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1. about 3 hours ago on Gil Thorp

   Movies used to be silent, and then they used to be black & white. The change from silent to talkies generated a lot of controversy and many of the major players of the day were opposed to the whole concept.

2. about 15 hours ago on Broom Hilda

   I wish Dad could see this one, since it’s about him.

3. 1 day ago on Betty

   Buying new media costs money, Junior. Go get a job and tell me whether you want to buy a record twice.

   Oh, wait, Junior’s generation is all about giving billionaire Taylor Swift more money by re-buying her nearly identical re-issue so that she can get money that was originally given to The Man. (Despite which, billionaire). So never mind.

4. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   The native Americans arrived via the Bering land bridge, from Siberia to Alaska, about 15,000 years ago. (Some say 23,000).

   The Siberian Husky was domesticated 30,000 – 40,000 years ago.

   Logical conclusion: The Siberian Husky was the first Asian across the land bridge, by the length of a dog sled team.

5. 1 day ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   Good thing Sherman has plot armor. This looks very very bad.

6. 1 day ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   Great white sharks prudently flee as fast as they can if they sense an orca in their vicinity.

7. 1 day ago on Luann

   Americans.

   We Canadians say “thank you” when we hand the coffee and donut (always with a donut; I don’t understand how you people have built a successful civilization with donut shops that aren’t open 24/7) to the customer, and the customer says “thank you” back.

   The concept of “you’re welcome” exists, but mostly to identify American spies.

8. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

   And yet, we all know who Beth is, how she met Gil, how their relationship evolved, what the current status of their relationship seems to be, and why it makes sense that she would be visiting with gifts for the kids.

   The continuity does jump around, and I can certainly see an argument for sticking with sub-arcs a little longer than a day or two, but over the long term, I think we’re getting a consistent and trackable story. This approach is, however, very atypical of US comic strips, which tend to be “gag-a-day” with no particular effort at continuity, or continuous story arcs like “Luann” or the previous iteration of “Gil Thorp.”

   I read a British comic here called “Bad Machinery.” It is, I think, the best comic on this site. It does story any given arc can jump around to multiple check-ins with various characters six or seven times in five days. If you want to be confused jumping in in the middle, try that one. It does deep cuts into its own history, and the artist also does several other comics and uses plot points from his personal comicverse throughout all of them…nevertheless, it works.

9. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

   Haven’t seen that since George Burns watched “The George Burns Show” in his office to figure out what Gracie was doing.

10. 1 day ago on Gil Thorp

    Shoulda tried Mary Worth.