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‘The Far Side’ could be at its best when it turned to the dark side

Far Side's Gary Larson admitted that one of his most infamous comic strips haunted him and made him want to "crawl into a hole somewhere and die."

Gary Larson used many different animals as characters throughout the Far Side's run, but his giant squid stuck in readers' minds more than others.

"Well, of course I did it in cold blood, you idiot! ... I'm a reptile!" "And that's the hand that fed me." "Oh, hey! I love these things!....Crunchy on the outside and chewy center!" A 1986 interview by Lynn Sherr on ABC's "20/20". Original air date was January 8, 1987:

Worse things happen at sea...

Gary Larson's The Far Side tackled several subjects over the years, though his particular take on music appealed to a number of comic strip fans.

Forty years later, ‘Cow Tools’ is still just as opaque as unpasteurized milk