Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for October 14, 2022

Licked the problem

Ha ha ha yuck.

Technically, licking is touching. You know, with your tounge.

Well, Zoe, better ask your parents to buy three new boxes of crayons: one for you, one for Hammie, and one for Wren

Well, you have to admit that they had to annoy you in SOME way.;D

That look in panel two, priceless.

Good one Hammie!

Licking crayons is one thing that I would not want to do.

At least they didn’t go up the nose.

That is a typical dynamic: Wren aligned with her brother against their older sister. ;-)

I’m good at that kind of negotiation. Years ago a radio station we listened to had a satirical birthday song “Happy Birthday, Fungus Face”. I actually worked with our favorite DJ’s wife. When my husband’s birthday was coming around, my husband told me, “Don’t request ‘Fungus Face’. Don’t call for it, don’t fax for it, don’t have [wife] call or fax for it.” On the morning of his birthday I woke him up with the song. He said, “I told you not to request it!” I said, “I didn’t…but you didn’t say that I couldn’t get a recording of it!” The wife had called her husband with a pretend request, and recorded it for me!

Love the look Wren and Hammie are giving each other in Panel 2. You can almost hear the “gears-in-their-heads” whirring at high speed.

i thought Wren was potty trained so it’s interesting that she is still being drawn with the extra-thick diaper lower body look.

Hammie, future attorney.

Zoe, you set the rules, they just followed the rules you set.

How is licking not touching?

Crayola does .not taste like strawberry…..the aftertaste not so merry.

Wren’s diaper looks, ummm, full.

Excessive specificity produces its own loopholes.

Dude stop trying so hard

Yuck!

Ops found a loop hole.

Saved by a technicality.

Don’t think of an elephant. Don’t think of an elephant. Oh no, I’m thinking of an elephant!!

Judging by the size of Wren’s diaper, I’d say Zoe got off easy.

Haha! XD

Ew!

I have started loving this strip already!