I don’t think it’s the police that are the fools. Headlights coming up behind you as you jump down onto a roadway are never a good sign! Stokes’ triumphal pronouncement will be very short-lived.
Really like how Stokes is depicted as completely believing he’s a vampire and being totally insane in panel one. His problems will be over by the start of panel three.
1- THE SHARP TOOTHED INSULT COMIC PROFESSOR: Good thing I insisted on practicing High Altitude Low Open jumps at sky diving school. They called them HALO jumps but as a practicing vampire, I refuse to use religious terms.
2- ETHEL: Harold! There’s a man in the road.
HAROLD: Dammit Ethel. Don’t ya think I see him!
ETHEL: Well, you do miss a lot these days. Maybe you should apply the brakes?
HAROLD: ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT! Which pedal is that again…?
In the past few years, two first responders have been killed here in the DC area when responding to highway rescue calls. They leapt over a highway barrier, thinking there was more roadway on the other side, only there wasn’t. Instead they found they were at a great height and fell to their deaths. That’s what I thought was happening here at first, but it seems it’s not going to be the sudden stop from a high jump that’s lethal, but oncoming traffic.
Well, those aren’t the Twin Suns of Tracyville looming on the horizon, but they will have sunlight’s effect on our pretentious and, as it seems, short-lived “vampyre” (why not go All The Way and call himself “wompyre”?).
WUMPH! “Oops, gasp, didn’t see that coming. Farewell, cruel world, what a sucker you lose in me!”
Neil Wick almost 4 years ago
Good morning™, everybody!
I don’t think it’s the police that are the fools. Headlights coming up behind you as you jump down onto a roadway are never a good sign! Stokes’ triumphal pronouncement will be very short-lived.
AnyFace almost 4 years ago
Brian Premium Member almost 4 years ago
It’s a truck full of girders!
seanyj almost 4 years ago
Except maybe an oncoming semi!
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray almost 4 years ago
Good morning™, new grave plots !
P.3. The howl of worn brakes being forcibly applied.
avenger09 almost 4 years ago
Really like how Stokes is depicted as completely believing he’s a vampire and being totally insane in panel one. His problems will be over by the start of panel three.
Well done today team Tracy!
frequency270 almost 4 years ago
Wonder what the last thing through his mind will be.
Will it be his butt?
At this age I’m allowed to be 12 once in awhile.
flashdrive1988 almost 4 years ago
As they said in the Ballard of Thunder Road:
“The law they swore they’d get him, but the devil got him first!”
Grumpy Old Guy almost 4 years ago
What are “Famous last ironic words” for $1200, Alex……
Cheapskate0 almost 4 years ago
Sweat box Express in 3 – 2 – 1
harkherp almost 4 years ago
I thought it was nobody can or fun to catch a Lucky Charms leprechaun not a smelly vampire want to be!
Straker UFO almost 4 years ago
Next panel: standing there with a sad-faced expression holding a tiny sign that says “HELP!”
blunebottle almost 4 years ago
TRACY: Game-Set-Match!
WGillete almost 4 years ago
Yep, Stokes has gone bats.
bluegirl285 almost 4 years ago
I’m waiting for that to be a truck full of wooden stakes.
Me_ almost 4 years ago
that gonna hurt!
Knightman Premium Member almost 4 years ago
The SMACK heard round the city!!!
richsolano almost 4 years ago
Who said anything about capturing?
Chris almost 4 years ago
that would be, if you were a real vampire that is.
Lawrence.S almost 4 years ago
He’s about to be hit by the Spanish Inquisition, because he wasn’t expecting it… (How old do you have to be to recognized the reference?)
SKJAM! Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Ah well, at least he’s not getting the Varney the Vampyre treatment (live volcano.)
jrankin1959 almost 4 years ago
Other irony suggestion: The truck belongs to some church, and there’s a big cross on the forward panel.
