Scary Gary by Mark Buford for September 08, 2023

Ya gotta be faster Gary.

Gary, you hesitated!!!

Licked clean!

What kind of Squirrel is out at night?

Squirrels are what the S in the word SPAM stands for. (SPAM is short for Squirrels, Possums, And Mice.

That cute squirrel pic is going to go viral on Instagram.

Quick snack, eh Leo?

You would think Leopold would devour the bones

I didn’t know Gary was into x-ray photography!

I’d like to hire Leopold.

Oh, no, he is modern: it a thermal imaging camera. Even I have a thermal imaging device: very useful for finding heat leaks in the winter. Summertime? not so much.

OK, that does it. It’s one thing for a vampire to have a demon henchman, but not one that is grazing on the neighborhood…..I demand the toonist restore that squirrel to original condition.

Make no bones about it…Leo is fast and ruthless.

At least Leo was considerate enough to set the bones up in the same pose Gary was going to take the picture of.

So?

Leopold was a little hungry and needed a snack, okay?!

Besides, the skeletal squirrel is a much more intriguing photo subject….

My local grocery store has a Seasonal Row. At the moment there is a sale on all the stuff you would buy or gift to someone moving into a dorm. But the other half of the row is all the Halloween Candy people will buy… eat… and need to replace before the big night. A small section has decorations. A collection of the decorations caught my eye. Skeleton Cats, Dogs, Bats, and Small People. I thought of buying one of the Cats. (I like cats.) I thought I could put it by the front door to my apartment in the complex. But then I remembered that most of my hall… has cats. I thought of all the glares and hate mail I would receive for having a decoration on my doorstep!

Evolution tried a nocturnal squirrel species and it went extinct

Hold up, Gary. This kind of troll has been known to skeletonize an animal in less than two seconds. Now there’s a vivid thought.