Lots to be said about today’s strip, gang!
- The red title text in panel one really stands out against the muddy, muted greens and pinkish browns of today’s panels.
- TB casually drops into this otherwise run-of-the-mill, throwaway Sunday setpiece the fact that Pete is moving back to the big city, nearly four years after he inexplicably moved back to Westview.
- The name of this secondhand bookstore is sorta clever (certainly more clever than The Village Booksmith). Reminds me of a bar in Bayonne where I used to live that was called He’s Not Here.
- TB sure has a thing for bookstores and their uncertain fate. In addition to the now-shuttered Booksmith, earlier this year Les recalled a now-demolished bookstore in Kent, Ohio (Les also shares Pete’s proclivity for “haunting” secondhand bookstores).
- With his balloon head and scrawny neck, Bookstore Guy in the last panel really resembles South Park‘s Mr. Mackey, mmkay?
Son of Stuck Funky 