In Security by Bea R. for July 01, 2017

Haha Don’t you just love puns!

You’re Independent, Sedine, not Indestructible.

Bea, I really hope you don’t have Sedine blowing off her fingers by the end of this arc. After all a gun on safety once somehow fired in her hand, please remember we perfer her “unmutalated”.

In other words – she got money.

With Sedine for a wife there would be fireworks every night. She again alludes to the deprivation of her childhood. What harsh rigidity and passive aggression might our rash and brash heroine have enduring in her formidable years? I know I’ll be here to find out.

Sam needs to rein that girl in.

If she’s not careful, she’ll achieve “Independence” from her physical form.

I sense trouble ahead

Now we know why Sedine still has all her arms, legs, fingers, and toes.

“How’dyoo know yer datin’ a girl fum suthern Delaware?…. she got less’n 10 fingers.”

Old saying from the days when a major fireworks factory existed in southern Delaware. I think Robert Crumb talks about it in his works. It was an old saying the mature folks said when I was growing up in N.Delaware.

“Striking a blow for liberty” as former president Harry S. Truman used to say when goingto the neighborhood drug store which sold “medicinal” hootch to knock a few backduring prohibition.

Where I live, you’ll get laughed out of town if you try to buy single bottle rockets.

How d’ya know yo datin’ a guy fum suthern Georgah? If’n he’s only got one laig. Those goobers don’t bother with puny fireworks – they go for the big time bang with TANNERITE.

“Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing / Let the whole world know that today / Is a day of reckoning. / Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong / Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay / It’s Independence Day.”

So remember folks… When the neighbourhood is blown to bits, blame her parents.

1969: I am helping to pick up pieces of marines, recovering bodies of crashed helicopter crews and helping with body processing at DaNang. People continue to be baffled why a war vet, like me, is totally uninterested in fireworks displays, launching skyrockets and even avoiding the watching of Hollywood’s “Rambo” movies. All I can say is “Been there, done that and don’t care to keep on doing it.”

“I see you’ve got snakes and sparklers, but where’s the good stuff?”

But still without think in the consequences.

This can’t end well.

Late-In-The-Day Lettering Note …

The pointer of Sam’s balloon in panel #4 is perilously close to being closed off, but in this case I kinda like it that way. :)