Weirdly’s logo-portrait is pretty cute honestly
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Slylock Fox, 8/4/25
You might remember a few years back when supposed genius entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes started a company called Theranos that could run multiple medical tests from a very small amount of blood, something that was of great interest to me as a needlephobe and apparently to lots of other people too, because the company raised billions of dollars and had multiple former Secretaries of State on its board of directors, but then it turned out that the technology never worked and the product was never shipped and it was all an enormous scam. At a certain point Theranos stalled for time by announcing a big partnership with Walgreens and sending them these machines that were big boxes that performed “blood analysis” if you stuck in a vial with a normal-sized blood sample, and eventually someone opened it up and discovered it was just running the exact same tests a regular lab would run, with off-the-shelf equipment kind of all jammed in there together. What I’m trying to say is that Count Weirdly isn’t selling fake honey; he’s selling real honey out of a “machine” that’s full of enslaved bees. It’s an easy mistake to make for a fox who wasn’t sapient during the final, fraud-heavy chapter of human civilization.
Judge Parker, 8/4/25
Oh, by the way, April’s Norwegian spy encounter ended in violence and possible kidnapping, but I didn’t really cover it here because, what, do you log in to this website for terrifying thrills? No, you want to be soothed, and so here, here’s a strip from the “cool down” phase of this plot, in which a character who was not present for the incident but who heard about it from someone who was relays the information she’s gleaned secondhand to a third party.
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Judge Parker:
“No need for you to have called to advise that she’s in some kind of apparent peril. You and I know that no one is allowed to be happy in the current iteration of this strip for more than two minutes max. So I already figured she was in some kind of trouble without your having even called!”
Slylock Fox:
I’ve got it! — it’s because the current tax rate on small businesses is confiscatory, even with recent changes to the Internal Revenue Code.
How’d I do?
SFx: Just the treat you want on abnormally bright days — “Weirdly’s Honey when it’s weirdly sunny.”
Slylock Fox:
This has probably been asked before, but when Slylock goes to the haberdasher to get his suits, do they cut a hole in his pants so that his tail can stick through? Doesn’t that ruin the trousers and, by extension, the suit?
@Bob Tice: The design of clothing and furniture made by a sentient species with tails has been explored in science fiction, and rather more practically by the furry community.
Slylock Fox:
Why are there large ensembles of characters in every single Slylock Fox tableau? Can’t there ever be one-on-ones between characters? Every displayed panel makes the strip seem like a Fellini comic for kids.
The eyes have it:
– FBoFW: the horse gives city girl the once over
– BLONDIE: micromanaging boss gets an extra pair
– CS: I can see why it would appeal to Ed, but I don’t see a fork or a napkin
– CURTIS: Theories seen here this far: King is
. Rev. MLK, past pivotal experience
. Stephen King, a short story
. A former boyfriend
. And a new one, a la Rosebud, it’s the name of a childhood dog. Perhaps Curtis’s four legged friend will comfort Grammy, as someone mentioned yesterday.
JP: wht the wait? Because your half sibs are checking out YOU, Cody.
Slylock Fox: Next, Count Weirdly will reinvent the Mechanical Turk.
Crankshaft: At least Ed’s heart attack will occur in a place well-suited to treat it.
Arlo & Janis: This is where the sliding timescale of comics pays off.
Lockhorns: Second opinion? We’re all waiting for Loretta to say “You’re ugly, too”. The Lockhorns has succeeded in quantum comicking, and it actually pretty neat.
Slylock – actually rather than a con, Weirdly’s machine does work that way – it takes the organic (all organic!) component and on a molecular / atomic level reshapes them into glucose and then binds them into the long gooey chains to form honey. Much cheaper to let the bees do it but Weirdly makes his point.
DT: So the loan shark has a convenient filing cabinet? No computer? No ledger with a inkwell and dip pen?
