Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 27, 2010
February 26, 2010
February 28, 2010
Transcript:
Alice: Are you a werewolf yet? Petey: No. The full moon is tomorrow. And anyway, Mom says it'll be past my bedtime. Alice: Instead of a wolf, could you be a mole rat? They're the grossest things you ever saw and your teeth are about right for a mole rat. Or you could be a sea cucumber! They can extrude their stomachs when provoked! Alice: Whatever. Just hurry, okay? Petey: Go away or I'll start chewing up your toys right now.
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Good threat, Petey.
lazygrazer almost 15 years ago
Kids say the darndest things.
GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Lock up your toys, Alice.
Munodi almost 15 years ago
Oh, man, this isn’t “Peanuts”!
jaxxxon58 almost 15 years ago
Was that a shark that just jumped by me?
pibfan868 almost 15 years ago
I so love this strip, it gives me joy every time!
madbristowart almost 15 years ago
Alice’s nonchalant attitude makes me laugh, and her suggestions -as if Petey has a choice- are very imaginative. I love that kid!
vldazzle almost 15 years ago
NOT Alice’s toys!! - she was SO worried about a werewolf acting like a dog and chewing them up. Women worry more about their shoes (as in SITC). My cockatoo chewed on some of my favs;-( but I still wish she had not died…
mancocapac almost 15 years ago
It’s not Peanuts, and we should be glad.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Correct, mancocapac. Peanuts was arguably the best and certainly one of the most significant, influential, and enduring comic strips in the history of the medium, and attempts to imitate it are futile and backwards-looking.
Like Peanuts, Cul de Sac is more often character-driven than gag-driven, but while he certainly works upon certain foundations that were lain by Charles Schulz and other past masters, Richard Thompson no more imitates what went before than Schulz was an imitation of his own precursors.
GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Fritzoid Having grown up with Peanuts, I must agree. In the short time I’ve been reading this strip, I’d have to say it’s the best strip since, without trying to imitate it.
Munodi almost 15 years ago
Hey folks, I meant that I’m glad it isn’t “Peanuts”! No dog lying on his doghouse, no pumpkin patch; no foolery with a football no neurotic scab picking.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Exactly, Munodi. We’re all agreeing with you. Peanuts did Peanuts to perfection, and there’s no need for Cul de Sac to be an imitation.
tarrangar over 4 years ago
No you wont Petey, you have to jump those picky eater ranks, chewing on toys aren’t going to help with that.