From the mouths of babes
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Dennis the Menace, 4/23/25
Dennis, while you’re distracting your father with these inane questions, Mr. Wilson has gotten the jump on him: look at him, he’s already sound asleep! Another total Wilson victory unfolds while the Mitchells pointlessly contemplate hypotheticals! It’s unclear if Mr. Wilson has dozed off because the company is boring or if “mini-chess” played on 5×5 board simply can’t hold his interest, but either way he’s come out on top, by losing consciousness so he doesn’t have to listen or talk to you anymore.
Gil Thorp, 4/23/25
Uh oh, is Gil’s son Jami using his “shining” powers to recognize that Gil is slowly become one with the ghost “Pops”, or that perhaps he’s always been Pops, in a “time is a flat circle but you come out taller at the other end somehow” situation? More on this story as it develops, but if it doesn’t develop, don’t blame me, I’m not a ghost expert.
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DtM: “Who wins if nobody has a king in the first place?”
DtM: Henry already won since George has no king, so they can both go to sleep.
RMMD: Calling it – The Stalker Slayer’s going to drop dead before the police pick up the phone.
DTM: Henry will not sleep ever since is eyes require two sets of glasses. The big honking ones on in his nose and the little ones that apparently attach to each eye. He is laser focused on the match.
DTM: Mr. Wilson is dead. R.I.P.
@astroboy: #3: And the cops won’t believe them and still think Augie is the killer. Oh wait, that would be interesting. Can’t have that.
DtM: And it’s evidently okay to occupy two squares at one time. They’re just fucking with Dennis, aren’t they?
DtM: Henry indulges Wilson by playing the 5 piece mini chess game he invented.
“Ha! I’ve captured your Fluegal.”
DtM: I do like that Henry noticed the chessboard is missing several rows, so he drew a whole new chessboard on his shirt. He’ll have to lie down so they can play though and I don’t see how he’s going to play in that position. George wins.
DTM: A plaid pattern that only lines up when you assume a contemplative pose? Highly menacing.
GT: This entire strip confused me. Who’s the woman in purple? Why did she storm out? Is Gil’s ex upstairs? Do I need more coffee?
MW: Dawn will never eventually convince Wilbur of Belle’s evil if she’s going to use highfalutin words like “visceral.”
@Pozzo:
And they’ve invented a wholenew piece: The Mini-Rook. I wonder what its moves are? It can move horizontally or vertically in a straight line but only 3 sqares max?
DtM: George has already prepared for playing chess against Henry by making sure he took a double dose of Vicodin. It’s a winning strategy, except when it involves actually playing chess.
MW: I love how Cathy (Ack!) clearly doesn’t care about Dawn’s whining and is more focused on her nails. “Oh, so you had soy sauce spilled on your blouse and you couldn’t sing with your daddy which makes this woman evil incarnate? How old are you, five?…Oh, dear, a hangnail.”
DtM:
“Hey, where are your castles, Dad? — man, you got rooked!”
@MKay: To be fair, Dawn could tell Wilbur that Belle is trying to kill her and he’ll just say something stupid like “Oh, you’re just being silly, Dawnie. She means well! Go ahead and eat her tainted food so she doesn’t get her feelings hurt!”
DtM:
“We both do, because that means we don’t have to listen to your inane prattling!”
GT: Just read a note on Bluesky about an author, Ken Cheng, who now inserts nonsense phrases into all his posts to throw off AI learning models.
Sorry, Cheng. Barajas is way ahead of you.
DtM: Dennis points out that they forgot to unfold the board.
MW: Belle says “heh heh.” Wilbur says “hee hee.” Cathy says “ha ha.” All that’s left for Dawn is “ho ho.”
MW: Maybe Belle will end up getting Dawn institutionalized. I’d love to see the care that the writing crew does with mental health disasters
I’m pretty convinced that today’s Dennis is the end result of the three of them, one-engaged in a project, now going about after too much paint thinner and not enough ventilation.
