CSotD: Attention: This strip has nothing to do with armadillos
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Wednesday is usually a day for one-off gag strips, because all the story arcs are pretty well in motion and it's hard to bring readers who haven't been following them up to date, and they're not delivering punchlines yet anyway, so there's really no point in trying.
However, Cul de Sac tends to operate on a level where knowing what is going on is nice but not mandatory. And so here's today's strip and, of course, we're approaching Halloween and what more do you need to know?
On the other hand, if you do follow the strip, you'll know that Alice foresook her fascination with fish-slapping bears to become a devotee of pangolins. Her mother has re-purposed Petey's old dragon costume to fit this new interest and it's just gone so well, and Halloween is still so far away, that we know it can't be fated to continue to unfold so seamlessly.
When Alice first took up with the pangolins, I said to myself, "Oh yes. Pangolins. Related to armadillos." However, according to that link, what I was told about pangolins when I was Alice's age is no longer operative and nobody seems to really know what the hell they're related to. This is, in part, because pangolins are mysterious creatures and, in part, because I'm old enough that I've started to outlive several scientific theories. And one planet.
Shortly after Alice announced her interest in them, I saw a news story that said pangolins are endangered because devotees of folk medicine believe there is some health benefit in eating them. Which is what those same sorts of people believe about the paws and gall bladders of fish-slapping bears.
I assume that this latter bit of information will not turn out to be a Cul de Sac plot point over the next two weeks. No, wait. I don't. There is probably a shoebox diorama on the subject being assembled as we speak.
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