Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for February 11, 2023

“Say Sheriff, have I accumulated any vacation days yet?”

You’re right Deputy Rowdee. Grab your gear and lets go.

I object! Rip doesn’t wait till morning to check strange noises. He waits till after he finishes his next stack of flapjacks!

Must be the ‘lean and hungry type’.

It’s probably just a bear with a tummy ache. Right?

Rowdee, I know you said you wanted to be in on the action, but it sounds like you’re volunteering. Haven’t you learned to never volunteer for anything around the Haywires?

“And your POINT?”

I wouldn’t call the kind of noise that comes from the bowels of anything a ‘growl’.

This has gotta be the worst case of IBS I’ve ever heard of.

Maybe we should get farther away. Or higher up.

You rock, Rowdee! Got this one pegged.

Rowdee just wants to go on a romantic mountain walk with the Ripster!

KA-HAUNTING GROWL!

Is there a full moon out in Starlight?

ka-cliffhanger….(hey good name for character – Cliff Hanger)

KA-jeez, woman, that’s why you’re waiting until morning.