Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for April 17, 2024

Mister Piggy looks so happy. What’s HIS angle ?

I hope he’s roundly booed by the audience! And then Mayor Melba launches an investigation, revealing that SOB’s crimes and gets him arrested!

Imeswine obviously has an ulterior motive!

Hope Corky is there to remind him he got the idea off of his menu and he wants reparations.

Looks like A.I. and the Electric Acres name won. Now comes the swan song of the comic strip maybe next?

I am so tempted to access A.I. and ask it to generate a new appropriate name for Cleveland…

Where is Mayor Melba in all this?

Did skeezix just take the batteries out of his hearing aid and give them to Walt? “You know, I’m starting to suspect that this guy who not two seconds ago just said he used AI to come up with the new name for the town… might have used AI when coming up with a new name for the town!”

Reddy Kilowatt and the ‘use more electricity’ craze was 60 years ago!

Yet once again, GA is highlighted in today’s Comics Curmudgeon. This is not the honor that Jim thinks it is.

“Oh, God, wait, is a Gasoline Alley character in-universe actually consulting AI? Well, I already have that tab open, might as well just see what I get —

I think we can agree that, while “Energy Avenue” isn’t the same as “Electric Acres,” it’s in the same ballpark. And I’m obviously not paying for access to the high-test version of ChatGPT, so I think it’s pretty clear that Assistant Mayor Imeswine has gotten himself ripped off."

When will Mayor Melba come back and return Gasoline Alley to saneness?