By bats | October 23, 2023 - 2:06 pm
Posted in Category: Three-Ring Freakshow

Even when Dolly tries to be good or play fair, it’s just a dead loss:

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By bats | October 22, 2023 - 6:30 pm
Posted in Category: Most maryWorthy

And the debate “Men eat meat/Women eat salad” was too good to pass up!

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By bats | October 17, 2023 - 11:12 am
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This is gonna be harder than it looks (or, Why Keith Hillend Is Driving All the Way to Taft).

And now, we wait…

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By bats | October 9, 2023 - 5:46 pm
Posted in Category: Guest Appearances

and some strips that we never pay any attention to, mostly.
Like when Marty Moon (who?), a character in Gil Thorpe (WHO?!??) comes home to his lonely apartment, and his faithful dog, “Girl.”

In many of the serial strips, long (read, drawn-out and frankly boring) story lines come with so many complications and inner plots… Like the Phantom’s friend Savarna:

And just another one, because an 18,000-year-old dog frozen in the Siberian permafrost, shouldn’t be

that unusual:

…with out without tusks…

“Mutts” has been running a long (and entertaining, of a sort) story of Guard Dog’s asshole owner (yes, I said it) moving and abandoning the dog. Earl and Mooch find the poor guy, and Earl’s man Ozzie is rushing him to the vet. There’s no snark here, only that Ozzie know the best way to benefit from some cat’s “cat-help.” (I’m lookin’ at you, Mooch…)

Maybe we’ll have a happy ending after all (thank you in advance, Patrick!).

(Of course, I had to mess with it a bit…yeah, it was subtle.)

And one of the bestest endings of all….a Happy Ending!! (no snark here at all)

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By bats | October 8, 2023 - 12:32 pm
Posted in Category: Most maryWorthy
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By bats | October 1, 2023 - 4:49 pm
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What more an be said that TA-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

And Mary BOWS OUT?!??

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By bats | September 24, 2023 - 1:46 pm
Posted in Category: Most maryWorthy

(And just a little add-on…)

Good Lord! Did Keith just let Mary in?!??

Oh-oh…

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By bats | September 17, 2023 - 7:57 pm
Posted in Category: Markin' the Trail, Most maryWorthy

A NEW plot?!??

Meanwhile, don’t believe for a minute that Wilbur Weston has been wallowing in self-pity….it’s GOOD WORKS all the way for that noble fellow, a Champion of the Environment!!!

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By bats | September 11, 2023 - 1:05 pm
Posted in Category: Most maryWorthy

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By bats | September 3, 2023 - 11:12 am
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What a cheap-ass an exclusive wedding! One very privileged guest (read, Mary) in attendance! Too bad Haw Haw McGraw wasn’t there…

Who knew the reception for the WHITE-COLLAR employees of Santa Royale, at poolside, 3:00 sharp…ONLY!!!

You may think “they all live happily ever after,” but really…
(1) do Saul and Eve kiss as clumsily as they hold their cell phones?
(2) is the sound of one guest clapping jubilant, or just sad?
(3) will Justice Sotomayor be invited to Mary’s for the reception?
(4) is Mary really hoping for “Driving Miss Daisy 2: The Road to Aldo’s Curve“?


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