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1. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

   Having read a lot of HOA nightmare stories, I’m guessing they’ve been fining people who aren’t members (like Walt) and getting liens placed on properties when the owners don’t pay. And they’re probably embezzling from the fees and fines.

2. 23 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   I bought my house in the late ‘90s, before I had regular Internet access, and even THEN I’d heard enough HOA horror stories that I told my agent I didn’t want to buy anywhere that had one.Walt’s lived in that house for decades, since before HOAs were a thing. I’m guessing it’ll turn out that he never agreed to join, and Mr. Couldn’t-Get-Into-the-Police-Academy-So-I’m-Doing-This-Instead will end up frustrated. There are stories of HOAs trying to enforce their rules on homeowners who were there before the HOA was formed.

3. 30 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   For Walt’s age, I’ve always gone by the 2001 strip where someone showed up to give Walt a medal and told Phyllis, “Your husband was born in 1898…” Which would make him 23 in 1921 when Skeezix appeared on his doorstep. It would also have made him 18 when the USA entered WWI, which just about works. Phyllis, a WWI widow, could very well have married Jack Blossom in her teens and been within a year or two of Walt’s age. I agree that some details of Walt’s past (like graduating college and being a sales manager) point to him being older than 20 in 1918, but as far as I know that’s the only time he’s ever been given a birth year.And let’s not even discuss Doc and Avery, who were always appreciably older than Walt and who both lived at least into the late 1980s…

4. 30 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   Yeah, brain fart on my part, I knew Nubbin was born in 1954.

5. about 1 month ago on Gasoline Alley

   Walt is turning 127 in 2025, Skeezix 104, Corky 97, Judy 90, Chipper 80, Clovia 76, Nubbin 72, Adam and Eve 65, Gretchen 47, Rover about the same, Ada 36, Amanda Lynn about the same, Gus and Kathleen just turned 32 on Christmas and Boog turns 21.

6. about 2 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   “When we’re gone for weeks, it’s only minutes here!” “Um, Ida…? The Christmas tree is up. We left before Halloween!” “Relax! It’s comic-strip time, like when a Dick Tracy villain kills a guy in the Spring and it’s Thanksgiving when Tracy corners him and drills him through the head!”

7. 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   704 Hauser was the address where Archie and Edith Bunker lived on All in the Family. Eugene Roche (1928-2004) was a character actor who played Archie’s friend Pinky Peterson. He also played lawyer Ronald Mallou on Soap and Christine Sullivan’s father on Night Court.

8. 3 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   They encounter Roger Smith’s people (from American Dad) and are eaten (Adults get dissected, children get eaten, apparently).

9. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   The strip is from 2002, so Alex is 13 here.

10. 5 months ago on Dick Tracy

    “I went back to the parking lot for a closer look at the cars….You Earth people really like black, white, silver and gray, don’t you?”