SHOCKING MARTY MOON MUSTACHE REVEAL!!!!
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Gil Thorp, 6/6/25
Deep in the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, I decided that the dream of the ’90s had finally well and truly died, and I shaved off my goatee and then grew in a full beard that I’ve maintained ever since (apologies to all if it unnerves you to learn that my caricature in this blog’s logo is not fully accurate, facial hair-wise). Marty clung onto the Evil Spock look for another five years, but now, as part of his strategy to get his life together, he’s gone with the mustachio’d look that an increasing number of the kids today seem to like. And it’s clearly a good move: he’s already going to sub for his replacement on some terrible morning radio talk show, mere minutes after getting home from the barber who ceremonially sheared him! I like the fact that his dog is licking his mustache clean, presumably to get the last of the facial hair food residue that he’s used to feasting on.
Mary Worth, 6/6/25
Wilbur and Dawn’s poisoned dinner continues to go great, and by “great” I mean “insanely,” with both Westons continuing to talk like everything is basically normal despite being clearly convinced that Belle is going to disembowel them with a spoon. I love that all intra-Weston solidarity is out the window at this point, with each hoping to be the one person that whoever’s at the door is going to save, leaving the other to their fate at Belle’s hands.
Mother Goose and Grimm and Zits, 6/6/25
Polyamory! You’re hearing about it more and more, and lots of people are saying, “Why not? Let’s give it a try!” Well, the syndicated newspaper comics aren’t having it, do you hear them? They’re not having it.
126 replies to “SHOCKING MARTY MOON MUSTACHE REVEAL!!!!”
MW: Wilbur continues his transformation into Gollum.
GT: That’s not Marty — it’s Gabe Kaplan (or possibly Harry Reems).
GT: Why does Marty’s replacement know the date and time of his barbershop appointments? And why is Marty Discount Freddie Mercury now, for Pride?
Zits: Personally, if I were trying to make my boyfriend jealous, I wouldn’t go with Frankenstein’s monster. But that’s just me.
MW: Today’s installment is like a recreation of the final moments aboard the Titanic. The lifeboats are gone, the ship is sinking, water is rushing up the slanted deck like a crazy woman chasing you around your condo wielding a deadly spoon, and it’s “Every man for himself!”
Gil Thorp-They replaced Marty Moon with 1980s Tom Selleck.
RMMD-“I’ve got a room at the hotel where we can take the DNA test.”
MW-“Saved By the Bell”. Never mention better things we could be watching no matter the quality of what it is.
FC-Santa will give you the coal and I’m sure you know what to do next.
MW: Wilbur spent his entire life doing absolutely nothing for his “Dawnie,” but at least he can die honorably as a meat shield.
MG&G; Hiram looks deeply chagrined because the tattoo actually says “I came on Eileen.” Luckily Mz. Goose can’t read too well in bed without her glasses.
GT: So, apparently Marty’s habit of referring to people by their full name including the title of their radio show isn’t limited to AA meetings.
@Liam: MW-“Saved By the Bell”. Never mention better things we could be watching no matter the quality of what it is.
I know, right? Dawn should have gone with “My Mother the Car.”
GT – Melp Melp means this is the best thing since my bung hole….
MW – I hope it’s Desmond Diamond!
MG&G – Come on, Eileen….
Zits – I see dead people. I hope it’s Desmond Diamond….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Crankshaft : Lillian, you’re just begging Ed to spray your garden with defoilant through his fence. Or flat-out fire a flamethrower at you and your house. Again.
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Gil Thorp : Marty Moon has been recast and is now played by Tom Selleck.
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Hi & Lois : …Am I the only one interpreting today’s gag as “Chip just had ChatGPT do his homework for him”, with “Why can’t I ever think of something to write?” being the prompt?
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Mary Worth : Why did the situation escalate to this point? Dawn DOESN’T know Belle tried to put poison in her food, and all Wilbur saw was her seemingly trying to swallow Willa (and then transparently lying about it). Why is everyone suddenly at their most intense, Belle frothing at mouth with homicidal rage while the Westons are in a mindless panic? This feels… inorganic and unearned, I want to say?
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Mother Goose and Grimm : “Wait, YOUR name ISN’T Eileen? But I got this tattoo FOR YOU!… Shit.”
