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1. over 4 years ago on Nancy

   This is brilliant.

   Bushmiller would often do a strip for Labor Day where there was “less to draw” as a gag. For Olivia to take up the tradition is an obscure pull indeed.

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2. about 6 years ago on Nancy

   Starting with a fat joke? Inauspicious.

3. over 6 years ago on Dick Tracy

   “Is this on?”

   BWAH-HAH-HAH!

4. almost 7 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I was hoping they’d pull a Rudy Seton and have Sven implicated in the crime somehow.

5. almost 7 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I was fully expecting someone to take a header into the cement pour.

6. over 12 years ago on Rip Haywire

   Shall we all just start singing that Helen Reddy song now?

7. almost 13 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Well Ken in Ohio and idesama certainly showd ME…

   If anything, I was trying to make the point that in comics today, almost NOBODY dies (Well, Joe killed Ch’p) in GLCorps, but I digress) because nobody wants to lose a great character, or more correctly the trademark for one. Endless characters from comics sure LOOKED dead, but once the sales figures came in, were hastily saved from a fate worse than the frying pan.

   But I stand by my happiness for seeing those classic characters making a comeback. The average person who’s onlyheard of the strip and rarely read it think Pruneface and Flattop show up every third story. The cartoons from the sixties and seventies commonly used villains like Breathless Mahoney regardless of their life-status.

   They’re what people expect, so I don’t see a problem with finding a way to bring them back.

   Having B.B. eyes in DVD bootlegging is sheer brilliance. As readers of the original adventure, know, B.B. was a black marketeer, so this is exACTly up his alley. Whether or not he seals Junior in a giant candle, we shall have to see.

8. almost 13 years ago on Doonesbury

   “Absurdly simplistic and offensive to numerous Christians.”

   You’ve just defined “comedy”.

9. almost 13 years ago on Dick Tracy

   I am LOVING the way that Joe and Mike are bringing back the more outlandish inventions. The very fact we saw the Space Coupe means that the whole Moon Saga is back on the table.Bringing back B.B. Eyes is a great idea. Gould had a habit of not letting his villains survive their first adventure too often. Good for showing that crime doesn’t pay, but bad for recurring villains. Heck, save for the ones that turned face, did ANY bad guys ever survive?

10. almost 13 years ago on Rip Haywire

    With all the timing devices Cobra’s affixed to bombs in her day, it’s no surprise her own biological clock would go off eventually