Pickles by Brian Crane for July 25, 2022

Mirror mirror on the wall

Who’s the scariest one of all?

Huh?

Time to get a new medicine cabinet mirror at The Home Depot.

Can he break security cameras?

I remember this also happening to Larry Fine, can Earl also stop clocks.

That’s some morning breath you got, Earl!

Now he’s got 7 years bad looks.

yeahbut(t), pretty sure brian mis-spelled caboose?

I break more mirrors that way. Wonder if they’re trying to tell me something…or just protect my eyes.

Now you done it, 7 years bad luck Earl!

That was 3 Stooges moment if ever I saw one.

So the mirror cracked at seeing Earl trying to smile at it?

Now the Pickles family has gotten several years of bad luck.

Shattered….no more smiling in the mirror for Earl…poor Nelson

Words to LIVE by………

Mirror, mirror on the wall; I do not get this one at all. (cracked mirror = bitten caboose?)

I think my house is haunted. When I look in the mirrors, some old man looks back at me.

“If you smile at me, I will understand, ’Cause that is something everybody does in the same language.” Name that song.

Excerpt from “Solitude” by Ella Wheeler (1883)

Solitude

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

Weep, and you weep alone;

For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,

But has trouble enough of its own.

Which one steps on the broken glass?

Seven years bad luck for Earl.

Obviously not “The Fairest of Them All.”

god grows melons?

Nietzsche agrees.

“The mirror crack’d from side to side—” Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shallott.” She must have been grinning too, like Earl.

Just when I’m waiting for a trainwreck after Earl’s mishaps with “planes” and “automobiles,” I’m now focusing on how Earl is going to “bring the house down.”

Ghosts and phantoms? Why can seem weird when you do know it. This case, the thrill of Ben seeing his own face.

Hope he doesn’t break the camera when he smiles

Sometimes this strip switches topics far too quickly. I’m not sure if that’s because Brian Crane drops the topic without a resolution, or if the strips may get run out of order sometimes. We never got a resolution to Earl in the bean bag chair, and we never got a resolution to Earl trying to fix Nelson’s car.

Unfortunately too often my spouse and I see ourselves mirrored in Pickles… not this time though