B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 06, 2020

I wonder what cm stood for back then.

How come Grog didn’t get to join the betting pool too

Oh that’s right. Cute Chick and Fat Broad have names now. I’m sure someone can tell me which is which.

WIMPS!

Next time, use a Boulder!

BC must have a very hard head! Or quite a bit of patience! Not making an “Ow!” comment until 6 cm stone. Wonder what the prize was!!!

Soon after Thor invented the target .

Was it really due to the size of rock? Or was it the number of hits or the amount of time that he was being annoyed? Better do another experiment to find out.

Ah, they bet on the size of the stone to which he’d react. It took me a few seconds to catch that.

Sorry, which one is Jane again?

Hold your head like this, then go Waaah.

So now we know the names of the Cute Chick and the Fat Broad. Or did I miss their names being introduced before?

In the years of “BC”, how did they know what year it was? They didn’t know when the year “Zero” would occur.

I didn’t realize they were Canadian. What’s up, eh?

Throw-away panels at top says it all. Watch/read the news and you get so depressed you need to go to bed.

So, is Fat Broad Jane or Grace?

I see the girls now have names. I must have missed that. Guessing in the PC era we can’t use the names from the past anymore.

Human character’s names:

B.C.: An orange haired, humble, naïve slob and eternal patsy. B.C. occasionally makes nighttime rounds as his alter-ego, “The Midnight Skulker.”

Peter: A yellow haired, self-styled genius and the world’s first philosophical failure, founder of the “Prehistoric Pessimists Society” and the “Truth Pedestal,” and the discoverer of oil. Peter is patterned after Hart’s friend, Peter Reuter; the two had been co-workers at General Electric.

Thor: a self-proclaimed ladies’ man; inventor of the wheel and the comb. Thor was patterned after another of Hart’s friends from GE, Thornton Kinney.

Jane: a bossy cavewoman who enjoys clobbering snakes. Until August 29, 2019, Jane was referred to in the strip as the “Fat Broad”.

Grace: a quiet but intellectual giant in a world of crude men. Until August 29, 2019, Grace was referred to in the strip as the “Cute Chick”.

Wiley: a peg-legged, superstitious, unshaven, woman-fearing, water-hating poet and coach of the local baseball and football teams, not to mention the first bartender. Wiley was patterned after Hart’s brother-in-law, Wiley Baxter, who lost his leg in World War II.

Clumsy Carp: a nerdy, bespectacled ichthyologist and perpetual klutz, clumsy enough to trip over a shadow, yet with some unusual skills, such as his ability to make and stack “water balls” (similar to snowballs). Clumsy Carp was patterned after Hart’s childhood friend, Jack Caprio.

Curls: a master of sarcastic wit. Curls was patterned after Hart’s friend from high school, Richard (Curly) Boland.

Grog: pure Id, a caveman’s caveman; a primitive, semi-evolved wild man with a one-word vocabulary and enough strength to knock the sun out of the sky using a golf ball.

The Guru: an unnamed, bearded wise man living like a hermit atop a mountain, whence he dispenses wisdom and sarcasm.Non-human character’s names in next post.

Non-human character’s names:John the Turtle and the Dookey Bird: this prehistoric odd couple are inseparable friends, especially when making their annual trek south for the winter. The Dookey Bird rides on John’s back when they travel.

The Snake: the put-upon, mortal enemy of Jane (and her club).

The Anteater: eats ants with a sticky, elastic tongue and a ZOT! sound. Hart actually drew something of a hybrid—with the long ears of an aardvark and the bushy tail of a giant anteater. (This character was the inspiration for Peter the Anteater, the University of California, Irvine team mascot. Also served as the inspiration for the mascot of the now disestablished US Navy fighter squadron VF-114 the “Aardvarks”.)

Maude: an ant, a nagging wife with a smart-alec son (Johnny) and a quarrelsome, straying husband.

Jake: ant husband of Maude, who is always threatening to run off with Shirley.

Queen Ida: the queen ant, an unfeeling and abusive dictator. (Queen Ida is based on Hart’s wife Bobby, whose given name is Ida. She’s featured every year on her birthday, December 3.)

The Dinosaur: big but not too bright—a sort of sauropod with spinal plates like a stegosaurus. Sometimes called Gronk, which is the only sound he makes (although he can talk fluently in recent strips).

The Clams: talking clams with legs, among other appendages. (Clams are also the preferred unit of currency in B.C.)

The Apteryx (kiwi): a “wingless bird with hairy feathers,” as he invariably introduces himself.

The Turkey: makes his yearly appearance at Thanksgiving time, eluding the mighty hunters.

Oynque: the turkey’s porcine partner in crime, rarely seen without his trademark mud puddle.

Wolf: the newest B.C. character August 24, 2009; a blissfully deviant domestication of Precambrian fur. Man’s first friend.

Various incidental ants, including a schoolteacher and her students.

Raptors: velociraptors that try to eat the other characters.

Also, in the first post, I failed to mention Peter’s pen pal (the man(?) across the water).

Jane? Grace?