Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for September 03, 2023

Good luck with that, Alice.

Almost apropos, the UC Santa Cruz mascot is the Banana Slug.

Alice, don’t extrude your stomach at the dinner table.

The enemies of the sea cucumbers must get so grossed out they leave.

What kind of salad dressing goes with sea cucumber?

Aww, poor Petey…he’s even an outcast in school.

Petey’s probably about to USE his stomach as a defense mechanism!!

Oh you will, Alice. You will.

The subtle differences in shades of beige would be lost on most people. Me, for example.

I swear, this comic is the only one that literally makes me laugh out loud! Richard Thompson’s sense of humor is phenomenal.

Drivelalia factosis?

Well now, look here Petey, Beige Antarctic Sea Cucumbers who extrude their own stomachs as defense mechanisms, probably don’t need glasses…

Petey, you’re such an introvert, they should have made you Diego Garcia.

I thought sea cucumbers secreted a rubbery, adhesive substance when squeezed

Is there still any doubt Petey is on the spectrum?

“Family Conversation” at dinnertime is simply not Petey’s métier. ’Twere better for him if they followed the monastic practice of Communal Dining in Silence (better for Petey, but Alice would not, could not, comply)….