The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for November 10, 2023

Perdution chicken.

She’s looking for red hot chili peppers, too!!!

There must be a devil’s cake on her list…

Filet of soul on sale…

Clever products and pricing!

They even sell deviled eggs.

Where is the Devil’s food cake?!

Spam should have a front row place in that market.

Don’t forget the Red Hots in the candy aisle! Gotta keep the spawn of the Devil happy!

Two different 666 comics today. That’s disturbing.

Where everything bought, sold or traded, bears the mark of labor, either of the hand or of the brow.

So in the balance of yin and yang would this store be offset by 5 Below stores?

Fake news:

“616 (six hundred [and] sixteen) is the natural number following 615 and preceding 617. While 666 is called the “number of the beast” in most manuscripts of Revelation 13:18, a fragment of the earliest papyrus 115 gives the number as 616." (wiki)

Fabulous!

Hysterical!!

It’s like the Dollar Store, only worse.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: Everything’s 6.66

Just as an aside, in the first century authors in Roman world would use Roman numerals, so they would have written 666 as DCLXVI Not very scary that way.

If it’s only a few items, she’ll use the handbasket.

I heard there was some pearl-clutching over Monster because in some dead language, those backward 7 things that make up the M in the logo translate to 6. That’s probably why they were included in this strip.

Deviled ham… devils food cake..

I pray that she will make it to Aisle 7 where she will find Heavenly Hash along with Angel Cakes and be blessed with Almond Joy!

Every day new puns. And not just one or two, a whole slew of them! You’d think that Hilburn would’ve exhausted all conceivable material by now but no; he just keeps ‘em coming. In its own way, it’s a form of genius.

I’ve looked all over the place and they don’t seem to have any angel hair pasta.

Wash it all down with Damstel Light beer.

Goes well with today’s “Foxtrot” rerun.

But do they have road maps for Route 666? Goes from Chicago and straight to heck.

Actually, the anticrust bread looks pretty good. I could do great things with crustless bread.

Anticrust bread. The mark of the Yeast.

But not even this store would stoop so low to carry Vegemite.

I don’t eat Cheetos at all.

Makes it easy to budget

I’ll bet the check out lines are a b!tch.

Should’ve been “Mark-Up of the Beast” with everything being $7.77

Soooooo, some things are really expensive and some things are really, really cheap?

That market has really gone to hell.

on the weekend the checkout lines are hellacious…

How do we know it wasn’t a biblical typo, and 666 is the mark of the BEST?

Quite the Customer Loyalty program, too. All the apostles are members as well as their Boss. That’s how Jesus Saves.

devil’s food cake

No Miracle Whip here.

Given the rate of inflation, this is soon going to be an appropriate name for ‘dollar stores’.

The only place where Inflation stands still!