Every "In The Bleachers" Comic About Running and Track and Field
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I have painstakingly compiled a list of all the In The Bleachers comics that feature running or track and field jokes. I hope you enjoy the humor!
From August 13, 1996 to October 9, 2011
UPDATED 04/16/2012: Now through March 28, 2012
UPDATED 07/27/2013: Now through July 16, 2013
Steve Moore creates a new comic nearly every day of the year, pretty impressive for a career spanning over 15 years. There are some repeats and recolors of the same comic, but given the subject matter I think that's acceptable. Enjoy!
1996 Roach Run Wind Up Sheep Marathon False Start
1997 Starting Blocks Jogger's Knee (Jogger's Knee is mentioned, but not just a "running" comic) Labor 10K Don't Look Back Cramping Arch Support (Not really running, just feet related) Armadillo 20-Yard Run Marathon In-N-Out 120-Meter Midlife Hurdles Motor-Skills 10K High Jump Smoke? Sand Hot Shoes Lung Stop Dog Wind Aided 100-Meter Losing Stinks Boa Hurdlers Armadillo Ex-Jocks (sprinting) Revolutionary Runner Duck Run Sheep Marathon 2 Thirsty Road Rage
1998 10K Fun Crawl Shot Put Treadmill Encouragement Size Matters Port-A-John Snack Cat Pole Vault Scurry Drag Greyhound Doomsday Cult Discus Veg Out Javelin? Harmless Dog Memory Ticket Fool
1999 Nikes (Not running, just shoes) Head Gasket Falling Arches Instant Gratification A Little Help! Devoured Schnauzers Downhill Kids Crossing Death Valley Plank Walk (Walking) Only 16 Miles
2000 Clamps 40-Yard Dash 400-Meter Hopscotch Gotta Run Crocodile Take It Easy Discus, Javelin, or Shot Put Mind Over Matter Undefeated Mt. Everest Dynamite Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Optimism To Pessimism Javelin Safe Crossing Garbo-Loading Cardio Blood Stop Over The Moon Stationary Weak And Infirm World Record Run With Scissors (A classic!)
2001 Regrets Cat Marathon Stomach Cramps Merge Left Whole Ball Of Wax (Could be a lot of sports, but we'll say they're runners) Long Jump Let Go Directions Performance-Enhancing Drugs Can't Hold It Life 10 Seconds Flat Did (Could be a lot of sports, but we'll say they're runners again) Stuck Kick Full Stomach 110-Meter Rat Traps The Importance Of Stretching Irontoddler Lung-Enhancement Surgery Running Hungry Hypochondriac 10K
2002 Run For Your Life Helium Cheat Sheet To The Tape Cruel Hoax Severely Tested Forget Something? Sneakers (Not really running, just shoes) Mouse High Jump Tap Water Lunch Break Marbles Cardio (Colored) Midlife Hurdles (Colored) Pit Stop Drag (Colored) Runners To Your Mark Directions (Recolored) Postal 10K Fourteen Motivation Guesstimate Stampede Piper Crossing Wanna Go For A Run?
