Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for October 07, 2023

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    Richard Perry  about 1 year ago

    Smart!

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    Code the Enforcer  about 1 year ago

    " Give a Hoot!! Don’t … (Wait! – That’s not Right!) " … :)

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    snsurone76  about 1 year ago

    Your story doesn’t hold water, Hoogey.

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 1 year ago

    Bear gets with the program.

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    top cat james  about 1 year ago

    Does…not…compute.

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    BlitzMcD  about 1 year ago

    Nice save!

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    iggyman  about 1 year ago

    Quick thinking! Are they still taking the boy?!

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    Old Time Tales  about 1 year ago

    So what is going to happen is that Robo-Bear is going to have to just stand their quietly while the CPS woman drags off a kicking, screaming, crying Jonesy? I don’t think that’s going to happen.

    The kids parents had better show up soon.

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    NoDice  about 1 year ago

    Aren’t they calling them wildfires now? He’s also being called “Smokey Bear” now instead of “Smokey the Bear.” When did all that happen?

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    oakie817  about 1 year ago

    and here come the singing mice

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    billyk75  about 1 year ago

    I thought it was called wild fires instead of forest fires.

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    Uncle $crooge  about 1 year ago

    Dumb!

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    Uncle $crooge  about 1 year ago

    This story started way back on August 1 as sort of a segue from the Joel / Rufus amnesia with Dumb and Dumber looking for a bear cave to hide in as they try to beat the hospital bill. Here’s a quick summary for those who came in late and might have missed the “action”:

    8/1: talking bear, with some kind of bionic hearing ability, hears Joel and Rufus heading for his uncle’s cave

    8/2: bear meets “Jones”

    8/3 – 8/9: the two wander though the woods looking for Jones’ parents and reach campsite, guided by talking deer (hoo boy)

    8/10: forest fire starts, not “far to the ranger tower”

    8/12: the two reach ranger tower

    8/15 – 9/13: bear, Hoogie and Jones bond as the fire is apparently put out as Hoogie does nothing to help

    9/14 – 9/19: The “Authorities” show up and Jones escapes (boarded up window simply disappears)

    9/20 – 10/02: Bear scares Authorities away and bear and Hoogie jabber for days and days about nothing

    10/03 – 10/07: The Authorities return and are somehow tricked into believing that bear is a “talking mannequin”, howbeit a very smelly one

    That’s what the last two+ months of absolute nonsense has been. Sure, this story has more “action” than the “Rufus has amnesia” dreck but that is a ridicuolusly low bar. But why has GA come to be such a mess? Why do all of the characters have to act like absolute idiots? For many decades this strip was built around the real-lfe antics of characters that people could identify with. Why was there a need to add time-travelling talkiing dolls, talking bears, and piano playing mall lizards? Is Jim incapable of telling a story that doesn’t involve slap stick type hijinks that make the Three Stooges seems like Fellini? Have we finally hit bottom or is there still a ways to go? Haven’t the long-time fans suffered enough? Is Jim going to work until he’s 100 like Corky?

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  about 1 year ago

    Jumping that shark ooooh oh jump’n that shark!

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