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1. about 1 month ago on Bad Machinery

   They grow up so fast…

2. about 1 month ago on Bad Machinery

   Shauna is now taller than Amy!

3. about 1 month ago on Dick Tracy

   So the reader can easily identify him in dark clock towers from a distance from behind.

4. about 2 months ago on Bad Machinery

   Many real life adults would fail to think of the sensible thing in a life-and-death situation and these are teens and…yeah, “it’s pretend” is the best answer.

5. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   “It’s plot exposition. It has to go somewhere.”

6. about 2 months ago on Wallace the Brave

   The only comic on this list I don’t have reprint books of is Cul de sac. And two are “legacy” strips where the original artist is by far the best. (Three if you count Thimble Theatre, which changed its name to Popeye, after a character who took over the strip when he was introduced ten years in!)

7. about 2 months ago on Wallace the Brave

   Yes, it’s all personal preference. What’s my favorite? Thimble Theatre. Or Dick Tracy by Chester Gould. Or Krazy Kat. Or Peanuts. Or Pogo. Or Calvin and Hobbes. Or Bad Machinery. Or Alley Oop by V. T. Hamlin. Or Cul de sac. Or Wallace the Brave. I can’t decide and it doesn’t matter. They are all great.

8. 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Chester Gould made it up as he went along. I doubt he would remember, even if he were here.

9. 2 months ago on Bad Machinery

   “I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm; and that three or more become a Congress!”—the character John Adams in the play 1776.

10. 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

    Time doesn’t work the same in Tracyville. Most writers have referenced Tracy WWII stories without any attempt at reconciling them with Tracy’s current age.Pruneface, on the other hand, has a scifi explanation if he shows up now. He froze to death in the forties and was thawed out decades later by a mad scientist named Freezdrei.