Red and Rover by Brian Basset for April 29, 2024

“I said ’There’s a pretty GIRL over there!’ "

“Now I know what rockets feel like!!”

Wide turn! Wide turn!

NO CRACKING THE WHIP!

Not around the tree again!

Wait! I haven’t finished my calculations for a time warp…

Well, this walk is off to a Rocky start!

Forget the squirrel! VEER LEFT!! VEER LEFT!!!

I like my dog, he likes squirrels

Slow down!! Now I know what it feels like to be Superman and faster than a speeding bullet!!

ROVER …. NO ……. STOP ……. NO Squirrel ….. No Squirrel …… :O

Ah come on Rover, please whoa!

Aw come on Rover, please whoa!

“It’s not even squirrel season until next week.”

What do you mean “Don’t be a drag?”

“This isn’t Marmaduke!”

Slow down curve ahead

“Run into the tree, this giant dialogue baloon will cushion the blow.”

Reverse thrust Boy! We’re pulling too many G’s!

" That’s not how you ‘pick a daisy’!"

I was just quoting when I yelled “SQUIRRIL”

“warp speed Mr Hulo”

Jane!! Stop this crazy thing!!

Slow down Rover! My hand is stuck and I can’t let go!

I said we are going for a WALK!

Lives a life that’s free. WATCH OUT for that tree! (George of the Jungle)

Rover!!! Stop look out for that tree!!!

“Faster! Faster!”

Around the tree.

Not another Monday Morning Squirrel!!

This is NOT the way to the ice cream truck!

Wheeeee..

Roverrr! Tree alert! BRAKES NOW—Before we make contact!!

I thought you were my guardian angel Rover! Heeeellllp!

Two’s company. Tree’s a crowd!

“You’ve already had dinner!”

Wait! I forgot my helmet!

Stop! This is NOT going to end well!

“Warch out for that TREE!”

Geronimo!!!

“Hey! I said go for a walk, not go for a squirrel rampage!”

Charley Brown never had this problem

Hurry up and catch the squirrel! Star Trek starts in 10 minutes!

Last one to the top of the tree is a rotten egg!

Rover the squirrel has too much of a jump today!

Forget it… squirrels are faster and smarter than us times ten!

I said, “we PRAY at dinner, not PREY!”

Rover stop! U-Turns are illegal!

Look Rover I can fly, weee.

Jane! Stop this crazy thing!

You could have let me know

Rover! This was supposed to be a relaxing walk!

CALM DOWN!They are not THAT tasty.

HANG A RIGHT!!!!!!

ROVER, NO squirrel chasing while I’m wearing my new PF Flyers !

“RED!!! I said Girl, not Squirrel!!”

“All I said was ‘squirrel’ !”

“ROVERRRR!!! Now I’m the one who has to go potty!!!”

On No! Not the Gopher N!ext..

ROVER, my new PF Flyers

Faster! This is the best part of agility training!

I think the current bubble says it all!

WAIT- Go Back, my Superman cape flew off!

Stop! Stop! In an hour!

“Watch out for that……….TREE !!”

NO,YOU CAN’T HAVE A PET SQUIRREL!

When I wondered what a slingshot gravity assist would feel like this isn’t what I had in mind!

My hand’s stuck

Squirrels do not taste like chicken!

Here we go loop de loop

ROW-VERR! Remember what my science teacher said about momentum: “Be careful, ‘cause inertia can hurt ya!” And I don’t wanna . . . wait . . . no, NOT AROUND THE TREE!

“Rover! Are you NUTS!!”

Rover slow down! The squirrel is only AI rendered!

Rover!! I said, No! No! No! Not, Go! Go! Go!

“You go right and I’ll go let! We’ll get him!”

“Abort launch! Abort launch! Abort launch!”

Again!?!

Red says Rover don’t bring the squirrel over!

JANE STOP THIS CRAZY THING !!!

