Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 16, 2023

Dance harder….love it!

Petey is oboed out!

EEP it and weep!

The things he will do to wear his cape.

You should have known better than being involved with an Alice’s idea. ☺

Not so much the dynamic duo as…….well I donno…..

I think Madeline needs to get that child ballet lessons.

It’s Super Oboe Pete! EEP!

They’re staying away in droves.

Next, I will play a scale!

It’s probably just me, but Pete’s oboe looks like maybe it’s transmogrified into a clarinet.

Madeline wishing the kids couldn’t get outside on their own?

No other strip has/had this sort of humor. I love it and I so miss R.T.

It’s not like Petey to be so easily led. Everything about what Alice wants is totally at odds with his convictions (and phobias).

Don’t dance harder, dance smarter.

The cape isn’t working, Petey. Better get your Viking helmet!

I am surprised Alice was able to talk Petey into doing this- publicly playing the oboe in a cape no less!

If I’m not mistaken, this is the routine that was used when the Great Petey the Quietly Magnificent led the Toad Zombie hoard out of Cul de Sac.

genius!

Obviously it’s too avant garde for hoi polloi.

Kids being kids, starring the Otterloop siblings! Sometimes there’s no point in looking for logic….

Eep!

Petey agreed to be center stage? Wow. It’s failing, but wow.