Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for May 21, 2024

Use the small one, Walnut. You can aim it better. Soon. General Joel will have a blinded pig’s mounted head hanging over his mantlepiece—and you might marry BathPhyllis!

Walt’s gonna barbecue Imeswine’s…. {cough, cough] in molasses!

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We have a three part classics update for the 21st:

DeBillity and Horse’s Neck are on a collision course of mortal combat now… two men fight, one man leaves.

Basil gets Lazy and Brenda into the next room, to protect them from the explosive John picked up, that might blow Florida right off the map. Good plan. And there’s no way to make any more serum in time anyway. John St. John quotes the Monster in “Bride of Frankenstein”, saying We…. be-long…. dead……

And then – oh the hilarity, on the comics page with this strip from 1949 is an advertisement from a local Detroit florist shop.

Pert may have lost out to Aunty on the old-time deed that used natural boundaries rather than a surveyed plat line, but he’s got Slim dead to rights on the sales contract for the trailer home which he drew up, and Slim signed without reading.

Imeswine’s going hog wild!

In panel one he resembles W.C. Fields!

Walnut takes stock of his arsenal.

Gel pen? That’s my latest weapen of choice!

I wish this would go away

Is it me or is this storyline getting ludicrous?

Brain Piggy with a frying pan

Fountain pens had not been invented in the era of King Saul, but I know they existed by the time of King Gustav III of Sweden.