Red and Rover by Brian Basset for April 19, 2019

Red was re-enacting the Hamilton / Burr duel.

Burr won again.

LOL! Good pun Brian.

Red must not have read about Br’er Rabbit and the Briar Patch…

(although we might say that this is a Brian Patch… )

I gotta admit, that was pretty clever.

Talk about sticky situations!

Rover cannot heip to remove them, they will hurt his nose, his mucous membrane in his moth and his pows!

Pretty good pun.

Very cute.

More like nasty alien parasites! They’re going to have to find a “Dr. McCoy”!

stick on you worse than a pregnant tribble!

I use to hate those things as a kid. They were always in our woods.

Very clever, boys!

Nasty alien burrs!

We used to call the light brown round little stickers, “boogie lice”.

Ah! A twofer!

Klingons?!Worse! Tribbles!

Better than the other kind on the end of dogs! ICK!

“. . . circling Uranus, looking for Klingons.”

  - Old playground joke

When this first ran in the Houston Chronicle he got a red shirt of security and engineering. Others gave him the present golden-yellow of bridge.

Just got River’s pointed ears! Well duh! Really laughing now!

The Red & Rover “Star Trek” storyline is my all-time second favorite, only slightly behind the much longer (but masterwork) Mrs. Olsen / Gabriella / broken wrist arc in “Frazz.” If you ever have the opportunity to read that one, do so. Absolute classic.

Great wordplay, Brian. I love this arc.

Better this week and we called them burrs cling-ons for years.