Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 12, 2020

I like Jack’s Train of Thought…

He doesn’t waste words.

I would have thought that Phlegmagians would be too, well, stolid  to mount an invasion.

New character, loving Jack, or has he been here awhile and I missed him

If Jack’s imagination helped prevent an alien invasion, then perhaps in another galaxy Spaceman Spiff really exists.

HAPPY EASTER

Does Jack do “contract” work ?

Considering the aspects of Infinity and endless space ,multiple universes that exist or will or have….This is a true story….And that girl or guy you Really loved …really loved you …

Somewhere or Sometime…

Pleasant dreams…

Can Jack turn his imagination to an army of nano-robots to fight the coronaviruses?

It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, ‘I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,’ a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of a frightful interstellar battle.

The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl’hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G’Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words, ‘I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle’ drifted across the conference table.

Unfortunately, in the Vl’hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.

Eventually, of course, after their galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realised that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own galaxy — now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.

For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across — which happened to be Earth — where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

So Jack is Anthony of the Cornfield?

Looks like I have an answer to my question from yesterday and things are getting curiouser and curiouser.

Nostradamus reborn!

Well, like Gomez Addams always said, “Why else would someone play with trains?”

Please send this kid to Mar-a-lago.

On a serious note I like this arc and Jacks portrayal.

Absolutely charming. Who knows what worlds the unique minds inhabit?

Jack’s flying high today

I like this kid. Is Jack autistic?

Happy Easter to all our Christian friends.

Thank you for this. My son is on the spectrum and pretty super himself :)

The prefix “super” really does unleash creative imagination (supernaturally-wise).

Jack Saves the Planet! (Ash reference)

Last panel…the red car looks like a Porsche 356…anyone else see it?

phleg·mat·ic/fleɡˈmadik/adjective(of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

My dad was a railroad engineer for 40 years from 1935 on. He would have appreciated that Jack saved the world using a semblance of The General an antique Civil War era engine.

Thank you Mr. Wiley for having a positive autistic character.

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Thank you, again, Wiley! As a recently retired (too soon) teacher of Gifted, including many twice exceptional (on the spectrum and gifted, ADHD and gifted, OCD and gifted, you get the idea) I love all the children you share with us! Now Jake presents unlimited adventures to explore. (I also raised a couple boys ADHD and gifted and survived to watch them find careers they love, fall in love, and, sadly for me, move to far flung locals to pursue those careers.)

Bravo, Jack! Bravo, Wiley!

So, is Jack intended to be a reincarnation of Nebbish, or a modern-day version of Nebbish?

If only such power could be “trained”.

What spectrum is that?

It is. Trust me.

Jack Jack Attack…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xF47FXtelQ

I believe that is Jack as the engineer in panel 4. And he’s waving!

I love it. Thanks, Wiley – I needed a laugh.

Thank you Wiley for bringing back to us jaded adults the sense of wonderment and imagination. Jack is indeed a special child whose universe is filled with what we grownups can no longer see nor be.

There are many “Jacks” out there and although we cannot truly understand the worlds their minds inhabit, we nevertheless can love them for that special ability to soar beyond the restriction we’ve placed on our own imaginations.

And it looks like Danae has found a boy who ISN’T “Booger-brained”…

Evil aliens using asteroids to attack a planet — Jack must be a fan of “This Island Earth”.

I’d love to see a sci-if author grab this idea and run with it.

Jack is scary awesome.

This looks like a Sunday from Calvin and Hobbes, the greatest comic strip ever created.

Imagination? Or directed intention – said to be the basis of magic.

“Odd John”. Read it.

Luckily, Jack only uses his powers for Good.

Jack’s another savant on the spectrum?

Wiley, your depiction of a spectrum member is beautiful!

I’m waiting for Obvious Man to fly in and explain it all.

How unusual, a Sunday cartoon that continues the week’s storyline. Nice.

Cue Elvis doing Mystery Train !