Annie by Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg for April 19, 2010

When those sinister sisters come a calling, I’ll bet everyone will scatter.

GM Marg, VistaBill & all the night owls. :-))

For being suspected of murder, she’s a bit cocky applying that lipstick.

Good morning leaky, margueritem, and the other night owls!

She’s trying to entice him, Leaky…

She was awfully discombobulated by the private eye, but not the cop…?

He is going to entice HER right into a jail cell.

‘Morning VB and MB!

Great old Annie picture, Leaky!

Good morning to all the night owls. Let’s remember to remain on topic, lest the Topic Nazis flag us all for being bad and trying to create a chat room.

Good mornin’ guys….

Had nothing to say the last few days/night…

However, my husband put on a REAL classic tonight…

The Thing…….from another world. It starred James Arness, and it took forever for me to recognize him….. oh….the classics!!!!

GM LordDogmore

I’d like to tell the “Topic Nazis” what they can do with their flag.

TY Marg……………oh Marg

The Gulf Coast is a calling :-)) Tuesday, Wed, Thurs. :-))

GM MontanaLady

I remember the thing………..He posted here yesterday under a pseudonym :-))

Thanks for the heads up, Leaky. man you’ll do anything to keep from being flagged…..

;-)

ML, that’s another movie I haven’t seen for a long time.

Perhaps she thinks Oliver has the local policia bought & paid for…

Goodnight!

or flogged.

She is either cocky or very confident………….

GM, ALL.

LordDogmore said, “Good morning to all the night owls. Let’s remember to remain on topic, lest the Topic Nazis flag us all for being bad and trying to create a chat room.”

Good morning Lord Dogmore. Does this mean I’ll have to change my name?

GM Lonewolf

Connie will land on her feet, but she will sweat a bit first.

MontanaLady said, “The Thing…….from another world. It starred James Arness, and it took forever for me to recognize him….. oh….the classics!!!!”

G’morning. That’s one of my all-time favorites! I’ll never catch up now. I have the dvd on the table behind my computer along with The Honeymooners and several Marx Bros. movies. There are simply too many good old movies to (re)watch.

I think it’s something about being a “night owl” that causes us to wax poetic……….

VistaBill

Are you aware that you are seriously off topic??

Nothing short of a public execution on “60 Minutes” will satisfy these blood thirsty hooligans.

Give us your final words.

leakysqueaky712 said,

VistaBill

Are you aware that you are seriously off topic??

Nothing short of a public execution on “60 Minutes” will satisfy these blood thirsty hooligans.

Give us your final words —————————————————————————-

Sorry, leaky, I don’t use language like that!

Darn! I forgot what the topic was! Someone tell me what it is, please.

Well stated, wndrwrthg!

VB, I don’t recognize your character. Who is it?

Leaky have a good time!

Good night, all.

Connie’s not in the good old US of A, and is not protected by the Constitution, no right to remain silent, no right to an attorney, so on and so on……..

Saw “The Thing” on TCM last week.

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WW, you have the knack my man

another winner WW

If Connie goes to jail, she should also worry about………

Montezuma’s Revenge

GM Everybody! It’s morning here anyway.

From yesterday:

Dampwaffle - I had forgotten all that. I barely remember the first wife, but not the second. Was the second marriage during the Leonard Starr years? I missed most of that era because I was so busy with a lot of other stuff in my life. In fact I think I missed the entire transition era too between Gray and Starr.

Devonshade…………..Commenting on the comics with one another is also “chatting”……………..my answering you constitutes “us” chatting.

I’m curious as to why this seems to bother a few people?

Hi Everyone. GM, LS.

I, too, wonder why the “chatter” bothers anyone. I don’t say that in a nasty way either. If I see a conversation going on in a certain strip, I may “speed read” over those posts and move on. On certain posters, I don’t even read many of their posts. No big deal either way.

Smooth and subtle WW !

You’re not as obvious as Connie flashing the lipstick, I’d think, admirably avant-guard as you quietly slipped the blade in between the chest ribs

Just don’t don’t allow yourself to do it in the back that would be pusillanimous, even unmanly

It seems almost certain that Maeder is setting up Helen and sister as the villains that “did in” the unnamed detective. If not Connie (in a panic)? Who would have a motive ?

You have to wonder how could the sisters know of his existence and his movements (?) It doesn’t quite add up.

Unless of course, off duty,drinking, he got into a brawl and got smashed on the head in a totally unrelated matter.

Canadians know that “down Mexico way”, they seem to pin crimes on tourists rather than look at obvious local suspects. Hence two young women there TO ATTEND A WEDDING were the prime suspects in the brutal murders of another Canadian couple… and not the hotel employee who mysteriously disappeared the night of the crime. Connie is lucky that Oliver will probably clear her name for Annie’s sake.

Thank you, margueritem, LS, VistaBill and Sydney

Thank you all.

Nope, the second marriage was during the Harold Gray years. I think around 1932 or 1933. I wasn’t around back then but I’ve been getting the IDW reprints. Nice books. I first encountered Little Orphan Annie in the 1960s, when I was a little kid. It was hard to follow because by then Harold Gray had a pattern. He’d use the weekly strip to advance the plot and print the climax in the Sunday strip. Our paper didn’t carry the daily strip so all I ever got to see was the Sunday climaxes. This left some pretty good plot holes, especially during episodes where one Sunday Ollie just triumphed over some bad guys, and the next Sunday Annie is weeping in the jungle after everybody else but Annie was machined gunned to death and the week after that everybody would be alive and kicking again and I’d be left scratching my head in puzzlement.

margueritem said, “VB, I don’t recognize your character. Who is it?”

I don’t know. It’s a motorcycle guy dressed up real fancy. If I saw him coming, I’d get out of his way!

Morning, Anniephans!