Episode #104 – April 2025
12-panel comic, monthly installment of the series Socialist Grocery by Oli Knowles.

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Panel 1: We see Sebastian behind a register with a customer talking to them and narrates, “Do you ever take something and just run with it your whole life?” Sebastian speaking to the customer, “Hey! Did you find everything okay? Sorry about, you know, the price of…Everything.” The customer responds, “Oh! You’re sick too!” Panel 2: Sebastian responds, “Oh! Not that I know of! The mask is in hopes I don’t get sick. I’ve done everything. Raw food, supplements, the apple thing…” Panel 3: Customer responds, “You know, I need to wear these regularly. I keep getting sick. I’ve done everything.” Panel 4: Sebastian, “Oh yeah, lots of stuff is airborne -” Panel 5: Sebastian realizes what the customer was saying, “Wait did you say “The Apple Thing?” Panel 6: We now have a side view of the conversation and the customer continues, “Yeah, like ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’? I’ve always done it, it’s not working anymore.” Panel 7: Sebastian narrates, “Sometimes, someone just needs to stop you in your tracks. Sebastian and a co-worker are restocking and the co-worker asks, “Are you going to Tai’s birthday party? Sebastian replies, “Oh, maybe. IS it at the Bowling Palace?” The co-worker wonders, “The… the Bowling Palace?” Sebastian continues, “Yeah, the Bowling Palace. The place you go to bowl.” Panel 8: The co-worker says, “Nobody else calls it that.” Sebastian asks, “Then what do people call it?” The co-worker responds, “The bowling alley. Everyone says ‘the bowling alley.” Panel 9: The co-worker continues, “Hold on. Google the name of the place you went to go bowling growing up. Panel 10: We see Sebastian’s Google result, “Oh…It’s literally called the Palace.” Panel 11: Sebastian narrates, “I had to consult my friend from back home.” Sebastian’s text reads, “Hey, do you call every blowing place “the Bowling Palace’ too?”Panel 12: Sebastian’s childhood friend texts back, “…No, but I used to do that with ‘Ice Line’. Remember that pace? I called every ice skating rink ‘Ice Line’.”
Episode #104 – April 2025 Socialist Grocery
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