Ol’ George #56: The Sign, Part Three, the bear refreshing

 Ol’ George #56: The Sign, Part Three, the bear refreshing.

Notes on 56:

1. Why pick on Keokuk, Iowa? No reason. It’s a fun word to say, like Cucamonga, Walla Walla, Seattle. 

2. Balonious’ dialogue in panel two was not written by me, merely transcribed. I was minding my own business at the Black Forest Inn when I overheard a man say those actual words to a woman he had just met. Way to go, slugger, you’re going to score with a line like that! That’s when it hit me that if I ever run low on ideas, I can just sidle up to the bar and listen in. 

That line was in my idea bin for a year and I finally found a use for it. 

3. Also, I’d always wanted to do one with the Hamm’s bear, but couldn’t come up with a good use or a gag. Glad it all came together in this third installment of The Saga of the Sign. 

4. I’m going to make a prediction. When I post this to social media, all of my Hamm’s fan friends will come out of the woodwork to like or comment for the first time ever. Or maybe not.