I guess neither Bernice nor Shannon have ever seen The Amazing World of Gumball, in which a goldfish willed himself to grow lungs and legs in order to return to the family that mistakenly thought he’d died (said family consisting of a cat, a rabbit, their cat son and rabbit daughter).
Also, the ‘84 button, confirming pretty much everything since Jeff’s birth has taken place in real time. Even with new strips only coming on Sundays for the past several years, Doonesbury has been doing real time better than Gasoline Alley.
The color on these dailies is excellent. I wouldn’t be getting the gradient on their shirts or the green speech balloons for the goblin if I was still reading this in a physical paper.
Everybody realizes we’re getting this arc because 2024 is the 100th anniversary of the debut of Little Orphan Annie, and she doesn’t currently have her own strip to mark it, right?
Cat’s doing what cats do.