Recent Comments

1. less than a minute ago on Tarzan

   I considered that, but decided (for more reasons than I want to list) that it made no sense. I should have remembered nothing has made sense yet. You could be right.

   But one wonders, if there are enemy cities, why they gave up bows-and-arrows so long ago. They gave up a weapon we know goes back more than 10,000 years to throw rocks at each other.

   Okay, I lied. I gave one of my many reasons after saying I wouldn’t list them.

2. 6 minutes ago on Dick Tracy

   I don’t mind slow (I read The Phantom) as long as there is some sort of logical consistency and the occasional hand wave to real world phenomena (like laws of physics). I’m willing to wait until Labor Day or even longer if I don’t have to whine about Tracy manifesting ESP or things being solved by unbelievable coincidences.

3. about 1 hour ago on Heart of the City

   “You can tell a man in love… But he won’t listen.”

4. about 1 hour ago on Crabgrass

   Here’s hoping she can jump start his brain again…

   And in a manner different than Kevin would suggest, which would probably entail jumper cables and a car battery.

5. about 1 hour ago on JumpStart

   However, there are a lot more retired cops than television shows needing to hire retired cops.

6. about 2 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   I teach history. One of the great diseases of mankind is the mistaken belief things were wonderful at some point, prior to now, and the youth of today is worse than the youth of yore and life was so much better at that point in the imagined past. Nostalgia is evil.

   One of the worst cases was 19th century Romanticism, “Life is terrible here in society undergoing industrialization, but everything was wonderful back in the 13th century.” Let’s hear it for the Black Death. Romanticism gave us the Neo-Gothic revival, which you can see in thousands of churches and other buildings around the world from the 19th century. Called “The New Style” when it came it, after it was passee it was termed Gothic – ugly and barbaric. But it was dug up from its grave in the 19th century and hailed as reflecting a perfect age.

7. about 2 hours ago on Gil Thorp

   A lot of radio broadcasts of any game is inane, but here it provides enough details for the reader to know what is going on in the first two panels.

   Third panel? Not so much. Coach’s comment is obviously intended as a cliff-hanger to insure we’re all back tomorrow to see what’s going on.

8. about 2 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   A little bit of circumstantial evidence. Enough circumstantial evidence can get you a conviction. They don’t even have enough now to obtain a search warrant. But it is enough to provide a small pointing finger and a tiny voice whispering, “Hey – look that way!”

9. about 2 hours ago on Tarzan

   Huh? Why do they have to be careful of guards watching from the walls during the day? Isn’t this Valthor’s city? Why is he worried about the guards?

   And why, if you have a hidden kingdom, with no one knowing the location, do you need to post guards? Guarding against what? And how / why did Valthor wander off and get captured by slave traders?

10. about 2 hours ago on Loose Parts

    Only if you get the stripped down version. If you pay for the full set up you get a guy with a whip who whips you if you slow down.