Annie by Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg for June 07, 2010

Good Morning Everyone

I would love to see this play out. :-((

Hello all you groupies and others.

Today is the beginning, barring a miracle, of our Annie’s last week. AAAAAARRRGGG

Bleep, bleep, bleeppng Tribune corporate bleeps! :-((((

I agree with you Slim

You are kidding, aren’t you? They aren’t going to kill her off after 70 years. Are they?

That’s what they are saying. :^(

GM, Leaky, Marg(where ever you are), MLady, VBill, LordD, WW, S Slim, Davidf42 and everyone.

Just the comic strip, not the character.

You said it, Slim!

Hi Wolfie.

ChuckTrent64 said:

They aren’t going to kill her off after 70 years. Are they?”

That seems to be the plan according to the Tribune bleeps. We should know for sure this time next week/

Boy… Things are sure quiet here this morning??? We got LS and ChuckTrent64, LW and me. Where the heck? is everybody

It’s a Sunday night and peeps are getting ready for the new week?

I have only been commenting since tthe first time I did it here on Annie. . That was only about a month ago, when I got curious. Now i’ve become somewhat addicted to doing it. My problem is speed. Eveybody else has broadband, While they go click-click, click-click jumping from strip to strip, I’m going click…….. Click………..click,……. Because I got a dinosaur dial-up. It’s kinds like the difference between e-mail and snail-mail.

I’m leaving early. Getting tired and got a busy week ahead.

I’ll check in when I rise and see who showed up.

G’night all.

Today, I get a sense that writer Jay Maeder has taken his finger of the forward button, the story isn’t going much beyond what we have already seen. An atmosphere of compessing inevitability of the end is settling in.

This strip must have been completed several weeks ago and Maeder either now started making some adjustments on retirement or is waiting for ”Dick Locher” to do so in December before taking over the WRITING of Dick Tracy.

Having come ‘paper thin’ close to cancelling Tracy at end 2008 TMS may have Maeder there crafting ideas for some new stories ( ‘QUALITY’ is desperately needed) The strip has been run (not into, but) effectively underground by an Artist who has never been a Writer

The strip is not making money due in part to lack of “KNOW HOW” !

Dick Tracy may well follow Annie come year end, unless - TMS has more testicular fortitude than I give them credit for.

Dick Tracy has the potential to pay it’s way but has been mismanaged and suffers from (political) over censorship,. Time to take off the stifling hand cuffs or like Annie say goodbye.

Good morning everyone!

Busy day ahead for me.

Six days left. (Will there be online reruns?)

GM, LoneWolf, Leaky, Marg(where ever you are), MLady, VBill, LordD, WW, S Slim and everyone.

Actually, I quit reading DT a long time ago. I just thought it got too boring to maintain my interest. About that time I rediscovered Annie. Now they’re taking Annie away from me. At least we still have One Big Happy, Gasoline Alley, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutt & Jeff, and Garfield.

pschearer - We can only hope.

I’m with you, Shirttail……those bleepin’ Tribune bleeps. They’re really gonna pull the plug on Annie!

NOT FAIR!!!

NOT BLEEPIN’ FAIR!!

Good mornin’ all you groupies/sockies/Annie fans! It’s been two nights in a row that I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I’ll be here all day. Try the veal

LS, love your new avatar…….you found a good one. davidf42, I like your protest! Shirttail, where is that beautiful canyon? Lonewolf, you manage to find the best wolves!

Meeting somewhere else will really be hard after Annie!

According to all I’ve read, we’re NOT gonna like the last day’s strip…. but….

Thank you, MLady!

No wonder the Tribune is barely hanging on. If Annie goes, the paper itself won’t be far behind. I don’t know whether her reruns would work the way “Peanuts” does or not. But it would be worth a try rather than deep six her all together.

ChuckTrent - Agreed!

Jakebb2 If you want archive editions I would strongly suggest you pick up the five volumes available from IDW. Takes the strip from the very beginning in 1924. Sundays in color. Excellent reproduction and available on the Amazon web site. Do yourself a favor. I did and still want more!

Has anyone heard how much pressure the Tribune is getting in phone calls and e-mails about the way they are going to end “Annie”? Make them see that if the strip must end at least give us a happy ending. Is that asking too much?

MontanaLady said:

“Shirttail, where is that beautiful canyon?”

Here we go: topo maps, U.S. Dept. Interior Geological Survey. Duncan Peak Quadrangle. California_Placer County. 7.5 minute series (topographic). Lower left quarter of map.

Or…Western United States 1:250,000 series. Screwauger Canyon is just below the word TAHOE in Tahoe National Forest.

I went in there in late June with a 98 lb pack. That camp was thw first of two. There was still some snow on Duncan Peak and cold air came down the canyon at night. I explored downstream , moved down into the trees where the air was dispersed by the trees. The water was so cold it made a persons teeth ache and I couldn’t keep my hand in it for very long before it hurt.

I was there two weeks. Never saw or heard anybody the whole time. Couple of times a small private plane flew over high up. The best trout I ever ate came out of that stream, minutes from water to frying pan…….

I’d love to be there again. Peace and solitude. Fortunately, I get along good with Me, so I never get lonely.

I dug out a bunch of topo maps to get the directions/ Forest Hill Divide road to shortly beyond Duncan Peak . .Then good luck . All the canyons up there are deep and steep and lovely.

P.S. My legs gave out before I reached bottom. Had to split my load and take half down, rest a while, then go up and get the rest. I found a small patch of sand for my sleeping bag, made a cup of instant’ (low maintenance) coffee and was in my sleeping bag before dark. No shelter up to break the down-canyon night flow of COLD air. It was two weeks of adventure and pleasure! :-))))))

VistaBill said, about 10 hours ago “Busy day ahead for me.”

I accomplished a lot today… now I’m worn out. Another busy day tomorrow if I get rested. Looks like I won’t be able to be here at 1:15 am edst.

MontanaLady? Where are you? Information on location of Screwauger Canyon I can be more specific if wanted.

Also what it was like being there, remembering and wishing I could go back again but. impossible. :-(

Shirttail………….thanks for your information! You paint quite a picture about your time up in the canyon! Never been up to Place County, but know the area. We spent about 30 summers camping in a lesser known area of Kings Canyon, down in the actual canyon. Our kids grew up with an appreciation of the back country and mother nature.

We are up in Helena MT now, in an isolated area where you can’t see another house. Our idea of heaven!

Thanks for sharing!

I didn’t tell half the story MontanaLady. Lord, I wish I had haif… wish I had a quarter of the energy I had then. I was only a youngster of 46 when I went to Screwauger.

Alas, our camping days are over, too, with all the arthritis and old age stuff goin’ on!

Morning, Anniephans!

6 days.