Close to Home by John McPherson for February 22, 2024

They’ll get better.

The jury is waiting for the death sentence.

You might want to turn the jailer and the judge into turkeys as well. Then walk (or fly) away.

Excuse the interruption Your Honor, but the jury is requesting a brief recess… it appears they can see a dead armadillo on the street through the window!

now they are buzzards and she’s dead meat

Good one!

The origin story of Broom Hilda and Gaylord…explains why they don’t get along so well!

Now if she’d turned the lawyers into buzzards…. Oh, wait. No one would notice.

How can it be a crime to be a witch? I guess “freedom of religion” just applies to the dominate faith.

I almost married a psychic but she broke up with me before we met.

The prosecutor made her angry.

Until I read the caption, I thought the cartoon was going to be simply about her chances with this jury.

Carrion with the trial now

This trial is nothing but a witch hunt!

A jury of your peers?

I would not cross her.

Yeah! If it would help for the jury to be transformed, the lawyer would have beseeched his Dark Master to do it when they first showed up.

Uh-oh. A witch hunt is worse with buzzards!

Stay back, Bleeb!!!!!!! She couldn’t help it. She was irritable. :)

A not guilty verdict may be the way to go – if they know what’s good for them.

She could’ve picked something a little less ominous to change them into, like meek little lambs or something.

They have experience with corpse delicti.

The judge is next if he doesn’t decide in her favour.

A jury of her peers, peers at her!

I hope they carrion with the trial.

Um…I’d be real nice to her if’n I were you!

She’s on trial for witchcraft? This must be Alabama!

Case dismissed squawk