Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for September 24, 2022

It’s a bet

Suction so powerful, Andy’s clinging for his dear life by holding onto the sofa.

yeah let’s hope he fits into the hose

would love to see Andy without his cap…surprise that the vacuum didn’t suck the pot!

Taking away all that Andy holds dear.

@Ling Today’s strip could be funny but I don’t know what it’s all about My avatar is a spoof about an airline pilot and co pilot too busy ogling the female cabin crew to notice a small aircraft going to crash into them , come passerai il vostro Sabato mio meno vecchio amicho? our Saturday should be quite calm no shopping to do or errands to run just stay inside the house and keep hydrated because it’s hot outside, but we both are in a good mood, , keep safe and a bientot pal

Stop before it gets his clothes!

I bet Tim Taylor had something to do with that vacuum.

Next frame: Capp himself sucked into the machine, and then emptied into the garbage bin!!

BTW, do they still make canister vacuums any more??

Today, 24 September, marks the fourty-fifth anniversary of the first issue of the short-lived comic Plug which lasted 75 issues before ending in February 1979 when it merged with the far more successful comic The Beezer.

The main character was Plug from The Bash Street Kids in the UK’s most successful comic The Beano. This version of Plug seemed very different from the one in The Beano as we never saw the other Bash Street Kids and only rarely saw his dog Pug. His main pet here seemed to be a monkey called Chunkee who wore a similar cap to Plug.

After Plug merged with The Beezer there was a strip in which Plug entered a diving contest and the announcer announced “As a result of Smiffy’s dive, the pool is now being drained.” I couldn’t understand why it was being drained and then I realised that it was referring to Smiffy the dirty boy in The Beezer rather than the other Smiffy who appeared with Plug in The Bash Street Kids.

This sucks.

Put it from suck to blow, Flo!

Hey, Flo, why not use it to drag Andy out of the pub?

There’s Andy! Hosed again!!

Bought a 5 hp shop-vac because I have a lot of pets and even the vacuums advertising that they’re great on pet hair really can’t handle it. The shop-vac is relatively inexpensive, $60 to $90, very durable, can’t be clogged up, and is powerful enough to suck up a cat.

Some of Andy’s favourite things: his cap, his beer, his newspaper or betting sheet.

aka Widowhood Mode.

Shop vac where I’m from.

This second-hand vacuum is sucking second-hand hats

Second-hand clothes ♪♪♪

Quick, what does Mr Capp look like without his cap?

Looks like we have a vacuum cleaner that sucks up all the trash in the room. Andy is just off thee right side of the last panel, and is zooming in.

should have thrown in his shorts too

What Andy might look like without his hat.

https://preview.redd.it/rcoze1p1amz61.jpg?width=267&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79e6be32e8c004d8d4905508b0dc63af90fb333e

In the next panel, it sucks up Andy and the sofa he was resting on.

There is a British company called Dyson that makes commercial hand dryers, the kind that, after you’re finished using it you have to count your fingers. They also make vacuum cleaners for residential use.

So you CAN suck and blow at the same time.

Extend that final panel so we can see Andy Cappless ;)

@Susan, rjm, Eldo. Shana Tova. May it be a year of peace, health, and contentment.

Yesterday, I said that we never see Andy Capp without his cap just Andy’s cap without Andy Capp. I see today that someone asked me if I had seen a panel from Buster which was posted “about a decade ago” showing the back of Andy’s head without a cap. I have not seen that as I only started reading Go Comics in 2015 so this will be my seventh year of Go Comics.

I have seen the last panel of the last issue of Buster which was published in January 2000. Buster revealed that he’d been hiding his hair all these years because his hair was similar to another comic strip kid. He pulled off his cap to reveal a Dennis the Menace hairstyle.