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1. 3 months ago on Overboard

   They do supply pets such as Scratch and Raymond.

2. 5 months ago on Luann

   Regardless of whether it is ‘possible’ due to age, (although as a rule family/friend donations follow different rules for kidney, liver and bone marrow etc), the point is moot. Mrs. Horner will simply not allow it to happen.

3. 6 months ago on Overboard

   The Robin couple have nested on my light fixture and made the nest, laid eggs, had 3 babies and all a little later than 3 weeks they are gone. Hummingbird feeder is currently not garnering any interest and the milkweed is starting to do its thing but this is still early for the Monarchs.

4. 6 months ago on Luann

   If this doctor thing is a new story arc and considering the pace of time in this strip I should be dead by the she graduates med school.

5. 6 months ago on Overboard

   Sort of a repeat of a previous comic when the Green Pirates kids are on the ship watching but worth a repeat.

6. 7 months ago on Overboard

   Odd that this is such an environmentally conscious comic and yet so many environmental deniers and-or rationalizers read it.

7. 9 months ago on Overboard

   For a while the rabbits seemed to get it and were part of the world. The Overboard world is just what it is. The mice have a role even though there is a cat who hates mice or birds unless a baby mouse or bird is in trouble and then as much as he hates it he does the right thing. The dog hates the squirrels because they are squirrels and they harass him unless there is an emergency in which case the dog comes to the rescue. The sharks think of Nate as a great meal but get Nate within a mile of a shark net and he’s deep diving to cut it to pieces. A pirate grows vegetables knowing full well 95% will be stolen by rabbits but in the end he knows everyone is fed so he does his part.

   The rabbits seem to be on the players out of sync with the niche?

8. 9 months ago on Luann

   “So he should be expected to adjust his lifestyle to accommodate them.”

   Of course not but also why lead them on to think they matter in his life when so clearly they do not? We have this bad societal impulse to ‘fix people’ and while that is wrong is the target of being fixed knows it are they are any better for allowing it to continue? I am a pragmatist so I know I probably get 90% of this wrong but my thought have always been when you enter a relationship with someone you have a decision to make at some point; either it is worth pursuing or let it go but never just let them dangle because you are either unsure or maybe you are getting something from it than it is clearly not what they want.

9. 9 months ago on Luann

   elade: Even mature people can sometimes get overwhelmed by their feelings now and then. Even mature people sometimes behave irrationally or need some space.

   Absolutely. For example ME comes to mind. I have spent a life with people telling me why am I not engaging people or becoming part of the ‘gang’ ‘team’ ‘group’ etc. Some people are social and some people are not. However that said when I see Piro’s behavior over the long term it seems as if he is selecting this attitude simply because it makes him feel an outsider. Now that is fine. However I do wonder at times if in many cases this whole persona of “I am not conforming” winds up being some alternative conformity merely but others are attracted to what they find ‘different’. You know the whole moth to the blue flame thing.

   I knew a ‘faux Piro’ in university. After two years I asked him how he could handle the weight of being such a fraud since clearly this was not who he was and didn’t it become exhausting. He looked at me and quite succinctly said “I bang more chicks than any other guy in residence.”

   Nice. I am the James Deen of fakes? Getting a bit deeper here than I am the author had in mind but hopefully you get my point.

10. 9 months ago on Luann

    Quick aside and not disagreeing with you but I am a school bus driver and all the 12 year olds and up do not sit there on the phone but rather are engaging with their peers on and off the bus. Not suggesting that they do not spend an inordinate amount of time on their phones, (you should see what happens if one of them forgets their phone on the bus “hello? Yes this President Biden here… I am told Aria left her phone on the bus… SHUT UP Kamala I don’t care what the Russians are doing this is important… so when you can get her phone back to her?”), but from what I see every day they seem to far prefer personal live and physical connections.