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  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Orwellian Monday

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Sam and Silo, 8/12/24 Man, for a brief and shining moment, I thought we were going to start…

  • (xkcd.com) Celestial Event

    This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Swift resolution Sunday

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Six Chix, 8/11/24 Honestly, to me, this didn’t seem like a very desperate measure at all! It seems…

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Lesser soaper Saturday

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dick Tracy, 8/10/24 It looks like Dick Tracy is finally getting back to the “How is B-tier villain…

  • (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day

    This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the period of the…

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Metapost: Time-scrambled COTW

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Apologies again for, in my COVID-addled haze, posting so many posts on the wrong days this week! Rest…

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Olympic irritations

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Family Circus, 8/9/24 “Steve Tracy” here annoys me so much, because it feels like I’m supposed to know…

  • (QC RSS) Throwdown

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  • (xkcd.com) Meteor Shower PSA

    This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.

  • (Policy of Truth) Stand Up and Shout

    The New York Times, making its journalistic contribution to the national circle jerk over Kamala Harris: When protesters first interrupted Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Detroit on Wednesday evening, she smiled, with a gentle corrective. “I am speaking now.” But as the disruption continued, her patience ran thin. “You know what?” Ms.…

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