Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for February 20, 2024

To what? Gassy Avenue?

“Calvin and Hobbes” might help with sales?

(Kudos to the management for not drawing the “big” reveal out a whole ’nother week.)

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It’s a full update for the 20th:

Walt leans on the dealer to get his new car delivered, Skeezix can break some toys, easy peasy. (Probably Corky’s.)

Sudden Demise makes a sudden exit from the train to Shebang, and instead is headed to see the winner of the range war. Time to collect the second half of what he’s owed for filling the contract.

I can’t think of two people in the Brendaverse who deserve success more. (Except literally every other character in the strip – including Daphne Dimples, Señor Biteso, and every last one of Hy Pockets’ hogs.)

Chipper lets Clovia get a peek at what she’s letting herself in for.

Maybe the city fathers and mothers decided that the Alley needs an updated image makeover as “Gasoline Alley” puts people [tourists with money] in mind of some greasy place populated by grubby men in dirty overalls always tinkering with dilapidated cars that are kept running way past their prime.

Gasoline Alley was started in 1918 when car culture was a new phenomena, similar to computers around 1990. People became familiar with cars due to using them in the first world war and Henry Ford use of the assembly line made them affordable to the working class.

Is that what all this fuss is about?? SHEESH!!

I suppose next, the townspeople will converge on Mayor Melba to complain—which will bring the two dumb rubes into the story.

To what? Tesla Terrace? Battery Boulevard?

Gasoline Alley is what they call the area where all the pit stop crews are at a racetrack!

EV Lane?

Petroleum Boulevard?

The left of the day is trying to erase history.

Is this true? Either the Gasoline Alley name is changing or the strip is ending in a month or two!

Didn’t see that coming! Time to elect a new city council. I nominate Joel and Rufus! That would be entertaining…

OH no They are going to rename the strip to Rufus and joel….plus all this lead up for this??

to what EV disaster????

Told you the reveal would be disappointing.

The new name: “Vehicle Charging Area”

Ah, I see this arc bending toward bringing in Miss Melba … Rufus and his mop bucket and Joel with his jug will be involved in helping solve this.

to Jonsey Street? Mice Gutters?

“Centenarian Alley”?

To Petroleum Place.

Years ago, I was surprised to find out the name of the town is “Gasoline Alley”. I had previously perceived “Gasoline Alley” to refer to a place within the town. As the name of an alley, it’s O.K. But, I don’t like it as the name of a town.

Name it ""Walletville"—-a nice tribute and people will think the place is rich and pour in in droves

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue…

For the second day in a row, Josh commented on GA over at the Curmudgeon:

“OK, fine, it turns out the shocking and disturbing news in Gasoline Alley isn’t about nightmarish genetic experiments but rather the fact that they’re going to rename Gasoline Alley, presumably because of woke. I guess “Gasoline Alley” is the name of a specific geographical location within the strip, but if it is they haven’t made an overt reference to it in years, and I think it would be very funny if the city council within the strip had the awesome power to change the name of the very universe that contained their entire reality.”

“Awful stupid”? That’s this arc in a nutshell.

Lithium Lane

The city was thinking about Electric Avenue, but then, Eddy Grant made a big stink about the copyright stuff !! … :)

Petroleum Park?

From Guillermo el chiclero over at the Curmudgeon:

Skeezix: It’s worse than that, Uncle Walt. Because of our neighborhood’s changing demographics towards non-white, they’re going to rename our street after Martin Luther King!

Walt: Darn! I knew we should’ve let Slim finish his plan to wipe out those black kids playing basketball!

The man is wearing a ratty old sweater with a stretched out head hole…I LOVE IT. They are my kind of people.

About as dumb as changing the name of the Red Skins.