Pickles by Brian Crane for October 02, 2024

You can’t swat any critter you’ve named. Or can you?

Chickens are also egg-laying creatures.

Roscoe is loving this!

Spiders are cool.

Harvey Wallcrawler

My mother wouldn’t let us children kill spiders. Actual conversatio with her:

Mom: Don’t kill the spiders. They kill bugs.

Me: Mom, Raid kills bugs including spiders!

Not all bugs are true bugs. For example, lovebugs are flies, ladybugs are beetles, mudbugs are crustaceans, and the Love Bug was a VW Beetle in a 1969 movie staring Dean Jones.

“Boris the Spider” song comes to mind!

Could be worse, Opal, some folks have pet tarantulas!

Harvey’s Latin designation is Pookahspirita.

I have spiders as sidekicks.

He’s trying to kill grandma.

“Harvey”? As in Steve Harvey, the hardest working man in showbiz?

Roscoe is so cute : )

This is funny.

Panel five: Gramma’s chair is empty, Nelson looks confused.

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At least they aren’t boids—disgusting, filthy, lice-ridden boids.

What a nice boy! Put down the bug, though! Outside where it belongs!

Looks Roscoe is grinning in last panel. Can’t wait for gramma to go running when Nelson opens his hands.

On an episode of ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’, Granny had a special ‘weather beetle’ named Cecil. It accurately predicted rain when the Weather Bureau did not.

Roscoe REWLS. Best character in the strip by FAR!!!

I thought Harvey was a rabbit!

Bugs can go about their little buggish business in peace—as long as they STAY OFF ME!

She forgot “BITEY” and “STING-Y”

“And now you know the rest of the story.”

“Harvey Wallbugger”?

I love Rosco. Sometimes I think he is the best part of the strip

Panel 5: Gramma explodes.

Nelson, you should have named it Opal.

That dog has a big smile in the last frame. Think he likes Harvey LOL.

Sorry, Opal, but Hades is not a place. Hades is an ancient Greek god, ruler of the underworld, where all go upon dying – but except in very unusual cases (e.g. Sisyphus), there is neither punishment nor reward; it’s where the dead hang out.

Hades is not a polite synonym for Hell.

roscoe got a huge laugh out of that one! }:):):

She’s very calm! Or, perhaps fainted?

“Eek!!!”

SQUISH!

Dogs laughing.

It’s a bunny rabbit!

Ah there’s that Roscoe laugh!

Is the dog laughing?

Harvey Wallbanger?

Alas poor Harvey the Millipede, I knew him well.

My son gave a tarantula to me a few Christmases ago because I had caught a colorful spider in the house and named it Larry. Didn’t see that one coming!

oh man… woulda loved another panel here!… (maybe tomorrow!)

That’s the trick to not be afraid. I always name my house spiders! I love a good kitchen spider, though I’ve not had any since I remodeled the kitchen. :(

Harvey, the Larvey?

I thought Harvey was a pooka in the shape of a large rabbit?

I like Steve Harvey, Weinstein however I’m glad is in jail.

I sometimes watch these short videos on YouTube when I’m trying to fall asleep called “Miniscule.” It’s animated but not cartoony and is all about the adventures of various bugs, spiders, ants etc. It’s very well done even winning quite a few awards over the years

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…..

Sounds like my adult daughter and jumping spiders.

And her scream jumped three octaves that day…

So are Big Rabbits

Ol Roscoe, sure found Nelson hilarious!??!