Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 23, 2021

when the gophers start building Pyramids, it’s time to move.. and call in the BIG GUNS!!!!

New tourist attraction. This could be quite lucrative.

If they can figure out how ancient Egyptians built pyramids, they are smarter than archeologists. Invite some archeologists over to make them feel stupid.

Wait until the mouse prophet demands that the leader of the gophers set its fellow mice free and Gail’s yard is beset by plagues like blood for water, swarms, storms, boils, darkness, and so on. Now THOSE are telltale signs of epic problems.

Of historical proportion!

Little Egypt!

I guess the slaves are not vole-nteers?

E-vole-lution in action!

Bring on the re-vole-lution!

(ok, I’m done)

Bill Murray will want to go after the golfers

One of them, Mouses announces, “Let my rodents go.” And a plague of hoes descended upon the gopher tunnels and pyramids.

The gophers must be immigrants from Egypt.;-D

Next project, building mountains out of molehills.

Moles and voles in my yard.

A cunning pyramid scheme!

Have had years of mole and voles combining to kill new lawns. I don’t use broad spectrum pesticides, so it was an annual problem. In recent years blackbirds have nested nearby and are frequently seen feeding in the yards. Don’t know if they are eating the grubs, too, but the yellow circles are much smaller and fewer in number. Now if they could only sing like the wrens instead of a broken ’58 Ford muffler . . .

Are there gophers in Egypt?

What’s missing here is a Sphinx with a gopher face.

“Let my people Go-pher…”

Epic?

You get rid of the epic by finding and killing the director.

Cecil B. DeGopher

Oh, come on! That’s so ridiculous, what you’ve drawn here! …Everyone knows freakin’ ALIENS built those things!

Surprised Wiley used “gopher”, just over the line here in NH we call them woodchucks. Persistent buggers who refuse any polite or “humane” means of deterrent. I have stories….

Isn’t this one of the plagues? Just before frogs?

He’s alright

Don’t no body worry bout him

She must live in a condo made of stone-a,

somewhere in Arizona

2 weeks ago there was a rodent on my front walk. I figured it was a "gift’ from my outside cat as it was nicely laid out. I couldn’t tell what it was. I kicked it aside when she wasn’t looking & 2 days later when then lawn people were there asked them to dispose of it. Later he told me it was a mole. I knew we had them as the holes were all over. So far no pyramids or slaves & drivers yet.

Now I want to see what Egyptian termites build.

As long as you’re the sun god they’re praying to, why mess with a good thing?

So just where are they hauling those blocks from? And where are they going? And what happens to the “logs” in a few seconds?

On occasion, there are comics where you sit back and wonder how the artist came up with the comic, and this is one of them for me. I am guessing Wiley must have a gopher problem and this somehow is the result. I have to admit to being a little jealous of the ability to draw in a manner that shows a little bit about the inner workings of ones mind.

Looks like a pyramid scheme.

I have the same problem with rabbits

Nah! Having a Balrog or Dragon show up means you have an Epic Problem. LOTR had both!

Yikes!

As some of you know, I am a volunteer guide at a historic cemetery in Philadelphia. We have a large wildlife population—birds of prey, foxes, and especially groundhogs, whose holes tend to be about the size of a human foot. We guides are literally required by law to alert visitors to watch out for groundhog holes.

And though “my” cemetery has many monuments with an Egyptian motif, it has no pyramids. The (closed) cemetery across the street has a pyramid. And probably more groundhogs.

Nice use of the word “epic”

In no way can I cook, nor a good speller, but I do believe mousses are to be whipped.

brutal…

The Cecil B. Demille version of ancient Egypt.

Looks to me like the gophers are about 7,000 years too late.

Interesting to see this comic today. I just had to hire an exterminator to get rid of the gopher(s) destroying my front lawn. I didn’t have any pyramids, but there were about 20 holes that appeared over the last three weeks. We need to get those Varmint Cong! (Caddyshack)