Pickles by Brian Crane for January 27, 2025

My right foot is a full size bigger than the left, it can be annoying when the left shoe is inevitably too large but I always buy to fit the right since a too tight shoe is worse

I think that it is unusual to see them barefoot.

This makes me nervous. You okay, Earl?

Got a new hip, came out 1/2" shorter on the new hip side…I adapted

How did he get out of the doghouse so quickly?!

Same thing.

Man, this strip must be really hard-up, to start courting the dreaded foot fetishists as audience.

Next week: inflation. Two weeks from now: diapers. Next next next week: you really, really don’t want to know.

Good job, Earl. You obviously learned your lesson from the “my wife is a large woman” fiasco.

Genius. I gotta remember that one.

She’s stuck with him this far. He must have done something right.

She’s stuck with him this far. He must have done something right.

It’s all a matter of perspective.

I’m told by a podiatrist friend, that the majority of people have one a foot that is wider or longer than the other. Just not significantly.Alternatively, this is a ‘soleless’ pursuit.

didn’t expect this comic taking a weird turn…

I’m sure they both have other pairs of body parts where one is bigger than the other. But we probably won’t hear them discussing those in a family comic strip.

Earl is quick on his feet!

Well done, Earl, well done!

And then there is Bigfoot!

“The Duke limped because his legs were of different lengths. The right one had outgrown the left because, when he was young, he had spent his morning place-kicking pups and punting kittens. He would say to a suitor, “What is the difference in the length of my legs?” and if the youth replied “Why, one is shorter than the other,” the Duke would run him through with the sword he carried in his swordcane and feed him to the geese. The suitor was supposed to say, “Why, one is longer than the other.” Many a prince had been run through for naming the wrong difference." – James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks

Happy wife, happy life. I live by it.

OK, who are you and what have you done with Earl?

ᴡɪғᴇʏ: do these jeans make by butt look big?

ʜᴜʙʙʏ: no, it’s obvious those jeans are way too small

Ah, love!

It’s no easy feet to get on the right side of Opal.

Did you see what l did there?

Imagine the stink if Earl put his bare feet on the table!!

She had nice feet for an older lady.

Brilliant!

Earl’s on a roll.

See? Both her retribution and his forgiveness for last week’s mishap happened off-screen and all is well again.

Gonna get yourself demonetized, Crane.

And the glass is half FULL.

GOOD ANSWER

He better not say that if she asks about her upper frontal parts.

Aww, sweet!

See also James Thurber’s “13 Clocks” for a more evil take on this, Earl is lucky he answered with the right difference and didn’t get fed to the geese.

Earl is a pro, he knows how to compare the various parts of his wife’s body.

“No dear, they’re exactly the same size” always works too.

It’s not understanding conversations like that the reason I’m not married.

Now ask the more pertinent question and see what Earl has to say, that being, “Earl do you think one of my boobs is bigger than the other?” I want to see Earl squiggle out of that answer gracefully.

Rub her feet and she will love you even more, Earl.

Her Clown-Shoes must be out to the cleaners.

Semantics. Saying one foot is smaller than the other is the same as saying one is bigger.

She’s very forgiving. How sweet.

Earl has been on a roll!

So is feet code word for boobles now?

I’m impressed with the drawing of 5 toes.

an’ when she asks him “does this dress make my butt look big?”, he replies “no, it makes the rest of your body look smaller”….

Ah, this is sweet!