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1. 

   mroberts88 said, 22 days ago

   Nah…he’s just fine.

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   OpenWings said, 22 days ago

   Gee, he IS comfortable in his own skin! Talk about loud and proud :o)

   Mind you, Elly might just rip him right out of that same skin if she cops an eyeful of his Macho Man… xD

3. 

   Ji2m said, 22 days ago

   That’s not fantasizing… That’s ogling…

4. 

   yyyguy said, 22 days ago

   there’s fantasizing, and then there’s fantasizing

5. 

   Fairportfan2 said, 22 days ago

   “Nacho”? Thank goodness not “Taco”…

6. 

   Devonshade said, 22 days ago

   Elly getting quite the caboose there.

7. 

   Lewreader said, 22 days ago

   My girl of two years cannot understand why my three year subscription to Maxim keeps coming.

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   lightenup said, 22 days ago

   I thought John was focused on his dentistry. Maybe it should have been “Playtooth”

   @Fairportfan2 - I think it’s “Macho”, but I thought the same thing the first time I read it…. LOL!! :-))

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   ComicDetectiveDA said, 22 days ago

   Next she’ll be screaming, “John!”

10. 

    scottcpa said, 22 days ago

    Is that a guy with a mustache on the cover? If so, I have some concerns about John.

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    howtheduck said, 22 days ago

    When you pull strips randomly for reprinting, you get all kinds of interesting and odd story combinations:

    
    
    1. Mike turns down the spaceman costume in the store and is now sporting a towel and a paper bag for a spaceman costume, although he has a nice zap gun.
    
    
    2. John looks for smutty Contemporary English books and ends up with a smutty magazine instead.
    
    
    3. Macho Men magazine features on its front cover a blonde woman with a goatee and on its back cover Lion Tamer Cologne showing a man and a lion. Did he get this magazine at the Freak Show Circus?
    
    
    4. Elly is taking a Creative Writing course and has forgotten how to fantasize. I have a feeling Elly is going to have a hard time in class.
    
    

12. 

    Macushlalondra said, 22 days ago

    I do not like the way Lynn is portraying John. Was this particular strip in the original series?

13. 

    Coffee-Turtle said, 22 days ago

    Hey, wait a minute here! This is a family friendly cartoon strip!! :-p

14. 

    gaebie said, 22 days ago

    Settle Down Girls!!!!

    That Macho Man is a comic book character (I think). It’s not porn! Lynn is not portraying John in a bad light, and it is still a family strip. (she could have used a different comic book to avoid this confusion though.

    And she really does emphasize Elly’s butt there!

15. 

    Nelly55 said, 22 days ago

    @Macushlalondra

    yes, this is an original from way back

16. 

    Doctor Toon said, 22 days ago

    I don’t know if men ever forget how to fantasize.

17. 

    cleokaya said, 22 days ago

    Fantasizing makes up about 90 percent of my life on a busy day.

18. 

    summerdog said, 22 days ago

    Smutt!

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    JanCinVV said, 22 days ago

    Susan: From yesterday - if you are looking for failures in the Patterson family stories, how about Elizabeth and Erik where she exhibited the classic symptoms of an emotionally abused partner. Or Mike & Deanna’s relationship with the Kelpfroths which was never really resolved because the house burned down.

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    Susan001 said, 22 days ago

    I don’t believe that Mike and Deanna ever desired to make any type of “relationship” with those horrid people. After all, they’re the ones who set the fire in the first place.
    BTW, we never did learn their ultimate fates. Last I remember was that they were both in the hospital.

    Re today’s strip, is that Mike in the cape and paper bag? Looks like an older kid.

21. 

    Tigger said, 22 days ago

    John is brave to openly look at a Grily Mag with El that close by.

22. 

    kab2rb said, 22 days ago

    Shame on John looking at that trash. He should be seeing what his family is doing.
    I don’ think that type of magizeen will be at a dentist office.

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    howtheduck said, 22 days ago

    WRT gaebie who said:

    That Macho Man is a comic book character (I think).

    Today’s comic strip is on p. 20 of the “One-More-Washload Blue” collection. On p. 27 of the same collection, it shows John nibbling Elly’s neck as she does the dishes, and giving Elly a shoulder rub as she changes Lizzie’s nappy; to which Elly responds, “You’ve been into ‘those magazines’ again, haven’t you, John?” Somehow, I doubt that Macho Man is a comic book character.

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    summerdog said, 22 days ago

    Oh, those are the girlie’s dark, open mouthed lips you are seeing on the magazine cover.

    I know… it looks like she has a goatee and mustache.

25. 

    jmworacle said, 22 days ago

    John must really prefer sleeping on the couch…………..

26. 

    pearlandpeach said, 22 days ago

    well this is interesting… my listing shows I made a comment here…no comment here…was it deleted?

27. 

    MaxStarmanJones said, 21 days ago

    Did this strip actually appear the first time around, or is Lynn entering new ground as a man-hater? This just doesn’t match the John I remember at all.

    I’m serious. I want to know if this is a new comic or not.

28. 

    Wolfdreamer250 said, 21 days ago

    First - Yes this is a reprint.
    second - yes that is a porno mag.
    Third - there have been a handful of mags in the comic like that. The two that I can remember is when Mike was in high school he fell asleep with the lights on, his mom came in to tuck him in and realized what he had been reading. The second was at a magazine stand that John looked at one ELly caught him and he explained how all the women had dental issues. THey left with her rolling her eyes and the stand owner saying “I’ve been looking at these for years and I’ve never noticed any of them had teeth before.

    This one reminds me of a Ray Romano improv, where he said “men do most of their imagining in the shower.”