CSotD: Episode 4/4: New Beginnings
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Leading off the day, and the week, with a pair of starts to story arcs that could prove fun.
If you follow Piranha Club, you probably have a taste for the silly, and there are times when Bud Grace doesn't even try to hide his own flair for same. This appears to be one of those times.
So I guess that's a heads-up however you feel about silly things.
Meanwhile, over at Non Sequitur, Wiley appears to be starting up a story arc which I'll follow as much out of my enjoyment of his storytelling (I still miss Homer) as out of my curiosity over an arc that stars Kate and Petey instead of Danae and Lucy, Kate being the well-organized, logical one who generally serves more as a Greek chorus than a leading lady.
I don't know if Wiley was first in the cartoonists-writing-kids-books trend, but he certainly got there early, and his Ordinary Basil books made my granddaughter gift list a decade ago.
And I'd buy this used paperback copy of Basil's second adventure, but I'm no spendthrift and they don't offer free shipping. How foolish do they think I am?
Anyway, I was just noticing that the list of review copies from which my young critics can choose is suddenly replete with books by people I know.
Dave Coverly, Norm Feuti, Rob Harrell and Eddie Pittman, anyway.
I don't know that four books quite qualifies as "replete" but it's at least "plete."
And I'll be seeing Wiley, Rob and Eddie in Kenosha this fall. You could do that, too, and you probably should.
Starting to feel like a pledge break around here. Let's move on …
Timing and Comedy
It's hard to be quick on the draw with specific political commentary in a strip, but, in today's La Cucaracha, Lalo Alcaraz hits hard enough that being two weeks after the fact is okay with me.
The good senator knows that there's no such thing as being too tough, just as long as someone else's ass is on the line. There was a meme going around recently that suggested candidates should, instead of saying "boots on the ground," be required to say "your sons and daughters."
Cruz is on the Armed Services Committee, where he is able to be completely neutral, having no experience of military service to prejudice his judgment.
I can't help but suspect that, if we still had the draft, Brave Sir Ted would have scarpered back to the land of his birth.
In any case, it's almost impossible for strips to fine-tune timing. It's probably safer for them to address more general concepts and hope for the best, as in today's Monty, which inadvertantly knocks one not just over the wall but straight through a picture window in the rich folks' neighborhood.
This is like playing horse, isn't it? I mean, that was pretty amazing timing, but I didn't hear Jim Meddick call the shot.
(I'm giving it to him anyway.)
Juxtaposition of the Day
(The Barn)
Meanwhile, over in South Africa, there has been a lot of complex discussion of their One-Percenters, who apparently haven't got the sense to hide all the filthy lucre they've been amassing, but, while those chickens seem finally to be coming home to roost, Sylvester the Lion is, as seen in Madam & Eve, providing some comic relief by refusing to stay home at all.
Of course, if he ever becomes a serious threat, the US is prepared to send over some of our dentists, but, until then, he reminds me of a Rhodesian ridgeback I knew who loved TV so much that his owner never had to crate him while she went to work: She would simply put on the Wild Discovery Channel and he would lie on the couch and watch the antelope and lions run around all day.
Better men than I am have owned ridgebacks, I'll admit, but I've had them since 1986 because, as indicated in the Barn, finding a dog that fits your lifestyle is critical.
When my boys were little, I had Hungarian sheepdogs, and the boys and the dogs would run around the backyard all day, since both had an inexhaustible supply of energy.
Now the boys are grown and gone and I've moved on to hounds, who have been all been delightfully content to lie on the couch and watch football with me.
Or without me, or to not watch at all.
Enjoy your work week
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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