Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for September 10, 2022

Your friend didn’t disappear. He just got nailed.

Their investigation has come to a head.

This is what happens when nails go to a bar and get hammered.

I heard that he went into carpentry.

Well doesn’t you see his head in the floor?

Your friend got hammered at the bar.

Obviously a Threepenny Dreadful.

Looks like their friend got nailed.

Ahhhhh…..this a retake of an old classic! The original punchline went “I heard a loud bang and when I turned around he was gone!”

Is this because today is the 35th. anniversary of Mark Parisi’s first Off the Mark comic strip?

Get the saw. You’ll find it.

I guess he got board.

It seems the ones that hold our world together are unseen and not appreciated.

This must be their old stomping grounds. The ants are visiting theirs on ‘Speedbump’.

https://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2022/09/10?ct=v&cti=1876353

He’s in deep.

Pounded to the ground is standard practice…hit the nail right on the head….

This is great! Thanks, Mark!

35 years, straight nail, no counter sink, he should be sticking his head up by now.

If you want to know what happened to your fried, just move over 16" OC and stand still.

I have some unused nails in a coffee can that are over 35 years old!

And now he’s board to death.

The one on the left is our company’s product. It is an interfibrous friction fastener. The one on the right is our competitor’s product. It is a nail.

They still miss Brad.

oh this one hammered me

I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens. OR – Nailiens!!!

To a paranoid nail, everything looks like a hammer!

Ah ha, nailed it!

It was bound to happen. He was just so driven.

I’d rather be a hammer than a nail…

If you listen carefully you can still hear his muffled cries

You hit the nail on the head!

He got “hammered” !

And I was there, 35 years ago, reading that very first comic strip in the newspaper!