Close to Home by John McPherson for March 18, 2025

Can you help him come out of his shell, Doctor?

prefer a Pea-in-a-Pod for a patient, Doc?

Clams don’t show their happiness like people.

It seems a bit clammy in here…

You’re on the couch to keep calm

Just a shell of his former self. It’s been that way since he got laid off from a certain oil and gas company.

Next do a bug in a rug and say they don’t seem very snug.

Yeah? Well, you don’t know what he’s doin’ in there!

(Okay, get your minds outa the gutter… he’s probably just playin’ Angry Birds!)

Blue Bleeb behind the front chair leg wishes they’d both clam up.

Meditation!!! music – Blonde “The Tide is High”

I’m a clam. Therefore any degree of happiness I’m experiencing makes me as happy as a clam. I’m just not as happy as the average clam.

Both today’s Free Range and Close To Home comics show that happiness is on the downswing lately.

And cue the Rim Shot Monkey.

Marcel the Shell seeks outside help

Stay clam and carry on….your luggage.

If he was in the BC strip he’d have legs.