Happy Christmas, everyone, and may your Santa be as generous as… wait… who dis? In the tradition of other creators of suspense who are far better at it than myself, I present to you someone new. He appears to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Enter Ophelia, bearing the cheer of hot cocoa. All the housemates are grateful for her generosity… except she didn’t make the stockings. She didn’t make the cocoa, either. And the Toblerone in her stocking… Stocking-stuffing is an art that few[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Christmas stockings are always great to wake up to; Santa was really here, or someone was. Our house-dwellers seem sure they know who it is. In my household, the Christmas Day order was stockings, breakfast, presents under the tree, hyperactive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Few things are as unsatisfying as not finishing what you started. After all that effort and expectation, it’s disappointing to miss scoring. Even banks will lose interest (yours). Worse yet, the puns will come back to haunt you as well.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People are going to question my accuracy on this one; I’m including a treatise on the subject, just to be sure. Origins go back to an 1813 discovery of margaric acid, and Napoleon III’s challenge to create a butter substitute[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes, ya gotta be silly about a problem before you can get serious. Besides, who doesn’t enjoy being really corny sometimes? I don’t think Theo and Cora will be taking lessons at the William Shatner School of Acting anytime soon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Welcome to my neighborhood.” So okay, we don’t have the slippers and the sweater, but it’s still a nice neighborhood. Spoiler alert: As we’ll see in the next comic, Theo is concerned about the implications of venturing outside of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shakespeare told us that “the course of true love never did run smooth,” but he never said anything about requiring a course of tree-climbing. Perhaps this is Cora’s way of branching out, getting to the root of the problem, brushing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This strip helps to explain more of how the house’s magic works for our furry family. For those following this love story for a while, you’ll remember that Lightfoot has reminded us of this feature in an earlier strip (see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I borrowed the title for this strip from the courtroom scene in the great film What’s Up, Doc? In it, the judge (Liam Dunn) is trying to sort out what has happened to cause a huge, cartoon-destructive, and utterly hilarious[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
