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World-travelling country boy from the Appalachian foothills. I'm as comfortable digging ditches as I am rubbing elbows with foreign diplomats. Both can be satisfying and both can get you dirty, all at the same time.

Comics I Follow

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

By Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger
Andy Capp

Andy Capp

By Reg Smythe
F Minus

F Minus

By Tony Carrillo
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes

By Bill Watterson
Savage Chickens

Savage Chickens

By Doug Savage
B.C.

B.C.

By Mastroianni and Hart
Back to B.C.

Back to B.C.

By Johnny Hart
Wizard of Id

Wizard of Id

By Parker and Hart
Peanuts

Peanuts

By Charles Schulz
Garfield

Garfield

By Jim Davis

Recent Comments

  1. 14 minutes ago on Dick Tracy

    Typically jet fuel, but it can run on almost anything. If you could keep candle wax melted, it could run off of candle wax.

  2. about 4 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    100%

  3. about 12 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    That was my question at the time. Apparently it has some tricks built in, but it has to be the prop car, meaning that in the Tracyverse, Batman isn’t a real character, but a fictional one, which is what I was getting at the other day.

  4. about 13 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Most of the world drives on the right. Only a few drive on the left.

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  5. about 13 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    I joined a Marine Reserve unit when I went back to school after my EAS in South Carolina. The First Sergeant of the unit (comprised of a bunch of chewing, dipping Southerners) told us that he dipped tobacco and said that we could too, but he didn’t want anyone spitting it on the ground, or spitting at all in formation. He recommended doing what he did: just swallow it. I was glad that the ground stayed clean, but I can’t imagine what everyone’s stomachs looked like. B.O. here could just be – ugh – swallowing his tobacco laden spittle.

  6. about 13 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    We’ve had this discussion about previous owners of the book knowing its value for what it contained. And why didn’t any one of those recover the loot? Well, how do we know they didn’t? And why not take the money out and replace it with rocks or something, rebury the case, and sell the book?

  7. about 13 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    It’s like I observed a couple of days ago, the turbine engine should take up most of the rear of the car, rather then there being a trunk where the turbines should be. I know: I was an M1 tank commander back in the day, and the M1 series of tanks runs on a powerful turbine engine governed down to about 1500 hp. The combustion chamber is actually small, but the turbines take up a lot of space, and the exhaust will be directly behind those. There may be side compartments in the rear for these extra goodies (or for fuel, and it’s going to take a lot of that), but the front compartment is wide open for additional fuel and spectacular “hatmobile” gear. (The M1 has 4 fuel tanks: 2 in the rear and 2 in the front on either side of the driver.)

  8. about 14 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    You know why B.O. calls it the “hatmobile”? Because it goes on a-head.

  9. about 14 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Optimism or pessimism happens when we don’t have enough information to know what’s going to happen. I like the balance of both. I’m more of a realist, developing and weighing the options. Hoping for the best but preparing for the worst – just in case.

  10. about 14 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    There should always be balance.

    That’s something that I appreciate about you, Neil.