Action, Adventure, Activity
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We go to Prince Valiant, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, and The Phantom when seeking pulpish action and adventure for our “Cheap Thrills.” The most sensational of those came from an unexpected source today.
Surprisingly it is Judge Parker winning the dramatic continuity award this Sunday.
Back to The Phantom for a moment, which had a pensive rather than adventurous Sunday today. In writer Tony DePaul‘s most recent Nickels of the Man post (scroll to the bottom) he remarks that the current Sunday story was not created with the 90th anniversary of The Ghost Who Walks in mind:
…But, no, 1536 has nothing to do with the 90th anniversary of the daily strip. When I was a newspaper reporter in another life, anniversary stories would get everybody diving under their desks when editors came out of the meeting to hunt up a victim. Dumbest, lamest, most contrived news peg ever: It’s been X number of years since Y happened. Insert colorful expletive here.
Anniversaries aside, the strips remain great fun to write…
Tony ends with a hint about where future Phantom action will take place.
And then we put on our thinking cap and turn to Slylock Fox and MazeToon for some fun. But today we discovered not just those two but enough for a full page of fun and games.
With the Olympics over the Heart of the City and Pearls Before Swine cartoonists are giving us something else to occupy our time. And here’s our public service for today – Baldo right side up:
Now grab a pen or pencil and draw a Biographic comic. GoComics supplies the colors, you the black lines. Then get a chatbot to write the annotation.
Shrimp & Grits has been restocked. A couple weeks ago we (alright I) noted that Shrimp & Grits Sundays had followed it’s daily example and gone rerun. That lasted for three weeks. Today Shrimp & Grits is all new!
More adventure coming your way.
After a six month absence Eye Lie Popeye, the vertical comic strip, is returning to your computer screens.
All those adventure strips mentioned above, well not Shrimp & Grits which looks kinda adventurous, can be seen at the Comics Kingdom site which right now has an introductory offer going – gifting 90 days free.
Though I have heard that some people are having trouble jumping through the hoops to get the offer. YMMV
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