i’ve always assumed that Earl & Opal are Mormons since they often have a picture of a Mormon temple hanging on the wall, which is a thing Mormons do. If they are Mormons, then they were married in one such temple “For Time & All Eternity.” So Opal should know that Earl CAN’T get married again.
You’re right, Hobbes does look something like Tammany Tiger in POGO. I still have the scroll proclaiming me a "Real Live Chairman of the Pogo for President Party at the University of Utah in 1951.
i’ve always assumed that Earl & Opal are Mormons since they often have a picture of a Mormon temple hanging on the wall, which is a thing Mormons do. If they are Mormons, then they were married in one such temple “For Time & All Eternity.” So Opal should know that Earl CAN’T get married again.