FoxTrot by Bill Amend for August 21, 2022

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Alas. Though keeping a bunch of books in there will help too.

Wow.

“Not such a long time ago, in a school district not so far away … "

A New School Year: A New Hope

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world outside the US (war zones excluded) kids ad parents don’t have to worry about getting shot.

You can actually buy bulletproof backpacks and bulletproof shields to go in backbacks.

Don’t forget to get the “bullet resistant” insert for extra protection.

Sad, but true

Kevlar backpack for kids? Only in USA.

Is that covered by one of the bullet-points on the Back-to-School list?

Go with the second amendment

I would take any of those.. but sadly that punchline is as savage as it is painfully accurate

Who’s the new troll on the block?

I was going to say, “Cue whining from supporters from the so-called ‘party of life’” but I see they’re already here.

Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip (and this one also goes along with the current Caribbeanny vacation arc):

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/08/19

The newest packs talk to you – guess what they say?

Ouch. Maranatha.

Dude! Not funny at all!!

Sad.

What good do they do? The shootings occur while kids are in class.

My Grandmother always told us “be sweet, play nice.” IF EVERYONE WOULD LISTEN TO MY GRANDMOTHER THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR GUNS, LAWS, WARS, OR POLITICS!

Yikes

American Public Schools™, ladies and gentlemen. :P :P :P

Harden and lock the doors. It worked to literally stop the plane hijackings after 9/11.

This is America, don’t catch you slippin’ up.

more things change the more they stay the same….this all started once God was removed from all aspects of our society….you realize that right?

A Return of the Jedi backpack, that hadn’t already been snatched up by collectors?

I read a comic strip yesterday that made the same joke.

Wondering when combat body armor in kid sizes will be on sale. And how in the heck they are going to work in live-fire training into the elementary school schedule…

Mothers Against Greg Abbott, posted another excellent video on this topic:https://www.facebook.com/MomsAGAbbott/videos/3251169331819610/

The saddest strip Amend has ever done. Pray for your little ones in school, and make sure safety is a priority there.

Comics like this and the comments it generates is what makes the next one say, “I can do better than the last one.”.

Just keep feeding the hatred folks.

sad to reach this day

If parents would teach their kids the difference between right and wrong they wouldn’t need Kevlar. No discipline. No respect. What do you expect?

Jason need not suffer the slings and arrows of discontent.

Simply not at all funny – just sad

sad

bulletproof backpacks are a thing, we live in a trash world

I had never heard of kevlar before, so I had to look it up. Now I get it…

SM64 is best

If I were Jason, I’d get the “Return of the Jedi” backpack. It’s my favorite Star Wars movie because of Jabba the Hutt.

A backpack design that’s way out of date would be Mickey Mouse in his Steamboat Willy design.

Bill Amend: Don’t people read the Sunday Funnies to smile….laugh anymore? All YOU did was release the hounds. And they ALL need a dog park. Why….

Police state conditioning 101.

Republican Roulette: When you send your kids to school.

SM64 SM64 SM64 GET SM64

My son’s backpack lasted him from 6th grade through graduation. Not because we couldn’t afford a new one, because he liked it, and it wore well. I don’t get the need to buy a new one every 12 months.

Yeah, but there is absolutely no correlation between the US’s love affair with guns and the record number of shootings.

Maybe a backpack at the nearest Dollar Tree or Walgreens would do it.

Good choice.

Yikes

The classics are never out of date.

That’s not legal in some places, like the State of New York. It could be considered to be body armor.

Can this decade get much more sad?

I don’t know what’s sadder: the fact that kevlar backpacks exists in this universe, or that their may be a need for them in our own.

Get the Super Mario 64 one

Jurassic park is not old

so true