What kind of biz are you talking about?
What kind of biz are you talking about?
What kind of biz are you talking about?
What kind of biz are you talking about?
Never Been Deader says: “Poop-themed punchlines? Here, Marvin. Hold our beer.”
GT – Keri thinks it’s an automated parent system and that yelling “MOM” loudly on repeat will eventually get her transfered over to Mimi.
DtM – Travel chess – you keep playing until George fills his adult incontinence garment….
GT – Practical Math – Should I carry the 2? What…you’d just leave it steaming on the lawn….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Dennis the Menace: This game is marked by less of a chess board than a dance floor for The Man From Another Place, so I’d say they’re both already asleep, Dennis, and so are you.
@MKay: That’s Gil daughter (Keri?), who’s angry that their (they are non-binary) mother — Gil’s wife, who left him for her (female) golf coach, and is also the daughter’s soccer (football) coach — pulled them from a game.
See? It’s perfectly straightforward (It is not straightforward)!
@LTJpezcore1: A lot of issues that really need to have a mental health professional come in and help have been condensed by Mary in the following ways:
“Things are only bad if you remember them as being bad.” (Both when Jill was jilted at the altar and what Wilbur told Dawn about her abusive relationship)
“Get over your grief because no one wants to hear about it. Also you should get a dog.” (Referring to misanthropic Saul Wynter’s grief over losing his beloved dog)
“You losing your mother and grandmother is exactly how this dog feels when she never had a home.” (Said to a preteen girl)
“You want to kill yourself? Snap out of it! Also you should start karaoke.” (Referring to when Wilbur almost killed himself after almost losing his job and his shower radio breaking)
“I know Wilbur is an obnoxious boor who abused your cat and treats you like a consolation prize for Iris but those are just endearing quirks.” (Said to Estelle to force her into staying with Wilbur)
tl;dr Trying to get mental health advice from Mary Worth is like trying to get medical advice from Rex Morgan.
JP: This Sophiopath is more fouled up than a stack of coat hangers.
GT: So, let’s review Keri’s recent history. To begin with, they identify as non-binary, but since they’re happy with sticking with their AGAB athletics and Milford apparently has a very spacious “gender neutral” locker room, that’s not as big of an issue as it might be. But they dated the son of their dad’s rival coach (later assistant coach), and things got hot and heavy enough for them to need an abortion. Their parents got divorced after their mom had an affair with her female golf coach; Mom moved in with her new girlfriend and Dad’s dating a woman who, to all appearances, is nearer Keri’s age than his own. Then Dad had a heart attack, causing a massive art shift. Sometime during all this they developed an eating disorder, and nobody bothered to do any serious intervention until they collapsed after punching a girl who was making fun of their Muslim bestie’s sports hijab. They started horse therapy with the girl they punched, but then Girl Who Got Punched bested Muslim Bestie in a wrestling match, and Keri was ambivalent about the victory because it came at MB’s expense, causing GWGP to drop Keri as a therapy client and MB to get angry because Keri wasn’t hating on GWGP enough for her taste.
Under the circumstances, I think Mom returning to her coaching job and actually doing said coaching job is kind of an odd thing to be pitching a fit about.
Also Dennis the Menace: George has his eyes shut tightly in prayer/headache: “Lord, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom — wait, did that kid put my king up his ass?”
Beatoff Bailey – I didn’t get it today. All I could think of was that it had something to do with a C. U. Next Tuesday joke.
Phantom: Good news, Diana! It looks like the Mountain City can get itself destroyed all on its own because Savarna and the monks were dumb enough to associate after the killing and the monastery is on track to get blamed for Jampa’s death no matter what. Kit being or not being there is immaterial so you don’t have to feel guilty if he goes back… what do you mean, that doesn’t make you feel better?
DTM: A mere 5 by 5 grid? No fog of war? No technology tree? No random map or spawn position? No wonder Henry and Mr Wilson are falling asleep! Polytopia addresses these limitations.
