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1. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

   OK, why would she bother calling and distracting Tracy to let him know that later, she will actually tell him something? That’s a very weird narrative device. Why not just cut to the station and her explaining?

2. 19 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Static displayed by a disabled camera.

   A disabled old-school NTSC camera. Digital cameras, not so much.

3. about 2 months ago on F Minus

   Why is Purple Shirt Lady holding a flip phone?

4. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’m quite a bit older than Stephan Pastis, and I immediately thought, “Tape?” Books on tape haven’t been a thing for what, a couple of decades? I’m sure someone still has a cassette player for their books, but in the USA it can’t be many.

5. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   If it makes the joke not funny for me, the joke is not funny for me. That’s kind of what “funny for me” means.

6. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   A fraction of a second LATER. Sorry.

7. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   He throws the thing into the room—doesn’t slide it, flings it, the art clearly shows he doesn’t bend down. Then he apparently just leaps over right next to it a fraction of a second. What is this going to accomplish, exactly?

   Next strip shows Tracy watching him on the cameras, also trying to figure out what he thinks he’s doing. Ro-Zan is a screwup, honestly he should be used as a distraction by the real villain. Now that would be a story.

8. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’m guessing you don’t read the treasury books for Pearls? He mentions it himself when he duplicates panels. It just struck me as funny because it’s about as extreme a case as possible.

9. 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Very Pastis. He drew one panel, duplicated it 5 times, and dropped different lettering on them. For panel 6, he flipped the image of Rat horizontally.

10. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

    Am I really the only one who thought, “Rollie can read Arabic?” I mean, seriously, the Mujahedeen did not sign the walls in the Great Satan’s language (or alphabet).