Overboard by Chip Dunham for February 10, 2012

Darn. The Louie Bus foils another perfectly good snow day!

There ain’t no rain, nor sleet, nor snow that’ll stop this bus.

Good Morning, Crew!

This is Louie’s kind of weather!

Good ol’ Louie!

good morning crew!happy, happy, happy!!!

never met a lab that did not love inclamate weather. go Louie, go!

Good Morning Crew,Louie knows that snow days need to be made up in the summer. The only thing that will keep him inside under the bed is an “Evil, Haunted Vacuum Cleaner” Have a GREAT DAY MATIE’S

New here? What, was he born yesterday? How could he be new out in the middle of the ocean????Good Morning, Crew!

I love Louie in that last panel. He looks so serious and so professional!

Good morning Crew!

Good weekend to all…….

I like the cute Louie head on the bus stop sign. :-)Good morning, Crew

They need a subway (just running below deck), they seem to overrun the ship as is. New rodents moving in all the time.

Louie is awesome, the mice, no.

So… how can he be new when it’s a ship at sea? :-s

burleigh2,

I have thought about this more deeply than anyone should ever think about a comic, and I think it is likely he came on board a crate of some kind (like how the other mice probably arrived). The ship comes close enough to shore that it isn’t inconceivable that a mouse could find a way in. It is pretty remarkable, actually, how mammals have found their ways to islands that one would have thought should be too remote, and then populated it over time, evolving as adaptation to the new environment, etc.

NOW do you appreciate the value of public services?good evening, crew!

Do you know how fast mice procreate?

This strip reminds me of the time when I was 17 and in high school. It was 1973. It was the March school break and 50 of us were going to France and England. The night that we were to travel to Toronto to catch our flight a fierce blizzard was raging in our area. We were cautioned to keep off the roads—they were so bad. But we traveled to Toronto on an old school bus. While other vehicles would have been forced off the road that bus got us to Toronto. We nearly missed our flight—they waited for us after getting a frantic phone call from a classmate’s grandmother. I’ll always remember that ride. Like Louie—we got there!

Boy, Louie sure is reliable. To a fault, from the perspective of some …

Good Evening, Crew—and Happy Friday!