Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for June 05, 2024

Hey, this happened with Breezy slightly, when they were pretending to be married.

Perhaps he will become the head at the Agency. A strange, but cushy desk job. Or a policeman in Big Sky City.

Rip faces his worst fears… But how is his family going to remember Rip if he becomes un-Rip-like? Also, I think he should take the opportunity to change his daughter’s name back to Fireball. Hazy doesn’t suit her.

It’s a Ka-boring life!!!

Personally, I think he should go find Cobra, at Riviera and have a Rip roaring time!

Or, Rip could open a combination pancake house / demolition supply store.

Nice reference to the “Blondie” comic strip.

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Nope, I draw the line at an HOA.

Except for the HOA aspect, it sounds like the lives of Dagwood Bumstead and/or Leroy Lockhorn. (Of course, Dagwood has two near-adult kids, while Leroy has none, so they’re not exact parallels.)

Except for the hate part, sounds like a whole passel of enduring comic families.

My parents tried that for me so I didn’t have to do it myself. :)

Will there be brunch at the IHOP? Pancakes? :)

KA-MUNDANE LIFE!

Not the (gasp) HOA! They’re worse than Skull! Thankfully, I live in a rural area and don’t have to put up with such nonsense.

Rip is sort of the inverse of Lester Girls from The Trouble with Girls, whose lifelong fantasy was to live the life of a quiet suburban husband and father, but who was cruelly fated to live the life of an international spy, babe-magnet, and adventurer. There seems to be an early collection out on Kindle.

At best, this is a VR program to get Rip up(as he might be in a coma after being on Bloodcurdlin’ Mountain for so long-he’s still there, I think).

I hear the sheriff position is still up for grabs…

Home Owners Associations are @nal retentive, unpatriotic control freaks, they should be banned.

TNT finally finds his place in life. Bringing Rip his slippers and the newspaper.

I give it a couple days before they carry him off in a straitjacket.