Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 03, 2017
November 02, 2017
November 06, 2017
Transcript:
woman: i'm engrossed in "duck! the complete guide to modern living." with over 250,000 pages & reinforced bind-ing, it doubles as a handy, family-size emergency shelter. kid: mommy! i'm trapped in the index! duck! the complete guide to modern living old man: i'll just be trying to decipher the instructions on this bottle of medicine, so don't you mind me. what in hell does "flummoxofin" treat, anyway? boy 1: until a new "harry potter" comes out, i'm going to concentrate my reading on cereal boxes exclusively. i find that there is much to learn from the feverish, sugar-crazed imaginings of over-paid copywriters with too much space to fill and hey there's no toy in this one. boy 2: i read only the comics page, the last venue for quality work by dead white males. guy: "brewed using only the finest malt, hops & barley." there, i read something. go away.
When did we go from passing zombie strips on to one bored former assistant after another to reprinting the old strips forever?
Oh, well. At least it keeps the new talent out of the market, eh? That must make it easier for newspapers to cut the room for the comics section every year.