The “island hopping strips” from the original run are action packed, with Skeezix involved in some rough fighting, even though he was in an ordnance repair unit behind the lines. On many of those islands “behind the lines” was a relative term. He’s shown shooting at least two snipers out of trees (and you see them fall) which probably wouldn’t be done today.
Meanwhile, back on the homefront, Nina had been working in a bronze foundry, but after Thomas Walter (Chipper) Wallet’s birth was on a short maternity leave. She breast-fed Chipper, which was depicted in a tasteful manner, although those strips would probably raise the ire of today’s “won’t somebody think of the children!” crowd. I sometimes think we were more mature as a society back then
The “island hopping strips” from the original run are action packed, with Skeezix involved in some rough fighting, even though he was in an ordnance repair unit behind the lines. On many of those islands “behind the lines” was a relative term. He’s shown shooting at least two snipers out of trees (and you see them fall) which probably wouldn’t be done today.
Meanwhile, back on the homefront, Nina had been working in a bronze foundry, but after Thomas Walter (Chipper) Wallet’s birth was on a short maternity leave. She breast-fed Chipper, which was depicted in a tasteful manner, although those strips would probably raise the ire of today’s “won’t somebody think of the children!” crowd. I sometimes think we were more mature as a society back then