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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune SUNDAY COMICS sunday, June 30, 2002 4 BY CHRIS BROWNE HAGAR THE HORRIBLE caigtarer” BE FARTLY, SUNNY WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE eo Z SEVENTIES... CLASSIC PEANUTS 2 BY CHARLES SCHULZ iat WEATHER TODAY WiLL = “ a a eee] @ ss Gee WITH WAVES RUNNING UP TO SFEET..- a THERE 16, NO RAIN FORECAST FOR ALL OF ENELANP FOR THE NEXT 24 TRAFFIC INTO™ LONGON IS HEAVY WITH. QELAYS UF_TO HOURS... B eye EXPENSIVE BUT THESE ™ WEATHER ANP TRAFFIC RE;PORTS ARE IMPORTAN T TOAy TRAVELING MAN LIKE ME J Ou S THE WINCHES TURN. THE LINES GROW TAUT, SLOWLY YUAN CHEN'S GREAT TRIREME EMERGES FROMITS CAVE. MEN WITH STAVES ARRAYED TO PORT AND STARBOARD | PREVENT THE | VESSEL FROM DASHING ITSELF THE MEN PULLING OARS CURSE THE ORUMBEAT THAT CALLS FOR A QUICKENING PACE, BUT THE MAN ON THE ORUM AGAINST THE BRINE- SOAKED WALLS. AT | LAST THE TRIREME Heads MEM Or | REACHES THE SAFETY | OF OPEN WATER, | PRINCE VALIANT SCANS AW EMPTY HORIZON," WE ARE 4 FULL DAY BEHIND.TUSTINJAN,” PRINCE VALIANT SAYS, “AND M/S WARSHIP /5 SWIFT. WHAT ARE OUR CHANCES 7" YUAN CHEN 19 SERENELY CONFIDENT, ” T HAVE HAD A MONTH 10 GAIL THESE WATERS... YEP, ELDRIDGE IS STAYING IN AY HOUSE -SLEEFING ON MY SOFA! “4. THE WINDS ARE ERRATIC AND SHIPS. OFTEN FIND THEMSELVES BECALMED. WE HAVE A WEEK TO CATCH HIM --ANO WE HAVE OARS." FOUR DAYS LATER, YUAN CHEN'S PREDICTION COMES TRUE. THE TRIREME OVERTAKES THE EMPEROR'S SHIP, WHOSE SAILS HANG LIMP, THE TRIREME CARRIES: THE LEGIONNAIRES WHO SURVIVED JUSTINIAN'S EXPEDITION. AS IT PASSES, ONE OF THEM TOSSES A BUNDLE OVERBOARD, JUSTINIAN PULLS THE SOGGY FABRIC FROM THE SEA. HIS FACE DRAINS OF COLOR WHEN UE SEES WHAT HE UOLOS. IT 1S THE TATTERED BATTLE STANDARD OF THE FAMED TENTH LEGION~-THE LEGION HE HAD LEO INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND ABANOONED WHEN HOPE SEEMED LOST.THE VERY MEN HE HAD BETRAYED WILL BEAT HIM TO CONSTANTINOPLE. ue Spine Woace (GrrryFane BY GREG EVANS &g ‘Dzamwby Keng Feakres Syocteale, ne. Wor aghs reserved LUANN THAT'S MY IT HE'S WEARI/ LISTEN 10 THIS: IN 191, THERE WERE 4,400 NEw CONSUMER PRODUCTS INTRODUCED. LAST YEAR, THERE WERE 30,000" | REMEMBER WHEN THERE WERE 6 LIKE GROCERIES! WHEN | WAS LITTLE, THE ICE CREAM FLAVORS, 3 1V CHANNELS, MARKET HAD 2 KINDS OF MILK, ONE CHOICE AND ONE PHONE COMPANY, NOW WE OF ORANGE JUICE, MAYBE 5 TYPES OF BREAD MAKE A HUNDRED DECISIONS A DAV! AND A FEW KINDS OF CEREAL, NOW IT TAKES } mo A WAREHOUSE 10 HOLD ALL THE CHOICES! T WERE A MATERIALISTIC, I OVERINDULGED Sociery/ ELDRIPGE LOVES TO VISIT HIS RELATIVES, DON'T ra MERRLL GYNGN BTOeK Wavaar AMLGC GYMYMb REcGor TERE? wexrweck: In the Capital. HENT PORTFOLIO, GEEK BOY, HAND ME AN OLD OLD PapuGTRY TW TRAGH, AND CHECK TUI6 OUT... STALE, ACTUALLY. GROSS, THE MOST RANCID VILE, DIGGUSTING SCONE |'VE EVER GEEN IN MY LIFE. |
