Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for November 25, 2023

Verne is in on the biggest conspiracy in all of human history? I should have known.

Hammer sees all things sparkly.

Give it up, Verne. There’s no use in trying to teach a couple of pinheads anything.

This is a strip? Anyone else just think there was a movie?

Dark matter is just the name for the gravitational anomalies we see. There are alternative explanations, but we don’t have anything that works in all cases. It will take someone smarter than Einstein to resolve it.

Imitating Linus with some mirror instead of a blanket!

Personally, I think they came up with something to try and explain things they can’t. Oh, must be dark matter that we have no way of examining. Or someone made a small mistake in some equation, moved a decimal point or reversed a value so the math is off. Since no one knows how big the universe is, what may be in it or what “laws” apply everywhere, blame it on dark matter. Saying someone is too ignorant to understand is just a cop out. News flash, we are all ignorant. See definition .

those guys are as bad as the idiots who think we should move the deer crossing signs to safer locations for the deer

And Verne doesn’t tell them that changing the name would not change anything else about it. Because there’s no reasoning with these idiots.