I guess it could be a “green substance” gun, technically
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Dick Tracy, 7/13/25
It seems that the Dick Tracy time travel plot is now over … and the Dick Tracy ray gun plot has begun! This is one Dick should have a better handle on, right? Because it’s a ray gun, but it’s still a gun, which is the sort of thing Dick likes. Anyway, I’m not entirely sure what the “This ain’t the county morgue” line is supposed to mean. Maybe in the wake of the corpsenapping incident earlier this year “county morgue” has become Neo-Chicago municipal employee slang for any facility that’s easy to break into by night.
Beetle Bailey, 7/13/25
Ha ha, we’re all familiar with the Beetle Bailey running gag that we never see Beetle’s eyes. But what do you suppose they look like under there? Well, it’s now strip canon that they’re an eldritch horror beyond imagination, a window into demonic madness. Sarge was either struck dead on the spot or will be gibbering and unresponsive in an insane asylum for the rest of his life.
Hi and Lois, 7/13/25
You know I like to make jokes about how the Flagstons are depressed, but that’s mostly about the parents. The twins are way too young to be this anhedonic and it’s bumming me out!
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Beetle Bailey Mashups: Let’s peel back the “Censored” label…
Pluggers Mashup: What it’s really like at the old fishing hole.
H and L:
“Where’s Dad, anyway?”
“He’s in the basement at home, day trading.”
It’s funny that you’re doing a gag about Dick Tracy, when it’s obvious you don’t know Dick!
MW:
“…I have to tell Jeff I’m leaving…on second thought, the hell with him!”
H and L:
“Mom, what 1971 hit is being broadcast from that structure?”
” ‘One Fine Morning’ !”
Beetle Bailey-And that’s when Sarge went mad.
Slylock Fox-Shady’s innocent. You never said where in the river the garbage was dumped.
MW-“I’ll see you soon to finish the job.”
MW-Thank god they didn’t show us where Mary’s hands have strayed to.
FC-Daddy’s going to have some pleasant thoughts tonight.
Nice try, Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC, but we all know from MAD Magazine that Beetle has “GET OUT OF VIETNAM!” tattooed on his forehead.
BB: The “redacted” is less for the horror of Beetle’s eyes but rather they’re so beautiful that Sarge can’t stop himself from “expressing” his interest.
H&L: There’s no way that Lois would be mildly exasperated by her obnoxious offspring’s disdain for the beach. She would rave about how long it took to get there and chase them into the ocean for being such ungrateful little brats.
(This may or may not be from an autobiographical perspective)
MW: Wait, who the hell are these people in what is supposedly the Charterstone pool? Instead of her inappropriate fantasies about Olive, Mary should be meddling and nosing her way into these people’s lives. After all, there’s no children allowed under the age of twenty due to Ian and Wilbur (and now Mary) living here.
Dick Tracy: “FRRRRRRRRRRRRN!” So the green juice in that gun is liquid ferns? I don’t know how that gets turned into deadly electronic rays, but that’s for the squints back in forensics to figure out.
Hi and Lois: The beach, the sand, the pool? C’mon, kids, this strip has given you three different places to pee, and you don’t appreciate any of them!
Mark Trail: Today’s strip seems to be implying that kissing gila monsters will provide a cheap source of Ozempic. Not really sure why Mark would be telling people that… but if the pluggers all start getting skinny, it’s a sure sign that at least some folks are still reading the whole Sunday comics page.
H&L: Lighthouses have traditionally served as phallic images in romance novels and Dot and Ditto show us the consequences of those romantic urges. A timely warning as couples head out on their summer vacations.
H&L:
Nobody on the road
Only Flagstons at the beach
I feel it in the air
Trixie’s out of reach
Empty streets, empty lake
Hi stays home alone
Not selling houses
Cause no one’s home.
And I can see her
Her pale skin shining in the sun
She’s got her hair mussed out
One-piecer on, baby
And I can tell you
My hope for you will still be strong
After the twins of summer have gone
Never will forget the ‘burbs
You wonder if it was a dream.
Remember how you disliked Thirsty
Remember how chores made you scream.
Now I don’t understand what happened to our strip.
