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Six Chix and Blondie, 5/3/25
We have I think pretty conclusively established that the Blondie team mines National Day Calendar dot com when they need an inspiration or a peg for any given day’s strip. That’s why I regret to inform you that, while Six Chix was happy to riff on the very real and very cool holiday of National Paranormal Day, which is today, Blondie just gave us one of the most vapid and toothless “Ha ha, you know what sure are crazy, is current events! I’ll be giving you no further details on that” strips I’ve ever seen. Today could’ve been the day we saw Dagwood eat a bowl of chili so hot that he gains the Sight and can see through the veil into the next world! Instead we get this bullshit!
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/3/25
Hmm, that crooked smirk … that domineering attitude … is bad girl Kelly back? Is bad girl Kelly going to show up at Niki’s to formally inform him that he was dumped approximately six weeks ago, with her new tall boyfriend in tow? This is a groove that I am very excited to see her get back!
116 replies to “Spooky scary”
RMMD-“But as you can see Travis somehow got himself out of the trunk.”
MW-Sorry, Dawn, but Wilbur has been blinded by Belle’s oratory skills.
FC-SMACK
Six Chix:
[Second panel apparition]:
“Smile! You’re on Candid Chimera!”
RMMD:
” ‘Travis,’ you’re as megacephalic as the Morgan girl whose dad I work for!”
RMMD: Nothing says, “I have SO moved beyond you” like a smug smirk.
MW: Personally, I would’ve opened with, “Doesn’t Belle seem a little, well, BATCRAP CRAZY to you?”
GT: It finally hit me, while watching the news; this strip’s illustrator is a failed courtroom sketch artist!
DtM: When will Henry learn that you speed away from the impromptu burial site not towards it.
RMMD:
“So what do you have to say for yourself, ‘Travis’ ?”
“The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.”
“Young man, the Scarecrow got it wrong in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and you got it wrong, too!”
RMMD: Wait a second! Lyle Lovett’s son should be only 7 years old!
RMMD:
“Travis was supposed to wait in the car. But he suffers from premature evacuation!”
6Cx: It’s hard to to nail down the facial expressions of an ethereal being, but the ghost in that last panel looks like he is having a time. Are there drugs in the afterlife? Like, when a coca tree dies, can some being in the great beyond harvest its ghost leaves and make powder for celebrations like these? It sure looks like it!
Blondie: Daisy opens her eyes in sudden alarm. “Is that…woke? Did Dagwood do a woke? Well, 95 years was a pretty good run, I guess…”
RMMD: God I hope that this is really the extent of the Travis character. He just follows Kelly around like a lost puppy and says his catchphrase (‘Oops!’) whenever he does something stupid, like leaving the car when he’s not supposed to, or wandering into traffic, or getting trapped in a broom closet.
RMMD: To be fair to Travis, this isn’t a safe neighborhood to loiter in the car.
“Travis was supposed to wait in the car and the problem would have taken care of itself! After all, waiting in a car is a guaranteed death sentence in these parts, isn’t it?”
Wary Morth:
Bats In The Bellefry just doesn’t like mutated double headed tomatoes. Did you ever think of that, Dusk? No. You only think of yourself.
RMMD — Eh, Kelly’s better off with young Lyle Lovett anyway. . .
Dustin: Given what people wonder is “real or fake” about women’s bodies, I dearly hope she’s dialling the police to report the creep.
Chix (sic): When speaking of ethereal beings, it’s ‘somebody’ not ‘someone’.
These are the kind of linguistic traps that makes the Blondie staff stick to bland generalities.
Randy Travis named his son Travis?
MW: Dawn, you’re the one who supposedly has a super close relationship with your father to the point where you had a hissy fit about Belle interrupting your karaoke duet with him. If you can’t just tell him that you’re feeling uncomfortable and you think that you need to either leave or have Wilbur find a hotel for Belle while she’s visiting, then you’re not as close to each other as you think.
Meanwhile Wilbur is preparing to ignore Dawn with his most punchable face.
