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1. about 7 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   But Rat… Goat is already more successful and happier (ok, less depressed) than you!

2. about 7 hours ago on Bloom County

   Here’s the underlying image file, which is just a little more readable than the scaled version that most of us see in the webpage:

   assets.amuniversal.Com/1576a7207c5a0135ec53005056a9545d

3. 1 day ago on Adam@Home

   True. In fact, we spent the whole October watching Clayton’s pre-Halloween antics, with giant mechanical spider and all. And pre-Christmas season nowadays starts even before Halloween is over.

4. 2 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   Uuuuh… Do any baseball players actually wear jewelry on the field?

   Sorry if it’s a stupid question, I have never been into sports, and even less the US ones (even during the 14 years I lived there).

5. 2 days ago on Bloom County

   Rosebud, not YOU!!  8^O

   But seriously, s/he was called “Rosebud”, and what is that? Just and immature (unopened) Rose flower.

   Of course! She’s a Rose!

6. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Ah! You are most likely thinking of this Sunday strip:

   gocomics.Com/nonsequitur/2024/05/05

   The first three panels are clearly based on the old ones, but with some modifications. The lower half of the strip is completely original, though.

7. 3 days ago on Adam@Home

   Oh, Nick and Gumbo share a Holiday that is celebrated on hundreds of days each year: Forgotten by your creator Day.

   (Though to be fair I think Nick goes back to the Brian Basset days.)

8. 3 days ago on Adam@Home

   Yeah, he has every day… in the cellar.

9. 4 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Uh… But C&H “was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995”, according to Wikipedia.

   I think you mean that they wanted to commercialize it (like in selling themed toys and stuff like that). Syndication just means that it is distributed to several newspapers for simultaneous publication.

10. 4 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Yes, we have been seeing strips from 1987 today and the last two Sundays, while in the daily strips we are revisiting strips from 1994. But I don’t think the reason is Watterson’s sabbatical.

    The shoe-box diorama arc that ended yesterday corresponds to this strip from 1994:

    gocomics.Com/calvinandhobbes/1994/11/19

    Yes, that was originally from November 17, 1990, but the fact is that it was re-run in 1994 because of the sabbatical.

    But the Sunday strip that follows the 1994 version (which again was a re-run from 1990) was revisited very recently, last October:

    gocomics.Com/calvinandhobbes/2024/10/20

    That is because, in this re-run iteration, for quite some time the weekday and Sunday strips have been out of sync by almost a month.

    I believe that GoComics is just filling in with old Sunday strips to get them back in sync.

    If I’m right, next week we should return to 1994 Sunday strips with this:

    gocomics.Com/calvinandhobbes/1994/12/04

    Note that it is still a re-run, from November 4, 1990. Thus it precedes the one we should have seen today in the original 1990 run, but not in the 1994 sabbatical re-run that we are following.

    TL/DR: My point is that sabbatical/rerun or not, we are re-visiting the strips that were published in 1994, and they want to get the Sundays in sync with the weekdays of that year.