Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 08, 2013

The quality of artwork on panels 5, 6 and 7 is incredible…Miller, he’s something else…..Somehow he makes fantasy seem real….The man’s spooky…

Panel 7 made me laugh out loud . . . three times!

. . . four times!

Next week, Homer gets crushed by sheep.

Lord, you pick them up and I’ll put them down …

I vaguely remember a different 79.

Wiley provides one of the best drawn modern comics, but Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) is the best I can recall. The Fantagraphic reprints are very good, but still not as great as the half-page format of the original Sunday editions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant

In panel seven, I can hear Curly from the Three Stooges going “Woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop!”

Night-Gaunt49 meant 1880’s, there’s a typo.

I rather poo-poo any suggestion of any particular insight into such rare events as catastrophic volcanic eruptions by such as rats and snakes, they are just responding to local conditions. In the weeks before the four huge explosions of 1883-08-27, “the volcano released huge plumes of steam and ash” [Wikipedia], sufficient to explain a serpentine exodus. It’s not like moving toward the shore would have done the snakes any good, the final eruption must have killed all higher life forms on the island.

Next to last panel ….reminds me of the Mel Brooks movie “History Of The World Part 1” U’s and V’s …interchangeable ….literally trying to read that makes me laugh!

Last time I looked, Italy was in Europe!

Gee I wonder what will happen to Pompeii?

To be boringly continued.

I well remember the one hundred and eighty-eighth century. It was (will be) when I decided (will decide) to be reincarnated in reverse.

People often ask me if my cats act strangely before one of our California earthquakes…Define “strangely” for a cat.

Wiley: your efforts for us are very much appreciated.

A feature of English grammar: sequence of tenses. Latin also has it. Bulgarian does not..