Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 30, 2021

no sense of imagination the other guy talking to the clerk has

I like Thompson’s interpretation of the devil; nattily dressed, even wears a tie! Cool… I mean hot.

You bet! I hate watermelon but I love grapefruit.

Hey! I remember this one, funny how some stick in your mind….

Ten years ago today. http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-thing.html

this is a rerun

“Hey, your soul’s no bargain either!”

I love it!

i’m surprised Alice didn’t want to go look for Pulpy Joe and help him find his head!

The next farmer wanted to grow super tomatoes!

A Robert Johnson reference! Excellent!

I think this is my favorite Cul-de-sac strip.

This would be a great story if you substituted a pumpkin…and a sleepy little early America era hamlet…

Brad Pitt would be perfect as Pulpy Joe.

Makes sense. Jack’s original lantern was a turnip. No pumpkins in Ireland. (Moral of story? Don’t try to trick the devil.)

The Legend of Pulpy Joe—transforming young spirits since time immemorial (at least as far back as 2011)….