Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 07, 2011

Love those big eyes in panel three! LOL

Danae’s “caught in the headlights” look is priceless.

And since you don’t have to travel, you’ll have just that much more time in Home School.

Speaking of being home all day long, Is JOe’s webcast going well? What’s going on with him and the GF? Isn’t it time for an upgrade?

Well, that certainly opened her eyes.

A comic strip rarity in the fifth panel. A five fingered character, and what a character Danae is.

Gives a whole new view on “after-school detention”, doesn’t it, Danae?

At least Danae’s peers have her figured out.

Gave me a great laugh this early in the morning! Danae, finally silenced, if only for a moment…love the insight of the last panel, too….

Five fingered cartoon characters aren’t that rare in comics, but making fun of those with four digits can be fun. Anybody remember Sideshow Bob in the SImpson’s spoof of Cape Fear where, during his weight workout, he had “LUV” and “HAT” (“A” with a line across the top for the long vowel sound) spelt across his three fingers?

great story arc, Wiley since i generally read them a week at a time, i get the combined effect. i can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!

Nab: monism is essentially the belief that everything is composed of the same substance (e.g., The dragon that died to create the universe in one school) and gets some real play since the discovery of star elements in all of us (We are all made of star stuff-Sagan) THEREFORE there is no good or evil merely a reflection of one part of the whole.

Interestingly, the Bible actually says something like it in stating human sin caused all the universe to begin decaying.

Danae’s lesser of two evils is, like so many of Wiley’s variations, from Catholicism’s St. Benedict. (Wiki also says it’s an episode of Futurama. So D. may have gotten the idea there. :-) )

Didn’t Disney start the 3 finger bit with Steamboat Willie?

@freeholder, as a monk, following (more or less) the only thing we have from St. Benedict, his Rule, I can tell you that “lesser of two evils” is not from Benedict.

Might be from the recent headlines on Pope Benedict XVI on condom use–but not from what he actually said, only from the journalists’ summaries.

I think it comes more from twentieth Century politics–backing a dictator as the lesser of two evils and so on. That origin story is just my feeling, though–no real proof.

now i’ll have to watch the Simpsons again - to see how many fingers they have! any excuse will do, thanks.

School? At home? How will you be able to tell the diff?

Great comic. Danae could never handle home schooling… neither could her father.

yyyguy: in the Simpsons universe, the humans are all three-fingered. But God (who appears from time to time) has four fingers. I have come to believe that is what separates the human from the divine in Cartoon Theology.

Which brings us to Frosty the Snowman, who is obviously a Christ figure. In one scene, he counts on his fingers and is seen as having four fingers on one hand and three on the other. Clearly both human and divine…

Thanks, Monk. i must have been misinformed by my Bing search that says it is.