Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 12, 2021

what good are rubber bands to rescue someone stranded?

I love the strips where someone is holding Alice. She always looks so vulnerable and sweet. Then you put her down and she’s commanding an army of ruthless killers to do her bidding…or at least try with rubber bands and whatever refuse they can find lying around.

I hope Dill (or somebody) picks up all the rubber bands before some bird mistakes them for worms.

You need to speak more clearly to Dill. “Dill! Stop shooting rubber bands! Now! And pick up the ones you already shot!”

Alice skipped? And, Dill, thought rubber bands would help? Was he thinking Alice would shoot herself out with with sling shot? I like this strip. It’s cute, strange and unusual.

“If you don’t stop shooting rubber bands, I’ll put you through our mail slot!”

Dill looks like Arjuna, the great archer from the Mahabharata!

Dill, those popsicle sticks you threw away and the rubber bands would have made some kind of a flying contraption to airlift Alice!

Dill’s been influenced by his brothers trebuchet solving all problems….

http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3268.html

Panel one, boys contemplating long term positives of the situation

Mystery solved of how she got out there

Of course, pardon me for being stupid, but why couldn’t she skip OUT of there?

It has been my experience that shooting rubber bands at someone never helps solve any real problems.

“Hey ya’ll prepare yourself for the rubberband man…”

Gee, a carefully banked rubberband off the ceiling tile onto the head of the loudmouth at work usually shut him up. Actually he ran from the area swatting at his head, but then, he was no longer our problem. I confess to being an adult Dill’s Brother…

Alice skipped in and isn’t bright enough to skip out?

Alice the mudskipper…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskipper

Thank goodness SuperMom Madeline has arrived to save the day! And luckily she has her galoshes.

Dill, pocket those rubber bands!

As a British wit once wrote, “Galoshlessness is foolishness when sharply slants the sleet” (just thought I’d throw that in, like a little stick of humor)….

I’m with Dill. Rubber bands are always an option.