Of Adjustments and Timelines
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Like many long-lived comic characters (think World War Two veterans Mr. Fantastic and Ben Grimm) Jeremy Duncan’s timeline in Zits has to be adjusted on occasion. Today we learn the eternal 16 year old was born in 2009. Quite a feat for someone who first showed up nearly 29 years ago.
Of course he could have been born in 1952, preceding the birth of both his creators.
Upfront I’ll tell you I’m an originalist. That means that Alley Oop is a caveman who co-exists with dinosaurs, not a time traveler. For me VT Hamlin‘s introduction of Doc Wonmug in 1939 was okay as a one-off fantasy. It became way overused by Hamlin and his successors (I refuse to “like” the time travelling Alley Oop comic strips post to Facebook). That being said the past four months of Little Oop being transmogrified into an animal was interminably unbearable. While not happy with the modern Penelope being a constant presence, at least the characters are human again.
On the other hand I am enjoying the new “Phyl” Fumble introduced into the Nancy continuity recently.
Cynthis provides Barney & Clyde readers with some comic history.
And the denouement:
Bonus points for using the term “word balloons.”
Jim Scancarelli continues to drop historical tidbits in Gasoline Alley. Thursday he scribbled on the wall the year he took over as cartoonist of the strip. Yesterday the date on the wall denoted the month and year he began art assisting Dick Moores on the comic.
As of this posting GoComics and the Andrewws McMeel Syndicate newspaper e-edition portals have yet to be adjusted to to include the black layer. Apology: I cannot find a complete strip for today.
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