…good thing June opted for the three-day cruise rather than the seven-day one, huh?
I tend to save certain comic strip panels “for later”–you never know when you need a June Morgan O-face, or a Rex-sitting-on-a-bed illustration, or a Giant Squirrel, or an Abbey Spencer/Daisy Dukes reference. These were three panels that were hurriedly cut-and-pasted into a file and forgotten for a few days. Looking at them, the little tete’-a-tete” between Sarah and Rex just wrote itself.
(Rex’s expression in Panel 3 still freaks me out…)
And now back to the exciting plot. It seems that Rex and Sarah’s come-to-Jesus talk is drawing to a close…
Stalwart, square-jawed, straight-shootin’ Rex Morgan.
Yep.
And then he opens his mouth.
Finally! The entire Morgan clan (and Agnes, honorary Morgan clan drunken old aunt) meet Willy! What excitement! AND there’s a club sandwich!
But all is not frilly toothpicks on the S.S. Surly!
At this rate, the ship stores will be empty by noon.
And with the worried look on June’s face:
We should all remember those famous words of Muffaroo, one of the Comics Curmudgeon‘s site’s poets laureate:
Little Willy, Boston bound
Turned up in the Lost and Found.
June found him alone with Rex.
Like all of us, she thought of sex.
…between “gladiator movies” and “Turkish prisons”…
(If not, it should’ve been!)
And if this weren’t enough, someone at CC points out Sarah’s fabulous line in the second throw-away panel, so here’s my “Extended Edition/Director’s Cut”:
I must be the only person who’s never seen When Harry Met Sally, because I loathe Meg Ryan. Still, I can appropriate the title, and Willy’s mop-top gives Meg’s bed-head a run for its money.
There’s been a lot of panels to have fun with, and I’m sorta, kinda trying to stay away from the very most obvious direction:
Okay, sometimes avoiding that direction works, sometimes not:
This is just like the upcoming movie XMen Origins: Wolverine, only without Hugh Jackman.
Hey, wouldn’t Hugh Jackman make a great Rex Morgan (no, not in his Wolverine persona!)?
Here I was, doing a one-time funny with wacky, wacky road-rage possessed drivers. Hey, it’s funny, and it’s a one shot deal. Right?
Oh, how wrong I was!
The tenacious and aggressively insightful June finally breaks Sarah. Just as she has with Rex, Gretchen, Abby, and countless others…but, is it worth it?
Are you really happy, June?
I mean…REALLY?
On the other end of the spectrum is Rex. It’s the little things in life that make Rex happy.
Little, underage things…
