Dustin, 7/22/24

To me, this feels very much like a strip that was originally going to do some kind of wordplay on the polysemic nature of "alarmed" -- "it was alarmed" ... "the door was alarmed?" ... "no, [something funnier] was alarmed" -- but then gave up on figuring out what [something funnier] might be and just did a "quiet quitting" joke instead with out even going back and reworking the dialogue that led up to it. Frankly, I kind of enjoy the idea that the narrative voice for Dustin (the comic strip) has boundless contempt for Dustin (the character) and yet both do the most half-assed job possible in any situation.

Mary Worth, 7/22/24