| At last, the world is ready again - Tue, 22 May 2012 12:23:49 +0000 |
| Blondie, 5/22/12 We here at the Comics Curmudgeon spend a lot of time ragging on long-running legacy strips, which decades ago ceased to be the work of an artist/visionary and are instead staffed by hired guns in the employ of the intellectual property owners. But we don’t say enough about the advantages of this kind [...] |
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| Important teen life lessons, presented in a medium no teenager reads - Mon, 21 May 2012 14:32:04 +0000 |
| Gil Thorp and Funky Winkerbean, 5/21/12 So it looks like the cross shape on Tasha’s neck that I dismissed as a shadow a few weeks back is … an elaborate cross neck tattoo after all? Which I find just a touch unrealistic, as it seems to me that any parent who thinks that “teen mother [...] |
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| The alternative — that Dagwood has this relationship with just his boss — is even sadder - Sun, 20 May 2012 12:22:36 +0000 |
| Blondie, 5/20/12 Since you are all comics scholars, probably you are well aware of the Blondie origin story: Blondie was a carefree flapper girl who fell in love with Dagwood, the aimless son of a wealthy industrialist, and when the two decided to get hitched, Dagwood’s snooty family disinherited him for marrying a commoner, forcing [...] |
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