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The smaller long necked Mokele slumps onto all fours and gallops to them in seconds. About the size of a hippo but with the long neck, frilled head, hair like filements like a mane down its neck and back then stopped and started floating again.
Panel Two
[[You have my Gummagum. ]] Lavainge “heard” in her head and it startled her. The wiggly animal jumps down on large back legs and goes back over to the Mokele child. Must be a pre-adult. The color change hasn’t happened yet.
Panel Three
They are all open mouthed at what just happened. They had all “heard” the statement in their heads, their very brains vibrated with it.
Panel Four
The Gummagum had no body type of any prehistoric animal. In fact it has more limbs than any mammal, reptile or amphibian of their Earth 1, yet it seemed to be a mostly harmonious mix of them and more.
Panel Five
“It must be some kind of gene spliced pet for they youngsters,” Oscar said scratching his own bald head over it. “More surprises than a booby trapped Jack-in-the-Box!” He added.
Or it could also be for PEOPLE who only take a Sunday paper — like me! In my case, this particular strip is not in the newspaper I take, so I can only read it online, but there are other strips that I see only in the paper, and I appreciate it when I don’t miss big chunks of the story by not getting the weekday papers.
I understand. Out little group discussed this a year ago or so but no one at the time told us if any news papers they knew of only carried the weekend Alley Oop. Thanx for the information!
Like Alley Oop today, my repeat comments from yesterday:
I finally did it. I’ve read through the complete Oop archive which starts with the end of Dave Graue’s reign. It was painful, which is why it took me so long. Don’t get me wrong – I love comic strips. I could easily read 10 years of On Stage, Mickey Mouse, Terry & the Pirates. Pogo, the Spirit, Captain Easy and more – no problem, because they are so fun to read. But here – bad story after bad story with art nearly as poor. Where you would hope to see development and improvement, there is none. Gaping holes in logic and continuity, unfinished story lines, characters not true to form, lack of humor and pacing, banal dialogue – sadly, it’s all there. Once one of the great comic strips, Alley Oop is worse than banal under the control of the Benders. Very sad.
I did notice some changes during the Bender years. Everything suggests that they put less and less effort into the strip. The stories became longer but less involved. The characters’ dialogue shrank. The standard daily strip shrank from three to two panels per day. Jack added things like the so-called “creepy leaves” to fill background space. Characters more often spoke with their arms completely extended for no other reason than to “eat up” about 1/4 to 1/3 of a panel. The Sunday strip became just a cut-and-paste of the past week’s strips. Sequences were often dragged out ad infinitum. The Benders clearly are not up to the demands of producing an entertaining comic strip and should bow out as gracefully as possible.
A cold Winter day to the the Benders and all. Nothing like a big sneeze to stop you in your tracks. A real pain if you’re driving a vehicle at the time. Reading the Benders’ Alley Oop is at the top of my reading list online, followed by Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, Dilbert and others.
Alley Oop is the classic caveman comic strip revolving around the irrepressible Alley Oop, who travels from prehistoric Moo all the way to the 21st century in his friend Doc Wonmug's time machine.
Agnes by Tony Cochran
Andertoons by Mark Anderson
Comments (29) (Please sign in to comment)
Rod Gonzalez said, 4 months ago
Monday’s strip is for those who don’t get the Sunday strip in their newspaper, if you must know.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@Rod Gonzalez
We know but we don’t know of any papers that take just the Sunday. Do you?
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 16 “Earth 2 Crisis”(45) 1/14/2013
Panel One
The smaller long necked Mokele slumps onto all fours and gallops to them in seconds. About the size of a hippo but with the long neck, frilled head, hair like filements like a mane down its neck and back then stopped and started floating again.
Panel Two
[[You have my Gummagum. ]] Lavainge “heard” in her head and it startled her. The wiggly animal jumps down on large back legs and goes back over to the Mokele child. Must be a pre-adult. The color change hasn’t happened yet.
Panel Three
They are all open mouthed at what just happened. They had all “heard” the statement in their heads, their very brains vibrated with it.
Panel Four
The Gummagum had no body type of any prehistoric animal. In fact it has more limbs than any mammal, reptile or amphibian of their Earth 1, yet it seemed to be a mostly harmonious mix of them and more.
Panel Five
“It must be some kind of gene spliced pet for they youngsters,” Oscar said scratching his own bald head over it. “More surprises than a booby trapped Jack-in-the-Box!” He added.
Alan Rees said, 4 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Or it could also be for PEOPLE who only take a Sunday paper — like me! In my case, this particular strip is not in the newspaper I take, so I can only read it online, but there are other strips that I see only in the paper, and I appreciate it when I don’t miss big chunks of the story by not getting the weekday papers.
Alexikakos said, 4 months ago
@Alan Rees
I know how you feel, Alan. In this strip, between Monday and Saturday you might miss somebody scratching his nose, twice !!
Seiko said, 4 months ago
Wizzer: Yahoo, I outwitted a reptile!
davidf42 said, 4 months ago
@Seiko
LOL! Good one, Seiko!
David1955 said, 4 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
But not everyone subscribes to the whole week.
Felix The Cat said, 4 months ago
What is it now, Dick Tracy? Maybe he should have added labels “T-Rax” and “Witch-Doctor”
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@David1955
I understand. Out little group discussed this a year ago or so but no one at the time told us if any news papers they knew of only carried the weekend Alley Oop. Thanx for the information!
Unca Scrooge said, 4 months ago
Like Alley Oop today, my repeat comments from yesterday:
I finally did it. I’ve read through the complete Oop archive which starts with the end of Dave Graue’s reign. It was painful, which is why it took me so long. Don’t get me wrong – I love comic strips. I could easily read 10 years of On Stage, Mickey Mouse, Terry & the Pirates. Pogo, the Spirit, Captain Easy and more – no problem, because they are so fun to read. But here – bad story after bad story with art nearly as poor. Where you would hope to see development and improvement, there is none. Gaping holes in logic and continuity, unfinished story lines, characters not true to form, lack of humor and pacing, banal dialogue – sadly, it’s all there. Once one of the great comic strips, Alley Oop is worse than banal under the control of the Benders. Very sad.
Unca Scrooge said, 4 months ago
2nd repeat from yesterday:
I did notice some changes during the Bender years. Everything suggests that they put less and less effort into the strip. The stories became longer but less involved. The characters’ dialogue shrank. The standard daily strip shrank from three to two panels per day. Jack added things like the so-called “creepy leaves” to fill background space. Characters more often spoke with their arms completely extended for no other reason than to “eat up” about 1/4 to 1/3 of a panel. The Sunday strip became just a cut-and-paste of the past week’s strips. Sequences were often dragged out ad infinitum. The Benders clearly are not up to the demands of producing an entertaining comic strip and should bow out as gracefully as possible.
firebrand1 said, 4 months ago
A cold Winter day to the the Benders and all. Nothing
like a big sneeze to stop you in your tracks. A real pain if you’re driving a vehicle at the time. Reading the Benders’
Alley Oop is at the top of my reading list online, followed by
Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, Dilbert and others.
Dr Fogg said, 4 months ago
snuff said :-)
exturk said, 4 months ago
Either the potion works-
or he caught the flu-
it strikes fast!!