That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 21, 2018

“Just as he was about to spear the moose, the animal turned around and punctured the kayak with his antlers.”

Analogy of the American/Canadian relationship.

“Call me Ishmael.”

Boy, do they desperately need that pelt!

The sad, Rocky fate of Bullwinkle after the show’s cancellation. That escape plan NEVER works!

DeForest Brush tried to found an artistic dynasty. Unfortunately, he named his firstborn son Under. Some say that’s why it never worked out.

“Paddle faster boys….Daddy needs a new coat!”

“Have you seen the brown moose?”, from Moby Moose.

If they succeed, it’s going to take about 12 of them to get that critter out of the water.

“The biggest challenge was getting everyone to maintain their pose!” — (from an interview with the artist)

If he jabs that thing, you can call him Ahab.

It’s the Maine Militia going after one of them there dern Moose-lem terrorists from the evil empire of Canada! It’s what dear leader Donnie would want them to do!!

That head gonna look great over the fireplace in the tepee!

The Moose Chase: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Moose_Chase.JPG 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/brush_george_deforest.html 

https://www.nga.gov/press/exh/241.html 

https://crystalbridges.org/blog/happy-birthday-george-de-forest-brush/ 

http://www.monadnockart.org/artists-past/george-de-forest-brush 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a (slightly this time) larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1979 (June 20, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

This was wonderful! Very funny and creative. This is one of my new favorite comics!

Personally, though, the comic today would have read easier for me if Mr. Melcher had put the name in quotations:

“Falls-From-Canoe-Just-As-About-To-Stab-Moose”

I know both ways are correct and appropriate… but for me, having the quotes would have further delineated the name… the way it currently is, I had to read it a few times to discern the actual name.

Another example of Theory of Unintended Consequences about to be demonstrated.

Even if you kill the beast before it topples you and your tipsy canoe, how do you get a 680 kilo Moose into it, – or tow it, without any tow rope, and two scrawny guys paddling ?

The Vegetarian tribe posing for hours on end just to earn a few carrots and a quarter acre of land next to the oil field.

The guy on the left (in the tan loin cloths), “This is all well and good, but I’m not a big fan of moose meat. Too gamy!”.

Bullwinkle: “This is the last time I let Shermy talk me into Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine!”

adverse to wearing clothes, they trimmed pubes to look like a loin cloth.

“And that kids is how your uncle came up with the name for his band, ‘Moose Knuckle Canoe’!”

Ah, so it was a wild moose chase