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  1. 24 minutes ago on Dick Tracy

    Fawcett, who created the original Captain Marvel, ceased publication rather than fight the lawsuit. Early 60s there was an obscure Captain Marvel by a new comic company that folded quickly. (Captain Marvel was an android whose body parts could split and fly around. I think I had them all.) DC had meanwhile purchased the old Fawcett characters. Marvel brought out a Captain Marvel comic. DC wanted to revive the character, but had to call the comic Shazam because Marvel had the title at that point.

    We’ll leave Gomer Pyle and a college radio broadcaster out of the discussion.

  2. about 6 hours ago on Gil Thorp

    I kind of divide Gil Thorp into the JB period and AJB. I am a snob who sort of considers the JB period as the ‘real’ Gil Thorp. I sort of don’t count that first year of losses ’cause young Gil was just starting. It was that 1982 season I was talking about.

  3. about 7 hours ago on Non Sequitur

    I’ve got a story or two like that, and I wasn’t even considered a daredevil (mostly stupid, and fortunately lucky).

  4. about 7 hours ago on Tarzan

    (I.e. the anachronism shown is several times greater than confusing Rome in 24 CE with New York City in 2024.)

  5. about 8 hours ago on Tarzan

    I fear you may be replying to me. First I find it exceedingly rude to assume anyone’s nickname. That certainly is not mine. There is something known as suspension of disbelief. Some premise the reader must accept to move the story forward. However, unless one is writing absurdist slapstick, you limit the number of times you ask the reader to suspend disbelief and move forward in the manner normal people would under the circumstances. (see: Gilbert & Sullivan, topsy-turvy.) What next, will our cavemen compare the cigarette brands they smoke or drive around in Model-Ts? People who are described as Paleolithic don’t have tech that wasn’t developed until the late Iron Age (skipping Mesolithic, Neolithic, Calcholithic, Bronze I, II, & III, and Iron I & II) Hopefully an editor would scream if one of our cavemen was drinking a milk shake or wearing a wristwatch. This is as glaring (at least if one has spent years teaching ancient history and humanities courses on the evolution of the arts.)

  6. about 12 hours ago on Gil Thorp

    Back in the old days you couldn’t be sure. Gil had a winless football season once and some years they didn’t even make the playoffs.

  7. about 13 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    And how many days/weeks, strip time, to get to that happy place?

    If Warbucks was aware of Annie’s identity why wait until now to tell her? If he was unaware of her identity we need a new story of how he took her out of the orphanage, and he needs his people to do better background checks. And Bob Smith may be guilty of some breach of his legal responsibilities.

  8. about 14 hours ago on Adam@Home

    It is gauche to bring coffee to a tea party, in the opinion of Ms Fancy. Of course she was born in a hutch.

  9. about 14 hours ago on Heart of the City

    Will they wear different clothes than they wear other days in the strip?

  10. about 14 hours ago on Baldo

    TMI.