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Zits : didn’t Pierce invent an app that can instantly transform anyone into a muscle-bound superhuman?
And didn’t inventing that app (and an app that allows you to FLY) make Pierce into a multi-billionnaire?
Look, I know talking about continuity in THIS strip is a little much, but I’m just saying Pierce has a lot of upside as a boyfriend!
MGG: It’s not what you think. Hiram was just the singer in a Dexy’s Midnight Runners tribute band. They were called Dexy’s Saturday Afternoon Runners.
GT – Don’t cartoonists realize that kids read comic strips? How dare they show a man being melped by a dog!
MW: Wilbur and Dawn open the door to a well-dressed stranger. “Why yes, we’re very interested in the ‘Good News’.”
GT: Good heavens – I know I’m still bleary eyed from being dragged out of bed at the crack of dawn into the kitchen by the cat just so she can get her morning kibble but I honest to goodness thought this strip had acquired a new artist. Marty’s face actually looks contoured and rounded, like a human and not a trapezoid! Vivid colors and details! “Gil Thorp,” is this a foretaste of things to come?
And speaking of foretaste…the last thing I wanted to read about at 6:00 in the morning was Josh’s vivid description of food crumbs in Marty’s mustache. Thank you, sir. :-p
MW: Panel 2 is a masterpiece. The Mormon missionaries at the door don’t know what’s coming. I hope they’re prayed up and ready to confront the demoness inside.
MW: I hope whoever is behind that door is holding, at the very least, a spork.
RMMD: I’m trying to figure how this could possibly develop any more. He is. He isn’t. He runs off with Wanda. He runs off with Truck. The Morgans never get any cake.
GT: I don’t remember Marty looking anything like that. On the plus side, he’s a cut above the rest of the “drew it with my feet” characters. Dog looks OK, too.
Congratulations to Bob Tice, who evidently guest wrote today’s Edison Lee!
MW:
In today’s second panel, a peripatetic Wilbur busts a moob.
Mother Goose, etc.: So we are not going to talk about how some bird covered in feathers gets a tattoo? There must be some kind of emergency board meeting over at Shoe Inc. “Why have we been the first to broach the absurdity of tattooed avians?!!”
@Hibbleton: #13
Haha! Great minds *do* think alike! Apologies for leaping over your great comment!
GT: Is “Melp! Melp!” the new “Bleat! Bleat!”? Let’s hope not.
GT:
You know how in the eponymous movie, the Jeff Goldblum character slowly but surely transmogrifies into a “Fly”? — here, Marty is slowly but surely morphing into early Cheech Marin.
MW: I think it will be hilarious if, after all this, the mushroom stew turns out to be perfectly good, and Belle and Mary sit down and enjoy it together; Belle tells Mary how ungrateful the Westons are, and Mary advises her to move on, which she does. Wilbur realizes he passed up on True Love.
Anyway, thanks for one of the most hilarious panels in comics history.
GT: “Just one little drink to celebrate;” says Marty to himself as he breaks out his first place trophy decanter.
@Daisy:
No need to apologize. I enjoy different takes on the same idea.
MW: Unfortunately it’s too late for Wilbur – the shrinking potion Belle slipped in his drink has already started its work.
Zits: Tinder just announced it will let users filter potential dates by height. I thought its only value would be to let the worst, shallowest people on the planet voluntarily make their dating life even harder, but now I see its real purpose: to let teens cuck their partners more efficiently.
@richardf8:
In the meantime, Celeste and Babar endorse their son’s embrace of the syncopated rhythm music genre that was popular at the turn of the last century by listening to “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.”
GT “And hey, don’t call me Marty anymore, call me “Magnum”. It’s a little thing I’m trying out.. ”
MW I know that is probably Mary coming to save them, but im still holding out hope thst it’s another one of this strip’s pathetic characters who’ll just me added to Belle’s murder list. Ian, for example, or maybe Tommy?
MW: I hope it’s Harry Dinkle selling band candy, and Belle kills all three of them. With a spoon.
By the way, wouldn’t Belle be a lot more intimidating with a knife instead of a spoon? Or is this one of those lame censorship things like “unaliving” and “self-termination”?
“Recalculating jealousy scheme…. Would you like to adopt a cuckoldry scheme?”