C’shaft: Of course Jeff is the kind of gross nerd who thinks saying “m’lady” is a smooth move.
Dustin: Maybe Dustin would have better luck finding and holding down a job if his narcolepsy were treated.
JP: So…it was Sam’s job to express your reluctance for doing what he wanted you to do?
Luann: Careful, those foods require you to operate basic household appliances. Don’t go too far above your skill set.
MT: Mark, you’re a….ummm…I guess you’re a journalist, kind of? Whatever, you probably use mainly Rich Text/WYSIWYG applications and do minimal HTML, and certainly not any elaborate coding. Even by the standards of “lazy excuses for using generative AI” that’s pretty pathetic.
MW: Dawn, as proven by her last romance, doesn’t exactly have the best instincts when it comes to reading people, so I don’t blame Cathy for not taking this seriously.
Phantom: Since Sarvana’s decided to shack up in Kit’s old room, I’m thinking that Mountain City, Nepal’s days are numbered no matter what. That’s prophecies for you.
Pluggers don’t mind a little lint with their pills.
RMMD: It was nice of the Terminally Ill Avenger to do call from Summer’s house, so that she and Augie could pretend they had something to do in all of this.
DtM: Reduced board size already, I can’t help but notice that Mr Wilson doesn’t have a king piece. So either he’s already lost, or he’s playing as some kind of anarcho-syndicalist commune. Pretty based, honestly.
GT: ‘Because I’m your dad, that’s why!’ Ha, Gil totally SLAMed him, if we’re to believe what the sound effects day.
So much domestic drama in today’s (checks title) Gil Thorpe! Jami speaking in non-sequiturs, possibly indicating an adolescent stroke! Gil’s other child (Peanut? Let’s go with that.) storming in, angry that their mother forces her kids to wear the same salmon-colored hoodie! Gil’s girlfriend fleeing the scene, presumably still carrying the dinner she so thoughtfully prepared! This strip is rich with incident. RICH, I tell you!
RMMD: I’m wondering if the uniformed cop trying to pin the blame the murder on Augie is the same cop who wanted to put a dog down for protecting his master.
Gil Thorp: Are we sure that’s Gil and not Ray Romano?
Imagine being so shocked that Gil is your dad that it causes the Thorpe genes in you to suddenly burst to life, changing your hair from blonde to black in an instant.
Dustin “Will you promise me that you won’t spend the day in the break room scarfing donuts like the janitor, and soaking the juniors because you’re too lazy to generate billables anymore?”
“Shut up.”
DtM: The big mystery here is, Why is George Mitchell voluntarily spending his time anywhere in the vicinity of Dennis? Did Alice pay George to come over for a play date with Henry? And how much did she have to pay him?
GT: Uh-oh, now Keri has TWO Coach Thorps to hate.
Gil Thorp: I just assumed Peanut’s “MOM!” was as iin “Mom! He’s talking to me again!”
Also, isn’t “carry the two” a euphemism for taking a dump?
@TheDiva: TL;DR Go Woke, Get totally confused and lose track of the characters and story line
Mitchell v. Wilson, Suburbia, 2025
1. e4? e5??
2. Na2??? Nc4????
3. Bb5????? a6??????
4. ???????????
Archie-Mr. Weatherbee is looking to punish a ginger.
Phantom:
Hey! Guran, Babudan, get the hell out of our shower!
Well, Kit, they do come in handy when I drop the soap. Saves me from having to bend over.
MW: Cathy is about two seconds away from “Hey, I smell something burning in the oven gotta run bye!”
RMMD: “Hey, before you do that, there’s this other creep who works at the supermarket who’s always ogling me and making snide cracks. You mind taking care of him too?”
Gil Thorpe. He’s not calling Gil “Pops” because he looks like a ghost. He’s calling him “Pops” because the art makes him look like a cereal mascot.
@astroboy: Where is this set, Cabot Cove, Maine?
