Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 10, 2021

“Aplomb” – Calm like a Bomb!

I love that I find strips I have not read yet.

you and your arm-chewing antic, Petey

Let him chew. Maybe it’ll teach him some sort of lesson.

How about Camp Carnegie?

To show his displeasure, it’s all he’s got; just keep some bandaging supplies handy in case he breaks skin!

My tent flooded.

Doesn’t chewing on his arm cost him points on the picky eaters list?

Hey, it’s what you do when you’re caught in a trap.

How about Camp Psychiatric?

He doesn’t LOOK chewish.

That never worked for me.

cartoon camp is his best bet. he socializes there and enjoys cartoon drawing.

Mom’s asking for a bit much here. Comic camp, where everything is the same as it was last year, is about the limit of pushing Petey’s comfort zone. Asking him to go to a brand new camp where they point out your discomfort and then confront those points of discomfort and somehow expect you to develop aplomb!? Never gonna happen Mom, not with a hundred Petey’s standing Side by side.

Seems like Petey is on the autism scale.

And another kid who is awkward in social situations to the point of communicating by writing in a notebook (She’s not deaf) has become the Queen of Manga. Komi Can’t Communicate.

Petey must be part

That boy aint right…

He is ‘coyote aggravated’ – works the same as in ‘coyote ugly’.

Petey, My Hero, has this thing he does. I do not recommend it, but it does seem effective in getting the attention of the parental unit….

Future antifa member