RMMD:
“It’s been an eventful day, son, to say the least. Why, just a little earlier today, a Glenwood meteorologist mistook my coiffure for a localized cloud formation!”
@Guts Dozier: “Dexy’s Saturday Afternoon Runners” was my Irish/Polka band.
MW: Is today’s “$!#?” the first use of bleeped expletives in Mary Worth? Perhaps Josh, with his encyclopedic knowledge of the strip (poor soul), can tell us.
Also, we all know who’s at the door. The only suspense is how Mary will fix everything. I’m leaning toward lynn’s scenario @23.
@Banana Jr. 6000: Sounds like you haven’t see The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon.
@lynn: Indeed, I found myself thinking of another of Doug Walker’s ‘First Viewing’ videos where he declared in all sincerity of a real can’t-look-away disaster of a movie: ‘This is a delight; a sheer delight’.
It hardly even matters who’s at the door, the way the Westons are bolting they’re just going to get mowed down and trampled as they run for the hills.
‘Wilburman, AWAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!’
@Charterstoned:
And Wilbur, don’t forget Wilbur.
The 90’s cannot truly die while Pierce still lives.
Mary Worth: Pursued by a giantess with a spoon, Wilbur screams “I’ll get it!” But the more he runs, the more he sinks into the quicksand that has sprung up between his dinner table and the front door. This is either a new and alarmingly niche fetish, or a lost Kafka novella, possibly both. Either way, it’s Friday morning, I have a full cup of coffee, let’s see how this plays out!
MW: **chef’s kiss** Today’s strip was better than I could have EVER imagined. Anger, cursing, chaos, both Westons showing that they don’t REALLY love each other that much, insomuch as neither would save the other from a homicidal maniac, and weird vegan mushroom glop that rivals some of Mary’s gloops.
The only thing we don’t have is any semblance of how to tell a story, but, I’m just picking nits here…
Gil Thorp: MELP MELP cries Sweetie. MUSTACHE HELP, GET MUSTACHE HELP. Sadly, like most therapy dogs, her advice will go unheeded.
MW – Even though she’s facing imminent danger, Dawn can’t stop thinking about those wacky kids at Bayside High.
@Lauralot: i had not even heard of it, but I definitely will now. (I had to look it up to see if it was real. It is.)
Mary Worth meta: Knowing how I look like a naked mole rat while clean-shaven, I have a hard time imagining how Josh would appear sans facial hair. Thoughts like these what I read the morning comics to escape from. Damn you Marty Moon for bringing me to this point!
I don’t like that it feels like Marty is cashing in on his new celebrity lookalike status and is going to try to sell grandparents on reverse mortgages now.
Mother Goose and Grimm: Having feathers plucked, one by one, then a series of laser treatments slowly burning off his upper, ink-soaked dermis? Little wonder Hiram looks so alarmed! This is grim, very grimm indeed.
MW: I just hope it’s the pre-Tori cast. Because Tori fking sucked. And no Zak. Because Zak Morris is trash!
(If you’ve never seen the hilarious “Zak Morris is Trash” series at Funny or Die, go check it out, check it outers!)
GT: Tom Selleck once had it made, but then “Blue Bloods” was cancelled and those reverse mortgage commercials don’t pay that much. Taking over the role of Marty Moon is hitting rock bottom. Sad. If only he’d agreed to “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
@Ken: There was a bleeped expletive in the Esme cruise ship arc, and I believe another when Ashlee and what’s her name were fighting over Dr. Jeff’s son.
MW: “You’re right dad. You shouldn’t be alive!”
Mother Goose & Grimm: Are Hiram and MG in a relationship? He talks to her like he’s her (love-addled) janitor.
Gil Thorp: “Melp, melp?” That’s some advanced dog tongue onomatopoeia, my friend. What’s next? Football interceptions that go “whunk” instead of “catch?” It’s a slippery slope, and I don’t like it.
MW: Leave it to Moy to spend several days foreshadowing the presence of a freshly-sharpened, saber-sized knife in that kitchen, then have her crazed psycho killer character go on the attack with a freakin’ teaspoon.
Moy doesn’t just disregard the standards of good writing, she buries them deep and dances on their graves.
MW: In the original draft, Belle was holding something a bit more deadly than a spoon.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: F/K/A Dexy’s Early Bird Runners….
