Snark It Up, FuzzBall!

It was a good year for seasonally-appropriate holiday greetings in the comics.  Even Mary Worth took a day off of her investigative sleuthing to serve Christmas dinner to her family as an imperiled missing child is about to be spirited away again by her kidnapper.

Really, Mary?

Really?

I would’ve expected you to be able to multi-task so much better than that.

What you do with it is your own business…

…rainbow swirl is vastly over-rated.

Or possibly P.U.

Now that Mary is done obsessing over her stolen wallet and possible identity theft, she’s moved on to obsessing over missing children on posters.  Sure, things can be left just that way, with Mary merely moaning  “Think of the children!”, but I have a feeling, with Mary returning to The Diner to retrieve her forgotten sweater (but that’s another story), that there’s going to be a collision course with destiny, as the missing girl and her abductor are headed for the very same Diner!

Or not…

Well, sometimes you need to rely less on a nosy pensioner and more on a well-traveled, wilderness-experienced outdoorsman.

Or not…

…as if bears don’t have enough trouble being bears!

Because Lu Ann has pretty much discovered it all by herself!

And so has dear old Mary Worth, for that matter!

Oh, Mary, maybe it’s worth a couple hundred bucks to keep your private life…well, private.

Maybe it’s just better to imagine Mary as a vigilante than a dirty old whore  (I think that’s one of Dr. Jeff’s fond sayings about her, come to think of it)…

Or, maybe it’s just best to imagine Mary as a sad and lonely old woman, one whose few friends become only more and more tired of her meddling antics and hackneyed axioms with each passing year…someday, Toby, the torch will be passed…someday.