benign―any gratuitous details would have distracted from the humor and I think repelled a lot of readers.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (Sketch):

I’m not going to panic… There’s a bee in the car, but I’m going to stay calm until I’ve stopped the car… Remember, they don’t sting unless provoked… I’m not going to panic…

Transcript (Commentary):

The original and unpublished version of this is shown on the top. I’m unclear as to why I changed it. Looking at it now, I may have made the wrong decision. Naaaaaah.

Some good explanatory comments last time this was posted:

https://discuss.online/post/39870945

I think the joke is that the humanoid robot might milk them a little bit too enthusiastically

It looks like he’s fantasizing about a duck to me

You think they’re talking about a person named Bob, but then you realize they released some creature onto the dance floor that was previously in the jar labelled “Bob”

Looks like they fixed the typo:

The joke is that’s a famous phrase of Popeye’s, and Larson was imagining a very different context for where he’d use it

yֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר yֶהְיֶה

Some context on this comic:

Transcript (sketch):

He’s a lazy, insensitive slob that doesn’t give a hoot about my needs or anyone else’s and never even tries to open up or communicate whatsoever!

I yam what I yam

FYI I posted all of the Jon strips in !garfield@lemmy.world a while back, starting with this one:

https://discuss.online/post/21851092

Fun fact, those are in the public domain due to lack of copyright notice when they were published

It’s a joke about lines, somehow, but also don’t quite get it. He’s forced to be part of a happy conga line instead of a normal waiting line. It might’ve been a topical political joke at the time?

Thanks! Link for the lazy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster

Thanks, yep! The transcribers they’ve got sometimes aren’t the best

I think the joke is just “so organic that the birds use the cashier’s hair as a nest”

Some context on this comic:

Transcript (sketch):

“Mr. Caldwell… There’s a gentleman out here who claims an ancestor of yours defiled his crypt, and he’s here now to place his fingers around your throat & squeeze until your quivering body is forever still… should I send him in?”