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1. about 10 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   I like to think of it as a mutual conflagration.

2. about 13 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   We are not always cautiously optimistic at the start of a new arc. We are frequently cautiously optimistic. Sometimes a story crashes and burns by the 3rd panel.

3. about 18 hours ago on Heart of the City

   Aioli is something of a buzz-word. Every restaurant mentions it. Diners don’t really know what it means. But it sounds faintly exotic so it must be good. There is some sauce served on the dish that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike aioli and they accept it as aioli. Many / Most of them are pretty good.

4. about 19 hours ago on Ink Pen

   It is easier to stare death in the face with real caffeine in your system.

5. about 19 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   Very promising start, in my opinion. It mostly raises questions and requires readers to come back for answers. Nice atmospheric art.

   I feel cautiously optimistic at the moment.

6. about 19 hours ago on Tarzan

   Any idea that begins, “I’ll bet they know the answer in Opar!” is a bad idea. Still, it can’t be worse than the last four or five Sunday story arcs…

   Let’s imagine that there was a lost outpost of Plato’s mythical Atlantis in Africa. Considering Europeans’ ignorance of Africa for centuries a lot of things are possible. (Although we can rule out races of men 10 inches tall, gorillas who speak English, and some of the other things ERB invented.) With Africa no longer being the ‘unknown’ continent in the eyes of Europeans what would Opar be today? Probably a tourist trap. The “Jewels of Opar” would be available for sale all over the city – with ‘made in China’ stamped on them.

7. about 19 hours ago on Wallace the Brave

   The Asian giant hornets aren’t any more dangerous than regular hornets… Just a heck of a lot bigger (which is terrifying in and of itself). In their normal environment they are a threat to honey bees. None has been verified as being found on the east coast of the US – although in a couple years of mass hysteria several thousands insects of other varieties were submitted to etymologists who sighed and reported, “No, it’s not. And we don’t call them murder hornets.”

   But, should Spud be stung by a radioactive local hornet what would that do to his anatomy? I’m thinking of his tail end.

8. 1 day ago on Loose Parts

   Does raise interesting physical questions… Could I be picked up by my head? Would it hurt? How much pull does a tractor beam have? Do they measure the force of pull in pounds or kilograms?

9. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   “So, apparently, the clues in the book described as “an urban legend.” If a legend, lots of people must have heard of it, but apparently not the guy with the book.”

   No. The guy with the book had to know the information was in the book. He was charging so much for it Croppie had to rob a bank to obtain enough money to pay for a recent, used children’s book that had writing in it. It would have been sold for 25¢ at a thrift store… If it had sold at all. So, the seller had to know. It was one of the many nonsensical elements of this arc. Since he knew it was there, and the directions were so simple a dim-bulb like Croppie had no problem figuring them out in 87 seconds, why hadn’t he dug it up himself?

   I, for one, was hoping Croppie would have found the money gone. It would have nice if one single, tiny, little element of this arc had made the slightest bit of sense. I guess that has become too much to ask for.

10. 2 days ago on Heart of the City

    “we just had a “heart [sic] gets punished for doing something good but reckless” storyline.” However a Heart committing plagiarism to counter a stupid rumor is doing something other than ‘doing something good’.