Remind me to get my brakes checked!

HOUSTON ….. We Have Liftoff !!!!

I asked if you wanted to go for a WALK!

Hold on Bullwinkle !! It’s the SQUIRREL that is supposed to be flying!

“Rover! Heel! Sit! Stay! Anything!!”

“Spin me around one more time! This is great!”

“Yeehaw! This beats ANY roller coaster! What can go wrong?”

Milky bones!!!

Yahoooooo!

That’s just a squirrel, but I’m your best friend!

“Jane! Stop this crazy thing!”

I said “a walk,” not “a fly.”

Wait till I get my hands on Brian Basset!!

“I sure wasted my money on obedience school!!”

NUTS!!!

WAIT! I’m supposed to be taking YOU for a walk!

SLOW DOWN!!! SHARP CURVE AHEAD!!!

I SAID “WHOA!!!”

“This wouldn’t happen if Rob Harrell were here!”

Proposed caption for today’s cartoon (4-29-24): “First time I’ve seen a nut going after a squirrel!”

Tree!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

To Brian Basset—thank you for your comic! It’s my favorite and brings me joy every day!

ROVER, STOP CHASING THAT SQUIRREL, MY HAND IS STUCK IN THE LEASH

Faster, boy! We gotta pull 2 Gs to qualify for Gemini!!

Slow down for the turn!

Remind me when I wake up from my concussion later not to wrap your leash around my hand ever again!

Tally Ho!

Stop! Sit! Stay! Help!

I LOVE IT WHEN YOU GET ME AIRBORNNNNNNNNE!

I said, “Whoa Rovsey.”

MILKY BONE!

“Weeoo! After you chase your dream, let’s chase mine!”

Brakes! Where are the Brakes!

“Whoa! I don’t like the way this arc is taking us!”

I’m not a kite!! I’m not a kite!!

“Oh no, not the whip-lash”

Again! Again! Best ride ever!

Pump your brakes

ACK!!! ROVER! I can’t run THAT fast, remember?!

That squirrels nuts! Grab em!

Pump Your Brakes

Now is the time for all god friends to come to the aid of their party.

Surprising how many people came up with the same ideas…

Singing “Trying to catch a squirrel ’round the ole oak tree” to the tune of Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree

I didn’t bring any peanuts with us, Rover.

That squirrel did NOT Dare you Red!

“I wish you’d go back to chasing CATS, already!!”

Jane! Stop this crazy thing!

“Mom said I was watching too many Looney Tunes and told me to go outside and walk Rover. If only she knew, walking Rover IS a Looney Tune!”

Jane! Stop this crazy thing!!

“Hey! I paid to fly First Class!”

“If my legs still work after this, we should try it with roller skates on next.”

Turn wide!!! Turn wide!!!

This isn’t what I meant by taking a spin around the park!

Rover no short cut pleeeease!

HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!!!

" No more playing ‘follow the leader’ with the squirrel, Rover!"

“Life with Rover: A constant tug-of-war between squirrel distractions and leash control!”

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! Faster!!!!!!!! Faster!!!!!!!!!!!

I said”fetch, not yank!”

“Every walk with Rover turns into a squirrel chase – for both of us!”

“Will there be meal service on this flight?”

Whoaaaa! I’m the tether ball and the pole is coming up fast!

Roverrrrrr, stop! – It was my turn to chase the squirrel!!!

One more orbit, then splashdown!

Dog gone it, Rover!!

I said NO!!!! Not GOOOOO!!!!

Couldn’t come up with an idea today, huh?

Squirrel, go UP the tree!

His actual comment didn’t make it past the GoComics word police. :)

Red Rover, Red Rover, Send HELLLLP on over!

Don’t lead Rover back to your nest of babies Rusty Squirrell! I can’t hold him back much longer!

“Rounding turn 4 and heading down the home stretch, the squirrel is in the lead! But the challenger is right on his tail!”

