Bad Machinery by John Allison for May 27, 2024

If only it meant he was an Eric Frank Russell fan.

It’s a good thing he wasn’t serious about that request, because it was going to take awhile before he’d produce enough hair to even let down. :P

A boy is one boy,

two boys are a half a boy,

and three boys are no boy at all.

-Grampa Gus.

And so it begins…

Oh yeah… that tattoo is really classy.

My mom was a WASP traitor. One of her cousins joined the DAR and my mom even though the genealogy showed she could, happily skipped signing up. She also, horror of horrors, married a Jew.

So this is Romesh Sengupta, possibly Darren’s only remaining friend. Certainly the only one who seems to have gone to the trouble of contacting him after he went out of fashion. We’ll be seeing more of Romesh.

Romesh has questions about that WASP tattoo. Darren doesn’t have answers, because he’s an idiot.

This was another originally single-row strip that was expanded to double-row to fit the page format for publication. The top row was added. This is also not where it originally appeared. It’s moved up a couple of strips, to the middle of the Claire’s party sequence rather than coming at the end of them. You can tell from the sky that it’s later here than it was in Friday’s page or will be in tomorrow’s.

I wonder what trouble they will get into.