Sherman's Lagoon by Jim Toomey for January 08, 2025

Don’t let him see those Squid-o’s you like to snack on.

Fins vs tentacles. Seems unfair for swinging a golf club.

Both of the kids are already embarrassed of the way their fathers are acting.

Squid Game!

So that’s the squid’s name! The lowlife! (He lives at the bottom of the ocean, after all.)

Has the squid spoken before?

This is not going to go well.

Green squid.

Calimari!

One of the reasons the Sherman-Squid feud is funny is because Sherman seemingly does not know the Squid’s name, calling him only “The Giant Squid.” Despite that the reader has just learned his surname is Thompson. The Giant Squid Thompson?

Trying to get any distance out of hitting a golf ball underwater is just going to play hell with your score.

What happened to showing respect for your opponent, Sherman?

Tsk, tsk. Shouldn’t this be the “Parent-Child” tournament?

Like the way Sherman has his clubs draped to where the strap has a bandolero effect: “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges…”

and so it begins

Is this the first time a giant squid has actually spoken in this strip?