CSotD: Um … did you say something?
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Creators of family cartoons always have the question of whether to let characters grow or freeze them at a particular age. Lynn Johnston famously aged her "For Better or For Worse" characters in real time. Charles Schulz let the "Peanuts" gang hit a certain age and freeze, so that Linus and Schroeder began as babies, Lucy as a toddler and Sally was born during the run of the strip, but they all ended up more or less the same age.
Having introduced a baby, Lucy, into "Stone Soup" some time ago, perhaps it's natural that Jan Eliot has recent begun letting Max, previously a clinging per-toddler, become a functioning little brother (technically a cousin, that is — functioning as a "little brother"). But this is the first time I've noticed him actually speaking.
(More attentive fans will now tell me he's been doing that for months …)
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