RMMD: Apparently Travis isn’t Kelly’s boyfriend so much as he’s the new puppy that she got for Summer and he did a no-no on Kelly’s car seat.
MW: That 2-stemmed tomato is triggering my OCD.
Another bit of poor timing from the Mary Worth team. If Belle had killed Dawn last week, “National Paranormal Day” would have been perfect for having Dawn’s ghost appear to warn Wilbur.
RMMD: “Travis is also my science project.”
DtM: “Probably an arrest for assault on a child. Would that make you happy, you little smart mouth punk?”
GT: Gil suddenly remembers he’s coaching a game.
Heathcliff: This uniform thing has gotten really creepy.
MW: This Belle thing has gotten tiresome.
Dustin: I guess the joke here is when Fat Dumb Friend grabbed one of her boobs, she punched him in the eye. But instead of being told to leave the premises, he’s still hanging around there pounding his beer and no one seems to care. Pretty weird.
DT: finally circling back to the third nephew. Is Horrocks a play on cartoonist Dylan Horrocks (Hicksville) or Tintin’s captain Haddock? Still hoping the final twist is that the uncle and the Itemizer are working together.
GT: so Marty is making apologies in the most intrusive selfish way – interrupting people at work in a public setting?
MW: Dawn-I had a horrible dream a premonition that Bsts wants to kill me! Wilbur-I had a wonderful dream too. She was doing things to me. Wait she was really doing those things -what was it that you were saying?
RNMD: someone on the creative team is paying attention – oh yeah Niki
MW: as much fun as Aunt Tildy was in RMMD, this Belle Batsfrey is giving her a run for the money. Tho I hate how people jerk women around by comparing them, maybe cute crazy people are an exception.
It happened. After five days of hating new phone, I again made Duck Duck Go my default, opened mail and other apps in that, blocked Google. And now I like new phone. Suggest this for anyone else with Google grunk
That Plugger is walking so carefully because he’s trying to hold in a shart.
MW; As long as Wilbur can keep distracting the cyborg Belle with food prep, it should give Sarah, er, Dawn a good amount of time to escape and hide while Dirk’s child she is carrying is born and becomes the savior of the human race.
BTW: The Terminator sequence in despicable me 4 is great fun, made me laugh.
6C: Sure, ghosts are spooky, but you know what’s really scary? Walking down the street balancing your takeaway coffee carefully on your palm.
Who else is hoping that Dawn and Wilbur stumble upon the defaced picture out in the open and they burn out their shared braincell trying to figure out what it means?
Luann: “Do you know how much I can have you arrested for trespassing right now, Miss ‘I don’t pay rent and have no tenant agreement’?”
JP: “First, take off that stupid toupee. It doesn’t match your sideburns and it makes you look like a 1970s news anchor.”
RMMD: Good grief, that must be the most punchable face this side of Wilbur Weston. Either this Travis must be an absolute demon in the sack or Kelly was such a leper in college this was the only boy who would touch her for her to throw Niki over for someone with [shudders] a face like *that*.
RMMD: “I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO WAIT IN THE CAR!!!” Wasn’t that a Milton Berle catchphrase?
FG: Well, that’s that. Monday: “The All-New Adventures of the Margrave.”
RMMD/MW: These two strips are vying for the coveted Worst Hair on Two Females and One Male Award.
H&L: Trixie is not only the smartest person in the Flagston household, she is a funny girl.
Dustin would have been funnier if the blonde woman had a more, umm, substantial build. It wouldn’t be less creepy, though.
MW: A frustrated Belle shows off the culinary skills that made her a very in-demand plongeur. Geez, didn’t Moy and Brigman learn anything from Sweeney Todd? He was a proper artist with a knife.
@The Quiet Man: Kelly did lose a lot of what made her interesting when she drank the Morgan family Kool-Aid. Can’t upstage Rex’s perfectly bland family by actually having a personality.
Blondie: “Reading the comics again, honey?” “Absolutely not. You know comics haven’t been funny for 75 years!”
6C: You have to placate the spirits, or you end up looking like *even worse* Six Chix drawings.
