Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 21, 2024

I’ve heard of having a frog in your throat, but being in a frog’s throat?

The frog was so freaked out it lost its color.

I had a horse dump me in the grass and drag me over the frog in Hawaii once. He was very sorry but that was the end of that shirt.

My brother went swimming with his phone in the swimming suit pocket, that was the end of that phone.

Frog sitting on a mound of human skulls.

It’s actually known as hyperbole – exaggeration for the sake of emphasis – although it’s usually in the written form – but hang on, isn’t that what a cartoon’s all about??

It’s especially true of talking cartoon ‘miniature Clydesdales’

Wow! A Barry Goldwater reference. Nice.

Keep the tablet dry!

What’s with the clear see-through frog in the last panel?

Lucy did a Hobbes

Don’t text and ride sidesaddle.

Amen to that!

Lucy’s right. I’ve had horses walk right passed a buzzing rattlesnake but spook at a leaf blowing across the trail.

I love Lucy

Looks like the frog is sitting on Pol Pots’ legacy.

My father grew up on a ranch, riding and caring for horses. His observation: No matter how intelligent and well-trained a horse might be, you could be riding him in the woods, the wind suddenly moves some dead branches near him, and he’ll panic and run you right off a cliff.

Let’s see…shall I color the frog olive green or a more greeny- brown? The world will never know!

Not too much of an exaggeration, a horse will startle if a plastic bag is blowin’ around.

Wiley is calling down the ghost of Barry Goldwater, in case of you were unaware. Lucy’s statement is a paraphrases from Goldwater’s acceptance speach in 1964 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. If you didn’t know that you lost the whole meaning to today’s strip.

Of course it isn’t a vice. I used my vice to hold metal. I got it in the big city in S. Florida, so It must be a Miami Vice.

Serves you right for looking at your phone and not where Lucy was headed. Maybe if and when you start driving, you’ll keep the phone put away.

Wil thanks for Danae and Lucy

Riding a horse and being on your phone is Detrimental to your safety

Strong endorsement from the amphibian community.

Hunting Giant Toads is an E-ranked task. Not much money in it, but the meat is considered a delicacy and can fetch a decent sum.

My mare would panic exactly like this over a line on the ground. (I had the bruises to prove it).

Lucy has her little problems.

I love the way this is drawn. Well done, Mr. Miller.

2nd panel is hilarious all by itself.

Great image of the frog here, and a cool action sequence. Made me smile.

So, I guess this horse learned this serving in Congress right !

Some of those skulls should be horses’ skulls.

Lucy has always been a fraidy cat horse….