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   DerkinsVanPelt218 said, over 2 years ago

   I don’t know why Alley Oop has been kept going for 70 years. I feel it should have died with Lee Harvey Oswald.

   I am glad Watterson ended this strip at its peak instead of trying to shoehorn unfunny and dated material in like so many other cartoonists.
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   Catnat said, about 2 years ago

   This is particularly funny because the strip shows just a bunch of xeroxed talking heads.
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   Calvinfan11c said, about 2 years ago

   I like how he tried to break that comic barrier, I really like “Pearls Before Swine” because it does it all the time.

   Insert shameless plug here: If you like Calvin and Hobbes, got read “Pearls Before Swine” Patsis is the best comic strip out right now in my own opinion.
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   fishbulb239 said, almost 2 years ago

   Ink Pen and Sherman’s Lagoon are also pretty fantastic and well worth following. Though I disagree with Derkins – I wish that Watterson had kept at it until the quality actually did start to decline.
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   Sandy Shore said, 10 months ago

   @Catnat

   Yes! Except that each box is ever so slightly different. So we must ask ourselves… are they really xeroxed?
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   Sandy Shore said, 10 months ago

   (And I think the answer is no).
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   yow4zip said, 6 months ago

   Is this the one and only mention of Grandpa?
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   bmonk said, 6 months ago

   I know other people who take the comics pretty seriously. . . .
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   LadyBlanc said, about 1 month ago

   @yow4zip

   No, there was also the time he left his cigarettes that Calvin was allowed to smoke—to show why he never wants to do it again.
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