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April 29, 2025

She was already wearing the color-coordinated tank top and headband, don't need to get ready if you stay ready

Family Circus, 4/29/25

Look, we all make fun of the crania of the various Family Circus children. "Melonheads," we call them, and it's become enough of a cliche that we don't really think about it, really. That's why it's just a terrible idea for any individual Family Circus panel to invite us to contemplate the children's heads in particular. Because they look awful. Like really unpleasant. There's like a ... lobe thing happening on the left side (our right) of these two's heads, I think it's supposed to be part of their hair but it's drawn like it's a curve in their skull? Don't care for it. Don't care for it all. The freckles don't look great either, for what that's worth.

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/29/25

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