Recent Comments

1. about 22 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Given how rare book-burning incidents are and the putative connection with book banning, a high-interest subject in the culture wars, I’d imagine Westview is heaving with press and cameramen. Skip’s strategy of interviewing a nearby bookseller who has recently been promoting banned books isn’t that off-the-wall. A minor story, but a scoop.

2. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

   You may well be right about Ro-Zan’s thinking. but isn’t “Terran” an equivalent term to “Lunarian”? and are you saying that the Lunarians aren’t human? Honeymoon’s existence suggests they are.

3. 6 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Get that X-rayed, pronto.

4. 7 days ago on Flo and Friends

   She doesn’t seem particularly attached to her own kid.

5. 9 days ago on Crabgrass

   Possible subtext: Kevin resents school because kids stupider than him find it easier than he does.

6. 10 days ago on Crankshaft

   Weird selection. This looks more like a collection of the depressing and/or boring books they force you to read in school. The customer’s statement being a case in point. Many, umm, spicier books have been banned then and now, and then there are the books suppressed for political and religious reasons.

7. 15 days ago on Crabgrass

   Is that a Lego brick in a fish tank? Why?

8. 18 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Did he though? (see 2024/07/26) Perhaps you underestimate the mess one teenage boy can make in three weeks.

9. 19 days ago on Peanuts

   I always thought “the happiest day of one’s life” meant it was the foundation of all one’s future happiness, a bit like the acorn containing the mighty oak.

10. 20 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    Often people who are picking up trash by the side of the road aren’t volunteers and may be rewarded in some way for filling their bags more quickly, so this action may have been kindly meant.