Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for June 14, 2022

Now who will cook breakfast?

Unless Edna was his problem, in which case now his problems are all gone, Rover, on the other hand, now has a big problem because Edna was the one who feeds him.

Time to call the Kansas Missing Persons Bureau.

There’s a naked Edna out there somewhere,

Merciful heavens! I’ll go get the Sheriff. SHERIFF!

His tricks never worked before. He has no idea how to bring her back.

It’s the trick where you burn her old hideous dress.

Gene appears to have unleashed his inner Harry Potter. Which I guess makes Edna his inner (outer?) Voldemort.

It’s magic!

uh… i thought that should be “got rid of” his problems

Edna’s out somewhere. running naked down the streets of Ballard yelling “I’m free, I’m free”.

Let’s be fair – Edna was never really all there to begin with…!

The constable wants a word with Gene… Wow y’all know all the characters’ names?

It looks like Rover want’s no part of this.

Son of a gun. It worked!

He never thought the wand was really magic!

….and his mother-in-law, just pulled into the driveway….

“I thought it was ‘Abracadabra!’. Maybe it was ‘Alakazam!’…”

Yes, yes indeed.

Some problems are better than others…

Meanwhile, in other news, a woman appeared out of thin air in Cleveland totally nude. She was quoted as saying “When I find Gene, I’m going to…”

If.. he remembers how he did this, be a lot of husbands looking for his phone number.

Interesting. Usually the clothes also disappear, except in a burlesque show. :)

Doesn’t look like a problem to me.

There are cups and cushions and cuddles abounding.

Shaking my head in confusion.

It looks like a neighbour has witnessed the whole sordid thing. Edna was supposed to go over for tea tomorrow, too.

Might be the most interesting cartoon I’ve seen on Ballard Street!

Yer a wizard, Gene!