Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for September 10, 2023

The pot calling the kettle black

and guess what? Andy was the witness

It seems to have worked. Andy walked out of the courthouse.

Andy gets his hairparted twice in this Sunday double!

And he told me he thinks your mustache looks stupid!

Great punchline

Just putting Andy in his best light.

Send him up the river!

I guess the strategy was to plea bargain?

If that’s the defense, what’s the prosecution?

I’ll say the same, and I’m one of his peers !!! Put ME on the jury.

So—why isn’t he locked up??

A man is known by his mark.

I find this a very confusing strip.

I have seen a defense lawyer do that to somebody. Judge threw the book at the defendant. Didn’t help the defendant showed up stoned.

I wonder if the Barrister’s still have to wear those silly wigs.

Maybe his attorney was taking a page from Jonathon Swift. In one of his books other than ‘Gulliver’, attornies received the same sentence as their clients if found guilty so they were very careful about who they defended.

Funny

But he was trying to put Andy in a good light.

Something to be proud of, your Honor.

Nothing but the truth, the whole truth, so help me God.

Now that was funny!

The lawyer was a worse scoundrel than Andy…..the Judge said so!

Gotta watch those court-appointed attorneys!

Honesty isn’t always the best policy.

A barrister who tells the truth? Shocked the judge!

Do you reckon the barrister was pro bono?

Do you reckon the defense attorney was pro bono?

Ya get what ya pay for.

He wasn’t getting paid enough to lie.

Andy’s got a reputation, not a good one, mind you, but a reputation, nevertheless!

No wonder, Andy has yet to pay his lawyer…

He knows Andy very well. (Unfortunately for Andy.)

His wife should really leave him…

In an early Popeye strip, the sailor had a similar experience with a defense attorney — but at least the man quickly reversed himself when someone whispered to him that he was supposed to be speaking in Popeye’s defense.