Special friends

Four silent penultimate panels--all beneath the fold of the second page of the L.A.Times comic section. It was this kind of thing that made me start the blog in the first place.

9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney
Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis
Sally Forth by Francesco Marciuliano and Craig Macintosh

Oh, I just love Non Sequitur's Danae and Lucy. That precocious little girl can't stop getting into trouble, and her adorable pet pony can only try to talk sense into...

Wait. Huh? Oh, that's Danae's seldom-seen sister, Kate. And I guess she needs a fantastic friend, too. Should we look forward to every recurring character having a special friend?