Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for January 28, 2023

“Deputy I told you so”, second cousin to “Captain Obvious”?

Don’t just stand there. Go after him. I’ll live.

You can’t pick a window that doesn’t have any glass until you break every single one first.

Now we see why Rip stuck Rowdee on meter duty a few days ago. She hasn’t yet risen to Haywire standards.

I don’t know, as much as I have enjoyed this strip in the past, it seems to have gotten particularly chaotic (as in no continuity) and sexist (as in pigeonholing). I keep awaiting an ironic rescue of the heroes, but I wonder if even that’s worth combining the shaved heads and star trek uniforms.

Is she the daughter or a relation to Deputy Barney Fife?

Well live and learn…The Haywire way!!!

RJ is becoming more and more like Rip, even the one liner’s.

Didn’t take much to outwit these two.

Hey guys. The window ka-smashing, deputy ka-oofing thief is getting away. How ‘bout you save your little lovers’ quarrel until things settle down.

Rowdee it seems hasn’t spent enough time with the Starlight Sheriff’s Department to learn how to roll with an escaping crook smashing through a window at her.

Geez some peoples see “sexism” when there is none. Nothing wrong in today’s comic.

aw he does care

KA-JUST PEACHY!

For the record, there are plenty of strong female characters in Rip Haywire. (Breezy, Cobra, Squirrelly, Fireball, etc.) Rowdee is the exception, not the rule. (For now, anyway. She may get even with Skinner later for pushing her away.)

Come on, Dan, give the new Deputy a crowning moment of awesome.

Well, he’s right about the windows, but the situation usually requires the bad guy to get his teeth ka-smashed in first.