Okay. I admit it. I wrote that last panel just so I could use the word “perspicaciousness.”
Rad Sampson is justifiably famous among engineers in the Groovyverse. What with the space station, the Great Saharan Railroad, journeys all over the world, Sampson Enterprises is the Valhalla of Engineering.
By the way, that cute bartender is none other than Sierra Star, star of one of my fave comics, “Bound by Blood,” which currently features a stunning cameo by our very own Stephanie Rossum, who looks ravishing in color.
Speaking of everyone’s favorite humachinal, she, Larry, and some pudding pop round to see an old chum, when the conversation turns to love, sex, and… death?
I know what that word means. I totally know…
*Reaches for dictionary*
Love that look of pride on the third panel, by the way.
Thank you. Edison pretty much dictated that third panel. After all Dilbert’s been through, to turn out so well makes her very happy.
And part of the fun of writing Groovy, Kinda, is looking up and discovering old words. In this case, I’ve been re-reading Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series (“Master and Commander”) and it’s chock-full of such tasty tidbits.
“Perspicacity” more or less means “shrewd.”
Alternate title: Perspicacity and the Sundance Kid.
“How many of are followin’ us, Edison?”
“All of ’em!”
Aww, it’s so sweet the way her relationship with her son seems to be mending.
And I do say, that Rad Sampson chap has quite the sesquipedalian acumen. Bravo.
“Susquehanna Hat Company? Aieee! Susquehanna hat! That’s the same kind of hat my husband was wearing when he was killed!
And he wouldn’t have lost his life if he’d been wearing a good hat when that safe fell off that fifteen story building!”
So Rad Sampson is the Tom Swift from the Tom Swift Jr. books of the Groovyverse?
And if you got that one, you’re officially old.
Bless my bingo card! You’re absolutely ol-I mean, right, Opus!