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   Ji2m said, 24 days ago

   What’s the difference?

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   Fairportfan2 said, 23 days ago

   Lois is happily married and unavailable?

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   Colt9033 said, 23 days ago

   Who heck is Jean Erica?

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   SQUIDBREAKER said, 23 days ago

   Cross pollinating is helpful - cross comicing (new word) can lead to confusion.

   ”’… but this is the world we live in… and these are the comics we’re given…..”
   Phil Collins

   I could use some of those cute music notes Undead Digital Frog throws around.

   A.

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   vawser said, 23 days ago

   Jenn Erica is Ink Pen’s “generic” female character, who shows up now and then as needed. She has been known to gripe about the lack of good jobs coming her way.

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   Doctor Toon said, 23 days ago

   Generic as Jenn is, she’s still too good for Cap.

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   SidSnomann said, 23 days ago

   Did you know that the ‘chick from Hi & Lois’ is actually Beetle Bailey’s sister? True fact.

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   fritzoid said, 23 days ago

   The family resemblence between Lois and Beetle is most evident through Lois’s son Chip.

   Did you know Jenn Erica’s first job in comics was as Lois’s stunt-double? Untrue fact.

   It was during the controversial “Hi & Lolita” storyline from the late 1960’s where Hi becomes obsessed with Chip’s teenage girlfriend (an unknown and uncredited Barbara Boopstein). Lois finds out about it, but on her way to mail the divorce papers she gets hit by a car, and spends 6 months in the hospital in heavy traction.

   Jenn not only filled in for Lois on the actual accident, she played the part (through heavy bandaging) during the entire hospital stay.

   This continuity, which was removed from virtually every paper in which the strip ran, served the dual purpose of giving the strip a much-needed “edge”, and providing cover for real Lois’s scandalous pregnancy (paternity never disclosed, but it was not Hi’s baby; given the distinctive melon-shaped head of the child, the gossip has consistently centered around “Bil K”, whose own marriage was under strain at the time).

   The experiment was widely considered a failure, however, and those strips have never been reprinted or collected.

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   Chikuku said, 23 days ago

   Jenn Erica has twice been a superhero (or superheroine) on Ink Pen.

   Sunuvagun, it’s true; Chip looks just like his uncle Beetle. I’ve never noticed before. He’s a bit more energetic, though.

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    DigitalFrog said, 23 days ago

    On behalf of DD Fence EMET: ♪♫♫♪♪

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    fritzoid said, 23 days ago

    “Sunuvagun, it’s true; Chip looks just like his uncle Beetle. I’ve never noticed before. He’s a bit more energetic, though.”

    Chip’s also blond, but when Lois was first introduced in “Beetle Bailey”, she was a brunette…