RMMD: Travis is pretty sanguine learning his current girlfriend hasn’t dumped her previous boyfriend.
6-C – Pair’a abnormal, I’d say….
Blondie – They’re not mutually exclusive, Dag….
RMMD – Travis was supposed to to stay in the car and snort crank – BtW…he’s looking for a place to dump Niki….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Blondie – I find it hard to believe anyone reacts to the comics by saying “Ha! Ha!” out loud, but if anyone would, it would be Dagwood.
Blondie – “Reading the comics again, honey? That’s the fourth time this morning. Don’t you ever want to take just a little peek into one of the other sections? How about sports? You used to like sports.”
Don Abundio, translated:
“Rodney, to be a figure skater you must train and practice”
“How, Uncle?”
“Strengthen your leg muscles and work on your agility and balance…”
[Sign: DANGER THIN ICE]
“Ah! And do all that before you hit puberty!”
@Cleveland Mocks: It’s like Dustin takes place in the 1970s. The fern bars, the overly aggressive pick-up lines, the crushing unemployment, the smug know-it-all boomer parents.
Anybody else noticing the close resemblance between Rex MD’s Kelly and Dawn Weston? It’s as least as blatant as the one between Zits Jeremy’s girlfriend and Dustin’s sister.
DtM: The next one will be ‘felony child abuse’.
Luann: Haven’t Luann and Phil already kissed? Why does she need to invent this pretext to invite him over? Why does she now have to insult a third person, Mrs. Horner, by using her as a prop to get OMG CUTE GUY to come over? Why didn’t she just accept Bernice’s offer to go to a movie and give her some alone time? That is a priceless gesture when you’re in college. Doubly so when it gives you the run of your parents’ house too. But every plot must be driven by Luann’s stupidity, and inability to know what she wants.
Similar to what I just said about Dustin, Luann seems to be in a 90s dating environment. There’s all these new rules which no one has figured out yet. By now, there are dating advisors who say, “just tell the guy you like him, it makes everything a lot easier.” Especially since Phil is shy and awkward himself, and would benefit from a whack with the clue bat. But every plot must be driven by Luann’s stupidity, and inability to know what she wants.
MW: Speaking of people who Cannot Spit It Out… On the plus side, Belle is making Beavis noises again. Heh-heh.
CS: “Why do all your books have ‘murder’ in the title?” “Severe undiagnosed autism.”
Pluggers: If you can’t walk without mentally rehearsing the instructions, you need to check into a hospital.
Dustin: well, that got molest-y fast.
MW: are we ever going to learn why Belle wants to murder Dawn?
6C/Blondie: I wonder if this is something akin to the famous Far Side/Dennis the Menace screw-up, and the dialogue for today’s strips got swapped and sent to the wrong artists. Certainly vague existential dread is more in Six Chix wheelhouse than Blondie’s.
RMMD: Travis looks like Parker, the non-binary aspiring comedian from a few arcs back, only stretched out and given a dye job. Is this a sign that Travis is also gender non-conforming? Or just an indicator that this strip has a limited number of ways to visually convey “awkward and kinda nerdy”?
MW: Belle, let me give you some advice. If you’re going to practice on something, use a potato. Dawn’s head is definitely not like a ripe tomato.
FC: “And when I smack you on the face with it, it looks like reg’lar waffles instead of Bulgin’ waffles.” *Smack*
Dustin: Ha ha! Fitch tried to grope a woman, and she punched him. What the actual fuck is this crap?
@MKay:
“Full blown batsh*t crazy and still holding down a productive job” was the caption of P.S. Mueller’s most popular cartoon, although he could never understand why.
Why back when, I had a copy of it posted on it on the outside of my desk cubicle. Made people smile.
Luann: “So… will you keep Mrs. Horner distracted while Phil and I… hold hands?” (Look, I’m not even going to entertain the notion that these two will engage in anything on the first base line)
CS: I wonder if Batiuk had a recent disagreement with his publisher?
9CL: Oh hey, a music-related joke. It probably doesn’t make any sense in this context, but Brooke tried.