Dennis the Menace – “5×5 chess, originally invented in UK as a satirical take on the decline of the British Empire, took on relevance in America not as a joke, but as a coping and mental training exercise to help Americans conceive of their diminished status in the world.” – Dennis the Menace in-world Wikipedia entry
Gil Thorp – Zillow Gone Wild would have a field day trying to contemplate the Thorp house. On the outside you have an unanchored mailbox floating nowhere, a front door without a handle, and a missing six-part window pane.
Inside that kitchen/dining room that manages too high cabinets, no sign of counters, and no fixed sense of perspective. And that main staircase managed to have its banister rest on a one-dimension support and fail to actually reach the bottom of the stairs, wherever those even end.
@Needless Exposition: this is the deft, gentle touch of which I speak!
6Chx: Ah, Wednesday chick….a welcome oasis of mediocrity bridging the unfathomable, indecipherable horrors of Tuesday chick and Thursday chick.
@Chance: “DtM: “Who wins if nobody has a king in the first place?”
We all do.
DtM: 5×5 chess is great, if you’re looking for a short game. And one knight move spans most of the board!
Phantom: Is Diana rubbing her naked body with locally-mined African pumice, or Irish Spring?
FG: Now, that’s real athleticism! “I’m 85 pounds lighter, a head shorter, and have rather attractive fat deposits in places I’m not used to. OK, I got this.”
Chess board is 5×5… chess pieces are sitting between two squares… an unfunny joke… Sorry, Dennis. AI is the real menace.
DtM: I can accept a 5 x 5 board but white square on the right at setup, dammit.
DtM: There is actually a recent surge in popularity in chess among casual fans due to the pandemic, online chess (Lichess, Chess.com) and The Queen’s Gambit (which won over both casual and serious chess fans because the games shown were all real games. It is just lazy to draw the board this way – if the artist didn’t want to draw a complete board, then have it fade out to one edge.
GT: Is there a style sheet for this current version of GT? It seems the character’s size, height and face varies day to day.
DT: OK – the itemizer (a private individual working for a private enterprise) doing basic police work so the MCU can do online sleuthing? It is looking like Uncle Horace may have ran off with a lot of money – and then tried to fake his death?
RMMD: Great! Now the patrol cop who was fitting up Augie for a nice frame up, will pull in everyone since Angry Dad will be call from the house and meet the police on their porch. “They are all in on it – she lured him in, and these two killed him.”
MW: Now that we’ve seen Dawn’s friends are not very sharp or empathic, the next move is up to Bats. Poison card has been played 2x without success. Is it time to go for the lead pipe or monkey wrench?
Pearls: Interesting timing for a “famous person dies” strip.
Intentional or coincidence?
The Daily Cartoonist has a collection of editorial cartoons about Pope Francis.
My favorite was the one of Francis avoiding Peter and the Pearly Gates by going through the service entrance.
Editors Degg and Peterson have always mocked the ‘greeting at the Gates’ trope.
CS: It’s Bergman’s “Scenes from a Marriage” but with fewer laughs.
@Treetown: “DtM: There is actually a recent surge in popularity in chess among casual fans due to the pandemic, online chess (Lichess, Chess.com) and The Queen’s Gambit (which won over both casual and serious chess fans because the games shown were all real games. It is just lazy to draw the board this way – if the artist didn’t want to draw a complete board, then have it fade out to one edge.”
This compels me to tell the story of the recent Chess scandal where a player had remote controlled vibrating anal beads inserted into his anus so that he could surreptitiously be informed of what his best next move was. (He was ultimately caught in the bathroom with a cell phone and disqualified)
@Situation Normal: A lot of country inns and B&Bs keep a chessboard set up in the sitting room, to make the joint look both cozy and sophisticated. Most of them are laid out black square right, even though there’s a 50-50 chance of getting it correct even if the boniface doesn’t know the game.
DT: Boy, they are really trying hard to avoid giving a name to the insurance investigator who is doing all of the work for Our Heroes at the MCU.
