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1. about 6 hours ago on Monty

   Here in Texas, regional grocery store chain H-E-B tried to position beef brisket as acceptable alternatives to Easter hams and Thanksgiving turkeys. However, the 2020 lockdowns spiked the cost of brisket so high that even they couldn’t justify trying to push it so hard.

2. about 8 hours ago on Outland

   He’s gone back and forth. He brought back the series for a while in the 2000s under the Opus moniker, with Opus being the focal character. Some elements from the final months of Outland were undone or retconned, and things went from there for a few years.

   Then in 2016 he revived the strip again. It ran here on Go Comics for a few months before ceasing to update; supposedly it’s still going somewhere else, but I have no details.

3. 1 day ago on Outland

   Early 1990s.

   Although Breathed had won a journalism award for Bloom County, time had marched on and so he decided to end it with a bang so to speak. The plan was to have Ronald Ann recognize that Bloom County was literally dying and go through a magic doorway into The Outland, a new realm where she would be the head of a new cast of characters. But Bill and Opus were too popular – and lucrative – for Breathed to leave behind for very long. Steve came along for the ride, and as we see Binkley showed up for this story arc.

4. 1 day ago on Nancy Classics

   There are people who will deliberately age furniture by various means in order to make more modern pieces look far older than they actually are, thus allowing them to charge a whole lot more.

5. 1 day ago on Rose is Rose

   Sadly, there are people who “encourage” their partners to lower their guard and start talking simply because they want something they can weaponize against their partner.

   There are so many stories circulating online, especially of women doing this to men, that a lot of people are paranoid about the prospect of ever entering into a relationship.

6. 8 days ago on Outland

   You’re forgetting about Air America Radio, a left-wing talk radio network that was active from 2004 – 2010. They debuted with a lot of promise, and even had Al Franken as the host of their weeknight show.

   Long story short, the people they trusted to raise the money they needed to get started were corrupt. It’s estimated that they only raised a fraction of what they claimed they raised, and much of that was embezzled from a charity & so had to be paid back. Couple this with some scandals involving the early shock jocks they had as daytime hosts, scandals that led to at least one major advertiser pulling their ads, and AAR’s finances were in a constant shambles.

   It’s hypothetically possible that they might still be going if they’d have gotten honest individuals working on their initial fundraising, but we’ll never know unless we start being able to peer into alternate realities.

7. 10 days ago on Rose is Rose

   There are literally holes in the center console and dashboard where some sort of CB radio or other communications equipment must have been mounted. They yanked the equipment out before putting it up for auction, but didn’t even try to patch or conceal those holes.

8. 11 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Ever have cat hair in your mouth?

   As cats shed, hair gets all over, and can even get into food if they’re so much as sitting on the table while you’re trying to prepare or eat food.

9. 12 days ago on Rose is Rose

   The vehicle I presently drive used to be a government fleet vehicle. A relative purchased it from a surplus action, and I got it from them. Because it was a government fleet vehicle, it was made to somewhat different specifications than the regular civilian version and so there have been several instances where the third-party repair manual my dad purchased didn’t reflect what I was actually staring at.

   For example, the manual says that there are only three bolts holding the manifold in place, but on my car there is actually eight and one of them is under the cowling used to protect and shield another component. It took me ten minutes to try and convince him that no, what I was staring at and what was in the diagram did not match up and that I needed his help to find that 8th bolt.

10. 12 days ago on Rose is Rose

    I think the issue is that it’s 1986.

    After MASH ended, Alda starred in a series of movies and TV shows that resulted in him being very visible in Hollywood but which, to put it bluntly, were something of a mixed bag. A lot of his content has ended up essentially being forgotten about.

    It’s entirely plausible that this strip represents the characters, and possibly even the author, coming to feel that he was over-rated and over-exposed.