Once around the sun…..Houston, we have a PROBLEM!

“And then the doctor said i might have ADHD and I was like … SQUIRREL!!!”

FASTER, you almost got em.

Houston …… we have a problem!

Wait, I forgot my parachute

Quick! Take the shortcut!

“He’s never even MET your mother!”

Watch Out for the Hairpin Curve!

Lead … wrapped … around … hand! Can’t … let … gooooooo….!

No more walks in the park!!!

Free biscuits!

This is not how I imagined us setting the land speed record!

Squirrels are supposed to go up the tree, not around it!

“I did NOT sign up for flying lessons!”

“I’ve got to peeeeeeeeeee”

OK, I take it back that your putting on weight!

Squirrels provide the best AAAAAAAIRRRRRRR!!!

Whoa Rover………..Whoa!!!!!!!

Rover it’s over. No bone for you today!

“Abort mission! Abort mission!”

Mr. Bassett, couldn’t this contest be me sharing a hot fudge sundae with Marcia Brady?

Not again!!

Barkour!

Life, Liberty, and Paw-suit of happiness!

“No Rover! The OTHER right!”

Hey! Timmy never had to put up with this from Lassie!

We’re not training for the Iditarod!

Rover, it’s National Leave the Squirrel Alone to Get a Milky Bone Day. I promise!!!

I knew I should have gone with the retractable leash!

Rover, you’d better not be contemplating an illegal U-turn!

“Squirrel chasing is so much funnnnnn….”

“We were playing ‘ring around the rosie’ not ‘squirrel around the tree’!

“Help Mr Wizard”

We won round two, I have big hopes for round tree.

“That’s going to leave a mark! The things I do for you, Rover.”

Rover!! Heel, boy!! As soon as they invent squirrel flavored kibble, we will get you a bag!!

Rover, We are not having squirrel soup for supper!

R O V E R !!!! HELP ME !!!

“Why didn’t you remind me to wear my bike helmet?!!”

Sit, Rover, Sit!

I told you before! What goes around, comes around!

Quit acting so squirrelly Rover!!!

STOP……..Don’t STOP!

Did the squirrel go UP the tree like you said?

Go AROUND the tree!!!

This is the 10th tree!

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages representing the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style without being interpreted as an overly heavy-handed metaphor within the context of the thematic material a bit on the frenetic and frantic side with interesting rhythmic devices which seem to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor utilizing a novel imaging technique known as positron emission tomography and the spontaneous nondenominational conceptions by expansively recontextualizing liminal narratives of colonic hydrotherapy

Speed of squirrelocity!

This is the last time your friend is invited to play tag!!!

What happened to the warning bark for me to let go of the leash!

Stop Rover! That Squirrel will loop his tree and you know Gravity doesn’t treat us well!

For Pete’s sake, Rover; watch where you’re going and hang a u-ie!!!!

Jane, stop this crazy thing!

A whole box of milky bones Rover! And I’ll eat my own peas for a week! Just STOOOOPP!

“Rover, you need a brake pedal and a reverse gear for squirrel chasing !”

Heel! Heel! Oh, Heeeelllll!

No treats for you today!!!

Not around the tree!

“Ok, Ok, Brian I promise to be friends again and stand still while you draw me.”

I don’t do self checkout. I don’t do my own cartoons.

ROVER “ Watch out for that tree“

Houston, we have a problem! Abort mission!

“GOOD GRIEF ROVER "

I liked it better when you only chased cars.

Stop! I haven’t recovered from our last squirrel encounter!

Rover sit! Sit Rover! SIT,SIT, SIT!

Holy shamoly, slow down rocket man!

“Caboose to engineer, caboose to engineer! There’s a hairpin turn coming up!”

I suggest something nice, simple and classic… Aaaaugh!

“Hang right !”(Not original – from Starsky and Hutch – Golden Oldies of the 1970s)

Wait until the leash comes off!

