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1. 5 months ago on Dick Tracy

   I’m pretty sure this is referencing the early 60s cartoon except that instead of Tracy sending Joe Jitsu or Hemlock Holmes & The Retouchables to answer the call, he’s going himself.

2. over 4 years ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   I thought it was an apostrophe and I went to the comments to ask why it was “ ‘Hubbard.” Now, I don’t know whether to be relieved it was only an improperly used comma.

3. about 6 years ago on Fowl Language

   The stickiness comes from baby goo, a substance that children exude from their fingers and palms from the moment they stand until around the age of eight. There was no other logical explanation.

4. almost 7 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Their handshake reminded me of the one between Batman and Robin during the opening credits of the 1966 tv show.

5. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Yep. My first thought, too.

6. about 8 years ago on Arlo and Janis

   Not that I’m saying Jimmy did not draw today’s strip, but for those familiar with the man’s art style doesn’t the waiter in the second panel look as if it was drawn by Christopher Eliopoulos? (See, for example, the “Ordinary People Change the World” written by Brad Meltzer for which Eliopoulos provides illustrations.)

7. over 10 years ago on Dick Tracy

   FWIW, Boris Karloff originated the character of Jonathan Brewster when Arsenic and Old Lace premiered on Broadway in January 1941.

8. almost 11 years ago on Liberty Meadows

   What always keeps a guy from asking out someone he likes: Fear. Fear of looking like a fool, fear of things becoming weird if she declines.

   Oh, and I guess, if you’re Frank, fear of being beaten to a pulp by an ex-boyfriend.

   Of course, Brandy could have always asked Frank out.