Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 10, 2023

Help indeed

I’m pretty sure Mr. Danders is more capable than Dill at finding his way out of a maze!

Oh Dil’s house for the Guinea Pig uh oh.

Let us hope, for Mr. Danders sake, that the trebuchet is out of action

Better a maze in the back yard than being stuck in the laundry room.

poor Mr. Dander’s.

Oh, no. The little critter’s gonna die in there.

“Q: What did the grape say when the guinea pig stood on it? A: Nothing, it just let out a little wine!” … what I bet Mr. Danders is wishing for now.

Our class animal was a gerbil named Penelope. When it was my turn to take it home for the weekend, it gave birth and then ate its babies. And that is how I learned about “nature, red in tooth and claw.” It was honestly pretty traumatizing.

Boy it sounds like Dill was really in a “pickle.”

“Hey! It’s really sticky in here!”

Dill must live next to a lumber yard.

So the local FD left the maze there, eh? Have fun.

So Dill’s family is rich eh? At today’s lumber prices that’s about a bazillion dollars worth of plywood.

Poor Mr. Danders. I’m beginning to understand the origins of his neurotic nature. He really does get no respect.

And, in kind, it’s a wonder Dill is as sweet and innocent as he is, though to be fair, this is probably just the first of many gauntlets he will run, living with his brothers.

Mr. Danders will probably just chew his way through the plywood maze.

I bet trying on doll clothes and the utility closet doesnt seem so bad how, eh Mr Danders?

And so, kiddies, Mr. Danders got lost in the Wedekind Maze and was never seen again!

I love it when the story has a happy ending! (I can hope, okay?)

Poor Mr Danders. The look on Alice’s face in the last panel says it all.