Josh really nailed it today in the Curmudgeon, already the fourth time this year that GA has appeared.
“One of the central and increasingly untenable contradictions of Gasoline Alley is that it is and always has been a strip where the characters age in real time, but it’s also a strip that’s been continuously published since 1918, and Walt Wallet, one of its central characters, is now improbably someting like 130 years old. But they can’t let him die, or even retire gracefully to the semi-fantastical Old Comics Character Home like they hinted they would back in 2006 and 2013, I guess because extensive market research showed that once Walt is allowed to stop suffering, the few remaining Gasoline Alley trufans will simply abandon the strip and do something more interesting with their lives. Anyway, that same research showed that nobody gives a **** about Slim, so, uh, RIP Slim, 1970(?)-2024, you taught me that it’s pretty easy to freeze to death in your car.”
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray 10 months ago
Slim is just dead dog tired or having a cardio infraction.
Dirty Dragon 10 months ago
If you pound on the window and the drunk doesn’t move at all… I’d go ahead and break into the car.
snsurone76 10 months ago
Terrific artwork here.
billyk75 10 months ago
Getting serious.
therese_callahan2002 10 months ago
Call it a DWC. Driving while caffeinated.
iggyman 10 months ago
Why don’t they just open the door?!
fuzzbucket Premium Member 10 months ago
He’s tired of Clovia.
I Go Pogo 10 months ago
He wants out of this strip.
eced52 10 months ago
Never drank that much caffeine, that I passed out.
Uncle $crooge 10 months ago
Josh really nailed it today in the Curmudgeon, already the fourth time this year that GA has appeared.
“One of the central and increasingly untenable contradictions of Gasoline Alley is that it is and always has been a strip where the characters age in real time, but it’s also a strip that’s been continuously published since 1918, and Walt Wallet, one of its central characters, is now improbably someting like 130 years old. But they can’t let him die, or even retire gracefully to the semi-fantastical Old Comics Character Home like they hinted they would back in 2006 and 2013, I guess because extensive market research showed that once Walt is allowed to stop suffering, the few remaining Gasoline Alley trufans will simply abandon the strip and do something more interesting with their lives. Anyway, that same research showed that nobody gives a **** about Slim, so, uh, RIP Slim, 1970(?)-2024, you taught me that it’s pretty easy to freeze to death in your car.”
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 10 months ago
Time to revive Slim with intravaneous Cheez Whiz feeding