Do you suppose there is still an active copyright for Johnny Dollar, the Man With the Action-Packed Expense Account and negotiations aren’t going well?
(It’s gotta be Johnny Dollar. Pleasepleasepleaseplease.)
Seriously, Tom Selleck did more physical work in “Bluebloods” than Dick Tracy has done this month.
@Treetown: MW: To be fair, Dawn isn’t exactly being clear about what’s bothering her. She would probably be taken more seriously if she said, “Cathy, something is really off about my dad’s new lady friend and I don’t trust her. She’s trying to push me in particular into eating and drinking certain things that I don’t feel comfortable with. My dad is clueless about it and tells me to do what she wants. I don’t feel comfortable or safe so can I stay with you until she leaves?”
Instead, Dawn is prattling on about the smaller things like the soy sauce and how Belle interrupted the duet as well as vaguely going on about her feelings.
MW: “Maybe she’s jealous of the attention your dad gives you”? Wilbur skipped town for over a month and Dawn’s best friend doesn’t seem to have noticed. The only attention Dawn is getting is from Belle.
Phantom: So the Batcave is plumbed for hot, running water. Notice that when Savarna was an overnight guest they made her take a cold shower in the communal waterfall, with the whole Bandar tribe staring at her. Guess I missed the “whites only” and “colored” signs by the bathroom facilities.
JP: Sophie’s mouth needs a hot beef injection
@Guillermo el chiclero: It’s one thing to be a famous superhero who doles out the justice all over the Dark Continent, but you really need to avoid “going native” by bathing with the Browns. You could get drummed out of your gentlemen’s club back in London.
@Needless Exposition: Yeah, Dawn has been giving a lot of…. needless exposition. :)
@UncleJeff: #66: Although it was one of the most popular radio dramas, “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar” never made the successful transition to television like “Gunsmoke”, despite three attempts that didn’t go past the pilot stage. The last featured Bob Bailey in the title role, considered by fans of the show to be the best Johnny Dollar voice actor. Bailey’s slight physical stature and boyish face worked against the whole tough private investigator image.
@erdmann: I’m still going with “Pam and Jeff finally murdered Crankshaft, and they’re awkwardly trying to act normal.”
@matt w: Wilbur is rather selective and creepy about the attention he gives Dawn like downplaying her issues to focus more on himself and regaling her with the graphic details of what he and Belle did on the cruise ship while both of them act like he’s Father of the Year because they sing karaoke together. He doesn’t encourage her to be independent or get a job but rather likes her codependency and her hero worship of him.
It’s a shame Belle’s focusing on the wrong Weston for her homicidal intent. Dawn is too much of a nobody to really have anyone care about what happens to her.
@Banana Jr. 6000: My name’s not just because of my own ramblings. :)
MW: Dawn needs to consult “Ask Wendy” or Olive’s tummy brain.
DTM: Look at how fucking UGLY and SHIDDY today’s panel is. Look how little care the artist(s) put into their craft (which is using the term loosely).
Where is Mr. Wilson’s mouth? Is that supposed to be snot hanging out of his nose?
Who decided that Dennis would be sucking his gums like a toothless meth head?
Why is the chessboard 4×4, has the artist never seen a chessboard?
Why is the table sitting on Henry’s legs?
What are those vertical lines in the background supposed to represent? Are they in a shack made of 2x8s?
What’s with the horizontal lines?
What’s with the arc on the upper right corner, I don’t know what that’s supposed to be.
Whose bright idea was it so draw Henry’s arms first and then make NO EFFORT AT ALL to distinguish the pattern on the sleeves from the pattern on the rest of the shirt?
Why is one of the shoulders on Dennis’s overalls missing and just floating in midair?
It’s just so ugly and painful to look at. It’s like being punched in the face, visually.
DtM: Mr. Wilson isn’t sleeping, instead he is tightly squeezing his eyes shut in order to avoid glimpsing the geometric flannel hell of Henry Mitchell’s shirt.
