Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 15, 2017

You and your big ideas, Peter Otterloop, Jr.

I wonder if Alice could do designer dresses for the stink bugs. They just started coming out of their hidey-holes again.

Get enough of them, makes a nice stir-fry.

You can’t just let your cicadas run around naked. We’re not savages.

Looks like the scientists are constructing a distancing fantasy themselves. First evolution, now this.

I think there is one there that doesn’t have a girl’s name.

I laugh at this no matter how many times I’ve seen it.

One time when I was a kid I was trying to climb the tree in our backyard. As I reached up for a branch something crunched in my hand – it was the molted skin of a cicada. Needless to say I freaked out. Don’t think I ever tried to climb a tree again.

One person’s solution is another’s nightmare.

Petey was too successful with Alice! He’s created a monster! —The newspaper says as much, so it must be so, right?

If only Madeline knew what the kids know!