Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for December 28, 2024

well … they need a break!

I imagine this strip used to have more Hart and less fourth wall wrecks

Those darn Gerbils!

Just so long as they’re not teenage mutant gerbils.

Here, the artist doesn’t feel like drawing an action scene. In “Overboard,” the character is begging for less art.

You’d think only a raven could be ravenous.

Directed by Roger Corman

tis fine….the picture your thousand words painted was sufficient

Cue the killer rabbit from Monty Python.

There was a very similar joke in this strip during Halloween week.

It was not so much that rodents were carnivorous but they had fleas that carried the bubonic plague.

Interesting that this is relatively close on the heels of the news item showing California ground squirrels killing and eating voles. Coincidence? I think not.

I hope it doesn’t get drawn out too long.

Another not a conspiracy by cartoonist not wanting to draw action ?

So it is not 10 ’o clock since nothing is well?

Like the gerbils, the artist works for peanuts.

It is Hamster Huey and Gooey Kablooie! Run for your lives!

I’m glad I cannot

Well, Orson Welles supposedly scared people with just a radio broadcast.

Too bad the syndicate cut off the bottom of the panels!

“Tell don’t show”? Tom Batiuk must be guest writer this week.

Anyone seen that fourth wall? I think they broke it.

Imagination is better than the picture!!!!

Watch your Behinds…

It’s fine. I’m an old time radio fan so I’m used to using my imagination. Stan Freberg did a bit one time showing how radio was better than television. He used sound effects to depict a 700-foot mountain of whipped cream piled onto Lake Michigan, which has been drained and filled with hot chocolate. The Royal Canadian Air Force then drops a ten-ton maraschino cherry on top of the whipped cream, and 25,000 extras cheer.

Use your imagination!

ba dum tss

Have it drawn out and ready for tomorrow…..?

They used the same gag of the “lazy” artist within the last couple months, I believe.

“Food of the gods” remake?

How about ravenous mutant tribbles?

Jack Kirby could have quickly whipped it out.

Sounds like ‘Food of the Gods’ part III

… the authorities are having difficulties distinguishing the mutant rodents from the Fink who is trapped in the gerbil Christmas pajamas his mother made for him … last the castle staff heard, he was complaining that it is itchy and the zipper is broken.

He seems to have a gerbil on top of his head in the last panel.

Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars

Confession is supposed to be good for the soul. Perhaps I should try it if I ever do anything wrong.

(He said, looking innocent.)

Just like the Hun invasion. The kids are taking a working vacation.

Slow news day. No congressional ethics reports, I guess.