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1. 7 days ago on Bad Machinery

   If only it meant he was an Eric Frank Russell fan.

2. 7 days ago on Clay Jones

   Pizza Rat is an independent who will go anywhere they drop pizza.

3. 7 days ago on Li'l Abner

   That’s an interesting assortment of books. The first two are linked as the March sisters get Pilgrim’s Progress for Christmas and later act out scenes from it. Even though it’s decidedly not a children’s book, it’s often the next one read after Little Women. (I know I did back in the day.) And Alice in Wonderland is often a kid’s first introduction to absurdism and skewed logic.

4. 9 days ago on Dick Tracy

   About 90% certainty.

5. 11 days ago on Dick Tracy

   As I recall, a couple of stories do have the person left that single bullet trying to kill the detective with it—and getting to die from “self-defense.” And then there was one tale where the specifically shady detective locks the suspect in a windowless room with a pistol but no bullet…only supplying that bullet after the suspect’s (who’d also been his client) check had cleared the bank, as the law of the time was that personal checks became invalid on the death of the signer.

6. 15 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Aye.

7. 20 days ago on Bad Machinery

   Barbecues often have very contained fires as part of the preparation.

8. 22 days ago on Tarzan

   Tarzan’s adoptive family being pushed to the brink of extinction.

9. 24 days ago on Matt Wuerker

   Keep this comment on top!

10. 25 days ago on Bad Machinery

    Yes, “be yourself”, but “myself” has always turned the opposite sex off.