@Banana Jr. 6000:
And are we expected to believe that Fat Dumb Friend could actually tell the difference between real and not real? Highly doubtful.
RMMD: my girlfriend the radical feminist says she likes slutty Niki better, and frankly so do I.
@Professor Well Actually: I keep wondering that as well. Dawn is the most uninteresting main character in a cast of uninteresting characters. Mary is a meddling old crone, Ian is reduced to passive aggressive snarking, Toby is on a steady diet of box wine and quaaludes, Dr. Jeff is so far in the closet that he’s making friends with Aslan and Mr. Tumnus, Wilbur has his own spreadsheet about why he’s one of the top five worst soap opera comic characters, and Dawn…well, she’s the token child character since Santa Royale has banned children under the age of twenty.
@Cleveland Mocks: (Dustin) My pondering of this “joke” didn’t get as far as Fitch staying in the bar like this was just a normal thing.
C’shaft: See, Lillian, this is where you need to understand genre naming conventions. You do cozy mystery, so your straightforward promise of murder at a certain location is acceptable (although to really up your game, you need to throw in some slightly morbid wordplay, like Death Sentences or Write of Burial). For white collar crime, you need short, punchy, and vaguely enigmatic titles, like The Assessors or The Coatimundi Gambit.
Dustin: It’s funny because Dustfriend groped a complete stranger in public, most likely the blonde in the background who’s still wide-eyed with horror at the violation.
GT: Is it in Gil’s contract that he always has to appear taller than everyone else in the frame?
JP: Hank and Neddy are this close to being the stars of a viral TikTok video.
Luann: It’s not her fault, Bernice; this entire premise is unconvincing.
MW: Dawn, who spent the last arc refusing to listen while her partner’s glaring red flags were pointed out to her, now must suffer being dismissed while she tries to point out Belle’s glaring red flags to her dad. I’m not sure if this is poetic justice or just a sign that everyone in Mary Worth knows its best to doubt Dawn’s judgement.
Phantom: “Turns out some people are fanatically devoted to cruel authoritarian figures! Who knew?”
Dustin: The blonde in the background is either the waitress taking an order or jotting down Fitch’s description for the cops.
Phantom: ”Jampa may have been a cruel man, but he did have a wide circle of friends. And he enjoyed his garden. And pinochle.”
@Professor Well Actually:
Maybe Wilbur implied he was a filthy rich widower, so Belle wants to marry him for his money. Then Belle discovers there is another woman that could interfere with her schemes to marry, off him, and reap the riches of the advice column he doesn’t even write anymore.
So, Dawnie has to go. Preferably in small pieces in the Charterstone garbage dumpster.
Oops! Wilbur is divorced, not widowed, so the ex is someone else to get rid of. Or maybe baby Belle wants to become a squatter and eventually live in and then sell off the condo (I’m assuming condos, not apartments?)
Mary might be getting all the money for writing Wilbur’s advice column, so there goes that source of steady income she anticipated when hooking up with Wilbur, so Mary will be next in her crosshairs.
We all know who’ll win that battle.
I have no snark to share this morning, but if spotting the paranormal where others cannot is your bag, I heartily recommend the Japanese manga Mieruko-chan: sweet, funny and disturbing all at once.
@Anonymous: I think you put more thought and planning into that synopsis than Moy has put into her plots in the past two years.
Sure, Kelly is looking for drama, but this is, after all, Rex Morgan. Niki will be dating a girl he met at work, and they’ll all go bowling.
Marvin: They misspelled “shart”. With Marvin it’s always too late.
Dustin: This reminds me of the scene in Crocodile Dundee where Paul Hogan checks to see if the woman he meets is anatomically correct. There’s been a lot of complaints about that scene in recent years but because almost nobody reads the comic Dustin they can get away with this tasteless joke.
Family Circus: Jeffy is supposed to be 3 years old. He’d be using that racket to whack his sister in the face.
Six Chix:
[First shade]: “Is there a bulletin site that might display for sale the used tool that I need to remove ectoplasm from flat surfaces?”
[Second shade]: “Let’s look at that sqouija board over there!”
