It will be interesting to see how this goes, both in terms of the content (writing) and the art. When I look at the Bushmiller strips, I see movement and activity in the art; Jaimes artwork looks more static, and I would sometimes imagine how Bushmiller would have drawn one of Jaimes’s gags. Gilchrist had the movement (and some beautiful art), although I personally did not find his gags as funny. Of course, YMMV.
When I was 4, I was in the front seat when my mother hit a fireplug. My face went into the windshield (lots of scabs, but luckily no permanent damage) and lots of water. (Seat belts and child safety seats were years in the future.)
Worse, she had borrowed her mother-in-law’s new car. We got a second car shortly after.
Union Electric hollowed out the top of Taum Sauk Mountain in Missouri in a similar way. At night, when electric was cheaper, they pumped water uphill into the reservoir. During the day, the water ran down and drove a turbine. Unfortunately, they didn’t property monitor the reservoir, and the side of the mountain collapsed in 2005, causing a lot of destruction downstream.
It’s been reconstructed. The new upper reservoir dam, rebuilt from the ground up, is the largest roller-compacted concrete dam in North America.
How they screwed up in multiple ways is a cautionary tale for large technology: "A combination of design and construction flaws, continuing to operate the dam when the primary system for gauging the water level was known to be inaccurate (gauge pipes had become detached), moving the “failsafe” secondary gauging system above the actual height of the dam to avoid false positives, and operating the dam in an unsafe manner by routinely overfilling the reservoir caused the upper reservoir dam to overtop. There was no overflow spillway in the original reservoir." (Wikipedia)
Comics often descend to adding animals … then talking animals … after a while. Bliss over the last couple of years is one example. Snoopy getting increased prominence over the years is another. Is Betty headed down this path?
What I get chuffed about is the car in second place who honks when the reason the first car hasn’t turned right is because there’s a person with a stroller / old lady / other pedestrian in the crosswalk.
I’d give the odds of a medical emergency before the debate at 1%. During or just after the debate, 2%. Either of these guys could need a 911 call.