Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 30, 2023

Ah-HAH! Conclusive proof that Ernesto is real! Whee! :-D

He’s real, or they are all imaginary in Petey’s mind.

A polite werewolf is better than a rude werewolf.

Alice has an eye for fashion. Who would’ve thunk it?

Peter should have said, “Say hello to my leetle friend!”

A quick shout out for Carrie Vaughn’s Werewolf books featuring Kitty Norville. Yes, a werewolf named Kitty. Fun reads

Ernesto was Thompson’s character I liked the most. He traveled in between dimensions, not that hard it to do in a cartoon, but still imaginative

“Alas, I have a food allergy that manifests itself as a mild form of lycanthropy” is the best line from all of Cul de Sac.

Well, this ends the controversy of whether Ernesto is imaginary or not. The world relaxes.

He’s a polite werewolf

Have to sock this date away for all the future, “Is Ernesto imaginary?”, questioners.

five bean salad produces ten bean farts

This was an old classic strip. A lot of promising experimental work has been done on lycanthropy with immune suppressants and gene repair technology.

I totally thought Ernesto could be imaginary :0

5 bean salad? I’ve been missing out with 3 bean salad all my life!

Two sweaters at the same time? Sounds like a bad case of Brookeitis.

What kicks it off? The beans or the hot dogs? (Maybe both? Picnic food generally?)

Alas, the probably still imaginary Ernesto Lacuna suffers mild lycanthropy. Does that mean that at the full moon he changes into a friendly puppy?

Mrs. Otterloop “sees” Ernesto because of her sun-induced mild case of mass hysteria, attributable to Petey’s terror (panel 3).

Alice! Stop dragging your towel!

They know where their towel is.