Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 01, 2021

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    LupisLight  over 3 years ago

    Dill, you ALL look like you escaped from a picture book.

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    donwestonmysteries  over 3 years ago

    In New Mexico it might qualify as a Murder Hornet.

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    monkeysky  over 3 years ago

    I’ve got a big hornet nest right next to my door. They’ve never done anything aggressive, but they do sometimes spread their wings as a warning gesture. I try to tell them that we both live here, so we ought to get along, but they don’t listen.

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    gbars70  over 3 years ago

    The great and powerful Andre turns out to have feet of clay; Dill angrily assumes his real place in this drama as truth teller; Alice is still smitten and Petey has determined hurrying home is the better part of valor.

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    tonypezzano  over 3 years ago

    Andre is a wasp?

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    Prey  over 3 years ago

    Enter Dani, stage right, with his hammer.

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    Jeffin Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Alice has a crush on Andre!!

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    Jeffin Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Andre does look like he came out of Where the Wild Things are.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Two words: Super Soaker

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    PoodleGroomer  over 3 years ago

    Look up Cicada killer wasp. It is the flying supertanker of the wasps.

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    dragonfury98  over 3 years ago

    could be one of those murder wasps…

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    MCProfessor  over 3 years ago

    A can of AquaNet and a match?

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 3 years ago

    Notice just how happy Alice is right now. Rare does that happen. André’s sudden shock at the size of the queen wasp fits right in with Alice’s happy tittering.

    André’s design is definitely influenced by WTWTA.

    Wasps and hornets are such beautiful compact creatures. Carnivorous hunters.

    Right now over the past 10 years with weaker winters wasps are surviving them and building permanent giant nests now 7’ – 9’ wide, who needs Japanese hornets when we have that?

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    Publius10608218  over 3 years ago

    Usually stuff gets smaller as you get older. Wasps have always seemed to just keep getting bigger.

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    genghis.shaman  over 3 years ago

    That looks like a mud dauber… they don’t even sting. Of course the kids wouldn’t know that, but I wonder if it was done on purpose.

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    Sisyphos  over 3 years ago

    Looks like Andre “the Giant” Chang (a.k.a. the guy inspired by Where the Wild Things Are) has met his match in the orangutan-sized wasp! Alice blithely giggles her way through the encounter, while jealous Dill hangs by to witness the outcome (and maybe gloat, if Andre goes down to defeat).

    It’s a cliffhanger for sure (anyway, a manhole-cover-hanger)….

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