I share readers’ impatience with the strip’s glacial plot pace, but at least the Benders stay more or less with the story line. In “Li’l Abner,” Al Capp would delay development endlessly with tangents that built suspense and led nowhere.
And does anyone remember comic-strip conversations that began in one place (an airport, say) and continued in another (aboard the plane, in flight)?
Multiple crimes followed by massive secrecy – obviously business as usual at an international corporation run by the world’s leading pirate. Was Warbucks an adviser to George W. Bush?
I have followed this srrip for more than 60 years, always amused by its eccentric characters and its simplistic views on crime and morals. But it’s become just too stupid. I have hereby sworn off.
I hope the double doesn’t die; he’s even meaner and less scrupulous than “Daddy,” a perfect stand-in. After all, “Daddy” picked him, and he’s a great judge of character.
The dotted lines apparently indicate a translation, which makes Dessenay’s pidgin English all the more puzzling. But that’s the lingo most furrin characters employ in “Annie.” Is give this strip the boot.
Do you ask a question and expect the answer to come half an hour later?