MW:Olivia reassures that Mary that she is OK, but everyone else they’ve seen will meet a sticky end – PED, over doing muscle supplements, failure to use adequate sun screen.
RMMD: And now he plays the waiting game – in a form of reverse Inception time effect, the time in RMMD universe moves much slower – so slow that each day of our time is only 5 minutes of RMMD time.
MW: For someone who was crying and whining two days ago about how much of a social outcast she is, Olive switches fast from poor little victim to humble bragging about how she’s so much “special” than everyone else.
SFx: Obviously that machine is a cleverly disguised beehive and the detective is miffed that he didn’t invest in Weirdly.
Honey is the product made from bees regurgitating. So there are thousands of enslaved bees just vomiting nonstop inside that machine.
SLYLOCK: From a marketing standpoint, a branding of “Weirdly” on anything is going to appeal to a limited and well, WEIRD demographic. Of course, bears’ asses sell toilet paper, so what do I know?
DtM: Mr Wilson has mastered just enough Spanish to mutter vile epithets at Dennis. It’s the only thing keeping him sane.
MW: Has it occurred to Mary that maybe her time has come, yet she keeps applauding Olive’s karmic meddling? Very selfish. And dangerous, from a cosmic point of view.
The writers of Slylock Fox really want a sequel to Bee Movie. They are hoping somehow Jerry Seinfeld sees their comic.
Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids: Honestly, if there’s a mystery whose answer depends on bee poop, I’d think Marvin would be all over it first.
Judge Parker: “So, uh, since we’re on the line anyway, want to have phone sex?”
The Familliar Mucus: Thank goodness for Billy’s oversized head! (How often do you hear that?),for its thankfully blocking the view of Jeffy strutting around in P.J.’s used(?) diaper.
SFx: Of course you could create a synthetic honey by treating nectar with enzymes and then dehydrating it, but in this brave new animal world bees have lobbied for a Protected Designation of Animal Origin for all insect-produced honey and honey-related foodstuffs. So the Count can make his product as he pleases, but if he sells it it will have to be under the name of Concentrated Sucrose Spreadable Jelly (CCSJ for short).
JP: I’m not sure if anyone was asking for a gritty, sexy reboot of The Smurfs, but if so, I think it would look a lot like this.
Also Slylock Fox: Is…is that Honey Sucker machine also a Honey Dripper machine? Can you sell a hermaphroditic apparatus? We are so beyond Comics for Kids here, we are through the looking glass, people. (I am so, so sorry.)
Slylock Fox-Count Weirdly then goes into the pimp business and Honey Sucker shall be his lady.
RMMD-“The waiting game is boring. Let’s play Hungry Hungry Hippos.”
MW-Now let’s see how good Olive’s skills are at this Three Card Monte game that Mary has heard so much about.
I’m more interested in that green rat or possum or whatever selling the honey. And on a related note, what on Earth is that purple creature? It looks like a California Raisin’s dumpy, less successful cousin.
Okay, one last thing about Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids: The existence of a kawaii Weirdly logo implies the existence of an equally kawaii Weirdly mascot. It only seems fair: Slylock has Max, Weirdly deserves a chibi guy of his own!
Hi and Lois: He needs those neckties for auto-erotic asphyxiation. That’s his real source of income, making specific fetish videos for Only Fans.
Well, Baja Gaijin does every time there’s a clown around. But we did, we sure wouldn’t be getting them from Judge Parker. (Unless Judge Parker had clowns, that would be different.)
SFox: Failing to create actual honey, Count Weirdly makes a few tweaks and the Honey Sucker becomes a high selling sex toy.
SF: So Weirdly’s invention isn’t a scam; it’s just a bad business idea. But as that snake hiding in the bushes can tell you, that surely won’t stop Slylock Fox from dragging him in on trumped charges. I’m sure that “Acts Likely to Bring Capitalism into Disrepute” is a crime that’s been on the books since before the apocalypse.