@Astroboy: Moy could have had Belle appear to reach for the knife and then switch to the spoon, not only to show her detachment from reality but also to confound readers’ expectations. If you’re going to include a trope, than either take it to its logical conclusion or subvert it somehow.
H&L: Chip is in an indeterminate year of high school, but he’s already essay-padding at a syndicated columnist level.
Gasoline Alley: In about three week you’re gonna have some seriously depressed hens wondering why their eggs don’t hatch. Hope you’re proud of yourself, Boog.
CS: I’d be worried if all this AI crap was in my home, but after two days of all the spyware, drone cameras, and hidden mics, the State Department will give up on finding anything either interesting or incrimintating at Chateau Crankshaft.
Beetle Bailey: It’s June 6th. I’d wonder why this comic didn’t put in a nod to D=Day, but then again, I’ve seen what it does for 9/11, Armistice Day, and Remembrance Day.
GT: Is it just me or is the art in the last panel a slice above their typical?
Gil Thorp – Gen-Z has embraced the non-ironic mustache, and sobriety. While I doubt this will make Marty cool, (I fully expect a crappy line of him explaining to a too-young woman he’s pursuing that radio is like live podcasts), it does provide him some aesthetics to match his new outlook on life. Plus we get a dog character to care about.
Mary Worth – “Saved by the Bell” – Perhaps Karen Moy will pay this off as ironically “saved from the Belle”, but I wouldn’t bet my life on it.
Mother Goose and Grimm – Mother Goose is just upset that Pete Davidson snubbed her for Kate Beckinsale during his older woman phase, and is forcing Hiram to engage in Pete’s current public tattoo removal ritual. This won’t satisfy her, because submissiveness is not a feature of BDE.
Zits – There should be a crossover where Pierce dates Dustin’s sister, mostly so people who dead Dustin can know there is a much better comic strip out there covering the contemporary issues of young men. Also, Pierce will mature a lot, seeing how petty jealousies lead to nothing but darkly toxic relationships on every level of life
Given the frozen-in-amber nature of Santa Royale, there’s about to be a very very startled door-to-door encyclopedia salesman.
On the plus side, that sampler volume of the Britannica that he’s carrying will serve admirably as both a shield and a club.
The only way the second panel makes sense is if Marty Moon is cold-calling the local radio station and pitching his services as a brand-new sports commentator (hence the extensive facial surgery). I like to think he’s throwing out the names of personalities he’d like to replace. “It’s time for Madman Mike to move on from the Pre-Dawn Patrol! No? Well then isn’t Shake Stevens from Steak and Shake in the Afternoon ready to retire? No dice? Fine. What about Loudmouth Larry from the Loudmouth Larry and Crazy Sheri Morning Show?”
“I need a favor. I’ve got a body in the trunk but I’ve blown a tire. You have a car with spacious cargo capacity and a tarp, right?”
I love the way Belle is staring right at that onomatopoeia box so it makes it look like she’s cursing directly at it. “MELP MELP” is better, but the artwork gives “DING DONG” the edge in today’s onomatopoeia wars.
MW: A spoon may not seem very threatening, but Belle knows that’s the whole point.
Rex Morgan – I thought the morning radio show construct only allowed for one of the team to have a funny moniker. Or neither. But never both.
MW: Compare Wilbur to the I have found humerus meme. It’s like looking into a mirror.
@Lauralot: Should say I found this humerus. Why can’t I type
Wary Morth:
Who the @#£% is that?
It’s the men in white coats, called in by Mary, who did five seconds of Googling, come to cart Bats back to the loony bin.
GT — Highlighting the aesthetics of his bachelor pad, Marty prominently displays his “First Place” phallus. (Squints at screen) Oh. Nevermind..
Frazz: Ironically, sports gambling might actually teach Caulfield something. It would teach him that some statistics matter, and some don’t. Just reading “Moneyball” would be a good start.
Caulfield doesn’t realize that his 25,000 valedictorians wouldn’t be the best 25,000 students. Because some schools are much easier to be valedictorian of than others. American high schools can be very large, very small, college preparatory, special needs, “alternative”, vocational, technical, artistic, sports-focused, experimental, faith-based, and other things. Caulfield’s 25,000 valedictorians would be almost as diverse as the high school student population as a whole. To say nothing about how America’s entire approach to education is far from perfect at identifying future success.
