Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 04, 2022

love the lamp

Bad time to use a common expression.

Love how it is the monsters who are whistling in the dark…

If you’re sleeping with a horse, there are probably worse things than bedbugs in your bed. Just saying.

To ‘sleep tight’ is to sleep well and undisturbed.

I can name that tune in 5 notes

I have six grandkids. I’m always temped to tell them the monsters under the bed will eat them if they get up in the middle of the night

Have the monsters from Calvin and Hobbes finally made their way here?

Nice to see that the girls don’t have to share a bedroom. (I expect Kate really appreciates it.)

Good thing I’m not a parent. I’d tell them that the monster is why I chose my bedroom, and to kindly keep it out of there.

I think I remember using monster spray under the bed for a while when my daughter was young.

Boy, is that kid spoiled. Her daddy not only got her a pony but she gets to sleep with it. And a cel phone? I didn’t have a cel phone at that age… Of course, when I was that age the phone was firmly mounted on the wall and it had a cord.

A familiar theme in another comic.

Morning Wiley, great strip, love your to be continued strips!

The monster under our bed was chewing on a (nyla)bone last night about 2 am. I forgot to give her her sleepy pill.

Knowing Danae, she will make an alliance with whatever is under the bed. Look out, Dad.

No problemo. The monsters under the bed are scared of me…

Still remember my mother telling me not to go down the basement stairs cuz there was a mean ogre down there. One day I worked up the courage to do it anyways. It was just before my thirtieth birthday.

Oh come on! Danae is the girl that most “monsters under the bed” are hiding from.

You will scar they minds for life, eastern.woods.metal

Under the bed and closet cams monitored on her phone?

Never worried about the monsters under the bed, it was the closet that they were in. If I went to sleep and the closet door was cracked even 1/2 an inch, I had to work up my courage to dash out of bed and slam it shut. I also had to be completely covered from neck to toes with sheets and blankets or they could grab me.

If you’d kept the closet door shut, the monsters wouldn’t have been able to crawl under the bed, Danae. Always works for me . . .

Bedbugs are indeed a real thing. And they’re hard as heck to get rid of them. You can get them just by having someone who has them sit on a chair or sofa in your house.

And why did the word for removing louse eggs from one’s body become a synonym for paying too much attention to unimportant detail? ….unless you really, really like lice

Not bedbugs. DC lobbyists. Still in the vermin family.

Easy fix…bed on the floor, no space for monsters or grabby hands reaching out for your legs. ;-)

Perhaps, the monsters are attracted to the dirty dishes on your hope chest at the end of your bed Danae?

Time for one of my favorite jokes.

Bad Dad: “I’m calling the Boogeyman and telling him not to come to our house tonight.”

Under the bed, a cell phone starts to ring ..

There was a comments some years (?) ago in Non Sequitur from Danae’s dad – “No, they all crawled out years ago and went into banking. Now go to sleep”. Don’t think Wiley had much time for bankers …

They are really invisible, but you can sometimes hear them in a quiet moment…

Really Dad? That seemed a bit dumb.

when i was a kid and i got up in the middle of the night i tended to have the feeling like something was grabbing my feet! couldn’t have been the monsters under the bed, probably just poor circulation and the blood moving to my lower extremities. there was that one time i woke up under the bed though …

“SERIOUSLY?!”

(imagines a different version of this dialogue in this cartoon)

REALLY?!

The Monsters are afraid of Danae,or should be.

I prefer the approach that Susan Sto Helit takes with monsters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQCeBnZewpM

I like all the dirty dishes at the foot of the bed.