Slylick Fox And Komix For Kinx: “Weirdly’s Honey™ for When Its Weirdly Sunny, too bad Trixie Flagston died off with the majority of humans, she’d be the perfect spokes baby!
Phantom: Nice. A RRRRRAARR! and a THWOCK! In the same panel.
MW: “It’s NOTHING UNUSUAL, Mary…” Apparently, Olive “knew” the dog’s owner had scolded the animal that morning. If that’s because she just notices things more than most people, it must be because she was peeping into the guy’s house and noticing him from the bushes. Olive and Wilbur should get along beautifully.
@Pozzo: “It’s always Sunny in Furrydelphia”
Blondie, the Neighborhood Bumstead: Nice to see the Blondie team hired Clone! Ghandi after “Clone High” got cancelled.
Clone Ghandi: “Hey, Dag, I thought WE were the office drones!”
Dagwood:”Heh heh, you still got it!,Clone! Ghandi!”
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV:
(Unless Judge Parker had clowns, that would be different.)
Though they don’t wear greasepaint and make-up and fake noses, the characters in Judge Parker ARE clowns.
(Or at least Commedia dell’Arte adjacent?)RMMD: As will the rest of us.
Pardon My Planet “Well, it looks like those clowns in Congress have done it again. What a bunch of clowns.”
Who has the most boring answer to “what did you do on your summer vacation?”
Mary Worth: “I flew cross-country to tell a dorky 14-year-old how special she is!”
Jeff and Ed: “I flew to another country to order french fries!”
Neddy: “I flew to Norway and saw a spy encounter that I described over the phone!”
Dustin: “I got out-witted by an elementary schooler!”
Truck: “I found out a random man isn’t my son, and watched him reach out to the rest of my non-family!”
Frazz: “I broke my leg off-panel and waited for it to heal, so I could humiliate an out-of-shape middle-aged woman who’s trying to better herself!”
Luann: “I wanted to work at a summer camp, but didn’t! And my two non-boyfriends ran into each other!”
Plugger: “I’m old, fat, unhealthy, slow, broke, and senile, but I haven’t died yet!”
Damn it, Fox, just let Weirdly do once nice thing and cater to the animal folk who want to believe they can have honey that isn’t bee vomit.
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I know somebody probably just woke her up but I’d be more interested in her as a character if Neddy waited until she was nice and cozy in bed because it soothes her to get Randy all agitated and that makes for a pleasant, restful sleep.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: . (Unless Judge Parker had clowns, that would be different.
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Is any platform still streaming “L.A.LAW: CLOWN CRIMES DIVISION”?
One of the tools you use for honey extraction is a centrifuge that you put the frames into. My wife keeps bees and I’m sometimes brought along for various tasks. I take my quiet revenge by telling kids that the centrifuge is the bee-grinder, and we load it full of bees, grind ’em up, and that’s how we get honey. Hurts our sales, to be sure, but still fun.
JP: I mean, these two characters a hemisphere away from the main action know about as much of what’s going on as we do, so why not check in with them?
SFx: Are bees sentient in the Slylock-verse? If so, do they control the means of production regarding the creation and sale of honey, or are they forced to expend their labor on behalf of others? I’m just trying to figure out if Weirdly’s invention would be perceived as a tool of apian liberation, or a threat to their economic stability.
JP: Neddy seems to have some cutting edge spy tech that lets her make phone calls with her hand.
@Austria: And on a related note, what on Earth is that purple creature? It looks like a California Raisin’s dumpy, less successful cousin.
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That’s what leaves the “purple stuff” next to the SunnyD™ in your fridge.
@GarrisonSkunk: You know they brought back “Clone High” twenty years later, don’t you? They left Gandhi out because he was a terrible and embarrassing character, but they brought in Frida Kahlo and Confucius. And Joan of Arc and JFK are sleeping together.
JP: Randy: “So. What are you wearing right now?”