RMMD: (Been holding this in since yesterday… hoping that Josh would cover RMMD today and also that Travis would show up so that I could share the worst pun I had ever made in the history of this blog.)
“The comic strip Rex Morgan M.D is a Travis-ty”
Sure, today is National Paranormal Day.
It’s also Wild Koala Day.
As a skeptic who smugly scoffs at talk of the “paranormal”, I have to ask… When is Smugly Scoffing Skeptics Day? I want to smugly scoff with a more celebratory tone!
Oh. October 12th. Never mind.
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When he first walked through the door, I thought Travis could have been someone who thinks that roots country is pablum for the masses. Now that we see him up close, nope, he’s just a straight up neo-vaudeville guy.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: I say the same for the film ParaNorman
@Tabby Lavalamp: Roots Country? Neo-Vaudeville? Maybe we could just agree that he doesn’t have any interests because that would require an actual personality.
Not that any of the other characters have personalities, which makes writing Travis a feat in itself.
RMMD – “Look, Nikki. You know how when a new male lion moves in, he kills all the old male’s cubs so the females will go into heat? Well, you and I didn’t have any kids but Travis smashed all the little knickknacks you gave me and frankly, I found it kinda hot, so…”
Rmmd: fuckboy Egon Spengler, you are needed in Six Chix
Six Chix: The joys of dating while schizophrenic.
Blondie: “But I won’t specify what about the news is crazy, just because. It’s not as if I live in fear of offending the extradimensional ‘readers’ and ‘editors’ who observe my life by taking an actual stance on any particular issue, that’d be nuts. What? No, I’m not sweating, honey, I don’t know what you’re talking about hahaha.”
Rex Morgan: Wait, Kelly’s straight up cheating on her boyfriend and gonna dump him with her new boo standing right there? Wow. That’s pretty dark for a comic whose idea of violent vigilantism was a janitor mildly annoying criminals with a broom.
yDT: I see they have made an “action-packed expense account” joke…..but they still haven’t given a name to the insurance company investigator.
(They’re drawing it out to the final episode, aren’t they?)
Of course, when Dagwood reads the comics he is catching up on the lives of friends and colleagues, people he would have over to his house whenever King Features decides to celebrate a milestone. So it stands to reason he would read the news for entertainment, the surreal antics of a strange and distant real world, so far removed his own where the biggest problem is “kids these days” and the only war is “whatever it is Beetle Bailey supposed to be doing”
Blondie The Neighborhood Bumstead: I see Blondie is still leaving that pile of Young and Raymond sit on the floor in the hopes that Dag will get the hint and hire a maid for her.
RMMD: maybe Kelly finally realized Nikki is 40 years old and she got creeped out.
@ectojazzmage: I would love to see The Street Sweeper migrate to DC comics proper as a Z-List fodder “hero” that all of the other superheroes make fun of.
Then again, even The Condiment King while still a joke, when brought to the comics was given a (sort of) badassary upgrade, from squirting Ketchup and Mustard at people to using powerful acid that could dissolve a wall within seconds. So there could still be hope for The Street Sweeper (there isn’t)
Six Chex And A Cat Named Fox Mulder In Search Of A Punchline: Presents The 6C Files “I want to throw up.” Brought to you tonight by GHOSTBUSTERS INC. “We’re ready to ignore you!” “We ain’t afraid of no punchline!”
RMMD-For disobeying Kelly Travis will be tied to the bumper.
Six Chex and A Cat Named Thing T. Thing Addams In Search of A Punchline: “F the ghosts, when’s Deformed Right Hand Day?”
RMMD: “Ms. Knight, could I use your ba— oops, too late! I’ll go wait in the car. Nice meeting you.”
@The Rambling Otter: It’s also Wild Koala Day.
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Finally someone remembers!
Nice Dark Helmet cameo in today’s Mark Trail Mix!
