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Weekend Warriors

Published: September 28, 2025 2 minutes 11 comments

Super Power Sunday

Seems we had some children exhibiting super powers in the Sunday comics.

Adam @ Home

Clayton reveals his superpower to little sister Katy in Adam @ Home. While we may be witnessing the rise of the most powerful being in the Comics Kingdom universe. A couple months ago we saw Olive exhibit some kind of ESP when she saved Mary from a falling air conditioner. Now, after displaying a kindred spirit with the animal word, we find it is something more. Olive is a young telepath with only time to grow.

Mary Worth

And then there’s Chad.

Big Nate

Chad will, no doubt, grow up to be Captain Nice. While Lio takes an idea from another 1960s TV series. Followed by the unreleased pilot episode of the Lost in Space series

Lio
Non Sequitur

A couple comic strip notes

Mutts

Mutts returns with its sixth all-new strip for 2025. Whereas a never-before-collected-in-book-form collection of the never-was Amazing Spider-Man comic strip from the late 1960s is getting its own hardcover mini-book.

The Amazing Spider-Man: The Original Newspaper Strips by Stan Lee and John Romita

Clover press is issuing new editions of The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip collections in paperback. But the big news is the publishing of what is sure to become a collectors’ item – a Spider-Man mini-comic.

A 32-page hardcover book presenting the 12 comic strips by Stan Lee and John Romita produced almost a decade before the syndicated newspaper comic strip debuted in 1977.

We have some other campaign exclusives you’ll only be able to get through the [kickstarter] campaign, like this really nifty mini-hardcover comic!

Had to look it up

Moderately Confused

Being the Luddite that I am I had to look up “waze.” Also when Flash Gordon commenters were bandying about a phrase from a recent Flash Gordon that too sent me to the interwebs.

Flash Gordon

Stuff I understand

The Argyle Sweater
Non Sequitur

Grawlixes and copyright rights I know. Calvinball I understand as much as anybody.

Calvin and Hobbes (originally September 24, 1995)

And if I didn’t know what was going on Lennie is explaining it to me.

The Big Picture

This ‘n’ that

Crabgrass

What looks to be a month long arc about Kevin and Krystal and a ghost from Halloween past. Starts here.

Remember those educational comic strips like Frontiers of Science and Our New Age?

Now we have Over the Hedge.

Over the Hedge

Let’s get p’litical

The Leo Chronicles
Deflocked
Popeye

Maybe it’s my imagination but it seems there is more allusion to politics if not outright declarations.

Pannapictagraphist

A person who collects comic books, and I assume comic strips, is known as a Pannapictagraphist.

Not panelogist?

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Comments 11

  1. Thank you for my new polysyllabicsesquipedalion for today. Another day has been rescued from the humdrum!

    1. You mean quotidian.

      Tangentially, I thought a panelologist was a producer, not a collector.

  2. Romita’s Spidey comic strip run was amazing. Just beautiful work. His work still has a huge influence on mine, and he’s one of my very favorite cartoonists, so thank you for letting me know about the mini comic campaign.

  3. I wish there were books complining these Superhero comic strips (complete or near complete):
    The Incredible Hulk comic strip (1978-1980)
    Howard the Duck comic strip (1977-1978)
    Conan the Barbarian comic strip (1979-1980)
    The World’s Greatest Superheroes comic strip (1978-1979)
    Batman comic strip (1989-1991)
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic strip (1990-1995)

  4. So, is Crabgrass set in the 80’s? Or shortly thereafter? Or was that a joke to explain the flashback? I only got into reading it regularly a couple months ago so when I saw that I wasn’t sure if there was some backstory I missed.

    1. My understanding is Crabgrass is The Eighties and Red and Rover is The Seventies.
      (And Nancy is The Fifties.)

  5. I remember the Hulk and Conan strips in the paper. I’d definitely like to see Conan collected, as it had John Buscema’s awesomeness. I don’t remember being particularly impressed with the Hulk, but would still like to see collections of all the short run strips. Otherwise, they just fade away.

    I guess many of those came out during the TV and movie days of the time.

  6. That’s just the top tier of the Mutts strip, of course.

    1. Yeah, none of the comics are shown in their completeness.
      Click on the links to read the entire comic strips and panels.

  7. I know it’s probably just me — and, in fact, if it had been done it would probably have received lots of complaints from people who didn’t understand or know any better — but I really wish, for the sake of accuracy, that in that MARY WORTH panel when Max and Greta received Olive’s telepathic plea for help, the image of Olive had been printed in black and white. After all dogs can’t see color.

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