Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for May 11, 2010

It certainly looks like it…

Let me guess; free drinks for the vendors?

If you got to sit through those long winded boring speeches the promise of free drinks afterwards helps.

Make mine a Tanqueray martini with a large splash of Laphroaig.

Gin n Scotch, cleo? any vermouth in that martini?

Make my martini so dry that when I go to the bathroom

I want to see ‘dust’ in the urinal..

He’s moving from passing out flyers to just passing out.

Okaaaay Claude….

Your dog comes home driving a TANK…

wearing eye protection and a helmet …

and all you can muster is a bad feeling??

Presumably a spine is out of the question…

and speaking of questions, how about a few of those, too?

And couldn’t you at least toss in a “Confound it, Cleo!” or two?

Directly at her, I mean…. not just whispered to Clara.

Check it out in

the May 11th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”

Which you’ll find on Sherpa

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Then come back here to vent…. er… I mean, comment.

What has she destroyed now?

Funny… I never knew Cleveland was so lax with permits for ordnance…. artillery, tanks, probably even WMD’s.

It HAS been a long time since I lived in Cleveland Heights…

and MY father was nowhere near as lenient as Claude.

In this case… probably for the best.

This strip does seem to be just Page 1 of the story.

I even waited for it to move before making sure it was a .jpg, not a gif.

I have a feeling this is not the last of this arc we’ll see….

but if it IS… I’ll be forever curious.

Cleo must be a ex-military dog. Where else would she have learned to use all of her weaponry.

Well, it kind of looks like an M4A2. I wonder where she found one near her neighborhood in running condition?

Tanks for the memories!

I doubt he’ll remember where he’s been.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200511

That doesn’t sound very good indeed… that tank’s caterpillar seems to be cranky.

Maybe Cleo should have taken out the bad cat’s can-opener’s car out of it after having taken care of the latter…

Quick! Clara! Throw a pitcher of water on Claude!

Claude Clifford: Master of Understatement.

Who is he talking to? (Our conventioneer, I mean.)

Cleo seems to be taking the social distancing enforcement to a new level.

GOOD MORNING BALLARDEERS! Q-day 159,204

Got to wave at my mom yesterday. I miss our Tuesday shopping / breakfast mornings.

Y’all take care of each other.

Looks like someone is tanked, and someone has a tank.

I see one of those 9 differences in the drapery rod!

Check out #3 on this list. But don’t show Cleo #8:

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/montana/insane-things-montanans-do/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=montana&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=nlimage3

I’m sure Cleo is just taking it out for a test drive. You know, just to make sure everything is in working order.

Dude is loaded. I hope Cleo isn’t.

Good afternoon Balladeers, Plods and Miss Susan.

Oldest son lives near Philly, southeast area of PA is a hard hit COVID area. Haven’t seen him since early March in person. not to mention our worrying because he lives where he lives, Youngest lives nearby, and we visit, sitting outside on chairs, keeping the social distance, etc. but I miss hugging my kids! MAN, DO I MISS IT!

Cleo better watch out. That evil cat and all his friends are waiting for Cleo with their bazookas. Those are not explosive shells in those bazookas. They are loaded with cat food and cat poo-poo.

SUSAN , THANK YOU!I answered you above and saw I had replied to myself, so I typed this in case you didn’t see that reply? ;-)