Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for November 22, 2024

Just like the car !

Looks like they’re gonna crash on Mars. Hopefully, they can fax in their school assignments before they hit. And get posthumous “A+’s”.

Charge card? Well they need something to zap them up!

Cue up the Lost in Space countdown——7…6…5…4…3…

It would be too much to hope that the space ship would explode in a fiery crash with all the idiots inside and this story ends so this strip can get back on track.

I sense the end of this arc

We last saw Creepy Devil Doll on October 26 (or thereabouts) when she was noticing that the ship was not plugged in to the recharger. I imagine she has just been waiting to rescue them.

They should have used a longer power cord.

If we just started a new arc tomorrow, never mentioning these kids again, it would be the funniest thing this strip ever did.

I mean, it’s not going to happen, but one can dream.

Are there going to be stranded in space forever? Stay tuned…

I think it is time to bring Gasoline Alley back down to Earth—in more ways than one.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Oh, sorry kids, looks like you’re going to slowly suffocate to death as your spaceship goes dark and circles Mars in an erratic orbit that will take centuries to decay. You know, you could’ve avoided all this if you had taken Ida Knoe the evil talking doll up on her offer to show you the solar system. Your voyage with her would’ve been made possible by demonic power from the depths of Hell itself, which unlike “electricity” or whatever isn’t subject to various physical laws and limitations that could leave you in a situation like this. Hindsight, though, am I right?

Coast downhill to the fuel pump at Gasoline Alley. You have lived a good life if your car runs out of gas and coasts into a gas station.

It’s just this little chromium switch here. You plople are so superstitous.

Time to wake up from your dream in a cold sweat and realize you never left your living room

They’re doomed!