Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 14, 2023

It isn’t a fairy tale.

Sounds like something Danae would write.

He ended up back in the swamp and she got the house.

yup! happens to those poor matrimonied souls who are hen-pecked.

What’s wrong with toads?

Happens on the way home from the church. And all the knights that followed the prince are now hers

AND sometimes the wife turns into something unpleasant that won’t go back into the swamp………I wouldn’t know…just sayin

An old GF once called me that!!! Didn’t understand the meaning.

That’s strange. When the prince married her, she didn’t look shrewish.

Yup. The handsome prince slowly, or not so slowly, turns back into a toad, and she soon enough reveals herself as being Grendel’s mother. Thus, bound in hellish wedlock, both miserable creatures live hatefully ever after…

Happy St. Valentine’s Day, all!

There are a few Wiley bears in that room.

… warts and all, leaving the princess blemish-free. †

† This Fountain of Youth Skincare tale is brought to you by Oil of Eloi and the fine family of H. G. Wells’s Time Machine products. : )

And then the hot sexy beast that you married who then turns into a boring old prince.

Happily ever after a dream devoutly to be wished but rarely realized. Life does that.

But, then, my sweet blue-eyed girl and I are on our 60th Valentine’s Day and all the memories are good.

Best wishes to all.

… warts and all.

A classic tale of misandry, always the fellow huh?, never the one were she turns into a witch. “Yes dear”

Bedtime stories for polliwogs.

Happy Valentine’s Day to all.

Yes, and the princess became a spider. And on that note, Happy Valentines Day all.

nice valentine’s strip! We toads thank you.

We toads can make a difference. Remember what happened to Gillette income statement.

I started swearing to my god and on my mother’s grave

That I would love you to the end of time

I swore that I would love you to the end of time!

So now I’m praying for the end of time

To hurry up and arrive

’Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you

I don’t think that I can really survive

I’ll never break my promise or forget my vow

But God only knows what I can do right now

I’m praying for the end of time

It’s all that I can do

Praying for the end of time,

So I can end my time with you!

Lil’ bitty Wiley Bears!! YAY!!!

Any link to the UK Royal family here? No, good, I would hate that.

Ahhh! The truth comes out.

Typically men don’t ever really change.

Because she turned into a shrew.

Sandpiper, best wishes to you and your sweet blue-eyed girl on your 60th!

More realistic stories

Every “prince” I kissed turned into a toad. That’s why I’m single. Married twice and that was enough.

While that is true of some or even many men it is not true of all of them. On the other hand when it is shouted out by a very large woman of dubious hygiene who reeks of that and a lot of bad beer spilled badly it would apparently seem to be that “Sows things with you?” is probably why the fight started. That really stopped the pastor mid-sermon though. She surprised us all with the speed of her sharp retort to the drunken parishioner. Funeral services will never seem quite the same again

People prefer fairy tales to reality. It’s not just love and marriage. It’s life. In fairy tales there is always an evil being — a step mother, a king, a dragon — so it is never the main character’s fault (princess or prince or peasant). They are in trouble because the evil being is jealous, craves power, or because they accidentally did something stupid or were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But a super hero will always swoop in to the rescue and they will end up in a better situation than before.

I’ve noticed that there’s a direct correlation (usually) between the intensity of the initial attraction to the eventual challenges in a relationship.

That’s pretty Grimm>

No ’happy ever after."

My wife is not the same woman I married nor I her same spouse. That’s what made the whole journey interesting.

At least their home will be free of flies. NOW., most of the comments from men are blaming this on the Princess, apparently missing the point of the tale is being told by a “Sister”.as opposed to the unrealistic MALE point of view. You doth protest too much. PS Toads and Frogs are 2 different critters.

nice- congrats

Truth. . .

With my second wife, who was considerably older than I, things would go well for six months, then suddenly everything I did was wrong. She would get over it in a week or so but then the same thing would happen again about six months later. I told her adult daughters about this phenomenon and they burst out laughing. They also assured me she was MUCH better than when she was younger.

Fortunately, I know who I am and simply slept in another room until she would calm down and apologize.

Real fairy tales are much more realistic than the sanitized versions the Victorians gave us.

Some princes do, some princes don’t.

And she turned into a shrew.

This spring,B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie will have been married 77 years.

Happily ever after with interludes of incompatibility.

True story!

“Sweet blue-eyed girl”-What a great name.

…. the prince turned in to a Toad, because the Wife ate until she turned into a PUMPKIN!!

Well, if you kiss a toad and think that makes him a prince, you deserve what you get… a toad. Maybe stop kissing toads, hoping they will change?

Just another day alive.

Odd, once upon a time I met a frog, a careful look at him revealed some princely possibilities, but he was still a frog. But then again, I was no princess. I kissed him anyway.Now, 40 years later he’s still a little bit froggy, and I’m still no princess. But dayum, have we ever had a great happily ever after!Happy Valentine’s day.

A different version of this strip appeared just 40 months ago: https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2019/11/01 – but the original monochrome version was 20 years older than that: https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/1999/01/26

Wiley kids – love ’em!

That generally only happens if the wife is a witch.