@TheDiva: One line that bugged me (no pun intended) was “Unless Weirdly can sell his extract to Bees, butterflies and Hummingbirds” which I couldn’t really figure out what that meant.
But I think that yes, maybe Weirdly was going to sell these machines to the insect world so that they wouldn’t need to do their own work anymore.
@Voshkod: I take my quiet revenge by telling kids that the centrifuge is the bee-grinder, and we load it full of bees, grind ’em up, and that’s how we get honey. Hurts our sales, to be sure, but still fun.
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Silly kids, they assume you have a really tiny stool and bucket you use when you squeeze the honey out of their tiny udders.
@Ukulele Ike: I thought it was because India complained about the character calling him disrespectful. Seeing how revered Gandhi is there. So they were forced to retire him.
Also, I remember hearing that the creators said that if the show was to “originally” get another season they would have revealed that “Gandhi” was actually mislabeled and was a clone of some other historical figure (I can’t remember who)
Edit: (Not a historical figure) It was Gary Coleman. Yeah… I can link the interview if anyone cares.
So, Weirdly’s mistakenly made a machine that mass harvests food for bees, a hitherto untapped market since the animal kingdom gained sapience and overthrew the humans – and Slylock, applying his tremendous ratiocination abilities knows this?
Slylock obviously has a choice here: He could inform Weirdly of his error, and clue him in to the massive untapped market he’s found, setting Weirdly on the road to honest business, raising the quality of life of all bees and insects, and stop Weirdly from needing to be criminal to survive. Forever.
Or, well, one more booking against his daily quota, hands out for the handcuffs, and mind your head sir as you get into the van.
He’s got a job to do after all.
C’shaft: Next week: Crankshaft discovers Tim Horton’s.
Dustin: How about, “There will come a time when you no longer have summers off as a matter of course, but will be expected to devote all your time, energy, and personality to your labor, to the point where if you’re unable or unwilling to do so it will be seen as a moral failure on your part and you’ll be turned into a strawman character in a comic strip written by aging Boomers?”
MW: A few people have suggested a Carrie-style arc where Olive’s super-specialness enables her to exact revenge on her bullying classmates–an unlikely outcome as that would a) be interesting and b) require characters of emotional, psychological and moral depth, a feat which this strip is incapable of (see: Weston, Wilbur). I’m going to propose that this will result in a sort of anti-Carrie, with Olive’s hyper-noticing enabling her to thwart a would-be school shooter (who, in keeping with this strip’s usual knack for up-to-the-minute social commentary, will be dressed in full “Trenchcoat Mafia” style). The former bullies will declare Olive the coolest thing ever and parade her around on their shoulders, the parents will come out of the bedroom long enough to express concern/relief, Mary will somehow get all the credit.
RMMD: For those of you who have been complaining that Rex Morgan is just too fast-paced and high-stakes these days, I have good news for you!
Luann: doesn’t matter if it’s big or small, Phil. In the sexless world of “Luann,” ain’t nobody getting any except slutty sluts like
TiffanyStef (who only “does it” with her boyfriend).@The Rambling Otter: I clicked the link for the interview. Page Not Found.
I’m not doubting that that fact existed, but it’s making it pretty hard for me to prove it.
@TheDiva: “Anti-Carrie”
So… Matilda?
@George the Archon: I don’t even know WHY Weirdly needs to be a criminal.
He has built so many inventions. (Simulation chamber, Death ray, Time machine) he could patent them and make billions.
Nope? Going to just keep doing stupid scams? Okay…
@treetown: DT: No easily hackable encrypted hard drive? (“I’m in!”)
SFx The machine clearly makes some kind of goop which any self-respecting nectar-drinker will turn up their proboscis at, so Slylock should instead note that they’re already making plant-based vegan honey via chemistry, extracts, or fermentation (eg, https://www.mellodyfoods.com/) and be happy to see the process has improved to the point that Weirdly can do it on a small machine suitable for farmer’s markets demonstrations and such! He can then get preachy and teach the kids about pollinator issues instead of nectar.
