Hot News
With Monday (June 28) projected to be the hottest day (here in Seattle) in recorded history, I decided to cool off a bit (digitally) and run today’s comic. Given the current heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, even cartoonish rain is welcome.
How hot is it going to be in Seattle? The forecast is for 109 degrees F. That’s six degrees hotter than our record—and it’s still only June!!!
Shelagh and I will be fine. Unlike most Seattleites, we do have AC. But, we’re in the minority here. And it’s going to range from extremely uncomfortable to deadly for some folks in this region.
(Boy, it seemed like an extravagance when we plunked down the money for AC years ago, but it’s been well worth it over the years—especially as temperatures keep rising.)
My thanks to Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira for the cooler weather in today’s comic. Now if they—or anyone—can just figure out how to make it cooler in the real world. Seattle may be famous for its weather, but right now we could use more cool, wet relief!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Pencils by John Celardo from the story “Stand-In for Love” in Intimate Love #24, Sept. 1953.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman outside a building, running (or at least hurrying) in the rain. She is wearing either a kerchief or a rain bonnet on her head.
CAPTION: Soaked nearly to the bone, Nancy cursed her naivete. Her cruel sorority sisters had pranked her again. It most definitely was not raining men!
1953 Pencils: John Celardo New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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CAPTION: Soaked nearly to the bone, Nancy cursed her naivete. Her cruel sorority sisters had pranked her again. It most definitely was not raining men!
1953 Pencils: John Celardo New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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Here in Utah 5% humidity and low dew points make 109* somewhat bearable. We lived in Bellingham for awhile so with all that moisture, 109*is probably very oppressive. I know Illinois was bad too.
109 is indeed very oppressive for Seattle!
Shoot, the original script sounds like something you’d write.
“My heart stuck in my throat all the way to HER house.
It does, doesn’t it? Melodrama abounds in those old romance comics!
Hottest temperature ever recorded down here in Portland: 114.
Ugh. That’s only 5 degrees hotter than us. But…that’s way, way too hot for the humid Northwest!
On to the cartoon!
As Joel McHale used to say often on “The Soup”:
“Chicks, man….”
Wait!
No Stormy Daniels reference?
Nah, too obvious
Ack! How could I have missed my chance?!!
Meanwhile, here in Texas, where it would normally be in the 100s in June, we’re in the 70s and raining. All week. Maybe there’s more to the pole shift thing than we think.
Hoping the best for those without AC.
Thanks, Jams. Yes, I heard that Texas has been getting our lovely Seattle weather. (We want it back!)
One of the best investments of my life—although I’m sure most people around here thought I was being a spendthrift—was adding an air conditioner years ago when we got a new furnace.