Welp classics fans, I guess the April Fool turned out to be me, as somehow I never got yesterday’s update posted.. but I am back today with a full set, including a double helping of ’73 Alley and ’49 Brenda to keep those stories on their daily schedules:
So that’s six posts to scroll back for, down to a Sunday, 4/1 GA where Sarge and Hack visit the Diner, and we find out that while Prohibition ended 40 years ago, people are still looking for ways to ‘beat the system’ where they can.
Unfortunately in small towns election turnouts are pitifully small. We have a Chicago suburban mayor involved in a scandal. The town of 21,000 people, less than 3000 bothered to vote in the mayoral election. Some of the population are underage, or not citizens, but people died so you’d have the right to vote.
I realize that a lot of fiction essentially consists of making up a guy to get mad at so you can be happy when he loses, but I feel like Walt and Skeezix seething with rage and despair because a town name change has been proposed by a guy named Elbert [sic] Imeswine is a little much. He’s not going to do it, guys, and he’s not going to get elected! This is the sort of thing that wouldn’t happen in real life and extremely wouldn’t happen in a strip that has the same name as the town in question, especially when all the strip has keeping it alive as a media property is the fact that its name is deeply engrained enough in our collective consciousness as to elicit vague feelings of recognition from people who have never read it, or read a newspaper.
Sigh. This is just so bad. And dumb. There isn’t any possibilty that one guy in any town in the U.S. of A. could change a town’s name all by himself. Or that there would only be two people upset about the proposed name change. I know. People will say that “this is just a comic strip” but that statement ignores the fact that this is a poorly written comic strip. I guess Jimbo just keeps churning out drivel because he thinks his readers are just as dumb as Rufus or Joel. 24 people gave today’s strip a “heart” so maybe he’s right.
snsurone76 8 months ago
Skeezix could be describing the Orange Baboon! No wonder Walt is scared!!
Dirty Dragon 8 months ago
Never elect a pig. That seems good enough advice.
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Welp classics fans, I guess the April Fool turned out to be me, as somehow I never got yesterday’s update posted.. but I am back today with a full set, including a double helping of ’73 Alley and ’49 Brenda to keep those stories on their daily schedules:
So that’s six posts to scroll back for, down to a Sunday, 4/1 GA where Sarge and Hack visit the Diner, and we find out that while Prohibition ended 40 years ago, people are still looking for ways to ‘beat the system’ where they can.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray 8 months ago
I do believe Skeezix is seeing a light at the end of a dank dark tunnel.
iggyman 8 months ago
Will Mayor Melba come and save the day? Will Walt run for Mayor? Stay tuned I guess!
Darryl Heine 8 months ago
CREEPY???
Don Bagert Premium Member 8 months ago
Hmm…it’s an election year…
SofaKing Premium Member 8 months ago
Unfortunately in small towns election turnouts are pitifully small. We have a Chicago suburban mayor involved in a scandal. The town of 21,000 people, less than 3000 bothered to vote in the mayoral election. Some of the population are underage, or not citizens, but people died so you’d have the right to vote.
David Rickard Premium Member 8 months ago
From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:
I realize that a lot of fiction essentially consists of making up a guy to get mad at so you can be happy when he loses, but I feel like Walt and Skeezix seething with rage and despair because a town name change has been proposed by a guy named Elbert [sic] Imeswine is a little much. He’s not going to do it, guys, and he’s not going to get elected! This is the sort of thing that wouldn’t happen in real life and extremely wouldn’t happen in a strip that has the same name as the town in question, especially when all the strip has keeping it alive as a media property is the fact that its name is deeply engrained enough in our collective consciousness as to elicit vague feelings of recognition from people who have never read it, or read a newspaper.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 8 months ago
Not to mention that small town Mayors make less than average salaries and sometimes hold regular jobs besides.
Becky for Mayor. She’s got horse sense, or close to it
Uncle $crooge 8 months ago
Sigh. This is just so bad. And dumb. There isn’t any possibilty that one guy in any town in the U.S. of A. could change a town’s name all by himself. Or that there would only be two people upset about the proposed name change. I know. People will say that “this is just a comic strip” but that statement ignores the fact that this is a poorly written comic strip. I guess Jimbo just keeps churning out drivel because he thinks his readers are just as dumb as Rufus or Joel. 24 people gave today’s strip a “heart” so maybe he’s right.
eced52 8 months ago
Run for vice mayor, Skeezix!
jollyjack 8 months ago
Just so he can split Melba’s vote?