Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for March 25, 2024

Must be one of those folding smartphones.

R.J. it’s that you don’t look like you’re that old.

Eh, you can get fake covers made at almost every amusement park.

Google “The Golden Arrow” car.

He was an extra in POGO.

RJ seems to have had quite an interesting pre-strip life.

Nice jet engines.

Looks like he might have been one of Hunter S. Thompson’s hallucinations…

Life ceased regular production at the end of 1972. They continued for a while with some special issues, such as an annual year-in-pictures. There was no August 1973 issue.

fwiw: I and a few others are memorialized in an article printed in the New York Times, summer 2000 covering an art related subject. Two more papers followed up and printed it as well with a more local spin. That was interesting. I have copies.

Breaking the fourth wall, much?

He was spreading chocolate and caramel on the salt flats for that sweet & savory combo.

Oooo, ‘Cultural Appropriation’… RJ’s racist history is exposed ….

Ah, the 70s! It was a different time.

I’ve attributed RJ’s preternatural lifespan to his Twinkie diet. Since Twinkies were invented in 1930, he could have been around in ’76.

Comics I know, Where’s the fuel tank ?

So Hammy time-travels on nearly a monthly basis, and no one here is buying that he might have dropped R.J. off in 1973 for a while? (Here’s why this scenario is plausible: The Twinkies would have been fresh back in 1973—R.J. had to try them.)

I must say, all those preservatives in RJ’s twinkle diet are really working some serious overtime!