Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for May 01, 2024

OK. What the heck is going on?!?!?

Alright Dan, enough’s enough. Are you trying to drive away your readers?

Man, this is some really good acid…

Dutch was Santa? The rascal!

Ka-WTF?!

A callback to an older strip from July 14, 2012? (“Dutch, are you part of SKULL?”)

Now me 100% sure this some dream sequences.

The way this is going I wouldn’t be surprised that Rip will soon find out that pancakes were invented by Skull to lure him in.

THIS is a really bad dream………..or indigestion from the pancakes.

I’m thinking Rip never actually made it off Bloodcurdlin’ Mountain, and is still having a horrible hallucination.

This is getting incredibly confusing…..

I have the eerie feeling that Bobby Ewing makes a "guest appearance " at the end of this story line!

holey dark darth vader, Batman!

Color me shocked. I’m still loving these bizarre twists. I’m more puzzled by some of the rather negative reactions. Oh well, I guess some people will never be happy. Keep up the wonderful art and story Dan.

I’ll have whatever Rip is having.

Ok, this has got to be some kind of dream or blood curdling mountain hallucination. Love the strip, but I’m out if there’s another complete reset, lol

Ka-Pshaw. Next thing is they’ll be saying there’s no Great Pumpkin. :)

Talk to Randle. I think he can shed some light on this.

His “Life is but a dream, sweetheart”

Now, how about RJ…er Tank?

Enough of the I’m not going to read this any more! You know you will, just to see what will happen next! Keep it up Dan, i love Cobra being back!

Alien hallucination or Bloodcurdling Mountain dream or a nightmare brought on by eating too many pancakes just before bedtime. All of the above ?

Things started to smell when RJ lost his hair.

KA-HUH?! Maybe one of those bumps on the back of Rip’s head has pushed him into a Haywire-Bizarro World!!!

Yet more proof (as if we really need it at this point) that Rip is having a Bloodcurdling Mountain hallucination.

KA-UNMASK!

Oh, come on now, there’s no way this can be real. It’s not enough to make me give up reading Rip Haywire, though. On the contrary, I want to see where Dan is going with this.

Dan must be searching for his next plotline. This halucination/dream/nightmare has been going on longer than any other “it’s only a dream” story that I can think of.

Or, we are being set up for a Rip Haywire super hero for hire. “See Skull fists will giggle.” World gone Haywire type thing. Having Cobra along for the ride would be fun. HOWEVER, if TNT turns Skull I’m going back to Banana Triangle…. less confusing. I mean I Know everyone in B.T. is a bad guy.

See what can happen when you nibble on the giant pancake of Bloodcurdling Mountain? And without any kind of syrup, no less?

I’m calling it: Rip’s still hallucinating on Blood Curdlin’ Mountain.

Rip is having a nightmare, with his eyes open.

Oh great cr@p, not Dutch! Rip’s mom Doctor Pain, and now Dutch? How did Rip ever grow up to be a hero?! With that lineage does Fireball have a chance? I don’t want then talosian back but if this is still the Mists of Blood Curdling Mountain affecting him there is still hope.

Ok, Mr Thompson, feel free to drop the plot twist anytime now