Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 23, 2023
Transcript:
halloween spooktacular 3 short tales of terror man: eeek house of creeping cottonballs a kindergartner brings home an innocent-seem-ing class project that comes to life, expand-ing uncontrollably until the whole house is a heaving mass of cottonballs, glitter & glue! woman: eeeek cat: please, i'm trying to read. strings the uncanny nap this lady wakes up from a brief nap to find herself in a parallel universe where cats control all the media! garfield is twice as ubiquitous & advertising is done with dangly pieces of string! man 2: eek lower level you are here hell cinnabon parking lot mall of the damned a guy goes to the mall to take ad-vantage of a sale on men's pants. but he gets lost & wanders for days! then he finds a map that says he's in hell! and all the pants on sale are relexed fit wide-wale corduroy in "sphagnum green"!
SteveHL about 1 year ago
Personally I am comforted by the thought of cinnamon rolls being available to the dam-ned.
Cpeckbourlioux about 1 year ago
Peat moss green corduroy, yech!
ellisaana Premium Member about 1 year ago
Freshman year of college, I dated a guy who wore peat moss green corduroy pants. They were wide-wale corduroy, too. Our relationship fizzled.
Teto85 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Those are not cotton balls, they are miniature tribbles.
prince valiant Premium Member about 1 year ago
Richard Thompson- the master of cross-hatching ,of pen strokes , of lettering. Yowsa!
Creedon Francis Premium Member about 1 year ago
Spoken in Rod Serling voice
stamps about 1 year ago
Shouldn’t that be sinnabon?
chromosome Premium Member about 1 year ago
It’s a rarity to find the season lining up for these cartoons!
Sisyphos about 1 year ago
The Mall of the D*mned is real, you know, As they say, been there, done that (more or less)….
gbars70 about 1 year ago
‘Advertising done with dangly pieces of string’ I just might watch that…