Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for December 29, 2018

You’d think the people of Gasoline Alley would get with the times, and elect Melba’s sister, Avocado.

I mentioned Melba yesterday and here she is..Ta-DAAH !!

Is she mayor for life?

A great storyline this week.

Whoa! Rufus mentions Melba and orifice in the same strip!

Melba looks so young in today’s strip. Years ago, Rufus was an old man, and realized he had better give up hope that he and Melba would be married.

Speaking of Rufus and romance, how are things between Rufus and the widow at the mill?

Is this an old strip? Melba looks much younger here, and she’s blonde again rather than gray.

Melba must be having “treatments” with some of that odd gold-like metallic radiating meteorite that formed the valley they live in. Such treatments of its concentrated biological affecting rays are keeping her much younger than the others. What Oliver Warbucks is using for his Op Lazarus. Little prodigy Boog is behind the treatments. The radiations that changed his surrogate bear family made him a genius when they had him for 2 years after his birth they took him to their cave. Then returned to his family when 4 years old. Black eyed Boog like his mom only changed by the mysterious meteorite.

I guess Joel is having to actually do some work without Rufus there to do the heavy lifting.