Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for March 22, 2024

I’m getting a Beware of the Dog" feeling here. Trust no one Rip!

If the marriage between Rip and Breezy got erased, I may eventually write a fanfic featuring Rip Haywire meeting up with my OC superhero Bolt, and Breezy would arrange it(to give Rip a much needed vacation)!

Isn’t the dr Jenkins?

Yeah, what Brian (above) said! I’m getting suspicious, here! I don’t believe they so called, Doctor, one bit!

Rip’s dreaming that he was dreaming.

KA-DREAM!

What if all we see or seem is but a dream within a dream?—EA Poe

Ok, new theory: this is not a reset. Dan’s pulling a “36 Hours” slash “There’s No Place Like Springfield” slash “Future Imperfect” plot here. If you don’t get the references, I suggest looking them up. The first one is a movie title, the others are episode titles from TV shows in the 80s/ 90s.

Oh believe in the giggling fists or you will feel them soon, very soon!!!

Whatever’s going on, it’s got my interest.

Rip “Van” Haywire…

… Dan, do I see some grey in Rip’s van-winklesque beard..?

the Rowdee hallucination had Rip wake up to this nightmare? Maybe better the dream.

I wonder if an alien from past Rip Haywire strips is behind this latest episode. I’m unable to recall his name, but fellow followers of this comic strip may remember who it was.

Looks like a hard re-set.

That beard! How long has this been going on?

This is getting to be like Matrix Resurrection storyline

Zhuangzi dreamed that he was a butterfly. When he awoke, he did not know if he was really a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether he was a butterfly now dreaming he was a man.

So is this a complete reset? What has been real? Has Rip’s ENTIRE life up till now been this “Matrix” thang? Dutch, Doctor Pain, Cobra Carson, Breezy, RJ, TNT, Fireball, Jenkins, Tank, that irksome alien-Talosian, all of the guest stars, PopoKitty?

And to the Gocomics comments thing: a slash DOES NOT make it a URL, get serious!

KA-STRONG DEFENSE MECHANISM!

I really hope this is just a hallucination, because if it isn’t, then that means no more Rip Haywire. I don’t want this wonderful comic to end.

How long before he starts applying the “punch” reality test?