Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for September 30, 2019

Last we saw RJ:

https://www.gocomics.com/riphaywire/2019/07/20

Ka-PUBERTY!

I wonder if Baby Fireball is now Toddler Fireball ..

“Petrified with trepidation” is an anagram of “Happier twit if tender idiot.”

I guess it’s not going to be one of those strips where no one ever ages, like Peanuts. (sigh)

I’m with Rip. Wasn’t RJ just a kids a few days go, real time?

Time jump?

Hummm…

We last saw a mom and child that weren’t really there…

Now a suddenly aged RJ….

Nope, no possible connection at all! :~)

It’s been two months! That’s one serious growth spurt.

I know. TNT was put to sleep.

Wasn’t he about 9 years old the last time we saw him?

I know a lot can happen in a few months, but… Wow! Fireball must be walking and talking by now. Rip needs to spend more time with his family, anyway…

RJ! RJ! RJ! RJ! RJ! Always good to see the Forgotten Haywire

KA-PETRIFIED WITH TREPIDATION!

Look, people, if Rip can change the universe with a cat statue, RJ can age.

Maybe, just maybe, he is an illusion too

I used to watch iCarly. Very early in the first episode of a new season Sam asks Freddie, “What happened to your voice?” His sarcastic response was, “I don’t know; puberty?”