Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 06, 2021

The magic word or the magic face?

Yes, you can have it! Take it!

The magic word and threatening look works wonders. :D

With folding hands, he muttered obsequiously…

Alice is a good master of persuasion, kind of like Lucy Van Pelt when she makes a fist and tells her brother Linus she has “five good reasons” why she is right and he is wrong……

Those self-help books were right: It IS all in how you ask

Alice the bully. The only portion of our dear Richard Thompson’s comic that I do not like at all.

“Please” and the terrifying glare that turns spinal fluid to ice.

Nah. Alice’s face in the 3rd panel STILL wouldn’t convince me.

I’d have looked for a Big Wheel…so much cooler!

Dill, want your toy back? All you have to do is dance on the manhole cover and pretend to be having the best time ever! Alice will quickly gravitate to what she thinks she has lost or is missing out on. When she pushes you off, you can make your escape post haste, and burn rubber!

Look at the two middle panels and cross your eyes until they merge: Alice in 3-D!

Dill and I love Alice. In today’s strip she’s channeling Dick Chaney asking the CIA for evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Alice would traumatize me into confessing or acquiescing to anything! 2 and 3 may be the scariest panels ever in any comics!

Order up! One shattered kiddy car, for the Dil table