Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 30, 2012

I’ve always invented new games like that! Traditions, too. It can’t become a tradition unless you start it! And the cool thing is all you have to say is say something like “Um, I’ve just invented a new tradition…” Hey, if it works it works, if not so what?

Cute game! (Although I would think he’d want the sprinkler to catch up to him more often in this heat!)

See today’s For Better or Worse for more on crop circles.

One reason the Caulfield character “works” is that he’s capable of both kinds of behavior and you never know what’s coming. The obnoxiosity acts as a foil for strips like today’s, for instance.

Just dropped in to see what condition my tradition was in………………

Panel four- love when this happens! Truly a moment of living poetry.

Seems to me that people who deliberately messed up a farmer’s crops should have to work for the farmer for a while, helping harvest, etc.

Beautiful – are we sure this isn’t a Sunday?

As to crop circles making a major impact on a field’s crop – not that I condone them, but ‘cmon! A typical non-prairie field has all sorts of ups downs that lead to spots of poor productivity. Assuming the circle isn’t the size of the whole thing, that is.

It’s amazing how many ways a kid can make up things to do! I could too but much of my inner child is getting too old unless I’m drawing or painting!

Well, of course it depends on the crop. If you are growing soylent green, then the crop circles are people.