Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for June 18, 2023

That’s quite a load Becky’s pullin’ I bet she’d secretly be happy if it just fell right off th’ back.

John McKay would know what to say here.

This isn’t Father’s Day related?

They should perform “Far,Far, Away”, not the song, but the distance!

I really wish today’s strip would’ve been Father’s Day related…

do they play backup for the mice?

The instruments sound like they are being slowly executed.

It’s bad enough that the general public perception of the musical genre that Ruthless and Jor-El’s combo supposedly represents is not favorable. Truthfully, that sort of music has some of the best pickers in the industry. But this lot is stereotypically keeping it in its place. Sigh…..

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Can you imagine how annoying someone’s on-stage patter must be if you get up and demand that they start playing music while they’re in the middle of an anecdote about how people don’t like their music? Rufus must be even more irritating in person than he comes across on the page.

Play some Skynyrd Man !

So Joel can’t read but he can read music? Or does he just play whatever notes he feels like instead of what’s on the page?

This from before death and rebirth with a nonhuman haint spirit took over Rufus’s body,

Execute music? “Slaughter” would be a more appropriate word.

And here comes guest artist Tonsils 2,The Human Windmill