The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for May 18, 2024

It’s all good!!!!

I’m not sure I understand this comic…

The story about the 14 yo who died after taking the “One Chip Challenge” casts a pall over this comic.

Carrying pepper spray = Fighting fire with fire (It’s like fighting forest fires with backburning)

That’s good advice from Doctor Pepper. (And watch out for Scorpions!)

Different kind of peppers, took me a while!

Is the doctor (Pepper) on call?!

Oh, Scott, you’re hot tonight!

I got a habanero pepper (?) I think on my steak plate once. I took a bite but didn’t get the pepper in my mouth. It took my breath and I couldn’t breathe.

Not to mention Pepper Potts, the spiciest of all!

Ed Currie has his Pepper X out and is 3 times as hot as his Carolina Reaper.

Hope they brought jackets, it’s gonna get chili up there.

Sean Evans other job.

And folks around here tell of haunting by a ghost pepper.

Not sure it’s the best timing for this comic after a teen-age boy recently died from eating a chip in a hot chip challenge.

Gotta spice up this comic.

But you won’t see the ghost coming

This one makes me hot.

No need to worry about bell peppers. You can hear them coming.

I strongly suspect liking or not liking hot peppers is genetic. I despise heat. It gives me nothing but pain.

I hope they brought their emergency tub of sour cream. Or, isn’t that effective with the uber-hot peppers?

If you’re going to the salt mines….

Why I only “hike” on city sidewalks.

They’ve been known to have heat waves.

Is Hilburn trying to milk the reaper jokes? Actually, that’s a good idea.

we don’t need no pepper spray. come on baby, don’t fear the Carolina reaper. just remember to wear your scotch bonnet to protect your head.

It should be anti-pepper spray

Some people go to college to learn to cook and eat these peppers. You know, Pepper-dine University.

What!? They were A-Salted by a Pepper?!

The young couple on their honeymoon were about to spend the week camping in Yellowstone, but first they had to listen to the ranger’s orientation speech. He was particularly emphatic about bears. “They’re a protected species, so we’ve got lots of them, but they’re still dangerous. Don’t approach them under any circumstances. And don’t try to outrun them; they’re faster than you are. And climbing a tree won’t help, either; they’re better at it than you.”

The nervous groom asked what they could do about it.

“Well, some people stop by the gift shop and pick up wristlets or anklets with little bells. Sometimes if they hear you coming, they’ll move off before you get there. You can also get cans of pepper spray in case you surprise one. Oh, and be on the lookout for fresh bear scat; that’s a sign that they’re around and you might want to leave.”

“What’s scat?” asked the bride.

“Bear droppings. You can tell what kind of bear it is by what their poop looks like. The smaller ones, black bears, have scat that’s kind of firm and roundish, like dark ping-pong balls. The really dangerous guys, the big grizzlies, have softer, flatter, lighter-colored droppings, kind of like cowpies, except they usually have little bells and smell like pepper.”