SFx: Count Weirdly will miss out on the sweet profits because he is not displaying the tagline, “Yippee Ki-Yay, Honey Sucker”.
Critical bit of worldbuilding hidden in today’s Slylock Fox. The author eschews the Oxford comma, thus shifting the setting from an post-apocalyptical animal-ruled America to the post-apocalyptic animal-ruled England. Honestly, this makes sense. The fox, once the prey, is now in charge. A member of royalty, a Count, has a lingering protection from an old memory of lèse-majesté. Grantly, Weirdly seems to have a nice set of teeth, which might go against my theory, but the castle in the background just cements it.
@Anonymous: They are hoping somehow Jerry Seinfeld sees their comic.
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Which routine will they prefer? the standard “So what’s the deal with Count Weirdly?” or “Does Count Weirdly really need the identifier ‘Count’ in his title? Are we likely to confuse him with District Attorney Weirdly?”
GT: Will Smith suddenly shows up and slaps her. “Keep the King’s name out of your badly drawn mouth!”
CS: Wow. I actually agree with Ed Crankshaft. Think I’d better go lay down for a few hours.
@TheDiva: C’shaft: Next week: Crankshaft discovers Tim Horton’s.
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….and manages to mangle the company name into a ” Tim Horton hears a Who” pun.
@The Rambling Otter: Except Matilda actually had solid social skills for a five year old girl. When it was revealed in the book that she had really good math skills, Matilda didn’t brag about how smart she was; she just honestly admitted what she knew and the other kids accepted her after a brief wrinkle of wondering why she was so smart. She didn’t dumb herself down to fit in but rather knew when the right place and time was to use her powers.
Olive, however, has pretty much been coddled and enabled to act as obnoxious as possible to show off how much of a special snowflake she is. She’s excluded and mocked by her peers because she has no sense of modesty. The only social contact she has is a self centered old biddy who tells her that she’s so special and unique.
JP: Hot tears of frustration bordering on rage flow down my cheeks whenever I just *look at* this insane strip. I do not know who *any* of these characters are, nor do I care what happens to them. If I want to read a taut, well-crafted spy thriller I’ll read Mad Magazine’s “Spy vs. Spy.”
Lockhorns – “You’re ugly, too.”
Pluggers – This one hit too close to home.
Rex Morgan – To pass the time while he waits, Cody paints Wanda’s spare room. The next two weeks are a gripping, suspenseful account of the paint drying.
9CL – Nope. I know without reading it that it’s pompous, pretentious blather.
Frazz – Frazz wants to remind everyone that before his injury he was such a fanatical runner that he had to rotate several pairs of running shoes. Now, thanks to his injury, he has the horrific problem of the shoes wearing unevenly. This is why Frazz is superior, and everyone else is a tub of lard who doesn’t exercise enough.
Gasoline Alley – I just caught up on two weeks of this. Ye gods, these people are ugly, repulsive, and stupid.
@Bob Tice: #6
I agree – it is visually pretty manic! Actually, though, I adore the books by Richard Scarry – full of intricate artwork of tiny characters in tiny buildings driving tiny cars, buses, etc. in “Busytown.” I first picked up one of his books when I was a children’s day-care assistant umpteen decades ago and fell n love with it! Since I’m borderline ADHD/OCD, I loved examining every tiny detail of every tiny character…and you get the picture! Anyway, “Slylock” kind of has the same effect on my brain. Anyway, “Slylock” kind of has the same effect on my brain. Anyway, “Slylock” kind of has the same effect on my brain. Anyway, “Slylock” kind of has the same effect on my brain.
MAKE IT STOP!!!!!
@Daisy: Titler, Norseman, Driver, Spy.
SFx – Weirdly Honey is whiskey – the scam is disguising it from con-sarn yankee revenuer carpet bagging fox interlopers destroying our culture and simple but rewarding way of life….
