This is an homage to Dik Browne's classic comic strip, Hägar the Horrible, which I LOVED growing up! I've been wanting to do a strip in this style for a while to add to my collection of style-homages I've done, but hadn't found a reason to do so until now. (The fact that the week it was scheduled to run just HAPPENS to be the 52nd anniversary of the strip's premier was completely unplanned! But I take these things as "meant to be" type stuff.) To make a long story short, I never knew my Father's side of my family growing up and was actively discouraged from reaching out to it. My Mother told me LOTS of things about my ancestry from both sides of my family that I had to learn to take with a VERY BIG grain of salt. She has generally been... a less than reliable source of information. But she DID tell me my Father was of Norwegian descent. There was a LOT of nonsense around that information what was BS, but taking an Ancestry DNA test confirmed at least that. At that point, I realized that I had a great IN to finally do a Hägar themed gag! (Yeah, yeah! I'll get to a THOR piece before too long. lol)

Classic Garfield

Honestly, the first three panels I kinda thought at work, which evolved into a funny thing to say to try to get out of a speeding ticket, which led to me going "what a Calvin-ass thing to say..."

Dale Arden was the original sexy comic strip hottie. She and Flash were not a couple until being thrown together by Zarkov. As a result their relationship is often strained as it was never built on anything solid. In the Alex Raymond strip, Dale engaged in a weeks long fling with Prince Barin while Flash was launching a Guerilla campaign against Ming. I wrote a bit of fan fiction to take advantage of this dicotomy. Shrink fiction fan fiction.