Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for January 19, 2021

… a lawyer…

What about the guard dogs? Better take some raw steaks.

Pettifog would like to buy a share in the business.

Hit a hardware store first, no loans…

I wonder when this Idea crystalized in his little head. It could fracture his relationship with the Law while he cleaves his way through the store.

Those tools could also be used for a more peaceful “peaceful protest”.

Just discovered Donald Westlake’s John Dortmunder books. Funny, light, easy reading about a group of professional thieves who can never quite get it right. . .

Magnifying glass as well

Oh, you mean ‘open’ a jewelry store.

(imagines this cartoon being part of a continuous story (a serial))

The sad thing is, I think a lot of banks would go for it. I’m looking at you Wells Fargo and Barclays.

You can get a good lock pick cheap.

That’s one way to “open” it.

Who writes this sloppy dialog? The second panel should be “How can only $200 enable you to open a jewelry store?” The play is all on two of the various meanings of the word “open”. Apt dialog would not have tipped readers off to the third panel’s punch line; indeed, it would have sucked them in even deeper.

And a grand opening it will be!

Kenosha?

That’s pretty easy way to establish a jewellery store.

YOU JUST GAVE IT AWAY, YOU RUBE!

“M. Bank”?

M. for “Monty”?

Please don’t give that list of materials to Congress, it’ll expand it into a billion dollar boondoggle…at the taxpayer’s expense.

Criminal alert!