Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for December 28, 2019

Dick Tracy he’s not..

Rip’s looking a little chunky. Too much Christmas candy?

‘Shaving accident.’

Ka-OOPSIE!

I’m remembering that “Thick Headed?” commercial right now

I have a feeling that he should’ve saved that oopsie for later.

Rip should have read the Sherlock Holmes canon, one thing they would have taught him was the importance of thoroughly searching for clues.

Like I said Natural causes. The knife stopped his heart from beating so naturally he died.

I don’t see any blood around the knife wound (or is that because of the coloring?) If so, it would appear the knife was thrust into the chest after he was already dead.

I think Rip is having dreams of being a Defective Detective!

bring back Sopapilla

Call the police? Now where’s the fun in that?

Be a good title for my next pulp detective book, THE BIG OOPSIE!

This was no boating accident!

In Rip’s world, that’s natural.

KA-OOPSIE! (To be fair, Rip is more familiar with adventuring than detective work, so we might want to cut him some slack.)

I bet the Highwayman is the murderer.

Upon a much, much closer inspection, Rip realized that there just may be a bit of truth in the mayor’s speculation.

Hard for him to see clearly when he’s squinting so much……

Yeah think?