The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 20, 2024

Please tell me bubbles will be coming out of the pipe!

She could go as the hound of the Baskervilles.

Mean. That woman is so mean. She should marry Veeblefester.

I prefer Salvo Montalbano, a commissioner of Italian police created by Andrea Camilleri.

When I was in London, I visited 221B Baker Street. Good times.

My favorite character has a fondness for crowbars.

I’d like to see her trampled under foot.

Brutus, do you ever expect a good reply from the Queen of Darkness?

Mother Gargle needs to figure out what game Brutus is talking about. He he doesn’t need a clue; he is just dressed as Sherlock Holmes. So mission accomplished the moment he put on that hat.

Neat wardrobe Brutus has on today . . He should wear that more often.

He could go as a deerstalker. He has the hat for it.

Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the lead pipe, my dear Watson.

Came home one evening, took off all my clothes and grabbed the car keys. My wife looks at me and yells “what the hell are you doing”? I yelled back, “Cosplay, dear, I going as the biblical Adam”.

Elementary my dear Watson, er Mother Gargle

Hmmm. Better suited as Watson?

The old battle axe has her normal butt on shoulders attitude. You old buzzard!

Mother Gargle is such a virago and scathing in her comments to our hero, but if I know our hero well enough, he’d so whatever he could to help her should she need it.

He’s always taking a Risk talking to his MiL. I’m Sorry but she seems to have a Monopoly on insults.

Does she think she’s Watson, giving him the needle? ㋛

Nasty, Mother Gargle. Brutus is far smarter than you give him credit for.

Gladys asking, how did mother spill hot tea on her lap? Brutus, I tripped on my pipe.

And Brutus should counter, “Elementary, my dear Mother.”

Brutus looking dapper…

he should have deducted that clue quicker. :J

My wife was a big Sherlock Holmes fan. I bought her a Deerstalker hat. Not to wear, just to hang on a peg near her Holmes collection.

It’s his job to find those clues in order to solve the puzzle. That he wants to emulate a man with such a great mind is telling indeed as to his character. Insult him all you will. If he copies Holmes’s techniques, the case will be solved. I definitely respect his choice but my hero was always The Lone Ranger. He always caught fbe bad guy. If he shot the bad guy, he never killed him. He never needed any reward or even a Thank You. He got his satisfaction from a job well done. He was a subdued counterpart to Nicholas Cage’s character in the first Ghost Rider Movie, another hero of mine……..

But he DID graduate elementary school my dear Witchson!

Once again Brutus left himself wide open……..

Ouch

Reminds me of my own dear departed mother-in-law.

Brutus is hoping Professor Plum or Colonel Mustard shows up with any of the Clue weapons while they are out.

I would have told her, " A short investigation has shown you are a huge D/A and incapable of any logical reasoning".

I would love to have seen one more panel in which Brutus came up with a zinger. He’s done it before.

She clearly doesn’t understand the concept of cosplay.

Brutus, Mother Gargle will be Sorry. She hasn’t got a Monopoly on you. You can feel free to take a Risk and get on with The Game of Life.

“You’re right, Ramona, they haven’t given us the clues as yet.” Brutus retorts then he thinks “I can’t believe I actually uttered the words ’you’re right’ to Ramona”, what was I thinking?…

Send that woman to the old folks home!

Brutus has lots of clues. He just might not know what they are.

Brutus did it in the den with an unspecified weapon.