What if the strip takes a right turn and we get 5 straight jokeless years of Cornelius' losing battle to Alzheimer's, and the pain and trouble it brings his friends.  It would be kind of like a less depressing Funky Winkerbean.

ya, Onstad all just telling us "It's still not funny, it's still character development" over 5 years of strips about Cornelius slowly forgetting about the childrends books he used to write, or worse yet forgetting that he isn't still writing childrens books.

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Is Mr. Teal going to turn out to be actually Nice Pete conniving to entangle Cornelius in some horrible murder-scheme?

I guess Rod just forgot about the Al Qaeda attack in panel three there. I love the notion of someone being so scared of something that they would run through a wall, and then almost immediately going back. I wonder what Ray is thinking of all this? I presume he can hear the conversation going on in Pat's room through the hole in the wall, and that he saw Rod run back through the hole he made in the wall to grab a towel and then go back.
Also, when you're walking through a hole you just made in a wall, how is it that the first thing you say is "You know my work, pudding?" Is Pat so horny that he doesn't even question the fact that a gay porn star has literally burst into his room? And how does Rod think that he is so suave that he can just not even address the fact that he just ran through a wall? Like putting on a towel and whistling is enough to act nonchalant about walzing on through a hole in a wall created by your own fat terrified body just moments ago.