Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for September 15, 2011
September 14, 2011
September 16, 2011
Transcript:
Lady: A plane! What kind of name-brand idiots would be fool enough to fly in a hurricane? Dog: Woof! Lady: Sorry, no survivors! I stand corrected. Looks like this dog pulled this big lug out just in time - I'll check for I.D. Ripcord Haywire - I wonder if he's that soldier of fortune I always read about in good housekeeping! Dog: Woof! Lady: OK, or maybe it was in guns and ammo! I get a lot of subscriptions thanks to publishers clearing house, all right?
A) The pilot dying an unheralded death is kind of dark for this strip, best not to say much about it.B) About the new dog: this brings up questions that always plague me about these series with speaking animals. Like: is it possible that TNT talking is only a dementia in Rip’s mind? (No, I’m pretty sure that R.J. and Cobra have both respond to him too.) Or maybe TNT is one of a kind, which would be silly since no one takes much notice of the world’s only talking dog. Or maybe talking animals are rare, but nothing to get excited about. And if that’s so, what’s their legal status? (Yes I have pondered the socio-political ramifications of Scooby-Doo. Sue me.) Or is it what I really suspect, that this is only a well drawn, well written, fun and exciting comic strip and I shouldn’t try to read too much reality into it.I think I’ll go with the last one.