That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 24, 2023

Leonardo DiCaprio’s stuntman from The Revenant was loved and admired by all.

/// It’s a lie to imply that bear’s “cokie.”

Far from “hopped-up,” he’s clumsy and poky.

The man made him upset—

tossed a lit cigarette.

You don’t do things like that before Smokey.

the day Gentle Ben broke his SAG contract!

“Why are you shooting at me? This guy tripped and I was going to help him get up.”

He’s following that adage: “If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s white, goodnight!”

Dang, dessert just arrived.

An unexpected, unpleasant encounter for hunny hunters in the Hundred Acre Wood. Pooh-Bear has recently gone Hard-Right. Hands off his hunny! Hunny is Money!

What the bear does in the woods, the red-jacketed man just did in his pants!

A Cautionary Tale: How Pierre Met a Grizzly and Came to a Grisly End (written in the style of Hilaire Belloc [I hope])

Pierre vain Hunter extraordinaire

Went out to shoot a fearsome grizzly bear

Traipsing through the woods he soon found

A huge grizzly’s tracks upon the ground.

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Foolish Pierre did not yet realize

That he was Food in the grizzly’s Eyes

And that as he crept through the forest dim,

The huge hungry bear was tracking HIM!

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Soon they met and Pierre became aware

This was no friendly Smokey Bear.

At ten feet tall on its hind legs chargin’

There was hardly any safety margin!

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Unfortunate it was, his shotgun jammed

And into Pierre the grizzly rammed!

It was not pretty what then ensued

The blood and guts for each, vicissitude.

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When later searchers looked here and there

All they found was scattered bones and hair…

Take heed you hunting bears unprepared:

Be well-armed and no shame is it to be scared!

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Pierre was most certainly not

And look the pain and suffering it him got

The bear, however, his stomach satisfied

Did not care except HE hadn’t died.

That feeling when you wake up from hibernation, but haven’t had your coffee yet

As Davy got older, he realized that his bar killin’ days were behind him. In his later years he got by with a little help from his friends.

“Stop shooting him! It’s just making him mad.”

That ain’t Yogi !

In that instant of singular clarity, Johnny “The Joker” Johnson regretted loading Carl’s Winchester with blanks.

Jill realized, about the time she was about to be shot, that maybe this costume was taking their role-playing thing a little too far.

Isn’t this a new Elizabeth Banks directed movie? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14209916/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_2_act

Yikes ! This could get ugly.

As I was scrolling to get to the image, I thought the bear had a sword. I was wondering what kind of D&D artwork was being posted today.

Looks like he needs another shot.

That is why my walking stick is a lever action Winchester.

Quit aiming and shoot the bear!

and I though Sharknado was a movie too far

Hey pal, don’t shoot, I can smell the deer jerky in his pocket. I’ll let him keep the power bar.

“You’d better learn to do the waltz, bear! That circus promised me twenty grand for you!”

“Hey! That tickles!”

Grizzly Attack: 

Paste (including the quote marks, may require clearing browser cache first): 

Künstler 1970 "Grizzly Attack" site:fineart.ha.com 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first https://fineart.ha.com link found for info about this auctioned roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Since the artist is still alive (as of this writing), copyright restrictions prohibit me from posting an image of this artwork to Wikimedia Commons.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3086 (February 23, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. Second work by this artist used here, the February 6, 2015, being the prior. GoComics has deactivated the 15 hyperlinks and removed the line breaks in my comment there; but, maybe the text remains informative.

Turns out that Jack was not loaded for bear.

This is one of those nature scenes that the artist has to be very quick to capture.

Only later they realized the bear was only napping, not hibernating, when they attempted to take his temperature with a rectal thermometer

And the Dragoncat Award for Best Art Title goes to… Steve Melcher!

Good one!

/// Unprovoked, the Bear made his attack.

Thought he’d gobble them up as a snack.

But they’re brave; won’t give in

and just let the Bear win.

Using weapons from us they fight back.

@Call me Ishmael : I hope that you had a wonderful birthday.

It’s strange, but it’s also true/

(A.A. Milne surely never knew)/

The sinister brew/

That emerged as he grew:/

The “dark side” of Winnie the Pooh !