Sherman's Lagoon by Jim Toomey for January 11, 2024

That’s an awkward-looking bow.

there goes the sturgeon population.

So am I.

Least it’s not egg salad, eh?!

YOWZA !!! Look at them gams on the ol’ kingster !!!!!! Wish I had lemon and butter !!!

Sorry, Hawthorne, but you really should have brushed up on your knowledge about the king crab.

He’s awfully small for a king crab. Those suckers are BIG.

Wait. So you’re saying Queen Latifah isn’t an actual queen?

Mmmmmm, potato salad.

There are millions, but I suspect Jim may be going somewhere with this, as the population of Alaskan king crabs is crashing as of the last couple years.

Panel 2. Big mouth slipped way down below the mid section?

Hawthorne doesn’t need a crown to be a royal pain in the butt.

I worked at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College one summer as a teenager. My job was to move the Science Department to a new building. My boss was Dean Evans. It took all year to figure out he was not a “Dean”; that was just his name. :)

If Charles of England got up on the wrong side of the bed in the morning, he would be a King Crab.

a stewardess girlfriend used to bring me caviar when she’d come back from flights to russia and it was great, but i’ll take potato salad over caviar, too…

Joe Six-Pack crab. Welcome back to the hoi-poli Hawthorne.