Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 03, 2016
July 02, 2016
July 04, 2016
Transcript:
Alice: AGHEUGH yuck! Petey: They're just cicadas Alice. You're the one who's not afraid of anything. Alice: But these're bugs, with all those legs. EURGH. They're scary. Petey: Do what I do. Construct a distracting fantasy as a coping mechanism. Alice: do what? Petey: I simply imagine the cicadas are my own private army of tiny mothas all eager to do my bidding! They're instantly transformed from red eyed monsters into my little pals! Alice: Ah. Petey: What is- Alice: Look! I've dressed the cicadas in cute little dresses made of paper napkins! Ha ha! Who could be scared of that? Help me write their names on them. Alice: This one's darlene. Dad: Yikes! They've found cicadas around here wearing strange paper outfits, suggesting a possible species of super intelligent ciacadas. And they all had girls names, too. Mom: ECH! Don't tell the kids. It'll just scare them.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Those are awfully big cicadas compared to the kids’ sizes.
bigcatbusiness over 8 years ago
Cicadas are one of the world’s biggest insects, so… they are quite big, aren’t they? They do make a heck of a noise though. We don’t have them here, but I have heard them. Crickets are equally annoying here, so we don’t need them.
SharkNose over 8 years ago
Ah, yes… The “Cicada Killer” wasp. They too are large. The female can sometimes reach a length of 2 inches! Comic related – This looks like an earlier strip than what we’ve been seeing the past few days. Alice in the 1st panel looks a little bizarre and the mother in the last panel looks different.
totalspaceman2010 over 8 years ago
It looks almost like a guest artist drew this.
Kip W over 8 years ago
From 2007. Is this the beginning of the strip? I missed it at the time. (A look at Wikipedia shows that it is and isn’t the first strip—it’s redrawn a little.)
Sadly, Wikipedia didn’t have a final paragraph saying that Thompson has been cured of his Parkinson’s and will start drawing new strips again.
I’ll have a chance to read the whole series in order now (not that I couldn’t have done that anyway). A day will come when I’ll run out of ones that are new to me.
Meanwhile, the zombie strips that are now in their fourth generation will lurch on forever. What a world.
AtypicalReader over 8 years ago
This one first appeared October 7, 2007
AtypicalReader over 8 years ago
It will be interesting to see if tomorrow’s strip is the one from October 8, 2007…if so, then the strip is repeating almost from the beginning.
Bob. over 8 years ago
Buy one or more of the Cul De Sac books. They are very good.
Peam Premium Member over 8 years ago
“A cicada named Darlene” sounds like a movie; did I miss it?
Sisyphos over 8 years ago
Superbugs with names like “Darlene” are probably greasers/rockers who hang around with the wild kids. Good, upright kids will never run into them….
Ricky Bennett over 8 years ago
Funniest strip of the series!
pattidolls over 8 years ago
I wondered why I had seen these before, I did not know thompson was no longer doing the strip
John Wiley Premium Member over 8 years ago
In the eighties, I bought a fairing for my motorcycle because of those beasties. Full face helmet, too. (Actually, I think I got the helmet because of Palmetto bugs in Alabama.)
TWAdair over 8 years ago
I’ve read this before, and even now, I’m at work, trying hard not to laugh too hard… Panel three… :)Panel five… even before I read the text, the idea of them in dresses has me wheezing…Then I read the text, and tears are flowing.And then the final panel, I’ve lost it!
Thank you, Richard Thompson.