Annie by Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg for May 13, 2012

I wish it could be enlarged. I can’t read the print

i wasn’t sure if i remembered this storyline but the big red crab jogged my memory….

Totally useless as usual—without a “zoom” version the resolution is so low there’s no way for me to read any of the words.

yeh, I have the means to enlarge the screen shot, but that doesn’t make the words intelligible , might as well be in another language.

I’ll give it a go.

Panel 1: Annie by Jay Maeder & Alan Kupperburg

“Sit, Red Rover and stay! Let us peer into the mysteries of the sea…”

Panel 2: Whirr! Whirr!

Panel 3: Deep in the sea, robot eyes scan Doctor Dark’s sunken submarine – and robot ears record the ghastly beating of his evil heart -Thup-thup! Thup-thup! Whirr! Whirr!

Panel 4: — as Red Rover hovers overhead.“Very clear signals!”

“Not a breach in that vessel anywhere! She’s sealed up tight!”

Panel 5: “Kamkaze crew, eh? Dutifully put their tub down — then settled in to starve….”

“Or swallowed poison perhaps — All for the greater glory of Doctor Dark’s immortality…”

Panel 6: “But I don’t understand why the Russians are sitting so far off the hulk.”

“You’re right, Admiral! You’d think they’d be right on top of her!”

Panel 7:

Panel 8: “Wow! That answers that! Who wants to get near that big boy?”

“God Lord, Gilbraith! Look at the size of him!”

Panel 9: Whirr! Whirr!

© Jay Maeder & Alan Kupperberg 8-12-2001

Panel 10: “Amelia! He’s working! He’s on duty!”

“Yeah! Leave it to Doctor Dark to post a faithful giant crab on his tub…”

I missed the caption under the screenshot of the Russian submersible in panel 6. Just couldn’t see it well enough.

Wouldn’t the “Deadliest Catch” guys love that crab!!!

Now I can see why Amelia constantly wears dark glasses; Apparently, with ‘her eyes’ she’s quite sensitive to normal light-level situations, for which, from me, she gets a “pass”…Along with everyone else, I cast a curse, a pox and a hex on the Powers That Be that don’t ‘allow’ the magnifying option on this fine work. Fume, snort, mumble, etc.

@JanCinLV – thanx from me too.

The 2003 strip is at:http://www.gocomics.com/annie/2003/05/13