But, hey, we’re going to get Chip back
Show the readers what we’re made of.
And I can see her
Her pale skin shining in the sun
Taking just a little me time
Away from everyone
And I can tell you
My hope for you will still be strong
After the twins of summer have gone.
Out on the road today
I saw a FOOFRAM sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head
Saying don’t look back, you can never look back
I thought I knew where home was
What did I know
Sunbeam is gone forever
I should just let it go, but
I can see you
Your pale skin shining in the sun.
You got your hair mussed out
One-piecer on, baby.
And I can tell you
My hope for you will still be strong
After the twins of Summer have gone.
It is Sunday and time for JUNGLE JIM!
Hmm. It seems we don’t see much of Jim today.
Did Lois’ chair pivot 180 degrees? Does she have super powers that she’s hiding. like “The Incredibles?” Nah, that might make the strip interesting.
Criminals use computers too! You don’t want them to break into your house and order a bunch of stuff online with your credit card, so remember to log out and don’t save any numbers in the web browser. What you do want is for thieves to log into social media from your computer and leave a nice trail to catch them, like this doofus jewel thief once did. No wait, on closer reading this advice is about how you shouldn’t post your name, address and times when your house will be empty on a public website. Would have thought that was self-evident actually.
I like that “Hi and Lois” and “Beetle Bailey” both have title panels that remind us of happier times. Beetle is wearing a broad grin and the grey uniform from when he was a cadet. And look at this rare instance of Lois smiling, her hair still its natural fairer blonde, before she started dying her greying hair strawberry blonde to match the kids.
When I was a kid, I had a book collecting a ton of the Beetle Bailey comics from the very beginning, back when he was even a college student. And if I recall correctly, there was one strip where he actually did reveal his eyes and they were tiny little dots. So what has happened in the interim?
@1 Baja Gaijin:
Beetle Bailey Mashups: Whew! I thought one might have Beetle looking like Wilbur.
Plugger mashup: It nice to see pluggers having fun.
Archie: What happened to Archie’s and Betty’s face in the fifth panel?
B. Bailey: Beetle takes off his hat to reveal another hat, and another, and another, and so on and so forth until a copyright infringement letter from the estate of Dr Seuss appears in the final panel.
BB: In the final issue of Buster, the British anthology comic whose title character also never removed his cap (and who may or may not have been Andy Capp’s son depending on the copyright situation), the back page was devoted to a series of panels that ended all the strips in as final a manner as possible (in a couple of cases, even killing the characters, because what are the parents going to do, get it cancelled?) The last one was Buster removing his cap … and without it he looked just like the UK Dennis the Menace, flagship character of a rival comics company. What I’m saying is, the redacted panel is kind of funny, but reveal that Beetle can’t take off his hat because he looks like Charlie Brown, you cowards.
DT: Hey, remember those two guys from near the end of the Piltdown story, who were named as a fun reference to the two old guys in Rocky and Bullwinkle, and even used the catchphrase “There’s something you don’t see every day” because that’s the sort of thing that amuses Mike Curtis? Well, one of them’s dead now. Turns out even pointless pop-culture references aren’t safe in Dick Tracy any more! Watch your back, Warbucks!
EC: “The kids are learning useful skills instead of just playing by doing art.” This is what’s wrong with society!
FC: It’s funny because Big Daddy Keane thinks he’s bonding with his kids!
JP: So … I guess when he said “We can hurt your family without ever going near them — that’s been out failsafe the entire time”, he meant “We can hurt you to hurt your family to put pressure on you”. Seems a bit convoluted, but that’s Judge Parker for you.
HtH: Another one of those strips where the throwaway panels change everything. Without them, all we know is that Hägar is beseiging a king. With them, we know that he’s been prompted to oust his own king. And I know I keep saying that one of the key points about being a Viking that Walker-Browne LLC seems to miss is that you go somewhere else to do it; you don’t pillage your own community. But I guess if you’re actually staging a bloody coup and declaring yourself the new ruler of Norway, that’s different.
MW: Concerned that now that Olive’s a teenager, she might think her elderly friend isn’t “cool”, Mary got a book about teen slang out of the library, and now she knows words like “kiddo” and “23-skidoo”.
