The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 24, 2024

Meanwhile, others are up waiting for Santa.

Merry blessed Christmas, Brutus P. Thank you for keeping the gang going. ♥

Brutus should do what I do when I can’t sleep. (Like now.) Get up and read GoComics.

I’ve never had those visions.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to Brutus and all the readers of the comic.

Count them!

I DON’T!!

it’s a sugar plum party…

I figured Brutus as more of a prune guy. Merry Christmas everyone.

I watched an episode of Tasting History, and I was interested to learn that sugar plums aren’t typically plums. They can be any kind of fruit. Making them is very labor intensive.

Hair rollers. Must be a new fad. Hair rollers Went out with MS Pac Man. Doot Doot Doot. I could roll in the high 400,000 but never hit 500,000. Arrgggh. Them pesty Little Ghosties. I use to have a beer or 12 back then. Sober than a Priest since 1994. Give up Marlboro’s and Beer same day. Wife and Mother both very sick. Hospital day and night for almost a month with both. So I never started back. Woo hoo. Lord knows best. At 10 dollars a pack, 30 dollars a day. Good Lord. Am I glad. MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE all. Don’t ever do it or you might not live to enjoy CHRISTMAS DAY. That would make me sad.

♪ “Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets” ♪ . Maybe Brutus was a Lou Reed fan.

Maybe there’s some cold pizza down in the fridge?

Love the art of the first panel Chip . Thanks for the Christmas present .

why don’t you just eat them… perhaps then they’ll dance around in your tummy instead around your head. :}

Too much insulin glargine at bedtime.

What’s dancing? The visions? The sugar plums? Are they in his head, dancing? (wot a headache!)

You will have sugar plums in the morning, Brutus!

Merry Christmas, Brutus.

Some where I have a picture of my son’s screaming around the corner from the bedrooms to the living room at 3a Christmas Day yelling “He was here! Santa was here!” That was 36 years ago.

Instead of having visions dancing in your head Brutis, you should have made some sugar plums. They are so simple even you couldn’t have screwed it up. We make them every year. The MIL especially loves them.

This is such a delight. Beautiful first panel. Brutus still a child at heart (or maybe just hungry?). Gladys’s whimsical smile. And the retro hair curlers! Totally wonderful. Thank you Chip

Nothing wrong with that my friend. Merry Christmas and keep dreaming…..

And they are rapping.

Plums are just dried prunes. Still taste good though!

just as point of information: “It seems plausible that the Magi were “overjoyed” at again seeing before them, as they traveled southward, “his star,” Jupiter, which at its stationary point was standing still over Bethlehem. We do know for certain that Jupiter performed a retrograde loop in 2 B.C. and that it was stationary on December 25, interestingly enough, during Hanukkah, the season for giving presents.” from “The Star of Bethlehem” Imprimis by Hillsdale College, by Craig Chester Past President, Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy…it’s available online, wouldn’t let me post the url in here…He most certainly was born on Dec. 25th!

Merry Christmas everyone!

A little something from the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Brutus needs to eat again.

He should try cutting back on the LSD

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Chip.

Merry Christmas to you and yours Brutus and to everyone on GoComics:)

God Jul to you Brutus and family. Same to you Mr. Sansom!

I see credit card emblem Tinkerbell fairies circling overhead. Next month it will be card emblem sharks circling my floaty boat.

Dancing Sugar Plums sounds like an old-time TV ad

Is it the break of dawn yet??

zzzzzzzzz….zzzzzzzz…zzzzzzzzz…..

could be a clatter arising out on the lawn

Well, Brutus and Gladys are nestled all snug in their bed, so it makes sense that Brutus would have visions of sugar plums dancing in his head.