I get it! He gets it! She gets it! My mother and sister, who've never HEARD of pluggers, GET IT!

They're old.

Today's strip breaks new ground in nothing.



Since the DogMan (must be a man, they never ask for directions, according to movies, sitcoms, and, of course, comics - but it was sent in by a woman. Is it too hard for Brookins to match the gender of the contributor to the drawing? Unless she was talking about her husband/boyfriend, brother, or father.) in the strip hasn't bought a new map in 20 years and is driving a Popemobile with a covered roof, I went with cheap, not broke.

A map costs less than a tank of gas, less than an insurance payment, and less than his hideous outfit.

The only way this would happin in real life is if you're visiting your home town after 20 years.

But you'd have to be an idiot to rely on 2 decade old maps! Especially when there's this neat little website that can help you, and printing out directions, or even a little map, costs less than a dollar at your local library.

Cheap, lazy dogman.

Funny thing - my mom and I ended up lost last summer in a place that looked like that - no road, under a bridge. Of course, we weren't looking for Route 66 and we didn't even have an old map with us.

Mom wanted to go into Arkansas using the 'old bridge' from Memphis and we finally did that, and somehow we ended up off the main bridge and doubled back to riverside flatlands owned by the federal government and monitored by cameras even though nothing was there.

That part of our day is funnier than every Pluggers comic ever published.