Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 31, 2008

Nighthawks, I think there is a glitch in Cleo at this time.

Alternatively, Roscoe, you could charge in and chase those cats off your little buddy. You would have the element of surprise on your side. Admittedly the baseball bat is a bit intimidating, but hey it’s just a stick. Fetch!

Now batting…

Oh my…..

I did doze off for just a wee moment, I admit….

but now I’m wondering….. did I ever wake up?

Things seem… a bit…. off.

I’d like to welcome everyone to this lovely old block of Ballard Street, to talk about

the August 31st  2018 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Which we usually read on Sherpa

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

But I’m hesitant to send anyone there at this moment….

I mean… sure….. Episode Seven of Robin Hound starts out well….

and it’s as beautiful as ever….

but unless I’m still dreaming…. and either Dennis is, too, or I dreamt his comment….

it has quite a hitch in its get-along (as probably no one has really said ever. )

Chances are, though, that if you’re reading this late Friday morning,

the problem will have been addressed, and you won’t know what I mean.

If so… carry on.

PS: Nighthawks, Stel, or whoever is actually addressing the problem:

Please don’t put my address on it.

I hate to be uncooperative… but I’m afraid I’ll have to refuse delivery.

Anyway… then I look up…. to see a lovely Ballard St back yard, on a fine August day,

where I thought that perhaps we could picnic a bit…

(on nice fresh bread and blueberry turnovers, both from my bakery…

and a couple of kinds of cheese… beautiful yak cheddar from the Tiki, and some creamy Havarti from the deli… sorry… I digress… )

But what do I see?

Four … count them, four kittycats about to attack poor Roscoe!

Not only is that very strange, and dangerous….

though the Monkey does warn people about cats, and I don’t believe him….

But I think maybe Dennis sees another _dog _there…. and I don’t.

Also….. if I’m not still sleeping…. one of the places we could click to see ALL the comments, instead of just the “featured” comment…. (a feature I wish would disappear)…

has, itself, disappeared.

It’s always been superfluous… you could always click the text link above the comments, _or_the pale blue little speech balloon alongside the strip (or below it on mobile) ….

But of course it just happened to be the one I used.

You can run, but you can’t hide.

To be continued?

this one is on gocomics……upon arising , I see that, for some reason, they truncated today’s animation.

So I deleted it and reloaded ,or should I say re-UPloaded the animation in its entirety.

As usual , it might take awhile for it to actually be shown.

It’s a good thing to sleep in……I get to see C & C first try.

So, I see Sir Rube Goldberg is alive and well in SureWould Forest, giving lessons to our very own Robin Hound. Oh wait, Sir Robin was the one who gave lessons to Sir Rube. Yeah, that’s it.

Great animation today, NH and Stel.

Well, the candle lit the bomb and I’m assuming the bomb went off. I think we were not supposed to see the aftermath — too gruesome.

If anyone is uncertain about the outcome of today’s strip, I’d be glad to make them a small wager…

CaTz…. ah DownT TrustuM… jus sayin’… that iz, I’fn enny Buddy kiN Here Me… o.0

& that’s how the great fire of the forest of Not-a-Hound started!!!

hey, everybody…..gocomics is really screwing around with animations…..I found that the animation was cut in half on the first

go around, I deleted that and uploaded it again and when it got past the part that was cut off before, I ASSUMED that the second

time worked and the animation was complete. Nope. they cut off the end of it…thats why perky kitty had no idea what was

happening…..ANYway, here is the animation in its intended original production…..this is like trying to explain a joke; once you

start trying to explain it, it’s not funny anymore…

https://s15.postimg.cc/ekbgycwt7/Robin_Hound3_Ep7-O-Test2.gif