Leave it! Remember? Eight weeks of training!!!

Aw nuts!

It’s my life

It’s now or never

I ain’t gonna live forever

I just want to live while I’m alive

“That’s it! From now on, I’m eating everything on my plate!”

Brian gets writer’s block and I am the one who has to suffer.

And here I thought that only birds could fly!

Squirrels don’t taste good!

Cat, rat, possum, squirrelPlease don’t give me a twirrrrl!

When you have to go, you have to go!

Get him…

Run Rover Run

What a Ride!

Leave it

It’s the squirrel or me Rover!

Stop Rover else life will pass by me leaving you behind boy!

Our walks are more fun since you quit chasing cars, don’t you agree?

He did not take your milky bone. I forgot to bring it.

“I hate squirrels”

Jane! Stop this crazy thing!

Rover, I forgot my helmet! Stop!

YAHOO !!!!!

That’s one way to overcome writer’s block!

love red and rover this makes my day would like to put something in that circle

Rover Wait! Stop! We’re about too be TREED by a SQUIRREL!

You need to stop hanging around with Dug.

Rover! Brake! Brake!

Nooooooo! “Go” comes after “Get set”.

Take the shortcut!

Oh no! Not again.

Red states, “Rover, I will give you a treat if you will stop. I can’t hold on much longer.”

Rover! Leave the squirrel alone!

Help! Help! Your gonna kill me one day! Time to catch that squirrel!

It looks like cartoon physics are about to wrap up this comic.

What goes around comes around.

NOT your best Lassie imitaaaaationnnnn!

Stop it! (actually, faster!) Submitted on behalf of Charles P., age 6.

Ready for my highest G-force ever !

Rover I think I need a helmet……ouch too late!

There must be an easier way to practice zero gravity!

For Crissakes Rover, give it up! You’ve never caught a squirrel yet!

A LITTLE WARNING WOULD BE NICE!!!!!!

Slow Down!!! you move to fast

“I said wait for me!!!”

“Rover….don’t give me whiplash as we go into hyper-drive ‘round the tree!”

“Good! We’re back in the USA!” – 10 year old Alice in MA

Rover, Rover, Rover of the forest. Look out for that squirrel!To the tune of George of the jungle

Rover, slow down! It’s still spring so I’m not in full squirrel chasing shape yet, and I’m getting whiplash from your leash.

Rover, hurry up! I can’t catch this squirrel by myself!

Oh no it’s Opening Day, no way Mr Squirrel gets caught today!

Rover, what did that squirrel ever do to you? What did I ever do to you?

I’m not a kite!!!

I suspected all along that the electric fence would only keep him in the yard as long as no squirrel went by.

No! Please don’t go around the tree!!!

Just another walk in the park… with a slight detour

I’ll give you 5 Milky Bones if you stop!!!

Nuts!!!

Rover, I thought you wanted to go for a leisurely walk?

Don’t tie us to the tree this time!

whoa!!! Not so fast!!!!

No worries…no cares…just hanging on for the ride…

ROVER, STOP! YOU KNOW I HATE GOING BACKWARDS!

JANE, STOP THIS CRAZY THING!!!

No, he didn’t say “tag you’re it”

No, Rover! I said I wanted to ride the Tilt-a-WHIRL!

Whoopeeeeee Rover, my own personal merry-go-round.

Fire the retro rockets before I reach orbit!

“The gravity of the situation escapes me”…

I AM SUPPOSED TO BE WALKIG YOU NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

To the right!!! To the right!!!

“I sure hope this belt holds!”

“Oh no! Rover figured out what ‘S.Q.11’ stands for!”

“‘Take Rover for a walk,’ mom said. ‘It won’t hurt you any,’ mom said.”

“I was just kidding when I said squirrels taste like peanut butter!”

“Ow! Ow! Ow! My underwear is stuck in my cr@*&!”

