Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for February 04, 2014

Unusually strapping indeed!

No point worrying, you won’t be conscious that long. I see a Ka-Conk in your future.

I don’t trust the blonde. Rip is clueless without the Queen of the Pirates.

They’ll only hear him coming. Such a shame(they chose to be bad guys).

Even Rip’s voice has a chin! Or at least a strap. A chin strap?

KA-STRAP!

The ka-double coconuts coming up!

Ah, the old Moe Howard gambit!

I am guessing that the girls show up just in time to rescue Rip from the treacherous blonde.

KA-CLONK!!!

This story line seems to have more action in it than the last several combined! I like it. However, I do miss Cobra putting Rip in awkward situations where he doesn’t know what is the moral decision. I also miss Breezy getting him flustered..I was starting to not like the Highwayman as a villain, but after more thought, he is the first villain in a long time to actually get the upper hand on Rip. And then, when he started to lose, he threw the Damsel in Distress curve ball. He is, finally, an adversary that Rip (appears to) at least has a risk of actually loosing to.

The henchmen are still clueless, though. Very funny!

What kind of cough drop, Ludens or Smith Brothers?

…[ka-sneak]…

My kind of distraction. Rip does not just get them to look the other way he knocks them out.

‘Unusually strapping…?’ could those goons be from Brokeback Mountain?

No cough drop is going to relieve the massive KA-HEADACHE they’re about to receive.

Be worried. Be very worried…

I can see it now… Zeke: Who you talk… KA_CLONK!

Not hard to see where this is headed, though that doesn’t make it any less humorous. Certain incidents are funny precisely because you do know what’s coming.