Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 27, 2011

“Somebody told me there’d be days like these …” John Lennon

Next phase: Stand on the trunk with the axe. “Here, sharky, sharky, sharky.” Chop each shark when it comes within reach. If that doesn’t get rid of all the sharks, you still have the ingredients for shark fin soup.

I hate days like that!

…all is not lost

He now has somewhere to go for a change of scenery…

He should have just jumped the shark.

♬ Gloom, despair, and agony on me. If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. ♬

Born under a bad sign I’ve been down since I began to crawl If it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have no luck at all

Cream

Murphy, your law sucks

I had to scroll down while reading it, but I saw that last panel coming.

OH Dear me!!!!!! And now no shade either.

Not a very well thought out plan of escape!

Actually Lewreader, Born Under a Bad Sign is an old blues tune. Too early for me to recall which old bluesman wrote it but Cream simply borrowed it (and I admit did a nice job of it).

Thanks for explaining how politics works, Wiley.

An inspired metaphor for nuclear power generation.

O’toole said about Murphy’s Law, Murphy is an optimist

In all fairness, FishStix, it could also be a commentary on neocons and the Tea Party: Chop it all down! — and only realize afterward, when it’s too late, that you’re much worse off than before.

Everybody has good intentions (well, almost everybody), and nobody really knows what they’re doing or how it will work out in the end.

SWiley I love your strip but I saw this one coming.

Time for making a dugout?

The ‘quick’ fix………

Bitten again by the “known unknown”. “Measure twice, cut once” also comes to mind.

He’s lucky he made it this far. Consider: when faced with disaster at sea, do you cling to a life preserver and a ten pound axe or do you get in the life boat?

He’s still got an axe, a palm tree & what’s left of the boat. This is doable.

Probably should have waited for low tide, then walked across.

What I’d like to know is, with all those sharks around, how did he get onto the island?

He still has the oars, an ax and a tree. He can make a dugout and haul his butt outa there!

I love the guy on the island alone jokes. This is a pretty strip today. But why do I feel like I’m being mocked? Oh yeah, because it’dda happened to me.

If you chop down a tree on a deserted island… And it falls on your only hope of rescue… Can the sharks hear you scream?…

And he got off the sinking ship with just an axe because?…

Highly contrived my dear Wiley…

From one cartoonist to another… This is my all-time favorite Wiley toon.

Hilarious strip! Great art - especially panel #3.

Only a real Looney Tune could launch into a political remark based on… What? They HAVE? Some people shouldn’t be allowed into the same room as a keyboard.

Stix an’ stones may break my bones. But y’know what? The “L” word (and the ideology that it represents) never actually hurt me! Conservatism – primarily in the form of the Republicans/Teabaggers – on the other hand seems to want to, to use a variation on Thomas Jefferson’s famous phrase, “pick my pocket and break my leg”!

And I’ll bet there aren’t even any coconuts in the tree.

Story of my life