Anyone else have a problem accessing the comics at the Seattle Times lately? I click on the individual comics and they come up blank.
@Anonymous: Mostly they didn’t know or didn’t expect readers to know
I quite like how Beetle Bailey manages to outdo Phantom on the “none dare see his eyes” front – far more ominous than silly bits with sunglasses!
Mary Worth: I was so mad that even this quote is basically accurate (Whitman says “perciev’d” instead of “learned”) that I almost overlooked that it’s telling us that Mary doesn’t really like anyone in Charterstone.
MW: I’m looking forward to seeing Olive as a belligerent teen, all punked out and wreaking havoc with her “gift.”
RMMD: We shouldn’t be surprised that this is dragging on. After all, Truck IS the man who made a flukey finger look like Armageddon.
BB: Beetle was born eyeless. It explains so much. ( except why Ms Buxley dates him. SHE has eyes)
H&L: Sounds like standard kid bitching to me. Next time, they can stay home, under the tender care of Irma and Thirsty.
BB: Sarge was so stunned by Beetle’s dreamy blue bedroom eyes that they immediately fell into deep sensual love making. Trust us. You don’t want to see this.
H&L: Why is the beach so empty? Maybe the kids take it because they’ve been dragged out to the sea in the middle of February.
@14 Amelie Wikström: You sweet summer child. You think it’s obvious not to broadcast to the world your address and vacation times? HA HA HA ha ha ha! People still post pictures of their airplane tickets on social media.
@17 Sequitur: I almost gave Beetle olive slice eyes.
@But What Do I Know?: I’m glad you brought up the one-piecer so I can observe that this isn’t the suit Lois uses for sunbathing. I guess out with the kids you might want something more practical.
@GarrisonSkunk y’thread: She was a cat first. Her mother was a dog, but if you want a further explanation of that, I’m afraid it was before my time.
@Poteet y’thread: The same way it did for anyone else, mostly. The Fidelma book I’m reading right now is set at a conhospitae, or co-ed abbey, and the only person who has any real issue with the religious students, or indeed the prioress, forming relationships is a fanatically orthodox Frankish bishop (and the murder victim). Fidelma (who is no longer a nun, but married a Saxon while she still was one) sarcastically notes that it seems the old men in Rome have decided Jesus was opposed to love itself
DT: You missed the obvious clue–it’s a “scrooch gun,” as wielded by the Moon Men, Gidney and Cloyd, on “Rocky and His Friends”.
The clue? The names of the two hardhats–“Edgar and Chauncey,” famed for the repeated appearances in that show: “Now, there’s something you don’t see every day, Chauncey.” “What’s that, Edgar?”
H&L – This makes sense both the kids’ locks are goldi.
Phantom: They’re dead, who cares? Just haul the gold to your minor treasure room and call it a day.
One might suppose I, of all people, would appreciate Beetle Bailey’s turn to dark insanity. And sure, I appreciate the image of Sarge gibbering in the fetal position as much as anyone. But this eldritch god was an English major, and can’t help pointing out that redaction refers specifically to covering up text, not images. Unless you’ve got a grawlix or two for eyeballs, son, you’ve been censored, not redacted.
Hi and Lois: The chlorine is too smelly? What about the copious amounts of urine? I believe this was the original ending for this comic but then they realized that Marvin has already done it every week for the past 40 years.
HnL: It is totally and undeniably realistic that the Flagstons are on a gorgeous beach with a lighthouse in the distance by themselves. Nobody else knows that this spot exists I presume. Lucky them. Or it could be that the artist didn’t want to put in the effort to draw thousands of other people. I’m not sure.
JP: “I may be losing my touch but I’m not the one drinking coffee with ricin in it.”
BB: Beetle is a cyborg with red cyborg eyes.
MW: how long has Mary been packing?
MW: “If any life’s worth saving, it’s yours my dear girl. Unlike that brat in the third panel splashing water all over the pool deck.”
MW:
Mary’s bathing suit
Reveals little, but suggests
Far too much. IT BURNS!
DT: A criminal who wields a ray gun and steals electricity is an interesting set-up. I can’t wait to see how Dick Tracy wastes every ounce of this potential.
