Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 02, 2012

Linux0s said, about 24 hours ago

@margueritem

Perhaps the impetus for the classic Moby Dick.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You could be right!

It’d scare me, too!

Gee, I hadn’t seen anybody use “smek” since Milt Gosses’ “Nize Baby” some 60 years ago. It’s a good desultory sound perfect for the administration of a light bitch-slap with the back of your hand across a face.

That jack-in-the-box is either sick or evil, or (more likely) both….

Ker-plat!

That would’ve given me nightmares too.

This IS the stuff of nightmares. Closely related to clowns.

Good hygiene will prevent that!

This is one of my top 10 Cul de Sac strips. That clown inching out of the that box—genius!

That toy IS creepy! I don’t remember any Jack-in-box with that much spring (or fabric length).

The-jack-in-the-box we had as kids gave me the creeps, too. “Jack,” the clown, was a classic scary clown in appearance and demeanor. And then there was the ambiguity of when the top would pop open even when you could see the little latch moving. But it was for a good purpose, I guess. It was preparing us for the nuclear annihilation we expected at any minute during the 50s.

I hate clowns.

According to the blog, gocomics is going to start running Richard’s Poor Almanac as weekly reruns starting tomorrow. Yay! More Richard!!