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1. 11 days ago on Edge City

   Gotta say, in retrospect, the diorama arc was poorly written. The writing was too strawman-y and exaggerated. It’s one thing to say that just this once, Colin should be forgiven not having the exact right size of shoebox. It’s another to claim that forgetting to use the right size somehow makes Colin a Very Creative Child.

   Then there’s Abby saying, basically, “If you don’t give Colin the grade I’ve decided you’ll give him, it means you hate creativity and independent thinking.”

   And having the teacher actually say that yes, she does indeed want to stop children from thinking for themselves… Come on. Strawman much?

   In short, that arc really came off as the cartoonists satirizing something that happened to them for real. It was like one of those political cartoons where some candidate you dislike says “I hate freedom.”

2. 12 days ago on Edge City

   Fair enough point, but not much of a punchline.

3. 13 days ago on Over the Hedge

   I liked that ending of the movie. It explained why the Cowardly Lion didn’t quite look like a real lion. Naturally a dream, and the creatures in one, will be different from the real world.

4. 21 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   More than John, too.

5. 23 days ago on Edge City

   Good catch. I missed that.

6. 26 days ago on Betty

   You know Harlequin romance novels? In Sweden, they’re always condensed. You never get the full novel translated, because they cut away pretty much everything that isn’t dialogue, plot or the most necessary description only. Some people wonder why romance doesn’t get respect. Me, I wonder why romance readers accept this kind of thing.

7. 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   Ack! I meant to reply to steveconkey2003. I’m sorry, USN1977. Didn’t mean to address you.

8. 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   It’s a pad of paper and a pen. Not all rectangular objects are phones, friend. :)

9. 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   All due respect, he didn’t ask to do a school project but to “interview you for the student newspaper.” He did in fact ask specifically to publish it in the school paper.

10. 2 months ago on For Better or For Worse

    The strips contradict each other concerning the original stated purpose of the interview.January 25, Mike says to Bergner “Excuse me, sir… Could I interview you for the student newspaper?”

    But February 6, Mike says to Bergner “That interview I did with you? It turned out great! In fact, it’s going into the student newspaper!” Bergner replies “Oh? You said it was just a class project!” And I thought: No, he didn’t. He specifically said “student newspaper.”

    Also, there’s no reason why Michael would have said that, since it was presented to us, the readers, as a class assignment. So you gotta wonder partly why he said it was for the student newspaper, and why Bergner is now claiming that Mike never said this.