Rex Morgan, M.D., 11/23/21

I think it's completely legit to say, "Hmm, when this strip's child character sold a book for a lot of money to a museum somehow and then she and her baby sitter ended up as members of a brutal mom clan as a result, that was kind of weird; I want to do a book story but have it be more realistic." I really don't think you should keep drawing attention to the fact that you're doing it, though? There is, I think, an extremely limited group of people who are thinking "Hmm, this is the second version of a book story they've done in this soap opera comic strip and it's different from the one they did in 2014," and I'm pretty sure all of them read this blog and are not looking to be told how to feel about it by a character in the strip. (They're looking to be told how to feel about it by me, Josh Fruhlinger, the tastemaker of the funny pages! They should feel weird about it, in my opinion, in case that hasn't been clear so far.)

Funky Winkerbean, 11/23/21