4/6/2023 0 Comments See ya in the funny pages![]() ![]() Doonesbury creates a new strip each Sunday, but weekdays seem to be nothing but re-runs. The deGroots are now perhaps a year older, but I am three. Luann is now in college, apparently in her first semester. Lio isn’t a minute older, wiser, not a whit more responsible. Today it occurred to me: The Google can find my old friends! The best of all time, Calvin and Hobbes, then appeared to be gone for good, but I still had a couple of paperbacks full of his better work. Doonesbury had gone on an extended hiatus, but was re-running classic scenes from 43’s administration (you can guess the timeline by checking out the plumes in W’s Marc Anthony helmet … that hat had been seriously beaten up by ’07. Her brother Brad was beginning to get serious with fellow firefighter Toni Daytona. ![]() The lead character of the eponymously named Luann series was crushing on this Australian kid who was about to move back to the Southern Hemisphere. ![]() When I left Lio (the macabre little kid whose best buds tend to be monsters) he was working on his Halloween costume and guest list in August. It’s been over three years now with no daily paper, and only rarely do I catch a Sunday edition. And this sounds too odd to be true, but I’ve missed my characters in the comics section. They have real, solid sports pages the writing may be spotty but the reporting is first-rate. All of the big ones have a good writer or two, not to mention competent syndicated columnists. What do I miss most while full-time RV’ing? I think it’s my daily newspaper. ![]()
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