This kind of conversation could be very beneficial to Caulfield. He could learn how his thinking is too simplistic, and perhaps get a more nuanced view of his own future. But the adults would rather line up to indulge Caulfield’s massive ego.
@Little Blue Bicycle: Tom Selleck once a legit at-bat in a Detroit Tigers spring training game. The pitcher eventually struck him out, but Selleck looked like he knew what he was doing. You can find it on YouTube.
Sunday (the race to the door and fumbling with the lock taking forty eight hours, our time): I’M MARY $!#?-ING WORTH,THAT’S WHO THE $!#? I AM!!!”
GT: Not bad, Marty, but you need to undo at least one more button and get some fake gold chains to really sell the 1970s Lothario look.
MW: Like the hunter in the old joke, Dawn realizes that she doesn’t need to outrun Belle; she just needs to outrun her father. (Not that that’s a major accomplishment; Tammy Duckworth could outrun Wilbur Weston.)
@Lauralot: You clearly have not encountered the percentage of the population which absolutely would bone Frankenstein’s Monster if given the chance, in which case I congratulate you on the careful curation of your Internet space.
@Daisy: They’re Witnesses. And they’re going to have to take her back to the Kingdom Hall . . . again . . . to make sure she understands the limits around “publishing” before they send her back out.
Gil Thorp: So, was that golden microphone thingy that looks like an insecticide sprayer bent like that when they picked it up at Dollar General and awarded it to him? or did Marty fall on it/drop it when drunk?
We were told that the person at the door is someone that hasn’t appeared in the comic yet.
Well, to be fair Wilbur’s ex-wife hasn’t appeared yet (in person)
MW: I love the dynamic action in panel two. Wilbur is so terrified that he’s able to run full tilt at a 45-degree angle through a cramped dining room. He’s like a shlubby Beast from the X-Men, bounding through an earth-tone Danger Room in Professor Xavier’s retirement community for gifted seniors.
JP: “But Neddy, how will you find an apartment in twelve hours in this market?”
Luann: Good thing Shannon can speak in typos, otherwise we’d never see her cutesy mangling of the English language.
Phantom: Least of all the reader. Have we really been riding this prophesy storyline for four freaking years?
RMMD: Which is more likely (that is to say, the least interesting and dramatic solution): that the test proves Truck is the father and everyone’s happy, or that it proves he’s not but he and Cody have already bonded so they don’t care?
Mother Goose and Grimm, Hi and Lois, Archie.
I have literally never heard the name Hiram outside of the comics.
@TheDiva: Oh no, I have, I’ve just never understood it. Wouldn’t there be a rather strong odor of decay?
Gil Thorp: Marty’s smile fades as Sweetie’s licks become more and more aggressive. He realizes too late what’s about to happen and can only release a muffled scream as the dog bites into his face.
Mary Worth: That second panel has got to be one of my all-time favorite Mary Worth moments now. Its got everything Worthian; bizarre expressions, a nonsensical lead-up, comically overwrought reactions, clumsy writing, unlikable characters, and more. It all really goes to show why Mary Worth is one of the mainstays of this blog.
Zits: Did Dijon just perform a spell to summon this giant guy out of the aether?
@The Rambling Otter: We were told that the person at the door is someone that hasn’t appeared in the comic yet.
Much as I like Belle the fun has to end some time: if they’re wearing white coats and carrying butterfly nets, well, that’s all right with me.
Don Abundio, translated:
“I’ve rearranged the office furniture so that my employees can never escape”
“Really? How’d they take that?”
“Surprisingly well”
“They know it’s an apt metaphor for their miserable lives”
Mary Worth: I’m guessing that the person at the door is Belle’s husband, who a) exists, much to Wilbur’s surprise, and b) Belle hasn’t murdered yet, much to the surprise of the dead-pool oddsmakers back in Florida (and Belle herself, who’s going to send a strongly worded letter to her rat-poison manufacturer).
Fred Basset Spanish to English
Mary Worth – Earlier this week Sequitur commented that the person at the door will be revealed in Sunday’s strip. I thought that drawing out the reveal would be a lot of padding the story. I was wrong – this has been glorious, especially today.
