Monty by Jim Meddick for October 12, 2011

Well done Lefty! I’d like to see Bear Grills try lighting a fire with one hand.

He could go and live with ‘Thing’.

I love the “living in the wild in a sleeping bag” vibe! Shame about EB3’s typo in panel 3, though…

Not sure exactly how a hand eats a hot dog… it doesn’t seem right.

But of course it doesn’t… it’s NOT right…..

which means later it can eat whatever’s left?

Idiot – maybe the mitten gave him a hand?

And 3 Steps, I can’t find a typo.

A hobo, sinister hand, sleeping rough and…eating hotdogs? How does he/it do that? Well, I’m sure his/its survival skills are pretty good, but I’d have expected him/it to seek some 10W40 or the like instead of hotdogs!

JohnnyDiego, look up “The Adams Family”, TV or film.

Look up “Addams Family”; you’ll have better luck.

A one handed hand-entity feeding itself cannot bite the hand that feeds it(self).Funny Thing, that.

At least it isn’t a case where it is the lower body and legs that are AWOL. In that case the character forced the runaway body part back by the call of nature.

I’m surprised it wasn’t making Hamburger Helper.

Can’t helploving this strip, Monty is so matter-of-fact about the most ridiculous situations.

The hand is running away because the owner abused it. Thing and Left Hand had a one-night stand, but Left Hand wasn’t into Goth.

Things are definitely getting out of hand!

I think you’ve all missed the twist… Lefty eloped with Mittens… for a little late night rendezvous…. she’s warm, soft… I’m thinking theres gonna be some rather “warm” mutual attraction/action here shortly…. just sayin’

I hear Lefty likes finger food….That IS a hot dog, right?…I don’t see any knuckles…………….

Us Fellers said

Us Fellers said "Can’t helploving this strip, Monty is so matter-of-fact about the most ridiculous situations.

Agree completely. Has anyone ever seen Monty get excited?

I’ll go with the down mitt being the sleeping bag theory.

I also couldn’t find any typos in panel 3. Or were you referring to runaway thinking it should be run-away.

I’ll give you my left hand to help you both in this.

Nope. When the speaker says we have a "…. on our hands, they mean “their own hands”, and not anyone else’s in the room. EB3 uses too many “s’s” in “hands”…

Re: the mitten – since it’s EB3’s hand, it should still be attracted to “appliances”. I can see it trying to pick up Monty’s handvac, but not something so dead and inert as a glove.

There’s another interpretation of what a hand might do with a wiener…

Naw, the nmitt is its sleeping bag. That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.

3 steps — EB says “our”, not “my”, referring to the appendages belonging to both of them.

No apostrophes or extra s’s, so it’s perfectly correct.

If he were speaking of himself alone, he’d have to say “I may have a runaway hand on my hand", as he only has one at present.

That would be very strange….