Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 07, 2021

The sequel practically writes itself

I like to stare at the TV.

Petey the Focused.

Yeah, that’s the problem with spackled ceilings. There are lots of troubling spots to stare at.

Madeline has that thoughtful daydreamy look of Petey accepting a… Reuben Award? Well, why not!?

nice that Pete has a new insight for a bit of change.

Read Virginia Woolf, Petey.

It’s [ SPOILER ! SPOILER ! SPOILER ! ]

a snail.

Reminds me of my first ever ‘learn to read’ book, way back in …hm…1953? “Oh, look. Look look, see Spot. See Spot run.” Only in this case, Spot isn’t going to run…

Be sure to reserve all rights in case of a movie offer.

Be sure to reserve all rights in case of a movie offer.

Someone should buy “Pete” (I wonder if Loris will continue to call him that?!?!) a set of those glow in the dark stars that I think you can still get at Spencers if you are lucky enough to live near a mall which is still open. They are usually near the lava lamps and neon lights.

Madeleine will gladly take what enthusiasm from “Pete” she can get.

Leave it to the mom to try and be positive (and hide her disappointment ;)

A wallpapered ceiling with old roof leaks can make for some interesting spots.

If you spend your evening drawing a 15-page comic, will you have any time left to stare at the spot? It might end up not being about something that happened today.

And think how rich you’ll be when Hollywood buys the movie rights!

“Can I be in it?”

“No!”

If you stare at the spot long enough, it might be a city full of tiny people as in “Horton Hears A Who”. But Petey isn’t Doctor Seuss, so maybe not. He could make shoebox dioramas and draw them.

That saves mom the trouble of scrubbing the spot off. She hates standing on ladders.

Petey is going to have so much fun he will hate it.

At what time in the future will Peter be featured on America’s Most Wanted?

I’m surprised it’s only going to be 15 pages, but I guess any more ambitious and it wouldn’t be boring.

Pete Otterloop voted most likely to live an uneventful life.

It could become about Petey drawing a comic strip about Petey drawing a comic strip. How Zen…

Madeline’s non-reaction in panel 3 expresses why she is such a fine mother: she knows her boy and all his neuroses. And Alice of course is right: Mr. Other Spinnerack’s assignment is tailor-made for Petey!

I want to see that comic ;-)

“Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning” …