Rex Morgan – This will end with Wanda walking to the altar to Fergus and Truck Jr’s duet of Muddy Boots.
Pluggers – A few years ago I was on a trip, and an elderly man in our group lost his wallet. He was most upset that his favorite photo of his late wife was in it. Never carry anything in your wallet that would be painful to lose.
love is… dropping and breaking your ceramic intrauterine device (IUD).
MW: The Westons don’t intend to answer the door. They are going through the door and leave the poor schlub to fend for themself.
Here’s a bit of Can in honor of Belle (and, hopefully, to flush out that “Come On Eileen” earworm we’ve all got now).
@Banana Jr. 6000:
When someone is aggressive and has previously displayed violent proclivity (including towards an animal), almost any utensil in his/her hands is menacing.
MW: Some shaky perspective in that second panel. Belle’s maniacal gesture suggests she’s warping reality as a last resort, and we’ll find that the front door opens onto the other side of the kitchen. Nobody leaves until they finish their mushroom slop, nobody.
@TheDiva: I hope Dr. Frankenstein paid especially attention to his needlework down in the groin area. I hate to think of that enormous schwanstucker coming off inside of anyone.
@Little Blue Bicycle: Selleck should have taken some of his earnings to a reputable financial advisor. Instead he blew them all on mustache wax and candy bars.
@Astroboy:
#51. MW: what you and many others are forgetting if that a spoon is DANGEROUS. “Gag me with a spoon” was a lesson devised by all the California Killers!
I think the artist and writer are having even more fun with this arc than we are.
@TheDiva:
#76. PHANTOM: Yep, four years. And vision will be a factor until strip ends, aside from arcs about prior Phantoms.
I guess I was wrong yesterday as apparently #21 didn’t need OMM’s vision to remind him to save Savarna. But the vision both delayed her rescue by weeks and placed the blame on #21 for the fateful future events.
Some people prefer simple “ca sera, ca sera” over free will and responsibility.
For tonight’s performance of Gil Twerp, the part of Marty Moon will be played by Bob Boucher, followed by an “Archer” crossover.
For tonight’s performance of Gil Twerp, the part of Marty Moon will be played by Bob Boucher, followed by an “Archer” crossover.
@Lauralot: MW: Wilbur continues his transformation into Gollum.
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“The fog is getting thicker!” “and Willburp’s getting gollumier!”
@Roxanne Lucille Jones: Do we know this, though? The story is so muddled that Wilbur and Dawn’s reaction doesn’t make sense. Eating a live goldfish is more wacky than violent. They’ve been unable to put their finger on the real threat. (Even though they’re refusing to eat, which suggests they know or at least suspect poison.) A spoon is the wrong choice of weapon, in light of what we’ve previously seen Belle use. And the story really hasn’t given us any evidence she’s capable of physical violence.
MW-Candygram.
@Activist:
#92. PHANTOM: Nope, #21, we are NOT going to let you blame the victims for the foreseeable consequences of your own actions. [great pun on “foreseeable” came only after I posted]
@Sequitur: Frank: “Who put water in my gun?” Hawkeye: “How do you know its water?”- MASH, “5:00 Charley”
Calvin and Hobbes Spanish to English.
FC: It’s a nice touch to have Big Daddy Keane looking glum in the background, just to make it clear that “Santa” is absolutely not getting her another one.
GT: This is probably very mean-spirited of me, but on some level I’m actually disappointed that this is one of Rachel Merrill’s good days, because I thought of a snark about how Marty didn’t shave off his beard, she just forgot to draw it, and it doesn’t work if the art’s actually decent.
JP: “The mistake I made getting back together with Hank was that I was just going back to something familiar rather than making a decision to move forward. That’s why what I actually need to do is move back home!” I know I often ask if Ces ever reads this stuff back, but seriously, does Ces ever read this stuff back? It’s like a game of Exquisite Corpse, except nobody else is playing.
MG&G: “But, Mz. Goose, since I always refer to you formally as ‘Mz. Goose’, I had no reason to believe your first name wasn’t Eileen.”
@Lauralot: #48: Arthur/Arthur the scammer also let rip with a long line of grawlixes when Estelle wouldn’t give him any more money.
@LTJpezcore1:tl;dr
Wired: Brigman’s art.
