Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 14, 2012

Wonderful stuff!

Nice Alice!!

“Say hello to my little fren’, Darlene!”But, seriously, isn’t it nice how Petey helped Alice get over her fear of cicadas—and create a new race of Super Cicadas?

I, for one, welcome our new cicada overlords!

Yesterday was a repeat of September 29, 2007 (but in b&w), and the first 2 Sunday strips in the rerun:September 30, 2012 repeated September 16, 2007October 7, 2012 repeated September 23, 2007.But this isn’t a repeat of September 30, 2007. It’s a repeat of October 7, 2007, one week later. Apparently, the rerun won’t be a total rerun.

One of my favorites! I think this is the first Cul de sac I ever read, been reading them ever since. :-)

and just wait until she sheds…Screeech!

Cute bug love in panel 3. Love it!

I never imagined that Petey would take cicadas better than I did.

I once went camping at Angel Creek, near Wells, Nevada. The cicadas had hatched and the sound of their chirping was almost deafening.

This strip answered one of life’s mysteries: why do men infantilize women? It must be a way to cope with their fear of women. Thank you, Mr. Thompson!

Luckily, there’s no cicads where I live.

When I was alice’s age, my marble collection were the little people that inhabited the flat towns I built of a meager ammount of blocks. Never had more than 2 dolls total and 2 stuffed animals, but once I got better at sketching I was very creative (and risque) with paper dolls. I made all my own clothes during my marriage and even took in dressmaking for a while.

Late in the year, some cicadas come down where I can pick them up. It’s fun to put one on my shirt and it looks like a pin… that walks. They also seem like little, buzzing wind-up toys if you hold on to them. I always put them back gently.

When I lived in Delaware the only thing I remember about the Cicadas was the noise. It was as loud as the surf if you lived at the beach in CA (which I did). Hmm, that would make for an interesting white noise machine flavor. ;-)

I love this strip. I’m finishing the Gregor the Overlander series by Suzanne Collins, with talking cockroaches and bats, scorpions and spiders. There’sa character called Boots, 3 years old and loves all the creepy crawlies.

I think the cicadas are pretty cool! We always have some, but I love when they do the massive hatch.

“Bugs are like little machine that you can play with.”

Good one.

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