Kids today don’t know about Sunday comics.
Being the first one up, running out to the front yard in your PJs to grab the paper off the lawn, coming back in and pouring a bowl of Froot Loops or Captain Crunch and reading the comics on the TV room floor. The whole family read them, even dad, and even your sullen teen sister, and sometimes she’d laugh.
They were in COLOR! They were big, and had more panels! There were four or even six full pages, and it only happened on Sunday. It was such a big deal that if you search “old sunday paper”, you get mostly hits about the comics. Often the Sunday comics were the front page of the paper, they wrapped the paper in the colorful Sunday comics.
Also, for some days, Sundays were the day big reveals happened in the serial comics, plot twists or a change in the storyline.
Every other day, if your parents subscribed to the daily, instead of just the Sunday paper, the comics were one page, maybe two in big cities, of only black and white. You still read them, they were still funny, but Sunday was the big day for comics. It was Saturday morning for cartoons on TV, and Sunday for the color comics.
Yeah, but in fairness, a LOT of the comics were pretty terrible.
I remember I’d have an order in which to read them, saving ones like Calvin & Hobbes and the Far Side for last.
I’d start with the “serious” serials which I never understood because I didn’t read them regularly enough an so had no clue what was going on. Then I’d read the shitty ones that were at least supposed to be funny, like Family Circus or - sorry epsecially to the fans - Peanuts (which I just rarely found funny). Then on to the mid-gread ones like Bizarro (which always felt like a lesser Far Side to me) and Beetle Bailey, then on to the top tier I’d saved for last. heh.
Then when I was older, Mad Magazine did it for me - funny AND cynical. heh.
I remember the Wizard of Id.
But did you ever figure out just what the hell the plotline of Prince Valiant actually was?
It’s like the Three Body Problem.
In that if you weren’t there from the beginning, then you’d never understand it.
Posts like these remind me that I should make a prostate exam appointment.
So I’ve been asking about them during my yearly physicals. Apparently, they prefer to use blood tests nowadays to check for markers. The doctor I saw last said the finger check really doesn’t do too much. Just kinda confirms “yeah, that’s a prostate” according to him. So, if you are worried about your prostate, it’s a much simpler exam than people think.
what if I still want him check with a finger… ya know, for science and stuff?
Save yourself some money and don’t ask a doctor.
