The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for December 08, 2023

Shocking! … oh, wait …

“But I’m off the grid! It’s those durned Cratchit kids slacking off pedaling my electricity-generating bicycles!”

Marley’s new job!

So NOW You decide to give it up.

This may explain yesterday’s Geech.

Give up the ghost, Scrooge.

It’s the Ghost of Christmas credit card bills to come that he also fears.

Bah! … Humbug!

De-light full.

That’s what she said last night.

Tee hee.

He uses candles.

What the Dickens!

If you don’t pay your electric bill, you will be deligted. If you do pay it, they will be.

At first glance, I thought the apparition was going to flash Scrooge. Kinky.

She looks a lot like Mrs. Butterworth.

Next up, the Ghost of Christmas Presents will show him the long lines at the store.

Those electric bugs aren’t humming.

Again, time to raise their rates so this cannot happen.

We didn’t need as much electricity during the day but we did want it at night. So we had lunar panels installed…