Happy Anniversary Comics Curmudgeon!

The TRS-80s are coming! They'll be unstoppable with their 16k of RAM! Keep watching the skies!

The Computers Are Coming! [Uptade 1980]; 666-1984.

A Publication of: The Southwest Radio Church P. O. Box 1144, Oklahoma City, OK, 73101.

True story: I was working the pledge drive for a PBS station (because I'm a viewer, like you) during the local art auction last year and had to field calls from old women demanding to know why the Hell (direct quote) Lawrence Welk wasn't on. Because it was something they waited all week for. My takeaway from this was a new appreciation for "hope I die before I get old."

On the other hand, if Welk had been the star of a Hanna-Barbara mystery show, I would watch the crap out of it just for the accent.

Via Jeffrey Jon Pidgeon 

Lawrence Welk comics. Let me repeat that: Lawrence. Welk. Comics.

And then I found this.

I admire its purity.

(original Cosby GIF here; Ash-head from here)

As God is my witness, I will never tire of seeing Special Agent Dale Cooper being briefly inconvenienced by a llama.

Special Agent Dale Cooper meets a llama, and they stare into each others’ souls. (Twin Peaks, season 1, “The One-Armed Man”)

"Sandbox fight" ... Wait, but cats use sandboxes to ... Oh gross.

I think I’m about done with the D’s, not because there aren’t more good ones in the D section but because it’s getting hard to remember which ones I’ve done already.

Here’s the world’s most melodramatic sandbox fight.

Random skechbook page.

Farewell Astrodome

Farewell Astrodome. You will be remembered for hosting a kickass social-satirizing, "Bullitt"-parodying, Shelley Duvall-introducing, existential modern-Icarus-mythologizing Robert Altman film. At least that's what I'll remember it for. They held sports events there, right?

The worst part is that he's just going to find out he rewrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Fante Bukowski page 35

In another time, this would be the script for an Adult Swim pilot.

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You know what? It’s been a long day and I do not have the energy for your hypothetical dream bullshit, Super Dictionary.

After escaping the Village, Number Six left the spy game behind and opened a mobile tea room and cabaret to mixed reactions on the A20 motorway.