Homespun folk wisdom, jerk

9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney (click on the image to make it bigger if it's hard to read the text).  Those throwaway panels there at the beginning have that quaint folded map.  It's hard to imagine this kind of scene happening very often anymore, what with the "strangers" usually having any number of navigation technologies at their disposal.  I would be curious to take a survey of rural way stations such as gas stations or country stores to determine how much, if at all, the navigation devices have cut down on these sorts of "strangers asking for directions" situations.

Meanwhile, in the regular weekly 9 Chickweed Lane strip the plotline that I mentioned last April has reached a climax. 

Feline fate

9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney. I haven't posted one of these in a while, but I like the strip.  The current plotline is just heating up... but this is one of those strips where the Sunday version almost never has anything to do with the weekday plotline.

It is extremely easy to imagine any cat doing this fully consciously and without any care for the victims.  Why is that about cats?  I do like them.  

Mapping hell

This is from the webcomic Pibgorn, by Brooke McEldowney, who also does 9 Chickweed Lane. Pibgorn is actually the fairy dressed as death (not the hell beast) in that middle panel and is looking quite unlike herself. Of course Geoff there is completely out of his element... or is he? Pibgorn storylines tend to be ridiculously long and protracted... or at least ridiculous. But entertaining. Brooke did a Pibgorn adaptation of A Midsummer's Night Dream a few years back that was fun.

But Pibgorn story arcs very often end up in hell and so here we are again, this time with a map theme.

The next installment in this particular story arc arguably also continues the mapping hell theme, but I'm not entirely convinced that it does. You decide:

Cold feet warmed

9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney. Backstory on this one: The couple with cold/hanging feet were a nun and a priest at the school that a few of the stip's main characters attended, but their love for each other overrode their clerical commitments.  The big guy is a gay ballet dancer.  Not part of the same story arc as the earlier 9 Chickweed Lane post.

Brussels

9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney. There's a LOT of backstory behind this particular strip. The short version...let's see... These girls are friends from high school. Amos was an uber-geek who was friends with the blonde and infatuated with the brunette. Now these two are visiting having not seen one another for a few years. Amos, during that time, has changed.