Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 08, 2023

Sometimes Hermione cannot leave well enough alone.

I sometimes get the feeling that those folks are more about showing off to the world and themselves that, unlike you and me, they’re such amazingly virtuous and wonderful people.

I never Meta Claus I didn’t line.

Well at least he made it from the island in yesterday’s strip.

But what do the elves have to say – after all they’re only called upon to do piece work, otherwise they live with Santa, right??

Know this: The situation is complicated. Elves immigrated here from an adjacent dimension, centuries ago. Since then, they’ve had only low-paying work, such as making shoes and toys. Santa Claus, a seemingly jolly fellow, has virtually enslaved them. But when high-energy nuclear fusion is perfected, they will construct a spinning black hole as transit to return to their world. (—

hey Joe, wanna talk about those poor reindeer?

Don’t worry, the protestors are fictitious, too.

The elves are depressed. They have low elf-esteem

Where’s Hermione and the S.P.E.W buttons??

that won’t stop them

Santa needs to practice drifting – snow drifting over those protesters!

Show them the Sanity Clause in the Elves labor agreement.

Without the safety of Santa’s workshop, the elves will have to go back to ‘feeding’ the Wiley bears.

He now uses illegal migrants so the protestors are now happy.

Like some people who read the comments and nit-pick about things that couldn’t happen — in reality.

Evidently they just gotta have something to complain about and so, tired of the usual humdrum targets for mobbing, they chose the Santa symbol.

who here DIDN’T know what Botulism Bob meant. A**h**es

Maybe the elves have the same deal as some people think teachers do. Work their butts off in the “season”, then get a few months off. Yes, it’s the same excuse that’s used to underpay both professions.

Get rid of those picketers!

They’re bio-bots, like grey aliens or social insects. Designed to work, not to think or feel. When they can no longer work, they’re nutritious. Every dickishtator’s dream.

Some people aren’t happy unless they’re protesting something. Facts don’t matter.

This is how PETE (People for the Ethical Treatment of Elves) started.

I LOVE this‼️

I am afraid of Santa. I have claustrophobia.

See also this week’s arc on La Cucaracha.

As a grammar nerd, I have often wondered if Santa’s elves were subordinate Clauses.

Groucho: “It’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause”

Chico: *Ha ha ha…You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Sanity Clause"

“A Night at the Opera”

Let’em picket all they want, out there at the North Pole!

It looks like they are standing knee deep in the snow – and it’s running well well below freezing and only going to get colder.

They won’t last long.

Fictitious elves have rights, too.

Next, they will glue their hands to the sleigh.

What? And ruin their Christmas?

SPEW… Society for the Promotion of Elf Welfare.

If the elves themselves aren’t complaining, then those activitists should shut their cakeholes and go home to await inspiration for their next bandwagon.

If Santa Claus is fictional, then who conquered the Martians??

Is the Society for the Protection of Elvish Workers behind this?

People are crazy.

Apparently, They haven’t read the sanity Claus