H&L: Lois has been trying to avoid it, but the twin’s sensory hypersensitivity is gong to force her to acknowledge their autism. The minute she gets home she’s going to write a long Facebook rant on how RFK Jr.’s been right all this time.
DT: Now I’ve got a generic response ready for conversation.
“The food is really good here.”
“Yeah, Carol. This ain’t the county morgue.”
BB: Beetle’s pupils are shaped like Sarge.
HnL: Upon hearing Dot and Ditto complaining about sand, Anakin Skywalker decided to spare these particular younglings.
Today’s “Marvin” introduces a raccoon character who wants to eat Marvin’s soiled diapers
Yes, this is kind of the reverse of the people who say they had a heart attack but lived because God wanted them to die.
Meanwhile, over in Sally Forth, I guffawed. Way to go, Ted. Give, don’t take, that kind of shit.
@Lord Flatulence:
Phantom:
“No matter who these men were, I tend to doubt they were up to something terribly noble on the night they died.”
That’s an extremely awkward sentence. “Terribly noble” sounds like an oxymoron.
Luann: Frank forgot “funky.”
CS: Wait a damn second! We didn’t get a setup from Pam along the lines of, “What are you doing with all those dominoes?” We just have to figure things out from context clues?!?
9CL: Is this Brooke’s weirder take (of course) on the “I identify as an attack helicopter” thing?
@43 Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: Hilary squeeing surrounding Ted’s deranged rant is just so, so, Hilary.
Weird, Lois brought the twins to the beach alone. I guess Chip could have preferred to hang out with his friends, but did Hi need to stay at home to take care of Trixie because they did not want to bring a baby to the beach? Come on, that baby has an unhealthy relationship with the sun, she would have loved it!
Ditto and Dot should get used to the discomfort, it’s good training for their future. Life’s a beach and then you die
C’shaft: It’s not a joke. It’s not a pun. It barely scrapes the threshold for “cute kid antics.” It has the semblance of a comic strip but not the reality, like The Treachery of Images: Ceci n’est pas une bande dessinée.
Dustin: Dustdad can dish it out, but he can’t take it.
JP: You know things are bad when Sophie is getting away from the drama.
Luann: All the vitamins in the world can’t compensate for you having a cupcake for breakfast, Frank.
MW: “I ruined a perfectly good dress jumping in that pool after you, so you’d BETTER be worth it!”
RMMD: “Deadbeat loser who had no influence on my upbringing”?
@TheDiva: Okay, the acute accent “e” came out fine in the preview but the post screwed it up. I’m as confused as you are.
@matt w: Mary is the kind of person who only sees the people around her as how she can use them for her own personal gain. Even her “friends” have something that she either wants (Wilbur’s advice column, Dr. Jeff’s money and boat) or can take advantage of (Toby being a drunken ditz who can’t remember Mary’s twisted prattle, Dawn being the perfect gaslighting victim). I wouldn’t be surprised if she coerced the Taylors into paying for her trip by slut shaming them for daring to not have a sexless marriage.
MW: Meanwhile, Mary ignores the father’s pleas for help as his daughter is currently drowning.
Zits: My first thought upon seeing this was that the animals shit in Jeremy’s shoes. I realized they had closed the window. The stink lines were distracting and took me to that place.
FC: “I really liked the part of the game where #5 hit his teammate in the back of the head with his bat.”
Dustin: Of course, Dustin is lazy in his imitation. For the most effective mocking, he should have bought a dozen donuts, eaten 11 of them, and bragged about how much willpower he was using to keep from eating the 12th donut. Of course, he’d have to time it so Ed didn’t actually scarf down the donuts while he was doing this bit.
@Baja Gaijin: Yikes! (are those Alice eyes in the third mashup?)
And triple(-bypass) yikes!
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
Yes, this is kind of the reverse of the people who say they had a heart attack but lived because God wanted them to die.
Never thought of it that way. Three times my life has been saved because of a fluke. Maybe I should be worried”
DT – That looks like Churchill’s Broom Handle Mauser from the Boer War – he loaned it to Lucas for Star Wars and never got it back….
BB – Are you talkin’ to me…cuz I don’t see anybody else here. Man – artistic gold!
