Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 15, 2011

All of the above…

Petey enters his very own Twilight Zone.

I find myself fond of the concerned-looking kid at the bottom of the middle panel.

Loris the Flash! Andre the Giant! And two unidentified crowd-scene extras. Pensive Petey , prepare to be blitzed! It’s too horrifying to contemplate!

Petey’s bad dream will soon become a nightmare. His out-of-body experience is turning into a near-death experience and his reality will bite horribly in the next panel.

Soccer is a horrifying form of boredom.

I’d stay out of that mix if I were you Petey.

Run, Petey, Run!

I believe the girl on the right is the same one who once destroyed a xylophone.

Unidentified?! That’s VIOLA D’AMORE!

Final soccer score from last night; USA – 1 Guadeloupe – 0 USA advances to quarterfinals of CONCACAF Gold Cup.

I love that Andre in panel two, he looks awesome there. “Its Clobbering Time!”

@Hillbillyman; okay, we get it. You don’t like soccer. Stop whining about it. There are more folks around the world who DO like soccer, and appreciate the skill and beauty of the game, than don’t. We’ve heard enough of your rants. Just relax and enjoy the comic, okay?

he looks like he just stepped (ran) out of a maurice sendek story

At least Petey’s shoes haven’t eaten his socks. Yet.

I hope Loris doesn’t trip — Andre would squish her into a grease spot!

Suddenly the ball hits Petey and miraculously bounces past the goalie and Petey scores an inadvertent goal, causing him great angst.

See today’s “Dark Side of the Horse” for “Little Neuro in Slumberland”, for Team Cul de Sac. Brilliant!

DCStark, I suspect that Hillbillyman is a Conservative Republican, a Limbaugh Listener who is outraged by what he sees as the “feminization” of American males. Of course, soccer requires no less levels of skill and athleticism than American football, and even though soccer calls for more endurance (half the team isn’t sitting on the bench watching to other half play at any given time, let alone the continuous interruptions between downs), soccer players aren’t 9 foot tall and 4 foot wide…

The rise of soccer in popularity, even though it’s (at present) no threat to football’s preeminence as our “National Pastime” (baseball having fallen behind during the second, military adventurist, “800-pound gorilla” half of “the American Century”) also seems to him (I suspect) as symptomatic of America’s loss of standing as Superpower. Of course it doesn’t help that, in international competition, we’re still pretty bad at the game (although we’re getting better, and are no longer embarrassingly bad); there’s not much of an opportunity to chant “USA! USA! USA!” when we’re losing two-nil to Paraguay.

Finally, and this is a fault he has in common with a GREAT many people, I suspect that Hillbillyman simply feels threatened when his own preferences are not validated by all those around him: “I don’t like this, and I don’t think anybody ELSE should like it either!”

PS: “soccer players aren’t 9 foot tall and 4 foot wide…”

Andre may prove an exception, if he sticks with the game…

Sorry Petey, it’s about to get worse (love Loris and Andre!)

They all look like little Star Trekkers on an away mission to send the ball where no Cul de Sac-er has kicked before.(Although with this group, I’d have gone with the blue ‘science’ jerseys instead of the gold ‘command’ colors.)

Cleokaya Excellent!

Petey is my fave character in this strip. xD

@Destiny23: Nah. Loris is moving too fast.

Unidentified yet concerned sprinter: Sofa’s older brother, Chesterfield?

i think that petey just found the missing link between the gorilla and a human!

Viola D’Amore plays on Petey’s team? By the looks of it, Sofie’s brother too?

I think the concerned one is Sofie’s brother.