@tauycreek: May 2025

Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Car Trouble

A woman is shopping, grabbing boxes and putting them in her cart. It's loaded up with boxes and vegetables and bread. She stops suddenly and looks around frantically. "Janice, where are you? JANICE?!" From in the cart, underneath the boxes, bread and vegetables comes a tiny "What?"

June 3, 1966

Betty, you gotta keep your eyes on Bamm-Bamm. Yes, he's the strongest baby in the world, but the world can be a dark and scary place.

Grocery stores still have loose pieces of vegetables that you can buy. You can use one of those hard-to-open plastic bags, but no one's making you. Just through that lettuce and celery in the cart without care. However, I never see loose loaves of bread.

Brutus is trying to push a car. "Unh! UNNH! I'm not getting anywhere! Do you have your foot on the brake?" he asks. "Of course not," Gladys answers. "Oof...I don't understand it...pant..." Brutus says. "Perhaps if I took it out of park..." Gladys suggests.

1989

Gladys, if you're not going to help then get out and I will just push, steer, and stop on my own.

I think I could pull Gladys' hat off.

Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Blow Her Kisses!!

Quincy Madison is sitting with a woman at a nice restaurant. "Golly, Mr. Madison," the woman coos as she holds her cigarette. "You princes of industry are the dreamiest!" "Tut, my dear, tut! One must make it to spend it!" Quincy responds. "Waiter! My check!" As the waiter approaches with the check, Quincy opens his wallet and a moth flies out.

June 2, 1966

Is a moth flying out of his wallet? I'm going to assume that's what's happening.

Quincy Madison is really a ladies man. I don't like that he seems to bounce between some kind of simp to a man of action, but The Born Loser isn't really known for its character development or continuity.

Brutus loudly kisses his hand and blows it to Gladys who quickly ducks, avoiding the kiss. "Still mad at me, aren't you?" Brutus asks.

19-I wish they would've left on the original signed date-83

"Come on, Gladys. You can't be mad at me for sneaking out of that party and leaving you alone with a suit of armor. That happened 10, 11 years ago."

Monday, May 05, 2025

Knight Off

A woman is grabbing her son by the arm. A Little Wizard Junior Science Laboratory is put together nearby on a table and making a buzzing sound. In the background, a man is covered in lamps and a picture frame. "Fifner!" the woman demands. "Demagnetize your father immediately!"

June 1, 1966

I know we've seen the name Fifner before, but he looked different and doesn't seem smart enough to magnetize his father. Speaking of magnetized, I thought that was a carpenter's square, but I guess it's a picture frame--which seems weird. Are picture frames magnetic?

And you know all that magnetic stuff is just covered in lead.

Gladys is dressed in a princess outfit--crown and all--talking to someone in knight's armor. "Now aren't you glad you came?" she asks. "I told you it was going to be a fun night. Brutus?" Gladys opens the helmet to see no one in the suit.

1972

GoComics is celebrating 60 years of The Born Loser by posting a comic from each decade this week. The 60th anniversary is on May 10th. They made kind of a big deal about the 50th as well.

Ok. I've been reading a lot of vintage Born Loser over the last three years and the Thornapples (and those who came before them) go to a lot of costume parties. Were those really all the rage back then?

Sunday, May 04, 2025

Newsy Sunday

In case you didn't know, this past week was a rerun week. Chip took a week off a few weeks ago so older strips were used with just that day's date edited. Since I had already commented on the strips used, I just took the week as well. But I did post links to the original posts if you would like to scroll through my Threads and Bluesky for them.

Anyway, there's a new comic today so let's get on with it already.

Brutus and Wilberforce are playing chess while Gladys watches over them. Brutus, after thinking, moves a piece and says "Check!" Wilberforce thinks for a bit, moves one of his pieces and says "Checkmate!" Looking at Gladys, Brutus says "We've got a six-year-old genius on our hands, Gladys!" "Or a forty-two year old dummy," Gladys retorts.

January 18, 1987

Wilberforce knows how to play chess? That ain't right.

I'd go with Gladys, because I've known Wilberforce for 35 years or so and he is definitely no genius.

I don't think Wilberforce is 6 these days. I place him more 8 or 9, like the kids from Peanuts.

Brutus and Gladys are sitting in front of the TV. Brutus in his green chair, Gladys in a blue one. Brutus turns to Gladys "I have news." "Stop. Wait a minute. If it's bad news then I don't want to hear about it!" Gladys says. "Ok, Gladys. If that's the way you want it," Brutus acquiesces. He goes back to watching TV while Gladys goes from being happy to thinking about what she's just done. "Ok. I give up. I can't take it anymore. What's the news?"

I'm assuming it's not important bad news. Like, it's bad news but it doesn't really affect them. More like, DOGE has eliminated a grant that Veeblefester was going to use to create a better tea cozy. Tea cozies, I assume, are already perfect. DOGE just saved the taxpayers $715,000.

We're seeing a lot a face-front Gladys today and it makes me unnerved.

The second installment of Chris Welkin, Planeteer went up yesterday. Check out the comics from December 1951 by Russ Winterbotham and Art Sansom.

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Saturday, May 03, 2025

Chris Welkin, Planeteer #2

It's time for the next installment of Chris Welkin, Planeteer covering December 1, 1951 to December 31, 1951. In this collection, Chris, Dr. Budd, and Rocky are captured by Icthusians. Chris and the others spend a lot of time treating the Icthusians as villains which seems to just be jumping to conclusions.

After a convoluted plan to escape, will Chris, Dr. Budd, and Rocky make it out of the clutches of the Icthusians? Or is this the last we've seen of Chris Welkin, Planeteer?

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