GUYS! one more orbit and we’ll reach ESCAPE VELOCITY!!!!

Stop following the blue GPS line!

“SWIRL!” I said I wanted a chocolate and vanilla SWIRL!"

" Rover- we talked about this. I thought we agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!"

Houston we have a problem!

Leave it! I’ll buy you one.

Oh, this is going to hurt

Perseverence, Rover!

Is it over, Rover? Squirrel!

I said girl not squirrel!

I’m counting this as cardio!

This is not what I meant when I said we should do something together!

You Promised you were boycotting squirrels!

HAVE YOU CAUGHT HIM YET?!!

NOoooo! NOT the squirrel hairpin turn!!!

perserverence, rover!

We were lying down inside and watching TV. How did you hear a squirrel?

Go left, go left!!

ROVER! Why can`t you just sometimes sleep on top of a dog house like Snoopy?

Spring is squirrel season. Let’s go!

YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO GO FOR A WALK! NOT A CHASE!

I said I’d take you on a WALK!!!

Rover, you’re going so fast we just broke the sound barrier!

Red Rover, Red Rover… DON’T send that squirrel over… PLEASE!

“Jane! Stop this crazy thing!” Oh, wait….wrong cartoon.

Your messing with my STEP count.

“This is cool, Rover, I’m a flying squirrel!!”

NO NO NO chase GIRLS NOT squirrels silly!

Dialogue suggestion: “Rover! I need my helmet if you’re taking me on a flight.”

mnc1972 “Rover, I’m walking you!”

I’m hanging on because YOU are my dear life!

I said let’s go for a WALK!

The squirrel wasn’t calling you nuts ! The squirrel was looking for nuts !

“I don’t CARE if he called you a furry banana, just STOP!”

Squirrel Reverse!

STOOOOOOPPPPPPPP

No U Turn! No U Turn! NO U TURN!

Rover, do you know how to say “STOP!” in squirrel?!

I don’t care if says he know where free bones are.

Rover, slow down, aghhh

“No, it’s a left turn at Albuquerque!”

What a nice day for walk. SQUIRREL!

Yowser, tell me again who was taking who on a walk?

No shortcut, no shortcut

Rover! I think you need a serious belly rub !!

*My husband and I have been a fan of your comic strip Red and Rover for a long time.Having read your bio, my husband also lived in Mclean, VA and went to Langley High School in which he graduated in the late 60’s.Reading Red and Rover each day, somehow reminds us of the simpler times in our lives for which all of us should go back and reflect upon.Funny…our dog loves belly rubs as does Rover, and every time Rover gets his, I tend to cut out the caption and save it.Thank you for submitting an option for your readers to send in our own captionsas it certainly makes our day!

B. Wallace

ROVER! This is when i wish you would just sleep on a dog house like Snoopy!

Rover Stop! I don’t have my Pilots license.

THIS GIVES NEW MEANING TO “RUNNING AROUND CHASING YOUR TAIL”!!!

This is gonna hurt!

I said, “Whoa!”

MOM, I’M GOING TO BE LATE FOR DINNER!

“Maybe zero-G astronaut training isn’t actually that expensive!”

This walk is off to a Rocky start.

Stop, Rover, we’re not floating in space now.

Stop Rover, you’re never going to catch that squirrel!

ring around the Rosie not ring around the squirel

When I said we could have fun I meant WE could have fun!

WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!

Faster! Don’t stop!

Watch the Tree Rover!

1. “Stop! No, don’t stop!!” 2.“Rover, it’s only a squirrel. Just close your eyes and turn off your nose!”

Tilt-a-Whirl squirrel?!?

“Heeeeeeeeeeeeel…”

I want a refund from the dog obedience school!

Rover this isn’t the Indy 500!!

Aaaah Rover, I don’t want to fly

YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO AROUND THE TREE!

your mother would not be proud!

Not around the tree, again!

no u turns!

no u turns!