Drabble by Kevin Fagan for May 02, 2023

What the?!?!

Turn around is fair play. Ha!

Is Norm smarter than he looks or is this just a random catfight

It did seem odd that Neil left on a Monday…welll here we go.

Quick, call Neil back and introduce him to Darlene.

Reference, please?

She looks like a grownup version of Peppermint Patty

She made his hair stand up and tied his shoelace.

I can only see trouble ahead for Norman.

A former stalker? Norman is very afraid.

Someone is keeping balance in the universe which is apropos

He’s so freaked out, his untied shoelaces in panel 1 disappeared in panel 4!

Time to let this arc die. It get getting stale.

D… D… Darlene MEET Neil – or is D… D.. Darlene a relative, or are we experiencing Deja Vu all over again?

Act II, Scene 1

Sudden Peanuts crossover!

Norman I’m going to cheat on you. Come quickly, let’s date

A quick search on the Drabble substack finds this post outside the paywall:

https://drabble.substack.com/p/this-day-in-drabble-history-april-70b

Darlene was apparently Norman’s girlfriend in 1989.

He should introduce her to Neil.

Hopefully “Little Norman” isn’t standing behind her.

Get Wendy to show up and Norm can choose between a blonde, a brunette and a redhead.

Or maybe all three. That seems to be a thing these days. He can call himself “Norman the Morman”.

Norman, you got some ’splaining to do.

I will tell you that is. She is trouble. That is who she is.

Norman has a harem? I mean if he attracts more than one girl, how?

Echo … Weren’t you listening? He just said it. It’s D … D … Darlene.!

A deep cut, all the way back to 1989.

Run and get Neil and introduce him to Darlene!

Darlene was a regular in the beginning and pretty much competed with Wendy for Norman’s attention. A big THANK YOU Kevin for resurrecting this well liked character. You’ve answered my prayer to see her again!

Untied shoelace in the first panel. Missing in the last panel.

Is this Neil’s old girlfriend?