Tired: Moy’s writing.
MW – I’m hoping that’s 1960s Mary at the door. Because she’d tell them it’s rude to refuse a dish without even trying it.
GT: Sorry, Marty. No matter how much you try to look like 1980s Tom Selleck, nobody’s going to give you the keys to a Ferrari 308GT.
GT: Marty looks like he’s living pretty well for a guy who’s been out of work for several months. I’m surprised he hasn’t had to eat that dog of his.
Zits having a character named “D’ijon” seems racist.
Also, mustaches are bad.
Between Friends – You could move to France! Your friend knows a hot French guy who’s employed and available.
@Lauralot: #1
Once the transformation is complete Wilbur will devour Willa, his “Pre…ci…ous” after slamming her against a big rock. Wilbur was inspired in more ways than one by “The Lord of the Rings.”
@Hibbleton: #25
Thanks! Sometimes the snark just writes itself!
@TheDiva:
All I can say is, that had better involve fishing.
@ValdVin: #55
Re GT: That was my immediate reaction this morning too. My heart skipped a beat when I thought for a split second that the strip had acquired a new artist, but regardless, this is a vast improvement. Will it continue? We shall see…MELP MELP!
GT: Due to circumstances beyond our control the part of Marty Moon will be played by…Lyman from Garfield? Hey, nice to have him back. And he’s moved on to a nice new dog, too!
MW: Oh, the layout in the second panel is a classic, although it leaves me wishing Belle had something more imposing than a spoon in her hand. You can always go with the old reliable rolling pin. Meat cleaver would work too.
@Dmsilev: #57
And the irony when the sample volume he shows Dawn and Wilbur happens to fall open on the page for “Homicidal Maniac”!
9CL: If “catapult” can be a verb there’s no reason “trebuchet” can’t be one, as in, “I’d like to trebuchet Amos and Edda off of a cliff.”
C-Shaft: That’s great, Lillian. Whose?
Curtis: Greg will have the last laugh when mice show up in Curtis and Barry’s room oh wait no he won’t.
DT: Look, there must be a certain hipster cachet to dressing like the early FBI sketches of the Unabomber, but I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re regularly crossing paths with Dick Tracy.
Dustin: The tragedy of creamsicles and popsicles lies in the inevitability that you’ll end up trying to scrape bits of sweetness off damp wood. Add that to the many tragedies of this strip.
JP: Congratulations and condolences to Abbey, since she and Sam won’t be experiencing empty nest syndrome anytime soon.
RMMD: Assuming they really are father and son, I’m sure Truck regrets not being there to give Cody an embarrassing name, thereby forcing him to learn to fight and easing his growth into manhood. But hey, it’s never really too late, is it?
@ectojazzmage: #79
I agree re MW! I was about to mention that the 2nd panel was tee-shirt worthy (no pun intended) but are CC tee shirts still a thing?
@Stacker: #86
Actually, they aren’t even going to *open* the door – they’re just gonna burst through it like a pair of maddened rhinos and crash through the walls until they tumble outside. Mr Alora shakes his head at the piles of rubble and says “dammit…”
@Activist: #91
We need another of Charterstoned’s hilarious vignettes of Karen and June in their jammies and robes shlurping coffee and exchanging snarky banter about this story…
@The Rambling Otter: “I have literally never heard the name Hiram outside of the comics”.
As it happens, I did have an Uncle Hiram once. He died many years ago. Came from Iowa. Cedar Rapids, I think it was. It’s true.
@ectojazzmage:
Pierce needs to tread carefully if he’s been dating an eighth level mage.
@JeffMcm: #106: Wait until you meet her brother P’oupon.
@112 Artist formerly known as Ben:
AK-47?
1 and Done: I didn’t see that coming.
MANDRAKE: The clod who was disguised as the formerly dashing heart throb Captain Smash has just insulted Alice, the former bank teller.
Dawn and Wilbur (MW) check out what Alice does. TRY TO COPY ALICE.
MW: Mary is at the door. She says, “sure I’ll try your cooking. But first… you have to try my MUFFINS!”
Belle says NO WAY and can’t leave soon enough.
Mary Worth: Are we sure that’s the WilburManse’s doorbell? It could be Hannah Dingdong announcing her return to Charterstone.
@Sequitur: Bwahaha!