That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 27, 2016

“Now that I’m a widow, I’m free for dinner Friday night.”

“No, my dear, I didn’t say I wanted you to give me a head.”

“Well, you said you wanted to see the look on his face when I broke the engagement!”

This one is “Ordeal by fire” – hard to see but there’s a young lady being burned at the stake in the background.

Never gonna win the relay race at this rate.

I hear PMS was a big problem back in those days.

This is how to get a little “HEAD!”

Otto III taking a count head.

losing face is one thing, but a head?

He did leave this last will and testament giving everything to me .

At least the dog is not at all perturbed about events.

“Does this dress make me look fat?”“Er, no, M’lady, just look in this mirror.”

Guy front left: “Well I’m not cleaning this up.”

She wanted to get ahead on her spring cleaning.

That is one tough summer camp!

The story is, the Empress made a pass at a nobleman, who turned her down. So she accused him of attacking her. The Emperor, in a fit of rage, had him beheaded. His widow asked the Emperor to submit her to ordeal by fire to prove her husband’s innocence. She passed, so the Emperor had the Empress burned at the stake for making a false accusation.

" I couldn’t find my bowling ball.."

She found his porn stash.

That’s what I call a burning love.

Told him not to buy the cheap ring

Thanks for that (and for pointing out the red hot bar ordeal). I didn’t have time yesterday to do more than see the blow-up diptych in Wikipedia, so I didn’t see the background material.What I like about these toons is looking up the originals; I honestly can’t remember coming across Bouts before.

Another work by this artist can be found here.

I hope she at least gave the ring back