Talk about really enjoying your meals! Vivacious Blondie Bumstead is encouraging her offbeat husband's sexual attraction to tiny pizzas.
We really don't know what to make of yesterday's edition of Blondie, in which Mrs. Bumstead actually seems relieved that husband Dagwood is sexually attracted to a series of miniature pizzas draped in nothing more than a ribbon of goat cheese and a few loosely arranged carmelized onions.
Why the smiles? Wouldn't most wives grow worried that their spouse was more interested in doing lascivious- perhaps even illegal - things to snacks than to them?
We can only answer that the Bumstead marriage has long been a troubled one. Witness this heartbreaking episode in which Blondie seems to hint that she has eyes for someone else (Bernie Bunkley, you're a lucky man, whoever you are). Or take a gander at this depressing panel, in which Dagwood's mental stability comes into question.
Dagwood's food fetish leaves Blondie free to either cover herself in black forest cake and salad dressing and hope for the best, or to step out on her own for some much-needed attention from a more assertive member of the opposite sex. We don't think she's wearing those knee-high boots in this comic just to keep her feet dry!
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