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1. 2 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   In these past two weeks, where is Ida Noe? I strongly doubt that the girl who is Ida Noe’s “mommy” would leave her behind. (And we can use an occasional sarcastic remark from Ida Noe…)

2. 15 days ago on Annie

   Catching up.We have been watching an accumulation of logical goofs.Has anyone drawn a line between Anchorage and Centennial City Yucatan Mexico? It looks like it is over water until southernmost Alaska panhandle, , then crosses to southeast British Columbia, eastern Washington, northern Idaho, etc.Too bad for bad Oliver Warbucks that the bomb didn’t go off over water. Annie now could be sleeping with Rep. Hale Boggs.The next stretch is more mountains than flat steppe with straight roads capable of 100 mph speeds; and provincial and state lines are mostly far apart. And this guy was able to obtain a police scanner, and take it with him when he changed cars.… Ah well, shut down the critical brain and just enjoy the story, eh?

3. 16 days ago on Maria's Day

   Once this was called ‘Armistice Day’, celebrating the end of the war to end all wars. (So why do why keep getting into more of them?)

4. about 1 month ago on Annie

   I thought of that. Duty to save the plane, or duty to save his own life in addition to Annie’s, Sandy and his copilot?

   We will find out in the rest of this week just where they bailed out over. It’s very likely over land, not sea, and not too mountainous, and likely close enough for them to run into someone. First question is whether the copilot survives the landing. Second question is how much info ‘Houston’ now has in order to go recover the mess.

5. about 2 months ago on Working Daze

   Suggestion, character development or loop-back. We are told that CJ was first seen as an airplane mechanic during WWII. So it would be fitting if 1) she came to work on a 10-speed bicycle, Honda supercub, Jeep, whatever, and was known for repairing them rebuilding them herself. 2) And similarly undertook to repair the coffee maker, chairs, microwave, copier, 3d-printer etc., maybe sometimes intruding on Roy’s turf.

6. 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Broadly, a different topic. I perceive that Mike and Charles team Tracy tends towards settled situations and settling situations. At the moment the only situation I know that could go any direction is Rikki Mortis and Fata Morgana.

   I was thinking overnight of ‘Annie’ Warbucks, who is nominally the ward of Oliver Warbucks, but in ‘Little Orphan Annie’ and ‘Annie’ strips was often separated from him and on her own. Would ‘Dick Tracy’ be more interesting with someone, I was thinking a boy a little older than Annie, who shows up as a secondary character in various story arcs. Uncertain who he is descended from. Is often separated from his legal guardian. Gets into different sorts of “hijinks” than Rascal son of Joannie Caucus and Rick Redfern does.

7. 3 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Jupiter has no surface. In the real world things keep dropping and get squashed and likely battered apart by the ferocious world-ocean currents. In ‘Dick Tracy’ cartoon space the Tracy team sometime back devoted a frame showing the ‘surface’ of Jupiter and the wrecked space coupe. Those two rogue scientists are definitely dead. – I have to wonder why the team didn’t crash it into one of Jupiter’s moons.

8. 4 months ago on Gasoline Alley

   To remark on a small deviation from depicting reality, seen this past week, particularly Monday: = Regardless of the color of the rest of one’s skin, the palms of everyone’s hands are pale.

9. 4 months ago on Working Daze

   A good place to assign Sam would be Test & Verification. No way he would believe that what they have done will work.

10. 4 months ago on Dick Tracy

    A casual remark that her name, “van Duivel”, is Dutch for “from/of [the] devil”.Typical of storytelling to move up the payoff instead of abandoning it and running.