Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 24, 2014
Transcript:
Mom: Who is that handsome fellow poised for academic excellence? Is it Petey Otterloop? Petey: Mom. Mom: Look out world, here comes Petey Otterloop, the super scholar! GO GET 'EM PETEY! Petey: MOM. Petey: GAH! Ernesto: Was that your mother, Peter? Her voice does have a penetrating quality.
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
Crud; Ernesto again… not to mention maternal embarrassment as well.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 10 years ago
Creepy Ernesto. Gah!
Sisyphos over 10 years ago
Very inopportune manifestation of Ernesto. Madeline had Petey almost feeling confident (note the smile in panel 3) until Ernesto broke the spell.
GROG Premium Member over 10 years ago
This day’s certainly getting off to a lousy start. Can it get any worse?
puddlesplatt over 10 years ago
Petey the world will just keep getting nastier.
alfracto over 10 years ago
What tonnage hath that back pack?
scrabblefiend over 10 years ago
Even children in the first grade now carry backpacks and have homework! What is the world coming to?
Spooky D Cat over 10 years ago
Notice the little smile in the third panel. Compliments and encouragement really do work.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 10 years ago
“Penetrating quality”?, yeah, that’s it!
reynard61 over 10 years ago
@ HectorGonzalez, Dry, J_Quest and Night-Gaunt49: Ernesto exists, Petey is the hallucination… (That’s my theory an’ I’m stickin’ to it…at least until someone can produce definitive evidence to the contrary.)