Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 19, 2024

I can Bearly Bear this comic.

Quick, get into the electric boat. There’s a shark over there about ten yards away.

And what’s that chicken gonna do? and why?

Desert island is the way he sees his position in life. No electric boat. That’s Charon, the boatman from the River Styx. Chicken: him thinking of making a big change that could be fatal. Shark: a member of the business that is eating his soul. Martini: final quaff that’s going to make things look better . . . for a while.

At least that’s the way I see it. Anybody’s guess will work. Cheers.

At least a couple of his cliches need work. Aside from the chicken (see my reply to the second comment), that ain’t a Stairway to Heaven!

Ignore your eyes – you aren’t dreaming.

After many expensive sessions, the shrink will tell him his problem is that he’s never felt he was good enough to please his father.

I had an idea for a comic once showing a squashed body under a safe on a psychiatrist’s couch, and the caption was the shrink saying “it’s clear that your problems stem from you being a cartoon”.

If there were a rainbow bridge it would lead to valhalla.

Original desert island jokes are so rare (unoriginal ones are all too common). This one deserves a prize!

Need a safe falling.

Steven Wright dreamed that he told a chicken to cross a road. The chicken said, “What for?”

Hey, its a living!

I had a dream last night that I was trying to hold a door closed that an elephant was trying to push open from the outside. When I told my wife about it this morning and wondered where such crazy stuff comes from, she did remind me that our team is playing Alabama today. True story.

Too many to fit in one panel.

Avoid dyed in the wool cliches like the plague.

Ok, put the chicken in the boat with Death, pay the shrink, drink the martini, forget about the shark, cross the bridge and go to Heaven!

Is the martini for the patient or the psychiatrist?

Wiley taking a dig at himself? :D

And behind the couch lies a bear in wait.

What did you expect….you’re living in Wiley’s world.

And… what is he doing wearing clothes?!

Perfect example of too many strip ideas that wouldn’t get out of each others’ way. Lemonade out of lemons time.

Apparently this is an homage to the Lug Nuts comic by J.C. Duffy.

Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

Couldn’t fit in the guy in the desert looking for water.

He forgot the bears.

No angel on one shoulder and devil on the other?

That’s life; just when you think you’re starting to figure something out, it’s time to go. Youth truly is wasted on the young.

I thought the stairway to heaven was going to be a bit harder to climb

He seems a bit up-trite.

Apparently the end is near. The Pearly Gates is sinking and Bruce is about to eat Charon.

Why is GoComics getting more and more glitchy each day? Anyone know?

Where’s the desert with the mirage?

The chicken can cross the road to Heaven. You can cross the country or the ocean. Can be the same direction. Could be a religious chicken and blessing the road.

He missed the most common comics cliche of all: aliens.

The office parties at Non Sequitur get weird sometimes.

Pass !

Why don’t they just get in the running car instead of hiding behind the chainsaws?