Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for June 05, 2021

complains the man whose headgear covers his eyes

Dang, we can’t see Andy without his cap on! LOL

Who had access hole as the places Andy would fall into today? You are the prize winner!

…said the man who frequently ends up in the canal

Proof that Andy doesn’t always have his cap(p) on. It’s just that we’re unlikely to ever see him like that.

At least Andy didn’t walk into a wall.

With any luck that was the beer cellar.

Karmic thinking

If your mind is in the gutter, follow it directly!

You should have some protective covering on before you go plunging into strange dark holes. One never knows what had been in there before you.

At least the guy with a smartphone managed to avoid the manhole.

This doesn’t just happen in the comics. Bicycling to work one day, I had to stop and wrestle a manhole cover back into place. Somehow, it was sitting vertically in the hole; and no, Ed Norton was not working down the hole.

Somebody down there gets to see our dear Andy sans cap.

Open mouth, insert foot.

Self-fulfilling prophecy!

I figured that that the punchline in the final panel would show him walking into the canal.

Storm sewer that drains to the canal?

Now, if you had a ’PHONE, you could call for an ambulance…

says canal andy

Me Oh My Oh. – do as I say – not as I do.

Andy was sober in the Army to remember? Really.

Giggle – ‘look who’s talking’ (or thinking)!!

So how DID that young man miss the manhole that Andy didn’t?

The cones were not well placed.

Is there any explanation in the world of cartoons why the hat always stays afloat in such situations?

For once it’s not the canal.

Fortunately for Andy, there are no alligators in British sewers.