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Mike Peterson Published: April 24, 2010 1 minute 1 comment

Wiley Miller waxes philosophical in today's Non Sequitur. This is kind of an ongoing theme in a comic that resolutely avoids themes — Wiley uses Pearly Gates settings primarily to reveal disillusionment and the crushing of assumptions about the aforementioned meaning of life. It's a combination of humor and philosophy that shows up in the Yiddish proverb "Man plans, God laughs*," or, for that matter, the classic and much-quoted moment from "Fawlty Towers":

"Zoom! What was that?"

"That was your life, Mate!"

"That was quick, do I get another?"

"Sorry, Mate."

Cheerful fellow, that Wiley Miller. Mind you, he's probably got a better view of the ocean than Basil Fawlty, and has to compensate for the soothing peace of a happy marriage by keeping a houseful of Jack Russell terriers, but he manages to maintain much the same detached, dark view of the hand we are all dealt.

Which reminds me to announce that Wiley will be profiled here not tomorrow (when I will post a profile I did of "Get Fuzzy" artist Darby Conley) but the weekend after.

*(Yes, I realize this is English.)