Such an Odd Mother's Day Strip

Well, it's true. Mothers have to love you. They get a visit from the state if they don't.

I don't understand why Wilberforce thinks no one likes him. He has Hattie, who surprisingly didn't kill him during her pre-Mother's Day Purge, some kid named Dirk Allen, and the ugly kid with the crop top haircut. They clearly like you because there's no other reason why they would want to hang out with you.

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Wilberforce Will Be the First to Die

Sure, Hattie is going to be good for the whole day on Sunday but on Saturday she's going to be a holy terror. So lock up your children, pets, and put your cars in the garage, Cleveland, Hurricane Hattie is going to do her own solo version of The Purge.

Can You Tell Me One Thing You've Accomplished? Brutus? Can You?

That's a lofty goal. In fact, that was one of my goals when I was younger.

As you can see, I still haven't accomplished it.

What goals has Brutus set for his life? I ask because he's a loser and nothing good ever happens to him.

TV Troubles

I'm glad that they finally brought it up. I've been wondering for years what's been going on with the Thornapple television. Is it on a pedestal that's sitting on the ground? For years, I've been imagining their TV looking something like this:

Maybe it's supposed to be something like this:

Either way, it's very confusing. I get that you don't want to draw an old tube TV and flat screens are hard to do when you're looking at everything from the side but Blondie found a way to do it.

Death Valley Days

Spending a week in Death Valley doesn't sound like that bad of a vacation. I don't know if I would spend a week there--maybe a day or two then drive to Sequioa National Park for a couple days then Joshua Tree National Park.

Honestly, if I were going to do (and I would like to), I would start out at Lassen National Park and just make my way south.

His Mother Was a Mudder

You don't really know that's an odd way of phrasing that until you read it a couple of times.

Look, I don't really know what to say about today's strip. I could comment about the Kentucky Derby but that's boring and I don't really know what happened. I'm more of a fan of greyhound races.
"Come on, catch that rabbit!"

I'm Assuming He's Talking to Gladys Just Off-Panel On the Toilet

I would consider the cruelest irony for a bald person is the one hair that just never falls out like the one currently on the top of Brutus' head.

I don't get much ear hair (I got nose hair by the pound though) but when I do, it always hurts. I don't know why and I'm afraid to look it up online because it's probably because of cancer or something.

Late Sunday

Harry "A" Chesler started a publishing company in either 1935 or 1936 to test the waters of comic book publishing. Chesler hired many of the comic book writers and artists who would essentially create the Golden Age of Comic Books and Chesler would routinely throw whatever work and whatever books against the wall to see what would stick. He would often quip that the "A" stood for "anything."

Aside from his own titles, which depending on the year, could number 75, Chesler also published the books for 50 other publishers. This is according to Chesler himself so the number may be an exaggeration. According to reports, Chesler was active in publishing through the 1940s, was reorganized in the 1950s and apparently published a few black and white Marvel Comics magazines in the mid-1970s. Chesler passed away in 1981.

Major Victory was an unnamed soldier who was blinded and set on fire by a saboteur. Father Patriot brought him back to life and decided to use him to help battle anyone who wanted to put an end to America. Father Patriot would ring the Liberty Bell and Major Victory would fly into action. Major Victory had no superpowers other than being brought back from the dead. Major Victory would appear in three issues of Dynamic Comics and three issues of Major Victory Comics.

The origins of Columbus are sketchy but we're pretty sure he was born in Genoa possibly in 1451. He married Filipa Moniz Perestrelo and while we don't know the exact year, his son Diego was born in 1479 or 1480 so they may have gotten married before that. Columbus died in 1506 at roughly the age of 54. He was initially buried in Valladolid, Spain but was reinterred in Seville. He was then moved to Havana, Cuba and then back to Seville. Remains identified as Christopher Columbus were found in Santo Domingo but DNA evidence says his remains are in Seville. The Santo Domingo remains have not been exhumed.

What we definitely know is that that Columbus discovered things that had already been discovered, raped and pillaged innocent natives, and died horribly of a gonorrhea-related illness. Yet, we continue to honor him for some reason.

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Maybe if Brutus would actually go watch his kid play, he'd know how Wilberforce's pitching is coming along.

Brutus is looking at us like it's our fault that Wilberforce is alive and ignorant of common phrases. There better be an unseen mirror between you and us, Brutus, because you only have yourself to blame.

Last Temptation of Gladys

Question: You are on a diet. I don't understand why you would want to be on a diet, why are you body-shaming yourself? You're beautiful the way you are. But you are on a diet so why would you make a cake? Gladys even admits that she can't resist ANYTHING tempting her (which might explain her marriage to Brutus but that's for another post) so why did she make a cake?

Is That Magazine In Hebrew?

I find that hard to believe. I'm pretty sure robots call your cell phone more than anyone else. Now, quit bothering Gladys while she's reading her AARP magazine with Helen Mirren (?) in it.