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Something smells funny in today's 'Beetle Bailey'

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

We're told the army office in today's "Beetle Bailey" smells, well, "like a wet dog.' And then we discover that there's no wet dog in...
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Hi's beard seems out of place; has recession spurred whiskers in 'Hi & Lois'?

Monday, November 16th, 2009

A face whisked free of scruff used to imply that the owner of said visage was polite, in charge, well to do, reliable, thoughtful, thrifty, brave and...
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There's nothing funny about the economy, unless you're 'Beetle Bailey'

The scene: The studios of Mort Walker Consolidated Amalgamated Humor Incorporated. The players: Mort and his Humor-Wielding Cronies, a group of...
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Proof positive there are only so many jokes available for the funnies

Yes, it's funny when a character is sooooooooooooo lazy that even a great din fails to rouse them form their slumber! And such is the case today in...
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Dagwood and Beetle living together? Comic strips increasingly coexist

As if the comics page wasn't confusing enough! Here we see Dagwood Bumstead getting reamed out yet again by tyrannical Mr. Dithers, who holds sway...
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Torture is funny over at 'Beetle Bailey'

The torture debate comes to the funnies page. "Beetle Bailey," that daily chronicle of our nation's armed forces in ongoing disarray, has...
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Beetle and Sarge, the answer is no

Cartoonists: Never - ever - never ask your readers if they think your work is funny. By dint of decades of grinding out clever asides, tossed-off...
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The comics are getting just plain gross!

Chest shaving? Public urination? This is the modern funnies page?!? Regular readers of "9 Chickweed Lane" are no doubt accustomed to seeing...
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A little nookie between panels in 'Arlo and Janis'?

Oh, the furtive sexuality of "Arlo & Janis"! One day we see Mary Lou suggesting that she and Gene take a little roll in the hay, and -...
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Ed Crankshaft is ravaged by age

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In a dark story twist, Tom Batuik has jumped his "Crankshaft" comic several years into the future, to a time when the central character of...
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