Does Mitchell have a pawn on his back rank? Are they allowed to move backwards in 5×5 chess, or did it start out there?
Dammit, now I’m going to have to invent this game.
I’ve thought for some time that Gil Thorp has ceded its writing to a robot. It’s always hard for me to judge during game storylines; sports always sounds like gibberish to me anyway.
Now that we’re in the middle of a “domestic,” however, AI seems to be the only explanation. The characters are *sort of* answering each other’s previous thoughts, but not in a way that most humans would. (Of course, AI wasn’t the reason behind Apartment 3G’s surrealist final year, but so I’m not sure which scenario is bleaker.)
MW:. Dawn does not appear to be using a landline. Would someone please tell her how to search someone’s background on Google?
Mandrake:. Humorous scene as after their mind switch (by pranking students) Dale and Flash learn to battle in each other’s body.
@Activist:
#82. Oops, I meant FG. In MANDRAKE, a fake Superhero is outed.
Luann: The thing Luann is neglecting to mention is that Nancy prepares a limited set of meals because she’s busy working and someone (Luann) complains when she uses spices more exotic than black pepper.
CS: Speaking of agony, why can’t Batiuk take three damn seconds to read his stuff aloud so he can notice how clunky “My, m’lady” is? This might barely work as cheesy lyrics.
9CL: I can’t even with this.
Blondie-All those blows Marlene gave Dithers to distract him.
Beetle Bailey-“You’re late, Miss Buxley.” Uh, General, how do you know her period cycle?
Luann-These are supposed to be college aged adults.
This Dennis the Menace’s impossible chess game invokes thoughts of Calvinball, or Double Fanucci.
But that would be an insult to Bill Watterson and Zork to even compare.
I hope that today’s artist gets eaten by a Grue.
Dustin: Adding another one to my “Dustin can’t hold a job because he has an untreated sleep disorder and his parents are unwilling to foot the bill because Dustin has no insurance” theory.
Luann: I order takeout more than necessary, but unlike me, I honestly don’t think Luann knows how to cook. Or use an oven. Or go to the bathroom by herself.
@Logar the Librarian: Maybe the black pieces are Wilson’s, but he managed to get his pawn to Henry’s side to turn into a Queen, but Henry’s thinking. “He’s fallen asleep, he’ll get his goddamn Queen later”
Is that even Gil Thorp in today’s strip? Did we change artists again? WTH?
DtM: In an episode of “Home Improvement” Tim was having Poker night with his buddies (and Al) when his kid wanders into the room, looks at Tim’s cards and says “4 Aces, is that good?”
Also, Henry with his Flannel is no Al Borland. He wishes he could be, I’m sure, but he’s not.
Gil Thorp: Switching to A.I art, would give us much better artwork here. But at what cost? AT WHAT COST?
@The Rambling Otter: $3.50
Gil’s wife? Girlfriend? Walking into the room with snacks only to disappear in the next panel?
I’m getting vibes of that Simpsons joke where Lisa is hanging out with her new “cool” teen beach friends.
They’re talking about various customs in their homes. One of the teens says “Your Mom is so chill, my Mom always serves us rice krispie squares and Tang…” While she’s speaking Marge enters the room with Rice Krispie squares and Tang and immediately turns around and leaves.
@Treetown: GT: Is there a style sheet for this current version of GT? It seems the character’s size, height and face varies day to day.
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How about panel to panel.
@Activist: “battle” or “bathe”?
(Hey, Kit & Diana. Got room for two more in the waterfall?)
Blondie: has Dag always had an attractive personal assistant?
Instead of sending her to CBT therapist for her many, many problems, they sent Gil’s daughter (not checking their name) to a Freudian psychoanalyst who convinced them that all their problems goes back to their mother
Dennis considers sleeping a better alternative to playing. The former embodies Thanatos, the desire to be unconscious and not feeling anything, and the latter Eros, the desire to act. The death drive is very menacing
CS: Jeff remembers when Pam asking “Can we stop off on the way to our date to pick up some drugs?” meant something completely different. (Haha, no, obviously, these dorks are even squarer than I am!)
