Would you/did you “go ballistic”? It’s long been my opinion that comic strip parents (even more so than other comic strip characters) tend to go ballistic as default reaction.
(Spoiler: when my older son was just about Peter Fox’s age…)
Category / Bill Bickel
Okay, how many people reading this today have even been inside an Automat?
(And no way in the world this was originally published as late as 1993)
April 6: This is what the site of Manhattan’s flagship Automat looks like today (well, yesterday, technically)
A Reminder and a Semi-Secret
First, please send everything — both comics, and comments intended only for me — to this address:
If you use any other address, I might or might not ever see it.
Also: The complete left sidebar still does exist in this new template: Look to the left, where the sidebar just says COMICS I DON’T UNDERSTAND followed by “Home” and “Your Random Comments.” Above COMICS I DON’T UNDERSTAND, to the right of the three horizontal lines, is an icon that looks like a folder. Click that, and the full left sidebar will appear.
I know. This is counter-intuitive at best and borderline insane at worst. Presumably, somebody thought this was a good idea.
Many of you have already figured this out, but understandably many have not.
A Disturbing New Wrinkle [OT]
Hang on there… the book has retroactively become Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time”???
Is Meg a Disney Princess now?
The Salina Stockade [OT]
I just wanted to share with y’all what might possibly be the most hideous team logo in baseball history.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this is also one of the worst teams in the history of professional baseball and has actually been dropped from their league, and their entire 2018 system will consist of a couple dozen road games 2000 miles from their home city, which is theoretical anyway because they don’t have a stadium.
Okay, I see now that it’s an astronaut and the Solar System…
… but my first thought was “Bummer of a birthmark, Hal.”
Thoughts on This Template?
(uploaded Sunday night, 11:30 EST)
Lots of differences from the one we’ve been using. Clears up some of the drawbacks, but it’s got a bit of a learning curve.
Testing the “link” thing: Bill Bickel’s Crimeweek.
For now, this is a 24-hour experiment.
Okay the Random Comments page has (I hope) been fixed.
The Angels’ Share
Defined as “the amount of an alcoholic drink (such as cognac, brandy, or whiskey) that is lost to evaporation when the liquid is being aged in porous oak barrels.”
I guess I kind of get where Arlo’s going here, but…
Wall
Maybe not that day but yeah, at the end, the wall probably will be put on sale.
And even if, for some reason, this specific wall in this specific store won’t, it’s hardly a “weird offer,” as I’d expect somebody who worked in retail (or who ever saw a going-out-of-business sale) to know.
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