What Did He Expect?

April 20, 1967

I like Sally. I sometimes wish I had a troublesome neighbor girl who bothered me. Kind of like Dennis the Menace, but more in the vein of today's Hurricane Hattie. Maybe Elmo from Blondie. I don't want them to vandalize my property, I just want them say and do funny things around me and consider me a safe person to talk to.

Did someone else write 'disappoint'? Or at least the 'oint' part?

I am officially going to be working at a historic site in my city for the foreseeable future. So I guess my day wasn't disappointing. Hopefully I will be greeting guests at our 1870 mansion for years to come.

Brutus Is Definitely In Better Shape Than the President

April 19, 1967

Normally I wouldn't connect a strip like this to what's going on in the world right now, but people like this with giant signs have been telling us the world is going to end for generations. When is it going to happen? I feel we've run our course. We had a good run and it didn't work out. Earth will be fine without us.

I mean, if not all of us then just Trump. Again, all of humanity or just Trump. Either or.

I don't think Brutus is doing that right...

I don't care if Brutus diets or not. It's his life.

Snow Blow

December 12, 1987

I'm sure Mrs. Preen enjoys having these men stand around her as she answers the doctors' medical questions. Can she get a little privacy?

And Brutus, you're not pregnant. You're just getting old.

Man, Kewpie's a picky pup. If my dogs don't want to go out that's fine, but sooner or later they will and it doesn't matter if it's raining, snowing, or whatever, they'll go outside.

I don't think we needed three panels explaining why Brutus is snowblowing the grass, but here we are.

Tell Pop to Drop Dead

April 18, 1967

"Hello, Mommy, Hello, Daddy"? Are we sure Wilberforce isn't an alien? It would explain so much about why Wilberforce looks the way he looks.

What kind of name is Dik-Kayydd. Is it pronounced like "decayed"? What kind of alien name is that?

Why is Brutus sending Wilberforce to tell his wife to get to cooking? Is it because Gladys will gladly hit her husband but he knows she won't hit her child? Fight your own battles, Brutus. Leave Wilberforce out of it.

The Show Will Last 6 Seasons

April 17, 1967

Did Brutus catch that fish or is this just some random fish he wants on the wall? If it's just some random fish then get rid of it. Unless the theme of your house or a specific room is "fish" then a fish on the wall just looks tacky.

Last week!!? Are networks rerunning episodes the following week now? Or is this a special re-airing of a pilot episode? Either way, it's not a good sign that the show is predictable yet unmemorable.

Your Finest Glass, Please

April 15, 1967

I feel this is all on Brutus. All you had to do was tap it in and you failed miserably. I think any idiot could've sunk that ball, no matter how loud the sneeze is.

So Veeblefester admits that Brutus completes him. You can't have yin without yang and the two together create harmony and are essential for mutual survival. It's nice to know how much Veeblefester really cares about Brutus and loves him.

I mean, I'm no sommelier, but isn't every wine just red or white with different varieties under each one? If Brutus says "red" then the waiter can be like "Cabernet sauvignon, Malbec, or Zinfadel?" It's not like Brutus can afford a lot of wine anyway.

Not a Morning Person

April 14, 1967

Welp, they're dead!

How? How are you going to look for an island with more vegetation? Even islands that are close together are still far apart. The big island of Hawai'i is still 30 miles from Maui. 14 miles separates the North and South island of New Zealand. Can you swim that far? In the ocean?

Brutus, I could sleep for two hours or for twelve hours and every hour in-between and it wouldn't make me any less tired to wake up in the morning. Because that's the problem--the waking up in the morning.

Monday Quickies

April 13, 1967

Is that Gladys? I can't tell because of the scanner reflection. Gladys is going golfing with the rest of Brutus' foursome while he sits at home with the measles? Ok, sure.

Let this be a reminder to get vaccinated. I don't know about you, but I don't like to or want to get sick.

At least this married squabble is between Brutus and Veeblefester this time and not Brutus and Gladys.

Sigh. Mondays.

Brutus' Crossed Arms Look Like Stumps

November 29, 1987

Now this makes a lot more sense then this. I can certainly believe Veeblefester would employ Brutus to push his car to save gas (re: money) than Veeblefester stopping and picking up Brutus who needs a ride based on some old family story about Henry Ford.

I don't like when Brutus has an existential crisis. Those aren't funny and I don't want to further precipitate his slide into depression. But I do want to question the "know-it-all" when Brutus was a kid. Really? Was Brutus pretty smart as a child? It's a shame the adults in his life were terrible, but thus is the life of an American child.

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Commercials Are What Made This Country Great (well, not great...)

April 12, 1967

Oh, I don't want to hear about your trip to Hawaii. I don't know about other people but I rarely want to hear about your vacations. Unless you can cram the highlights into a few sentences or you did something that I actually find interesting, I'm not necessarily interested. Unless I specifically ask about your vacation, then you can just go to town because that's on me.

Gladys is standing right there. Brutus should make an excuse or something to just walk away.

I'm kind of surprised Brutus pays for the highest tier subscriptions that get rid of commercials altogether, because most streaming services have commercials.

I feel like this comic would work better in 2021(?) when streaming services were still hoping to make revenue from subscriptions alone and not using commercials.