
Mitch: I saw the “Off The Mark” first, and said to myself “That’s more something that Horace Horse would do.” Then next day saw this “Dark Side of the Horse”!


Mitch: I saw the “Off The Mark” first, and said to myself “That’s more something that Horace Horse would do.” Then next day saw this “Dark Side of the Horse”!




Because a cartoon character who doesn’t speak would be more like this:

“Dot” is a reference to Seurat’s girlfriend in “Sunday in the Park With George,” the musical based on his “A Sunday Aftenoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”
Which still doesn’t tell me what Monsieur Melcher had in mind.



Each individual line in comprehensible but taken on a whole, this strip makes as much sense to me as, well, the song of the same name.

Or I guess “no longer have in his hand,” technically…
