Pluggers, 2/26/25

I've been reading and making fun of Pluggers for nearly 20 years now, and over that time I have against my will acquired a certain amount of information about the individual beast-people who make up the cast. For my sins, I know that the cat-man plugger's name is Claude, and somewhere in the back of my mind I have it that he's supposed to be the intellectual of this bunch, although I can't really find evidence to that effect in my archives; instead there's just the usual stuff about how he has more prescriptions than friends and his underpants are constantly on the verge of falling off. But what I'm definitely sure of is that he doesn't have a wife. There are only a few she-pluggers in this strip -- the chicken-lady, the kangaroo-lady, and I think a dog-lady? -- and none of them are with Claude. Reading the horoscopes in order to find out whether your pretend wife is going to be in a bad mood is a pretty baroque little fantasy, I have to admit. Maybe I was right about him being an intellectual, or at least profoundly neurotic, which is kind of the same thing if you think about it.

Six Chix, 2/26/25