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September 5, 2023

If that's like a cross stitch sampler he did himself, I retract my approval

Beetle Bailey, 9/5/23

A lot of Beetle Bailey's M.O. boils down to "We thought of a joke, which of our long-ish list of one-note characters that we've accrued over the years can we assign it to?" Reading panel one, I though Rocky, as the camp's resident rock-and-roll loving bad boy, was a bad choice for this, but once I realized it was about one of the soldiers being rejected by his family and forced to make a home in a cruel institution that doesn't want him either, I changed my mind, this is a good one.

Dick Tracy, 9/5/23

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