Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for April 12, 2024

When Baleen ‘Splashes’ we all listen except for the guy in the first box (panel).

Is this arc now gonna segue into one involving Walt’s hearing loss?

What? What? Walt mimicking a light bulb! (watt)!

Almost like the Corky’s takeover of circa 2008.

What’s up with Walt’s sudden hearing loss? Did his hearing aid fall out?

Baleen is dating George Costanza?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

It’s not news exactly that conflict is the engine of good stories, but I have to say that Gasoline Alley feels like it’s rediscovering this for the first time in years. When it was just Walt and Sheezix on a quixotic quest to stop Electric Acres from happening? Snoozeville. But now that I know it’s turning brother against brother, and fiancé against fianceée? This is it. I’m all in. I hope it devolves very quickly into graphic and gratuitous violence, while Walt wanders around shouting “What’d you say? What’d she say?” until a hurled piece of debris finally puts him out of his misery. It’ll be the sort of thing where Rod Serling steps out of the shadows and explains that this world may be more like ours than we care to admit, until he too is killed in mid-sentence by a hurled piece of debris.

Still want to know what happened to the OTHER waitress, who took time off for “minor” heart surgery….

why is he deaf all of a sudden?

I wonder if the stoves at Corky’s Diner are gas or electric LOL

Also from the Comics Curmudgeon, some relevant entries from the Comments of the Week. The first is in reference to the old family tree that Josh dug up a copy and put in an article. Linkish at the end.

“At first I understood ‘Judy: Left in Walt’s Car’ to mean that on Feb. 28, 1935, she’d had enough of the strip’s whole (waves arms in futile gesture) … whatever all this is … and hot-footed it out of town, stealing Walt’s car to add insult to injury. ‘Go, Judy, Go!’ I exulted. ‘Go and don’t look back!’ Alas, I was wrong. Gasoline Alley seems to exert a gravitational field that no one can escape, not even poor comics readers. Please excuse my bitter tears.” –Doctor Moreau

“Gonna be straight up here, I really don’t care about the angry entrenched perspectives on what counts as a ‘silly name’ from people called T-Bone and Baleen.” –jroggs

“So wait, has Walt not heard a single word of dialogue since this whole story began? That’s not fair, we should all be that lucky.” –pugfuggly

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