Pickles by Brian Crane for December 26, 2018

Trees don’t kick and scream on their way to the curb.

“Visiting relatives are like fresh-caught fish: after a few days, they start to smell.” ~my paternal granddad

Similarities exist.

Yes.

That was a happy fella.

Opal time to look forward to next year :-)

Careful, Earl! Opal is liable to upturn the chair with you still in it!

in our case, we just have to disassemble the guest…

You are on shaky ground there Earl!

Sis is in a mental hospital because of all the pills and booze

Both analogies seem insanely appropriate to me.

It’s only 364 days until Christmas!!!

Today is only the 2nd day of Christmas. After Christmas would be 6 January. This cartoon is about 12 days to early.

Earl should just pretend that he’s still ATTRACTED to her……… She’d be gone in about 2 seconds.!!!!!!

After that remark, Earl’s eating turkey leftovers for the next week.

A bit of plagiarizing going on here today.

I like her frown in panel 4

No matter who said it it’s true. Sometimes after one day…..or several hours, depending on the guests!