Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 09, 2012

You’re one odd father, you know that, Peter Otterloop, Sr.?

OMG! This brings back traumatic childhood memories—except that in my case the offender was an uncle—big, loud, boisterous, and with no sense of when he was scaring a little kid….

Is he tickling her?

Why doesn’t every comic strip artist just make comic strips like this with kid characters? I’d rather see a hundred different takes on this idea of a comic strip than comic strips that focus on non-believable animal characters or adult characters. Adults make great comic book heroes and boring comic strip characters. MAKE MORE KID STRIPS! Stop trying to be “original” by giving us comic strips about circles or lamp shades or whatever.

Love Petey and Alice’s postmortem panels.

9 months ago a comment was posted on this strip’s archive.3 months later it was replied to, andanother 3 months later, the reply was replied to by the author of the first comment.I may check for a reply made to a previous day’s comment of mine, but 3 months??I found it interesting anyway.

(sigh)nice try Daddy…

My Dad would tickle me until I cried, then continue till I barfed.Not the best memory.

I hated the tickling when I was young too. But I think that Peter is just bouncing Alice. I think it would be too hard to bounce and tickle at the same time. Besides, I don’t think Peter is sadistic.

Since the rerun started, I like to compare what was said before to what’s being said now.

No, I don’t think he’s sadistic, either. Reminds me of the time my mother and I were horsing around and I accidentally hit her in the chin with my knee.

Did he drop her?

It is said that excessive tickling is a form of bullying, if not downright sadistic. It does not matter if the perpetrator realizes that or not.

I had a sadistic pediatrician who would send my mom out of the room and then tickle me till I cried. She got a new pediatrician about the time I was school age and old enough to complain.

He got a lousy T-short instead.

what a nice bro!