I should relate to Gertie's pencil-neck husband, but all I feel for him is endless contempt
Gearhead Gertie, 10/3/24
Now, I might be an Ivy League-educated coastal elitist, but the Ivy League school I attended was in fact located in the Finger Lakes, and I know that they'll just let any schmo drive on at least one NASCAR track, so I assume this is probably true elsewhere? Not going to bother researching that, I'm just saying, this panel is predicated on the idea that Gertie is doing something crazy when in fact she's doing something very normal for a NASCAR obsessive such as herself. I don't usually take sides in comic strip marital spats but her husband needs to chill out!
Blondie, 10/3/24
Blondie is a strip I very much never think of as "visually interesting," so I do have to give props to Dagwood's thought balloon in the first panel, which wraps around the door to match his imagined sausage garland placement. On the other hand, his wink is pure nightmare fuel, and the idea of "pizza-shaped pillows" ... that's just round! That's not epic at all! Look, Alexander, there's a pizza-shaped pillow on the couch right next to you!
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/3/24
You know, if Mud Mountain only pretended to be the first guy in history who ever had his personality genuinely improved after joining an obviously fake scam self-help cult, just so he could lull Truck into complacency and get an invitation perform together again, at which point he plans to pull off his patented move -- pretending to shit his pants on stage -- well, I for one will have no choice but to respect it.