"A Case of Grumps"

Hello all.  Yeah, yeah, but as I noted in comments to the last entry, I DO have something big-ish and dumb-ish coming for the holidays, or something.  In the meantime, though, I wanted to stick something here so I look less dead.  So I grabbed a story more or less at random from Daisy and Donald.  This one is...whoa!  A late Bob Gregory joint!  How's this going to turn out?  Let's find the truth.

And off the bat, I have to say, I'm grateful that the top panel tells us that Donald is saying things with a "grump!" and that the bottom panel clarifies that he needs a cure for grumpiness--because solely based on the visuals, I would have NO idea what mood Donald was meant to be in there.  Time for Daan Jippes to redraw this, please!  Actually, why doesn't he just devote his career to converting the entire late-Western canon into something more readable?  That would be good.

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