Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for October 15, 2009

Ya know, now that I took that survey and am a free genius member for three months and can rummage through the archives I’m really thinking Scancarelli is awesome. He’s done some really clever stuff here.

If you have taken the survey and become a free genius - check out the entire year of 2004. Awesome stuff with Gasoline Alley history. Absolutely beautiful work.

Three cheers for Mr. Scancarelli, and I’ll make it four!

And I’ll make it five!

You mean he isn’t going to take Gertie in his arms and they live happily ever after?

Deborah Reyes said, If you have taken the survey and become a free genius - check out the entire year of 2004. Awesome stuff with Gasoline Alley history. Absolutely beautiful work.

Wow, that was some good stuff, Deborah.

I also just took a look at Earl and Gertie, the Early Days from March of 2009. Fun to see all that again. Jim would be able to make a very nice book of it all.

How do you become a free genius for 3 months? Not that I’d have time to dig through the archives…

Wow, finally Byrd and Gertie will meet again.

Will Byrd find out it’s Gertie before Saturday?!! I can just feel another exciting/excruciating weekend cliffhanger coming on. lol

Yes, he does some interesting work.

I hope Gertie takes off her wig so Byrd recognizes her.

HectorPriam said, about 22 hours ago I just called 1-800-WAH-WAAH and some oriental sounding lady told me her measurements and what she was wearing. Then she said something about $25 for the first five minutes and $5 per minute after that if I had a valid credit card number. What’s up with that? ——————————————————————————— Hector…. you might try to clean the tears out of your eyes before dialing. In your case, you just hit “last number redial” as 1-800-WAH-WAAH is a non working number. Yep Saturday is getting closer. and going to be another cliff hanger. Its getting to where I’m getting to hate weekends and loving Mondays with this story arc.

Byrd will probably not recognize Gertie until he hears her voice. That will be ‘startle time’ for him.

Finally it looks like the story is going to progress.

I’m still thinking we’ll go the Cinderella route here, as some others have predicted. I bet Gertie will suddenly feel that she doesn’t want Earl to see her this way, and will make a break for it. Earl will lunge after her, but will end up with only her wig…

I have been a genius for some time and have no idea how or why.

He’d better recognize her by looking into her eyes, or that whole “Angel Eyes” caper will be exposed for the cynical sham it probably was.

I can’t say I’ve liked either of these characters a lot till now, but I keep an open mind.

GA is not my favorite strip ever, but i have a lot of respect for Scancarelli. The art and pacing are very well done. Can we start a petition to get him on Dick Tracy?

Okay, I should qualify my qualified praise of Scancarelli…I am a diehard Dick Moores fan (he did the strip prior to Jim), and his version was gospel to me. So since I’ve been following it again I’ve had that comparison going on all the time. But now that I’ve been able to look at a few years’ worth of stuff, I see how Jim’s made it his own, and done really great things.

kreniigh– one of the old GA strips I looked at had Dick Tracy doing a guest spot here in recognition of his 75th anniversary. And yeah, Scancarelli’s Dick was way better and more entertaining than the strip itself is these days. I’d love to see him on Dick Tracy…but not if it meant Locher and Brozman got to take over GA, that would be horrible.

Wow, imagine Scancarelli on Tracy… I’d read that.

I wasn’t too excited when the first Byrd/Gertie arc started back in the Diner, but it’s won me over. On two levels I have been reminded not to judge by first impressions. Things are not always as they seem.

This story line is much better than anything I’ve read with Rufus, and it beats the living heck out of buying a giant meteor.

You know this is going to end with Walt waking up from a nap in his seat after all the hub-bub is over and just in time to go home.