Beginning with some hope from Alex Hallett and Arctic Circle.
The past week, Monday through today (so far), has Nancy and Sluggo playing baseball. But from the signature(s) it looks like temporary Nancy cartoonist is being assisted by “SHEN.” I can only guess, finding no acknowledgement, that this is the guy from Shen Comix, who has an archive remaining on GoComics.
If it is the same Shen doesn’t that go against the laws of woman and nature and Nancy since Olivia took over?
Then again…
looks like Gary Hallgren is trying out as an Ernie Bushmiller replacement in today’s Hägar the Horrible.
Coming to Crankshaft will be:
Sometime during the next year, Jeff Murdoch, a character in a comic strip that runs each day in the Free Press will head to Winnipeg to attend a Blue Bombers game.
Tom Batiuk, who created Crankshaft, which revolves around the life of namesake school bus driver Ed Crankshaft, is a big fan of the Blue and Gold.
Nicole Buffie at The Winnipeg Free Press tells of Tom Batiuk‘s infatuation with the Canadian Football League.
Sooner than that will be a weeks long story about book banning that starts in Crankshaft tomorrow.
Dick Tracy also starts a new story tomorrow, a story that sees the return of … Mike Curtis!
Mike has been the regular writer of Dick Tracy since 2011 but has been missing from the scripting chores for three months, since mid-May of this year
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Shifts is a new webcomic mini-series from The Washington Post by Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa.
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Late juxtaposition add:
At this weekend’s Stars and Stripes their funny pages’ Carpe Diem is right above Pardon My Planet.
The Phantom’s messing with you.
In The Phantom Lee Falk, in an indeterminate time, is confused by story element in a story he supposedly wrote (yeah, yeah, but it stretches out the current adventure for a few more weeks).
He goes out for a walk to clear his head and stops by a newsstand to refresh his memory about the comic’s story (yeah, yeah).
Now here comes the confusing part.
The comic books at the newsstand, on Falk’s left, put the time as very early 1939 (hat tip Grand Comics Database). But the Sunday color comics supplement puts the time a decade later, very late 1949.
Also confusing is today’s New Tricks by E.S. Glenn. Paul Kirchner’s The Bus makes more sense to me.
Months ago Prince Valiant lost his Singing Sword and has been on a journey to retrieve it ever since. Don’t know when or how it will be returned to him but the eventual fate of Flamberge may have been discovered far away in time and space.
We’ve kind of drifted from our hopeful opening, so let’s close with a smile from Rose is Rose.
Today’s Wash Post Sunday comics had the Hagar strip running directly under Nancy, which was an odd juxtaposition. Since Hagar looked more like Nancy than Nancy does.
A niggling quarrel with the gag in PARDON MY PLANET: the confusion of superman’s x-ray vision (staring) with his heat-vision (which has nothing to do with his vision at all). X-rays don’t set anything on fire.
Superman would be using his telescopic vision to ogle the girl.