Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 09, 2010

I remember that act quite well….

Step One with any scandal: get ahead of the story!

(Tiger Woods could learn a lesson or two from Alice.)

Isn’t it strange that Dad looks like a grown up Dill?

Dear Lord!!!! Imagine alice’s hair blondish, then add a flippy bit to the bangs and ends!!!!! I had never noticed before!!!

Though it does explain her lack of suprise at some odf the things alice says…… she did thingsd like it.

.. It makes me wonder if mom ever tried to use some form of a grabmaster to claim dad’s head. maybe with GrabMaster SuperMitts II?

Has Mom still got Polyfill?

If you want your adorableness to be believable, you have to be consistent with it, and not just put it on every few weeks…

I’m sure Alice will polish her act as time goes by.

ahh the old wait till your father gets home routine, i remember hearing that line when i was a little kid

Alice is in trouble now, although maybe not maximum trouble yet ‘cause they haven’t used her middle name yet. But Alice’s Mom isn’t so innocent either – I mean resorting t taking Mr. Polyfill! Of all the nerve!

Now Alice we just want you to understand… you can’t go ripping your friends heads off with oven mitts.. its just not right no matter how cute and adorable you are .

If a teaspoon of sugar helps the medicine go down, imagine what a bucket full will do….

Love Alice’s “who, me??” face in the last panel.

… all this adorableness… says it all !

Good point C4B - maximum trouble means the middle name is invoked. What is her middle name? Alice Ann? Maybe after grandma Alice Gertrude Maybe after grandmas dog Alice Shirley or Alice Big Shirley…

Those eyes in the last panel are PRICELESS :-)))

They say it all.

Ugly characters but good story lines. I’d give this comic strip three out of five stars.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here Rachel17……pre-teen???

I give the strip * * * * * stars!

I’ll second that, Grog!

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Rachel17 - do you think “Family Guy” characters are attractive? It’s not just the drawing style, which by the way is actually excellent, it’s also the quality of the personalities.

The whole point of a comic strip is to be entertaining while making us laugh or think of how we ourselvs would react The art is just there to help us along and doesn’t always have to be elaborate… The sureal minimalist landscape of Krazy kat worked just as well as the elaborate draftsmanship of little nemo in telling the story the artist wanted to present.

I find the characters here are charming while drawn with an economy of line and unsual perspective. Five stars all the way

On a scale of one to ten, “Cul de Sac” goes to ELEVEN! Do you know what that means? It’s ONE funnier!

(That’s the Tufnel Scale, by the way.)

Love Alice’s look in the last panel