Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for November 17, 2009

No, no mockery at all….

Hey Beni, did Big Shirley win?

Yeah, I would also like to know how Godzilla vs. Big Shirley ended. My money’s on Big S.

No fury like an Alice mocked, eh?

She’s going to take all her frustration out on somebody! Better run guys while the gettings good.

looks like a giant pig, not a dog - have I missed something?

Perhaps it’s a wild boar.

If I were the boys, I’d be more afraid of Alice than Big Shirley.

Oooooh! Fear Alice’s angry eyes! They never bode well for anyone.

Parental discretion is advised for the next panel.

Shirley you jest!

i didn’t see that one in the video store, i’ll have to ask the clerk the next time i go

I see a tantrum coming - and her last one didn’t end well for anyone…

DF: I’m being deadly serious here. And stop calling me Shirley!

Godzilla usually wins, because (as far as giant, city-destroying monsters go) Godzilla is a “good guy” (Godzilla is a friend to children!). The only time I’ve seen Godzilla lose (against another monster) was “King Kong vs Godzilla”, and I suspect that Kong was allowed to win that one out of deference to a hoped-for American audience.

You can dish it out, but you can’t take it, huh, Alice?

What ever happened to those soft-lapped, milk-and-cookies grandmas??

Dill is making a Rorschach blot.

I am not sure if this is true, but I was once told that “King Kong vs Godzilla” was shot with two endings. Kong Kong wins in the american version, Godzilla wins in the japanese version.

That could be. It’s actually sort of ambiguous. At the end of their battle, both are driven into the sea, and we see furious turbulence on the surface as they fight underneath. Then there’s a long calm, and we see Kong’s head rise above the waves and make for open water and his home island (presumably it’s not just his head which…er…heads off, but that’s all we see). Since Godzilla’s home is in a pineapple under the sea anyway, the fight may conceivably have been a draw.

Actually, the two Mothra larvae beat Godzilla in Godzilla vs Mothra (US title: Godzilla vs the Thing due to copyright issues with the name Mothra). They did it by covering the Big G in silk and driving him back into the sea.

I stand corrected. :-)

I didn’t know 4 year olds came with mockery detectors!

Is it just me or does Shirley look a lot like a pig in this day’s strip? Maybe that’s what she is and they’re just not telling the kids?