Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for August 19, 2023

…..but not something to grieve about.

Kinda like having a Walgreens on one corner and a CVS on the opposite corner.

It’s gonna be the death of my business!

Where getting laid has a completely different meaning.

Remains to be seen.

Name of a WNY mortuary: “Am I Gone?”

Sounds like a challenging undertaking.

Hearst races.

I guess Mort will have to offer a better lay-away plan than the competition.

I think this is the best joke in “Shoe” in some time.

I was reading Yelp reviews of local mortuaries.

Found one that was rated cad-average.

My mortician friend had to put gates up all around his mortuary…

People were dying to get in.

When my friend’s dad answers the phone every time someone calls him, he answers “Joe’s mortuary, you stab ’em, we slab ’em!”

I have a good friend (now retired) who is a mortician. Sadly, he never got the chance to mix that with his original electrical engineering degree.

Yep,just like the day someone came out with a new bon*r pill.

I can find that in the town I live in

The local mortuary’s owner had a bad smoking habit. He spent so much on cigarettes that he had to downsize the hearse to afford them. Now he has terrible coffin’ fits.

and people are just dieing to try it.

Yes, yes, I know! But I bet you were all thinking it!

His business has been dead for years, anyway.

They’re so close, they end every day in a dead heat.

Do they offer a mobile cadaver service?

This whole strip has been rapier with the wit lately :D

Oooh!

Is there a DIY mortuary?

They’ll make interesting bedfellows.

Cold hearted customers.

That is really funny! Very clever! And I’ve alway keep forgetting to tell you guys, I love your art…

G R O A N — LOLOL

sounds like a plot to put him under…

Made me giggle.

Ouch!!…I smacked myself in the forehead so hard, now I got a migraine!

We had two funeral homes downtown across the street from each other for decades. One is now a youth center/coffee house and other office spaces.