H&L – Why…when I was a kid, we thought it was a recreational paradise when the sewer backed up in the basement….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@Hibbleton: Oops, I think I got this bass ackwards. I meant the people who survived because God didn’t want them to die.
I may have ranted about that here or others may have. It’s so self-serving. God wanted me to live unlike all those other people who had heart attacks and died on the spot.
Anyway, I thought of all that when I read Mary Worth today – she acts like she’s God and decided that little Olive should live – unlike all the other little kids she let drown.
This could all be rectified next week if this is the quote box:
“We’re all going to die.” –Joni Ernst
JP – April Parker does not think strategically. She is not smart or particularly cunning. The only bit of spy craft she’s any good at is Neck-Killing. Her interlocutor does not know this but Sophie does. His neck is about to ket killed, and Sophie doesn’t want to be a witness.
SlyF – Shady Shrew is not lying. He says he saw trash flow past his tent. By limiting his list of suspects to the residents of this tent city, he overlooks the possibility that Honest Ernest dumped waste near the foot of the waterfall. As usual, the poorest of the poor bear the brunt for the actions of Industry; and Slylock is there to maintain that order.
H&L: The “kid complains about basic features of the beach to exasperated parent” was done decades ago by Calvin and Hobbes. Needless to say, done BETTER by Calvin and Hobbes.
RMMD:
“Got my fingers crossed, Cody.”
“Mine too.”
“You’ve got Truck’s fingers crossed, Wanda?!? — what’ve you got, telekinesis?”
@53 taig: Yes, the eyes came from “Alice.” They’re from the alien that appeared a few weeks ago.
@Where’s Rocky?: No problem for me 30 minutes ago, but the new “improved” site has been wonky for months. They usually fix it sooner or later.
MW: man, the difference between yesterday’s strip and today’s is really something. Yesterday, Mary talks about how much she had to do for the trip, including telling her longtime boyfriend Jeff that she’s going, and today she’s sunbathing by the pool.
Really slams home what she thinks of Jeff…
@Baja Gaijin: So – it should be a Medusa head or a Dunwich horror under that cap.
BG&SS: Yeah, like the Hootin’ Holler store has those name brands. Lackey Charms and Chortle-Os were good enough for your pappy and they’re good enough for you.
I’m assuming that other umbrella is Hi with the other kids? It could be someone else, but I can’t imagine anyone else ignoring the… nuclear fallout? Zombie apocalypse? Larry the lighthouse keeper’s world class body odour? Even at the height of the pandemic no beach in America was that empty so whatever is happening is really bad.
DT – Again? But that trick never works!
DT – Crimestopper’s Textbook: Criminals always wear a hoodie when using social media. To make it harder to identify them!
Hi and Lois – “What’s wrong now?” “We don’t like the way the armrests on your chair are just floating without any supports.”
Don Abundio, translated:
“We want a table”
“Follow me. I have the perfect spot for you”
“Or would you rather ditch the cigar and sit with the civilized people?”
H.P. Lovecraft’s Beetle Bailey-The Shadow Over Camp Swampy
In Mort Walker’s book, “Backstage at the Strips,” he showed the one strip where Beetle’s eyes were shown. (It was when the strip was still a college strip.) Mort says he and the syndicate decided not to use it.
Sally Forth I could actually see this as an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, only with Lois taking Ted’s role here as the accuser, and the actual culprit being one of the boys, none of whom want to rat each other out. Except Dewey, he’s do it to just stick to the Reese.
@Baja Gaijin: Hehehe :3
Alien eyes really got me there xD
@Baja Gaijin: I was expecting crazy Mary Worth or Belle’s eyes.
@74 The Rambling Otter: The mashup with one eye is a Crazy Mary Worth Eye.
I don’t care what ridiculously on-the-nose name they come up with for the new weapon in Dick Tracy, that there is a Space Mauser. I have spoken my peace and counted to three, it is named.
FC – Dolly got a Phillies pennant to add to the melonheads’ pennant collection. They’ll have to clear another wall soon.
“We win!” This is obviously a repeat, because that didn’t happen at the last game.
