Monty - Sunday January 31, 2021 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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The Masque of the Red Death? Sounds perfectly dreadful. You haven't read it, sir? It's vaguely reminiscent of our current situation. A rich nobleman posts a masquerade ball during a plague... He and his fellow revelers are walled off from the less fortunate and believe themselves safe... Nevertheless, an uninvited guest appears at the stroke of midnight. Dressed in a funerary shroud and a red corpse like masque, the mute intruder turns out to be a personification of the plague itself! Absolutely absurd! And not at all reminiscent of our situation! We're on a remote private island! Completely safe! Utterly secure and... Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong Dong Hmm... Tweleve noon... Aaah! Fear not, sir. It's merely Merton, or groundskeeper... Yesterday he pruned our azaleas at noon and forgot to apply sunscreen...

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