By bats | June 1, 2010 - 2:53 pm

CC’s spike thought that likely upcoming future moments in 9 Chickweed Lane could be improved by a visitor from Cul de Sac.  I think it works — maybe both locations are in the same neighborhood…

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By bats | - 2:49 pm

What more can you say when you have a naked Lio the first thing Monday morning?

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By bats | May 28, 2010 - 10:21 am

The day Family Circus:

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was bearable, made so by Pearls before Swine:

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Of course, I got lots of “Gold Goop in a Can” ™ to gild that lily:

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By bats | May 26, 2010 - 12:52 pm
Posted in Category: Cameo Appearances

Me? I call it a cheap shot.  🙂

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Love to see.

Pay good money to see.

Kill someone (or rough ’em up a bit) to see.

Example A: Mary Worth getting what-for.

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Example B: Les Moore getting what-for (aka, “Oh, Hell NO!“, aka, “Oh, Hell YES!“).

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Example C: An explanation why Jeffy Keane is the way he is.

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By bats | May 11, 2010 - 11:36 am
Posted in Category: Cameo Appearances, Markin' the Trail

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[Mystery 46 (still unsolved):  No, I don’t know why I’ve been beating up Rusty so much recently.]

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By bats | May 8, 2010 - 10:35 am
Posted in Category: Cameo Appearances

Funny.  You don’t think of or see a word or a phrase in forever, and then — BAM! There it is!    Then you have to decide whether that’s funny, or not funny, or just plain icky.

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[Also, my first (and hopefully only) Momma mash-up.]

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By bats | April 25, 2010 - 1:35 pm
Posted in Category: Cameo Appearances, Markin' the Trail

The hoatzin is a South American bird with lots of interesting details to its overstuffed body;  Mark Trail tells us all about it in the 25 Sunday 2010 strip!  There’s lots of information on the Internet about it as well, and it’s worth checking out.

I think the crocodilian in the original strip was probably somewhat happier than this poor guy…

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By bats | April 23, 2010 - 12:16 pm
Posted in Category: Cameo Appearances

Or, “Why I don’t read Hi & Lois.”  (It took me years to realize that the title of the strip was a pun.  But that’s not why I don’t read it.)

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By bats | April 16, 2010 - 12:19 pm

The Keanes start the next 50 years of cartooning with a naked Jeffy standing in front of his mother, proudly spouting “’cause it’s my birthday!”.

All rightie then.  I’m sure we can work with this.

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And we can even work in a rather obtuse 7 March Bizarro cartoon, too:

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And CC’s “Bunny with a Whip” comments on a seemingly innocuous panel in which Jeffy is complaing to Mommy about tonight’s vegetable de jour:  “Jeffy should respond to this disappointment like he does all disappointments, by shocking his mother with nudity.”.  Let’s see!

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Yup! Still works (at least on a very surreal level)…

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