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February 12, 2026

Children who I dislike

Marvin, 2/12/26

A thing about Marvin is that over the years it has strayed further and further from the one thing that made it unique -- a comic strip? about a baby? -- and made Marvin more of a generic child of indeterminate age who goes to school and speaks in complete sentences. In order to "get back to its roots," the strip is doing a flashback sequence to show us what Marvin was like when he was really a baby, like a really tiny young baby, and it turns out what he was like was infested by vermin.

Dennis the Menace, 2/12/26

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