Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for January 11, 2014

I have a good feeling about this.

“OK, here goes. I don’t remember.”

OOOOOhhhhhh Good!

….welcome to a ride down memory lane

A portrait that ages? They must have read about Dorian Gray.

I can’t wait. This is gonna be good!

I have been waiting a long time for this arc. At least six years!

Good! I was afraid this was going a different way, and it may eventually, but we’ll be more ready for it.

Pull up a chair…..

Oh, I like this…

What an opportunity! Now Walt can begin reminiscing about Doc and Avery and Bill and their cars, but in a way that brings the circumstances up to the modern age. Then he finds Skeezix, and the whole cycle since 1918 can begin all over again. And Walt doesn’t have to die.

Like, who alive remembers all the way back to the beginning of the strip? The story could go any which way, and occasionally Old Walt will reappear, still telling his story to a girl reporter who gets older as years go by.

This would be great!

Do it!

Tastefully yours,Tom Fitzmorris

I wish go comics would go along with this by replacing Joel in the banner and putting Walt back.

14 straight days of Walt and counting. I love it! (in case anyone hasn’t figured this out)

“The old guy is corny.Bring back lame brained Gretchen, Slim, or Rufus and Joel the prophet.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~14,000+ people just turned around and gaped at you, aghast at what you just said !!

Start of what could be the greatest story line in many a year. This what I like to see; hope it will last many, many weeks.

A series of stories taking place at different points in time would be great.

This is goning to be real BORING!

Get LOST, bozo.

Professionals still use more traditional cameras when they can. Better lenses, better flash, better control of brightness, focus, and motion blur, and many other kinds of good stuff. They’re digital now, of course, but otherwise they’re about the same. Indeed, for quite a few years, many simply used their old high-end film cameras with the backs replaced by new digital backs; I imagine some still do.

My Dad was a young man in Detroit when he started reading Gasoline Alley. That was 1926. I picked it up from him after he died ion 1989. I would love for Walt to go back to those 1920s days. Jim S. can do what Lynn Johnston is doing on For Better or For Worse and reprise those long ago stories.

This is their chance to start all over from the beginning, as another commenter stated, with a modern touch. A complete reset.

Go for it, Walt.

Bringing the story up to modern times would eliminate arguably the key moment in the story: Walt’s adoption of Skeezix. If a 23-year-old man found a baby abandoned on his doorstep at any point in the last fifty years or so, there’s no way he would be allowed to retain custody of the child. The baby would be taken away, made a ward of the state and eventually placed in a foster home. Instead of being the first piece of Walt’s extended family, Skeezix would just be a story to be brought up every now and then: “Hey, what about when Walt found that baby on his doorstep? Man, that was weird. Wonder what ever happened to the kid?”

I want to hear it, and it should be recorded with a copy given to each grandchild. That is the only way my children heard their grandfather’s voice because he passed away long before they were born.