Dustin: Since many of you have already commented as to why Fitch is still allowed in the bar, you’re all right, he wouldn’t. Let me tell you a true story that I got to witness. It was in a club in Elyria, Ohio in 1980. An attractive young woman was leaning forward over the bar trying to order a drink. The asshole standing next to her noticed her low hangers and decided to cop a feel. Fortunately, the bartender saw it happen, made a quick motion, and within a minute a burly bouncer the size of an NFL linebacker was frog marching the creep out of the place and gave him a bum’s rush out the door. The club manager apologized profusely and let the woman and her friend have free drinks for the night.
@The Rambling Otter: And it’s Free Comic Book Day.
Today is also Naked Gardening Day.
RMMD: Little confused here. It would make some sense for Travis to wait in the car while Kelly has it out with Niki, and much more for him not to be in the vicinity at all. But what’s the purpose of him waiting outside while Kelly talks to her mother. Is he just not housebroken? Should they have put newspaper on the floor?
6C: Okay, Casper-ish ghosts popping up in the middle of the sidewalk I can accept, but where did that one ghost get the party hat?
Dustin: So Dustin’s friend groped a random woman and got (justifiably) a black eye for it, but why is he still allowed to be at the bar he presumably did it in? Shouldn’t the establishment throw him out, ban him, and call the cops?
Luann: Luann, you and Phil have kissed already. Why are you acting so coy about inviting him for dinner?
@Artist formerly known as Ben: Spirit Halloween
9CL: This strip is now unfolding in three periods of time at the very least, with nothing worth mentioning happening in any of them.
C-Shaft: “I’m not very imaginative and my readers aren’t very smart” would have been an accurate answer but an impolitic one.
Dustin: If Fitch isn’t speaking in a falsetto he got off light.
H&L: Everybody put your hands together for the legendary Barbra Streisand, dubbing Hi’s dialogue in song today.
JP: “Well if that’s how you feel about it…” *Hank pulls emergency door open, he and a dozen other passengers are pulled screaming to their deaths.*
MT: Hey Jules, not to get all Inigo Montoya—no, actually, I will get all Inigo Montoya. I don’t think the word “wits” means what you think it means.
MW: Will it count as irony when Wilbur shows Belle the door, but only because she keeps serving marinara that still has the tomato stems in it?
@taig: Oh, you.
@taig: Oh, you.
I know Andy Travis, Andy Travis has made me laugh on WKRP, that, Ma’am, is no Andy Travis!
JP: Yup, Neddy is definitely in the market for a boyfriend upgrade. New York City is NOT the best hunting ground for unattached men, hon, you might want to try hanging around oilfields in the Dakotas.
RMMD: Travis is thinking “Sure, Kelly isn’t much to look at now, but when she gets old I‘ll convince her to start rockin’ a sexy ponytail like her old lady.”
@Artist formerly known as Ben: 6C: Okay, Casper-ish ghosts popping up in the middle of the sidewalk I can accept, but where did that one ghost get the party hat?
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Slimer’s Death day party.
@Ukulele Ike: Today is also Naked Gardening Day.
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“A nude carrot is a rude carrot”-Alan Abel.
@Anonymous: Belle lives in Orlando, Florida and reeks of trailer park meth lab. Anyone who can afford any home in California is “filthy rich” by her standards.
Travis provides an answer to Don McLean’s unspoken, sorrowful wondering: the spul of Buddy Holly does not rest in peace. AT ALL.
@The Quiet Man, Luann: Without looking, is someone getting evicted because the person brought unauthorized archery equipment “to promote warfare”, or are they storing things without a license or business permits?
@Banana Jr. 6000: Not even a home but a condo. A place like Charterstone with a pool and gardens in a primarily white area of California is something that you would only be able to afford if you’re raking in way more than a bunch of retired people on a pension, a tenured college professor, and an advice columnist would ever be able to afford in their lifetime.
@Guillermo el chiclero: And, later, the asshole was found dead in a car from strangulation.
Who got the truck?
@Needless Exposition: My headcanon is that they bought their homes a long time ago. Or maybe inherited them.
@Professor Well Actually:
Dawn’s a Weston. Would someone need any other reason to off her and/or Wilbur?
