Judge — November 21, 1931 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Judge Pete" Comic Strip Analysis This two-panel comic strip by C.D. Russell depicts a darkly humorous sequence at a turkey farm. The top panels show a figure in formal attire ("JUDGE") inspecting the farm and its operations. The lower panels show "PETE," apparently a farm worker, engaging in increasingly violent and chaotic interactions with the turkeys—chasing, striking at, and wrestling with them. The satire appears to mock judicial authority or a specific judge character ("Judge Pete"), suggesting corruption, incompetence, or hypocrisy through slapstick misadventure. The turkey farm setting and the contrast between the judge's formal position and Pete's crude farmyard chaos likely comment on social pretension or abuse of power. Without additional context about contemporary figures, the specific target remains unclear.