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   rayannina said, 12 months ago

   Johnny G sidelined as a produce distributor?
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   Sisyphos said, 12 months ago

   Did the EPA do a toxic waste inspection and clean-up before Miss Bliss re-opened the pre-school on that former auto garage site? What is in the sandbox? And what oily substance smells like bananas? Is Blisshaven Preschool a safe place for Alice and Beni and all the other kids?
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   carl craig said, 12 months ago

   what a great strip wish it wasnt in colour though
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   Richard S. Russell said, 12 months ago

   It’s a measure of our values as a society that we can afford chrome plating on the missiles we launch at other people’s kids while relegating our own child-care workers to scraping by at subsistence levels.
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   Citizen GROG! said, 12 months ago

   How could you be in them when you weren’t even born yet, Alice?
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   neatslob said, 12 months ago

   Nothing of any importance happened in the pre-Alician era, didn’t you know that?
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   FearlessFreep said, 12 months ago

   Lacquer and other finishes sometimes have an odor that smells like fermented fruit.
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   Miserichord said, 12 months ago

   Sisyphos asked “And what oily substance smells like bananas?”

   Isoamyl acetate, a paint and lacquer solvent.

   Also used as artificial banana flavoring.
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   Doctor Toon said, 12 months ago

   The toxic waste on the Blisshaven site may go a ways towards explaining the behavior of some of the Blisshaven students
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    finale said, 12 months ago

    @Miserichord

    Very much used in th 50’s/60’s for wooden desk tops and floors and goes along with the “eraser” smell………so I’m told.
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    snarkm said, 12 months ago

    @neatslob

    Ahh, the fabled pre-Alician era, a period that is shrouded in mystery. No settlements, burial grounds nor any records have ever been found about the people that supposedly lived during that time. As such Archeologists and Historians all over the world still wonder, did the pre-Alician era exist at all? Or is this world much, much younger than we think. The answer to these questions may never be found.
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    Taz said, 12 months ago

    Maybe Johnny G was the kind of mechanic that stuffed bananas into transmissions to “repair” them… add a bit of silver paint and they’re good for 1 day past the 1 week warranty.
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    jeff cartwright said, 12 months ago

    this is one strange strip.I understand it’s won many awards,the artwork looks almost intentionaly bad,with todays story arc it reminds me of freeform poetry, i might drop this strip for peanuts reruns
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    Carl Knoblock said, 12 months ago

    Peanuts was smoother of line, but everything was pretty simple, too. I love the complexity of Richard’s drawings.
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    DAZZ said, 12 months ago

    @Sisyphos

    I was thinking the same- what chemical DOES smell like overripe banana?
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