Wizard of Ahz-no relation almost 4 years ago
exactly what i said yesterday. meep-beep.
Wizard of Ahz-no relation almost 4 years ago
so now he’s a vampyre? what was the motivation? he wanted the money or he’s just off his nut?
crobinson019 almost 4 years ago
he forgot to scream “I’M INVINCIBLE!”
scpandich almost 4 years ago
To be fair, he’s not about to be captured.
42Irish Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Skreech! Whap! Wow, look at the vampire fly!
L Silverman almost 4 years ago
Does auto insurance cover vampire collision? I bet the helpful agents at Protect-My-Car would know!
kantuck-nadie almost 4 years ago
“…We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also…”An Wang
tripwire45 almost 4 years ago
Splat.
Sportymonk almost 4 years ago
Could be Liz in a police car?
Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Meanwhile, the driver of the ACME Moving Co. truck is going “MEEP MEEP!”
Ignatz Premium Member almost 4 years ago
“I spell ‘vampyre’ with a y, even when speaking!”
Another Take almost 4 years ago
1- THE SHARP TOOTHED INSULT COMIC PROFESSOR: Good thing I insisted on practicing High Altitude Low Open jumps at sky diving school. They called them HALO jumps but as a practicing vampire, I refuse to use religious terms.
2- ETHEL: Harold! There’s a man in the road.
HAROLD: Dammit Ethel. Don’t ya think I see him!
ETHEL: Well, you do miss a lot these days. Maybe you should apply the brakes?
HAROLD: ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT! Which pedal is that again…?
Another Take almost 4 years ago
THE SHARP TOOTHED INSULT COMIC PROFESSOR: No worries. It’s just a dog.
A Greyhound
A Dad Tribute SAAAAAAAA-NAP!
MuddyUSA Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Some wrote a couple of days ago…an on coming truck would be his undoing!
TheFiddleBackSpider almost 4 years ago
You’re right. They don’t catch them they scrape them off the front of a truck
Durak Premium Member almost 4 years ago
He still looks more like a catfish than a vampire. In a second he’s going to look like a dead catfish.
buckman-j almost 4 years ago
I repeat..a truck carrying Omaha Stakes
WestofthePecan Premium Member almost 4 years ago
In the past few years, two first responders have been killed here in the DC area when responding to highway rescue calls. They leapt over a highway barrier, thinking there was more roadway on the other side, only there wasn’t. Instead they found they were at a great height and fell to their deaths. That’s what I thought was happening here at first, but it seems it’s not going to be the sudden stop from a high jump that’s lethal, but oncoming traffic.
patroman almost 4 years ago
Stokes, tell Lucifer he still owes me $$$$ on the Super Bowl.
DaleMcNamee almost 4 years ago
Stokes becomes either “bug splatter” on a windshield, a hood ornament, or makes an impression in the truck’s grille… X-D
oakie817 almost 4 years ago
he’s pronouncing it with “-yre”?
CynthiaLeigh almost 4 years ago
As I said yesterday, “SPLAT”!
Ragnar13 almost 4 years ago
Called it
tcayer almost 4 years ago
Wow, Who saw THIS coming? Oh, right. Everyone.
Sisyphos almost 4 years ago
Well, those aren’t the Twin Suns of Tracyville looming on the horizon, but they will have sunlight’s effect on our pretentious and, as it seems, short-lived “vampyre” (why not go All The Way and call himself “wompyre”?).
WUMPH! “Oops, gasp, didn’t see that coming. Farewell, cruel world, what a sucker you lose in me!”
edwardhnelson almost 4 years ago
That’s going to leave a mark!
BreathlessMahoney77 almost 4 years ago
Of course, the poor truck driver will be traumatized over i killing a person, killer or not.
IvanB.Cohen almost 4 years ago
The next sound to be heard is…..thump. Three days before Halloween….professor meets his demise.
JDBella over 3 years ago
Boom Boom…..out go the lights!