Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for August 28, 2023

Headquarters may be assessing whether to send child services out to take charge of this lost child that was brought into a ranger station by a talking bear…

or if they should instead send out a truck with some men in their nice white coats to come and take the local ranger away.

Mr. Bear getting all soppy woppy. sniiiff.

I am sure his parents are looking for him!

I think they need to take Scancarelli away.

Good Gawd, Jim! What have you done to Gasoline Alley?

“Headquarters, my talking bear friend brought in a toddler, what should I do?”

Wow, Jim will do anything to avoid having Walt finally kick the bucket. Is the next storyarc going to be about little space aliens? Oh wait, we already did that.

Anybody who’s red this strip for any length of time knows that when you find a stray kid,the kid ends up staying for life with the finder.

Hoogy ALREADY wouldn’t mind keeping him, judging from her permanently happy expression

Please don’t anthropomorphize the bear so much. Bears walk on four legs, mostly, would have dragged the kid along by a grip by the jaws, and up-to-now I had supposed that Boog was the only one who could understand Bear.