Gasoline Alley – The facial expressions of hilarity are in inverse proportion to how funny this actually is.
Arlo & Janis – if Sisyphus were around today, he’d be doing laundry instead of pushing that boulder.
Frazz – Add “backyard swimming pools” to the list of things these insufferable people are smug about.
Tip: If you find a Baby Ruth in your own swimming pool, at least you know whose it is.
The strip was more than thirty days ago so I can’t access it, but remember when Caulfield and Frazz were criticizing people who don’t understand how other people think? I don’t know if our smug heroes lack self awareness or are hypocrites. Why not both?
Mary Worth – “I’ll see you SOON, kiddo!” I’m sure that Moy thinks this makes Mary look friendly and nice, but it comes across as ominous and threatening.
I generally like Brigman’s artwork, but the original Joe Giella version of Mary diving into the pool was much more memorable.
DT: The ray gun is obviously fueled by the same green glowing liquid plutonium that Doc Brown stole from the Libyans. And why not, if it’ll send a DeLorean back in time, it certainly ought to zap a security guard. Maybe Biff Tannen got his hands on it.
CS: At least Mitch is height appropriate for his age. If it was one of the melonheads that kid would be shorter than the kneeling Crankshaft.
@Horace Broon: Re MW – Mary is the bee’s knees. Groovy!
@Where’s Rocky?: I don’t know about earlier, but around noon Eastern time there was no problem.
@Peanut Gallery: “Nuthin’ up my sleeve”
CS: how Jeff the Useless never spends time with his grandson?
Thing is, Mort Walker already published a picture of Beetle’s eyes — the only one in existence — in a book in the 1980s: look at it!
@Sequitur: Jim’s been shot in error! One of the most painful places to be shot.
Low and Highless: “…..and our neighbor is too drunky!”
Beetle! Without your time traveling eyes, you’re nothing! I’m reporting you to School Management! The Army is brutal!
Did I get all the Commudgeon Catch phrases?
Dirk Twacy Hollistic Defective: “My pal has been shot! And he’s starting to mutate into a turtle!”
H&L: My kids do exactly this, and it’s no funnier then than it is here.
@Professor Well Actually: #82: Well, Jeff the Useless did use his grandson one time to help him haul a bunch of boxes filled with comic books, and that’s only because his inner child imaginary friend couldn’t do it.
@Baja Gaijin: @Where’s Rocky?: https://www.seattletimes.com/comics-king/?feature_id=safe-havens
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My direct link to Safe Havens seems to be working,if that helps.
MW: I’ll see you soon, kiddo. Heh-heh.
@90 GarrisonSkunk: Um, what? I’ve had no problems accessing comics.
Crankshaft is essentially playing with blocks, like a toddler. If he was doing this with a deck of cards, it would look as if he was teaching the kid how to build a house of cards, which would make for a slightly less stupid Sunday one-panel strip.
9CL: Words no longer mean anything; we are ALL deconstructionists now. I should have worked harder at my Derrida studies back in the late ‘70s.
@Baja Gaijin: Beetle Bailey Mashups: Beetle Bailey Mashups: Let’s peel back the “Censored” label…
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Did the Army make you take down the Belle eyed Beetle picture?
@Baja Gaijin: Sorry, wrong number
@LTJpezcore1: Pretty much cements my theory that those two are only together because Mary’s blackmailing Jeff for being gay so she can get his money and social clout while believing that everyone else is as homophobic as she is. Meanwhile Jeff is just waiting for her to die so he can belt out “Ding-Dong, The Witch Is Dead.”
@The Rambling Otter: Baja Gaijin: I was expecting crazy Mary Worth or Belle’s eyes.
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70’s John Cleese, jumping out of the painting at Rambling,”No one expects the Crazy Belle Eyes!”
@Dennis Jimenez: #55:
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: #76:
I was going to make some comment about the ray gun being Han Solo’s broomhandled Mauser but you two beat me to it.
