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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