Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson for September 27, 2012

@Dan ThompsonFather and Son reunited at last!

Enough with the whole Rip Van Winkle schtick, Dan! Get us back to normal with Rip and Cobra together and RJ hooking up with Fibby Forester while Dutch proposes to Fawn!

R.J. will give Rip the scoop on Cobra’s situation.Then Rip can do something about it.

I’m just hoping this all turns out to be a nightmare because I sure wasn’t ready for RJ to grow up that fast.

KER-HUGPOUNCESZZZ

It is good to see R.J., it’s been too long. Where’s the dog? To the tune Alouette: “Exposition, we need some exposition. Exposition, that is what we need…”

Dan’s not telling: it goes against the storytelling code.

If all aged that much in two years the dog and sheriff should be dead now.

Gotta admit I agree with what Jim Stark said. I can go along with a gag as well as anyone, and this Rip Van Winkle/Enoch Arden/IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE storyline has certainly kept my attention. I look forward to seeing how all this turns out, yet at the same time, to paraphrase Grace Kelly in REAR WINDOW, "Rip, isn’t it time you came home? And I mean, come home to the days before this whole loopy storyline started? I miss watching R.J. grow up!:-)

Dan – STAY THE COURSE! We don’t know where you are going, but this is an awesome arc. And even if it turns out to be real, Rip can have a few other arcs setting things right again! Great job, Dan, great job.

Mail Carrying HugPounceszz Haywire Hooligans!I bet we see TNT soon, because where R.J. is, can Dutch, TNT and Trip (and Plump O’Kitty too) be far behind?

Veridian…answered you on yesterdays strip…we have to stop meeting like this!…lol…j/k…

Looks like Cobra has sent Rip in the right direction for answers, as only Cobra can. What’s in the package, I wonder? Perhaps it is copies of the proof Rip tried to deliver earlier when this whole mess started.

I can’t help but notice RJ is not letting his face get too close to the beard.

When does this “dream/nightmare” end!

Maybe I am the only one, but can we knock off the beard bashing?

ooooohhhhhh…snugglepurrs…thats my kind of cat verbiage!