Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 03, 2011

This one must be an old one. Alice doesn’t quite look herself.

Cute! I can’t see the date but this feels like a retro comic.

And Mr. Thompson I don’t know if you read these, but your Reuben is well deserved! It occurred to me that Cul de Sac is the only comic with character development, unlike nameless others that are variations of a theme (angry/stupid, lazy, etc.). Please keep making us laugh for as long as you’re able. God speed!

Can’t wait to see Petey’s private army of tiny Godzillas!

The Great Circle, One Rotation. Yay for Super Cicadas!

why the drawing style seem different?

We have ‘Katydids’ here in the south. I think the cicadas might be related.

I have my own private army of Mothras, too! They’re ALL named Darlene!

It’s great to see the evolution of the characters!

In Australia cicada shells (when they shed their junior body) made great badges, we would hook them to our school uniform with the barbs on their little legs. Yeah, alice is the epitome of an aussie girl.

Pete and Alice – great ideas – wish I had seen this way back when! Cicadas are okay – until you find your neighborhood in the middle of one of those 17-year cicada cycles. 1000s and 1000s massing together, landing on anything, singing and shrilling for mates. It’s been 20-some years and I still get the willies.

New, old, who cares? I love it.

So funny…just love it.

I don’t suppose Richard could post a full-sized Sunday version over at his blog like last week?Seems a shame to miss out on the cicada mating ritual. Or at least his depiction of cicada first base, whichever the case may be ; )TZT!!!

“Crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune, Terrapin Station.” Grateful Dead

I started reading this a lot later, but as Marg said new – old who cares? But I wanted to make sure of what I was seeing. Were my eyes betraying me>

Wasn’t this one shown a few weeks ago?

I’ve seen this before. I’m pretty sure it’s from the first year. RT has it on his blog somewhere.