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What’s up with the ABC Family channel lately? Actually, I’ve never really watched it except for reruns of Gilmore Girls, though I hear that their original shows like Kyle XY and Greek are making in-roads among the non-family orientated hip. Based on the buzz, I tuned into the pilot episode of new original […]

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There’s one thing that’s always bothered me about the Peanuts comic strip, as exemplified by this one from yesterday (click to enlarge):

The only times you ever see Schroeder in the strip, he’s either 1) playing his piano or 2) the catcher on Charlie Brown’s baseball team. Which of these is not like the other? […]

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Once again, I’m going to tread on Josh’s territory and make some comments on some comic strips he and his commenters may have overlooked.
I was sickened and horrified today when I was reading my Rocky Mountain News during breakfast and awful, twisted images lept out at me from the comics page. It was like […]

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Pet Peeve of the Day: Predictable comic strips. One of the little games I play with myself is “guess the punchline”. When reading the comics section of the morning paper, I will sometimes cover up the final panel of a gag strip and guess what the punchline is going to be. I only […]

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In the comments to yesterday’s post, Lurker ZuzuT said: I would like to hear your opinion of the recent changes at Funky Winkerbean. I was disturbed that the one-armed girl is now married to the comic book guy.
Good question! That is so totally unrealistic. Everyone knows that comic book store owners (not to […]

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In the comments to yesterday’s post, InfK (currently downunder) asked about the second season of the SciFi Channel’s Who Wants To Be A Superhero? InfK worked on the show, so that’s why he was interested. You may remember that I praised season one of the show last year. However, that post was […]

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