Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for April 20, 2022

The brain on the right looks like he’s happy and sad at the same time!!

Is this supposed to be a meat cute, or the cast of the stage version of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?

Welcome to the neighborhood.

New kid in town.

…until Fido comes out and chews on neighbor Bone!

Now lets see how well they all work together.

Someone needs to spleen this one.

It’s early and I don’t understand.

But one of his neighbours had the gall to…

I think maybe someone close to the artist has just had a very successful operation, and this cartoon is a valentine to that someone. Congratulations all around—to the donor, the recipient, and the artist, for a very classy “tip o’ the Hatlo Hat”!

cue the ominous organ music

Parts N pieces rejoice! We got a winnnah!

Maybe I am being overly critical about semantics, but wouldn’t the transplant be SUCCESSFUL and the kidney be accepted?

It was thanks to all those anti-rejection drugs the transplant brought with it. It got all the other organs kidney-stoned.

“Hey you kidneys, get off my lawn!”

At some point, somebody in the neighborhood is going to have a bone to pick, with the new neighbor.

Oy!

I thought a trans-plant was a vegetable that identifies as a fruit.