Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 10, 2013
October 07, 2013
October 14, 2013
Transcript:
the winners these comic strips received the most votes from our readers. they will be featured every day in the comics section of your newspaper. pre-classic peanuts girl: today no one remembers, but it was originally i, violet, who yanked the football away as charlie brown ran to kick it. girl: yet somehow over the years lucy, the fuss-budget, the drama queen, usurpped my place, leaving me a footnote, a cipher in a billion dollar franchise. boy: what a neurotic embittered little girl. girl: i should have been a star! doltish duck duck: hey - do goats really eat tin cans? goat: no. duck: hey - do chickens really stare at the sky during a rainstorm with their beaks open until they drown? chicken: no. goat: what a dolt. oop: hey - are rhino horns really an aphrodisiac - ow that hurt fanky malloon the clown genius fanky: now i take the ballons and - skwik skwik fanky: voila! i call it "pieta"! kids: ooh! kids: now do "the disasters of war" fanky: sure!
Ida No over 10 years ago
Violet: “Now, do a duck getting gored by a rhino!”
Sisyphos over 10 years ago
Oh, dearie me! I’ll have to add these to my “comics carrousel” on GoComics now!
Ermine Notyours over 10 years ago
Yeah, it’s not chickens that drown in the rain, it’s turkeys (I think).
Rush Strong Premium Member over 10 years ago
The pre-classic Peanuts should be four panels, not three. But who’s counting.