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August 25, 2021

Glad it's good for SOMEONE

Slylock Fox, 8/25/21

Based on the animal quiz that accompanies this drawing, that's clearly supposed to be a wolf out there howling at the moon, and I'm very intrigued that the anonymous syndicate colorist chose to give him Slylock's bright red fur. Clearly the reality is that they saw "canid in Slylock Fox” and used the fill tool with web-safe bright red without really thinking about it, but I'd like to believe that they briefly contemplated the idea of this strip's normally cerebral title character stripping off his clothes and howling at the moon, and they said "Honestly? Good for him."

Dustin, 8/25/21

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