Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for December 05, 2023

Jocularity  Jocularity  Jocularity  LOL :-D !

Yes, they are few and far between these days!

Hyuk hyuk hyuk! I liked that joke back when they did it in the 1978 Superman movie.

Doesn’t his smart phone have a costume change app?

So, this establishment lets literally anyone walk in off the street, put on their Santa outfit, and come into physical contact with kids?

Rufus probably beat it out the back window—-he’s not wearing that sissy thing!!

Also a shortage of deserted storerooms

A lot of comedians make fun of the change-in-the-phone booth routine, but in fact, Superman did that only twice in all the times he’s been in the comic books. That happened in these two stories:

https://readcomiconline.Li/Comic/Superman-1939/Issue-69?id=16310#2

https://readcomiconline.Li/Comic/Action-Comics-1938/Issue-345?id=25518#1

Maybe he finally took a shower. He probably reeks.

Jimbo uses the equivalent of the sitcom laughtrack by having one character laugh at another’s comment. How else would we know Slim said something funny?

It’s just a comic strip. What can you expect from it when Uncle Walt, what was he, a Spanish American War veteran?, is still alive? And Skeezix, Who is well over 90 looks and acts thirty or forty years younger, not to mention, the grandson and son who was in the Vietnam War and would be late sixties or early seventies?