JP – She was galavanting around in a horned helmet, looting and pillaging with the best of them….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@erdmann: Just read it, I’m thinking… no wordplay? like no joke about Poutine it in his mouth? Or something about Vladimir Putin?
Then I realize there is literally no joke at all period.
He likes Poutine. That’s it.
You might wonder “Wait, didn’t Weirdly notice that it was not honey when he tasted it?” But Weirdly is a Mad Genius, not a stupid one, so he never partakes in the stuff he sells, just like Meta’s executives forbid their children from using social media
@I speak Jive: “To pass the time while he waits, Cody paints Wanda’s spare room. The next two weeks are a gripping, suspenseful account of the paint drying”
So, the comic is about to actually get interesting you say?
@The Rambling Otter: (Edit: My Mom and I have been binge watching the original Magnum P.I recently, so I am genuinely shocked.
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Are you confusing Burt Reynolds with Tom Selleck? AFAIK Selleck is still alive and kicking bad guys.
@GarrisonSkunk: Oh my God, yes!
My apologies.
@GarrisonSkunk: Also, if it justifies my confusion a bit, both had ass-kicking mustaches.
Also they literally look alike.
Burt Reynolds
Tom Sellick
@Voshkod: #63
Ha!
@Activist: @The Rambling Otter: My apologies.
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No prob, its an easy mistake to make.
CS: Canada has its poutine…Springfield, Illinois (my hometown) has The Horseshoe Sandwich!
From Google AI (because I’m too lazy to type it out myself):
The Horseshoe sandwich is a Springfield, Illinois, staple. It’s an open-faced sandwich featuring toasted bread, a choice of meat (often hamburger or ham), French fries, and a rich cheese sauce. The name is said to originate from the U-shape of the ham used in the original version, according to the Route 66 Association of Illinois.
Joking aside, the melted cheese over the fries is heavenly!!! I like the ham or beef patty versions. Springfield may be known for many things like Abraham Lincoln and the launching point of the Donner party, but by Ned, it’s the Horseshoe Sandwich that puts it on the map!
Ukulele Ike, yesterday:
Re. the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: It’s funny you mention Maine, because I’ve always wanted to go *there*!!
The two places likely have similar geography, climate and culture.
Here’s a good place to start:
https://www.uptravel.com/
:-)
Dirk Twacy Hollistic Defective:”I think this was a borrower.” “Isnt there a law on the books —- ‘Never a borrower nor a lender be’? So I can shoot him, right?”” ” I don’t think so, Twacy.” “Awwww, shucks!”
@Activist: And checking out your mom and Truck!
@Liam: Ah, the classic hungry hungry hippos – good old Homer and his impatience.
I like to think Judge Parker is intentionally following the Aristotelian Unities here. The action is limited to a single day in Randius’s palace in Cavelton, and all events occurring outside must be relayed by extremely eloquent messengers like Neddocles here.
Zits: Good thing Jeremy didn’t say anything about her amazing, yet slightly uneven, tijubas.
Blondie: I’ve seen Dithers in sales meetings, pep talks, and on the recruiting trail. Maybe flying a drone around the office is the most profitable use of his time.
BG&SS: How many automobiles are there in Hootin’ Holler that meeting horseback riding is unusual?
MW: Has Mary ever seen “A Fish Called Wanda”? Cause she’s really doing a good job imitating that older woman.
H&L: How many of those ugly ties were Father’s Day or birthday gifts? Lois may be part of the problem.
MW: does Olive go to the same school as Wednesday Adams?
@The Rambling Otter: ass-kicking mustaches.
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Not to be confused with Chuck Norris’ literally ass-kicking mustache.
@Professor Well Actually: MW: does Olive go to the same school as Wednesday Adams?
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No, but her salmon squares contain real salmon.
@ValdVin: MW: Has Mary ever seen “A Fish Called Wanda”?
