In Security by Bea R. for January 07, 2019

What Ellie means is that any moment now those snowmen will spring into action to protect that house. XD

Hey Ellie, ever seen “The Blob”?

Maybe you can figure out another way to fix this than through finances, you could switch houses and let the family move in with your mother while you take the wreckage. Win-win.

“Itty-bitty snow kitty”? How do you not know she’s a girl after she said something so adorable? The snow kitty is missing a whisker, but Ellie loves him anyway. ;)

This – oddly – reminds me of a story I’d heard about the production of the “Jungle Jim” comic strip many years ago …

Seems the writer at a certain point during the strip’s run – I’d thought said writer to have been creator Alex Raymond, though possibly not – had placed Jungle Jim into an inescapable ‘Doom Trap’ …

… then suddenly died.

Neither the editor nor the other in-house writers could work out an escape for Jungle Jim which made sense.

Their solution?

They cut away from the situation for a few weeks, till they figured most casual readers would forget the specific details of the trap, then showed Jim having escaped, along with the words …

This is a bit tougher than unscrewing hinges so that the door comes loose.

It’s OK, I’m sure the snow family have no understanding of physics either.

Love the camera angles in Panels #1 and #3. ✨❤️✨

The insides of the ‘Snow-Kitty’s’ ears are made of leaves. ✨❤️✨

Hubbs’ single point focus is going to wipe a suspiciously similar looking snow family.

See that it does not to the flesh and blood versions, my good man.

Aw, Hubbs. Have you no eyes to see, no ears to hear? Look closely at that snow family and see your future…

Twilight Zone twist: The snow family will, in fact, stop it – but the house occupants will sue Hubbs for the destruction of their kids’ sculpture artwork…

Ruh roh… Maybe the snow family is just snow packed around steel posts. Or maybe comic magic will come into play.

Wait, Ellen, did you built that snow family?

Is that Roy’s house?

Ellie has no concept of physics, and Hubbs has no concept of knowing the difference between Al and Ellie.

These things have a way of snowballing out of control.

HaHa. Ellie is so innocent. Its adorable.

Ellie is right. Bring them to life Gabby, save the day.

The snow family is a portent of the future for Ellie and Hubbs. It will all work out.

Semi-Off-Topic:

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At this point in one of those glorious Saturday afternoon movie serials we would all be on the edge of our seats wondering how Tom Mix or Tarzan or Flash Gordon or Ace Drummond or Tim Tyler or any one of a dozen others would escape the impossible-to-escape-from situations they were in, created by the obligatory evildoer.

The resolution the following Saturday was always a disappointment because the impossible-to-escape-from situation would have been re-edited to show an obvious escape route. In this case the re-edit would show the concrete barrier the snowfolks are standing in front of that will save the day. Or somesuch.

I really miss the era when boys (with or without tomboys) could beg a nickel or a dime from their parents, ride on their bicycles across town on their own and return, all unsupervised. No need to lock your bike at the theater, just add ’em to the pile outside and sort ’em out later, which was part of the fun.

Oh, this is terrible! I just turned 49 last week, and the suspense from this strip will be the death of me!

SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!!!

Anyone else remember the old Dick Tracy cartoon where someone would say something like “Hold on!” and all the action would freeze? The ability of someone to do that would be useful in this situation.

No Hubbs, she does not have any idea about Physics, but she has hope! Lots more people need that kind of miracle in their lives.

Oh me oh my oh Hubbs

Whatever shall you do?

Hallelujah,

The question is peculiar

I’d give a lot of dough

If only I could know

The answer to my question

Is it yes or is it no?

Does your snowball lose umph

at the bottom of the slope?

If Ellie says please stop it,

Do you try to make it right?

Can you catch it with your fingers,

Can you turn it left or right?

Does your snowball lose umph

at the bottom of the slope?

Here comes a blushing Ellie

Hubbs is by her side

Up to the house side,

Just as steady as Gibraltar

Hubbs has got the snowball

And it’s such a mighty thing

But as he slips in the snow

The snowball begins to crash:

Does your snowball lose umph

at the bottom of the slope?

If Ellie says please stop it,

Do you try to make it right?

Can you catch it with your fingers,

Can you turn it left or right?

Does your snowball lose umph

at the bottom of the slope?

Now the snow people rise as one

To send their wanted son

Up to the snowball, yes,

The nation’s only snowball

To voice their discontent

Unto Hubbs and Ellie

The bonny burning question,

What has sent the snowball this way?

If snowballs are made of snow,

What do they make snow out of?

Does your snowball lose umph

at the bottom of the slope?

If Ellie says please stop it,

Do you try to make it right?

Can you catch it with your fingers,

Can you turn it left or right?

Does your snowball lose umph

at the bottom of the slope?

At the bottom of the slope

Hello Ellie,

I love you and

want to hold you tight!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

Thursday, Friday, Sat’day night

At the bottom of the slope

A dollar is a dollar & a dime is a dime!

He’d sing another chorus,

But he hasn’t got the time,

At the bottom of the s