Kedamono sends this in: “Just a funny thought, though the title implies that the writer owned those Hobbits. Merry and Pippin would like a word with them behind the shed about that.”
Primary season coming up.
Kedamono sends in this OY / Ewww
Saturday Morning OYs February 21, 2026
Comics I Don't Understand 
Of course, the Roanoke colonists did leave a forwarding address (the known-at-the-time Krotoan community), and no one thought it was at all mysterious until centuries later, when someone decided to gin it up as a Big Mystery.
As for the 7 Hobbits, there’s this fan theory that at some point Gandalf sired children with a particularly ambitious Took lass, hence his continuing interest in the Tooks and Took-adjacent Hobbits…just looking after his descendants.
You can have a friend, lawyer, gardener, chef, assistant, spouse, etc. and none of that implies ownership.
I suppose the Rubes one is playing on the phrase “jump for joy.” In the dog restaurant, it seems that he’s asking for a, er, um, mobile rest room.
The comic does include “CROATOAN” written on a tree in the background!
That said, as I understand it, the question remaining is not so much whether the colonists intended to relocate to Croatoan, but rather whether they were successful in doing so, and whether they integrated with the locals or left (or were slaughtered).
@Boise Ed, maybe, but I took it to be a request after the fact.
It’s clear that BC intends only to appeal to Boomers and older millennials.
Nobody younger will remember adult magazines with foldout centerfolds.
The BC is dated August 5, 1966, so nobody younger than a boomer was around to appreciate it.
I’m sure “CROATOAN” on the tree meant “We’re going to try to make it to Croatoan”, not “Hey, we all went to Croatoan, and I came all the way back to write this, and now I have to go all the way to Croatoan all over again.”