Kliban by B. Kliban for December 07, 2022

I did not remember this one, but I like it. If you’re a sphinx, where else are you going to go to shop?

There’s a really good Indian restaurant a couple more stores down.

Weird that its only gynosphinxes. There were other varieties.

Beware when you deal with a sphinx

Its disposition usually stinks

In silly riddles it talks

And kills each person that balks

To give the solution it thinks.

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The Sphinx is a mythical beast

On travelers it often did feast

Until Oedipus, that smarty,

Put an end to its party

And Thebes tourist business increased.

Ah, I see we have the return of Hardw.

In my part of town, the sphinxes don’t have breasts.

Quick. Go find Napoleon and his canon.

Well, it sounds better than “Sphinx Store”, which if said too fast, could be misinterpreted.

Life in California has changed a lot!

It appears Kliban forgot he wasn’t drawing for Playboy.

HA! If a Sphinx Supply store existed, the one in Egypt would have bought a new nose.

Meanwhile, Arizona has the phoenix.

“You can check out any time you like….you just can’t ever leave”!

There seem to be a lot of boobs in California…Still, not nearly as many as in Georgia.

That’s EXACKLY the way L.A. was back in the day!