Curtis: Oh, has someone noticed Josh praising Hi & Lois‘s “bleak, joke-free scenes from family life” phase?
DT: Oh, okay, based on the line of questioning (because Dick Tracy investigators only ever ask questions that the writer knows are relevant), it looks like Piltdown’s occasionally mentioned “main plan” is an embezzlement scam. An embezzlement scam that… somehow requires the existence of a dead body that might be Piltdown, but it doesn’t matter too much if it isn’t identified as him, as long as it isn’t identified as anyone else. An embezzlement scam that seemingly hinges on K+T being the most absolutely trusting company in the world, who just put Piltdown in charge of the money and assumed he was taking good care of it without ever checking anything (see also, accepting that he was arranging his own business trips and then going on them with little notice).
Amazingly, this still qualifies as the story starting to make sense!
FG: Wait, didn’t Dale-as-Dale successfully take down one of the Shark People and explain she’d had self-defence classes? Or am I getting confused? (The free archive only goes back as far as the end of Tales From The Pub.)
JP: I’m sure the free archive also doesn’t go back far enough to check what Sam actually said when he handed Sophie the drone, but I don’t care enough to look.
GT: I “love” how Rachel Merrill realised there wasn’t room in panel 3 to show possibly-Beth?? and feature Keri’s door slam, but didn’t go back and remove her from panel two, so it looks like she vanishes, or is the one slamming a door, or just transformed into the word “SLAM”. First-three-weeks-on-the-strip Merrill might have fixed it, but since then either her ability to meet the deadlines or the amount of crap she gives about Gil Freaking Thorp have dropped well below the threshold required to do a second draft.
(I keep saying that Rachel Merrill isn’t actually a bad artist, and I worry that some people might think I’m defending her. I’m not! Honestly, for a decent artist to produce something like this is less excusable than if that’s all you’re capable of!)
OTF: I hate that I’ve been on the internet long enough to be absolutely certain that there’s someone reading this strip for whom “giant woman in high heels almost but not quite steps on tiny goth” is their fetish. I mean, you do you, but I hate that I know.
SH: It’s a
commonmisconception that whales spout underwater, and that the spout goes in front of them rather than above them, shared bymanypeople who have never seen a whale, or a picture of a whale, or ever had a whale described to them.CS: Jeff remembers when he used to go to the drugstore for rubbers and lube.
@Horace Broon: BTW, where are you viewing SH from? My new regular sites don’t reliably feature it anymore…
GT: I first assumed that if I followed GT, I would understand this strip and who the person in the fourth panel is and whatever the heck is going on. But after skimming this morning’s other GT comments, I realize that is not necessarily the case. So now I’m even more comfortable not following GT. I follow several other ridiculous strips, but I am usually able to comprehend their ridiculousness.
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: the recent Chess scandal where a player had remote controlled vibrating anal beads inserted into his anus so that he could surreptitiously be informed of what his best next move was.
Wait, what?
@Calvin’s Cardboard Box: By using Google very carefully, I found a NPR story about a rumor of vibrating anal beads used to cheat in a chess game, but the story was from 2023 and the anal-beads accusation seemed to be unproved. Has this method been used more than once???
@Poteet: On second thought, sorry, never mind. Never never mind.
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: I get it from the Seattle Times site.
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/comics/
@Poteet: I’ll take your word for it :)
@Horace Broon: Thanks… Used to use that, but the site was incompatible with the Proofpoint Isolation web browser my company forces me to use. Looks like it is working again now, though…
MW: This story could actually accomplish something by having Dawn get a recommendation to read THE GIFT OF FEAR, which would be relevant to her situation and also interesting and potentially helpful to some readers. This would be a useful thing for MW to do!
Sorry, was hallucinating for a moment there.