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1. about 11 hours ago on Pluggers

   Or if their idiot neighbors decide to set off illegal fireworks.

2. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Aside from all the borderline political commentary (which, according to the GoComics TOS, you’re not supposed to engage in), I noticed something else about Watterson’s style in today’s comic.

   In the early days of this strip, he was forced to comply with the then-standard practice of having the first “row” of a Sunday edition be droppable by those papers that wanted the extra space to fit more comics on the page, but it was supposed to still tie in to the lower two rows. (Eventually, Watterson developed enough clout to not have to comply, and papers had to run the whole Sunday comic, which no longer conformed to the “three row” format.)

   But, when forced to comply, his top row tended to be written in a way that it could have easily stood alone as a regular strip.

   The man was a genius.

3. 2 days ago on WuMo

   And people wonder why I refuse to do VR.

4. 2 days ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   There’s a parallel here with today’s The Other Coast. Are the Mastroiannis conspiring with Adrian Raeside?

5. 4 days ago on Monty

   RIP Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, who displayed comedic acting genius in that movie. My friend Ed Begley Jr., who also had a part in that movie, tells me that they were a delight to work with.

6. 4 days ago on Strange Brew

   Every so often Mr. Deering comes up with a concept that seems funny to him, but sails over everyone else’s head.

   Today is one of those.

7. 5 days ago on Monty

   And people wonder why I find strips featuring Sedgwick to be intolerably annoying.

8. 6 days ago on Half Full

   Tesla Model X-Mas.

9. 6 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Calvin would have been perfect as a staffer on that old supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.

   Which is probably where Bill Watterson got his inspiration for this strip.

10. 6 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    As was said elsewhere, GoComics is repeating the series in exact order and this strip originally appeared on the Monday after this one (which is when Christmas fell the original year of the strip).

    You are expecting too much of GoComics. They aren’t going to figure out the logistics of running a strip out of sequence just to make a handful of nitpickers happy.