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1. 1 day ago on Loose Parts

   Like sands through an hourglass, these are the days of our lives…

2. 1 day ago on Last Kiss

   Cottonmouth from Luke Cage was the last villain I can remember who used knives as his main weapon. Catwoman uses a whip, but she mostly ties people up with it [which is fine for young readers to see]

3. 1 day ago on The Argyle Sweater

   Don’t be silly! Read the comic! He’s obviously saying ‘spell’ not ‘smell.’

   [i kid]

4. 1 day ago on Looks Good on Paper

   Funny how hard it is to recognize folks when you see them in a different context.

5. 1 day ago on Ink Pen

   They should bring back the buck-toothed, slanty eyed kid from ‘Rice Crinkles’ to remind us why DEI is important.

6. 1 day ago on Wondermark

   Odin, King of the Norse Gods, had two ravens who sat on his shoulders. He’d send them into the worlds to bring him news.

7. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   I could point out the International Brigade had plenty of English including George Orwell, but what’s the point? Amateur historians like us should stick to reading novels about surly lechers who’ll d4mn yer eyes and cheat at duels.

8. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   If Robert Crumb had put a cartoon about a President renaming it ‘The Gulf Of America’ in a Zap Comix in 1968 we’d have all concluded that Robert had taken the brown acid.

9. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   To play amateur historian, it was the Spanish Civil War. All the same players as WW2 but in a limited size.

10. 3 days ago on Shoe

    The secret is to find the training restaurant. I happened to have a Wendy’s near where I worked; went in one day and got a great meal fast and cheap. I started going there pretty much every day. One day it was a little slow so I asked the counter guy what the secret was. This was the place where they trained managers for all the other stores in the area. Every order is judged and the folks know that they’ll get a promotion when they graduate.