Dennis the Menace, 10/27/24

The Sunday Dennis the Menace strips always come with a title in the first panel, and usually it offers little pun or light wordplay, but today it's just ... "Dracula"? Dracula, the name of the vampire Dennis wants to be for Halloween. Or at least it is for the first few panels, after which he kind of loses interest. I guess he does pivot to wanting to be a boss ... the vampire who sucks the blood out of the working class! Ha ha, just kidding, Dennis's mother doesn't even participate in the wage economy. He just wants to tell her what to do, because he's kind of an asshole, but it's not a class struggle thing, honestly more primal and Freudian. Hmm, maybe the vampire metaphor could work after all. I'm going to workshop this and get back to you.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 10/27/24