So I’ll give you a little tale of my experience with Mauser brooms. Back in the early 90s when a lot of them were coming in from China I got myself one because they were so darn cheap and I always thought they were cool looking. Thing couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. Not wanting to strain that 100 year old metallurgy, after I got a decent supply of reloadable brass I would reload the cases with just enough powder to cycle the action and no more. I also found it easier to load by just stuffing the cartridges in one at a time than to mess around with the 10 round stripper clips. Eventually sold it. My other Great War vet, a Webley top break revolver, was far more accurate. A lot of guys at the gun range would make fun of my “Sherlock Holmes” pistol but if I did my part it could nail bullseyes all day. I kept the reloads mild on it too.
Anyone see Sid lately? I’m worried that one of his irked clients mivht have eaten him. You know how Security Guard Rex sometimes dozes.
RMMD: how do DNA tests work? Blood tests can exclude paternity tho not totally confirm it. Could this test exclude Truck without confirming that he real sperm donor?
@Horace Broon: FC: It’s funny because Big Daddy Keane thinks he’s bonding with his kids!
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You’d think he’d have learned his lesson when he said,”I want to bond with you kids” and Jeffy Crazy Glue™d himself to him.
@Ukulele Ike:
#93. CS: actually, that is a timely comic as yesterday was New Yorkhenge day in the city. Or so I heard, as I wasn’t there.
@Horace Broon: @GarrisonSkunk y’thread: She was a cat first. Her mother was a dog, but if you want a further explanation of that, I’m afraid it was before my time.
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Thanks for the info. :)
@Anonymous: Today’s “Marvin” introduces a raccoon character who wants to eat Marvin’s soiled diapers
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Fatty makes a triumphant-ish return (J.Nebus reference).
Is Crankshaft a Plugger?
@Pozzo: The twins scampered around to the other side of Lois’s chair before delivering the “sand” line. Their next complaint about the beach will be “The blocking is too fussy.”
@Anonymous: “When I was a kid, I had a book collecting a ton of the Beetle Bailey comics from the very beginning, back when he was even a college student. And if I recall correctly, there was one strip where he actually did reveal his eyes and they were tiny little dots. So what has happened in the interim?”
He kicked his heroin habit?
@Baja Gaijin: Oooh, my mistake, very cool! :3
DT – If you’ve broken into the place and you don’t want to be disturbed, maybe try not leaving the gate wide open? Where we you raised, the county morgue?
@108 Peanut Gallery:
You must lock up the county morgue because people are dying to get in there.
@TheDiva: “DT: A criminal who wields a ray gun and steals electricity is an interesting set-up.”
Indeed. Seems more like a case for….Spider-Man!
@White Rabbit:
Got the reference! Back to the Future…Right?
@White Rabbit:
#104: “So is Crankshaft a Plugger?”. Why do you hate Pluggers?
@Ukulele Ike: #110: I was thinking of Spiderman’s old nemesis Electro myself.
@Ettorre: What language is that?
@Reckoned force: Italian, that’s the version I have
@Ettorre: Thank you. I thought so but wasn’t sure.
@Baja Gaijin:
Pluggers Mashup: What it’s really like at the old fishing hole.
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Mayberry has really changed since the Animal takeover. Funny thing…only Opie noticed Aunt Bea turn into a giant chicken.
@Sequitur: My vote for COTW!
Thumbs up to Chauncey and Edgar.
@118 GarrisonSkunk:
Thanks but it’s a response to another person’s comment. Josh never picks those.
@Sequitur:
Ha! I also heard a different version that references a cemetery instead of a morgue.
@GarrisonSkunk: There’s a opportunity to vote for these? I wasn’t aware.
BB: Logically this means that there has to be a Phantom strip where the title character goofs off from the Jungle Patrol so he can take a nap, but I’m not sure how that will work.
DT: “Hey, we live in a city so famously crime-ridden that we’re making jokes about a stolen cadaver from a couple of months ago. Obviously whoever breaks into a power plant will just be some harmless yokel. Let’s go in and yell at him with no backup.”
@Peanut Gallery: In the original, he said “Where’s Ringo?”
HL- Lois is so blitzed on mimosas that she forgot that the kids were supposed to watch Trixie. She also forgot that the mayor of Amity closed the beaches last week.
@Ettorre: Thing is, Mort Walker already published a picture of Beetle’s eyes — the only one in existence — in a book in the 1980s: look at it!
