Things That Make You Go.......

Have you ever given serious thought to the life of Hagar The Horrible? I mean, here is a guy who steals for a living, has an ogre for a wife and his best friend's a pipsqueak. I think he and Sarge should get together.

But besides the obvious, whenever you see Hagar, he's either on his way to a conquest, back from a conquest, arguing with Helga, drinking or eating himself silly or in the case of today's strip, hanging in manacles somewhere in a castle dungeon. How many times have we seen him hanging from some wall by rusty chains? How often have we seen the hooded executioner/jailer? How often have we actually seen him escape? We don't! In all of his rowdy, beer-soaked, overtaxed, rolling-pinned adventures, we never see the guy make a brilliant escape from those rotting prisons he's always landing in. That would make for some great material, wouldn't it, eh? I guess Chris Browne feels that seeing Hagar always on the verge of getting pummeled by some army is suitable enough, and what's up with THAT? He would seem to be a fairly stealthy viking, to bring home the loot that he does, but he never seems to be caught in the act of winning anything. What portion of the big picture, exactly, are we not getting?

Having a dog in the house, I'm quite familiar with the "sniff, snuff, snoof, snerf," routine that comes with any new odor into the abode. My wife and I contend that just the simple act of sniffing is like crack for dogs. Today's "For Better Or For Worse" illustrates this with such dead-on aim this week, it's been laugh-snort, chortle, snerf every day. John's groaner this morning was actually so funny that it wasn't a groaner.

"Sherman's Lagoon" is funny in a sick way today, considering that there have been two shark attacks in the past few days, in the same area of Florida. A little reisling, anyone?