RMMD: I think that’s supposed to be more of a slightly embarrassed smile than a smirk that Kelly is doing. Maybe it’s not actually because of her new bf who was supposed to stay in the car. She probably passed gas and Travis is trying to not puke from the odor.
@Banana Jr. 6000: Yeah, from what I’ve gathered, it sounds like almost all of the pre-established residents like Mary, Wilbur, and the Camerons bought their condos a long time ago and it’s easy to include Saul and Eve because of their ages. Estelle and Iris could have possibly inherited their condos which is probably why they could easily give them up when they got
restraining orders against Wilburmarried. Keith Hillend, though…well, who knows or cares about him?@Needless Exposition: Hillend seemed to be fully retired in his mid-forties on a combination of Marine Corps and police pensions. I don’t know whether it would be possible to do that and afford that lifestyle, but I am dubious.
@Rube: They all inherited real estate from their Okie migrant great-grandparents, who arrived in California during the 1930s and bought homes with the gold they were able to pick up in the streets.
@Rube: Everything about that guy is sketchy as hell. Wilbur is a dumb pudding meant to be mocked and unjustly rewarded for being an idiot but we’re supposed to want Hillend to succeed in scoring his lying hosebag and get his Tumblr-brained not daughter to like him. You know, despite the intimidation tactics and getting a DNA test in a way that is very likely illegal.
Blondie – Dagwood can no longer perform to the calendar of made up holidays. As a person whose whole existence is based on the continued printing of newspapers, the decline of his universe is made all the more imminent by tariffs on Canadian newsprint. Dagwood has chosen to face the yawning abyss with growing madness, and I am interested to see how this strip goes out.
DT: I mean, maybe you should also be going after the people you know were involved and who for all you know, may be making their escape right now? I’m just spitballing here.
JP: Neddy not wanting to talk shows more self-awareness than I expected. She doesn’t always know when she’s really bad at something.
RMMD: I’m probably not going to do this for every strip he appears in (for one thing, I only know a few Travis songs that well), but here’s another one for now:
I can’t wait tonight,
Though Kelly told me that I should sit tight,
Still I had to arise.
I’m gonna mumble til the story’s end’s in sight.
Summer Knight, why am I here?
A plot device who just had to appear.
Why have I Beatty’s name on me?
Is it because he draws me like the Pole of Bean?
Why have I Beatty’s name on me?
Even when my girl’s two-timing,
This strip avoids exciting.
(Fun fact: the start of the video shows exactly what Kelly means by “supposed to wait in the car.”)
@TheDiva: What is this famous screw up of which you speak?
@Horace Broon: Kelly and Travis will only last until he catches her making out with Snow Patrol.
Get called out and up your game. Get called out and double down. We got a little of both.
DT: Mark my words, that potted plant will lead to everyone’s downfall.
Aunt Claire will spend eternity locked in a small cell with the Horrocks Boys, a la No Exit.
@Coiled up and hissing: The garden hose sprung a leak again!
GT: What happened to Beth’s facial mole, or was it just a cheek piercing stud all along?
@Vincent Furnier: https://screenrant.com/far-side-dennis-the-menaces-caption-swap-error/
@Rube: Hmmm… maybe when Harmon Rabb Jr. (a JAG Lawyer) fired a machine gun in the courtroom to prove that it wasn’t jammed at the time of the murder. Keith Hillend was on the floor above him for his own court marshal, a bullet grazed him, and he sued J.A.G for all they had.
@CanuckDownSouth:
Thank you
MW: “Don’t you see? She has it in for me!”
“Yeah, well I’ve been having it in her. Bros before hoes but hoes before foes, which is what you’re becoming to me, Dawnie. Particularly since she bloes for not that much dough. Set your expectations appropriately for the rest of her visit.”
@Needless Exposition: Not only gardens, but extensive walking paths with views of ponds/wetlands and no buildings in sight. I am agog whenever we are shown the land around Charterstone. It’s irritating that Crazybelle seems to have no interest in it.
@Poteet: Belle can get her share of wetland views back in Orlando though admittedly with a far less amount of theme parks here.
@CanuckDownSouth: But are they spectacular?