The Slice: Got Monday blues? Maybe Green Lantern can help

Happy, Monday.

Let’s see a show of hands.

Considering what you actually do have on your schedule today … how many would rather spend the morning reading comic books in a treehouse?

How to tell a Spokane zombie from a regular zombie: “A Spokane zombie will be wearing socks and sandals,” said Kat Fiessinger.

“A Spokane zombie would be sporting a ‘Spokane Zombies’ T-shirt,” said Chris Hosmer.

“Spokane’s spell it with an H,” said Jean Flanigen, author of “The Zhombie Conspiracy.”

And Dave Christiansen said Spokane zombies are known for driving ’65 Chevy pickups.

Slice answers: “My dog Brandy (now in doggie heaven) never barked at airplanes — she barked at contrails!” wrote Ann Koschalk. “I think Brandy didn’t like someone/something scribbling in the pretty sky and messing it up.”

Lynette Daniels’ dog, Zoey, barks at hot air balloons.

Feedback on Thursday’s Slice: “We ‘women of a certain age’ may not have learned about prioritizing and making tough choices when it came to which valuable baseball card to put in our bike spokes, but that’s mainly because we were smart enough to know the best choice was a playing card from Grandpa’s pinochle deck,” wrote Jessica Halliday.

Come to think of it: “I have not heard a single cricket chirp this season,” wrote Edward Sawatzki.

Finding people from our past: “Fifty-five years ago, when I was in the fifth grade at Farmin School in Sandpoint, my best friend was Jane Ferguson,” wrote Judy Gill of Mead. “She only lived there for that one year, but I have not forgotten her.”

Gill recently went online and managed to track down her old pal. She’s now living in Texas. They spoke on the phone.

“We giggled and talked about cute boys, just like we did 55 years ago.”

Today’s Slice question: If you know a person’s political leanings, can you predict what he or she will have to say about the Omak Stampede Suicide Race?