2003 Javelin Expert Burger Stop Wrong End Drafting Air Vault Battle Stations Proving Grounds Hurdles Easy Boy Real Close Forget Something? Bad Feeling Blanks Field Sobriety Test Explosive Shot Put Self-Service 2 Seconds Jogging In Place Bad Luck Tune Up Pillow Pop Stand Up New Record Port-A-Milky Bunching Up Hypochondriac 10K (recolored) Size Matters (colored)
2004 Life (recolored) Memory (colored) Stick Out Your Neck You Got A Flat Schnauzer Off Wet Runway Please Motivational Tool All Downhill Practice Chainsaw Cramps Rogue Elephant Tossed Salad Starts With A "B" Rental Caffeine Better Finish Call Back Another False Start Lashes Long Stride Rottweilers Discus Dogs Fast Horse Second Wind Psych Web Swimming? Responsibility Revving Gnats Mouse Vault New Technique Fastest Pet Bang Get Rid Of That Thing Straggler Counting Sheep Snail Hurdles
2005 Resolution Ticket (Colored) Waste Wa(i)ter Stop Signage Detour Smoking Or Non-Smoking? For The Younger Generation Not Much Pad 24-Hour Trackside Assistance Biding Their Time Pile-Up Ooze Why Tracks Have Lanes Slow Down Dance Marathon Track Mapper Discus Tied Clever Trap Click Shoe Warranty Stray Running Of The Slugs Houston, We Have A Problem Lung-Enhancement Surgery 2 He Got Me! Arachnophobia Bad Luck 2 Scuttle Easy Hurdles
2006 Dreadmill New Route Aerobic Downsizing Camel Ming Vase Yellow Flag Aid Station Bottle Stop Lunch Break 2 Tomorrow The Moon Déjà Vu Leash Jogger! Fear Of Failure All But One Scents Toll Tap Water Coho Salmon Didn't Train Impending Disaster Liftoff The Wall Wee, Wee, Wee
2007 Javelin Expert (Recolored) Get Set... Drafting (Recolored) Cemetery Stop That Same Design (Shoes) How High Attendance Wrong Way Concern Fan Boing Too Soon Wind Shear Short Celebration Unusual Fire Walk (Walking) Caution Caught Boom Vultures Flock Pies Nerdectomy How To Run A Marathon (This is a good one) Black Box Scooper
2008 Fast Cameraman What Do I Win? Baton? Amok Negative Elderly Can Opener Hands And Knees Memory Disintegrating Stampede? Low Bar Mentality Stretch Stalking Scissors Spinout Bad Lanes Directions Again Mail Vend-O-Mat Easy Hurdles Again 6-Meter Dash Short Bursts Long Jump World Record Nobody Reads Anymore Instant Gratification 2 See You Next Fall Grunion Run (If you're wondering what grunions are, they're a fish species that can travel across land) Slow Picky
2009 Frogs Dying Of Thirst Angry Cat Marathon (Recolored) Test Him Survival Of The Fittest Shin Splints Control Freak Stimulus Caught Texting Information I Just Go For The Crashes Ophidiophobic Nothing To See Here With Starter Hurry Gristle And Bones Still Gonna Win We've Got A Jumper More Lungs Free Agents (Sorta a general sports joke) Don't Bother Weak And Stupid Might Want To Think That Through Can't Miss It Run Like A Penguin Witch
2010 Fast Food Insurance Crossing Cleanup Crew Listen Glasses Click Click Look Before You Leap Even Easier Hurdles Never Again (One of my favorites) Interesting Flock Of Birds Let Go No Cigarettes Rhino Short Distances Shoe Is Untied Defeatist Jackrabbit Big Treadmill Imagination Sheep iPod
2011 Starting Line Tested Research Cruel Hoax (Recolored) Sit! Stay! We're On To You That One Track Meets In Hell Bed Drug Test Distant Third Merrython Half Hearted 24-7 Infant Relay Jumper Cables Arachnophobic 10K Sign Virtual Negotiations Tortoise High-Heeled Merge Career Ender Quicksand Downhill Middle Age Under Achieve
2012 Scissors (again) Milk Stop (again) Hot Slug Hurdles Sharp Pain Lead or Follow Gluten Free Stay Kick The Can Trampled Can He Do That? Duck Hunting EDIT (7/27/13) She's Cheating Cliff Size Matters Barbed Wire New Technique Litigatorade Get Your T-Shirts Back Legs Falling Arches Shed Smoking Area Hurdles Falling Apart Vultures You Are Here Laps
2013 Ants Salt Water Dibs More Vultures Addictive Spine Headlong Run In Place Turbo World Record Upright Caution Stop Sign 5 More Sheep Track Dang Hazards Cramps Power Hurdler Big Eagle Salmon Run