Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for September 04, 2023

Now all their lies are costing billions to clean up, and said leaks have almost destroyed the Columbia River—almost. Hasn’t quite reached it yet, but is dam* close.

I remember this one time I fell in a lake and almost drowned. It was awesome! I had to be resuscitated, and I was in hospital for a month, and for a while I was hooked up to a machine that did my breathing for me and everything! And the brain damage! Oh, let me tell you about the brain damage!! I had to—

…wait, upon reading that, I’m starting to think I don’t remember it very well after all.

That’s why he still has hair? How random?

Nostalgia is a form of self-delusion to convince yourself that the past didn’t suck.

Nostalgia isn’t what is used to be.

Hey! Scott and his famdamly are downwind homies. My hometown is Ordnance, the little ghost town across I-84 (then Hwy 30) from the US Army Ordnance Depot in Umatilla. During the summers, we had some evenings where we could sit on the rooftops and watch the ‘fireworks’ at the Naval Bombing Range out of Boardman.

I almost feel like I do at the class reunions I attend for my high school class that graduated back in the Pleistocene. Some of the people look a little familiar but I just can’t quite recognize them after all these years. I mean, were these guys people we knew in this strip before the long hiatus?

He drank the water, and he’s the only one who still has hair… Coincidence?

LOL, I ‘liked’ this one by the second panel !

Well, they finally did clean up and destroy all the mustard gas at Umatilla. The easy one down, two to go!

That’s a demoniac-looking trio.