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1. about 21 hours ago on Molly and the Bear

   Hm. Maybe Caniff inked by Tallarico …

2. 1 day ago on Molly and the Bear

   I wonder what vintage comic strips Bear is thinking of? I’m somewhat reminded of work by Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico, but I suppose Bob has someone else in mind.

3. 1 day ago on Wannabe

   I’m sure this has been asked before and I missed it, but what the heck do they think VHS means? Why would you borrow the name of an antiquated home video format on the supposition that it might glamorize what I take it is some kind of live performance? Or do they really sucker people to pay to come and watch low-resolution videotapes on an old TV?

4. 2 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   That last line reminds me of the seeming non-sequitur in Perry Como’s hit song:

   “Hoop-dee-doo, hoop-dee-doo / I hear a polka and my troubles are through / Hoop-dee-doo, hoop-dee-dee / This kind of music is like Heaven to me / Hoop-dee-doo, hoop-dee-doo / Has got me higher than a kite / Hand me down my soup and fish /I am gonna get my wish, hoop-dee-doin’ it tonight.”

   Supposedly “soup and fish” was once a familiar idiom for the kind of clothes a man would wear to a formal dinner.

5. 3 days ago on Andertoons

   As the old framing of the subject goes: If your grandparents didn’t have any children, your parents probably didn’t either, and neither will you, probably.

6. 4 days ago on Molly and the Bear

   Harry Shearer and David L Lander, as part of The Credibility Gap comedy group, first did this with a rock concert lineup (The Who, Guess Who, and Yes), obliquely crediting Abbott and Costello at the end:

   Https://Youtu.Be/YEvwW1yqIjA?si=u6nkBXV2W-vQg40a

7. 4 days ago on Rudy Park

   I wonder if that customer might be a caricature of someone Darrin Bell happened to encounter? The eyes in panel four seem closer to realistic portraiture than usual in his strips.

8. 4 days ago on Overboard

   At first I thought you meant you used to have a dog that was half lab and half beagle-and-something-else, and wondered how the beagle+ half managed to outsmart the lab half of the same brain.

9. 5 days ago on The Duplex

   For a second I thought Eno was asking if taking the initiative to bring in a new pencil sharpener would be enough to snag him a new office and a raise.

10. 7 days ago on Petunia & Dre

    Yes.