Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 10, 2025

I would watch a Petey made horror film.

The middle panel reminds me of the Night On Bald Mountain in Fantasia. The terror!

Not the grocery carts! They’re so majestic, when you see them running wild on the parking lot valleys, grazing the grey cement and asphalt.

Although, some of them are steered outside their natural habitat, and that can be dangerous.

I guess that’s why they call them steers.

Huh. Who knew?

Don’t you just love Dill…?

Alert the cartherd!

And thus, an Internet rumour begins.

One step to far for Dill.

Just stay away. And go home. Go home boy, and burn your clothes.

Several years ago after a particularly snowy winter, I took pics of a dirty snowpile after scraping away some of the dirt. What made it so interesting (to me) was it was on the first day of summer. I had never seen any snow survive that long before.

You may go back to reading your comics now.

The Sootis are in cahoots with the cartherds.

Sometimes the Sootis even carry away wary shoppers, if they are weak and slow. And yes, Dill, nothing can be done, and nothing is in fact being done.

The snow piles at the shopping plaza I usually go to for groceries are not really that dirty. They have been piled up all around the perimeter, though.

I like it when Petey is creative

That is not a Studio Ghibli Soot Sprite as seen in Totoro or Spirited Away.

Dill’s Heroic Cart Herd Brother to the rescue.

Haha! Dill was relatively unconcerned until shopping carts were mentioned.

Petey strikes again!!

That’s Petey for ya.