Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for August 26, 2023

I know how aliens are depicted as having ‘antenna sticks’ coming out of their head [My Friendly Martian] but that sure looks like a UHF hoop antenna coming out the back of Jonesy’s head.

A human “cub”, bear!

Today in our Facebook group:

Gasoline Alley “years ago today” for August 26:

100 (1923) – Skeezix, the Ice Man

80 (1943) – Skeezix praises his nurse; plus, war news from this date

75 (1948) – The neighbor cat lady speaks to three-year-old Chipper

60 (1963) – Everyone takes the blame

45 (1978) – Lil tests Slim’s dinner

Seriously? It’s getting way, way over the top. ARGH

“I’ve heard of them but I never thought any of the former Campbell Soup kids still lived.”

Panel 3: The bear eats little angel Jones.

After a bit of a lull, GA is once again highlighted in the Comics Curmudgeon: “Hey, remember the bear in Gasoline Alley who can talk? Well, he found a human baby abandoned in the woods and brought him to the ranger station for safekeeping. Today we learn that he’s “heard” of angels but doesn’t know much about them, which implies to me that while bears in the GasAlliverse are sapient and can talk, they don’t have eternal souls that live on after death. Some real unsettling implications there if you think about it!”

Y’know, I could go for a Slim’s-an-idiot-and-Clovia-is-exasperated storyline at this point.