B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 08, 2017

Young man, laughed the farmer, you’re sort of a fool.

You’ll never catch fish in McElligot’s pool.

Fishing: an excuse to drink beer

Just wait till the Lakeness monster rises up, pal…

Look at the bright side: no limit.

So, is BC set in the distant past…or the future?

Impossible, I don’t see enough beer cans for him to have caught a decent buzz.

I only see three

This strip being the 7th

Hopefully , there won’t be a dead body on the next attempt!

Jimmy Haffa’s next…If that’s Lake Mead.

But no fish.

Catch any empty beer cans?

Maybe the fish can catch them.

And this is a lampshading of a cartoon trope. Just as recently several did that to the on the desert atoll, very tiny island trope.

One more and he makes the double-junk-trifecta!

He’s caught everything but the one that got away.

And, 5 of the leading food groups.