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1. 

   Flight Suit said, 21 days ago

   Top o’ the world, Ma!

2. 

   Flight Suit said, 21 days ago

   Panel Three:

   Uh, Mr. Pops, sir? You’re just whipping out your gun. It’s not necessary to get undressed!

3. 

   Margueritem said, 21 days ago

   He always did like to chew the scenery…

4. 

   leakysqueaky712 said, 21 days ago

   Just a minute……..lemme go “rattle that cage” hehehehe

5. 

   Llewellenbruce said, 21 days ago

   This would be the perfect time for a 8.6 magnum earth-
   quake.

6. 

   Flight Suit said, 21 days ago

   Is that a Magnum in your clown suit, or are you just glad to see me?

7. 

   Gweedo Murray said, 21 days ago

   The recoil of the popping cap will send him right to jaws.

8. 

   barticle35 said, 21 days ago

   Will we finally get to see that funny dead duck?

9. 

   YoullNeverHearFromMe... said, 21 days ago

   Gosh, is there ANYONE who doesn’t already know what is going to happen here with Pops balancing precariously on that tiger cage? It’s so predictable.

   I’ll miss Mr. Pops the clown.

10. 

    wndrwrthg said, 21 days ago

    Though a killer away did run
    Tracy did not pull his gun
    He stood with a worried frown
    As he tried to talk Mr. Pops down
    Pops proceeded to loose his composure
    While standing at the top of the enclosure
    What a miracle this cage is really
    It can change its shape quite freely
    First a square and then was round
    The shape today does confound
    The roof that was there is now not
    Where on earth could it have got
    His gun in his hand
    Pops makes his stand
    And why in the last panel do we see
    The gun and right arm so disproportionately
    Larger than what we should expect
    It’s just another sad case of neglect.

11. 

    Carlo Coratelli said, 21 days ago

    The last panel artowrk it’s horrible.

    And the tags today are so funny!!!

12. 

    LudwigVonDrake said, 20 days ago

    The artwork today is so poor. So is there a top to the cage in the second panel or is he just balancing on the edge? If he’s balancing he would HAVE to fall when he pulled out the gun.

13. 

    fishbulb said, 20 days ago

    But he can’t fall because there was a top that appeared out of nowhere on the huge cage that appeared out of nowhere. If it would support Della Contessa it will support Chuckles. And what the heck happened to his right arm in panel 3?

14. 

    Fearless_Fosdick said, 20 days ago

    Mr. Pops….loook down….your show is untied.

15. 

    3hourtour said, 20 days ago

    ..ummm..

16. 

    nighthawks said, 20 days ago

    aren’t those the cutest little stubby teddy bear arms you’ll ever see?

17. 

    puddleglum1066 said, 20 days ago

    Tomorrow, Mr. Pops pulls the trigger, and…

    It’s a clown gun, of course, and all that comes out of the barrel is a little flag that says “BANG!”

    And Tracy just sorta stands there looking confused. Then he falls over. Asleep.

18. 

    Carlo Coratelli said, 20 days ago

    Strip 4 with english version:

    http://shockdom.com/open/carl/2009/10/27/striscia-4/

19. 

    MoParMitch said, 20 days ago

    Right you are NotNorman. It has gotten so bad that I quit commenting. There’s not much left to say. I do still miss Grok’s comments and I enjoy Sidney’s perspective. I remain so grateful for the Gould archives that make this stuff even more disappointing. As our old friend would say,

    SIGH………………………….

20. 

    Joe Allen Doty said, 20 days ago

    So, the clown had more than one gun.

    Did he forget that there is a large opening in the middle of the top of the tiger cage and the tiger is still in it?

21. 

    jtpozenel said, 20 days ago

    ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz……….

22. 

    brine said, 20 days ago

    Let’s see, clown on top of tiger cage whips out a gun … will Tracy shoot him and he’ll fall into the cage, or will the fact that Tracy has no gun leave it up to the cop that showed up??? Will Tracy use his wrist_geenie’s taser and zap Mr. Pops into the cage???

    So much drama, I can’t wait!!!

23. 

