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   Carlos In Detroit said, 4 months ago

   Ha! Ha! Ha! Then flip on the nitrous switch!

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   JFri said, 4 months ago

   Morning, Dry, docT & and all the rest! BEAT YOU ALL!!!!

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   Akenta said, 4 months ago

   Hi gmartin and everyone else. I think it’s good that the captain caught the rope. That would be a long drop off the table. Might be in the hospital for more than 4 minutes.

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   Dry said, 4 months ago

   Good morning gang!
   Smile,gmartin, it’s Monday!

   Chip you know I vote to keep the mice.

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   Brenzluv said, 4 months ago

   Lose the mice, and the giant rabbits…bring back the real Charlie Duffy, and Seahawk, and Boof, and the crow’s nest guys….and stay out of the strip, you never saw Watterson or Breathed doing that, or Jim Toomey now…

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   pearlandpeach said, 4 months ago

   am i the only one who like the “toon exactly the way its drawn/written? Overboard is great!

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   Dry said, 4 months ago

   pearlandpeach, No you’re not the only one! This is my favorite strip and I love it!! I do miss Seahawk and Duffy though.

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   DigitalFrog said, 4 months ago

   Don’t like it? Start your own strip. Keep up the good work Chip.

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   SelaynaofGallifrey said, 4 months ago

   The rats are so impatient! 10 minutes isn’t a life time!

   Morning, all.

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    Allan Claus said, 4 months ago

    Dang … Dry and JFri beat me today (no big surprise, it’s 10:27 when I reach Overboard) but I beat DocToon … he must be enjoying hsi Vaca)

    Anyway … I think it’s time for a cat to come aboard … as well maybe, as a wolf to eat the rabbits hehehehehehehe

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    SQUIDBREAKER said, 4 months ago

    The penalty cage …. time out for wreckless mice.

    And the red getaway car clearly has lost its torque producing momentum.

    Like all machines, wait four minutes…..and some 7 year old will show you how to fix it.

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    Dry said, 4 months ago

    Hi AllanVS said hi to you somewhere else, but I forget where! LOL!

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    Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

    Overboard is a good strip, at it’s best since the mice joined the cast.
    Just my opinion.

    Good Morning everyone, so far you all beat me!

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    Jor-El said, 4 months ago

    For everybody who likes the mice storyline, check out Sunday’s (yesterday) Argyle Sweater. Very funny!

    http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2009/07/05

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    Trebor39 said, 4 months ago

    Now add a wombat, some gerbils, and a parakeet and all will be complete.

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    Carmy said, 4 months ago

    Woo Hoo! The captain’s going for a ride!

    Morning/Afternoon All! I like the mice too.

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    kirbey said, 4 months ago

    I love this strip… all the characters

    I’m always the last one… when you live way out west plus I don’t get to the computer right away …

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    Burgundy2 said, 4 months ago

    Good afternoon, all

    I don’t think telling Chip what to put in his strip (or not put) is going to make much difference. He’s got a right to evolve it as he sees fit. And people have been complaining about the mice for some time, but just as many write that they love the mice.

    I think it’s great when he writes himself in!

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    missymadame said, 4 months ago

    This is just about my favorite strip. I love the kindness, fun and compassion exhibited by the characters for each other. The mice are okay but not my favorites but Jim needs to do it the way he wants. I love Louie and Raymond and Nate. Does Jim have a website or a Facebook page? I would like to tell him myself how lovely I think the strip is.

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    Brenzluv said, 4 months ago

    Ups or downs, pros or cons, I do love it that we can have a good discourse without the rancor so prevelant in society these days! Bravo to us all, I say!

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    Tigger said, 4 months ago

    Someone needs a Cat!

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    Burgundy2 said, 4 months ago

    Brenzluv - amen to that!

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    fritzoid said, 4 months ago

    Brenzluv said:

    ….and stay out of the strip, you never saw Watterson or Breathed doing that, or Jim Toomey now…

    Watterson never did it (except VERY obliquely), but the characters in Bloom County and Sherman’s Lagoon were/are periodically aware that they’re comic strip characters (as are the characters in Doonesbury, BC, Pogo Possum, and others). From there, it’s a short step to introducing the cartoonist himself (or herself) as a character.

    Bil in “Family Circus” is a cartoonist, and it occasionally appears that the comic he does is the one in which he appears (witness Billy’s “fill-ins”). When “Garfield” began it was established that Jon was a cartoonist, although I don’t know that he draws a mediocre strip about an intolerable cat. Griffy in “Zippy” is somewhat synonymous with Bill Griffiths, and refers to himself in conversation with the other characters as their creator.

    Stephan Pastis REGUARLY injects himself into “Pearls Before Swine”, often sitting at the drawingboard while Rat kibbitzes on the strip.

    So what Chip is doing is not unknown across the whole spectrum of comic strips, in both the good and the bad. One distinction, though, is the guy who does the strip at “Overboard, Inc.” ACTUALLY Chip Dunham? I can only recall him being referred to as “the guy who does the strip.” I think that’s a nice touch.

    (But I hate the rabbits.)