Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 10, 2010

Uh oh!

Cap’n Eddie is freaked. This CANNOT be good.

Oh Oh!!! Run for your lives everyone!! Hurry! The Ekert is loose!!!

Agreed. Most ominous. Cap’n Eddie almost looks sober.

But Pauly doesn’t seem to care. Typical cat.

I’m glad this is turning out to be more menacing that the last day promised.

Life as we know it is about to end.

I knew they should have checked with Captain Eddie before opening that shed!

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

by William Butler Yeats

Heh, thought this was going to be one of those mind-loop stories where it turns out Danae locked Ekert in the shed to keep her negative thoughts but had forgot she did so because Ekert ate that thought before being shut in! As for Eddie’s involvement, hard to imagine where that will go but it will be fun to find out!

I knew Eddie was involved somehow!

Ahhh…. the plot thickens!!!

With Cap’n Eddie involved, this gets much better!

Sheik, I love your song/poem quotes! Keep ‘em coming.

…Hardly are those words out When a wee image out of Shed Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the grass of the woods A shape with elephantine body and wings of a bee, A gaze glad and fanciful as the rainbow, Is smiling vapidly, while all about it Reels Cap’n Eddie who knows the awful truth.

The Eckert?? How is a drug store chain supposed to be scary.

I need to get out more.

You like poems?

There once was a thing in the shed Who would eat the thoughts out of your head. When Danae let it out Cap’n Eddie did shout. Soon we just might all be dead.

But I wouldn’t shout, squirm or swear. For to Bean-town it took to the air. It could never be fed by the thoughts in those heads. For in Boston there are no thoughts there!

With Cap’n Eddie involved this can only get better. What twisted, ingenious plot will unravel? “The Ekert” ?

I’m guessing the ekert grows every time it eats negative thoughts, and so will grow to a HUMONGOUS size, considering our world is SO positive…

DUN DUN DUAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!

The plot really thickens … and dude, Eddie looks just a smidgen frightened, and he never does.

Nice poems, guys! :)

Is it just me, or do I recall seeing the Ekert, or something like it, before?

…enter Cap’n Eddie.

When will we learn to never try to out-guess Wiley?—as much fun as it is to try.

Scaaty I agree. I think the Ekert has appeared in the Sunday “Homer” strips, but my Way Back Machine is broken.

This is getting scary, Wiley. With Cap’n Eddie fussed we should all be frightened!

Must have been Pandora’s shed.

Hey, WBY plagiarized my name. I’ma gonna suea da bum!

The girls didn’t let the Ekert out. It was an accidental happening because of Petey chasing the squirrel. Don’t blame the girls Eddie, blame the joker who blocked the door with a board. When is Ekert going to find a mate and start multiplying? You know, 2 times 2 equals four, etc.

I knew that there wa a “CAt in the Hat” twist there

Oh boy, we get back story! I love reading the origins of supercreatures.

now things are getting better…………..

just imagine the tour we’ll have with the Cap’n’s story

He-mantee: I’ve relatives in Boston. Loved your poem. Tanks alot.

Ekert got weak from starvation during a period that started with the summer of love, and Eddie was able to lock him away in December ‘69. Right before the Altimont Motor Speedway incident and the Beatles break up.

Yeats is THE MAN! the last two lines are remarkable.

Thanks for the refresher, Sheik, I hadn’t read that in many a year.

Where would this strip be without Lucy, Petey and Pauly?? And now Ekert.

Ekert needs to go to israel.

This does have promise. Will Capt Eddie have an extended story about the Ekert next?

Thanks for the poem Sheik, I’d only heard Joni Mitchel’s version before.

Remember, Captain Eddie regards baseball, especially Red Sox baseball a religion. Thus the Eckert must be the Devil himself!

My local newspaper printed an old stand-alone strip today, something they should do every time there’s a continuing story on a Saturday.

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Sheik,

THANK you for that bit of splendid poetry.

I am SO using that for an audition monologue, and with a Peter O’Toole vibe.

As for Ekert, may he descend on Keith Olberman and his ilk, et. al.

This could be a good thing!

Has anyone Googled EKERT? There really is an Artur Ekert with an interesting background. Could be relevant.

Ekert grows huge on negative thoughts and feelings, then bursts, and lets them all loose again.

Sounds like a crisis the likes of which haven’t been seen since the schmoos escaped !

What happened to Captain Eddie’s pipe in panel 4?