Comical Cahoots

There it is, right smack dab in the middle of the Tuesday comics section - an interesting case of comic-synchronicity:

It starts on the left with "The Middletons" as Bumper the bulldog obeys the command to play "dead" and then waits for Morris to "throw some dirt on him." Right next door, "Hagar The Horrible" introduces Lucky Eddie to "Dirty Dirk" and his dog "Dirty Dog", who looks perhaps like Bumper would if Morris had gone ahead with the soil-tossing. Just below that in "Fred Basset", the hound exclaims about a diminuitive scotty that "the poor little chap has been taken to the cleaners..but he looks all the better for it!"

Not exactly all the same thing, but an interesting happenstance in any case.