Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for June 26, 2018

Becoming a slave to our desires is a pretty common trap.

Especially if our desire is ice cream.

“The ability to go where I want, when I want.”

This phrase on loan from Marvin.

“Give Yourself over to absolute pleasure”- Dr. Frankenfurter

What they don’t know is that the ice cream truck has large speakers and it’s a half mile away. They also forgot to bring any money.

Well, the gag is Bushmiller-ish, I suppose, but the execution…Bleah.

Let me see if I can improve the dialogue a bit:

1) “What do you like most about vacation?”

2) “I can do whatever I want!”

3) “Nobody tells us what to do!”

4) “Except for the Good Humor man…”

Not perfect, but a tad snappier, methinks.

I don’t know if it’s too late to get rabies shots or not. By the time you’re foaming at the mouth, it might be.

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov would be happy to have his idea portrayed here.

In the greater scheme of things, this can cause us to examine our own lives. What are we actually in control of, if anything? If we are truthfully able to control nothing, why do we try? Should we just blithely move from moment to moment, or should we strive for goals. It is sometimes a challenge to know.

This one is a little more timeless than most of OJ’s strips to date.

Oh, show us the way

To the next ice cream truck.

Oh, don’t ask why.

Oh, don’t ask why.

I haven’t seen such a truck in several years. Maybe it is where I live in an apartment complex. I think they only go to tract housing.

The art is exceptionally bad today.

Very much what childhood is about