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“If you dare………(evil laughter)”*
* In the Vincent Price tongue
@Baja Gaijin: Like the one with alien Alice eyes. In a strip that ran July 11, the guys — Rocky, Plato, Killer — were seated without their hats but Beetle still had his, obviously because Walker&Co. didn’t want to go there. Wonder what changed their minds. Perhaps someone said “double-dare-you,” but in the end, they still bring themselves to go all the way.
@But What Do I Know?: Nice.
@Roscoe: Here he is: Beetle Bailey without his hat.
9CL: Either this hot correlating trend just completely got past me or it’s the product of an out-of-touch cartoonist’s head. It hardly matters, since it’s just the setup for another “sexy” nonjoke.
Dustin: Dustdad drives to an office to do nothing and still gets paid for it, presumably because he and the lead partner were in the same frat. Dustin is letting him off the hook by just calling him fat.
JP: April and Evil Blond Guy have been talking so long that he’s shaved off his silly yellow beard and a bunch of stubble has grown back? Sounds about right.
MW: If there’s a grimmer symptom of social atomization than the between-arc pool parties becoming solo Mary affairs except for a father-daughter pairing she doesn’t speak to, I can’t think of it.
Phantom: “Well, however he died, I’m sure it was hilarious.”
Ziggy: Pathos is Ziggy’s brand and everything but he’s never going to outdo the baby shoes thing.
Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, being an adaptation of an already very dark novel, is on record of being the darkest Disney movie ever made.
And that’s what made it so awesome really, that Disney had the balls to release such a thing.
I mean, even with the happier ending and comic relief characters, it was still VERY dark.
Frollo’s villain song alone…
@Sequitur: Josh never picks those.
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Maybe I’ll use my connections and ask the ghost of Henny Youngman to visit Josh tonight and say, “Take Sequitur’s joke, please!”
@TheDiva: That’s one reason I write my snark in Word. If you copy and paste special characters from a doc they come out fine.
Phantom: Hey, can some of your Wambesi warriors help me truck those gold bricks back to the Skullcave? The beer and pizzas are on me.
@Pozzo: Did Lois’ chair pivot 180 degrees?
I wonder if the type in Lois’s book reversed, too, so she’s suddenly reading manga-style right to left.
@121 Breakfast in America:
Yes. I was doing a twist on that joke.
Mutts Spanish to English.
Hi isn’t at the beach, he’s laying at the end of the road of their development with Thirsty, puking on a small tree belonging to the Parks Dept., singing along to “Where Did You Sleep Last Night,” which they think is by Nirvana. Chip isn’t even a factor. It’s like they’re all dead. BLISS.
Sarge and Beetle best settle this issue quickly – they’re going to need to work together to escape the giant Simon they’re trapped in!
@Guillermo el Chiclero: “Let’s talk terms, Purple Guy. It’s not going to be Domino’s and Bud Light again, is it?”
@137 A Grave Mind:
And Trixie is left at home, alone, by the living room window being dried out from the sunbeam.
@The Rambling Otter: Yeah, I’m on a pure childhood nostalgia hype right now.
There was one song from a Disney cartoon that really stuck with me since I was a kid. It was just Ludwig Von Drake namedropping as many Disney characters as possible, but it was so nostalgically catchy.
Although for whatever reason… Song of the South got a mention. WTH?
@Horace Broon: She was a cat first. Her mother was a dog, but if you want a further explanation of that, I’m afraid it was before my time.
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“Cats and Dogs having sex together! Mass hysteria!”- Bill Murray, before he was turned into Grumpy Groundhog.
@Dr. Pill: I wonder if the type in Lois’s book reversed, too, so she’s suddenly reading manga-style right to left.
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Doesn’t matter, she’s just “reading” the copy of “Les’ Story: The Novel” that Mason Jarrhead signed for her.
@The Rambling Otter: There was one song from a Disney cartoon that really stuck with me since I was a kid. It was just Ludwig Von Drake namedropping as many Disney characters as possible, but it was so nostalgically catchy.
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Guess that’s what “Animaniacs” kept spoofing with Yahoo’s various songs.
@GarrisonSkunk: YAKKO, NOT YAHOO SPELLCHECK!