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SEEN IT?!? She lived it through Wilber and his fish antics.
@Lord Flatulence: Phantom: Nice. A RRRRRAARR! and a THWOCK! In the same panel.
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Throw in a FWIP! and it could be Newspaper Spiderman or Newspaper Garrison Skunk.
“Judge” Parker running a strip based solely on hearsay? I strenuously object!
Luann: Good Lord, Phil, don’t say that out loud! That doesn’t make you sound vulnerable; it makes you sound jealous and petty.
GA: I think maybe he’s supposed to be endearing, but Slim is always drawn as looking angry when he doesn’t understand something. Which is often.
9CL: Another skippable week.
FC: Go ask your Daddy. He’s the one gawking at her.
Crank: I honestly can’t decide if I’d have hated whatever pun-shaped utterance Batty might have come up with around “poutine” more than the reality of him not even trying, but I suspect there’s not much to choose between them.
EC: Yep, that’s how holiday travel works. You’re stuck in a traffic jam for hours, but then you have the relief of getting onto a nice empty beach. All the other cars must have been going somewhere else!
Foxtrot: I’m reminded of a sci fi story I read a while back, in which near-future London had got so fed up of tourists being confused by Pall Mall that they just turned it into a shopping centre.
FG: The adventures of Flash Karen!
SH: The cat-share thing somehow manages to get weirder by getting closer to reality (yes, in real life cats do sometimes wander between more than one house of their own violition, but they don’t do so because three workmates have decided to share the cat. Partly because that never happens and partly because, without species-flipping nonsense, how would the cat know?)
But that’s not even what annoys me most about this strip, it’s the fact Holbrook keeps pushing a Pam/Alex relationship of some kind, something Pam pointedly rejected right at the start, because he may not be as heteronormative as Karen Moy, but he’s just as determined that everyone needs to be in pair-bonds.
S4th: Oh, for pity’s sake, I was kidding on Saturday! We’ve definitely run out of party guests now, right? (I know Faye and Nona were there, but I think they stayed in the garage, and they can’t confess to anything anyway because they’re still at the Deathtrappiest Place on Earth.)
Wait, aren’t they animals? Shouldn’t they welcome a way to make honey without animal cruelty? Buddy, have you met animals? They have no objections to animal cruelty, indeed, most of them relish in it!
If a sketchy guy had a stand with a scribbled poster announcing he is selling “Weirdly’s honey”, nectar is BY FAR the least bad outcome!
JP – “You’ve got to help me, Randy! They’re turning everyone into Smurfs! Or in my case, Smurfettes. The first time I ever saw those damn Smurfs, I knew it was a nefarious Norwegian plot!”
“But… the creator of the Smurfs was Belgian.”
“Norwegian, Belgian, same difference!”
Slylock Fox – Slylock Fox has been Bob Weber Jr.’s prescient warning about the post-Late Stage Capitalism future.
Unlike the people who worried about robots/AI taking over, Weber saw the shortcomings and fraud that would define Silicon Valley in a few decades, and banked on the more powerful forces of Mother Nature seizing control.
Slylock Fox & Comics for Kids is his way to gifting the animal-people a text that gives them a basic human logic that they will need to take over our fallen civilization, and a mythical founding figure to emulate.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Is the boss still a member of the Birdwatchers’ Club?”
“Yeah, but I have a feeling he’s going to get drummed out…”
“He seems to be mainly interested in looking at his parrot’s ass”
JP: The previous JP comments today have been hilarious. I was laughing out loud. Hilarity has clearly been covered. So I’ll just point out in my usual pedantic muttering way that today’s strip takes us right back to the problem of Schrodinger’s April. Because whether Randy believes that April is in D.C. depends on whether he heard the weekday version of her kidnapping, in which she clearly told him that she was NOT in D.C., or the Sunday version, in which she didn’t have the chance to tell him that.
Sure enough, my comment is not hilarious. I blame April.