Pickles by Brian Crane for January 10, 2022

I can see the rolls reversed. Works either way.

Opal planned on letting him explain away until she showed the missing piece..lol

I like to do jigsaw puzzles online. It’s a lot harder to lose the pieces.

I wonder if she did that on purpose.

I always found the missing piece a month later. Now its all jigidi.com.

Earl “Charlie Brown” Pickles

Last time, I think it was stuck to his pants.

Isn’t Earl suspicious that this has happened to the last eight puzzles he tried?

Better Luck next time Earl .

My local library lets you check out jigsaw puzzles. They all come with a warning. “Pieces may be missing.”

I’ve had that happen with other things besides jigsaw puzzles. I lose an important part somehow and throw the device away to only find the component about a month or two later!!

Not often do you get to see steamed Earl!

Everyone has that little mean streak someplace in their psyche.

I have a puzzle missing a piece. I plan to keep it until that missing piece shows up.

If online gaming companies made jigsaw puzzles they would charge you $5 or 6$ for each missing piece – that they intentionally left out.

I guess we’ll never know how Earl got out of his bean bag chair.

Hey, Earl! Try https://thejigsawpuzzles.com/. You can get all different puzzle cuts, all different sizes, and ya can’t lose any pieces!!!!

Oy!

Just cut a new one out with a jig saw.

3000 piece puzzle. Took 3 months. 1 piece missing. Probably sitting on the floor of the printing plant.

I do online jigsaw puzzles. No lost pieces.

That’s why there is always that one drawer in the house with odd buttons, bottle caps, small screws and one-cent stamps.

Yeah, I’ve done that……..

And this is just one of the many reasons that I never throw “broken” things away.

How does he know it’s the last piece? We curious retired engineers need to know.

Ah, man!

And when the train stopped the shaggy dog appeared from the back carrying…

Opal did that on purpose. That’s how much she hates Earl.

And he left the house, never to return. Although, up until the last frame I was going to blame Muffin.

Aaaand I just ran across this from exactly 3 years ago: http://gocomics.com/pickles/2018/01/11