It's been a very long time since Bill Amend stopped producing FoxTrots on a daily basis, but I still have a gnawing sense of emptiness in my weekdays.
For today's FoxTrot Friday, we turn to his first collection of Sunday-only strips. I'm certainly glad they exist since they mean we haven't had to go cold turkey, and they're often quite seriously funny.
In FoxTrot Sundaes, I found two tangentially-Shakespearean comics and one comic with a very solid set of Shakespearean puns.
We start with Paige's first day back at school:
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that there's no Shakespeare in that one. But I think it's very likely that Paige's teacher assigned the Shakespeare-related post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven (for which, q.v.) for her summer reading.
Our next comic is a little later in the school year; it again involves Paige:
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that there's no Shakespeare in that one. But in panel two, Paige is clearly late for English class. And that's where she studies Shakespeare!
All right. I sense that you're not fully convinced. If that's the case, read on. I imagine you'll see the Shakespeare more clearly in this next one:
And with that, we can cycle back to the first comic and use Paige's line as support for the claim that she's studying Shakespeare in her classes during this school year.
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