May 8th, 2020
8 May 2020 · page 985 of 1306
Cast: Heinrich Wolfe, Kirti Malik, Rajeev Malik, Sidney Malik
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Leaving it till the last minute there Sid!
Maybe you can get your magpie to pinch one of the other student's diplomas as they're walking out of the ceremony, so you still have something to put on the wall!
Classy guy, that Wolfe!
a perfect gentleman
The crack in my phone screen makes Sid look like he has glasses in the sixth panel. It is very weird.
And time for another confession! Too bad it's not in a vent.
Sixth panel? I only see five.
You would see six if you had a crack in your phone screen.
...and that’s the cue for some unexpected but amusing chaos so Sid still doesn’t get to tell his parents the truth.
Well, Mal is on his way back to town...
Go, Sid! You can do it!
Also: darn, this means Wolfe won't be at the Anchor when Mal turns up. Maybe they'll cross paths between here and the train station instead...
Mr Malik can't explain everything until after someone has told his parents that he is secretly in love with Harry Barber.
And then Ben, Eliza, Mal, and Harry all burst in and interrupt him!
don't forget Gren!
"I dropped out of wizard school and then I became way overqualified as a wizard due to being involved with a bunch of crazy magic junk."
i need the next one so badly... ugh i can't stand the suspense!
Oh dear. That's really too bad. You know, of course, that the next one will likely be
about Mal and that it will most certainly be several strips until we
come back to Sid and his problems?
idk why discord marked this comment as spam twice, sorry!
And then he gets an honorary degree, for that time he helped save the city.
(But it's a dentistry degree.)
With that degree, he should go into business with a Barber. Also, the fact that dual-class barber dentists went out of style ten years before the Victorian Era is something I totally did not know.
You have earned an upvote with your pun.
"... I was the real Harry Barber all along."
"You're not really my parents. I adopted you."
I don't know why but this killed me.
Umph. I know that feeling only to well. That would be the right moment for a time machine, transporting you into a near future when all is said and done. Unfortunately, that machine doesn't exist in anybodies timeline...
I'm proud of you, Sidney, you can do it!
Wolfe, you absolute perfect gentleman!
I just noticed that Sid's mum calls him Lancelot, but his dad calls him Sidney.
I still expect the reaction to his revelation to be "We know - we were just messing with you for not telling us yourself."
Some family history here: My dad was enrolled in Morton Junior College in Cicero, Illinois.
He either flunked out or {more likely, since it was mid-term} got tossed out. {Dad was a bit of a lad in those days; some of his friends were the sons of wiseguys in the Outfit. The Untouchables was one of his favourite TV comedies.}
World War Two was in its relatively early days; Dad stopped by his neighbourhood draft board on his way home and asked to be voluntarily drafted {which you could do, if you wanted to serve but had no preference which service.}. The examining physician there happened to be his family doctor.
He took one look at dad and said "Clitz - you know your eyes are too bad to pass."
Dad said "Yeah - but I got tossed outta school, and I gotta tell Ma something."
The doctor, who knew my Grandma of old {she was a short but terrifying first-generation Bohemian woman with muscular arms and a long wooden spoon} and said "Ah - right. I'll say you barely passed."
Dad got home and said "Ma - I got drafted; I can't go on at school.'
She said "Uh-huh. The Dean called."
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Somewhat later, the Air Corps found out just how bad his eyes actually were and he got a medical discharge in the middle of the war.
I love how in his gentlemanly withdrawal in panel two Wolfe still gets in another "you really should tell them" dig at Sid.
"I have a confession to make...I actually graduated early and it slipped my mind to tell you!"
Full circle. The man looks even sicker than the very first few pages of the comic.
Go Sid! <3