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1. 1 day ago on Wallace the Brave

   Scapa means “Go” so “scarpered” became its past tense.

2. 1 day ago on Wallace the Brave

   Scarpered. It actually comes from Cockney rhyming slang – Scapa Flow for “Go”.

3. 1 day ago on Fred Basset

   We are supposed to think at first it was the other driver who was using offensive language rather than Mrs Dear.

4. 1 day ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   No. I was too early on Wednesday. It was still the strip from November 30 when I read Go Comics that day.

5. 1 day ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   Thank you. It must have come after I checked on Wednesday morning.

6. 1 day ago on Andy Capp

   I would be 11 when Krazy merged with Whizzer and Chips in April 1978. I would be 12 in December that year and I will be 58 this month.

   I certainly remember my 1970s comics. When I was very young, I had nursery comics such as Twinkle, Little Star and Jack and Jill bought for me and read to me. As I moved on from nursery comics, I had The Beano, The Dandy and Whizzer and Chips bought for me and read for me by my parents. In 1973, I had the first issue of Buzz bought for me and got a free cap pistol bought with it. I later started reading Shiver and Shake soon after it began. I first discovered Frankie Stein and Grimly Feendish there and later learned that they had first appeared in a 1960s comic called Wham. I also started reading The Topper and The Beezer then later Buster.

   In 1975, Buzz joined The Topper and brought its strips “Jimmy Jinx And What He Thinks” and “Fred the Flop” with it. “Jimmy Jinx And What He Thinks” featured a boy named Jimmy Jinx and his good and bad sides – an angel and a devil with Jimmy’s face on each. Fred the Flop was a 1940s style petty crook who kept getting caught. Two weeks later, a new comic called Cracker began. It revived two more Buzz strips. They were Skookum School and Spookum School. Spookum School was actually Skookum School at night when the school was haunted by ghostly pupils and a ghostly teacher. Later that year, Monster Fun began and was yet another comic in which Frankie Stein was appearing. He was now in Whoopee! Comic and his Monster Fun strip would continue as a one-line comic strip in Buster and Monster Fun Comic.

   1976 would bring Krazy. 1977 would bring 2000 AD and Cheeky Weekly. 1979 would bring a short-lived comic called Tornado which would soon be incorporated into 2000 AD.

7. 1 day ago on Peanuts

   Yes, I remember Pig Pen. He is an occasional character and a one-joke character. I particularly like the throwaway joke at the start of a Sunday strip. Pig Pen was running towards Charlie Brown with the usual comic strip dust cloud behind him. Charlie Brown said to us, “Poor Pig Pen! He can raise a dust cloud on a path which has just been cleaned!”

8. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   And the intent of the character saying the line. These are characters in the sense of being comic strip characters who are also characters in a TV drama.

9. 1 day ago on Andy Capp

   And it was one of my favourite comics when I read it fifty years ago. It was fifty years ago this year that Buster Comic became Buster and Cor!! Comic after a comic called Cor!! merged with it and brought strips such as “Ivor Lott and Tony Broke” and “Chalkie – He’s Quick On The Draw”. Later on, in 1976, the title was changed to Buster and Monster Fun Comic as Monster Fun merged with it and brought strips such as “Kid Kong”, “Gums – A Shark Worse Than His Bite”, “X-Ray Specs” and “Terror TV”.

10. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    In the current Peanuts story arc, Snoopy is acting as Peppermint Patty’s lawyer. A reader commented, “Does he take pro bono cases?” Another reader replied, “Other dogs might work for bones but Snoopy would work for root beer.”