Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 22, 2009

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    well-i-never  over 5 years ago

    Thought I’d get here early and make sure the coast is clear. Watch your step – there are droppings everywhere.

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    DennisinSeattle  over 5 years ago

    His Royal Birdness, if you please! He is closely inspecting the mail, eliminating anything that does not include his proper title. What is this nonsense from the electric company, the gas? Trash them!

    Meanwhile, what is that abomination on the wall? Too many colors, and squigly lines!!! It can’t be allowed!

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Hello, everybody!

    Sorry… working on something else earlier…

    But I didn’t want to go to bed without stopping by.

    Especially since what we’re commenting on today is Nighthawks’ and StelBel’s wonderful animation of “the Untouchables”….

    which happens to be the Mar 22nd  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

     

    on Sherpa….

    http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

     

    This was a great job, you guys… I’m glad to see it again!

    And of course, for anybody who hasn’t seen it to get a chance.

    Reruns are only “re” run to those who got to see them…. as Cleo gains a new audience they’ll need to see this stuff!

    Which reminds me… good to see you, Well-I-Never!

     

    A coincidental link…

    I happened to read an article, recently about Elliott Bassetness.

    It said his book, “The Untouchables”, which led to the TV show and movies, had long been called bogus.

    He wasn’t famous in his lifetime, and didn’t have much to do with the conviction of AlleyCat Capone, who was brought down for tax evasion.

     

    But a newer book… not new cos this article was old….

    said that the prosecutor had acknowledged a debt to the work of the real “Untouchables”…

    and after New York, Bassetness became director of canine public safety in another city, where he’s credited with many innovations still in use today…

    like police radios, and internal affairs detectives to root out police corruption.

     

    So what’s the connection?

    The city where he found his real niche was Cleveland…. home of Cleo, Clara and Claude.

     

    As for “The Untouchables” …. while it says ""By Elliot Bassetness," it was ghostwritten by a reporter, who pressed him to write a book…

    Bassetness gave him some notes but never got a chance to read the manuscript or correct any hyperbole, as he died a year before it was published.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 5 years ago

    We’re not actually going to Mary and Stan…. I mean… His Royal Birdness’…. house today….

    I’m hoping everyone will join me at my pie shop….

    I’m trying three new fruit combinations…

    You can give your opinions on “Cleo and Company” while also helping me decide whether to add blueberry/peach, blueberry/banana cream, and apricot/mixed berry to the menu.

     

    But…. if we ever do go to their place…. I hope everyone will remember (and remind me, in case I forget…)

    to b very suspicious of anything made with eggs.

    If offered something like devilled eggs, egg salad, or an omelet…. I believe I would politely decline.

     

    Nighthawks… hope you saw my last comment to you, yesterday, explaining what I meant about animations.

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    katina.cooper  over 5 years ago

    They tend to stay away from that evil cat who lives in the dark alley, called, Clea Cat. She will purr and distract them and then, her very evil identity will emerge. Clea, the cannibal cat, will emerge. There will be nothing left but red stains in the alley.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 5 years ago

    My parents used to refer to the human counterpart as “Eliot Mess.”

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    GROG Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Bye, bye, birdie.

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    GROG Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Those alley cats won’t lay a glove on the Untouchables. They won’t have to: they’ve got Tommy guns.

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    MontanaLady  over 5 years ago

    Yes, Susan, I remember this from it’s first inCATnation, but for those of us with memory problems, re-runs are sometimes first-runs.

    I love Machine Gun Pussycat. Great name. And, Eliot Bassetness sounds like he’s royalty! Really great job on the strip today, Nighthawks and StelBel. It had me chuckling each time I ran it.

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    Perkycat  over 5 years ago

    I agree with everything MontanaLady said. Even if they are reruns, a good comic bears repeating. I usually have to go through these a couple of times…….my Speed Reading For Dummies book hasn’t arrived yet.

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