One of my favorite parts of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is the stunned incomprehension on the faces of his contemporaries. They’re not hostile to him; they just can’t figure out what this kid is talking about, except that it isn’t what they’re used to.And the realistic part — and, in the creative arts, […]
I like Speed Bump. There are days when Dave Coverly’s comic logic scratches that itch in the back of my mind, the part of the brain that is kind of dozing and jolts awake with a funny kind of “What? What?” when this sort of thing forces it to concentrate for a moment.It’s like getting […]
Dave Coverly is giving me flashbacks with today’s Speed Bump.When our first was born, we lived about an hour away from my in-laws and across the country from my own folks. It was like living on a well-stocked desert island — we had total control of the baby’s input. Shopping was one of my […]
There are people who hate puns, but I’ve never understood that. I generally don’t like bad puns that force you to mispronounce a word to make the joke work, and a long, involved pun is better than a short one. In most cases. But not always.In today’s Speed Bump, Dave Coverly makes a short pun […]