Snark It Up, FuzzBall!

It started out innocently enough, via a Rt. Venerable Pasdordan comment over at The Comics Curmudgeon:

Judge Parker: As far as I’m concerned, they should rename this strip “Judge Parker’s Pissy Face” and adjust the focus accordingly. It’s hilarious.

And, naturally, it went downhill from there…

Neddy’s friend Thalia’s husband Ross really and truly is kidnapped! This is no swindle? Why?  There’s a ransom note!

Oh, my gosh, and for the last week, Thalia’s been crying on Abby’s bodacious shoulder, because the kidnappers are planning to mutilate Ross each day that the ransom isn’t paid.  The fiends!

It started with fingers…

Oh Abby…nothing gets past you, does it?

…and you’re stuck with that horrific notion, just like every other parent (no, not the kid that just comes home to visit),

..but the one who’s home FOR GOOD!

Heck, I’m not even going to try and explain the current story-arc…

I don’t quite understand fly-fishing.  Granted, it’s more exciting than golf, but it seems that it would be less exciting than EVERYTHING ELSE ON EARTH!

Okay, that was several year ago before I stumbled across The Comics Curmudgeon (go check that out right now!), and I have to say if it’s good enough for Hollywood moguls, rich-as-Croesus attorneys, messed-up teenagers displaced by Hurricane Katrina, physicians who do something (I guess), eternal heroes and wildlife/wilderness writers, it must be good enough for me!

Kinda noisy and crowded, though…

When will we see Mary Worth in hip-waders, though?  (Damn! Wilbur took his long-lost son fishing, too, didn’t he?)

*sigh*

Well, suffice it to say that Judge and Mrs. Parker are going to tropical Mexico for their son’s wedding, and Katherine is outfitting the Judge with the latest in early 20th C. exploration gear.  This met with a really frightening expression from Hizzoner, which reminded CC’s Calico of Grumpy Cat.

Which led to a request that I was only too happy to oblige:

Which led to an opportunity to use the request again:

(and GC’s on my Facebook profile pic for the moment, too. Nothing succeeds like excess.)

In slightly less exotic locales, Mary cooks up a welcome to our merry little community for her new neighbors…

…while Neddy (aka, “Adopted Daughter Who Couldn’t Be More Like Abbey Spencer If She Tried”) returns to Spencer Plantation.

Hired Hand Corey approves.

Oh. Yeah.

Or, at least not as dumb as he looks!

I only mention it because it’s true.

…and it’s apparently proceeding.  But compared to Abbey Spencer’s magnificent rack, it’s practically non-existent.  So let’s just focus on the most appealing pair of characters in Judge Parker.

Yes, Abbey and Sam.

Yeah. Right.