Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for October 25, 2023

=Will be interesting to see what Katy has up her sleeve for Clayton.

Gotta love that psychological terror.

Katy is getting into his head, maybe.

Well played, Miss Newman.

Did anyone notice that this is a repeat of Oct 27 2021?

see Clay, you’re having a mini-version of what married men are fearing… make that a lesson, son.

True horror, after all, is in the anticipation.

When will his eye start to twitch?

And… This arc to be continued into next week…

Be afraid, be very afraid…

Which sleeve? And they’re both short,

She’s used this tactic before, Clayton. Either go on the offensive now or get out of the house.

What goes around…comes around.

oh, she’s cooking up something vicious alright. :J

She could be up to … nothing at all.

It’s the nonchalant whistling in panel three that adds to that feeling of dread.

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages representing the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style without being interpreted as an overly heavy-handed metaphor within the context of the thematic material a bit on the frenetic and frantic side with interesting rhythmic devices which seem to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor utilizing a novel imaging technique known as positron emission tomography

It doesn’t help matters that she’s whistling “Pop Goes the Weasel”…

C’mon. How bad could it be?

It’s like waiting for the other guillotine to drop.

Nothing to fear but fear itself, and Kathy.

As you should be. Be very afraid….

So he is repeating last year…

There’s a story, perhaps apocryphal, about 2 chess masters (Capablanca and Lasker) playing a match. Capa pulls out a big cigar and puts it in his mouth but doesn’t light it. Lasker complains to the tournament director that he can’t stand cigar smoke. The director reminds him that Capa is not actually smoking. Lasker replies, “Yes, but the threat is worse than its execution.”

Is your life flashing before your eyes, Clayton? Are you wondering why you spent so much time eating Red Vines?

Paybacks, like ice cream, are best served cold.

Best revenge not to do anything. Let him think about all the possible horrors she could do, have him on the edge.