Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac, is a comic strip about the life of a pre-school girl named Alice Otterloop. It is a light-hearted comic strip centered around a four-year old girl and her suburban life experiences on a cul-de-sac with her friends Beni and Dill, older brother Petey and her classmates at Blisshaven Academy pre-school. Alice describes her father's car as a "Honda-Tonka Cuisinart" and talks to the class guinea pig, Mr. Danders. She has the typical older brother who plays jokes on her, and she contemplates ways to keep the scary clown from jumping out of the jack-in-the-box with friends.
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Crumb by David Fletcher
Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein
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margueritem
said, 7 months ago
Riiight….
Randy_B
said, 7 months ago
Cue the Star Trek fight music!
Pacopuddy said, 7 months ago
Two of nature’s legendary protagonists. They cannot coexist amicably.
This is why wherever there are colonies of guinea pigs, you will never, without exception, find hermit crabs; and vice versa.
Fortunately, God in his wisdom designed them to occupy totally different environments, one breathing air, the other water.
Had it not been for this, the earth would be a place of devastation, ruined by continuous GP-HC wars, instead of a place of devastation ruined by continuous Homo Sapiens wars.
runar
said, 7 months ago
@Pacopuddy
There is nothing religious about it. Prehistoric guinea pigs and hermit crabs slaughtered each other routinely until they adapted naturally to live in mutually incompatible environments.
Did you know that if you lift a guinea pig by its tail, its eyes fall out?
runar
said, 7 months ago
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson went under the knife last Friday to have a chip implanted in his brain to alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Friend and fellow cartoonist Nick Galifianakis was there and fed fellow friend Mike Rhode updates on the progress and condition.
Randy_B
said, 7 months ago
Pet hermit crabs in the genus Coenobita are land-dwelling creatures.
The Caribbean hermit crab and the Ecuadorian hermit crab are commonly sold as pets in the US.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago
Personally, I think Mr. Danders tends to exaggerate—although the hermit crab does appear to concur with the premise Danders expresses bombastically….
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago
BTW, if you haven’t already done so, check the Blog (➔ orange “B” button) for Richard’s own post-op statement.
Citizen GROG!
said, 7 months ago
Said the crabby old crab.
einarbt7 said, 7 months ago
lol
Lady and theTramp said, 7 months ago
@runar
never seen a prehistoric hermit crab. must be hiding out with that so called missing link… evolution is still nothing but a theory… no matter how hard scientists try to twist it into a fact…
ossiningaling said, 7 months ago
Epic? Maybe an epic fail…
Dry
said, 7 months ago
I thought he was a snail.
UsernameUsername1234 said, 7 months ago
@runar
Thanks for the info!
QuiteDragon said, 7 months ago
@Lady and theTramp
<deep, deep sigh> My apologies Richard for responding underneath your very non-politic comic. A scientific theory is “a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment.” The first sentence, if you read nothing else, though it is worth it to read it all.