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1. over 3 years ago on Betty

   Looks like she may be using の, which is phoneme “no” in the Japanese hiragana phonetic alphabet.

2. almost 4 years ago on Big Nate

   So the lesson Francis brings us here is “Don’t bother trying to save your sanity by removing toxic people from your life, because when you make new friends they will just be worse.” Nate, for his part, will instantly abandon the character growth he’s flirting with, as befits a status-quo-is-king series.

3. almost 4 years ago on Big Nate

   The only mystery is why this didn’t happen years ago. Of course, since this is a stuck-in-time status-quo-is-king comic, the plotline will be resolved and ignored within two weeks.

4. over 6 years ago on Frank and Ernest

   The longest day doesn’t merely coincide with the solstice, it’s the definition of the solstice!

5. over 6 years ago on Peanuts Begins

   It’s not really the X we are familiar with, it’s actually the Greek letter chi.

6. almost 7 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The idea of dark matter is just a stand-in for “the math doesn’t work out right and we don’t know why yet”.

7. almost 7 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   Depends on if you’re talking about ripping the pages in half perpendicular to the spine, or ripping the spine itself in half.

8. almost 7 years ago on Monty

   If by “problematic” you mean “unsuccessful”. Meddick’s comic was the only part of the planned Robotman franchise that went anywhere. I can’t find any exact info on why Robotman was ultimately removed, but it’s implied Meddick preferred to have 100% his own original characters in his strip (probably for legal more than creative reasons) and the syndicate finally relented. Monty wasn’t even in the original comic but quickly became the focus after Meddick introduced him. I too am amused that Meddick ultimately went back to having a robot character around.

9. almost 8 years ago on Get Fuzzy

   h4x0r = haxor = hacker. Also known at l33t. Just go look up Leet on Wikipedia.