Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 22, 2010

Loris is a tad hyper today.

Me thinks she needs some ritalin

And Petey should just try being a zombie. He might like it.

Loris kinda reminds me of Alice , they should meet .

Oh, come on, Petey!

These kids are good for Petey. I think we have some permanent new members of the cast (I hope I hope I hope).

I’m looking 20 years into the future where Petey is married to Loris who is a famous comic book writer and Petey have found his niche in avant garde diorama sculpture.

cdward - if Petey is going down the avant garde diorama sculpture road, perhaps he’d do better to hook up with, say, Yoko Ono?

I was saying yesterday, I have two Yoko Ono albums that have never been opened. Who knows what musical mystery lurks within? The Shadow does.

I’m loving Loris! I can almost hear her voice in my head. :D

Does Loris have a last name? If not, may I suggest Lane?

Alice should be over at Molly and the Bear if she wants to see the fish slapping bear.

Loris’s last name is Slothrop. I’m assuming that’s a “Gravity’s Rainbow” reference, because I don’t know of any other associations…

Lewreader, they put out a box-set collection of Yoko albums a while back, and the promo line was “ONOBOX - Listen If You Dare.”

(I don’t care for her myself, but I’ve got a friend who thinks she’s great. She did a show over in Oakland a month or two ago that he said was fantastic.)

“You guys!” that’s the clue! The “guys” and the gals have their differences, don’t they? That’s one of the things that make life, and this comic, so very interesting.

If Petey and Loris hit it off, where does that leave Viola? She doesn’t seem like a woman who’d take being scorned lightly.

(Yeah, I know Viola hasn’t exactly encouraged Petey’s affections, but can you imagine her reaction if she found herself being replaced?)

PS: I’ve said this before, but Andre is basically ME, age 11 or 12…

Hopefully, the surrounding madness is helping Petey undergo an inner-healing that will keep him from chewing off his arm.

Ah, but “irrepressible youth” by definition will not be repressed. If rambunctiousness is not tolerated in the home, it will back up and burst out in other environments. Back home, Andre and Loris might be models of proper deportment, but knowing that Dan Spinnerack is incapable of and/or unwilling to rein them in, they’re taking advantage of this respite from parental supervision…

I would certainly imagine that, even in the 50’s, babysitters and substitute teachers were tempting targets for troublemaking.

(No doubt you-know-who would declare that Andre and Loris ought to be soundly spanked, but he hated this strip anyway.)