As I have mentioned before, the comic Count Your Sheep is cute, funny and sad. Extremely cute, very funny and sad to the point of heart-break.

Adrian Ramos somehow manages to juggle these, so that even when it’s nauseatingly sweet, there’s something to laugh at, and when it’s gut-wrenchingly funny, there’s still a melancholy and sad feel to it. All these things in the same comic, which is actually pretty rare in my list, where strips are often one, sometimes two, but very rarely all three.

In a way, I feel that today’s strip really embodies the whole series. To have constantly present undertones of sad and cute in funny is one thing, but today’s strip doesn’t need undertones. It is funny. I laugh at the punch line. It is cute. I find naive little Katie adorable. It is sad. As I laugh and adore, it hits me that they’re a poor family living in a leaky, old house, and I cry inside.

I have neither biscuits nor beer, but in my book, Ramos deserves both.

This is why Count Your Sheep is Highly Recommended.