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1. 6 days ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   First we need a lesson on “How to Draw Doug’s Pipe”.

2. 15 days ago on Lio

   That look of happy anticipation.

3. 20 days ago on Luann Againn

   These strips are from 1997, which is 28 years ago. The pattern of dates-versus-weekdays repeats on a 28-year cycle (that’s related to having 7 weekdays in a week and having leap years every 4 years, and 4 × 7 = 28), so, yes, in 1997 Valentine’s Day was on a Friday.

4. 21 days ago on Dick Tracy

   So are we never gonna find out what the “rookie mistake” was? Boo!

5. 25 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Nice foreshadowing in P2—with an actual shadow! (Sam’s shadow hand has “grasped” the clock hand, even though Sam’s actual hand has not quite yet done so.) Very nice work!

6. about 1 month ago on Crankshaft

   I will venture a guess that Crankshaft is old enough to remember when a TV “season” meant a run of 39 episodes (followed by 13 “summer reruns”), and that the point of his wry, disparaging comment is that today a season is so puny you can “knock it off” in just a few hours. In other words, I suspect he’s being a geezer, complaining (indirectly) that the good old days were better.

7. about 1 month ago on Skippy

   Back in the day, that was real money.

8. about 2 months ago on Nancy

   Clever—but those birds aren’t smart enough to make a pattern with sixfold symmetry rather than eightfold.

9. about 2 months ago on Heart of the City

   “Seven” means we can look forward to Heart wearing the same outfit every day of the week (as before).

10. 2 months ago on Lio

    Liō should have studied the crucial ten seconds of Weird Al’s video of “Amish Paradise” starting at 1:58:

    youtu . be/lOfZLb33uCg?t=118