Summer should either be a lot more horrified or a lot more excited in my opinion

Mary Worth, 12/2/22

Now, I'm just a simple country blogger, not a fancy math wizard, but if I'm counting right, Nan is around 12ish years older than Zak, whereas Iris, who has noted that Zak is Tommy's age, is closer to 20 years her beau's senior. We may be on the verge of a spectacle in which a woman feels threatened by the youth and vitality of her fiance's former babysitter, which is a truly amazing sentece to write about an ostensibly dull comic strip like Mary Worth. And where is Tommy's actual mother in all this Oedipal jockeying? I assume she was absent, both physically and emotionally, during his childhood, so if she bothers to show up for the wedding, things could get even more weird and fraught, which is how I like my newspaper soap opera comic strips.

Dennis the Menace, 12/2/22