Close to Home by John McPherson for August 16, 2022

Crown Royal

here’s look-king at you kid!

Ouch!

Looks more like a pope.

Is Bleeb winking?

Better to crown than to breech

A crowning achievement!

Why, it’s the Imperial Margarine king….

I suppose they’ll treat the kid like a king.

The result of a royal screw?

aaaand… JAZZ HANDS!

He’ll be working at Burger King in a few years.

Had to look that one up.

Crown? Ouch.

It’ll be an heir raising experience. :)

Prince Doofus

Has already become a royal pain in the butt.

Wow, the kid got margarine right out of the gate. (Remember that commercial?)

That would have REALLY hurt!

“Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

―John Irving

Stay where you are Bleeb, it’s a bad time for observation.

King me! Ha! Now watch me jump in any direction.

Ouch!

Crowning nothing. He’s been kinged….

I’d say that it’s time to abdicate.

I’ve been trying to figure out what’s on the child’s face. Where one of his eyes should be, it instead looks like the end of an elephant’s trunk.

That must have been some painful labor she experienced!

It’s an heir, apparently!

Little Lord Fauntleroy is born.

Oh dear, the humor here depends on a technical term which involves… uh, well, if you didn’t get it, go ask your mom.

Hallowe’en arrived early this year, I see.

Bleeb seems particularly pleased about this!

Anyone else reminded of Dwight and Michael?