Goodbye, Shoe

THE ZAMBELLAS: had older, high school kids who were complete losers. And a 9000-lb Doberman whose sole purpose in life was to try to give me a heart attack whenever I’d hafta walk down to the store to get the evening paper. Thing would be waiting for me to cross into his property alongside the road. I’d start sprinting to get to the other end of the yard and he’d be running with me, separated by the ditch. He’d explode into a fury, spitting blood and sending the voice of hell down through my spine. “I’m just getting a newspaper for my dad!!” I’d holler at him, which would only infuriate him more. The second I crossed the property line into the next yard BAM! his body instantly would go limp and he’d have his “So, cicadas every 17 years, how bout that?” bored look on his face. Asshole. - XMASTIME

 Shoe made my list of all-time comic strips I read when i was a kid.

I guess I also took some odd personal pride in that fact that Jeff MacNelly won a Pulitzer while working for the Richmond News Leader.

ANYhoo, after more than four decades, Shoe is ending. I mean, what the fuck, amirite?