Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for March 26, 2024

Hammie’s invented a new power source?

“This weird sculpture” must have been how my parents described things I built at that age.

Translation: “Hammie is toast.”

He’s ready for a pop-up interview.

Wireless mics, Zoe, you have not heard of?

Sigh. Hammie.

That might seem strange to anyone who has never been around children, it is also the reason why I avoid them.

Its a blue-tooth hairbrush. No cord necessary.

Didn’t read yesterday’s comments. Did anyone ask why Hammie needs a microphone TO BE HEARD???

“Pop Art”?

Looks like Hammie is out of the broadcast booth momentarily. Must be running a commercial.

I have a feeling that this is slowly going to escalate over the week

Wanda looks more baffled than actually upset.

Ah yes, imagination, not seen much in the children of today. It’s so refreshing.

For me, one of the most curious things about this piece is its wonderful… afunctionalism.

Yes. I see what you mean. Divorced from its function and seen purely as a piece of art, its structure of line and color is curiously counterpointed by the redundant vestiges of its function.

And since it has no call to be here, the art lies in the fact that it is here.

funny

Let the kid play! At least he using his imagination and don’t have his face stuck in a iPhone.

I still wonder what Hammie would even talk about in a podcast.

And Joe Rogan is born. Explains Fear Factor.

Let him soar!

He needs a red light to hang on the other side of the door that says, “On air”

I find the silliness of this premise very endearing. I have high hopes for where this is going.

OK, this is the second day in a row that I have had the Veggietales’ “Hairbrush Song” running through my head.

Hammie looks so incredibly smug in the first panel.

kids can pretend, and that’s the great thing about being a kid.

We’ll give him the brush off.

You mean you don’t know about Bluetooth microphones, Zoe?

Watch some art “expert” offer to buy the thing for 50K.

I wonder what the recording capacity of a slice of bread is.

Still life is toast by Hammie.

Hammie has quite the imagination!

Call the podcast “Toast Of The Town” Ed Sullivan isn’t using it anymore.

Imagination. Hammie has it :D

What? No points for creativity?

It’s going to take awhile to fix toast in the morning.

My Dad and I had an interesting topic of conversation on the way back from my doctors appointment on Monday, the doctor is about a 25 minute drive, my pacemaker followup, and I don’t like to drive that far anymore so that is why Dad drove me. We got to talking about a childs imagination because I was mentioning the comics on here and my favorite ones and we got to talking about Calvin and Hobbes and he mentioned that he always thought Calvin had a mental problem, like so many do, and I mentioned that he has an active imagination and we got to talking about if every chld has had an imaginary friend sometime in their childhood and he claimed he never did but I told him he should have because they make childhood fun so then we got to talking about childrens creativty and how it is a shame that some people won’t allow their child to be creative and how the kids are missing out on wonderful things. Just a very intersting topic for us to discuss and this weeks comic with Hammie reminds me so much of that conversation.

I love seeing the imagination of kids portrayed in cartoons.

“Oh, wherrrrrre is my hairbrush? Oh, wherrrrre is my hairbrush? Oh, where oh where oh where or where oh WHERRRRRRRRE—is my hairbrush?”