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1. about 7 hours ago on Andy Capp

   It in a very vague reference to one of my early mysteries that appeared in a now defunct anthology. Now, it references a desperate attempt to set up a new account (with no better ideas) when three of mine stopped working. As I’d written several guests stories on the DICK TRACY strip, and follow that group daily, it was a frustrating time.

2. about 15 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   Nibbling the knuckles that fed them?

3. about 15 hours ago on Rip Haywire

   What? The one with the confiscated dynamite in the back seat?

4. about 15 hours ago on Andy Capp

   Middle and last panel lines stolen, slightly altered, from Basil Fawlty, reacting to a comment by the Major.

5. about 15 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   Sonny recently returned, a broken man (In best Groucho: Where he got a broken man I’LL never know!). Seems he’d been on the Internet with a girl he said was the very image of Olive Oyl, his ‘steamy dream queen.’

   Turned out he was catfished by a burly trucker named Sven Hoolie, whose hobbies ran towards slapping paste-smeared poodles to the windshields of passing Volvos, and macrame using barbed wire.

   It was right terr’ble. Came back and swore off Diet Mountain Dew with root beer chasers! I tell you he’s a broken man, Tracy. Just sits there, staring at the bottles, his fingers twitching and endlessly running through his collection of Pee Wee comeback lines in that terrible voice! I’ve considered having him put down. Is there a permit for that?

6. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   OHhhh, don’t mention super comics.My first work (when I started out as an inker) was a revival issue on an older project. It was a nightmare in so many ways. Cookie cutter story with no interesting additions, the pencils came in on some weird board stock that shed the inks (I had to ink the lines 3 times), and the art was unfinished. I got a note saying that, as an artist, I could finish the figures, add backgrounds, and then ink.

   Shortly after that, I shifted to scripting.

7. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   I’m even worse. I can be nearly done with a project, then get antsy about a second job I’ve on parked on the back burners. Sooooo, it suddenly becomes a priority (i.e., I get new plot ideas or decide I could punch a scene up). Having the common sense o a teaspoon, I go back to that project d work o it for a week or so.Fine and dandy. BUT then I get back to the first book and can’t recall all of the character.s names or details I solved that with the OTHERWORLD books, which each feature a short coverage of the major characters before the story text.

8. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   Mallomilk Bars only. On rye toast.

9. 2 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Shhhh. Big reveal coming!

10. 3 days ago on In Security

    And thus began what was whispered of, in future times, as the Day Of Great Personal Humiliation.