Annie by Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg for June 12, 2010

Good morning all you night owls :-))*

One more day, and a slice of Americana will be gone

How sad. :-(((

I’m still wondering abut that!

GM, Leaky, Marg, MLady, VBill, LordD, WW, S Slim, Davidf42 and everyone.

Wait a minute………….I thought Annie was back again????

Yes, Leaky, a HUGE slice of American will be gone in one more day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can’t someone do something????

Good morning, all you night owls/sock puppets/groupies!!!

Good morning on this bitter/sweet day…..

Good morning margueritem, leaky, ML, WW, Lonewolf, LordD, Davidf42, BassmanBob, Shirttail, and everyone!

Annie is being held captive on the boat MontanaLady.

Where is Slim??…………….I wonder if his puter is down??

Good mornin, All……………yes, where is Slim!!!??

Especially on this our white flag lap……

Slim is M. I. A.

Ah,Annie, girl, you will be missed, For many of us had you high on our list. You’ve been a friend for many a year And more than one will shed a tear. Annie, you’ve been a pleasure to know. Bur now it seems it’s time to go. We wll keep looking though for one can’t tell When a friend will return, alive and well.

I hope he is O.K.

Slim……………..where are you!?!?!?!

leakysqueaky, Margueitem, MontanaLady, Lonewolf, VistaBill, and all those I can’t remember until I’ve embarassed myself a few times….

The poem was writen on behalf of all of us who are going to miss Annie, and hope tomorrow WILL NOT be the last we see of her!!!

Well, I’ve reached the point of no return…..good night all..

pleasant dreams of our last night to come!!!!!!

Seemslike everone has shut down for the time being?

Guess I might as well do the same.. Good sleeping fellow mourners until later. :-((

You haven’t seen grieving until you see me tomorrow.

Yes, Oliver, wave goodbye.

Good morning everyone. Pschearer, you beat me here this morning.

I predict the final frame will show Daddy and Sandy walking down the beach wondering where Annie is. We have seen this particular picture several times.

I intend to keep reading Little Orphan Annie after tomorrow. I bought The Complete Little Orphan Annie, volume 3. When I get the other volumes, I’ll have plenty of Annie to read.

A symbolic ’ WAVE GOODBYE ’ from Author Jay Maeder and Artist Ted Slampyak … to readers of the Daily strips.

The Annie comic strip, has been by a wide margin, easily the best written continuity strip in the TMS fold, one fortunately enhanced by Art that has improved with leaps and bounds these past three years.

I’ve been reading ’Little Orphan Annie’ since 1941 in the New York Sunday News. It’s reasonable to shed a tear of appreciation to creator Harold Grey, Leonard Starr and others that have contributed to it.

I’m sure there is a strong consensus here that it is an offering that will be sorely missed.

Oliver Warbucks is one of the few sympathetic businessman characters left in the popular media. Usually, people who earn a living running an enterprise have become stock villains in television and movies, doing everything from finding elaborate ways to swindle people to collaborating with alien invaders. Oliver has a strong moral sense and will be missed.

Okay ready? All former community theatre folks whoever performed in an Annie let’s SING! Annie, Annie, Annie Everything’s humming now Annie Annie Goodtimes are coming now. Since you came our way it’s Xmas, Xmas everyday We dismiss Bad times, sad times Now they’re all yeaterdays news since Annie kicked out the blues. Annie Annie Annie Look what you’ve done for us Annie Annie Annie turned on the sun for us…Annie Annie you filled our life with a song….Ahhhhhhhh.

Here is a little farewell to Annie……..We’re gonna miss you.

http://tinyurl.com/2aek7wf

With Annie’s departure can Brenda and Tracy be far behind.? Let us all morn the death of the continuity strip.

A revival of show is due on Broadway in 2012. I think Howie Mandel will play Warbucks. Stay tuned.

Thanks for that link, Leaky. Our girl WILL forever remain young in our hearts. David, why did you pick Volume 3 of the IDW reprint series to start with? The first two volumes, while more kid friendly and not as threatening, really established the identity of the character. There’s a lot of background information that would otherwise have been missed. And that final panel of Ollie waving goodbye today is especially poignant and brings a tear to this crusty old eye.

I have come to pay my respects to dear Annie. I’m stuck with the incompetent DT, while the fair Annie goes into comic history. Much too sad.

Farewell to our Annie, America’s child, Heroine of adventures both dire and wild. For all these years you’ve been a light That thrills and transfixes us day ur night. I know you’re not real, but I wish tou could hear Our sad farewells to Annie, cherished and dear.

Adieu, dear one. :-(((((((

LittleRedDress - Because I found it at a much lower price. I intend to get the others later. Always watching my pennies, you know. (wink)

I know I won’t be happy tomorrow when I see the final strip. This is really sad.

For all of us…….. http://tinyurl.com/48be7p

Maybe you shouldn’t have said “There’s something here from the Dead Letter Orphan…er, Office.”

Back in 1980 I saw Annie in Seattle at the 5th Avenue Theater. It was there very 1st stage production after ending it’s days as a movie house. I loved every minute of it & plan on seeing it again when it returns in a couple years. So sad to see all the comics from the golden age before TV die off

If they truly plan to end the strip, couldn’t they at least end the current storyline? It’s really unfair to leave it hanging like that

Can’t believe this could end this way! I live in England(Liverpool) and have read American comics since 1938 and this has never happened before. Incredible. R.I.P., USA. . . . .

Going to miss this especially Warbucks he’s what rich people are supposed to be

He does what is best for his country free enterprise and trade are the ONLY thing that has ever led to long lasting peace

Yes sometimes he skirts the letter of the law to see that its spirit is fulfilled and he is an idealized capitalist a philanthropist and even fights corrupt businessmen as often as he does normal criminals, terrorists, spies, and saboteurs

Sure he probably should go to the proper authorities but that would be boring and is part of the willing suspension of disbelief of fiction and it’s not like he doesn’t have the skills to get the job done and as a private citizen can do the things the government can’t

He is also a self-made man, the name Warbucks as he started as a factory worker in a mutions plant while going to college at night, before working up to foreman where after making the company considerable money gave the employees raises and reinvested in the company instead of just keeping it for himself, yes he is a defense contractor so what, greed and patriotism/altruism aren’t mutually exclusive and can actually help each other.

The ability to think of future generation when calculating pragmatic utilitarianism is what separates us from the animals. The world is not the way it is because of thugs and psychopaths, corrupt businessmen/politicians (which contrary to fiction are the exception not the rule) but because most people are too stupid to know what is best for them the extreme left and extreme right get caught up in their ideals and refuse to acknowledge brutal facts of reality no real world understanding of the extreme complexities of politics, economics, technological logistics, and how they’re all interconnected in the long run. People want everything right here right now the whole world just handed to them on a silver platter think just by complaining something will happen without a tangible plan. Such a plan will require a lot of long, hard, boring work all day every day for generations.

2 days left of Liltte Annie Daddy Warbucks scared his mail lady a ton And then there was 1.

As I said yesterday, I’ll sure miss Annie. I learned to read at age 4 by having the comics read to me. Annie was one of the few to have been with me that entire time. Peanuts died, then went into reruns, Tarzan is still around, so is Gasoline Alley, more or less. Bloom County/Outland/Opus is gone.

Yet Zippy the (f-ing) Pinhead remains.

So sad.

Wow, I just learned of Annie’s impending demise (the strip, that is – apparently not the character). Alas!

Uh, wsn’t Annie just looking in on some runaway gold digger when all this $#!+ started? What happened to that?

Morning, Anniephans!

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As Oliver Warbucks waves goodbye.