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Forgotten Characters: Broom Hilda's Couple
There have been multiple temporary characters in the world of Broom Hilda, many being one-offs, such as Senator Bullbleep, Irwin's political Uncle Harry, the Three Stooges Barbarians, Marshall the...
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Cathy's Dad Has His Day
For the most part, Cathy is defined as a Mid-life crisis consisting of eating, shopping, working and her tortured relationship with her mother.But every once so often, she would throw her father a bone...
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I've Got You Covered
A major update to the last time I came across a batch of old newspaper Sunday Comics - I've just recently come across another large collection of old strips that had just been made available. This...
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Black Hole
Recently, there was the news that one of Japan's Black Hole Satellites just mysteriously reappeared with no explanation, spinning wildly and emitting strange undecipherable sounds. In addition, it...
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Superman Vs. Another Muhammad
Last month, I wrote about alternate tribute comics that weren't just simple rehashes of Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali. (I also found this perplexing single panel Ben Wicks cartoon that's possibly a...
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Eyes of July Has a Secret
From this point on, the remaining Secret ads have cameos of UFOs as reoccurring... well, not characters, but more like reoccurring vehicles.Another foreigner who doesn't know the secret!There's some...
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Animal Mimicry
When new ideas start out, they have the promise of unlimited potential that's only hampered by the imagination and ability of the user.Sadly, as so often happens, their full ability stops being...
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The Sins of the Husband Have Been Visited Upon the Wife
After much upheaval and resistance, Hillary Rodney Clinton has been vetted as the Presidential Candidate for being the first Female President. There was some general disappointment eight years ago...
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Blondie's Money Woes
While legacy strips can reuse certain themes into the ground, some of them can fade out over the ravages of time, depending on the relevancy or obsolescence of said jokes. The Better Half had...
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Massive Info-Dump on Trump
Doc Brown: Tell me future boy, who's the President of the United States in 2016?Marty McFly: Donald Trump.Doc Brown: TRUMP?! The Millionaire? Hah! Then who's Vice President? Arnold Schwarzenegger? And...
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Condorman is no Birdman
When I posted my entry for the Black Hole adaption, I was going to wait until I was either A. told to remove it, or failing that, B. move on to the next movie on the list, The Watcher in the Woods....
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Pet Peeves: Incomplete Throwaway Panels
The typical layout of a Newspaper comic strip is tightly controlled to remain consistent. So if another strip such decides to be more innovative in their layout, it means having to reshuffle the other...
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Secret Vocation, Secret Vacation
It's the start of a new month, so here's some more not-Far Side Cow Milk ads!"You haven't seen your lil' brother?""Nope!!""Don't you find that annoying in the long run?""Yeah, especially since it's...
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Handing over the Reigns
When it comes to legacy strips, there's the ever-present demand to keep a popular strip running, no matter how much the fumes are threatening to overwhelm the cartoonist's family. When a family member...
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Herman's Last Week
Herman remains my favorite single-panel comic, far outstripping other worthy contributors to the form. From the relaxed macabreism of Charles Adams' New Yorker comics to the scientific absurdness of...
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License Request - The Comic History of BD
When it comes to going through in-depth history about comics, such books tend to be filled with long lengthy essay-length journals full of investigative analysis of comic's evolution throughout the...
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Olympics Funnies
Of all the holiday-centric themes, the Olympics rank among the scarcest in terms of coverage.Since Olympics only happen every four years, it's less of an annual marker, so it doesn't normally weigh in...
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The Hazards of Driving
I've never been one to fully embrace the trial of enduring a driving lesson, even though having a driver's license would make things easier to sign up for, as an added proof of who I say I really am....
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Pmurt, The Anti-Trump
Chapter 34: Prescriptionby Moore Urasawa(Setting: the interior of a hospital wing. A balding detective in a trench coat knocks on the door of an office)Detective Flinch: Dr. Tenma?(The door opens,...
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The Real Faux & Hünd
When The Hunchback of Notre Dame was released in 1996, it was heralded as a new trailblazing path for Disney movies in moving beyond mere Fairy Tales. But Disney had apparently forgotten that they'd...
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