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1. 3 days ago on Dick Tracy

   They couldn’t have relocated the whole population (even if there are only a few hundred of them) using a single coup. Of course, the other vessels might no longer function, but that would seem a little strange.

2. 5 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Contrary to what some have said, Dick needed to get away from Marina and did the right thing walking away. He had become part of her problem, and is not in a position to offer any emotional support for multiple reasons. That needs to be someone else who is caring and objective, and not inside her emotional firestorm.

3. 6 days ago on Dick Tracy

   What I see here is a youngish woman trying to find comfort in the midst of her very real grief and getting the signals all mixed up in the process. She misinterpreted Dick being kind and gentle with her (as he and most real “gentlemen” would be anyway) for something more personal, and made a huge mistake about it. Dick is doing the best he can to let her down gently but firmly. He could have got very angry and clearly understands her conflict. But that was never going to be an easy conversation for him.

   That’s just excellent writing for such a short sequence in a comic strip, and the emotions in the drawing are really raw and in our faces. Brilliant work team.

4. 9 days ago on Dick Tracy

   I don’t think people generally attend council meetings with climbing gear, so I think he went to the pyramid after the session and has just returned.

5. 23 days ago on Non Sequitur

   A computer could run through 100,000 possible conversation paths and likely outcomes before you even noticed it paused to think. I don’t think “alertness” is really a factor.

6. 23 days ago on Dick Tracy

   And yet my own offspring are quite convinced that I sometimes can. :-)

7. 24 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Puts me in mind of 1812: “The British and Canadians will be a pushover; we can just walk in and take over.”

8. 24 days ago on Non Sequitur

   “Any AI that can pass the Turing Test could also fail it deliberately, and we could never tell the difference.”

   - Professor Roger Penrose at the third UN “AI for Good” conference, Geneva. (I was there).

9. 26 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Where did that ring finish up in the end?

10. 30 days ago on Garfield

    Why does Garfield hate Mondays when he doesn’t do anything more than on the weekend? And (I guess) he doesn’t have Jon underfoot either.