Beasts, beast-men, Wilbur, etc.

Pluggers, 4/22/24

John Cougar Mellencamp sits at the intersection of plugger and poet, and I have long believed that "Life goes on/ long after the thrill of living is gone" is one of the most poignant lines in the corpus of 20th century American literature. Anyway, mad respect to Pluggers today for briefly but explicitly acknowledging the overpowering miasma of hopelessness that suffuses every panel of this comic that's ever been published.

Mary Worth, 4/22/24