Stuff and Nonsense, Comic Strip Week in Review
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Before we get too far away from last Sunday…
Wallpaper
A few “wallpaper” (where the image remains the same) strips Sunday with Macanudo, Slylock Fox, and Doonesbury. The Slylock Sunday included the above Two Scenes Alike feature plus Spot the Differences and How to Draw components so it had a lot of sameness on their Sunday page. And then we get a week of Diamond Lil dailies starring Leon and Gary:
I have to express my discontent with last Sunday’s Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.
With Barney featured in the title panel I would have liked to see his name in large letters over Snuffy’s. To ease my disappointment is John Rose drawing a new image every week for the Sunday title panel, Thanks John.
Reply All Lite Update
For the past month I have wondered aloud why the Sunday Reply All Lite panel was not being uploaded to the GoComics newspaper platform or to The Washington Post online comics page and if it has been discontinued.
I am now informed by unimpeachable sources (they provided photographic proof) that Reply All Lite Sunday issues continue to be printed in The Washington Post and in its e-edition if not anywhere else.
to Grant and Mike
Don’t Know Much About Working Daze History
I enjoy these Working Daze Sundays when Scott Roberts takes over and goes comic strip historian on us. I didn’t remember that the panel was in newspapers but it is in my old notebook as starting on December 17, 2001. That old entry has a note that writer John Zakour back in the day was a gagman for Mother Goose & Grimm, Dennis the Menace, Marmaduke, Bound & Gagged, and a regular on Rugrats for a time.
Here’s a Working Daze from early in the 21st Century with Kyle Miller doing the cartooning:
Before leaving Sunday let’s check in with a Thatababy comic strip that I’m sure the editors appreciated.
That is if any editors read the syndicated material that appears in their newspapers.
The Dailies
After a month of reruns Red and Rover returned with new strips this week. (I was starting to get worried.)
I remember a time when any changes happened on Mondays. These days not so much.
On Tuesday The Saga Of Brann Bjornson gave us a Wizard of Oz moment (the film, not the book) as the Saga dailies went color. Okay, maybe that is a bad example as Saga is a 3X/week comic and Mondays are not ones of those days.
But did anyone notice that Nancy went rerun on a Tuesday? And that the projected start date for Caroline Cash, January 1, 2026, is a Thursday?
Speaking of the Nancy reruns – wtf? I could accept a March reference in GoComics “Nancy Classics” but the regular Nancy is being distributed to newspapers. Are the editors not paying attention? Did they just throw a dart at a calendar and decide to start running Bushmiller strips from that date without a care as to seasonal references?
“Dammit” – wtf?
I have become accustomed to peeing, and farting and other bodily functions on the funny pages. And sexual innuendo and situations. Now I guess cursing instead of grawlixes will be next if Carpe Diem is any indication.
Time Travel
I enjoyed the way too brief (two days) time travel sequence in Brewster Rockit and hope for a return to it.
Here, as we are occasionally wont to do, is a future Andy Capp. Noted here because he disrespects an entire group of potential reader.
Days of Future Past
Gil Thorp and company are reconciling with the past. Amazingly the GoComics archives go back that far.
If you were reading DC comic books from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s you likely saw something like this Superman PSA:
That came to mind while reading today’s Mary Worth:
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