Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for April 11, 2024

For instance, it can’t conjure up room in the budget for a new pair.

Wanda: “I’m not Imelda Marcos.”

Smart thumb, good one!

If only “pinch to resize” worked in real life. My house would be bigger and my pile of laundry, smaller :-))

My mom did the same and so did I with my children.

Ouch! My toe!!

Your smarter then this Zoe.

Zoe said “I need NEW shoes”, not “I need BIGGER shoes”.

Smart-thumb technology – great for checking sizes and booping noses, not so great for color changes.

In later life, Zoe changes her name to Lila, starts a shoe blog, works in a call center and has a gay guy as a roommate.

shoe dye.

Zoe, ever the fashionista.

She can’t afford the upgrade to iThumb 20!

Rit®

In my day they took X-rays of my feet to see if they were the right size.

“Why don’t you get a job and buy all that junk yourself?” ~fish dressed as Santa from A SpongeBob Christmas!

Really, Zoe? You are lucky you HAVE shoes! When I was a kid……..

Break out the spray paint…..

Wanda’s thumb thing else.

Why not make it a mother-daughter project and use magic markersir paint to draw on them!!!

still buckin’ for a new pair…

“That is why they make magic markers. It’s magic you know.”

Nice try Zoe.

There you go with that word need again, Zoe. Be honest and just say you want a new shoes.

Either way, it’s not likely to happen until those shoes don’t fit or are worn out..

Zoe is going to compensate for this as an adult and buy every colour in every shoe.

When I was 11 someone gave my mom boys shoes for me to wear. NM told me to polish them. I hated those shoes, polished one with brown polisha nd the other with black and hid them separately in the basement and I had to wear my old worn out sneakers full of holes for being defiant.

Someone gave me white canvas tennis shoes when I was a kid, my mom dyed them for me.

I think this is at least the third go-around for these drawings, just with different dialogue.