Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for March 19, 2024

Cheeky little twerp.

We would position a hundred little plastic soldiers around the room and then have rubber band battles.

Ah, Zoe, he’s gonna get even with you. You shouldn’t have done that.

Thank you Zoe.

To quote Candid Camera, “Don’t be surprised if sometime, somewhere, someplace, when you least expect it…”

Wow. You try to do something positive like read a book, and look how it’s rewarded. What’s worse for Hammie is, if he retaliates, he’s the one who’ll get in trouble. “She started it,” rarely gets you out of hot water.

I prefer a three shooter for rubber band battles.

It MUST be opposite day!

Turn about fair play Hammie!

Don’t do it Hammies! It’s a trap!

Putin’s big sister. Wonder what Mr. Biden’s childhood was like?

Who is this being that looks like Hamish MacPhearson that is interested in reading a book over playing? Especially to have a rubber band fight with Zoe and utilize a multiple band shooter he’s built.

You’ll put your eye out!

Wait a sec,..isn’t this usually the other way around, like Zoe would be reading & Hammie would bother her w/ a rubber band???

News flash! Hammie is reading? Zoe is being the troublemaker?

Some games do not require that you be an active participant.

That Didn’t hurt Hammie!

Never has that problem after the first occasion. Where my dad worked they had these really BIG rubber bands that dwarfed what Zoe has in her hands. All I had to do was pull out a couple of those and the fight died away quickly.

Now our bean shooter guns were another story. There used to be in the 1960’s a spring loaded toy gun that came with little round plastic balls that you could shoot. It was called the Zebra I and we all had them. The little balls would quickly get lost, but we kids figured out that the balls were the same size as navy beans. For 25 cents you had a whole bag 1 lb bag of ammo.

My brother would do that to me. To this day I cringe when I see a rubber band being stretched.

At least she got him in the padded part.

I agree

This will evolve – slingshot with acorns.

Some day, Zoe, I hope you get ALL that you deserve.

Hammie will borrow a giant rubber band from a Warner Brothers cartoon

Kinda makes her tattling TWICE as evil… >:-/

Do you have fanny questions?

Run Zoe!

And this is what has caused the reduction in literacy.

HANG ON! Hammie doesn’t read!!!

I remember doing that with friends when I was a kid, but the bands never struck with anywhere remotely close to enough force to hurt. Especially not at long range. She’d be very lucky if she could even reach him from there.

Zoe payback all the times from Hammie. Mom!

A little role-reversal?

Zoe, you have to know you will regret that. Okay, Hammie show us what you got.

Now if Hammie did this to Zoe, we all know she’d be running straight to tattle on him.

Too painfully realistic—-not to mention humiliating—-to be funny, as well as yet another perfect example of what’s bad about family values.

Rubber bands are a very lethal weapon.

That’s a brat sister for you!! I should know, I have one!!

I have a good friend who was an only child. I was the youngest of 4 siblings. Every so often my friend will say how nice it must have been to have sisters growing up. Most of the time, I tell her tales (true ones!) that make her glad she was an only. My sister was a lot like this.

You’ll shoot your eye out!

Wait…what?… Hammie’s reading?! Am I looking at the right strip???

Classic big sister behavior.