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  1. almost 13 years ago on Alley Oop

    Do you ask a question and expect the answer to come half an hour later?

  2. almost 13 years ago on Alley Oop

    I share readers’ impatience with the strip’s glacial plot pace, but at least the Benders stay more or less with the story line. In “Li’l Abner,” Al Capp would delay development endlessly with tangents that built suspense and led nowhere.

    And does anyone remember comic-strip conversations that began in one place (an airport, say) and continued in another (aboard the plane, in flight)?

  3. over 15 years ago on Annie

    What’ll you bet the rich kid was a Democrat? “Annie” has always reflected the GOP outlook.

  4. over 15 years ago on Annie

    So the doctor knows immediately it was poison? Wow, what a diagnostic wizard.

  5. almost 16 years ago on Annie

    Relax; they’re not even up in the air. See those stagey clouds in the background?

  6. almost 16 years ago on Annie

    As Pierre Andre used to say on radio 60 years ago: “Well! What do you think about that?”

  7. almost 16 years ago on Annie

    Multiple crimes followed by massive secrecy – obviously business as usual at an international corporation run by the world’s leading pirate. Was Warbucks an adviser to George W. Bush?

  8. almost 16 years ago on Dick Tracy

    I have followed this srrip for more than 60 years, always amused by its eccentric characters and its simplistic views on crime and morals. But it’s become just too stupid. I have hereby sworn off.

  9. almost 16 years ago on Annie

    I hope the double doesn’t die; he’s even meaner and less scrupulous than “Daddy,” a perfect stand-in. After all, “Daddy” picked him, and he’s a great judge of character.

  10. almost 16 years ago on Annie

    The dotted lines apparently indicate a translation, which makes Dessenay’s pidgin English all the more puzzling. But that’s the lingo most furrin characters employ in “Annie.” Is give this strip the boot.