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1. about 3 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Alex despises him, too. Of course, JJ is the only one in the entire Doonesbury cast with a favourable impression of him.

2. about 3 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Not because of parity, but because phone lines rarely had the sound quality required for 56k.

3. 1 day ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   They are, but it was only when Disney bought the franchise and started making sequels that people started saying how great the prequels were.

   Disney bought Star Wars? You’re kidding. I guess I’ll go back to my Marvel comics then.

   Actually, Disney bought Marvel, too, and made it a huge movie franchise as well.

   I need to stop thinking about Disney. I think The Muppet Show is on.

4. 2 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   I’d have thought that she would think of smartphones, considering how much time she spends with it.

5. 4 days ago on Peanuts

   Everybody hears Snoopy’s thoughts. Charlie Brown always knows what he wants. Lucy followed his extremely detailed instructions for the cover of his novel.

6. 6 days ago on Peanuts

   I doubt that Schroeder would ever seek psychiatric help, whether from Lucy or anyone else.

7. 6 days ago on Doonesbury

   It was in fact originally Swedish, where it started in 1997 under the title “Expedition Robinson.”

8. 10 days ago on Doonesbury

   Which is frightfully ironic considering the question in the last panel of today’s strip.

9. 12 days ago on Doonesbury

   Movie clapboard? I don’t remember that. Reagan was usually just off-panel, like most of the celebrities Trudeau depicted before then. Bush Sr, however, started out as invisible when he was Reagan’s VP, which I think started the “icons.”

   However, there was also Ron Headrest, a computer generated image of Reagan in the style of Max Headroom.

10. 21 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    It wasn’t that long before the series ended, which makes me think that Watterson decided that he wanted some closure in the relationship between Calvin and Rosalyn.