In the meantime, here's Little Dot in "Dot's Dandy" (already starting with the bad puns out of the gate!).
I'm not sure what's bugging Mr. Polka more; his daughter bringing up the subject of dots yet again or the fact that Dot is putting Swiss cheese on her pie! Quiche I can understand, but PIE??? Yechhh!!!
And who has pie for breakfast? Again, quiche would probably be more suitable to break one's fast. At least it's not cold pizza with anchovies! Double Yechhh!!!
Mr. Polka's tantrum seems to be a staple of most adult Harvey characters; grown men stamping their feet and flailing their arms when upset about something. It's sorta comical, I guess.
I don't think your scheme to cure Dot of her obsession is going to work, Polka. If anyone's going to be sick of dots, it's going to be you and the missus. More sick than you are now, that is! But Mrs. Polka is all in; just look at that expression on her face!
Oh, yes, please, Mrs. Polka; don't let the important task of baking a cake get in the way of curing your daughter's obsession. It's the only way you can win money for a new hat. Apparently hubbykins didn't get that raise, then you wouldn't have to try and win baking contests to have nice things!
Or maybe Daddy has a mistress he's keeping in an apartment he's renting for her in town. No wonder he can't afford to buy his wife a new hat!
And Mom starts the plan off with a pun "Dot's" not very funny, lady!
Now what are her parents REALLY up to? Looks like her mother is using Dot's enthusiasm for dots to get some cheap labor out of her!
So first we have pie for breakfast and now eggs for lunch! I suppose it's faster and cheaper than calling for pizza delivery!
Yeah, Dot, hurry up! You've got only a few more hours of daylight to be exploited some more!
If you look really, really hard, you can see dots in just about everything! Eventually you'll see them before your eyes without even trying!
So how are you going to refer to your daughter, Mrs. Polka? I suppose "Dorothy" is not out of the question (it is, after all, her given name).
Probably not a good idea, Dot; the cake will taste funny seeing as you put fully-baked cookies into a bowl of raw cake dough. Then there's the concern over salmonella...
Is it really your mom's cake, Dot? You did most of the work! Anyway, good luck!
So Dot had to come up with a name of the cake on the spot! Not bad! You don't even have to give your mom credit for the cake, unless there's some kind of age restriction!
Mr. Polka has returned from the "office" and is greeted by new decor. Looks like Dot is going to have a switch taken to her backside! OR WILL SHE???
Hey, Polka, guess what? Your plan backfired and now your daughter has managed to convert your wife/her mother to the cult of Dotism! Yes, Dot Polka will likely go on to have found a new religion called Dotism!
Wow, that's some baking contest! First prize is 500 bucks??? Looks like Mrs. Polka was able to afford a new hat AND a new wardrobe as well!
So Mr. Polka has quite the dilemma! Both his wife and daughter have an obsession with dots. Maybe it's time to move in with his mistress or start to amass a stack of therapy bills both female members of his family will generate!
Wouldn't want to be in your shoes, Polka, ol' boy!
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OK, that's it for this installment! See you soon!
Excelsior!
Alan
Dot: "The first time I've ever eaten dots!" Wha....? You mean that she's been alive for 8-or-so years and she'd never eaten anything that's round? Never had eggs, pancakes, cookies, donuts, sliced tomatoes, tortillas, meatballs, etc.? Poor deprived child! And that cheese that she had on her pie (ugh!)... she wasn't eating anything dot-shaped there! The "dots" are negative space, not the food itself!
ReplyDelete"Or maybe Daddy has a mistress he's keeping in an apartment he's renting for her in town. No wonder he can't afford to buy his wife a new hat!" ROTFL! I laughed so hard that I started gasping for air and choking! That was a good one!
Dot: "I'm waiting for my yellow DOTS!" Of course she is! Up until this morning, Dot had never eaten dots before, so these mysterious white oval-ish not-dots in a hard white shell must be some exotic food that came from far-away Zanzibar or something. Her mom indicates that she can make "fried yellow dots" out of them so of course Dot's excitement is off the charts! Eggs! Whoo hoo!
"Probably not a good idea, Dot; the cake will taste funny seeing as you put fully-baked cookies into a bowl of raw cake dough. Then there's the concern over salmonella..." Actually Dot's idea may be perfectly valid. Maybe "Chocolate chippies" are not cookies. Maybe they're like jumbo versions of Ghiradelli Flicks and they're large flat chocolate discs meant for baking. Dot dumps them in, and she bakes the cake, therefore removing the risk of salmonella poisoning. But, that's even more cause for alarm. Mom is feeling ill and passed out on the couch and young, unsupervised Dot is turning on the oven all by herself.
"your daughter has managed to convert your wife/her mother to the cult of Dotism!" It sounds scary for now, but Harvey comics has an Ex Deus Machina reset button, so by the next issue the dots painted on the walls are all gone and Mrs. Polka, with the help of some electroshock therapy, is back to normal.
oh my what so many dots. Who cares the world go round anyway. So many dots, I see space for new unique creations why? so what else you do with dots/ put something in the space of course!! why a mistress? for the dotism contamination to continue? seeing that the mrs is not dotism but converted to Dotism what ever that is!! That means she was never Dotism, so if she was not so and the only person who is thinking of a mistress then the Dotism came from the creator Mr.Polka then he must suffer of his own creation with his eyes open, do enjoy its as real as its get. OK who is normal is there somewhere to get back to. Don't mind me am a bit out of it,Oh am I?
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