    JanCinVV said, 20 days ago

    VistaBill: from yesterday - it is standard practice in a circus to move the big cats from their “home” cage to the ring cage in a small rectangular rolling cage that is a bit larger than the cat. These rolling cages have removable bars at both ends and can be lined up end-to-end to form a tunnel. With the bars removed, several cats can be moved into the show ring without having to change out the individual rolling cages. I’ve seen as many as 12 of these little cages in a single show.
    Obviously, the first shots we saw of this tiger were in his rolling cage while all of the “action” (and I use this term loosely) happens in the show ring. I do not, however have an explanation for the changing size and seemingly removable top for the show ring cage.
    By the way, did you know that the ring cage is made of netting, not bars. It is collapsible and stored in the wooden ring itself which has a removable top. When they attach ropes and pullys to the net cage, it is pulled up out of the ring and a barred door is attached as is the first of the rolling cages. The door is not lockable and there is no top.

24. 

    Araldite said, 20 days ago

    Meanwhile, everybody seems to have forgotten about Barb Ells. She is the only one to have killed anybody in this story and the last time we saw her she was carrying a rifle. Since she’s the only cold blooded killer, why is she not blasting away right now. Alternatively, why is she not the first one they disarm and arrest? Pops can wait; he’s not going anywhere on top of that cage. Talk about ridiculous police procedures.

25. 

    N7326 Foxtrot said, 20 days ago

    If the tiger eats Mr. Pops, Would he taste funny?

26. 

    jumbobrain said, 20 days ago

    Okay, today I’ll ignore the gaping holes in logic here (like, Tracy couldn’t manage to climb the cage bars but the clown shoots right up to the top in spite of being surrounded by cops, and has a gun even though he was disarmed earlier, or why he suddenly wants to kill Tracy when his plan all along was to get vengeance on Ringo). No, rather than dwell on that I’ll just say wow, the art is pretty bad today too.

    It’s also kind of sickening now that the end of this story is near, to see how so very much time was spent saying so very little.

27. 

    Carlo Coratelli said, 20 days ago

    I have added “Clown strip tease” on the tags. :D

28. 

    BASSMANB0B said, 20 days ago

    Shame on you Flight Suit for “stealing” from me.

    Fe Fi is mad at you! :-)

    BB

29. 

    VistaBill said, 20 days ago

    JanCinVV said, “VistaBill: from yesterday - it is standard practice in a circus to move the big cats from their “home” cage to the ring cage in a small rectangular rolling cage that is a bit larger than the cat. These rolling cages have removable bars at both ends and can be lined up end-to-end to form a tunnel. With the bars removed, several cats can be moved into the show ring without having to change out the individual rolling cages. I’ve seen as many as 12 of these little cages in a single show.
    Obviously, the first shots we saw of this tiger were in his rolling cage while all of the “action” (and I use this term loosely) happens in the show ring. I do not, however have an explanation for the changing size and seemingly removable top for the show ring cage.
    By the way, did you know that the ring cage is made of netting, not bars. It is collapsible and stored in the wooden ring itself which has a removable top. When they attach ropes and pullys to the net cage, it is pulled up out of the ring and a barred door is attached as is the first of the rolling cages. The door is not lockable and there is no top.”

    Aha! Thanks for explaining things to me!

30. 

    NyukNyuk2000 said, 20 days ago

    This is kinda stupid, but at least we’re getting somewhere. IThe artwork is bad, but it could be worse. If you want to see a comic strip with REALLY bad artwork, take a look at “Prickly City”. UGH!!!!!

31. 

    Dypak said, 20 days ago

    So, Pops is going to fall into the cage that Tracy, the FBI Agent, Fe Fi and Della have been dancing on top of for a week now and get eaten by the tiger. Am I right?

32. 

    Ronshua said, 20 days ago

    That would be my guess . About Christ-mass day ?

33. 

    Margueritem said, 20 days ago

    Carlo Coratelli I like your comic, thanks for translating it into English.

34. 

    LudwigVonDrake said, 20 days ago

    Dypak, all I will say is that it gets sillier (if that’s possible).

35. 

    OzzieJohn said, 20 days ago

    Tracy & the officer are doing OK I think.
    For example, they can look up at the clown and keep an eye on him without tilting their heads or even opening their eyes…

36. 

    whardin1960 said, 20 days ago

    Wonder if the guys over at F-Minus have been watching:

    http://news.yahoo.com/comics/f-minus

37. 

    Flight Suit said, 20 days ago

    Wait, what?

    Bassmanbob, what’d I steal?

38. 

    VistaBill said, 20 days ago

    It appears that Mr. Pop has more than one pistol. The large on that he is using today and the smaller one he had some days ago. What happened to the rifle he used in his act? I wanna see the pig on wheels again! And… the girl on the elephant. I shoulda saved those strips.

39. 

    LudwigVonDrake said, 20 days ago

    We have about three more weeks of this story. The next hint of the new story is 11/25.