Josh really nailed it today in the Curmudgeon, already the fourth time this year that GA has appeared.
“One of the central and increasingly untenable contradictions of Gasoline Alley is that it is and always has been a strip where the characters age in real time, but it’s also a strip that’s been continuously published since 1918, and Walt Wallet, one of its central characters, is now improbably someting like 130 years old. But they can’t let him die, or even retire gracefully to the semi-fantastical Old Comics Character Home like they hinted they would back in 2006 and 2013, I guess because extensive market research showed that once Walt is allowed to stop suffering, the few remaining Gasoline Alley trufans will simply abandon the strip and do something more interesting with their lives. Anyway, that same research showed that nobody gives a **** about Slim, so, uh, RIP Slim, 1970(?)-2024, you taught me that it’s pretty easy to freeze to death in your car.”
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray 4 months ago
Slim is just dead dog tired or having a cardio infraction.
Dirty Dragon 4 months ago
If you pound on the window and the drunk doesn’t move at all… I’d go ahead and break into the car.
snsurone76 4 months ago
Terrific artwork here.
billyk75 4 months ago
Getting serious.
therese_callahan2002 4 months ago
Call it a DWC. Driving while caffeinated.
iggyman 4 months ago
Why don’t they just open the door?!
fuzzbucket Premium Member 4 months ago
He’s tired of Clovia.
I Go Pogo 4 months ago
He wants out of this strip.
eced52 4 months ago
Never drank that much caffeine, that I passed out.
Uncle $crooge 4 months ago
Josh really nailed it today in the Curmudgeon, already the fourth time this year that GA has appeared.
“One of the central and increasingly untenable contradictions of Gasoline Alley is that it is and always has been a strip where the characters age in real time, but it’s also a strip that’s been continuously published since 1918, and Walt Wallet, one of its central characters, is now improbably someting like 130 years old. But they can’t let him die, or even retire gracefully to the semi-fantastical Old Comics Character Home like they hinted they would back in 2006 and 2013, I guess because extensive market research showed that once Walt is allowed to stop suffering, the few remaining Gasoline Alley trufans will simply abandon the strip and do something more interesting with their lives. Anyway, that same research showed that nobody gives a **** about Slim, so, uh, RIP Slim, 1970(?)-2024, you taught me that it’s pretty easy to freeze to death in your car.”
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 4 months ago
Time to revive Slim with intravaneous Cheez Whiz feeding