Close to Home by John McPherson for June 29, 2023

On their way to the Shell Station!

Someone needs to call the truck with the guys in their nice white coats.

Watch out for Mario!

No clunking!

Oldage Useless Nimnal Turtles

That’s. Just. Weird.

We downsized, too, but not that much!

Seems a lot of people have downsized to tents…

I cant even reply to this.

(Even if down-sizing to tortoise shells makes sense), crawling on hands and knees does not make sense – it’s not a perfect way to go.

Initially they were shell-shocked, but it looks like they are adapting well now.

Doghouse would’ve been better

Let me see, kids out of the house? I’m thinking of other opportunities and enclosing everything in armor makes those other opportunities difficult to make the most of.

Remindes me of Marines high crawling across the desert. …with less guns.

Living at a slower pace….a-hem!

That’s about as downsized as you can get.

They identify as tortoises. Nothing wrong with that

That sure looks comfortable.

Maybe they can fly and travel like Gamera.

But what happened to the poor tortoises whose shells they stole?

“But John”, his wife says, "why are the kids having us served with competence papers?…

It appears, based on this weeks comics, that Bleeb arrived sometime after 2017.

Shell Game. :)

WELL!!! That’s a shell of a way to ‘empty nest’.

Okay, but why does that suddenly make you quadrupeds?

You’ll come crawling back to proper accommodation. :)

What a terrapin idea.

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